1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
11 76 
POLITICIANS AND THE QATTLE CASE. 
We were asked last week why we did 
not try to enlist the daily papers in this 
Jersey cattle controversy. We feel that 
fanners will be in a stronger position 
when they win this fight than if they 
had been helped by the politicians. When 
this is over farmers, everywhere, will 
take heart to put up a better fight against 
forms of injustice which they have long 
recognized. In spite of all, however, the 
politicians are beginning to take notice. 
They see what is coming and intend to 
be ready. The Oneida Post, in a strong 
editorial on “Governor Worship,” prints 
this: 
But, if Governor Hughes is so strenuous 
about the competency of his public officials, 
why does he hesitate in other public mat¬ 
ters? He has had his attention called to 
the case of Mr. Dawley, Director of Farm¬ 
ers’ Institutes in this State, hut he has 
not taken steps to suspend or remove him. 
Dawley stands charged by reputable parties 
with selling as registered cattle stock that 
is sworn to be grades. His prominence as 
a State official has served Jo commend him 
to persons as a reliable person, but the 
facts, as set forth by a leading farm jour¬ 
nal, Tub Rural New-Yorker, would indi¬ 
cate that his is a case for investigation. 
If Governor Hughes is so strenuous re¬ 
garding the efficiency of the State em¬ 
ployees, why does he contiuue his persecu¬ 
tion of Kelsey and let Dawley go? If 
Dawley is as crooked as he Is charged with 
• being, his retention is a scandal fully as 
bad as any discovered by Governor Hughes 
in the famous crusade that brought him 
into public prominence. In the case or 
Dawley the cows could not be made to tit 
the papers. But Governor Hughes sees no 
impropriety in allowing him to continue at 
the head of the farmers’ institutes of the 
State. 
Superintendent Kelsey has done a large 
amount of good work, has made his record 
fit the laws of the State, has permitted no 
scandal to attach to the position, but the 
Governor seeks his scalp. It is hardly the 
square deal that we occasionally hear about. 
If Governor Hughes is infallible, then it is 
proper conscientiously to perform the duties 
of an office so important as that of Super¬ 
intendent of Insurance, but rather it is 
commendable to sell scrub cattle for thor¬ 
oughbreds, to secure the registration of 
grades as pure blooded cattle and sell to 
trustful customers whose confidence rests 
largely in the official position of the seller, 
diseased cattle that infect and kill off the 
cows the buyer had to start with. Gov¬ 
ernor Hughes hardly appeals to the 
thoughtful as a proper subject for worship, 
lie has shown a disposition of arbitrary 
persecution in the case of Kelsey that even 
the State Senate could not endorse, and in 
the case of Dawley has shown a leniency 
that does not commend him to the farmer 
who values his cows. Governor Hughes 
should square up a little . Get after Daw¬ 
ley and investigate him a little. See if he 
is crooked. See if Dawley in his dealings 
will measure up to the high ideals that 
Governor Hughes and his admirers point to 
as their ideals. Dawley may not be bad, 
but with the specifications so clearly drawn 
it should be a pleasure for Governor 
Hughes to have his case looked up. 
Now that Fleming has finished with 
his nine months investigation of Mr. Kel¬ 
sey he might be given another year’s job 
by going after Dawley, the Jersey cow man, 
and see if lie is the same as Dawley, Di¬ 
rector of Farmers’ Institutes in New York 
State. Fleming would apparently take the 
proper cue, and if there was any chance 
of doing it would exonerate Dawley if the 
Governor desired it. It is unfortunate 
that the popular idols should be thrown 
down, but it seems that just at present the 
worship of the Governor is a little jarred. 
Oil Cooled Gasoline Engine. 
G. A. 8., Maryland .—I have been watch¬ 
ing with much interest the articles on anti¬ 
freezing mixtures for cooling gasoline en¬ 
gines. I note that in your first article 
you suggested the use of oil. Will oil be 
satisfactory, and is there any danger of 
fire if oil should become overheated? We 
have a six horse-power engine which has 
had the water jacket cracked by freezing, 
and we believe the oil would answer our 
purpose better than other mixtures contain¬ 
ing water, as we believe the water in time 
will rust out cracks and cause a leak, 
while the oil would seem to help this trou¬ 
ble. 
Ans. —It is doubtful if oil can be 
used as a cooling medium in an engine 
not specially* designed for this purpose, 
at least any but the smaller types which 
are run during but short intervals at a 
time. As the specific heat of the oil is 
much lower than that of water the rate 
at which it must circulate through the 
jacket must be more rapid in order to 
carry oft'-tye same amount of heat, and 
those Who have used oil with perfect 
satisfaction in their engines provide 
them with force feeds rather than de¬ 
pending upon difference in temperature 
only to maintain the circulation. The 
oil does not vaporize at nearly so low a 
temperature as does water, and for this 
reason it will lie closer to the metal sur¬ 
face and take the heat better when the 
engine is working hard, - because with 
heavy work, in water-cooled engines, 
the tendency is for steam to form next 
to the most highly heated surface, and 
this, being a poor conductor, lessens the 
rate at which the heat can be carried 
away. 1 he “Zero Black Oil,” which is 
the brand used for this purpose, does 
not boil at a temperature much under 
500° F., while water boils at 212° F. 
with ordinary air pressure, so that 
while there can be more difference of 
temperature to produce circulation it 
must be remembered that the oil prob¬ 
ably does not flow as freely as does 
the water. With a six horse-power en¬ 
gine designed specially for cooling with 
water the prospects for a successful use 
of oil as a substitute are very doubtful. 
We should hardly expect success to at¬ 
tend the substitution. f. h. king. 
. Worms; Eye Disease. 
1 . I have some hogs that I know are 
troubled with worms, what must I do for 
them? 2. I have a filly five years old 
that has weak eyes. A full sister one year 
older has gone entirely blind but the 
younger has only one eye that shows any 
indication of trouble yet. When the moon 
is full her ^ye is of a milky color, but 
later clears up, almost as clear as the good 
eye. What would you advise me to do for 
e. s . 
1. Dissolve a pound of sulphate of iron 
(copperas) in warm water and add to the 
slop for 200 pigs. Repeat five days in suc¬ 
cession and again as required should worms 
show up later on. Turpentine in the slop 
at the rate of one teaspoonful for each 
80 pounds live weight is fairly effective 
for worms of hogs if given three or four 
days in succession for several weeks. 2. 
The moon has nothing whatever to do with I 
this disease, which is properly known as 
“periodic ophthalmia” (commonly called 
“moon blindness”). It is incurable and 
hereditary so that affected animals should 
not be used for breeding purposes, and were 
all such horses retired from breeding the 
disease would soon become rare. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
Good Roofs Wanted. —Please keep up 
the quest for a satisfactory roof for farm 
and other buildings. The roof is the vital 
point in all buildings; yet at present 
seems most expensive, least understood and 
most unsatisfactory. I read all of The R. 
N.-Y. and consequently caught sight in an 
obscure corner, small print, of what the 
man who keeps dry under a plaster roof 
that has done duty for 57 years, has to 
say about it. I know of four Corinthian 
columns built of broken bricks and plas¬ 
tered with stone lime and coarse sand 
that have done duty for near a century, 
exposed to every storm, still unscathed. 
But what we want for our farm buildings 
is a roof with a fall of not more than one 
inch to the foot, light enough for careful 
framing with ordinary materials, durable 
as tlie building, proof against the vicissi¬ 
tudes of the weather, and fireproof; cheap, 
and that can be put on by a man of ordinary 
intelligence. We of the farm want more 
and better buildings. We want them to 
shelter our stock, save the manure better 
and save the feed in better condition, also 
to shelter our farm tools and machinery; 
tobacco barns, fruit packing houses and fruit 
storing houses. If we had better and 
more durable roofs we would put up bet¬ 
ter and more sightly farm buildings, and 
this would add to the comforts and profits 
of farm life, and farm life is the only life 
worth living in this materialistic age. He 
is the only free man; others are boss or 
laborer. j. a. m. 
Kentucky. 
The seventeenth annual meeting of the 
Connecticut Bee-Keepers’ Association wilf 
be held at Hartford, Thursday, April 9, 
Jewell Hall, Y. M. C. A. Building for the 
election of officers, etc. Excellent speakers 
will be on hand, and the matter of holding 
a Fall fair on a large scale under the pro¬ 
visions of a Connecticut statute, will be 
discussed, which will be of vital importance 
to the honey industry. 
.T. ARTHUR SMITH, 
Hartford, Connecticut. Secretary. 
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