1911. 
5 THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
21a 
MXLIL. 
Milk this year has sold at our creamery 
for from 10 to 15 cents per gallon. What 
little milk is retailed here sells for five cents 
a quart. Live chickens for the year have 
brought from nine to 13 cents per pound. 
Itootstown, O. j. w. r. 
There is very little dairying in this 
neighborhood. Last Fall there was a route 
started ; it is just cream to West Jefferson 
creamery of Columbus. The retailers get 
10 cents per quart for milk and 25 cents 
for cream. Most people make a little but¬ 
ter and retail it. It is mostly cattle rais¬ 
ing in this locality, not much dairying. 
Pomeroy, O. d. r. w. 
Milk in Bowling Green, Ivy., sells at 20 to 
25 cents wholesale and delivered in pint and 
quart bottles at 25 to 32 cents per gallon. 
Nice butter at 25 to 30 cents per pound. 
Prices on grain and feed are: Corn, 55 
cents; oats, 45 cents; bran. $24 per ton; 
oil meal, .$40 per ton : cotton-seed meal, $30 
per ton ; pea hay, $16 per ton ; clover hay, 
$16 per ton. We have a strictly up-to-date 
town of 10,000 inhabitants, but are without 
a creamery, which is badly required here. 
An abundance of milk could be had through 
the Summer season at 12 cents per gallon, 
and something like 16 cents during the win¬ 
ter. a. M. R. 
Bowling Green, Ivy. 
The bulk of the milk produced here is 
shipped to Cleveland by electric cars, at the 
producers’ expense. The cost of transpor¬ 
tation is 25 cents per 10-gallon can. I think 
that the Belle Vernon Mapes Co. of Cleve¬ 
land controls about 90 per cent of the milk 
shipped to Cleveland, O., and they name 
prices. At present I understand that they 
pay 18 cents per gallon for the milk and 
they retail it in the city at nine cents per 
quart. At the mill cornmeal is $1.20 per 
100 pounds, bran $1.25 per 100, cornmeal 
and oats $1.50 per 100. Ilay $15 per ton ; 
straw, rye, $7; oats, $6. The poultry 
business is good and the produce from it 
is sold on the Cleveland market. Eggs now 
are retailing at 25 cents per dozen. 
Mentor, Ohio. E. f. m. 
I keep a dairy of 15 cows part fresh in 
Spring and part in Fall. In the Summer 
our milk is made into cheese on the pool 
system using the test to prevent skimming 
and watering. We get % cents per pound 
less than New York quotation for cheese. 
It nets us after making and hauling is 
taken out $1.14% per hundred. We give 
one-seventh for making and six cents per 
hundred for hauling; this is for Summer. 
This Winter is the first time we have had 
an outlet for our milk; have had to make 
it up at home. This Winter our milk is 
hauled to the factory at Penline, Pa.; it 
is skimmed, the cream is shipped to Pitts¬ 
burgh, Pa. The milk is made into cottage 
cheese and shipped. We get $1.95 net per 
hundred; not very much but the best we 
have ever had. c. w. d. 
Pierpont, O. 
BUTTER MAKING—GRAIN FOR HOGS— 
FENCE POSTS. 
1. After being a successful butter-maker 
for over 50 years I have to ask for help. 
My cream this Winter will not make butter. 
A fine can of cream, three gallons, had 
to be wasted. My cow is an Alderney, well 
f.'d ard stabled ; she will not be fresh until 
the last of March. What shall I do? 
2. Will wheat or oats harm young pigs or 
hogs when the grains are forming? 3. 
Which will last the longer, the small or 
large end of a post when imbedded in the 
ground? L. c. c. 
Maryland. 
1. This subject is discussed in detail, 
in reply to another correspondent, in a 
recent issue of The R. N.-Y. In your case, 
pasteurizing the cream and adding a starter 
may prove effective. Good clean butter¬ 
milk from a dairy where the butter comes 
readily may be used for a starter, using 
one-half pint for a gallon of cream. Twelve 
hours before churning heat the cream to a 
temperature of 160 degrees, holding it there 
for 20 minutes. Then cool down to churn¬ 
ing temperature, or a little above, and add 
the starter, stirring thoroughly at first, and 
occasionally during the ripening process. 
2. I do not think that immature grains 
would prove injurious to pigs, especially if 
they were grazed off, but undoubtedly the 
mature grains would be of much more 
value for feeding. 
3. Nothing is gained by putting the 
small or top end (as grown) of a fence 
post in the ground. The large end as a 
rule will last longer, and the fence will 
have a more finished and better appearance. 
c. s. M. 
In regard to getting all of the consumer’s 
dollar, I am satisfied witli the share I get, 
as I wholesale my produce direct to the 
marketman or grocer, because I do not care 
for the retail end Of the business. But 
what tlie farmers need to-day is a revival 
where they can get together, shout and hol- 
ler and then work together and get some- 
thmg done. I see by the papers the New 
i ork Fruit Growers’ Association is on the 
right track to accomplish something. 
Aeushnet, Mass. h. a . j. 
Congestion of Udder. 
I have a heifer 22 months old when she 
came in, dropped a healthy calf which is 
now three weeks old. About the third day 
her udder became a little hard, and I 
bathed it with lukewarm water and rubbed 
it in with hot lard. The udder is now in 
good shape, but she has two complete V- 
shaped veins across the front, which are 
very sore. I am now using tar soap in the 
bath as a salve. One side is beginning to 
heal quite nicely and the scabs are com¬ 
ing off fairly well. I had a veterinary to 
look at her and he pronounced it a cold. 
She gives a good mess of milk from all quar¬ 
ters and the calf is growing big and fat. 
What do you think of her? a. s. 
New York. 
Theor has been acute congestion of the 
udder with consequent oedema (dropsy) 
of the adjacent parts, including the milk 
veins which ought to take the blood freely 
from the udder and so relieve congestion 
Just after calving. The treatment seems 
to have “worked” pretty well, but as you 
say sores are present, some healing salve 
is needed and not the soap and washing 
which tends to aggravate matters. Wash 
the parts once and when dry apply balsam 
Peru to the sores and repeat the application 
twice daily w’ithout another washing. 
A S. A. 
Ailing Cow. 
Will you tell me what to do for a three- 
year-old cow that has loosened teeth and 
consequently cannot eat much? She is now 
nearly dry, giving only about one quart or 
so at a milking." She dropped her second 
calf in May and seemed all right until 
about six weeks ago she began to have diffi¬ 
culty in chewing her food and lessening 
her milk flow. Upon examination it was 
found that all or nearly all her teeth are 
loosened more or less. What can be done 
for her? She seems well otherwise. Last 
year she milked till nearly Spring. 
Michigan. w. h. 
If you will examine another perfectly 
well cow you will find that her teeth also 
are loose. So are the incisor teeth of every 
cow. Were they not loose, shovel shaped 
and set sloping forward in the gums they 
would cut the hard palate badly when food 
was grasped by lips and teeth. As a cow 
has no incisor teeth in her upper jaw she 
has a hard cartilaginous pad in their place 
against which the flat surface of the loose 
incisor teeth press when food is grasped 
and pulled from the ground. The incisor 
teeth in a horse are rigid and pointed 
upward to meet the upper incisors which 
they contact directly. If you mean that the 
molar teeth are loose that is a different 
story; but we have never seen a cow with 
loose molars. They may be split, or sharp, 
or diseased, hut we can scarcely credit that 
all of them are loose. Better look for some 
other cause of failure to chew and thrive 
well. She may have indigestion ; or may be 
that she has tuberculosis. We certainly 
would have her tested with tuberculin to 
make sure. If she has not tuberculosis give 
her a full dose of physic, such as one pound 
of epsom salts and half a cupful each of 
common salt and black strap molasses with 
half an ounce of ground ginger root in 
three pints of warm water at one dose 
slowly and carefully from a long necked 
bottle. a. s. a. 
Shredding Corn Fodder. —On page 112, 
G. S. B. asks for Information on feeding corn 
fodder. In 1892 I bought a four-roll husk¬ 
ing machine and did well for five or six sea¬ 
sons, when weak parts soon showed up, feed 
and husking rolls, corn and fodder carriers 
giving out before cutting 100 acres, also 
tearing my son’s right hand off. Since, I 
husk by hand, but put the stalks through 
the old machine, but never wear a glove 
feeding it. I cut about three inches long 
and handle with a barley fork. I must have 
what the cows don’t eat for bedding and 
manure. Shredding or cutting fodder is 
making hay, but will not work in a dry 
time and wind blowing, so I always wait 
for a cloudy day and then do not cut more 
than what will be used up in a week or so. 
It is lots of work, but results are right. 
Marshall Co., Ill. frko seibold. 
The New Hampshire Sheep Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation held its third annual meeting in 
Keene January 27, with afternoon and even¬ 
ing sessions. Good, practical addresses 
were given by F. H. Stadtmueller, of Con¬ 
necticut, on the “Revival of the Sheep In¬ 
dustry in New England”; by Prof. T. R. 
Arkell, of the Durham, N. H., College, on 
“Hothouse Lambs” and on “Sheep Manage¬ 
ment,” and by President E. E. Gifford, of 
the Maine Sheep Breeders’ Association, on 
“Sheep Husbandry.” A number of new 
members joined the association from 
Cheshire County, and these officers were 
elected: President, J. D. Roberts, Rollins- 
ford; vice president, S. C. Ellis, Keene; 
secretary, Robert Doe, Rollinsford; treas¬ 
urer, Elmer W. Merrell, Antrim. A board 
of directors was chosen, comprising a mem¬ 
ber from nearly every county in the State. 
W. H. PRENTISS. 
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