1911. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
800 
The Henyard. 
Kainit on Poultry Droppings. 
I don’t like your plan for treatment of 
poultry droppings. We use kainit only, and 
removing the droppings every morning, place 
In a pile in barn cellar, sprinkling the 
kainit over it and during the last heated 
term with the mercury 108 in the shade 
there was not any perceptible odor. We 
us probably 1,200 to 1,500 pounds annual¬ 
ly. The manure does not lump or grow 
hard, is very easily handled with the shovel 
and can be evenly distributed. If one had 
a manure spreader 1 should think it would 
work perfectly. The pile of dressing is 
never shoveled over until loaded for distri¬ 
bution. We have used acid rock lilrerally 
but it is unsatisfactory and always shows 
loss of nitrogen from odor. If you would 
use kainit once you would always do so. 
Maine. f. c. cuktis. 
Medicines for Diarrhoea. 
Some time ago mention was made of vari¬ 
ous "cholera mixtures” which were used in 
the drinking water when little chicks show 
signs of diarrhoea. What are these mix¬ 
tures? . j. s. 
One was the “Sun cholera mixture,” con¬ 
sidered one of the best remedies for “Sum¬ 
mer complaint.” It contains equal parts of 
tincture of opium, tincture of capsicum, 
tincture of rhubarb, spirits of camphor and 
spirits of peppermint. These are to be well 
mixed and filtered. Another remedy is 
"Squibb’s diarrhoea mixture.” This con¬ 
tains 20 cubic centimeters of tincture of 
opium, 20 tincture of capsicum, 20 spirits of 
camphor, 7^ chloroform, 32 Mi alcohol. 
These remedies will help some forms of 
diarrhoea, but will not, of course, cure the 
“white diarrhoea” which we have been re¬ 
cently talking about. That is caused by a 
definite germ, as explained. 
We have received a number of sure 
“cures” for white diarrhoea. They run from 
feeding blood meal to using sulphuric acid 
in tlic drinking water. No doubt such 
things are useful in some forms of bowel i 
trouble, but where the disease is caused by 
a definite germ we can see that such reme¬ 
dies cannot be expected to “cure.” 
we are eating. As the cream was 56 de¬ 
grees it takes an hour and a half to churn. 
We use a six-pound combination print and 
the slate shelves in our refrigerator hold six 
pounds. Two slates slides into grooves, 
one in front of the other. These slates have 
wet butter paper on them when we print. 
I get these slates out, and the salt weighed 
and the water ready to wash the butter 
when the churning comes. While I am 
working the butter my man washes the 
churn and while I am printing it he cuts 
the pounds and puts on fresh papers on 
the slates; after which we wash up. Our 
cream vat has a water jacket on ice box. 
This is haying time but today is lowering 
so I keep up steam and rip up some planks 
which we have wanted for some time. One 
team has been cultivating corn with a Tower 
surface cultivator and another man has 
been working up for wood some stuff left 
from fixing over the barn, also we have 
been working in the garden. It has been 
very dry here for the last three weeks, only 
one small shower. Haying has gone on with 
very little work. Mowing and raking one 
day and bunching and getting in the next. 
We have two racks, one 19 feet long and 
another 24x6 feet on the rail. We start to 
get the cows at 4 p. m., having a feed of 
hay for them in the cribs ; get the separator 
to gather cream into the vat and go to 
supper at 4.45; start milking at 5; feed 
grain while separating. I should have said 
in connection with grain feeding that we 
study each cow and feed according to her 
needs. Some cows can take care of more 
cornmeal than others, etc. Then wo feed 
calves and pigs, and another feed of hay 
for the cows, clean them out, and our work 
for the day is done. But perhaps not for 
me. Once a week I have 120 pounds of 
butter to do up and day before churnings 
I (ill the boiler, get the fire ready to start, 
and this hot spell there is ice most every 
night. I might instead of writing this have 
gone to the Odd Fellows whose hall is a 
mile away, and every other Thursday the 
Orange meets, and my man and I belong 
to the band, which meets twice a week, 
and the wife and I belong to the Rebeccas 
who met every fortnight. 
Skowhegan, Maine. fkrnsidk dairy. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
It. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Low Prices for 
Dairy Products 
will eat up next year’s profits if you 
don’t do something to counteract them. 
You can apply brains to the dairy 
business and save the situation just as a 
banker meets financial conditions. 
The solution of your problem is to 
produce the product for less money in 
order to meet low prices and still main¬ 
tain your profit. Two men with a 
Sharpies Mechanical Milker 
will milk as many cows in the same 
length of time as seven hand milkers. 
The product will be better and your 
profit greater, even at the present prices. 
Catalog “E” tells you how. 
DAIRY SPECIALTY COMPANY, Trust Bldg., West Chester, Pa. 
Saving Time with Hens. 
1 was greatly pleased to see C. C. Clem¬ 
ents, on page 729, take Mapes to task, al¬ 
though there is nothing wrong about Mapes 
except that his story is misleading, unless 
read closely. He does so much in five min¬ 
utes, but he fails to tell us how much time 
"my man” takes to put the feed so con¬ 
venient, or how much the one consumes on 
the droppings. It takes me 40 to 60 min¬ 
utes every day of the week to gather drop¬ 
pings from 1,000 heads. That includes 
young stock, but it would be less if I let 
some one else do it. He says the drop¬ 
pings pay for the cleaning when necessary, 
perhaps weekly; if so, I will tell him that 
he does not care for his hens, as no hen 
Is cared for, when she has plenty of drop¬ 
pings under her nostrils, or to scratch in. 
It makes no difference who keeps the hens. 
It looks considerably like some one with 
clerks working all day keeping things in 
running order, and the proprietor going to 
the office for 15 or 20 minutes in the morn¬ 
ing to indorse the checks received by the 
clerks, and then claiming he only had to 
work 15 minutes a day for the checks. 
With Mapes it is one little secret that 
helps him, that is, picking up four eggs at 
a time. It look simple as rolling over in 
bed, but try it and see how many times 
you will miss the fourth egg. I strive to 
save labor, but Mapes has us beaten a mile, 
yes, two miles, as I have to draw my own 
grain that distance, and put in the hop¬ 
pers myself. w. J. dougan. 
New Jersey. 
A MAINE DAIRY DAY. 
On July 16 we started for the barn at 
4 :30 A. M., gave the horses hay and while 
father was feeding grain to cows and horses 
I cleaned the barn and sprinkled sawdust 
under the cows. Now I shall have to stop 
to explain. When a kid I had quite a large 
express wagon, the largest of the kind I have 
ever seen and as I was brought up to take 
care of things it is in very good condition. 
I made a body or bin, which is set on top of 
the wagon body, having four compartments 
for Indian meal, bran, cottonseed meal and 
pca-and-oat meal which we raise. Also a 
shelf on the back for salt and whatever cow 
medicine we want. A*s to cleaning out the 
manure. There is an eight-foot story un¬ 
der our cows, not a cellar but all above 
ground, with large doors on each side of 
barn to open, in Summer and two ven¬ 
tilators 2 x 2 feet, which take all the foul 
air so that none comes up into the cow ties. 
Editor Hoard comes down hard on the ex¬ 
tremely unsanitary condition of this Maine 
way of handling manure, but I think I have 
made as much of a study of this subject 
as he, and with the King system of ventila¬ 
tion, plenty of light and cleaning barn three 
times in Summer and five times in Winter 
using sawdust freely, that our barn may be 
sweeter than his. We have a continuous 
scuttle about 60 feet long and it takes from 
four to eight minutes to clean out 20 cows 
and bed them. Another item; I will defy } 
anyone to produce a healthier herd of cows 
kept in any condition, and as proof of the 
pudding, our butter at the State dairy con¬ 
vention scores from 93 to 95. The cement 
lloor fellows who only clean out once a day 
can’t do much better than that. 
At 5 the hired man gets round and we 
start milking. This morning, when he ear¬ 
ned the first milk down to the dairy house 
he started a fire under the boiler, but when 
1 got down with the rest of the milk steam 
wasn’t up so I went over to the dwelling 
house and got water for churn which I 
scalded and rinsed with cold water. Then 
i started the cream running from a high 
vat into the churn and I started the sepa¬ 
rator which is run by electric motor. By 
the time the separating is done the cream is 
m the churn, the engine is oiled and 12 
pounds of steam up. I start the churn 
and go to breakfast at about seven. An¬ 
other man comes at seven who works by the 
day and cleans and waters the horses while 
Why should YOU experiment or 
take chances with anything else ? 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 
166-167 BROADWAY, 
NEW YORK. 
28 C. MADISON ST- 
CHIC AGO. 
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Write TODAY for Booklet to 
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338 West St., Rutland, Vt. 
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