1911. 
827 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
TROUBLE WITH SOFT BUTTER. 
How should I handle and care for the 
cream in order to get a firm butter? Our 
cows are on the rye and get no other feed 
with it, and every year I find the same trou¬ 
ble ; the' butter so soft that it cannot be 
worked. I ripen the cream at 70 degrees 
F.; when ripe, cool it down to 50 degrees 
F., hold it there for about three hours, 
then churn it in a room that is near 75 
or 80 degrees F., which brings the butter 
when churned up to 64 degrees. We have 
no cooler place for churning. When the 
cows get on the Blue grass pasture and the 
sweet corn comes in I have no trouble at 
all in getting a good firm butter, and 
handle the cream in the same way. We 
have Holstein cattle, separate our milk with 
power separator, and use a combined churn 
and butter-worker. jj. m. 
Florissant, Mo. 
I have no suggestion to make in re¬ 
gard to the handling of your cream ex¬ 
cept that I would try to find a cooler 
place for churning. Can you not arrange 
to cool the cream, after ripening, the 
evening before you wish to churn it, 
then churn it in the cool of the early 
morning ? While your cows are on the 
rye try the effect of a moderate grain 
ration of say one part cornmeal and one 
part cotton-seed meaL c. S. M. 
COWS AND POISON IVY. 
I notice some one asks how to get 
rid of poison ivy, and you recommend 
using some sort of chemical to kill it, 
which seems an expensive way and un¬ 
less on a lawn or small patch of it to be 
impracticable. An acquaintance of mine 
has hit on a plan which in his case has 
worked to a charm. It is this: He 
hitches what he calls a trolley wire sev¬ 
eral rods long over the fence and fastens 
his cow by a chain and ring, dog fashion, 
to this wire. The cow likes it and 
makes a clean iob of it, as all stock 
are fond of the ivy leaves and it is 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Knuckling. 
I have a mare that has started to walk 
on her toe with one hind foot. There does 
not seem to he any soreness, but the fetlock 
joint is slightly enlarged. Can you advise 
any remedy? a. r. 
Pennsylvania. 
Keep the mare off board floors and see 
that she is properly shod and the shoes 
reset once a month. If a high ringbone is 
not present, improvement may follow hand 
rubbing of the joint and tendons three times 
a day, after which a bandage may be put 
on from foot to hock. If this does not suf¬ 
fice the hack tendons may be blistered with 
cerate of cantharides. In chronic cases the 
only remedy is cutting of the tendons (ten¬ 
otomy) for which operation a qualified: veter¬ 
inarian must be employed. a. s. a. 
Grease. 
What can I do for a mare that has a 
badly swollen left hind log from gambrel 
to fetlock, and in gambrel the skin seems 
quite thick and the leg seems to exude a 
yellowish matter? It has stopped some 
from running, hut the joint, leg and gam¬ 
brel seems larger than the other leg. Ad¬ 
vise me what to use to bring the leg down 
to normal and grow the hair back upon leg 
and gambrel. g. e. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
Tncrease exercise or work and decrease 
rich food. Do not feed corn. E>o not let 
her stand a single day idle in the stable. 
and sound of automobiles when so har¬ 
nessed. It also is a good plan to pasture 
a nervous horse in a paddock by a road¬ 
side along which cars pass frequently; or 
take the horse where there is an auto and 
get him accustomed to it thoroughly be¬ 
fore driving again where they will be met 
To stop halter pulling, double a long, small 
rope; pass the loop under the tail as you 
would a crupper strap ; knot the ropes to¬ 
gether just forward of the hips and again 
at the withers and pass the two free ends 
down through the halter rings and tie to 
manger rings along with the halter shank. 
Another plan is to run a rope in same way 
from a fore or hind foot ' which will be 
pulled off the floor when the horse tries 
to break the halter shank. a. s. a. 
What About “Freemartins ? ’ 
I have twin calves, a heifer and bull, and 
have been told that the heifer will not 
breed. Is this a fact? a. a. 
New York. 
The female in this combination is some¬ 
times organically perfect, and will then 
breed ; but this individual of the twins is 
often an hermaphrodite, or internally de¬ 
fective, and, of course, useless as a breeder. 
Pigs with Skin Diseases. 
One cf my sows had pigs, which were 
healthy and lively when born. When they 
were five days old I noticed little red 
blotches which spread all over them until 
they were a mass of scabs. They did not 
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harmless to them. Many of the fences 
around our Eastern fields, once clean, 
are now burdened with it, because they 
are now never pastured by stock. If 
the fences must remain I believe the 
cow and trolley wire are the cheapest 
solution of the ivy problem. 
Connecticut. norman s. platt. 
LIME-SULPHUR SHEEP DIPS. 
On page 738 you give the method of 
making lime and sulphur dip, and advise 
the use of eight pounds of unslaked lime 
and 24 pounds of flower of sulphur to be 
boiled with 30 gallons of water for not less 
than two hours, to be used for dipping 
sheep for scabies. The average farmer is 
not a chemist, any more than the average 
chemist is a farmer. Lime and sulphur 
are two very peculiar products to handle. 
Lime slakes very easily by exposure to the 
air, and the farmer does not know whether 
his lime is really slaked or unslaked. Then, 
too, sulphur is not very easily combined 
with lime by boiling, and is very often 
from 30 to 40 per cent impure. You say 
to boil the lime and sulphur for two hours, 
but only a chemist can tell when the com¬ 
bination of lime and sulphur has been ef¬ 
fected. Therefore, the average farmer will 
have a very hard time to tell when his dip 
Is made and whether it will be effective or 
not. Lime and sulphur dip will cure scab¬ 
ies, hut will not kill lice or ticks on sheep. 
The lime tends to dry up the natural oil 
In the sheep’s skin, and retards the growth 
of the wool to a marked extent. Lime and 
sulphur is also very hard to wash out of 
the wool, and for this reason many wool 
buyers will not purchase wool which has 
been dipped in lime and sulphur. The coal 
tar dips are very much better. They not 
only cure scabies, hut also kill every living 
parasite on the animal. They do not stain 
the wool or retard its growth, and are 
germicides, and will heal any small cuts or 
wounds on the animal. H. n. case. 
Michigan. 
R. N.-Y.—We gave the facts as presented 
by the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry. 
Wet the leg several times a day with a mix¬ 
ture of four ounces of Goulard’s extract and 
water to make one quart. In feed or drink¬ 
ing water mix twice daily half an ounce of 
granular hyposulphite of soda. a. s. a. 
Hygroma. 
I have 12 Jersey cows from three- to six 
years old last Fall. I built a new stable 
w'itb a concrete floor and manger; the cows 
stand on a boarded floor. In front of them 
is a 4x6 that holds their stanchions. Six 
of them have swellings on knees, which I 
think have been contracted by reaching for 
their food. I have padded now ; could you 
tell me any remedy to cure the big knees? 
Vermont. j. c. 
If the swellings are large and contain 
serum the common treatment is to run a 
tape seton down through each sac and work 
it back and forth several times a day to 
-cause a flow of liquid. Antiseptics have 
to be used to prevent infection. A veterin¬ 
arian should be employed to care for the 
cows. a. s. A. 
Nervous Horse. 
I have a horse that is afraid (or makes 
believe he is) of automobiles. How shall I 
break him so that he will not sheer o.ut 
into the ditch? Is It best to use a whip, 
and, if so, at what time? He also has the 
habit of pulling back and breaking the 
halter when hitched in the stable. How 
can this be remedied? w. s. b. 
New York. 
Do not whip a horse for being afraid. 
Hitch him double with a non-afraid horse 
and gradually accustom him to the siglit 
suck and grew weak, and all died. The sow 
seemed healthy and was in good condition ; 
I could not see any sores on her. I was 
told it was hog measles, but I never heard 
of it. Can you tell me what was the mat¬ 
ter with them? I had pigs iu next pen and 
they are all right. II. J. L. 
Connecticut. 
Were the disease measles the other pigs 
would have shown the same symptoms, as 
the trouble is contagious. More likely it 
was a form of eczema associated with indi¬ 
gestion from the sow’s milk disagreeing with 
the pigs. We have also seen similar trouble 
caused by wet, dirty sleeping places and 
bedding. Very likely you overfed the sow. 
She should have had very light rations im¬ 
mediately after farrowing. The pigs might 
have done better if they had been dipped in 
a solution of coal tar dip; but a change of 
rations for the sow would have done most 
good. a. s. A. 
Paint for Silo. 
My silo is octagon and is ceiled with 
matched hard pine. Which would be the 
better, paint or cold tar for it inside? 
Preble, N. Y. m. a. a. 
Coal tar is apt to taint the silage with 
which it comes in contact unless it is ap¬ 
plied hot and long enough before the silo 
is filled to become perfectly dry and hard, 
in which case it is quite satisfactory. For 
immediate use I would prefer to paint with 
yellow ochre and oil. A good wood pre- ’ 
servative applied to the inside of the silo Is 
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Hobbling a Cow. —I have been told that 
British cavalrymen, as a part of the regu¬ 
lations, cause their horses to recognize them 
by their smell, by placing the nose of the 
animal in one’s arm pit occasionally and 
petting the animal, and a great affection 
for its master, as wel as respect for his 
command, results. This is a natural mode 
of caressing an animal, and as no harm 
would result in a trial if proper precau¬ 
tions are taken in the case of an unruly 
animal, could not the enquirer hobble his 
cow with affection? v. s. 
I am thankful to you and W. M. Rothe- 
myer; a man who will treat a cow so that 
she is afraid of him ought not to own a cow. 
We have two fine cows and we don’t have 
to hobble them, anyone of the family can 
call them by name and they will come. 
Instead of driving them they will follow us 
anywhere; the hens and ducks the same. 
I hope that man will learn a lesson how to 
treat his animals. Mrs. p. s. s. 
Connecticut. 
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hogs, sheep, cattle, and horses take these deadly parasites 
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life blood and energy faster than the animal can renew it. 
Stock become sluggish, dull-eyed, emaciated and diseased; many die, especially lambs, sheep 
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aU years and have tried every known s 
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