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THE RURM.L NEW-YORKER 
October 7, 
CAUSE OF MOUNDS IN PASTURES. 
It. 0. IS., Chicago, III .—Will you explain 
the cause of countless rises or hummocks 
in many grazing fields and pasture lands? 
I have heard the subject discussed a hun¬ 
dred times, but up to date have no author¬ 
ity on the subject to satisfy my curiosity. 
Ans,. —Up to the present time no sat¬ 
isfactory explanation of the mounds to 
which R. G. E. refers has been found. 
They have been ascribed to ordinary 
surface erosion, to wind action, to hu¬ 
man agency, to the action of burrowing 
animals and ants, and to segregation of 
clay by a sort of concretionary process 
in the soil. This last theory was promul¬ 
gated by Dr. John C. Branner of Stan¬ 
ford University, California. Since its 
promulgation there has been practically 
no discussion of the matter among geol¬ 
ogists, so that it cannot be said to have 
been either adopted or rejected. A dis¬ 
cussion of the mound question can be 
found in Volume 21 (new series) of 
Science, 1905. c. f. marbut. 
In Charge Soil Survey. 
ON A CONNECTICUT DAIRY FARM. 
Fair Meadows, September 16.—Father 
rose at 5 a. m., built the kitchen fire, looked 
to see if there was plenty of water in the 
double boiler under the oat flake, brought 
the four horses up from pasture and fed 
them, then brought in the 20 miloli cows 
from night pasture and stanchioned them, 
by w'hich time, 5.30, J. the day man, ($1.25 
per day and board) and T., the boy ($5 
per week, board, washing, and a team" to go 
courting once or twice a week), have got 
out to begin milking. Mother and the 
11-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son 
rise at six. Son fills the wood-box, and 
as soon as the separator is running helps 
feed milk to the 13 heifer calves we are 
raising. Daughter feeds, and fills water 
pans fot about 75 hens and chickens, in¬ 
cluding her own flock of 10 Bantams, makes 
the coffee, brings up the butter from down 
cellar, and takes numerous other helpful 
steps, then puts in a half hour at piano 
practice. Mother makes the muffins, browns 
some sweet home-cured bacon, makes a 
bowl of cream gravy, scrambles some water- 
glassed eggs (which taste as fresh and 
good as when put up last April when we 
could get but 20 cents per dozen for our 
surplus eggs), warms a good dish of 
creamed potatoes, and with a plate of 
doughnuts, the oat flake, and daughter's 
coffee, breakfast is ready at seven ; but the 
men have not turned out the cows, nor 
fed the 10 hogs yet, so the breakfast is set 
in the warm oven and Mother molds the 
bread and puts in the tins, puts beds airing, 
and pares some apples for sauce. 
After breakfast J. goes to work relaying 
a piece of stone wall, T. cleans off ‘ the 
light pair of horses and harnesses them, 
while Father gets out the delivery wagon 
and loads up 140 pounds of butter, 12 dozen 
eggs and a few quarts of buttermilk for 
the weekly delivery to some 40 regular 
customers in our post office town five miles 
away. He adds a few ripe pumpkins as 
gifts to such of the housewives as want 
them, and with a visiting cousin to hold the 
team for him starts on his trip at 9 a. m. 
T.’s work for the day was the following 
“odd jobs” : Mowed weeds in front of house 
and some way along roadside, sorted over 
150 bags, swept corn house, cleaned up 
generally about cow barn and the door 
where the cows pass, then got them in 
from pasture for milking at 4.30 p. m. 
Daughter clears the breakfast table and 
washes the dishes, and Son wipes them, 
then the two turn out the calves and put 
fresh bedding in their stables. Then 
Daughter sweeps the verandas, the front 
hall and stairs, dusts two bedrooms, 
sweeps the diningroom and sets table for 
dinner. Also makes two loaves of plain 
cake, and a boiled frosting for the one 
which is baked in two layers. Son picks 
the pears from two trees, and takes numer¬ 
ous steps for Mother, then they played 
croquet, ride bicycle, and romp around gen¬ 
erally until dinner is ready. 
Mother washes the milk utensils in the 
dairy room, about an hour’s work, bakes 
the bread, makes a loaf of pressed chicken 
from the cold fowl left from the day be¬ 
fore, prepares potatoes and corn for din¬ 
ner, puts guest chamber in order, and she 
and Daughter arrange bouquets for the 
parlor, diningroom and front hall. Daugh¬ 
ter picking hers from an especially fine bed 
of pansies of her own. Mother also an¬ 
swers several telephone calls, and does a 
great variety of small tasks that keep her 
stepping lively until dinner is on the table. 
After dinner the dishes are quickly dis¬ 
posed of, with the children’s help, and 
Daughter takes gentle Bess on the light 
Concord wagon and drives to town for Mr. 
and Mrs. S., some expected visitors from 
our capitol city. Son, being left without 
a playmate, takes his bicycle and visits 
a boy cousin three-fourths of a mile away. 
Mother sweeps and mops the big kitchen, 
blacks the range, and wipes off a number 
of finger marks and fly-specks whose pres¬ 
ence expected company always magnifies, 
then gets a bath, and a clean gown on, 
and lies down for a half hour until the 
company arrive at 4 p. m. 
Father and cousin, who have had dinner 
and noon feed for team in town, at Orand- 
mother’s, also arrive at 4 p. m., and Father 
puts out his team, unloads the wagon, 
helps milk and turns separator, and Son 
returns in time to milk four cows, besides 
helping feed calves. Supper at 6.30 and 
dishes washed and table set for breakfast 
by 7.30. The children go to bed at eight, 
and we speud another hour in pleasant 
conversation with our guests, and all retire 
at 9 a. m. It has been a busy day, but 
when we are all in good health we don’t 
mind that, and while meals have to be 
got, dishes washed, cows milked and pigs 
fed every day, no two day’s work on a 
farm are ever just alike, and the day’s 
worked described by a baker in September 
16th It. N.-Y. “the year around for the last 
six years” seems far more of a “daily 
grind” than ours. We are not getting rich, 
but we certainly live well, have plenty to 
cat, drink, wear, read and enjoy, and we 
own our place and a little over, in spite 
of drought, flood, fire and frost, and we 
can sincerely chant 
“Glory to the Lord of Hosts from whom all 
glories are,” 
And glory to this generous sheet that 
spreads good words so far. 
Connecticut. mrs. f. l. ives. 
Horse with Canker. 
I have a horse which has what I call a 
canker in left front foot. The sole of foot 
all along inside of frog and around frog is 
diseased. At first it seemed to be full of 
a horny substance; now this stuff has 
mostly dried and dropped out, and frog 
seems to be almost ready to come out. A 
month ago horse was not very lame, but 
now is quite lame. This sore runs some 
now but not as much as it did, but it does 
not seem to be healing, and I am afraid ’t 
is eating up into his foot. I have been 
treating it with a strong disinfectant, 
(clear) powdered alum and pine tar, and I 
have put iodine on once a week. Can you 
tell me of a better treatment than above, 
and how long is it going to take to cure? 
The horse is sound but this, but the only 
improvement I can see in the last month 
is some of this old flesh has come out, but 
the foot seems more sore. n. e. r 
Long Island. 
You seem to have a true case of canker 
on hand and home treatment will not avail, 
neither can we tell you what treatment 
will be certain to remedy the condition 
present. It often proves practically incur¬ 
able and requires the best attention of a 
skilled veterinarian. You will have to em¬ 
ploy such an expert. If you do not care 
to do so you might as well part with the 
horse or put him out of his misery. 
A. s. A. 
Worms. 
I have a colt five months old; it has 
worms. Will you give me a remedy? 
Virginia. j. p. M. 
Mix together two parts salt and one part 
each of dried sulphate of iron and flowers 
of sulphur. The dose of this for an adult 
horse is a tablespoonful twice daily. Give 
the foal a teaspoonful daily in feed. Best 
feed would be crushed oats and bran. 
a. s. A. 
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Will you let me know of some remedy 
to get rid of fleas and lice on a long¬ 
haired collie dog? I wish something to kill 
the nits, if possible. G. a. r. 
New York. 
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The Amount of Milk 
You Get Depends 
Upon You-As Much 
As Upon the Cow 
If you are getting only io to 12 
pounds of milk a day from your 
cows, it is your own fault—largely. 
Don’t blame the cow. 
She is doing the best she can with 
the feed you give her. 
Just because you feed a balanced 
ration, and just because the ratio 
between protein and carbohydrates 
is 1:4.5 or 1:5.5, it does not follow 
that you are going to get all the 
milk a cow might be made to give. 
There is something else needed. 
The amount of feed is right — 
The proportion is right — 
BUT — 
The cow’s digestive machinery 
cannot act on the ration so as to 
make more milk. 
It is up to you to correct the ra¬ 
tion so the cow can transform the 
food into milk and butter-fat. 
Therefore,we say it is your fault— 
not the cow’s — if you do not get all 
the milk you ought to get. 
The ration you are feeding ought, 
in all probability, to give you 15 to 
20 pounds of milk per cow. 
Instead of doing so, the protein 
that should make those extra pounds 
of milk passes into the manure 
pile — a total waste. 
DRIED BEET PULP 
Just. Like Roots 
THE FEED THATS GUARANTEED 
What is the Trouble? 
• 
The ration, balanced though it is, 
should ^contain something that will 
enable the cow to manufacture this 
extra milk. 
Silage—hay — stover—other rough- 
age, have not made it. They cannot. 
BUT— 
10^000 Dairymen have learned this 
past year how it is done. 
They fed DRIED BEET PULP in 
the daily ration—3 to 4 lbs. a day, and 
They have proved wi th their own cows 
and to their own satisfaction that Dried 
Beet Pulp gives more milk when in¬ 
cluded in the ration than anything else. 
—It is succulent 
—It is palatable 
—It is the bulki¬ 
est food 
—It retains its 
bulk in the diges¬ 
tive tract. 
Perhaps this last 
is the reason the 
cow can make more 
milk out of the rest 
of the feed. We 
do not undertake to say with scientific 
precision just what the reason is. 
What Dried Beet Pulp Will Do 
The important fact for you is that 
Dried Beet Pulp will increase your milk 
supply 2 to 5 pounds per cow a day. 
Feed it wet or’dry, though wet feed¬ 
ing seems to have a shade the better of 
the argument, and we recommend it. 
Feed it in place of silage, or with it. 
Just include Dried Beet Pulp in the 
ration and then watch the milkings 
get bigger. 
Our Proposition To You 
“We guarantee that any sack of our 
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direct from us or through a dealer, will 
prove satisfactory to the buyer, or we 
will refund the full purchase price/' 
Larger quantities can be bought with the 
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be refunded, you to reship the unused por¬ 
tion in accordance with instructions from us. 
These a’re strong, positive statements, 
but we will stand back of them with a 
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If it will not, you don’t want it, 
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You get a 100-pound sack of Dried 
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cow three weeks. Use three or four 
pounds a day in the feed. When the 
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so, and get your money back. 
We will not even 
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you should feed, 
unless you ask us 
to, then we will be 
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you how we be¬ 
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Pulp should be fed 
with your present 
_ ration. 
When the test is 
over, you have the records before you 
and make up your own mind whether 
it has been worth while or not. 
If it has, you will be another added 
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Now the time is right here when 
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THE UHROWE MILLING CO., Box 613, Ford B!dg„ Detroit, Mich. 
