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THE; RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock and Dairy 
MAKING BUTTER ON THE FARM. 
On page 1114 you say, “If there is 
any good reason why farmers should 
not make butter and sell direct to the 
consumer you would like to have it 
discussed.” Well, as a matter of fact 
there are many reasons. There is no 
way to get it to the city man. You say 
he can send it by express. No, he can¬ 
not; I have tried it many times with 
very unsatisfactory results. Our laws 
will lock a farmer up for larceny, but 
they will not molest the railroad man. 
The average city man does not know a 
good thing when he sees it. He cannot 
tell butter from pot-cheese. The price 
of butter is fixed by a gang of shysters 
in the city that never made a. pound of 
butter, without regard to quality, quan¬ 
tity or cost of making. I could give 
you many other reasons, but perhaps 
these will suffice to open the question. 
I don’t expect this letter will get be¬ 
yond the waste-basket; that is the final 
destiny of most farmers’ letters. We 
are farmers, at least we live on a farm. 
We have 10 Jersey cows, fine ones, too. 
We do make butter, and it is butter. 
We have made more than a ton this 
Summer, all by hand, sold it all in the 
little village near us. We could sell 
much more if we could make it. We 
sell it for 30 cents and people fall over 
each other to get it, which is pretty 
good evidence that it suits them. 
Wyoming Co., Pa. j. barrowcliff. 
There is little likelihood that very 
many city families will be able to buy 
their butter directly from the farmers. 
I live in one of the greatest dairy sec¬ 
tions of New York State (Madison Co.) 
and it is said that there is more money 
invested in dairy cows within a radius 
of 10 square miles within which I live 
than in an equal area anywhere else in 
the United States. Yet a good many 
dairy farmers are eating butter that 
has been shipped in from the West. And 
it is whispered that some are actually 
eating oleomargarine. I have been keep¬ 
ing a dairy of cows and making butter 
and selling it directly to the consumer 
for over 20 years, and while I have 
not laid up any money I have raised a 
large family in fairly decent shape, and 
added materially to my farming area 
and equipment. 
But the question was “Why do not 
more farmers make butter?” I believe 
that the principal reason is the ten¬ 
dency of the farmer to follow the 
course of least resistance, like a stream 
of water. The farmer is generally a 
hard worker, and hard work makes one 
tired, and when one is tired, he does 
not like to think. The details of busi¬ 
ness get on his nerves, and in despera¬ 
tion, he seeks the line of farming that 
requires the least thought or annoyance. 
I believe that there is no line of farm¬ 
ing that requires so little thought as 
dairying, when the milk is sold off the 
farm. Twice a year the dairyman goes 
to some place of meeting and signs a 
“contract” with the buyer. He has no 
voice in the conditions of this contract 
either as to how the milk shall be pro¬ 
duced and delivered, or as to the price. 
He just signs his name and the buyer 
does the rest. Then the inspector comes 
along and tells the farmer how his 
stables must be arranged and his cows 
fed. So, all that the farmer has to do 
is to follow instructions. Once a month 
he gets a check (if the company does 
not fail) and if it does fail, he has only 
to draw on his bank account for cur¬ 
rent expenses, and sell his milk to some 
company that never has failed. Easy, 
isn’t it? No trouble at all: At least 
it is not nearly so much trouble as it 
would be to build a little dairy house 
and equip it with a separator and a 
churn. Then there would be the bother 
of keeping the cream at the right tem¬ 
perature, and the churning when the 
cream ought to be churned. And the 
taking of orders, and delivering the but¬ 
ter. And last but not least, the collect¬ 
ing. But there are advantages to mak¬ 
ing butter on the farm, and, if you 
think it worth while, I will tell you 
about some of them at another time. 
Madison Co., N. Y. j. grant morse. 
R. N.-Y.—Tell us by all means. Since 
the note on page 1114 was printed half 
a dozen dairymen have come forward 
offering to supply homemade butter. 
There are evidently a good many of 
them left. 
Catarrh or Glanders. 
I have a mare 10 years old that had 
distemper two years ago and since then 
has seemed to have a cold often. Some¬ 
times she will cough a little. Her kidneys 
seem to be out of order and she keeps . 
rather thin. What should I do for her? 
F. B. A. 
We cannot prescribe for such cases, as 
glanders often is indicated by symptoms 
such as you describe, and when that mal¬ 
ady is present the animal has to be de¬ 
stroyed according to State law, and the 
stable quarantined, disinfected and white¬ 
washed. Glanders is not only contagious 
and fatal among horses, but communicable 
and fatal to man ; hence the importance of 
great care in the handling of all horses 
that have a chronic dischnvero from the 
nostril. Hose no time in having an exam¬ 
ination made by a graduate veterinarian. 
a. s. A. 
Unhealthy Dog. 
I have a foxhound ab<rut 18 months old; 
she has had mange for seven or eight 
months. I have tried different remedies 
such as sulphur and lard, creolin, and also 
got medicine from a veterinary, but they 
do not seem to effect a permanent cure. 
About the time I think I have her cured it 
breaks out again. It is not what is called 
the red mange; no pimples, simply hair 
dropping out and offensive smell. Her 
eyes seem to be affected, but whether from 
the mange or other cause I do not know. 
Eyes seem to be red and inflamed; some 
mornings nearly pasted shut. reader. 
Pennsylvania. 
You have not described the symptoms of 
any parasitic disease, such as mange, nor 
do we think that such a disease is present. 
Let the dog live out of doors, so far as 
possible, and feed one good meal a day, 
giving it in the evening. Two or three 
times a week feed parboiled liver to act 
freely on the bowels. Do not feed potatoes. 
Allow a large raw beef bone twice a week 
in addition to other meals. Twice a day 
give a dessertspoonful of emulsion of cod 
liver oil and at least once a day give the 
skin and hair of body a persistent, thor¬ 
ough handrubbing, massage and brushing. 
Watch for worms in the droppings, and if 
they are seen, or if known to be present, 
have the veterinarian give medicine to clear 
them away. a. s. a. 
Stocked Legs. 
I have a colt purchased two months ago. 
She is flve years old, was broken to drive 
in team last Spring, and was worked light¬ 
ly until about July 1. She was then turned 
out to pasture. I have driven her on a 
light wagon every day for two months, 
going 4% miles to work in the morning and 
same distance back at night. Why should 
her legs stock up during the day and again 
during the night? I am feeding her about 
six quarts of oats, two quarts of wheat 
feed and one quart of meal a day besides 
hay night and morning. She wasn’t shod 
very well the first time, and about two 
weeks ago I had an expert shoe her. Her 
hoofs were very hard and the blacksmith 
said her feet were contracted, and recom¬ 
mended the use of “hoof tone,” a kind of 
rock. Will you tell me what “hoof tone” 
is, and is it good? About four or five 
weeks ago and before I had her shod the 
last time I noticed she stood on her left 
hind foot, with her ankle cocked up a good 
deal. She doesn’t do it quite as much 
since I had her shod the last time. Would 
you advise using a liniment? w. F. L. 
New York. 
This is a constitutional trouble and not 
a local one. Do not use liniments. Give 
the filly (not colt; that means a male) a 
roomy box stall when in stable. Hand-rub 
the legs each time she comes in, then wrap 
them with cotton batting from hoofs to- 
knees and hocks and bandage snugly. Do 
not let the bandages stay on longer than 
six or eight hours without a thorough 
rubbing of the legs. Feed one pound of 
oats; or other nutritious grain and meal 
mixture, for each one hundred pounds of 
body weight as a day’s ration and increase 
the amount a little if she has hard work 
to do. Feed one to one and a quarter 
pounds of mixed hay per hundred pounds 
of body weight, as a day’s ration. We do 
not know what ‘hoof tone” is made of; but 
it probably is pipe clay, which mixes to a 
stiff mass when treated with water. This 
is used as hoof packing and is unnecessary, 
if the blacksmith forgets to mutilate the 
hoof by cutting, rasping and burning. Let 
him rasp walls only and just enough to 
provide a level bed for the shoe. The frog, 
bars and sole should be let alone and the 
walls are on no account to be rasped fur¬ 
ther than cutting small notches to accom¬ 
modate the clenches. Let the filly stand 
on an earth floor, which is kept clean and 
well bedded. A. s. a. 
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