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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
December 7. 
A MAINE BUTTER MAKER TALKS. 
I wish to talk especially to those who 
sell milk and are not satisfied with the 
prices received; perhaps our experience 
may help some of you to better things. 
I was going to say more profit, but I 
don’t like that expression. Twenty-one 
years ago we came to this place and 
this farm, the buildings of which had 
not been occupied for two years, and 
as unoccupied places always run down 
very fast, the owners wanted to dispose 
of it very much. We paid $16^4 per 
acre. It is located one-half mile from 
church and one mile from railroad sta¬ 
tion and corn canning factory, which 
decided us to make the following de¬ 
cision. Cows, as the farm was badly 
run down; hogs to drink the skim-milk 
and butter-milk, as we intended to make 
butter, and sweet corn for the factory 
as a money crop. By selling the ears 
we find that the fodder in the silo pays 
all the expenses up to breaking. This 
article refers especially to the butter 
making, which we started in a very 
small way at first 'with one cow, till last 
year we turned out over 3%. tons. The 
work soon got too much for my mother, 
and as a butter factory started in town 
we sold cream there for a while, but we 
could make more butter from a given 
amount of cream than they allowed us 
for, so we started making- butter, most 
of which we sell in a large town 4^4 
miles away, delivering direct to the 
houses the same day. in the week and 
as near the same hour as possible. We 
get the highest market price, and our 
customers claim that there is no better 
butter made than Fernside Dairy. At 
the Dairyman’s Association last Winter 
we got a score of 96*4. I know you 
will say that there is lots of work and 
time needed to make butter. I know 
that if anyone does, but I wouldn’t sell 
milk. The first thing for any farmer 
to look after is to keep up the fertility 
of his land; selling butter you sell 
about 50 cents’ value of fertility to the 
ton; skim and buttermilk have a fertili¬ 
zing value of about 11 cents a hundred 
pounds. Then it is possible to raise 
calves and hogs. We raise all our cows, 
buying only bulls, and those pure-bred. 
The next item is we get the whole 
of the consumer’s dollar, and the last 
item and not the least by any means, is 
the pride and satisfaction of the busi¬ 
ness. To make the highest grade of 
butter calls for high-grade care in 
everything connected with it. Your 
stock must be clean and slick, your 
barns light and well ventilated and neat, 
so that it will be a delight to you to 
have your customers call and see your 
cows. Do you who ship milk to the 
city ever expect that the consumer of 
that milk will make you a call to see 
your cows and tell you how good your 
milk is? Do you who sell cream to the 
factory get in touch with the consumer? 
I know a farmer living back quite a 
way from town who started making 
butter and selling it to farmers, and he 
sells most of it on the road before he 
gets to the village. I know that all 
cannot take up with our method, but 
some can, and where this can be done 
it will pay big. Just think of not hav¬ 
ing to buy any cows, but having cows 
to sell! Never sell your best; know 
what each cow is doing. It takes time. 
We have weighed each cow’s milk 
separately for 19 years, and tested the 
milk; it takes time, but it pays. Don’t 
look for the present dollar; look 10 
years ahead. You may not see it, but 
if you do not you will be a benefactor. 
Maine. c. H. fuller. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Rupture. 
Wo have a mare colt about three months 
old that has a small rupture very near the 
navel. Would you advise us how to treat 
it? D. A. B. 
New York. 
The term “colt” is correctly applied to 
a male foal. A female foal is correctly 
called a “filly” and not a colt. Do not 
give any treatment, as a small rupture at 
the navel tends to disappear as the animal 
grows. If it does not do so, but increases 
in size, then employ a qualified veterinarian 
to apply wooden clamps to the loose skin 
and sac of the rupture (hernia) after re¬ 
turning the bowel to the abdominal cavity. 
Some horsemen prefer, from the start, to 
blister a small rupture lightly at intervals 
of a month or so to hasten recovery and 
claim that this plan is effectual. A. s. a. 
Ox With Sore. 
I have an ox that had a sore come on 
his tail about six weeks ago, and I can¬ 
not get it to heal. The sore is just above 
the brush of the tail, and if there is not 
something on it the smell is quite of¬ 
fensive. The only thing that stops the 
odor is turpentine. The sore seems to in¬ 
crease in size rather than decrease. My 
neighbors advise me to cut the tail off. 
What do you say? a. b. c. 
New York. 
Cut away the diseased tissues of the sore, 
scraping it thoroughly, but do not cut off 
the tail. Save the brush if possible. After 
scraping saturate the wound with tincture 
of iodine and twice a day afterward swab 
the wound with a two per cent solution 
of iodine and at once dust with boric acid. 
If the sore is cancerous it will not heal, 
and then it may be necessary to dock the 
tail. a. s. A. 
Thin Horses. 
I have two old horses, kind and good, 
wind and travel sound, feeding 12 quarts 
oats, four quarts bran and handful of oil 
meal with plenty of fair quality hay twice 
daily. These horses do not lie down. One 
has trouble getting up if he gets down o 
left side; they are poor in flesh. Is there 
any method by which I can make them 
lie down naturally or improve their looks 
so I can get something for them when I 
sell them? I am not working them very 
much now. G. s. M. 
New Jersey. 
Have their teeth attended to by a 
veterinarian and ’f the teeth are found to 
be in such poor condition that mastication 
of feed cannot be perfectly accomplished, 
feed them as follows: Dilute one quart of 
blackstrap molasses with three quarts of 
hot water and feed this stirred up with cut 
hay, wheat bran and cornmeal. Feed the 
molasses feed night and morning, using 
one quart of molasses each time, and feed 
whole oats at noon and long hay at night. 
Give each horse a box stall in stable. If 
there is then difficulty in rising, better put 
slings under the weak horse. If improve¬ 
ment is not rapid give one-half ounce of 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic night and morn¬ 
ing, after a few smaller preliminary doses. 
a. s. A. 
Tendinous Thoroughpin. 
Mare, 11 years old, has been lame in 
hind leg for about two months. There is 
a sore spot above the hock joint, in about 
the place for a high spavin, not much 
swelling, and is not so sore as it was; 
bothers her to get around in the stall. She 
also seems somewhat sore .and lame on 
back; does not like to have the crupper 
put on or off. She is tender in front, al¬ 
though her feet are not contracted or other¬ 
wise abnormal, so far as one can see; is 
in good spirits and eats well. She has 
been driven only on a walk and for short 
distances since becoming lame; has been 
turned in pasture for a while nearly every 
day since becoming lame, unless weather 
was bad. Joints snap or crack at times 
when she walks. Local veterinarian called 
it rheumatism and treated her accordingly, 
but without result. Others say “spavin,” 
but spavin cure has not cured. J. T. p. 
New York. 
The swelling on the hind leg is in the 
seat of a tendinous thoroughpin, and we 
would advise you to clip off the hair and 
blister the part with cerate of cantharides, 
or other salve blister, at intervals of three 
or four weeks, until lameness subsides. As 
rheumatism may be present, it might also 
be well to give half an ounce of salicylate 
of soda two or three times a day, at times 
of attack. Work or abundantly exercise 
the mare every day and allow her a roomy 
box stall in stable. a. s. a. 
Cribbing. * 
Can you tell me how to cure a young 
mare (four years old) of cribbing and wind 
sucking? I was advised to tie a strap 
around her throat tight. k. s. w. 
Maryland. 
Buckling a strap fairly tight around the 
throat, just back of the ears may check 
the habit or temporarily render its practice 
impossible; but such means do not cure 
the vice, nor does it prove curable. The 
.only chance of a true remedy would be 
to have an operation performed by a grad¬ 
uate veterinarian for obliteration of the 
one of the nerves governing the parts in¬ 
volved. This operation does not always 
succeed. Other mechanical means of al¬ 
laying the trouble are: (1) Tie one end of 
a cord to one ring of the halter ; pass the 
other end under the upper lip and draw 
the cord fairly tight over the gums of up¬ 
per incisor teeth, then tie the free end of 
the cord to the other ring of halter; (2) 
ikeep the horse in a box stall from which 
everything has been removed unon which 
the teeth could be set or rested when prac¬ 
ticing the habit; (3) put tacks through 
the strap of halter that encircle the muz¬ 
zle so they will prick when pressed. 
A. s. A. 
Swelling. 
Three weeks ago my horse some way 
hurt his knee in the stable. The knee 
is swollen about as large again as the 
other. It is only in the knee, not above 
nor below. The first week I bathed it 
in hot water three times every day. Now 
I am putting on spavin cure. The horse 
has not been lame at all but the swelling 
does not go down. It is not sore. She 
slobbers some; a little drool runs from 
her mouth all the time. M. a. 
Irregularities of the teeth may cause 
the drooling, so have her teeth attended 
to by a veterinarian. Poultice the swollen 
joint with anti-phlogistine, unless the skin 
has been irritated by liniijients or blisters. 
If the skin is irritated apply fresh lard or 
vaseline once a day until the skin is sound. 
Hand rub and massage the swelling twice 
daily. Let the horse occupy a box stall 
in stable, but he should be livbtly worked 
or abundantly exercised every day. 
a. s. A. 
Suppression of Milk. 
Can you advise me as to a cow holding 
up her milk? This is one of my best cows, 
giving about five gallons of milk a day 
now; she gets the best of feed and care, 
no abuse. The cows are so tame they will 
come to me in the pasture and 1 often pet 
and stroke her. She is now about three 
months fresh and without anv cause, has 
lately held up her milk. c. L. 
Virginia. 
Chilling of the udder, or an attack of in¬ 
digestion tend to induce shrink in milk 
flow or its suppression. In such cases the 
udder remains practically normal in ap¬ 
pearance and handling qualities. If the 
suppression has come from entrance of in¬ 
fective matters the udder will enlarge and 
become hard and possibly hot and painful. 
Massage the udder very thoroughly three 
times a day and go through the motions 
of milking. At night rub udder with 
brandy. Feed soft, sweetened, laxative 
feeds. a. s. a. 
Dysentery. 
Could you advise me what to do about 
my heifer, two years old, now in calf? 
She has the scours; that is her manure for 
about 10 days passes off just like water. I 
have her turned out in clover pasture about 
three weeks now. She is drying up in her 
milk. J. a. t. 
New York. 
Keep the cow off clover and feed dry hay 
and grain in the stable allowing exercise 
in the yard daily. See that drinking water 
is pure. Change of feed will be likely to 
stop the scouring, if it is not due to dis¬ 
ease ; but chronic scouring suggests 
“Jolme’s disease” (chronic bacterial dysen¬ 
tery) and that is contagious and incurable. 
It causes extreme emaciation, but the ani¬ 
mal eats right up to the time of her death, 
which may occur in a few weeks or months 
after the severe symptoms are noted, or the 
disease may be present for a year or more 
before proving fatal. If she fails to im¬ 
prove on changed rations have a graduate 
veterinarian make an examination and tell 
him what we have said regarding the pos¬ 
sibility of Johne’s disease being present. 
A. S. A. 
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