942 
Live Stock and Dairy 
NON-PAYMENT FOR TUBERCULOUS. 
CATTLE. 
In a previous letter I stated that there 
were several reasons why the breeding of 
purebred cattle in this State was a risky 
business at the present time. I think 
that the greatest risk lies in tha suscep¬ 
tibility to tuberculosis of the bovine race, 
and the way in which this disease is being 
handled by the State of New York. The 
law governing this disease is so generally 
understood that it does not seem neces¬ 
sary to describe it here, as a copy of it 
can be obtained at any time by applying 
to the Agricultural Department. But 
perhaps it is not so generally known to 
the average farmer, just how the law af¬ 
fects the breeder, so I will give an idea 
of it. 
We will suppose that I started breed¬ 
ing purebred cattle and in the course of 
time, I have a young cow to sell. I ad¬ 
vertise and sell her for $200 to a man in 
Massachusetts (or some other State). 
To go into that State she must pass the 
tuberculin test, so I apply to a State 
veterinarian and he comes and tests the 
cow (at a charge of $10) and condemns 
her. The papers are sent in to Albany, 
and I am informed that I can keep the 
cow provided that I will segregate her 
from all other bovine animals, and that 
I will pasteurize all of her milk before it 
is fed to any animal or used in the manu¬ 
facture of any article of food. (I am 
given this privilege on recommendation 
of the veterinary because upon physical 
examination, the cow seems healthy, and 
it seems to be a pity to kill her.) Of 
course it will be more than the cow is 
worth to take all this trouble with her 
and her milk, so I decline the offer, and 
the State orders the cow killed. The 
veterinarian comes back with a butcher 
and slaughters the cow. On post-mortem 
examination, he finds a little white spot 
or two in a gland, and he pronounces 
this to be tuberculosis, but the case is 
in a slight localized form, and the car¬ 
cass is passed for food. The butcher 
buys the carcass from the veterinary, 
who is acting as agent for the State, and 
pays him the cash for it. The hide goes 
to the tanner, and the meat goes to the 
shop and is sold just the same as any 
other inspected beef. That is the end of 
the cow, but let us see how I come out. 
The State allows $125 as the limit of 
valuation for a registered cow, and the 
veterinax-ian (now acting as the agent 
of the State in the capacity of appraiser) 
very justly allows me the highest valua¬ 
tion for my cow. As she had the dis¬ 
ease in a mild, localized form, I am al¬ 
lowed 80 per cent of her appraised val¬ 
uation, or $.100. But the veterinary does 
not pay me the hundred. He can receive 
the pay for the cow from the butcher, 
but he can’t pay me for the cow. In¬ 
stead he makes out a form giving the 
facts of the case, and I sign it as the 
owner, and it is sent on to Albany. After 
three or four months, I receive a form 
of account from the Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment for me to sign, stating that my ac¬ 
count has been paid (which it has not). 
But the Commissioner writes and ex¬ 
plains that this is a form of procedure 
which it will be necessary for me to fol¬ 
low if I get my pay. So I sign the re¬ 
ceipt and send it along. After waiting 
two months longer, I get impatient and 
write the Commissioner if I have been 
forgotten. I submit his answer so you 
can understand the situation thoroughly. 
In this letter he says that it “may be 
possible that my claim will be reached,” 
but it never has been. You will notice 
that this letter from the Commissioner 
bears the date of June 14, 1912, and I 
heard no more about the payment of my 
claim until June 5, 1913, when I re¬ 
ceived the next letter from the Commis¬ 
sioner. As this also explains itself, I 
inclose it also. This is July 24, 1913, 
and the poor old State of New York still 
owes me for the cow that she killed and 
sold for cash in Januax-y, 1912. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
R. N.-Y.—The letter dated June 14, 
1912, to which Mr. Morse refers, states 
that when Commissioner Iluson assumed 
office in February, 1912, there were 
claims amounting to $197,000 for tuber¬ 
culous cattle which had been killed. An 
appropriation of $200,000 was made for 
these payments. Mr. Iluson asked the 
Legislature to appropriate $120,000 more 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
to pay claims which might accrue there¬ 
after. The Legislature failed to appro¬ 
priate .this money, so that a^ the time the 
letter was written there wei*e no funds 
on hand to pay for these cattle. Mr. ilu¬ 
son states that when he advised that the 
bill would be paid about the middle of 
May, he assumed that the Legislature 
would provide the money with which to 
meet these obligations. The letter of 
June 3 appears to be a printed circular 
in which farmers are informed that Gov¬ 
ernor Sulzer vetoed the item providing 
money for payment of claims now due. 
The Governor suggested that a schedule, 
giving the name of each claimant and 
the amount of his claim be prepared, so 
that the special session of the Legisla¬ 
ture might provide the money. It ap¬ 
pears therefore that as soon as the Leg¬ 
islature sees fit to appropriate the nec¬ 
essary money, these claims will be paid. 
We understand, however, that Governor 
Sulzer takes the position that hei-eafter 
the State should not pay any compensa¬ 
tion to dairymen when diseased cattle 
are destroyed. 
HOG WALLOWS. 
On page 782 Iloratio Markley says 
they avoid having hog wallows for hogs 
at pasture. I would like to know why? 
A. w. s. 
In answer to A. W. S. as to why we 
do not have wallows for hogs in fields 
of rape and clover for Summer feeding, 
I wish to say that I do believe in clean 
bathing places for hogs where conveni¬ 
ent and that in permanent pasture lot 
we have plenty of good spring water and 
an artificial lake of 1*4 acre. We know 
that the hogs enjoy it very much. A 
cement basin filled with clean water that 
can be washed out occasionally is all 
right and a comfort to the hog and ought 
to be in every hog lot. But the wallow 
to which I referred and which may be 
an Ohio product, is caused by the rain 
water collecting in a low place and then 
by the aid of the hogs becoming a water¬ 
tight basin, the contents of which vary 
fi’om the consistency of water to solid 
earth owing to weather conditions. Such 
a place is a menace to the health of the 
hog. Not finding it convenient to fur¬ 
nish clean bathing places in these 
fields devoted to the Summer feeding we 
prevent all surface wallows and find 
with shade and plenty of clean drinking 
water our hogs do not suffer from the 
heat. We are sure our hogs are healthier 
and much more self-respecting than when 
allowed to wallow in the mud. 
Ohio. HORATIO MARKLEY. 
MORE COW RECORDS. 
On page 923 Mr. P. As Cloud, of 
Chester Co., Pa., tells of the milk rec¬ 
ord of his four cows. Now he writes 
about the best one: 
The big cow I referred to in my 
former letter gave last year 14,0S2 
pounds of milk. When she came fresh 
this Spi’ing I started her with the idea 
of making her give 20,000 pounds. Now 
it might be interesting to some dairymen 
to know how I keep her up to her work, 
and I had a thought I could make that 
more interesting latex 1 , possibly in No¬ 
vember after I had the weight of her 
milk for five months and could show the 
effect of feed and weather. At first she 
gave over 90 pounds per day; now she 
is avex-aging about Go. I am not feeding 
stx-ong this hot weather, just ti’ying to 
keep her up To GO pounds, with the in¬ 
tention of making her do better when 
the weather gets cooler. 
I\ ALLEN CLOUD. 
R. N.-Y".—Of course we want to know 
about this cow. 
Records of Small Herds. 
Can Mr. Thackray, page 842, beat this, 
with $72.05 per cow? I cannot give the 
figures as I have destroyed my state¬ 
ments from cheese factox-y in Summer 
and creamery during Winter, but for 
the year 1910 I had seven cows. I can re¬ 
member the average per cow was a little 
over $100 per cow. I sold the calves for 
veal and called them $50 to make the 
$100 as the milk did not quite reach the 
mark without it. My cows were four 
grade ILplsteins, one Jei'sey and Dui-ham 
gave me 430^ pounds in one week, 65 
pounds the most in any one day, one 
Ayrshii-e and Jex-sey, one Jersey. Feed, 
silage, corn stovei 1 , hay, grain, almost 
any kind I could get; molasses sprinkled 
on shredded corn stover. I have the 
statements for last year, but my herd 
has been changing, selling some old ones 
and heifers replacing them. In regard 
to care in Winter cows were kept in 
barn, only turned out for exercise on 
pleasant days, watered in barn. I have 
no pasture, used soiling system for Sum¬ 
mer. The cheese was sold at one-half 
cent less than highest New York quota¬ 
tions; milk was sold to creamery at $1.50 
per hundred. w. I. hackett. 
Ohio. 
What Five Cows Made. 
The figures below are the statements 
as l-eceived from the Ararat milk station 
beginning March 1, 1912, to December 
13, 1912. The amount of milk is the 
produce of five cows; two of the cows 
were three-year-olds/ These cows are 
grade Holsteins. They wex’e fed equal 
parts of mixed feed, meal and gluten, 
and all the good hay they would consume. 
1912. 
March . $21.21 
April . 68.51 
May . 77.61 
June . 72.63 
July .,. 59.89 
August . 57.82 
September . 55.48 
October . 54.61 
November . 38.85 
December . 4.60 
$511.21 
An average of $102.24 per cow for the 
nine months and 13 days. 
A NEW HAMPSHIRE DAIRY HERD. 
Noticing on page 842 statement of 
what seven cows did in one year, I hei’e- 
with submit receipts from my dairy of 
seven and eight cows, covering same 
pei-iod: 
1912. 
June . $72.97 
July . 67.81 
August . 62.29 
September . 48.62 
October . 60.64 
November . 51.18 
December . 78.45 
1913. 
January . 92.58 
Febi-uary . 84.89 
March . 97.53 
April . 98.41 
May . 111.78 
$927.15 
In addition I sold four calves (two or 
three days old), which came to $14.50. 
From June, 1, 1912, to January 20, 1913, 
I owned eight cows; from January 20 to 
May 31, seven. During the year, an 
average of about thi’ee quarts a day was 
sold at six cents per quart. Balance of 
milk was sold at 35 cents per 8*4-quart 
can during June, July, August and Sep- 
ternbei 1 , 1912. From October 1, 1912, to 
June 1, 1913, I received 37 cents per can. 
One of the cows is a grade Holstein and 
one a grade Ayrshire (heifer 3*4 years 
old; first calf) ; rest of cows ai’e scrubs. 
I feed for grain six-sevenths commercial 
feed and one-seventh molassine meal, 
from 12 to 15 pounds per cow. During 
Winter roughage consisted solely of corn 
stover and meadow hay; two feeds a day. 
During Summer cows are kept in barn 
and given gi’een fodder in morning and 
turned in pasture about two P. M. Green 
fodder consists of barley, oats and peas, 
corn fodder, or any vegetable tops I 
may have from garden. During the year 
there was one dry cow neaxdy all the 
time. I milk three times a day, but not 
regular and the cows have only ordinary 
care. The grade Holstein mentioned 
above freshened December 20, 1912, and 
is now averaging 37 pounds milk per day. 
Derry, N. H. L. E. E. 
Liability for Dog Tax. 
I have a very fine bred dog on a breed¬ 
ing arrangement. Am I liable to pay 
all the tax, due very soon here? There 
was nothing said about this in the con- 
tract. c. c. 
New York. 
Considerable would depend on the 
reading of the dog tax law of your State 
or city. The owner of the dog would be 
liable for the full tax unless there was 
something to the contrax-y in the contract 
or the law. M. d. 
August 16, 
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