1913 , 
11Q7 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Dishorning Calves ; Mare With Heaves. 
What cau I put on calves’ horns so 
they will not grow? Will it be all right 
to use in Summer? 2. I have a mare, 
about 10 years old, that has a slight 
touch of heaves. I would like to breed 
her this Fall. Would heaves be a draw¬ 
back? B. H. 
New Jersey. 
1. The horns cannot be removed by 
applications of caustic, or other medi¬ 
cine; but they may be prevented from 
growing, if treated as follows: When 
a calf is a » r days old, or when the 
horn buttons may first be felt under the 
skin, shave off the hair and slightly 
dampen the skin over the buttons; then 
rub thoroughly with a stick of caustic 
potash until a crust begins to form on 
the skin. Do not let the caustic run 
down over skirt away from the horn but¬ 
tons. Wrap one end of the caustic in 
thick paper to protect the hands while 
it is being used. This treatment will 
prevent horns from growing. If de¬ 
layed and “seurs” form these will have 
to be removed by cutting. 2. The mare 
is too old to breed from for the first time 
and having heaves should not be bred. 
A. s. A. 
Failing Cow. 
We own a horse that has been used 
for light rig speeding; am now using him 
as a road horse. He looks perfectly 
healthy and has no fever nor cold, but 
still his nose has been discharging for 
more than two months; we have consult¬ 
ed veterinary surgeons and each one has 
prescribed medicines, yet they do not 
seem to be able to diagnose his case, and 
their treatments have done him no good 
at all. The horse’s ears appear to be in 
good condition, as are also his mouth 
and throat, and while he is in the stable 
he has no discharge; it is only when he 
is in harness; we only drive him two 
hours every evening and about five hours 
on Sunday afternoons, so that he is 
not overworked and he has a light airy 
stable and eats heartily. I am giving 
the horse a nasal douche twice daily 
consisting of solution of boracic acid and 
one tablespoonful of pure alcohol to a 
quart of water, and while said douche 
cleanses, still his nose discharges again 
when out exercising. w. c. M. 
New York. 
In such a case the veterinarian should 
make sure that glanders is absent and 
that a diseased molar tooth is not caus¬ 
ing the discharge. If those matters have 
been determined try effects of douching 
the nostrils once daily with a solution 
of one dram of tannic or gallic acid to 
the pint of soft water and give tonics 
and alteratives in the feed. Start with 
a dram of dried sulphate of iron twice 
daily in the feed for ten days; then 
change to a like dose of powdered sul¬ 
phate of copper twice daily and in 10 
days, if found necessary, to a dram dose 
of iodide of potash twice a day for five 
consecutive days a week for two weeks. 
Repeat the entire treatment if necessary, 
after the two weeks of treatment with 
iodide of potash. a. s. a. 
Shoe Boil. 
What could I do for a shoe boil? I 
have a colt that gets one every little 
while. Is there any cure for it, or must 
I get it cut. It has always gone away 
of itself before. F. L. 
New York. 
A shoe boil comes from the point of 
the elbow being bruised upon an inade¬ 
quately bedded floor, and as a rule the 
horse so affected lies persistently upon 
its chest, instead of over on its side as 
it should do. Books and writers errone¬ 
ously. say that the “boil” comes from 
bruising by the heel of the shoe. A horse 
does not lie on the heels of its shoes; at 
least we have failed to find a horse in 
that position, shoe boil or no shoe boil. 
Spike a scantling across the stall floor, 
just back of where the fore feet rest 
when the horse is standing up, and this 
will make it stop lying upon its chest. 
When a shoe boil starts tie the horse up 
short and he soon will learn to sleep 
standing up. Do not cut into the shoe 
boil at first. The liquid serum may be 
reabsorbed, unless pus forms. To induce 
absorption bathe the part with hot water 
three times a day and at night paint the 
lump with tincture of iodine. If it does 
not go away in six weeks, or if pus forms 
and the boil becomes hot and sore and 
the leg swells from knee to elbow freely, 
evacuate, the liquid, swab out with tinc¬ 
ture of iodine, and then pack the cavity 
once daily with oakum saturated in a 
mixture of equal parts of turpentine and 
raw linseed oil. Leave a tag of the oak¬ 
um protruding from the wound to act as 
a drain. Apply lard, vaseline or raw 
linseed oil under the shoe boil to pro¬ 
test the skin from the turpentine. If a 
shoe boil has become chronic and hard, 
“ r . ff’ 't is an old opened shoe boil, with 
tuick hard fibroid walls there is only one 
remedy and that is to have the mass 
cleanly removed by cutting. Little scar 
wi l remain after healing. a. s. a. 
Gadfly Grubs. 
lou stated in response to inquiry that 
mere is no cure f or g ru b j u the h ea( j 0 f 
sueep, but I have seen dozens of cases 
cured They must be kept away from 
nit other sheep; take spirits of turpentine 
nmi pour it gently up the nostrils, hold- 
!? K : ' le sheep’s nose up so as to allow 
)} i tur Pe«tine to run back in the head. 
Kim the turpentine across over the brain. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Do this each day for a week and do not 
forget to feed plenty of salt and one- 
third sulphur and you will not have much 
trouble with the sheep. I have seen 
sheep cured that were so bad that you 
would think they would smother to 
death at once. v. s. A. 
This is an old-fashioned method of 
treating sheep affected with gadfly grubs, 
aud one that we have often suggested in 
answering inquiries; but we cannot rec¬ 
ommend it as a specific. Grubs located 
in the upper parts of the uostrils or air 
passages of the head may be killed by 
turpentine, or kerosene, in the way sug¬ 
gested, but unfortunately the grubs that 
do most of the harm are located in the 
sinuses and cannot be got at by medicine. 
An operation is possible for the removal 
of the grubs, by trephining the skull, but 
it does not pay so to treat common sheep. 
In using kerosene or turpentine it is 
usual to dilute with an equal quantity 
of olive oil. One nostril is treated, the 
sheep being held on its side and the nose 
held upright to allow the mixture to run 
into the upper passages; then the other 
nostril is treated in the same way. The 
treatment is well worth trying. A. S. A. 
BOSTON MARKET REVIEW. 
A general depression of prices on all 
perishable produce is about the situation 
in the Boston market, and has been for 
about a week. Apples are dropping 
badly, and show signs of not keeping 
again this season, and are being shipped 
in too freely for the good of market, or 
perhaps more truly the growers’ pocket. 
Of course the consumer will reap some 
benefit, but not much, as the distributors 
keep prices as the rule about at a certain 
level. If they cut prices on one thing 
they intend to make it up on something 
else, or later on the same thing. Po¬ 
tatoes are now being made the goat, and 
prices cut all around. Local potatoes are 
now being harvested, and their sales cut 
into the dealers’ business more or less. 
This cut by the dealers is partly to com¬ 
pete with this local stock aud force prices 
as low as possible at this time; also this 
is the season of the general clean-up and 
close-out of the odds and ends of those 
crops which finish at this season for out¬ 
door grown. A certain percent of grow¬ 
ers furnish stuff to the market all the 
year; others do not, only during the out¬ 
door season, and these latter are now 
finishing up their season with the last 
ends, much of which is of course of poor 
quality, as the ends of all crops of this 
kind are apt to be. Tomatoes especially 
are in this class and are poorer than 
usual this season, not standing up well 
at all. which accounts for low prices and 
poor demand. Wholesale grain prices are 
lower, but the larger dealers are reaping 
the benefits or getting rid of stocks on 
hand before lowering prices. 
Meats and poultry hold about the same, 
as the big dealers have full control of 
these. Butter holds its own for good 
fresh stocks, but storage stock is being 
substituted wherever possible, as the deal¬ 
ers consider it always a good time to 
unload this on a rising market. 
Shell beans are high, going at $2.50 
per bushel for best stock of Limas or 
Worcester; string beans also the same 
price. _ Cabbage more plentiful but sells 
well, 5 to 8 cents eacn to the retailers 
for native-grown. Savoy, 75 cents per 
barrel; red 50 to 75 per box; cauliflow¬ 
er 75 to $1 per bushel of five to nine 
heads. Celery $1 up per bushel; cucum¬ 
bers $5 to $8 per hundred; pickles $3.50 
up per busliel; lettuce $75 to $1.25 per 
box; onions sold by writer in open mar¬ 
ket at $1.10 and $1.25 per box for me¬ 
dium stock not sorted, but just as taken 
from field. Bag stock containing two 
bushels from Connecticut and New York 
sells at $2 to $2.50 per bag. Fancy white 
pickling go at $4 per bushel. Bay State 
and Hubbard squash brings $2 per bar¬ 
rel. with Boston Marrow going at $1.25 
to $1.50 per barrel. Small pumpkins 60 
cents per box. Tomatoes $1.50 for best, 
others 50 to $1 per box. Yellow turnips 
65 cents per box, $1.25 to $1.50 per bag. 
White egg and purple-top 75 cents per 
box; carrots and parsnips 75 cents to $1 
per box; spinach 50 cents per box; pep¬ 
pers $1 per box. Pears are plenty and 
even the fancy stock demanded by fruit 
stands is selling slow and prices rule 
low. Beurre Bose, the best selling pear 
on the market, is selling below quota-, 
tion in many cases; a few bring $2 per 
box. others $1.50 to $1.75. Anjou $1.50 
to $2 for best, others 75 cents up per box. 
Seckel $1.50 to $3 per box; storage 
Bartlett $2 and $3; common varieties 75 
to $1; peaches 75 to $1 per basket for 
best, others lower. Wild grapes $2 per 
box; eating grapes plenty and prices 
many. Cranberries $7 per barrel. $2.50 
per box. Best Gravenstein apples $5 and 
better per barrel. McIntosh about the 
same: other good kinds $2.50 and $3.50: 
cooking $1.50 to $2. Native box fruit 50 
to $1 for common: $1.50 to $2.50 for 
fancy. Bananas $1.50 to $4.50 per 
bunch: oranges $5 to $7 per box; lemons 
$6 to $8 per box. 
Butter, best. 34 to 36% per pound; 
good, 31 to 33. poor 27 to 20 ; cheese, 
best, IS and 10 ; good, 17. Eggs are 
scarce and in demand; best 45 and bet¬ 
ter; good 35 and 40; storage 30 to 34. 
Live hens, 15; chickens 16 and 17; roost¬ 
ers jlI; ducks 14 and 15; dressed fowls 
10 to 21; chickens 23 to 28; ducks 17. 
Young lamb 12% ; veal 16 ; beef 12% ; 
dressed hogs 11%. Hay $13 to $23 per 
ton; cornmeal $1.55 per bag; mixed feed 
$20 per ton; cotton-seed $33 ; linseed 
$32 ; gluten $31.50 ; bran $25. A. E. P. 
Cows Love Unicorn 
Ready mixed dairy ration 
GUARANTEED 
ANALYSIS 
PROTEIN_28% 
FAT-6% 
CARBOHYDRATES 50% 
FIBRE_9% 
It cuts down the 
amount of grain used, 
lowers the cost,increases 
the flow of milk and 
pleases the cows; 
Unicorn isn’t a single 
feed. It is many in one — 
so FEED IT STRAIGHT 
and stop your worryingand 
expense. 
Proof of the strength and 
efficiency of Unicorn furn¬ 
ished in abundance on 
application. Write today. 
CHAPIN & CO. 
Box R, Hammond, Ind 
I a gallon f.o.b. Philadelphia, Pa. Bbl. (56gal.)$7. I 
WATTLES & CO., Box 15, Litchfield. Mich. | 
LET US TAN 
YOUR HIDE. 
Cattle or Horse hide. Calf, Dog, Deer 
or any kind of skin with hair or lur on. 
We tan and finish them right • make 
them into coats U'or men and women), 
robes, rugs or gloves when ordered. 
Your fur goods will cost you Jess than 
to buy them, and be worth more. Our 
Illustrated catalog gives a lot of in¬ 
formation which every stock raiser 
should have, but we never send out this 
valuable book except upon request. 
It tells how to take off and care for 
hides; how and when we pay the freight 
both ways ; about our safe dyeing pro¬ 
cess which is a tremendous advantage 
to the customer, especially on horse 
hides and calf skins ; about the fur 
goods and game trophies we sell, taxi¬ 
dermy, etc. If you want a copy send us 
your correct address. 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
571 LyeUAve.. Rochester. N. Y. 
SKUNK 
WE PAY TOP PRICES FOR IKUNK, 
MINK. MUSKRAT. AND ALL RAW FURS. 
Price list free. M. J. Jewett & 
Sons, Redwood, N. Y. Dept. 29. 
GET READY FOR THE 
Raw Fur Season 
Mail us a postal with your name and 
address NOW and we will keep you 
posted on the RAW FUR MARKET. 
A. Suskind & Co., 159 W. 24th St., New York City 
BOOKS WORTH 
READING 
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Celery Culture. Beattie.50 . | 
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The Rural New-Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., N. Y. 
What’s in a Name? 
More than at 
first there ap¬ 
pears to be ! 
More than 
seems possible 
at first sight! 
For names 
such as PARSONS stand for quality, 
for all that's strong, for all that’s first 
in its class. “PARSONS” is worth 
more to the buyer of wagons, than a 
Government Guarantee, and 
PARSONS 
I “LOW-DOWN” 
MILK WAGONS 
are leaders in their line. “Low-down” 
designates the style. Near to the ground, 
of useful size, PARSONS “Low-down” 
Milk Wagons never have been and 
never will be equalled. Twenty-seven 
years of experience, of money, of experi¬ 
ment, of brains have helped make 
PARSON’S name a perfect, absolute, 
binding guarantee. 
Milk Dealers’, Bakers’, Batchers’ 
Wagons Exclusively. 
“FOR 27 
YEARS THE 
STANDARD” 
Send for Catalog 0 
—Send Now 
THE PARSONS WA60N CO. 
EARLVILLE, NEW YORK 
SKUNKS 
and all other furs will be high this season. I trapped 
from 1890 to 1899, the year I started in buainess, and 
I know the hardships a trapper has to go through to 
be successful. Why not ship your furs this season 
to a man who understands the business from the 
trap line to the finished garment. I am that man, 
and I want you to have my pricelists which contain 
reliable information and quotations that any man 
can understand at a glance. JAS. P. ELLIS. 39-41 MiS 
St . Middletown, N. Y. Formerly 137-139 W. 29th St.. N. Y. 
1,500 
Manufac¬ 
turers of 
FURS 
in N. Y. City have sold their old stock 
and are hungry for fresh goods. We sell 
to them. Send for price list and ship to 
M. F. Pfaelzer & Co., 
119 W. 29th St. (Desk 22), 
New York City. 
FUN AND MONEY 
_ j in Trapping with 
Victor traps 
To Boys or “Grown-Ups”:—Write for 
free booklet on trapping, showing how 
you can make money before and after 
school or between “chore” times. 
Address ONEIDA COMMUNITY, Ltd., Oneida. N.Y. 
NO. 20 KENWOOD AVE. 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
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