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'THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
A NEW BUTTER FAT RECORD. 
An event of no little interest to dairy¬ 
men, particularly breeders of purebred 
Holstein cattle, is the establishment of a 
new world’s record made at the farm of 
C. A. Schrocder, West Bend, Wis. In 
seven days Cedar Lawn Dc Kol Johanna, 
113565, at the age of two years, two 
months, 20 days, and 11 days after calv¬ 
ing, produced 20.697 pounds butter fat 
from 513.7 pounds of milk, with an aver¬ 
age test of 4.03 per cent. This record 
shows an increase of over a pound of 
butter fat over any previous Holstein 
record made by a junior two-year-old 
(under 2 / 2 years), and will probably 
stand for some time. In other words, 
this heifer averaged 2.957 pounds of but¬ 
ter fat from 73.4 pounds of milk daily 
for seven days. How many readers have 
a mature scrub or grade cow that will 
do nearly as well, or two of the same 
age that can equal it? The grain mixture 
fed was made up of 40 pounds gluten 
feed, 30 pounds ground oats, 20 pounds 
wheat bran, 15 pounds oil meal, 10 pounds 
cornmcal and 10 pounds ground barley. 
Eleven pounds of this mixture with one 
pound of dried malt sprouts was fed 
daily together with five pounds Alfalfa 
and 30 pounds corn silage. How many 
can tell how much their cows consume, 
and what they produce in milk and butter 
fat, and if not, why not? With the in¬ 
creased cost of feed and labor the farmer 
must secure the most efficient machine 
for the production of butter fat, and learn 
to run it properly. On the farm in ques¬ 
tion a dozen such machines are operated 
so efficiently that a monthly milk check 
for three figures is one of the results, 
not to mention the calves and pigs that 
get the skim-milk. But above all con¬ 
sider the satisfaction in operating a doz¬ 
en good machines. Whether you are pro¬ 
ducing milk commercially or for your 
own consumption, what good reason 
have you for not testing your cows to 
determine their money-making or losing 
abilities? If you have not started on the 
right road, get at least one or two head 
of the best bred stock you can afford and 
improve your best producers. 
L. R. DAVIES. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Roaring. 
I have a mare 13 years old mat has had 
a slight touch of heaves for the past two 
years, but this Spring seems to be wind- 
broken, as she makes a roaring noise, which 
can be heard a long distance doing light 
farm work. Is there any remedy or cure? 
Xew York. J. H. u. 
There is no remedy other than an expen¬ 
sive, difficult and not always perfectly suc¬ 
cessful operation for the removal of the 
paralyzed cartilages and vocal cord of the 
larynx. She may do better if given half 
an ounce of Fowler’s solution of arsenic 
night and morning for a week and then 
three times a day. Wet all food. Do not 
give bulky food of any sort at noon. Allow 
twice the usual rest period before work¬ 
ing after a meal. a. s. a. 
Coughing Cow. 
I am very anxious about a cough our 
Jersey cow has. I expect her to drop her 
calf in four or five weeks. We are new 
in the business, having this cow nearly two 
years. She had one calf June 2.'), 1909. 
This cough has been with her about two 
months. She has been out doors several 
of the warmer days the last five weeks. 
She seems to be well and healthy other 
ways, rather small in size, a good cow not 
so hardy as the other cows we have. Would 
it not be a good idea to sell her when fresh 
and get a new cow? She is good in quan¬ 
tity and quality, 12 to 14 quarts when 
fresh, about five years old. We have a cow 
whose droppings are always quite soft. Is 
this a good or bad sign? w. s. 
Massachusetts. 
We cannot advise the policy of always 
passing along an unsatisfactory animal to 
some other person who will be sure to have 
the same unpleasant and profitless experi¬ 
ence. If the cow has to be sold let her 
go to the man who deals in “canner” cows,, 
a term applied to old, skinny, worthless 
cattle, which are killed to “can” and fur¬ 
nish the sinews of war to foreign armies 
and jack tars. But we are not at all sure 
that the cow in question needs to have 
such an end. It may be that she will be 
all right when the calf comes and she can 
be turned out to grass the livelong day. 
Meanwhile we would strongly suggest the 
advisability of having her tested with tuber¬ 
culin to determine whether or not the cough 
is due to tuberculosis. If it is, the cow 
should be destroyed. It is best for the 
droppings of a dairy cow to be normally 
soft. a. s. A. 
Tender Hoofs. 
I am compelled to drive considerably on 
one of the new State roads. It is too 
hard for the forward feet of my horse. In 
your judgment, what is the best way to 
have a horse shod for such a road? Iler 
feet arc inclined to be rather flat, and I 
have tried heavy flat iron shoes and did 
not get the result required. M. v. B. 
New York. 
Put on a dressing of pine tar and oakum, 
cover with a thick pad of leather and 
then with a flat bar shoe. If this does 
not help, then shoe with a Dempsey rub¬ 
ber pad, or other patent rubber pad used 
to reduce concussion. Your smith can ob¬ 
tain such pads from any dealer in horse- 
shoers’ supplies. One rubber pad is made 
with an air cushion, on the pneumatic 
principle, and may prove best in the 
case of your horse. a. s. a. 
Bloody Urine. 
What causes cows to discharge blood 
with the urine, that seems to be quite a 
disease around here in this neighborhood? 
Do the cows eat some kind of a weed? 
What is the cure? o. w. 
Washington. 
The common cause is the eating of some 
acrid plant in the pasture. The disease is 
most common where the cattle go on wild 
or timber pasture. It is seldom met with 
where the pastures are made up of “tame” 
grasses. One has to stop the cause when 
an animal becomes affected. This done the 
popular remedy is powdered alum given in 
tablespoonful doses as required. Dried sul¬ 
phate of iron (copperas) also is useful in 
dram doses. It is not a safe medicine for 
cows in calf, however, and with them the 
alum is preferable. Drinking water acidu¬ 
lated with dilute sulphuric acid also may 
be tried. a. s. a. 
Indigestion. 
A cow was taken sick after calving; 
the afterbirth was not retained. She was 
taken with a staggering gait, like the gait 
of milk fever, a constant, chewing and 
biting of herself and stones or wood; she 
did not seem to realize what she was 
about. The bowels were natural; the milk 
flow was not. diminished. She had been 
fed on silage, chip feed and 
She seems nearly right now 
me what was the matter 
Warwick, N. Y. 
The symptoms indicate that she- had a 
bad attack of indigestion, and staggering 
or dizziness resulted. She should have 
received a full dose of physic, such as a 
pound or more of epsom salts, with half 
an ounce of ginger and a cupful of black¬ 
strap molasses in three quarts of warm 
water as one dose. Then no food should 
have been given until the medicine had 
acted. After that feeding should bo care¬ 
fully and gradually resumed. Whenever a 
cow suffers from indigestion from any 
cause it is well to starve her for at least 
24 hours. a. s. a. 
Bone Tumor. 
1 have a three-vear-old cow that has a 
hard bony bunch growing under one eye. 
It began to form last February about three 
inches below the eye and is enlarging 
slowly. Does it indicate lumpy jaw? I 
did not know lumpy jaw ever came at 
that place. What is your opinion and 
what should be done with it? e. s. s. 
The tumor is located high for one due 
to actinomycosis (lumpy jaw) ; still it 
may be due to the fungus of that disease. 
In some instances the root of a molar 
tooth is involved. Examine the teeth. If 
one is split or diseased its removal may 
help matters. Otherwise we would paint 
the lump carefully with tincture of iodine 
each other day. Smear a little lard around 
the lump to prevent the iodine from get¬ 
ting into the eye or excoriating sound skin. 
If the lump softens it will have to be 
opened and after evacuation of the pus 
the wound should be thoroughly cauter¬ 
ized. As a rule such growths prove 
troublesome if they involve the bone of the 
face. a. s. a. 
Buffalo gluten. 
Can you tell 
with her? 
c. e. c. 
After “Sousers 
99 
“Sousing" or 
rinsing complicated 
cream separators is 
both unsatisfactory 
and unlawful, for 
laws are being 
passed to stop it. 
A pan loll of disks the 
maker says “souse as 
one piece.” 
Here is the South 
Dakota law: 
“Cream shall be 
unmerchantable for buttermaking if it has 
been skimmed by a filthy, unclean, unsani¬ 
tary or unwashed separator.” 
Other states are passing similarlaws. Makers 
or agents who advise “sousing” are willing to 
make a law breaker of you. to cause you the loss 
of your cream, or make you liable fo fine or im¬ 
prisonment. in order to sell you a complicated 
machine. Wise dairymen let disk-filled and 
other complicated machines alone. They pre¬ 
fer simple, sanitary, easy to clean 
Sharpies Dairy Tubular 
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Massachusetts Milk Prices. —Please 
correct a statement made in May 14 
issue, page 579. The Winter price nets 
the farmers at their door less than 35 cents 
an 8L.-quart can, instead of 40 cents, as 
the paper states; Summer price less than 
2S cents, instead of 32 cents. This price 
is in the second zone, the third and fourth 
and greater distance zones arc one cent less, 
each zone the farther you go from Boston. 
The third and fourth are the largest pro¬ 
ducing ones, and they would aud do receive 
one and two cents less respectively than 
the second. These are the C. Brigham Com¬ 
pany prices. The other contractors pay the 
same price or less, only some do not re¬ 
quire contracts. A , e. p. 
Ilopkinton, Mass. 
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(( l have used them for more 
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Wash. St., Forestvilfe, Conn. 
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