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WILL THE MILK IMPROVE? 
A two-year-old heifer is giving rather 
poor blue milk and thin cream. Will the 
quality improve with age, or would you 
cell her and get another? She is a grade 
Holstein and Jersey, one-third Jersey, two- 
thirds Holstein; was very poor all Winter. 
E. D. F. 
Inasmuch as you state that the heifer 
was very poor all Winter it is an open 
question whether or not she was able to 
utilize her feed most effectively for the 
production of milk and butter fat. It 
would not do to condemn the heifer 
as a non-producer until she has been 
put in good condition and actual pro¬ 
duction determined by weighing, samp¬ 
ling and testing the milk. This is not 
difficult and more than repays the time 
spent. It is only- in exceptional cases 
and cases where the heifer is in poor 
condition during the first lactation 
period and normal in the second that 
the test will be higher with age. In 
general, cows test lower each lactation 
period up to the third or fourth, after 
which there is little change. On the 
other hand, the increased milk flow will 
usually much more than counteract the 
lower test, and the older cows will 
produce more butter fat. It is not pos¬ 
sible to raise the test of a healthy cow 
permanently, although condiments or a 
change of feed may raise or lower the 
test for a few days. This fact, how¬ 
ever, does not justify under-feeding or 
feeding unbalanced ration. I would ad¬ 
vise selling and the purchase of the best 
purebred or high-^rade Jersey or Hol¬ 
stein possible if the Babcock test was 
unsatisfactory. By high grade I mean 
a cow resulting from two or three or 
more crosses by purebred sires, and one 
that resembles one particular breed 
above all others. Too many spoil two 
good breeds by crossing on each other. 
If you buy another cow get the best 
grade or purebred cow of the breed you 
like best, and improve your stock. 
Breed the cows to the best purebred 
bull available of the selected breed, 
guarding against contagious abortion. 
L. R. D. 
Grease. 
I liave a horse bought six weeks ago. lie 
lias a had ease of scratches or grease. One 
leg is swelled half as large agaiu at the 
fetlock as it ought to be. Scabs or in¬ 
crustations are thick up as high as the 
fifth toe. I have used a salve for a couple 
of weeks with some but not much improve¬ 
ment. The horse is old, but a good farm 
horse. He would be aclive except for the 
pain given by this trouble. He stands on 
a flagstone floor, thoughly cleaned every 
morning. His appetite is excellent. He is 
fed about 12 pounds of mixed cornmeal, 
bran and oil meal per day with 10 or 15 
pounds hay. He was very thin when I 
got him, but has improved in flesh. I am 
told he did nothing all Winter, and prob¬ 
ably got little to eat. What is the best 
thing to do for him? I would prefer to 
work him if possible. s. H. S. 
New York. 
In the first place, we would advise hav¬ 
ing this horse examined by a graduate vet¬ 
erinarian to make sure that he is free from 
farcy, the skin form of glanders, which is 
incurable, contagious, and communicable 
and fatal to man as well as horses. If it 
is grease there will be a foul smelling dis¬ 
charge from the sores, and that disease is 
so stubborn, when long established, that we 
could not advise you to fuss with it. Treat¬ 
ment would consist in letting the horse 
live on grass alone during Summer and on 
corn fodder, hay and roots during Winter 
and during both seasons to be made to live 
an outdoor life. Nothing will more surely 
aggravate the disease than lack of work 
and the feeding of ground, rich food, such 
as you are giving now. Local treatment 
consists in poulticing with hot flaxseed for 
a few days to clean up the parts; then keep 
the h'g saturated with a weak solution of 
concentrated lye and give half an ounce of 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic twice daily at 
first and then three times a day until cured. 
A. s. A. 
Garget. 
I had a cow which had been giving 
milk more than two years; wishing her to 
go dry for a month or more before com¬ 
ing in, an attempt to dry her off by not 
milking dry caused her to have a hard, 
hot udder (inflammation). She showed 
that she was suffering great pain. Appli¬ 
cations of saturated spirits of camphor 
i. e., alcohol in which as much camphor 
gum as it would dissolve had been placed) 
was applied freely and often. In about 
four hours the cow was easy and went to 
eating. When she had a previous calf I 
THE RURAL 
w..s away and she lost the use of one 
teat. Fearing trouble ahead now she was 
given one teaspoonful of tincture of garget 
root in bran twice a day. When she came 
in great was my surprise and pleasure to 
have her give milk from this teat again. 
Garget root (another name for it is poke 
root) grows all over the country. Dig the 
root in the Fall. Wash clean, slice, pack 
in fruit can, cover with alcohol, allow to 
stand two we<>ks, then strain bottle, label 
“tincture garget root.” Dose, one teaspoonful 
twice a day. To be of any value it must 
be made from the freshly dug green root. 
I have used this with other cows with 
good results. s. j. s. 
Both remedies are excellent and have 
been prescribed by the writer many times 
in this paper for garget in its various 
forms. Camphor, in form of spirits with 
alcohol, or as a solution with sweet oil 
or mixed in lard is especially indicated 
where it is desired to dry up the milk. 
Fluid extract of belladonna has the same 
effect, but the advantage that it soothes 
pain and relieves congestion. The two of¬ 
ten are used in combination. Poke root 
(garget root) or Phytolacca decandra, is 
tine for glandular swellings, “caked bag” 
or mammitis and is used both internally 
and externally. We use it in sweet oil 
or lard combined with belladonna for ex¬ 
ternal use and it may also be given in¬ 
ternally. We and oilier veterinarians use 
the fluid extract and give half to -one 
ounce doses as required. Strange to say 
it is much more effective with heifers than 
wilh cows when used internally for garget. 
The fluid extract is not very expensive, and 
is better than can be made in a crude 
way by steeping the roots. Alcohol di¬ 
rectly antagonizes the action of the drug 
and should not be used. a. s. a. 
Percheron Horses. —E. S. Akin, on 
page 575, gives some interesting facts con¬ 
cerning the controvery between the Pcr- 
cheron men and the French Drafters, most 
of which is now history and well known 
to well-informed horse men. However, the 
statement that La Perche is a small dis¬ 
trict is misleading, as it was an ancient 
name for a considerable territory later di¬ 
vided into departments, and in which the 
Perche ron is carefully bred. Percheron 
horses have a little Arabian blood in their 
make-up, but they get their size from the 
ancient horses of Flanders, though size has 
been much increased by selection. By all 
odds the Percheron breed of horses is the 
most important one both here and in 
France, of the French breeds, and the con¬ 
tention of the French draft men that Per¬ 
cheron horses are the same as two or 
three other French breeds of draft horses 
is unwise and misleading. It would be just 
as near the truth to assert that Clydes, 
Shires and Belgians were one and the same 
breed of drafters. Next to the Percheron 
in importance is the Bculonnais, another 
French horse which is said to be heavier 
and slower than the Percheron. Others 
are the Breton. Ardcnnais and Poitevin. 
Here are the full titles and names of the 
secretaries of the various associations reg¬ 
istering Percheron and French draft- 
horses; American Breeders’ and Importers’ 
Percheron Registry, John A. Forney, Sec¬ 
retary, Plainfield, O., with 1.001 horses re- 
orded in 1908 : Percheron Society of Amer¬ 
ica, Geo. W. Stubblefield, Secretary, Union 
Stock Yards Company, Chicago, Ill. ; 10,566 
horses recorded; Percheron Registry Com¬ 
pany, Chas. G. Glenn, Secretary, Colum¬ 
bus, O., 1,802 horses recorded; National 
French Draft-Horse Association, C. E. 
Stubbs, Secretary, Fairfield, Iowa., 17,106 
horses recorded. The writer can only de¬ 
plore the fact that the field is divided in 
this way, for it would seem best for all 
breeds to be known under their proper 
nnd well-known names, and for each breed 
to be recorded by but one association or 
by associations more in accord than the 
American societies for the registration of 
the French breeds of draft horses are at 
present. w. e. duckwall. 
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