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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 6, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
VALUE OF HOLSTEIN MILK. 
To a man who has had my recent ex¬ 
perience, the question of producing and 
retailing Holstein or Jersey milk is cer¬ 
tainly settled. First, which breed gives 
the quantity? The average Holstein 
gives twice as much milk as the average 
Jersey. Most men familiar with the 
work of both breeds admit this. Con¬ 
sult the Department of Agriculture or 
experiment stations, the creameries or 
anyone in a position to know the truth. 
I once asked an advanced registry tester 
who had been among the best herds in 
the State for several years what breed 
of cows were kept by the most men, who 
actually made a living from them by 
the milk they produced. He said Hol¬ 
stein by all odds. Second comes the 
question of quality in milk, and possibly 
my experience may shed some light on 
this point. Two years ago we started 
to sell at retail the milk from our herd 
of Holsteins. We knew it was good 
milk, and carried as much butter fat as 
the average stomach could digest. We 
also knew there was a strong prejudice 
against Holstein milk, because people 
thought quality in milk meant a lot of 
cream on top of the bottle. Our milk 
went into competition with milk from 
three large dairy companies, one selling 
certified and so-called very high grade 
Jersey milk. Two neighbors were also 
retailing the milk from common cows. 
We sold 1214 quarts for a dollar, the 
others from 14 to 17 quarts for a dollar. 
People soon found that they could drink 
our milk without having indigestion, that 
their babies liked and thrived on it, and 
the girls in the kitchen found it best to 
cook with. The result was that in three 
months’ time we had reached the limit 
of our capacity. This is our second 
year; we have not asked for any busi¬ 
ness from the beginning, our capacity 
is nearly double and we cannot begin to ' 
take care of the business we might have. 
During the past Winter when there 
was a great deal of sickness about, the j 
doctors found that babies and very sick 
people could drink and digest Holstein 
milk. These doctors were quick to see 
that their patients improved on milk 
suited to their needs, and the result was 
we could not fill the orders that came in. 
1 therefore state the Holstein cow pro¬ 
duces a quart of milk for less money, 
and as human or animal food this milk 
is better than Jersey milk, for the feed¬ 
ing value is not in the high per cent of 
butter fat, but in the combination of fat, 
solids and water as found in Holstein 
milk. People are finding that c-r-e-a-m 
does not spell quality, but rather “bil¬ 
iousness.” CLOVERDALE FARM. 
New York. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Staggers. 
I have a horse I bought three months 
ago. Three weeks after purchase lie had a 
tit. lie began jerking all over and fell to the 
ground. This lasts about live minutes; 
then he gets up. He seems to get worse; 
has had four last month. lie is a good 
gentle farm horse and his appetite is ex¬ 
cellent. The ration given him is corn fod¬ 
der. green hay, bran and pasture. What 
is best to do for him? 1 work him hard 
regularly. B. D. 
Virginia. 
Indigestion 
cause in this 
should follow 
whole oats, 
fodder, green 
is doubtless the exciting 
case, and great improvement 
more rational feeding. Feed 
bran and hay. Avoid corn 
hay and grass in Summer, 
He may work 
a. s. A. 
unless he has nothing to do. 
better in a breast collar 
Sunscald. 
I have some pigs about eight months old 
that act strangely ; they drop down on their 
front legs, then up and go again as if 
nothing was the matter, then drop again 
as suddenly, Their ears are sore and some 
of them along the back. Their feed is a 
slop of middlings, bran, oil meal, a little salt, 
with a pasture of Timothy and Rod-top, 
and for a week or more a lot sown to oats, 
peas, rape, and Cow-horn turnips. They 
seem to eat heartily. I put lamp oil and 
turoentine on their backs thinking they 
might have lice but do not see any. 
Ohio. n. si. b. 
When pigs are pastured on rank green 
growths when wet with dew or rain, and 
then run in the sun, they are apt to have 
scalded skins. White pigs are especially 
liable to this scalding. Castor oil and 
sulphur ; or a little of a lotion composed of 
two ounces each of glycerine and Goul¬ 
ard's extract to a pint of water proves 
soothing and healing to the affected skin. 
The other trouble doubtless is due to over¬ 
feeding. Give a very light slop when the 
pigs are well fed on the green stuff. 
a. s. A. 
Splint. 
My horse has a hard bunch on inside of 
right front leg where splint grows; it is 
quite hard. Please inform me how to re¬ 
move it. It is about the size of end of 
thumb. g. e. si. 
Pennsylvania. 
It is not likely that the enlargement can 
be removed, as it is a bony growth. If 
lameness is absent the splint'should be let 
alone. If animal is lame blister the en¬ 
largement with a mixture of one dram of 
biniodide of mercury and one ounce of lard. 
Rub it in for 15 minutes. In three days 
apply lard and repeat the application of 
lard daily, but do not wash off the blister. 
Keep horse tied up short while blister is 
acting. a. s. a. 
Lumpy Jaw. 
Referring to recent notes on this disease, 
1 wish to say that “actinomycosis" (lumpy- 
jaw) is infectious and almost fatal to hu¬ 
man beings. There have been two cases 
(fatal) lately. One case here has been 
cured. r. w. c. 
I.ump.v jaw is not transmitted to man by 
milk, and there is little if any evidence to 
show that it ever has been transmitted by 
the meat of affected animals. In man, as 
in animals, it is caused by invasion of a 
wound, scratch or abrasure by the ray fun¬ 
gus (actinomyces). This fungus is present 
on cereals, etc. Barley straw is considered 
especially likely to cause it in cattle. 
A. s. A. 
Thriftless Calf. 
I have a calf three months old which 
will not eat well, is very small, but seems 
well ; takes about a quart of milk twice a 
day. What can be given her? 
r. r. r. 
If the calf is in good flesh better sell it 
as veal. If not fit to kill give it two ounces 
of castor oil and two ounces of sweet oil 
as one dose shaken up in milk, and repeat 
in a week or so if the animal then is cos¬ 
tive. Sweeten milk with sugar or molasses, 
add warm water and flaxseed jelly, and give 
as a drench several times a day in small 
quantities until the calf will take to 
straight milk, or the mixture, without 
drenching. a. s. a. 
Tail Rubbing. 
I have a mare that is rubbing her tail 
badly. Could you tell me how to prevent 
her rubbing out any more and restore what 
has been lost? u. v. H. 
Ohio. 
Cut the grain ration in half; omit corn; 
double the work if light or at least see that 
she is given abundant exercise every day. 
Let her occupy a box stall in stable and put 
up a plank edgewise, like a shelf, on 
brackets around inside of box stall at such 
a height that the board will strike against 
the hind parts of the mare below the tail 
and so prevent rubbing. Wash the tail 
perfectly clean. Wind strands of the up¬ 
right hair at rubbed parts around the fin¬ 
gers and pull until the skin gives with a 
crack. Repeat until all of the hair at the 
rubbed part has been thus treated. Then 
saturate the skin of these parts with a 
creamy mixture of flowers of sulphur and 
raw linseed oil. Repeat tin 1 application 
every three or four days and do not wash 
it off. a. s. A. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square dcaj.” See guarantee page 8. 
NEWTON’S HEAVE 
COUCH, DISTEMPER | DC „ 
AND INDIGESTION g 
The Standard Veterinary Remedy. “ 
20 years sale. Send for 
Write 
For Free 
Sample 
Makes the horse sound, stay sound 
DEATH TO HEAVES 
The first or second $1.00 can cures. The third can 
is guaranteed to cure or money refunded. 
$1.00 per can at dealers, or express prepaid. 
THE NEWTON REMEDY CO., Toledo, Ohio 
AGENTS 134 o Profit 
Patented 
Safety Hold-Back 
New Agenta’ Proposition. 
Every owner ot n vehicle bu_ 
Saves time in hitchingand un 
hitching. Insures safety in accidents—runaways—colli¬ 
sions. Just out. Thousands being sold. We absolutely con¬ 
trol the sale of this wonderful seller. $3.50 to $7 a day profit. 
L. THOMAS MFG. CO., 4265 Wayne St., Dayton, Ohio 
ERGHERON 
STALLIONS and MARES 
Imported and home-bred. The best lot ever 
shown in this country. Quality, price, guarantee right. 
For 30 years an importer and breeder of prize winners. 
ELWOOD S . AKIN 
170 South Street, Auburn, N. Y. 
Union Priuata Q 2 I 0 Always from 100 to 300 
IVlUloO al rillQlC OQICi mules on hand, consisting 
of 4-months-old mule colts, yearling mules, 2-year-old 
mules and broke mules of all sizes and ages. Farmers 
can do better growing young mules than anything else 
they can feed. Come to see my stock and be convinced 
that 1 have what I say. They are for sale at my stables 
in York. Pa. JOE. KINIUG, York, Pa. 
Cni* Colo Registered Rambouillet Sheep. C. W. 
lUl Odlc HALLLDAY, North Chatham, N. Y. 
Rams for Sale 1 
year-olds. E. E. STEVENS & SON, Wilson, N. Y. 
SHROPSHIRE RAM LAMBS 
Good ones priced low for September delivery. 
Write H. J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg, Penn. 
QlIRnDQIlIRFQ - 100 y earlin s ewes; 40 
onnur wIllllCJ yearling rams. Price and 
breeding right. FRED VAN VLEET, LODI, N.Y. 
NIAGARA STOCK FARM 
n° 5 g To e d Shropshire or Southdown ^ 
the money? We are offering some very choice ones 
J. C. DUNCAN. Mgr., -;- Lewiston, New York 
For Sale—DELAINE MERINO RAMS 
Also COLLIE PUPS cheap, to close out. 
J. H. LEWIS & SON, CADIZ, OHIO. R.F D. No. 2. 
Large Improved English Yorkshires 
A. A. BRADLEY -:- Frewsburg, N. Y. 
flfll I IF D| | DQ—Ptom imported stock. Females 
LI U ELI L I UI 0 cheap. Nelson Bros., Grove City, Pa- 
Sharpies Dairy Tubular 
Cream Separator 
The only simple cream separator made— 
for it is the only one that contains neither 
disks nor other contraptions. The most 
efficient cream separator made —for it 
produces twice the skimming force, skims 
faster and skims twice as clean as common 
separators. The only modem separator 
made—for it does better work, without 
disks or other contraptions, than common 
separators do with them. No better proof 
exists that Tubular 
construction is the only 
correct separator 
construction. 
Made in the world’s biggest separator 
works. Branch factories in Canada and 
Germany. Sales easily exceed most, if not 
all, others combined. Probably replace more 
common separators than any one maker of 
such ma- 
chines 
sells. 
Write for 
Catalogue 
No. 153. 
30 
yrs 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO. 
WEST CHESTER, PA. 
Chicago, Ill., San Francisco, Cal., Portland, Ore. 
Toronto, Can., Winnipeg, Can. 
The Importance of 
Cooling Milk Properly 
is recognized by every milk dealer. Heknowsthat 
if milk is cooled quickly and thoroughly aerated, 
it will keep sweet 24 )o 4S h ours longer. The 
"Bestov” 
Milk Cooler 
will cool milk to within 
two degrees of water 
temperature, absolute¬ 
ly removing every par¬ 
ticle of odor. It is well 
made and durable, and 
very reasonable in 
price. Send for cata¬ 
logue r, describing a 
complete line of sup¬ 
plies for the dairy. 
Dairymens Supply Co. 
PHILADELPHIA AND 
LANSOOWNE, PA. 
1HE WISE MILKMAN 
who is alive to his own interests will adopt a sani¬ 
tary method of delivering before he is compelled 
to do so by law. Each day local and State Boards 
of Health at e adopting more strict regulations. The 
PARSONS “ LOW-DOWN ” 
are designed to fully meet, all requirements. They 
are equipped with every sanitary convenience, 
and they will please you and your customers. 
Write us your requirements and let us quote 
prices. Address 
THE PARSONS WAGON CO., 
DAIRY DEPT. Earlville, N. Y. 
nilRfipc THE kig, deep fellows 
uunuuo that grow and mature quickly. 
Pigs anil Gilts for sale at all times. 
SHENANGO RIVER FARMS, Transfer, Pa. 
PHrcU|DCC-THE WHITE, BACON HOG, 
UIILOIUIILO Long-bodied, Square-built, good 
grazers, good mothers, gentle, profitable. 
MORNINGSIDE FARM, Sylvauia, Pa. 
OVER 1.200,000 IN USE 
StPARATORd 
THE DC LAVAL SEPARATOR GO 
165 BROADWAY. 
NEW YORK 
*2 6. MADISON ST. 
CHICAGO 
REG. HOLSTEIN HEIFERS 
Grand opportunity to purchase a young herd 
of choice youngsters, one year to twenty 
months old, at reasonable prices. 
Choicely bred Young Bulls, $30.00 and up. 
Write today or come and see us. 
RIVENBURGH BROS., R. D. No. 1, Munnsville, N. Y. 
The BLOOMING DALE HERD OF 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS 
are bred for large production. Good size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these are the kind you want write or come to 
see them. 125 to select from. Animals of both sexes 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please you. 
A special offer on some nicely bred Bunt, Cai.vks. 
A. A. CORTELYOU, Somerville, N. J. 
FOR SALE—Ontario Cornucopia Lad 
Born March 16, 1910. Sire, America De Kol 
Burke; dam. Cornucopia Beauty, butter 18.69, 
three years. Attractive prices on this choice 
youngster. Correspondence solicited. 
CLOVERDALE FARM. Charlotte, N. Y. 
C. S. LL XT, Owner. J. J. EDEN, Manager. 
REGISTERED OHIO 
HO LSTEI NS - FRIESIANS. 
the bawnbale stock farm 
For three years the home of Pietertje Henger- 
veid ’s Count De Kol. Eighty head. Bull calves 
for sale. Address. 
CHAS. 
Wellington, 
W, HOUR, 
Ohio 
F OR SALE— Registered Jersey Cows, Heifers* Bulls. 
Herd averages 1 lb. butter from 12 qts. milk 
Write for prices, or, better, come and see them. 
Rumsonhill Farm, Rumson, N. J. David Wallace Supt 
Ynn Han't Afford A Gnu,e ' wlien 1 eiin se|! 
I UU uail l rtllUlU you a reg. Jersey bull, best 
dairy stock, ready for service at farmer's prieo. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
R EG. JERSEY CATTLE. Chester White, Poland 
China and Berk shire Pigs. Lincoln. Shropshire ami 
Hampshire Down Sheep. Scotcli Collie Ilogg and a 
variety of Poultry. Send 2-cent stamp for circular. Come 
see my stock and make your own selections. Address 
EDWARD WALTER, WestChester,ChesterCo., Pa. 
GUERNSEY CATTLE. 
Imported and American bred Cows 
and Heifers; also 
Chester White Swine 
A business change and everything to be sold by 
Sept. 25th. A 102-acre farm for sale also. 
WILL W. FISHER, Watervliet, Mich. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES AT HIGHWOOD 
Mature animals weigh 600 to 950 pounds. Several Ilttera this 
spring of 12, 13 and 14, one of 15 and one of 17 so far. Litters 
last year averaged 11. 
H. C. & H. 15. HARPENDING, Dundee, N.Y. 
SPRINGRANK BERKSHIRES. R;„ j"j 
in Connecticut. Sows bred for April litters all sold. 
Have 4 sows bred to farrow in July; late, to ser¬ 
vice of Watson's Masterpiece. Will book orders 
for March and April pigs now. Send for new 
Booklet. J. E. WATSON, Proprietor, Marbledale, Conn. 
Reg.J 5 . Chinas, Berkshires, C. Whites. 
Fine, large strains; all ages, mated 
not akin. Bred sows service Boars, 
Jersey and Holstein Calves. Collie 
Pups, Beagles and Poultry .'Write for 
prices & circulars. Hamilton & Co., Middletown, Pa 
Kalorama Farm Berkshires. 
Service Boars all sold. 
Bred Sows all sold. 
Fall Pigs all sold. 
Am now taking orders for Spring Pigs, April and 
May deliver?. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan, N.Y. 
M 
ILK ONE CENT PER QUART 
The Jersey 
Cow, Brutus 
Countess Dewdrop and Holstein Jewel Star, each made winter milk in Official 
test at one cent per quart, fed UNICORN DAIRY RATION. Write for 
particulars, sample, etc. CHAPIN <fc CO., BUFFALO, N, Y. 
Sterling Stock Feed Gregson’s Calf Meal 
Daisy Dairy Feed Sterling Scratch Feed 
Boss (Horse) Feed Sterling Chick Feed 
At your Dealer's, if not write us 
GREAT WESTERN CEREAL COCHICAGO , U. S. A. 
Makers of Quality Feeds ’ 
