1910. 
THE RURA-I* NEW-YORKER 
1015 
“ CHIQUENESIS.” 
There is an incurable mental disease 
known as paresis, usually running its 
course to a fatal termination within 
five years, in which the victim imagines 
himself fabulously rich, and able to do 
all sorts of great things. I have in¬ 
vented a word to describe a mild and 
not necessarily fatal mental condition 
suffered by many people: chiquenesis. 
They feverishly dream of hens that lay 
an egg every day, and of profits in 
poultry culture that would lay the aver¬ 
age mail-order business in the shade. 
The attack is brought on by the chance 
account of what some lucky wight has 
made with a dozen hens somewhere, and 
one symptom is the tendency to multiply 
these estimated profits by the number of 
hens, etc. The disease is much aggravated 
by the advertisements of the various 
“systems” by means of which so many 
dollars per square foot can be coaxed 
out of the soil of a backyard full of 
chickens in the city; of $10,000 “Peg¬ 
gies,” ten-dollar eggs, etc. Chiquenesis 
as a rule is fatal only to the person of 
small means and smaller patience and 
smallest skill, and can be cured by a 
few years of sad experience. The great 
number of victims is a source of much 
profit to the dealers in the guff that 
causes the initial attack, and happy it 
the victim who can turn his own losses 
to gain by helping skin others of his 
class. This is no fling at legitimate 
poultry business, which is increasing in 
importance every day, but at the hyster¬ 
ical, over-wrought exaggeration of values 
of poultry which enriches a few and dis¬ 
gusts and impoverishes the many. A 
years’ reading of your conservative and 
well-balanced paper would be profitable 
to such victims. l. s. p. 
Baltimore, Md. 
THE CORN HARVESTER INDISPENABLE. 
I note with much interest the article 
written by J. Henry Rines on page 917. 
In this article he estimates the corn 
harvester as of no value, and even con¬ 
siders it a damage to those who use it, 
caused by waste of stubble as compared 
with hand work with the sickle. Hav¬ 
ing had some experience in corn raising 
and harvesting, I take exception to the 
article for the following reasons: I have 
never observed a field where corn was 
cut leaving not over an inch of stubble. 
While the 18-year-old boy referred to 
may be an exception, the average man 
will leave a greater length of stubble 
than the binder. It is unnecessary for 
the machine to leave over four inches 
if properly handled and the loose stones 
picked from the field. I consider the 
four inches of stubble left of but little 
feeding value, and to be fully as valu¬ 
able plowed under to supply humus to 
the soil. I have never had any trouble 
in cutting with my machine four acres 
a day, besides helping about the chores 
and milking, which would take four 
18-year-old bovs to cut. Furthermore, 
in this, a dairy country, where nearly 
every farm in this locality has from one to 
three silos to fill, there wouldn’t be boys 
nor men enough available even to cut 
the corn, saying nothing about the extra 
work required to handle the loose hand- 
cut corn. It requires from four to five 
teams and the same number of men in 
the lot to pitch corn when it is not too 
far from the silo in order to keep a mod¬ 
ern silage cutter busy. That is where 
the corn is in bundles. You can readily 
see that if it were loose it would need 
several more men. There is no time in 
the year when labor is at such a prem¬ 
ium among the dairymen of this section 
as in silo filling. To go back to the 
slow and laborious methods of cutting 
corn by hand would necessitate the 
abandonment of the silo, a requisite to 
successful dairying. To raise corn to 
any great extent without the aid of a 
good corn harvester would appear to me 
as false economy. r. c planck. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
A CREAM SEPARATOR FOR TWO COWS. 
I wish to take exceptions to your arti¬ 
cle on page 957, replying to W. C. D., 
New York, on the use of a cream sep¬ 
arator for two cows. Should W. C. D. 
have two cows producing 8,000 pounds 
of milk each, the loss of fat in skim-milk 
seldom, if ever, is less than one-half of 
one per cent, when the cream is raised 
by any gravity system, and a good sep¬ 
arator will save this. This will amount 
to approximately one hundred pounds 
of butter at an average of 30 cents per 
pound, making $30. A good separator 
can be purchased for $50 that will take 
care of the milk from two cows, and is 
no more work to keep clean than pans, 
crocks or cans. A 60 per cent, income 
on investment—isn't this a better invest¬ 
ment than Mr. Lewis has to offer, and 
right at home where the benefits may be 
derived from the investment 365 days in 
the year? This is not taking in con¬ 
sideration the skim-milk, which is fed to 
calves, pigs or chickens, and is worth 
at least twice as much from the separa¬ 
tor, warm and sweet, as it is two or 
three days old from the gravity system. 
A separator shows a profit of $250 in 10 
years on an investment of $50, which is 
50 per cent, per annum. I would like to 
hear from any reader on this subject 
who has used a separator with one, two 
or three cows. F. h. 
New Jersey. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Mule Lacks Appetite. 
What could I do with a mule which has 
lost his appetite? The animal is in perfect 
health and will not feed on either cracked 
corn or oats, but will eat salt hay and 
grass. K. u. 
New Jersey. 
Mix together two ounces of pure alcohol, 
one and one-half ounce of fluid extract of 
gentian root and one dram of dilute hydro¬ 
chloric acid and of this give two ounces 
three times a day in half a pint of water 
as a drench. Better have the teeth exam¬ 
ined by a veterinary dentist, as there may 
he irregularities making mastication of food 
painful. a. s. a. i 
Cough and Enlarged Glands. 
I have a cow about four years old and 
she has a lump in her throat about as 
large as an ordinary Dint tin cup. It 
hinders her breathing very much. She has 
a cough whenever she eats dry feed, and 
has an abnormal appetite and is also very 
thin. She came fresh about two months 
ago, this is when I noticed this lump. 
What can I do for her? g. M. h. 
Ohio. 
Lose no time in having the cow tested 
with tuberculin, as there is little doubt 
that the disease is tuberculosis affecting 
the glands of the throat. The disease is 
incurable, and the milk from an affected 
cow is dangerous to man and animals. If 
she is found to be affected have your other 
cattle tested. a. s. a. 
Bloody Milk. 
I have a cow six years old, due to come 
in November 1. She gives bloody milk. 
T'dder is not hard nor bunchy, but en¬ 
larged some: is not sore. She seems well 
and all right but that. She did the same 
a year ago. Can you tell me what to do, 
if I can do anything? F. n. k. 
Now Hampshire. 
Milk the cow three times a day and 
then bathe the udder with cold water. At 
night sponge it with a solution of two 
teaspoonfuls of powdered alum in a pint 
of cold water. When she calves should the 
trouble continue or come on again mix a 
dram of dried sulphate of iron and two 
teaspoonfuls of salt in her feed night and 
morning for a week or so and at same 
time give the local treatment already pre¬ 
scribed. Avoid all possible causes of 
bruising of the udder. a. s. a. 
Mammitis. 
I have a young Jersey cow, six years 
old, fresh last June, which has been all 
right in every way. Last night she did 
not come down from the pasture with others 
as usual. When we went for her she was 
standing under a tree, hut moved slowly 
when we went around her. The left hind 
quarter of her udder seemed swollen, and 
when I started to milk her a little thick 
substance passed from that quarter and the 
milk looked dark. Since then the milk 
from that quarter is dark yellow water with 
a little milkinoss about it. The front quar¬ 
ter on the same side started off with a 
thick ropy substance, hut the milk which 
followed was all right. I bathed in salt 
and water. Swelling has gone down some. 
Can you tell me what is the matter? She 
has been running in the pasture, being fed 
fresh corn fodder each night. Can you 
judge what the cause might have been! 
Do you think a hurt would have affected it 
this way? L. a. f. 
New York. 
Sudden inflammation of the udder such 
as you describe might have been caused 
by an injury, but more often it comes from 
chill, or from sudden change of food and 
consequent indigestion’. Keep her up. Give 
her a pound of epsom salts and half an 
ounce of ground ginger root in three pints 
of warm water containing a cupful of black¬ 
strap molasses. When purging ceases give 
her night and morning two drams each of 
saltpeter and fluid extract of poke root. 
Foment the udder with hot water three 
times a day and then rub with a mixture 
of equal quantities of fluid extract of poke 
root and sweet oil. Keep the udder stripped 
out. a. s. A. 
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for 
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— <f Please 
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