1914. 
THE RURAL- NEW-YORKER 
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ANNUAL MEETING OF DAIRYMEN’S 
LEAGUE. 
The annual meeting of the stockholders 
of the Dairymen’s League was held in 
Newton, N. J., Dec. 11, and directors for 
the coming year were chosen. This meet¬ 
ing followed an informal one called at 
Albany, N. Y., on Nov. 28 last, and was 
held more for the purpose of ratifying and 
legalizing the work of that meeting than 
to initiate any new movements. Being a 
New Jersey corporation, it was necessary 
that the formal stockholders’ meeting be 
held in that State, but the convenience of 
the majority of the members required that 
a more accessible place be appointed 
where they might gather and express 
their wishes as to the election of officers 
and conduct of the League’s business. 
Albany was therefore chosen, and a full 
report from the officers of the League was 
made at that place. By a resolution 
passed by the board of directors, the 
League’s books will be closed on Fob. 1, 
1914, and no stock will be issued to new 
members after that date unless the agree¬ 
ments consigning the milk to the League 
are signed at the same time. It is neces¬ 
sary that the directors of the League 
shall know just how much milk they can 
control before they can enter into any 
negotiations with buyers, and the agree¬ 
ments consigning milk to the League are 
of no effect until at least 75 per cent, of 
the members have signed and returned 
them to the directors. 
The report of the League now shows 
290 branches, with 9.500 stockholders, 
representing over 152,000 cows. The 
treasurer’s report shows a surplus in the 
treasury, and so far as can be judged by 
the present outlook the officers of the 
League should be in position to take some 
active part in fixing prices for milk at. the 
coming contract period in the Spring. The 
action of the directors will necessarily, be 
controlled largely by the support received 
from the members of the League, and 
they desire that the local branches com¬ 
plete their work of organization so far as 
possible before Fob. 1, and place them in 
position to act with a united body of 
dairymen behind them. M. b. d. 
Cai Shedding Hair. 
What must I do for my cat? The last 
few weeks I have noticed that the fur is 
coming off in places. It does not look 
sore or inflamed or diseased and it seems 
to be only in the center of his back. It 
seems to be spreading down to the tail, 
but the cat does not seem to be sick or 
anything wrong. N. B. 
Massachusetts. 
Give the cat a good brushing once a 
day and make it take plenty of outdoor 
exercise. Feed light laxative rations. 
The trouble is due to confinement, hot 
quarters and overfeeding. No medicine 
should be necessary; but if sores appear 
on the skin, apply a little sulphur oint¬ 
ment once daily. a. s. a. 
Skin Disease. 
Can you tell me the cause and a cure 
for black scabs on my pigs, some three 
weeks old and some are five? It is a 
hard, thick, black scab, seems to be all 
above the skin, no depth to it. Some¬ 
times they scratch the scabs off and the 
skin looks raw and blood red. J. s. s. 
Delaware. 
This trouble sometimes is termed 
“pitch mange,” and is caused by wet and 
filth in the pens or beds or yards where 
the pigs sleep or lie down. Remove the 
cause and see that the bedding is kept 
clean and fresh. Keep pigs out of any 
old, filthy hog wallow or pond; but it 
would be good for them to bathe in clean 
water. Many farmers now have concrete 
wallowing places for their swine, and 
they now and then put in a little crude 
petroleum oil, which spreads out on the 
surface of the water and tends to coat 
the hogs as they leave the water, this is 
fine for preventing lice and also is useful 
in pitch mange. Treat affected hogs by 
scrubbing them clean with a hot, 1-100 
solution of coal tar dip and then apply 
sulphur ointment daily to remaining 
sores. A. s. A. 
Hog Lice. 
I have about 50 pigs—large and small 
—and they are all bothered a great deal 
with hog lice. Can you tell me any in¬ 
expensive way to get rid of the vermin? 
The hogs have the run of a large pasture, 
but sleep in the hoghouses. H. J. I. 
Connecticut. 
Put a 1-100 solution of coal tar dip 
into a barrel and souse the pigs in it, 
tail end first; then bathe the head and 
neck with the dip and give the pig a good 
rubbing with a brush. Repeat the treat¬ 
ment inside of 10 days. Clean up, dis¬ 
infect and whitewash the pens and sta¬ 
bles and put in clean bedding. A mixture 
of two parts machine oil and one part of 
kerosene run along the backbone of each 
pig, by means of a large oil can, will 
prove effective. Use enough of the mix-^ 
ture to ooze down well over the sides.* 
Some men bore a large hole down 
through the center of a post, then bore 
in a large hole from the side to meet 
the center bore and plug this side hole 
with a soft wood plug, or two holes and 
two plugs may be made. The central 
bore is then filled with kerosene and 
gunny sacking bound around the post 
covering the soft wood plugs which be¬ 
come saturated with kerosene and keep 
the sacking wet with it until the supply 
is exhausted. The pigs use this as a 
rubbing post and apply the kerosene 
where it is most required. A. S. A. 
Diamond Skin Disease. 
Can you give me any information about 
diamond skin disease in hogs? Last year 
I had four hogs; two of them, late in 
Fall, when they weighed about 300 
pounds; began to show weakness in hind 
legs and their skin was purple mostly 
on back, did not care to stir around, ap¬ 
petite poqr, lost flesh. I was advised to give 
epsom salts and sulphur in feed but they 
kept getting worse and on one pig the 
skin lifted from its back; both tail and 
ears got rashy and smaller. They are 
kept in barn cellar. We keep a number 
of horses, straw is freely used. We daily 
throw this manure into barn cellar and 
spread around where hogs are kept. They 
were fed swill from house which is rich 
aiid plentiful, they grow fast. We 
cleaned the cellar thoroughly and white¬ 
washed with hot lime wash. Now I am 
having the same trouble; one hog killed 
recently, slaughter house inspector said 
was fit for food when skinned. The skin 
of dressed hog was scarlet on back and 
some places little streaks showed in fat; 
liver and lungs healthy. We buried that 
one. Is there anything I can do to be 
reasonably safe another year? Is it 
curable? I had one veterinarian to see 
them and he claimed the cause of it all 
was that hogs grew fast on feed and then 
got too hot in manure, cooled off quickly, 
causing a fever. Still hogs have been 
here in same place under same conditions 
for years, and.last season was the first 
time we had trouble with them. The 
inspector called it diamond skin disease. 
Massachusetts. n. g. 
“Diamond skin disease” is simply a 
popular term for “urticaria,” or “nettle- 
rash.” or “surfeit,” which is akin to 
“hives” of children. It is caused by de¬ 
rangement of the digestive organs, or liv¬ 
er and as a rule is caused by sudden 
changes of feed. Change to new corn, or 
any rich, heating feed, may bring it on. 
The meat is fit for use, but the affected 
patches of skin should be removed. That 
cellar is a poor place for hogs. Better 
give them a good house to live in, with 
clean beds and clean bedding. All man- 
ure mixing should be done in the yards 
if at all, or the litter may be spread on 
a big barn or shed floor, in Winter time, 
after sprinkling a little shelled corn on 
the floor. Then let the hogs root the 
grain and in so doing take needed exer¬ 
cise. This is fine business for sows in 
pig, as they particularly require exercise. 
Make the feed more laxative and less 
rich. Do not feed slop containing much 
soap or soap powders. Give free access 
to wood ashes, slaked lime and charcoal. 
If the trouble starts put the hogs on to a 
diet of milk, middlings and limewater, 
and physic with glauber salts in slop. 
Four ounces of the salts will suffice for 
a grown hog, but may have to be repeated. 
A. S. A. 
Suspected Rabies. 
My two little dogs died this Summer; 
one died May 22 and the other about a 
week ago with what we supposed to be 
poison, but others said they had rabies. 
Their eyes were full of matter and a 
slimy looking stuff ran out of each side 
of the mouth. Just before they died they 
tried to drink water but could not; they 
would put the nose down to the water, 
but it seemed as if they could not open 
their mouths and put their tongues out. 
They both had the same symptoms. Can 
you tell me what ailed them and if there 
is any cure, and also if it is contagious, 
as I have a little fox terrier which 
was around the affected dogs. These 
dogs that died also had a very bad odor 
about them. What should I do if I 
should have 'another dog sick the same 
way? A. F. W. 
Michigan. 
When it is suspected that rabies may 
be present the owner should chain the 
dogs and have them examined by a grad¬ 
uate veterinarian. The disease is con¬ 
tagious and conveyed by a bite of the af¬ 
fected animal. There is no cure. It 
seems possible that your dogs died of 
distemper; but without an examination 
we are unable to give a confident opin¬ 
ion, and as rabies was suspected we 
would not feel justified in prescribing 
treatment. The veterinarian should be 
employed. If the fox terrier was bitten 
by a rabid dog he will be likely to suc¬ 
cumb to the disease and should be kept 
closely confined. If not bitten he will 
not be likely to contract rabies. Persons 
bitten by rabid dogs should have the 
Pasteur treatment applied at once and 
animals bitten should be confined and 
closely watched for three months. 
A. S. A. 
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DCTIDIN Will sacrifice to a 
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The opportunity of securing free home-' 
steads of 160 acres each, and the low _ 
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and Alberta, will soon have passed. 
Canada offers a hearty welcome to the Settler, 
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to the farmers son, to the renter, to all who 
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The sum realized for Beef, Butter, Milk and 
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Write for literature and particulars as to 
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Superintendent of Immigration, 
Ottawa. Canada, or to 
Canadian Government Agent, 
J. S. Crawford, 
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I No excessive cold in winter or long, dry spell in summer. Average rainfall 45 
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I Corn, wheat, oats and other cereals, all legumes, tobacco, alfalfa, large and small 
fruit and garden truck thrive equally welL Near to the big markets with quick transports- 
r tion facilities. Write today for list of desirable farms which can be bought for $10 an acre and 
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t F. H. LaBaume, Agr. & Ind. Agent, Norfolk & Western Railway 
f Room 285 N. & V Railway Building ROANOKE. VA. 
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