1914. 
THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER 
426 
Tanning With the Fur On. 
Nearly every year some one asks how 
to tan skins with fur on and a number of 
recipes have been printed. I have tried 
all of them from tanning with acid to 
salt and alum. I find the following re¬ 
cipe superior to all. Dissolve in hot 
water separately one-half pound alum, 
one pound saltpeter, five pounds common 
salt, two ounces corrosive sublimate. 
Pour together and add enough water to 
make two gallons. If the skins are dry 
they must be soaked in water until quite 
soft and all the flesh and fat scraped off. 
Put them in the tanning mixture and 
leave three weeks where it will not 
freeze. Take them out, rinse several 
times in clear water, hang up, beat them 
with a stick, and when nearly dry work 
them w'ell by pulling over the edge of a 
board. There is lots of work in tanning 
skins in small lots, and your success de¬ 
pends on how much you are willing to 
do. The amount of materials given will 
tan 12 or 15 muskrat hides and can be 
kept from one year to another. Care 
must be taken so children or animals do 
not drink it; also be careful that you do 
not have any cuts on your hands as it 
is poison. H. B. 
Colt* With Eruptions. 
On page 54 J. H. W., New York, asks 
what is the matter with his colts. I had 
the same trouble with some of mine last 
year, and with others this year. One of 
Albany’s leading veterinarians told me 
later that the pimples and scabs were 
caused by a parasite that passes one stage 
of its existence as a fly, and is liable to 
attack horses anywhere in pasture, and 
that spraying during the Summer months 
would prevent the depositing of eggs, but 
that either spraying or simply washing 
would not kill the parasite after it is 
hatched. In applying the coal tar dip 
it is necessary to work it well into the 
hair with a stiff brush, as the parasite 
burrows into the surface of the skin. 
Blanketing heavily after the application 
of the coal tar dip is considered im¬ 
portant for the effect of the steam thus 
generated. Last year the trouble ap¬ 
peared among colts in my home pasture 
and when the parasites became active 
in February and the colts began to rub 
themselves I tried a solution of coal tar 
dip, simply sponging them, but as I did 
not then know of the necessity of rub¬ 
bing it in and blanketing, did not get 
desired results, and next tried olive oil 
and sulphur, 'which gave greater relief 
from the intense itching from which they 
were suffering at that time, possibly be¬ 
cause it was more thoroughly applied. 
If I remember aright the trouble came 
to an end, for that season, during the 
early part of May. Of the colts and 
mares kept at home last Summer, but two 
are infected this year, and those but very 
slightly, while about a dozen in pasture 
a few miles away came home in bad 
shape, two of them literally encrusted 
from nose and ears to hoofs. I applied 
cotton seed oil and kerosene, equal parts, 
in four of the worst cases, and evidently 
killed the parasites—certainly killed the 
hair—but I think saved the mares and 
colts by not repeating the application. 
Work horses running in pasture and 
weaning colts that were curried have been 
free from the pest, probably because the 
currying and brushing removed the eggs 
of the fly before they had time to become 
hatched- J. s. albrigiit. 
Otsego County, N. Y., Conditions. 
A recent letter by William Kling, from 
rock-ribbed Schoharie County, speaks 
well for that county, and Otsego County 
farmers concede that Mr. Kling has the 
facts so far as his own county is con¬ 
cerned to warrant his fulsome praise. 
At the same time Otsego farmers rather 
quite flattering to Schoharie. Now. we 1 
are not going to say a word against Scho¬ 
harie. In some things it stands unique* 
among the rival counties of the Empire 
State. But we must speak up in de¬ 
fense of Otsego when its front-line posi¬ 
tion is assailed or called in question; 
Otsego, with its beautiful valleys traced 
with water courses and sparkling spring 
brooks, its sloping hills and its broad 
level acres of responsive soils, its health¬ 
ful climate, its great dairies, its County 
Farm Bureau, its many Granges, its five 
successful agricultural fairs, its excel¬ 
lent schools and its promising future. 
Last year was one clipped at both ends 
by a hard freeze, late in the Spring and 
early in the Fall, sufficient to kill grow¬ 
ing crops at their beginning and at their 
end. This experience comes not oftener 
than once in a generation. It came last 
year. However, under such unfavorable 
conditions as existed last year there was 
grown on a hill farm less than a mile 
from the farmer who gave Mr. Kling his 
argument against us and in plain sight 
of his new home, 267 bushels of potatoes 
per acre. Within half a mile of the man 
who furnishes the Government the 
weather reports from the Butternut Val¬ 
ley, which Mr. Kling cites, a young 
farmer harvested last year 56 bushels of 
oats per acre, others went 50 and 55 
bushels, and the good corn yields in the 
Butternut Valley are 50 bushels shelled 
to the acre; and the corn yield seldom 
fails. In fact Otsego is called a good 
corn county. Otsego is one of the best 
dairying counties in the State, and its 
farms are selling so low that immigra¬ 
tion is coming in here at an astonishing 
rate. Something like 25 or more Danish 
families have settled in the towns of 
Morris and Laurens within a year. They 
all like it, are satisfied, and say noth¬ 
ing has yet appeared to make them home¬ 
sick. They are a thrifty class. We in¬ 
vite them to come. Otsego County lands 
can support them and give them back a 
good reward for the labor of their hands 
and brains; and it takes both to farm 
successfully here, just the same as it 
does anywhere else, even in rock-ribbed 
old Schoharie. e. e. c. 
“Professor,” inquired Farmer Jimp, 
“what are you digging for in my back¬ 
yard?” “I’ll pay you well!” shouted the 
archeologist. “Great discovery! I’ve 
found the bones of a prehistoric mam¬ 
mal hitherto unknown!” “Sorry pro¬ 
fessor; but that’s an old wire bustle that 
I buried over 20 years ago, along with 
some other junk.”—Winnipeg Telegram. 
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opened up the opportunity which Mr. 
Kling took advantage of was a Dane 
who had been in the county less than a 
year. He spoke of conditions as lie found 
them and probably told the truth, and 
he wasn’t complaining either; but this 
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35 luslsPERACf| 
was the yield of WHEAT 
on many farms in West¬ 
ern Canada in 1913, some I. 
yields being reported as 
Le* A high as 50 bushels II 
|)pA per acre. As high as 
100 bushels were record¬ 
ed in some districts 
for oats, 50 bushels for 
barley and from 10 to 
20 bushels for flax. 
J. Keys arrived In the 
country 6 years ago from Den¬ 
mark. with very little means. He 
homesteaded, worked hard, is 
now the owner of 320 acres of 
: land. In 1913 had a crop of 200 
acres.which will realize him about 
J $4,000. His wheat weighed 68 
I lbs. to the bushel and averaged 
j over 35 bushels to the acre, 
j Thousands of similar instances might bo 
related of the homesteaders in Manitoba. 
Saskatchewan and Alberta. 
The crop of 1913 was an abundant ono 
everywhere in Western Canada. 
I .Ask for descriptive literature and reduced 
railway rates. Apply to 
Superintendent of Immigration. 
Ottawa. Canada, or 
Canadian Government Agent, 
J. S. Crawford, 
301 E. Genesee Street, 
Syracuse. N. Y. 
