1914. 
THE HURAI> NEW-YORKER 
1116 
Carbolic Acid for Abortion. 
NOTICE on page 10.‘’>9 the inquiry of 
E. H., Maryland, as to abortion, and 
1 such calls for help are frequent. Perhaps 
the experience of myself and neighbors 
may be useful to our brother dairymen. 
In Spring of 1897, most of my cattle 
were killed because of tuberculosis, and 
in filling up the stables again a cow was 
purchased from a herd where abortion 
had prevailed. She aborted, and the next 
season half the herd aborted, and there 
was plenty of trouble. My next neigh¬ 
bor’s bull became infected, and the next 
year Ik* also had a lot of trouble. He 
used no remedy at first, and I spent many 
dollars for advertised remedies, but our 
results were alike—the trouble con¬ 
tinued. 
A stranger moved to our town who 
told us of the carbolic acid treatment, 
which, he said, had been used with com¬ 
plete success in his brother’s herd in New 
Hampshire. We gave it a trial, and were 
well satisfied with the results. Later, 
others used it, and we were conquering 
the disease, years before I ever read of 
this treatment. The usual formula for 
abortion is “Isolation, disinfection, vet¬ 
erinary.” which things we have tried and 
found to be expensive, useless and entire¬ 
ly unnecessary. 
Get carbolic acid in crystal form. Dis¬ 
solve by putting the bottle in hot water, 
use 10 parts of water to one of the liquid 
acid, or about a pint of water to each 
ounce bottle of crystals. Shake well be¬ 
fore using. Dose, small tablespoonful 
once a day to all cows carrying calf, also 
the bull. Continue two or three weeks; 
then skip same length of time, and so on 
till near calving time. I have claimed 
that no treatment of bull was necessary 
but it was insisted on by the one who 
first told me of the remedy. In my herd, 
no cow was bred till si'" months after 
aborting, and I had little trouble with 
farrow cows, though without any treat¬ 
ment, many cows fail to breed. 
Dump the spoonful of medicine in a 
feed of meal of any kind. Just a little 
bran, if no grain is being fed, and though 
the smell of carbolic acid is to most peo¬ 
ple quite disagreeable, I never knew a 
cow to refuse it. In some herds it has 
been found necessary to treat all heifers 
carrying first calf, or abortions would 
now and then occur, even two or three 
years after all old cows were breeding 
regularly. This remedy will not stop the 
disease in a case far advanced, but so far 
as I know is a sure preventive if used in 
season. When a cow has once aborted 
ten chances to one she will fail to breed 
or abort again. With this treatment she 
will not abort again and in a majority 
of cases will breed regularly. 
Vermont. D. a. kneeland. 
Land Plaster for Heaves. 
PEEL it a duty to help one in trou¬ 
ble when I can, as I have been a 
practicing veterinarian for nearly 30 
years and have had many remedies for 
horses, but I somewhere saw in some pa¬ 
per or magazine that a heaping table¬ 
spoonful of common land plaster put in 
the feed and well mixed with it each 
night for four or five nights, or till re¬ 
lieved and then omitted for a few nights, 
then repeated as necessary, would re¬ 
lieve horses so troubled. I have used it 
in a number of exceedingly bad cases with 
uniformly good results, making the ani¬ 
mals quite comfortable and useful iu their 
work. It is based, I believe, on the fact 
that asthma and heaves are due to indi¬ 
gestion and the plaster or gypsum acts as 
a disinfectant to the alimentary tract. It 
is so simple and cheap and so easily given, 
and there have been no restrictions or 
change in manner of feeding, which is an 
item. Of course the evening feed would 
have to be such that the plaster could be 
well mixed with it. I have seen very bad 
cases so relieved that they were scarcely 
perceptible even to an experienced eye. 
Tell F. T. S., on page 1038, to try it and 
report the results, or anyone else who 
has a horse so affected, veterinarian. 
li. N.-Y.—This comes from a friend 
who has treated horses for many years. 
Land plaster or gypsum or sulphate of 
lime is often used on the soil or iu sta¬ 
bles and manure piles. Plaster of Paris 
is the land plaster calcined or heated so 
as to remove its water. Do not use plast¬ 
er of Paris for this remedy. When this 
is mixed with water it “sets” or forms a 
hard mass. Small quantities mixed with 
the feed would not cause much trouble 
unless the stomach or bowels contained 
hard substances like stones or nails. The 
plaster of Paris might collect on these 
and make trouble. Veterinarians some¬ 
times find such “stones” in the stom¬ 
ach of horses. The use of land plaster 
or gypsum as advised above would not 
cause trouble. The doses should be given 
only long enough to make the horse com¬ 
fortable and then discontinued until he 
shows trouble again. 
Malt Sprouts for Pigs. 
W OULD malt sprouts be good to feed 
Spring pigs, and how much? Would 
they be good to feed a brood sow 
before and after she has pigs? a. j. r.. 
Clyde, N. Y. 
Malt sprouts are not particularly use¬ 
ful for feeding .Spring pigs, since they are 
rather bulky, and not concentrated 
enough for pigs. Furthermore, they are 
not easily digested by the young pigs, and 
animals fed on this material would not 
evidence thrift or great vigor. A better 
mixture would bo made up of 100 pounds 
of red dog flour and 100 pounds ground 
oats, to which ten pounds of digester 
tankage has been added. A very good 
ration for brood sows nursing pigs would 
be as follows: 100 pounds of ear corn, 
15 pounds of wheat bran, 10 pounds of 
digester tankage, five pounds of oil meal, 
two pounds of bone meal. Just previous 
to farrowing I would suggest using the 
same ingredients, but fed to the animal in 
smaller quantities; that is by means of 
using additional water, or feeding a thin 
slop. The consistency of this mixture as 
fed to the sow nursing pigs three weeks 
old, should be about the thickness of 
good buttermilk. The addition of some 
Alfalfa leaves to the ration at farrowing 
time increases its bulk and has given good 
results. 
The brood sow should be fed all that 
she would clean up with a relish, and our 
experience shows that they can be fed 
liberally after the pigs are three or four 
weeks old; up until this date and age of 
the pigs the amount should be governed 
by their appetites, and also keeping their 
digestive systems free from irregularities 
or disorders. f. c. mixkler. 
Maine Law on Straying Cattle. 
I HAVE a neighbor whose cattle have 
run at large more or less for the last 
eight years, and particularly so for the 
last two years and have caused a great 
deal of trouble in our neighborhood. Is 
there any law for putting them in the 
pound? >i. a. D. 
The laws in Maine require every own¬ 
er of live stock of any kind to keep them 
on his own land or under proper sub¬ 
jection. No one lias a right to allow his 
animals to annoy or injure his neighbors, 
and every owner is liable for all damage 
done by said animals, either in an action 
for trespass or in a lien on the animals. 
I should judge that in this case the trou¬ 
ble comes from the animals being al¬ 
lowed to run at large rather than that 
they get out of the enclosure. That being 
the case, the aggrieved party has as 
good right to recompense as though they 
strayed from a pasture. 
No man is obliged to enclose his fields, 
or to build road fences. The highways 
are for legitimate use and not for the 
pasturage of any live stock. If, per¬ 
chance, a drove of cattle or other animals 
do damage to crops, the owners thereof 
would not be liable if it could be shown 
that they used due diligence iu trying to 
restrain them, otherwise they would have 
to pay all damages, as they would if the 
animals had strayed. M. A. D. should see 
to it that his line fences are iu good re¬ 
pair and that they conform to the State 
law relating to division fences, which is 
as follows: 
“All fences four feet high and in good 
repair, consisting of rails, timber, boards, 
stone walls, iron or wire; and brooks, 
rivers, ponds, creeks, ditches and hedges, 
Removing Garlic Flavor from Milk. 
T HE disagreeable flavor and odor left 
in milk when cows eat wild onion or 
garlic within four hours before milk¬ 
ing, can be removed by blowing filtered 
and washed air through the milk for 30 
to 60 minutes, according to the strength 
of the garlic flavor. This conclusion, 
which is published in U. S. Department 
of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin 608, 
shortly to be issued, is the result of a 
series of experiments made by the Dairy 
Division on methods of removing the 
garlic flavor which greatly lessens the 
commercial value of milk and cream. 
To remove the garlie flavor successfully, 
however, the milk must be raised to a 
temperature of 145 deg. and a method de¬ 
vised to keep the milk from foaming 
when the air is blown through it. To do 
this, the investigators constructed a spe¬ 
cial apparatus. The temperature of the 
milk is very important, as air blown into 
cold milk does not remove the garlic fla¬ 
vor. and also has a tendency to churn the 
fat. This may make a thin layer of 
butterfat form on the surface of the 
milk when bottled. It was found that in 
raising the milk to 145 deg., which was 
the best temperature for the removal of 
the flavor, it was best to stir the milk 
by some mechanical means. The Stirling, 
however, should not be too violent or it 
may churn the fat. 
Purchase of Cow. 
I BOUGHT a Guernsey cow in October 
from a man who distinctly told me 
she was in calf and wrote me that she 
was bred in July and due in April. I 
told him I did not care for the milk last 
Winter but did want it in the Spring, 
and he said that was just the cow for 
me and even made me an offer for the 
calf when born. With this understanding 
I bought the cow only to find later that 
she was not with calf at all. When I 
notified the seller of this he wrote he 
thought I must be mistaken, that he 
would not have sold her had he thought 
she was not with calf, but that as several 
months had passed he did not feel respon¬ 
sible, and that other cattle men assured 
him lie was not responsible. I feel that 
the cow was not as represented, and that 
the seller should take her back and re¬ 
fund my money or make it right in some 
way. k. w. M. 
Connecticut. 
From the facts stated in your letter 
it would seem to be indi ated pretty clear¬ 
ly that the seller warranted the cow to 
be with calf, and that this was not mere¬ 
ly an expression of his inion. and the 
breach of this warranty gave you the 
right to return the cow immediately on 
your discovery that it was not with calf. 
Inasmuch as you have held it from April 
until this late day you have probably 
waived the right to return the cow, but 
you still have an action for damages 
against the seller and should recover the 
difference in value between the cow if ! 
she had been with calf and as she is. J 
without. h. d. 
Millet Hay. 
1 IIAVE been informed by farmers that 
if German millet is allowed to go into 
heads to make dried fodder for stock i 
that it is not as good as when cut before j 
heading. Is this true? s. pi. 
Pierce, Pa. 
Millet hay made after the plant has 
formed its seed is all right for cattle, but | 
should not be fed to horses. Such hay 
lias a bad effect upon the horse, giving 
trouble with kidneys, and also trouble 
with the joints and legs. A number of 
cases are reported where horses fed on 
this hay have died. The fodder is all 
right for cows, but the wise plan will be 
not to feed millet hay to horses at all. 
Stirring Water-Cooled Milk. —The 
Department of Agriculture has issued a 
note on this subject regarding their ex¬ 
periments in cooling milk. In experi¬ 
ments made with cans where the top of 
the milk was above the water level, it 
was found that the milk above that level 
remains from five to six degrees warmer 
than the portion below the level. Bac¬ 
teria consequently will develop at a high¬ 
er rate in the top of the milk, and when 
later the milk is mixed, the souring of 
the whole canful will be hastened both 
by reducing the temperature of the whole 
and also by the increased number of bac¬ 
teria in the warmer portion. In the ex¬ 
periments all the cans were cooled by the 
same method. The milk iu some of the 
cans was stirred every 15 minutes while ■ 
that in others was not. The water in 
the cooling tank was 62.6 deg. Fahr. The 
milk that was stirred cooled from nearly 
90 deg. to slightly above 60 deg. in three 
hours. The unstirred milk did not get 
down to a similar temperature for four t 
hours and 15 minutes. Meanwhile, iu 
the unstirred milk all the milk above the 
water level iu the running water was five 
to six degrees warmer. The compara¬ 
tively rapid decrease in temperature 
when the milk was thoroughly stirred at 
intervals of fifteen minutes demonstrates 
the advantage of agitating the milk while 
cooling. 
Leaking Teats ; Lame Calf. 
F OR the benefit of C. E. S. of New [ 
Jersey, who asks for remedy for leak¬ 
ing teat, I use a quick blister just at 
the opening of teat, when dry is best. 
The healing contracts. Let entirely alone 
after blister is applied. We never used it 
while milking. We have tried collodion 
and alum water, no luck with either; the 
blister never fails us. 2. We have a buil 
calf six months old. stiff and lame in his 
joints; lies down quite a lot. I think 
lie was overfed on oil meal when about 
three mouths old. What can we do for 
him ? c. H. 
New York. 
1. We advised use of flexible collodion, 
alum solutions, etc., while a cow was 
giving milk and leaking from her teats. 
Blistering may be all right when a cow is 
dry, but it cannot be done when the cow 
is giving milk. Iu our experience, too, 
the leaking may not occur when a cow 
has her next calf. We have no objection, 
however, to use of a mild blister on a 
dry cow. 2. Physic the calf with castor 
oil; then give him 10 grains of salol twice 
daily and feed light, laxative feed. Let 
him have some exercise on grass, a. s. a. 
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