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THE RURAL NEW -YORKER 
September 12, 
WORKING OVER STALE BUTTER. 
A S a. storekeeper I take butter in trade 
—some of it very poor in quality. 
Other storekeepers do the same, and 
it would be possible to get hold of large 
quantities of this poor stuff. Would it 
pay to work this butter over and ship it 
after cleaning it up? s. B. J. 
I doubt whether it is a practical propo¬ 
sition for the people who run small gro¬ 
cery stores in farming districts to rework 
country butter and get it in such shape 
that they could sell it for enough more 
when it came to market to pay them for 
the expense incurred. It would be neces¬ 
sary to have a combined churn and work¬ 
er, which would call for a considerable 
outlay at the start. The man who would 
do the work should also have a good un¬ 
derstanding of butter making. If the 
storekeeper himself has had no experience 
in this line of work, I question whether 
he would be able to improve the product 
very much. If one has the equipment 
and experience in butter-making to war¬ 
rant the undertaking, the general process 
would be as follows: 
Fill the combined churn and worker 
about half full of water at 55 or 60 de¬ 
grees F., depending on the solidity and 
general character of the butter. Put the 
butter to be reworked into the churn and 
revolve the churn several times with the 
workers in gear so that the butter may be 
well washed. Draw off the water and 
again fill the churn approximately half 
full of water. Repeat this process three 
or four times until any bad odors have 
been washed away. This washing will 
remove most of the salt from the butter 
aud likewise a large amount of the color. 
In order to restore the salt content and 
color to the butter the rewashed butter 
should be salted heavily enough so that 
the completed product will have at least 
3 per cent, of salt. The butter should be 
salted rather heavily in order to obscure 
any lingering traces of bad flavors. No 
more salt should be employed than will 
dissolve. The coloring should be thor¬ 
oughly mixed with the salt before the lat¬ 
ter is added. When the colored salt has 
been thoroughly distributed over the but¬ 
ter the color also will be uniform through¬ 
out. A. A. BORLAND, 
Professor of Dairy Husbandry. 
Vermont College. 
A Concrete Block Silo. 
I N regard to my silo shown, at Fig. 484, 
it cost all told $430. In places where 
good gravel can be obtained easily this 
same silo can be made much less; two 
good men can make 100 blocks a day and 
the mold to make them in cost $15. My 
blocks are Sxl5 and there are 1200 in 
my silo. The silo is girded with %-inch 
steel rods, every three feet, laid inside the 
blocks in a groove made on purpose. I 
have the best material I could get; clear 
pine doors. My silo is very heavily plas¬ 
tered inside with cement and a little lime, 
just enough to make it stick well. My 
silage came out perfectly clean up to the 
very wall. There is no doubt that thes< 
silos are an ornament to any farm. We 
usually cut our corn when the lower 
leaves become dead. We cut and bind 
corn and as soon as wilted begin to fill 
silo by cutting and blowing it in with an 
ordinary corn blower, keeping corn as it 
comes into silo slightly higher in center 
and tread down well around the sides. 
If you have good rich silage, the kind 
that makes the cows laugh, raise corn 
that ears heavily; it saves buying extra 
amount of grains and cows will actually 
shell out the milk to surprise you. With 
good sweet silage you can make milk just 
as cheap in Winter as in Summer, and 
get double the price for it. 
Lewis Co., N. Y. wm. s. goutremont. 
Live Stock on Grain Stubble. 
T OM BARRON, the English poultry- 
man, gave us all an idea of “inten¬ 
sive meat production” with his exper¬ 
ience. On 20 acres Mr. Barron keeps 
7,000 head of poultry and 10 cows and 
“has some hay to sell!” It is necessary 
to utilize “every grain and every bug” in 
order to reach such results. We do not, 
in this country, half begin to utilize our 
farm resources. For example, the stubble 
of grain fields. Such fields are usually 
left to grow up to clover and weeds, yet 
here is what English “Farm and Home” 
advises: 
It is nowadays neither advisable nor 
convenient to send our pigs out as a herd 
for the purpose of saving the fallen corn 
under present conditions, for the energy 
wasted would probably be almost as cost¬ 
ly as the food which was saved. There 
is, however, no reason why a large flock 
of turkeys should not be kept on a corn 
farm, and fed during the harvest month in 
the stubbles, as, although the same prin¬ 
ciple applies, it does so in quite a minor 
degree. While the turkey is far less ex¬ 
citable and determined a feeder, not ex¬ 
pending his energy so freely, he takes 
much longer to mature, and therefore can 
be trusted to waste very little, and not 
to diminish his growth by this means. 
Although I hold the opinion that a well- 
bred turkey will pay as well as a sheep, 
I am conscious of the value of the flock 
on the stubbles, consuming, as they do, 
seed-bearing weeds, and, while finding 
food for themselves, maintaining the 
cleanly condition of the land. If we omit 
thistles, nettles, and docks, there are few 
weeds which the sheep will refuse, and as 
many species produce hundreds, and some 
thousands, of seeds on one plant, it is not 
difficult to appreciate the economy of the 
practice. 
Live Stock on Fruit Farm. 
4£T IVE stock feeding in addition to our 
JL/ fruit growing keeps our force busy 
nearly the entire year,’ says W. W. 
Farnsworth of Lucas County, Ohio. 
“We allow hogs to run with our steers, 
and the manure pays for labor, and we 
make some profit. The profit lies in sup¬ 
planting the steers with hogs. When we 
no longer can feed at a profit, we will 
use cover crops and commercial fertil¬ 
izers. We generally feed about 60 steers, 
and intend to feed a larger number this 
year. Our ration is made up of silage, 
corn and cotton seed. We purchase most 
of our feed, and last year we bought 
considerable clover hay. When clover 
hay is too high we feed straw and fodder 
how long would it take before horse could 
be used again? R. A. D. 
Ma ssachusetts. 
Any veterinarian capable of properly 
unnerving a horse for navicular disease 
should be trusted to give the information 
asked for in this letter. Sloughing of the 
foot is comparatively rare, following the 
“low” operation. In an lS-year-old horse 
it would necessitate destruction of the 
animal. If the operation was properly 
done, and you allowed the veterinarian 
to care for the horse sloughing will not 
be likely to occur. a. s. a. 
Goitre. 
1 HAYE three goat kids, born in May, 
one buck and two does. About three 
_ weeks ago the buck had some bunch¬ 
es come on his throat—each side of the 
throat just back of the jaws. He did not 
seem sick, ate and played as the rest, so 
I let it go, thinking he had caught cold 
perhaps and would soon be well again. 
Since then the bunches have grown, until 
now his neck seems thick all the way 
down. The bunches are separated and 
one is larger than the other. Now the 
other kids seem to have bunches starting 
on their necks. They do not act sick, 
and are fat and in good health otherwise. 
Can you tell me what is the trouble, and 
what I shall do to cure it? L. B. c. 
New r l’ork. 
The thyroid glands are enlarged, con¬ 
stituting “goitre,” which indicates con¬ 
stitutional weakness, the tendency to 
which is hereditary. If the kids are well 
nourished and allowed to live a natural 
life, without pampering, they may out¬ 
grow the trouble. To hasten recovery 
clip the hair from the swellings and paint 
them with tincture of iodine every other 
day until the skin becomes irritated ; then 
stop the treatment until the skin recov¬ 
ers, when it may be repeated, if seen to 
be necessary. If the enlargement softens 
from formation of pus it will have to be 
opened. A. s. A. 
Indigestion. 
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and increase the cottonseed to balance 
the ration. It is our aim to pay original 
cost, pay interest, risk, feed and labor, 
and have the manure net. A year ago, 
owing to having less liogs we did not do 
that well, and the year previous we did 
better. We allow about two-tliirds as 
many hogs ruu with the steers as there 
are steers. More hogs may be kept, where 
corn is fed in shock, than when ground. 
We give the hogs tankage and skim-milk, 
and we pay 10 and 15 cents the hundred 
for skim-milk. We sometimes raise pigs 
and at times buy our hogs, in any event, 
we like to have them weigh 75 or 80 
pounds, when we put them with the 
steers. We try to secure 350 pounds 
gain on the steers in six months. Last 
year we bought a little early and paid 
7*4 cents, aud sold for S 1 /^ cents. In 
buying at times we visit the Chicago mar¬ 
ket, and sometimes of a local buyer, and 
we sell to a local 'buyer when our stock 
is ready to market. Our feeding is done 
in sheds and small yard, and haul to or¬ 
chards and fields as fast as the manure 
accumulates. The profit largely lies in 
the hogs, for they get most of their feed 
from the droppings.” w. j. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Wart on Goat. 
1 HAVE a valuable Angora buck that 
has a bloody wart about one inch 
across on top of neck near horns. I 
have been using peroxide on it, which 
keeps it down but does not cure it. There 
is no veterinary near me. Can you give 
me a cure I can use myself? C. E. d’g. 
Notch, Mo. 
Peroxide of hydrogen is practically 
useless in such cases. It would be best 
to cut the wart out aud then stop the 
bleeding by application of a hot iron, or 
Monsel’s solution or powder. If you do 
not care to operate paint the wart twice 
a week with dilute nitric acid, after 
smearing lard around the part. A. s. A. 
Cat With Worms. 
We have a cat that has worms; he is 
very thin. What remedy is advised? 
Delaware. a. n. j. 
Two or three grains of santonin may 
be given, according to size of cat, after 
starving the animal for 12 hours. Give a 
dose of castor oil three hours after admin¬ 
istering santonin. Worm medicine for 
dogs and cats may be bought in any drug 
store, ready for use. a. s. a. 
Navicular Disease. 
C OULD you tell me about navicular dis¬ 
ease in horses? What is the cause 
of it, and can anything be done ex¬ 
cept unnerving? I had a horse unnerved 
for this trouble a month ago. He is free 
from lameness, but people tell me his foot 
will be dropping off before long. Will it 
come off if properly cared for, kept grow¬ 
ing and free from disease or bruises? 
The horse is 18 years old, weighs L050, 
travels with high hackney action. If his 
foot comes off, will it grow again, and 
I HAVE a colt foaled June, 1911, which 
was in fine condition and apparently 
normal till about January or Febru¬ 
ary, 1913, when the hair began to drop 
from the face and spots on the body. She 
also seemed to crave more food, but rath¬ 
er lost than gained in flesh. I 
treated for lice. She was turned 
out to pasture early, some distance from 
home, brought her back in July; hair 
was gone from mane and tail, body looked 
about the same, hair off and small spots 
elsewhere. I consulted veterinarian of 
good reputation and he said skin disease, 
gave medicine and wash; hair started a 
little on tail. She was boarded out from 
December 1 till middle of May; general 
appearance improved; body quite well 
covered, mane about as good as her 
mother’s (not long) but only the lower 
half of the tail has hairs, averaging per¬ 
haps five inches long. What do you ad¬ 
vise? M. i. K. 
New York. 
Indigestion explains the entire trouble 
and still is present. Feed on whole oats 
and one-ninth part of wheat bran, along 
with dry hay. Do not feed grass. Give 
the drinking water before feeding. Work 
or exercise the horse every day. Once 
daily wash all hairless parts with plain 
cold water. Give half an ounce of Fow¬ 
ler’s solution of arsenic night and morn¬ 
ing. Gradually discontinue the medicine 
when the colt is in good condition, tak¬ 
ing at least ten days to the work. 
a. s. a. 
“The woman threw herself into the 
river,” read the teacher. “Her husband 
rushed to the bank. Now, tell me why 
her husband rushed to the bank?” “To 
get the insurance money,” yelled the 
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