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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 5, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
DAIRYING IN PENNSYLVANIA. 
«A TOST p eop i e think of Pennsylvania 
jLVJL as a State whose products are 
mostly coal and iron,” says Mr. 
Thompson of the Pennsylvania State Ex¬ 
tension work,” and would be surprised to 
know that her combined agricultural and 
dairy products are worth more each year 
than her total wealth in iron or coal. 
This State is not generally spoken of as 
the dairy State, but May Itilma, the queen 
of the dairy world, was born and raised 
in Pennsylvania. Among other records 
held, we find the champion aged Ayr¬ 
shire cow, the champion two-year-old 
Ayrshire cow, the champion three-year- 
old and two-year-old Jersey, aged Brown 
Swiss and Shorthorn records are also 
held in the State. 
‘‘The first of J r uly, 1914, there were 
seven cow-testing associations in opera¬ 
tion. the first of November there are 13, 
and to show farmers are interested in the 
they wanted. At present there is a great 
scarcity of milk on the Providence mar¬ 
ket, due in part to the strike of the milk 
producers of Connecticut, refusing to 
send milk at the old price, and also to 
the extremely dry weather barring the 
pastures and forcing the farmers to feed 
inside about one month sooner than us¬ 
ual. However, in our vicinity, I believe 
the number of cows will not decrease, as 
most of the farmers are peddling their 
own milk and must keep up their trade. 
The hay crop and corn crop were both 
good, and with many new silos put up 
last Summer there is plenty of feed. The 
price of grains remains about the same. 
Our local market for cows is Brighton. 
Cows bought there are loaded in the 
afternoon of the same day and arrive in 
Providence or Pawtucket at S a. m. the 
next day. Freight is $1.50 per cow, or 
$15 for a car. Prices for good milkers 
range from $90 to $100 and over; at 
best it is a lottery, as the cows are bag¬ 
ged up for all they can stand, and it is 
almost impossible sometimes to detect 
any defect in the udder. For instance a 
dealer bought a nice young Guernsey cow 
second calf, for $95, and sold her to the 
Jew three weeks after for $35. Another 
CHAMPION AYRSHIRE COW KILN FORD BELLE 3rd. 
cow-testing work, one illustration suffices: 
Two cow-testing associations iu Brad¬ 
ford County, each split in half, forming 
two more associations, and further came 
a fifth separate association formed in 
that county. There are about five other 
associations very nearly ready to organ¬ 
ize. Among the early associations to be 
organized were the Chester Valley Co¬ 
operative Farms Association, including 
some of that county’s best herds, another, 
the Brandywine Association, was formed 
in Southern Chester County. These were 
organized about four years ago. It has 
only been since the county agent move¬ 
ment testing in the Keystone State that 
new life has been given to the movement. 
This credit reflects directly upon the 
county agents, for they have been the 
most important factor in stimulating in¬ 
terest in cow-testing work. 
“The working plan of the association 
follows: We demand a man with prac¬ 
tical dairy training who has attended 
Winter short or long course at the agri¬ 
cultural college. lie visits the farmer 
one day each month, ariving there in 
time in the evening, to weigh the milk, 
taking a sample from each cow, also 
weighing grain and roughage. During 
the evening he generally talks dairying 
with the farmer. In the morning he 
again weighs milk, grain and roughage, 
samples the milk, which is tested for but¬ 
ter fat. He then proceeds to figure the 
amount of butter fat produced per day, 
which is multiplied by the days in that 
month giving the total of butter fat pro¬ 
duced or milk sold in that month. He 
also computes at current prices the rough- 
age and grain consumed for the same 
length of time. This is all noted in the 
cow-testing association record book, one 
copy of which is left with the farmer, 
and the tester keeping the other copy. 
At the end of the year he sums up the 
amount of milk produced, total pounds 
of butter fat and feed production cost. 
These figures show him whether his cow is 
profitable or boarder.” 
DAIRYING IN RHODE ISLAND. 
ESTERDAY a neighbor sold his herd 
of Holstein cows at auction, 27 fair¬ 
sized cows in all periods of lacta¬ 
tion. The average price was $80; the 
highest cow sold for $145, and the low¬ 
est $40. This particular farmer was 
getting 5Y2 cents a quart for his milk 
at the door, but wanted six cents, not 
being able to receive his price he sold 
out. 
At the regular Fall meeting of the 
Milk Producers’ Association of Rhode 
Island the price of milk was fixed at six 
cents a quart at the door. I am unable 
to tell at present if the members of the 
Association have been able to get what 
bought a splendidly marked Jersey cow 
(oldish) for $80;—she gave a fine lot 
of milk for a few days and a month 
after had to let her go for $35. I could 
multiply the examples. Some farmers 
have started to raise calves, and this 
will likely help to solve the question of 
better cows, but instead of investing in 
a good bull and raising calves from their 
best cows, they buy calves from the large 
dairies, simply trusting the owner to 
sell them a good calf. This is of course 
wrong. At the Fairoaks Farm we had 
to give up our cream trade for a while, 
being so very short of milk. We sell 
pan-raised cream and get 80 cents a 
quart for it, and we have never been able 
to supply the demand. For the milk so 
skimmed we get three cents and will 
charge four from November first. 
Rhode Island. A. tekkegaux. 
Treatment for Foot-and-mouth Disease. 
P EOPLE everywhere are rushing in to 
toll the authorities what to do in the 
present outbreak. In the New York 
Times “A Chemist” suggests bicarbonate 
of soda: 
“In this disease lime water, chalk, bi¬ 
carbonate of potassa or bicarbonate of 
soda assists nature in recovering the nor¬ 
mal condition. The ‘foot-and-mouth dis¬ 
ease’ being a disease which requires a 
treatment externally and on a large scale, 
it is imperative that a remedial agent 
should be so mild in general action as 
will allow of the animal being treated 
very freely with it and that this sub¬ 
stance should be practically innocuous if 
ingested, also that it should be so cheap 
that it could be used very freely. I, 
therefore, recommend that ‘bicarbonate of 
soda’ be used as a wash for all parts of 
the affected animals; as a preventive 
wash for all animals subject to infec¬ 
tion ; as a wash for all premises, quarters 
and food vessels in the case in hand; as 
a preventive on all runways, bridges and 
roads where infection could be spread; 
for the hands, clothing, boots, etc., of 
all attendants. This substance can be 
mixed with water to a thin cream and 
sprayed or for treating cattle feet for 
prevention of contagion they can be 
walked into a trough of it.” 
Surely no one would attempt to han¬ 
dle a case of foot-and-mouth disease with¬ 
out the best scientific help he could ob¬ 
tain. We submitted the above to Dr. 
Alexander, who says: 
“Bicarbonate of soda is a fine wash 
for the mouth, but not at all suitable as 
a disinfectant. One has to use a five 
per cent, solution of carbolic acid or 
formaldehyde. I take no stock in this 
alkalinity theory. We prefer for the 
mouth a solution of borax or alum—both 
simple, safe and satisfactory.” 
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