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TTHK RURAb NEW-YORKER 
December 12, 
Cold Water for Bloated Cows. 
O X page 1350, E. A. A. asks what he 
could have done for a calf that 
bloated. A few years ago my herd 
of cows came in from pasture one night 
all well, as far as anything I saw, when 
I put them in the stanchions. We had 
nicely started milking when I noticed 
that the cows near me were acting as 
if scared at something in front of them. 
The cows were in two rows facing each 
other. As I rose to see what the trouble 
was I heard a cow breathing hard and 
could see her as soon as I was on my 
feet with her head down, mouth open and 
tongue hanging out. while she struggled 
for breath and seemed about ready to 
fall. I unlatched the stanchion to let 
her out, but we couldn’t move her. We 
looked her over and saw she was bloated. 
I called to my wife, who was out by the 
house and told her. She came out, 
looked at her and said: “I believe I 
would pour some cold water over her.” 
We ran for water and poured pailful 
after pailful along the cow’s back. In 
a little while she had closed her mouth 
and was breathing naturally; so we left 
her and went back to our milking. Pret¬ 
ty soon she backed out of the stanchion 
and walked out doors. When we finished 
milking we put her back in the barn, 
rubbed her partly dry, blanketed her and 
left her there over night. Next morning 
thi> bloat was gone and she was chewing 
her cud. After this one of our ewes had 
a lamb in cold weather, so we had to 
keep them in the barn. The lamb ate 
with its mother. It grew fast, was pret¬ 
ty greedy, ate more than was good for 
it and one day when I went out I found 
him bloated, lying on the floor evidently 
kicking his last. We gave him the cold 
water treatment same as we did the cow 
and it wasn’t long before he was up eat¬ 
ing again. Both these animals were too 
far gone to take medicine when found. 
They might perhaps have been relieved 
by tapping, but I hardly think it would 
have removed the cause like the cold 
water treatment. A. E. H. 
Alfred, N. Y. 
The Cow-tester Shows Up the Boarder in Iowa. 
P ETER Peterson of Iowa in four years 
increased the butter fat of each cow 
134 pounds, at an annual ex¬ 
pense of $1.50 the cow. Here is a con¬ 
crete example of where the cow testing 
association pays. The fourth year of Mr. 
Peterson’s membership in the associa¬ 
tion he had sufficient increase in butter 
fat production in his herd to warrant 
his paying for the service of the tester 
for the year. Mr. Peterson was not the 
only man who profited, there were 26 
other men. The average annual produc¬ 
tion of the association when established 
was not far from 145 pounds the head. 
Mr. Peterson and his associates were 
hard to convince of the advisability of 
paying $1.50 the head for the testing work. 
He and his neighbors believed they could 
tell the good cows in their herd, and 
believed they had practiced eliminating 
the boarder, as they called the unproduc¬ 
tive cow. However the tester showed 
some grand surprises. Deceptive cows 
heretofore had survived the block, while, 
probably, others had produced a bad im¬ 
pression and were sent to the butcher. 
Mr. Peterson’s brother is one of the 
members of the association, and he re¬ 
cently decided to sell his grades. 11 is 
herd numbered 25 cows and 25 heifers, 
and the cows at the sale averaged $134 
a head, which was from $40 to $50 over 
and above the average value of the ma¬ 
ture stock at the time of his entering 
the association. A buyer of grade stock 
was at the sale from one of the prominent 
dairy sections of the State. He paid $00 
the head for grade two-year-olds from 
the tested dams, which was $15 a head 
more than lie was paying for same stock 
from untested grade herds. In all the 
second Mr. Peterson profited in his sale, 
by increase in value of animals, more 
than enough to pay the tester for two 
years, while his increased production 
would easily have paid the tester for the 
remaining two years of the testing period. 
Another saving which about paid the 
tester for the year has been that in the 
cooperative buying of feed. Over $700 
was saved during the past year, or near¬ 
ly $1.50 a cow, the cost of testing the 
animals. The organization of a testing 
association is simple. Twenty-six men 
get together, elect officers, figure up the 
number of cows, arrange for tester, his 
salary, and charge against each cow her 
proportion of the expense. The tester 
spends a day with each farmer, tests the 
individual cows, and goes the next day 
to another member in the organization, 
making the rounds each month. He 
keeps records of the cows, computes costs, 
advises in the matter of feeding, and is a 
dairy expert devoting his entire services 
to making the cow show up profit or 
get out of the race. Minnesota has a 
cow-testing association of over 5,000 
dairy cows, the largest in the world. 
w. j. 
Dynamite for Woodchucks. 
I HAVE read an article in “Fruit Grow¬ 
er and Farmer” which says that Mr. 
Budd suggests a method simple 
enough, and has nothing to do with blow¬ 
ing the animal to atoms (gophers). He 
says—take about an inch and a half or 
two inches of a stick of 40% extra-dyna¬ 
mite und enclose in a bit of rag or sev¬ 
eral thicknesses of paper; tie this about 
the end of a fuse 12 or 14 inches long, 
but do not use a cap. Insert the charge 
in the hole of the rodent as deep as pos¬ 
sible and with a piece of stick pack the 
dirt around the fuse, leaving an end of 
the fuse sticking out so that it will light 
easily. Light the fuse; there will be no 
explosion, the dynamite will simply burn, 
throwing out a dense heavy black smoke, 
filling the hole with poisonous fumes that 
will kill every animal within. I have not 
tried this for this purpose: the method 
looks good to me. Dynamite, when a 
match is applied, or better and safer, 
fired with a fuse (without cap) will 
burn like celluloid, with a fierce flame, 
and throwing out a heavy black smoke, 
which I know to hi' poisonous, and in a 
confined space, such as a blocked hole, 
would be very a»t to kill anything con¬ 
fined in the area of the hole. I think 
this method of clearing woodchuck holes 
would be very effective and am going to 
give it a practical trial at the first op¬ 
portunity. Of course it could not be 
used in a barn or house to eradicate the 
rats and mice, owing to the flame—but 
bisulphide can. 
My experience is that bisulphide of 
carbon, put on a pad of absorbent cotton 
and then put in the hole, the hole being 
closed, will effectually dispose of Mr. 
Woodchuck. It is good, of course, for 
moles, rats, mice, muskrats, etc. I re¬ 
call one instance particularly where a 
long stretch of dike has been freed of 
muskrat; there was great danger of the 
dike breaking. Dynamite, of course, 
could not have been used, but the bi¬ 
sulphide was and we entirely cleared 
them out. I have used this treatment 
many times, and got results every time. 
Pennsylvania. h. s. j. bbady. 
Sulphurizing Woodchucks. —Some 
years ago I had good success killing 
woodchucks (in Summer) with the fol¬ 
lowing: Equal parts gunpowder and sul¬ 
phur mixed well and wrapped in paper 
packages of about a tablespoonful each, 
with about 12 inches of blasting fuse (a 
light fuse will answer) pushed into the 
package and all pushed into the burrow. 
Jam a sod in the mouth of the burrow 
and light the fuse. The light explosion 
will force the sulphur fumes through the 
burrow. I never knew it to fail to kill 
unless the fuse was too short and the 
charge blew the sod out. e. s. miller. 
Long Island. 
Nov. 23. Wheat $1.05; oats 45; 
corn 60 to 70; potatoes from the field 
25 to 30; onions 25 to 35; apples scarce. 
Owing to the quarantine there is noth¬ 
ing selling in hay and live stock except 
what hogs the butchers buy at eight 
cents dressed. Before the quarantine, 
cows sold at sales for $50 to $150. But- 
terfat now 34; eggs 30. IV. E. H. 
Bryan, O. 
Here are some of the prices we pay 
for produce here: New-laid eggs. 60; but¬ 
ter 45; apples, any kind, $2.25 a box; 
turkeys 40 cents a pound; wheat $2.75 
per 100 pounds; oats and corn the same; 
potatoes $2 per 100 pounds. A bunch of 
about 400 head of cattle sold for $51 a 
head straight through, a cow and calf 
bringing $102. The war hasn’t affected 
the price of horses here yet to any ex¬ 
tent. u. c. M. 
Turcana, Nev. 
We have in this locality a cheese fac¬ 
tory. It has given very poor satisfaction 
in general; the price of milk has run from 
$1.04 to $1.33 per cwt. It will average 
about $1.20 per cwt. Those prices are for 
1014; here before it has paid well most 
of the time. Owing to the low price of 
milk there have been quite a number of 
cows for sale, but most of the farmers 
have disposed of their surplus stock at 
$40 to $50; springers and new milch 
cows are bringing $60 to $75. There is 
plenty of fodder. Hay and corn were a 
good crop. Silos have been well filled, but 
there is no grain crop tins year, owing to 
the difficulty in harvesting and gathering 
the crop. After December 1 there will be 
some cows for lie, possibly a buyer could 
pick up a carload, and from indications 
the cows due to freshen in the Spring 
will bring about $50 according to age and 
condition. w. n. H. 
I’rattsburg, N. Y. 
Nov. 23. Live stock, cattle, live, from 
3 to 6 per pound; hogs 6 per pound; 
hogs, dressed, 7)4; lambs, dressed, 12; 
sheep 8; poultry, hens, live, 10 a pound; 
Springs 12; ducks 11)4: geese 12; tur¬ 
keys, live 16 for fancy. Eggs, all colors, 
fresh, 30; dairy butter .30; creamery 36. 
Apples, No. 1, Baldwin, Spy, Kings, 
Greening and others $2 per barrel. No 
No. 2 wanted. Canning factories paid 
50 cents per 100 pounds for hand picked 
No. 2 apples. Pears 50 and 75 per bush¬ 
el. Crab apples 50 to $1.50 per bushel. 
Plums from 50 to 75 per bushel; grapes 
from 8 to 12 per fifth basket. Peaches 
plentiful and good, from 40 cents to $1 
per bushel. Beets 60; carrots 50; cab¬ 
bage 5 per head, turnips 35 and 40; 
onions 75; beets for stock use 30; car¬ 
rots for stock 15. Farm crops: wheat 
$1.05; oats 45; corn 85; corn, new, 75. 
Beans, white, $1.30; kidney $2.25; hay, 
No. 1 Timothy, loose, $14; baled $16; 
mixed hay, loose $10 to $12 per ton; 
baled $12 t<> $14. Alfalfa not selling, 
farmers feeding same, what little there 
is. Straw baled $6.50 per ton; loose 
$4.50. Potatoes 30. Good cows sell here 
from $45 to $80 according to breeds. 
Horses from $80 to $200 per head; some 
sold for $500, matched teams. ii. n. 
Bangor, Mich. 
horses, milch cows, fat cattle, hogs and poultry. 
Xtra-Vim is a 100^5 value feed, not a condition powder. It is high in energy pro¬ 
duction and takes the place of an equal amount of less palatable feeds or grains selling at 
war prices. It anot a laxative, but it aids digestion, tones up the stomach and eradi¬ 
cates worms. Used as part of daily ration, it will improve the appearance, health 
and general condition of all the stock. 
XTRA-VIM FEED 
in 100-lb. bags is not sticky. It is as easily fed as bran, and has no more waste. It is 
a very economical feed and gives results which cannot be duplicated by any other 
means at anywhere near so low a cost. 
Write for Feeding Booklet and Prices 
You should try out Xtra-Vim Feed by giving it as part of the daily 
ration to some of your stock. If your feed store does not carry 
Xtra-Vim Feed, get our prices direct to you. It probably costs less 
than you think. Send today. 
XTRAVIM MOLASSES FEED CO., 30 Broad Street, Boston, Mass. 
LOWER YOUR FEED COST 
with 
OWL BRAND Cottonseed Meal 
Full 41% protein guaranteed 
Cottonseed meal is cheaper 
now than for years. Take ad¬ 
vantage of the situation, and 
stock up. Animals need pro¬ 
tein, feed a balanced ration. 
Good for Beef cattle, dairy 
cows, sheep, horses, mules, 
and even hogs when fed ac¬ 
cording to directions. Our 
booklet SCIENCE OF FEEDING free on request. 
F. W. BRODE & CO., Memphis, Tenn. 
Established 1875 
Prevent Cattle Disease 
USE 
CHL0R0Z0NE 
THE STANDARD DISINFECTANT 
DO IT NOW 
CHLOROZONE is one of the most valu¬ 
able disinfectants and safeguards against 
diseases in cattle, hogs and sheep. 
CURES foot rot, abortion, hog cholera, 
scab, lice. 
EVERY FARMER SHOULD HAVE IT 
Ask your dealer for it. 
Write us for pamphlets. 
One gallon expressed to you on receipt 
o; one dollar casti. 
Manufactured by 
The Great Western Oil Co. 
Cleveland, Ohio 
IRnPorme FUJI SAIiE— nenr Phil*. aikI Trenton market*; 
I JU I Cl I 111 o good railroad and trolley facllltle*. New cata¬ 
logue. Established 25 years. Horace G. Iteoder, Newtown, I'niiim. 
COOKED FEED 
Saves You Money 
Learn what agricultural college and 
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Write for printed matter on the 
“Farmer** Favorite” 
Feed Cooker an«l ({oiler 
Just the thing for cooking feed for 
poultry and stock, heating water 
for cows—butchering of hog*— 
washing, etc., rendering lard and 
tallow, uterlllzlng dairy iitcuidls, 
bolting *ap, etc, f* size*. Satisfac¬ 
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LEWIS MFG. CO. 
62-76 Owfgo St., Cortland, N. Y.' 
Burns 
Any 
Fuel 
No Brick 
Foundation 
Klin# 
flame Fastener 
Kling Hnme Fasteners save money, time, 
trouble and soreshoulders. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed or money back. Send your dealer's 
name an d50c and we will send a pair postpaid. 
The National Safety Snap Co. 
Dept. 33 Wilmington, O. 
NATURAL Ground PHOSPHATE 
Add 50 Co 100 % 
to the productive 
capacity of your 
manure by apply¬ 
ing only 20c 
worth, to each ton 
of manure. 
Write for free Booklet 
telling all about it. 
Increase your 
crop yields SO (o 
75% by applying 
$1.25 worth per 
acre to the soil 
direct. Leading 
Agricultural Experi¬ 
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this, as our free Book¬ 
let shows Address. 
THE FARMERS GROUND ROCK PHOSPHATE CO.tennessee 1 
OQI A mm**— 20 miles from Buffalo, popu 
^* rlUI c3 lation 450,000; half lovol; bal-* 
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timber; complete set extra good buildings; 100 np- 
ple trees; abundance small fruit. Including SOcows- 
5 yearlings, 4 horses, li hog*, 100 hens, all crops, su, 
goring tools, farming tools. Price, $11,040. Easy 
terms. Freelist. Kills Bros,, Springville, N. Y. 
N KW JERSEY GARDEN, FRUIT, STOCK, 
POULTRY FARMS. Wo handle the best. 
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P’of.rnrt in D pi u warp Ail sizes, productive 
r arms in Delaware soi | genial climate. 
close to markets, fair prices, froo booklet. Addres 
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, - DOVER, DELAWARE 
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Ei Canadian Wheat 
"to Feed ihe Worlds 
The war’s fearful devastation of European crops has 
caused an unusual demand for grain from the American 
Continent. The people of the world must be fed and there 
is an unusual demand for Canadian wheat. Canada’s invi¬ 
tation to every industrious American is therefore especially 
attractive. She wants farmers to make money and happy, 
prosperous homes for themselves while helping her to raise 
immense wheat crops. 
You can get a Homestead of 160 acres FREE and 
Other lands can be bought at remarkably low prices. Think 
of the money you can make with wheat at its present high 
prices, where for some time it is liable to continue. During many years Canadian wheat 
fields have averaged 20 bushels to the acre—many yields as high as 45 bushels to the 
acre. Wonderful crops also of Oats, Barley and Flax. 
Mixed funning is fully ns profitable an industry as grain raising. Tho excellent grasses full 
of nutrition are tho only food required either for beef or dairy purposes. Good schools, mar- 
kets convenient, climate excellent. £ v C-S 
Military service is not compulsory in Canada, but there Is nn extra demand for farm 
,—. labor to replace the many young men who have volunteered for tho war. 
•Aifc/'T $5 The Government this year is urging farmers to put extra acreage into /T~ riS} 
1 t-v, r . ‘"''G. N grain. Write for literature and particulars ns to reduced railway ' 5.' 
■r rates to Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or "" — 
J. S. CRAWFORD 
301 E. Gonosee St., Syracuse, N.Y. 
Canadian Government Agent. 
