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Tl'HEC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 26, 
Butter Fails to Come. 
I have a cow which freshened July 15, 
15)14, and up to about three weeks ago, 
she was making about six pounds of but¬ 
ter a week ; now for some reason or other 
I can get no butter from the cream. It 
simply foams and froths and gets about 
like whipped cream, but I can in no way 
gather any butter. She is due to come 
in next July. c. F. a. 
Flanders, N. J. 
This question of “Why don’t the but¬ 
ter come?” is a frequent one at this time 
of the year, and is a hard one to answer 
satisfactorily, because frequently when 
one has complied, seemingly, with all the 
requirements, still the butter won’t come. 
Some of the conditions which work 
against easy churning are too low churn¬ 
ing temperature, cows in advanced stage 
of lactation, and cows eating dry feed. 
Then, too, the milk from some cows 
seems to be rather difficult to churn. A 
thick cream generally churns easier than 
a thin cream, and well-ripened cream 
better than sweet or only slightly soured. 
Warming the cream to as high as 70 
degrees may in some cases be necessary. 
Care should be taken to stop churning as 
soon as the butter gathers sufficiently, in 
order not to make waxy butter. Some¬ 
times, in cold weather, the cream cools 
off considerably after being put in the 
churn, and really is not as warm as one 
thinks. A handful of salt put in the 
churn when the cream gets thick, will 
sometimes help. In most cases warm¬ 
ing the cream will solve the difficulty. 
C. L. H. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Worms. 
W ILL you advise me what to give a 
colt six months old that passes 
worms? 2. How best can I wean 
colt, either gradually or in three or four 
days? 3. I have a mare five years old 
that seems to have an itch. She wants 
to rub herself against something all the 
while especially after she has been work¬ 
ing and gets warmed up a little. Her 
hair looks rough all the while, and seems 
to stand on end. She has a large appe¬ 
tite, but is poor in flesh. G. L. 
New York. 
1. Mix together equal parts of salt, 
sulphur and dried sulphate of iron and 
give one teaspoonful of this in the feed 
twice daily for a week, then skip 10 days 
and repeat. Feed whole oats and bran 
along with the best hay. 2. Wean at 
once and be done with it. The foal must 
first have learned to eat grain, bran and 
hay. 3. Wash affected parts with a 1-100 
solution of coal tar disinfectant. Have 
her clipped. Give her worm medicine. 
That prescribed for the foal will suffice, 
but the dose is one tablespoonful night 
and morning for an adult horse. Omit 
iron if she is in foal. a. s. a. 
Indigestion. 
I own a fine road horse about 12 years 
old. He is a fine traveller and well bred 
and is used only for road purposes. For 
the last three months, he has not been 
doing well. He has lost in flesh and the 
color of his coat, although nearly shed, 
is not what it was. He rubs the dock of 
liis tail. I have doctored him for worms, 
but unsuccessfully. I feed oats, bran, 
corn on ear, equal parts, with a little 
oil meal; also a good quantity of hay and 
some grass each day. Would you change 
the ration, and if so, how? The horse is 
in good spirits but his coat and flesh do 
not suit me. c. j. F. 
New Jersey. 
Have his teeth put in order by a veter¬ 
inarian. Change the feed, omitting ear 
corn and grass. Feed whole oats with an 
addition of one-ninth part of wheat bran. 
Dampen it at feeding time. Do not feed 
any commercial salt, but allow free access 
to rock salt. Allow one pound of oats 
and bran and one pound of clear Tim¬ 
othy or upland prairie hay per hundred 
pounds of body weight as a day’s ration 
at first. When he works hard increase 
the amount of oats and when idle lessen 
the oats and increase hay. Groom him 
once a day. Wash the tail clean and 
when dry pour on and rub in a little of a 
mixture of equal parts of kerosene? and 
sweet oil. Repeat once a day for three 
days; then saturate the tail every three 
days with a creamy mixture of flowers 
of sulphur and sweet oil. If there is a 
fur of scaly substance around the anus 
treat for worms as so often advised here. 
Azoturia. 
Can you advise us in regard to our 
horse? We bought a mare last August, 
nine years old this Spring. She has just 
had her second attack of azoturia (so 
called by the veterinarian) since we have 
had her. Since this last attack she has 
been stiff in her right hind leg. When 
I start to back her out of the stall she 
will step back with her left hind foot 
and then she cannot seem to get the right 
one off the floor for a few seconds. After 
she has started she gets along all right, 
only once in a while something about it 
seems to “slump” or give way. The 
trouble seems to me to be up somewhere 
near the hip. She was absolutely sound 
before this trouble. She did not get 
down at either time she has had this 
trouble, neither has the muscle percepti- 
bly wasted away because of it. The 
mare was not accustomed to grain and 
I fed some whole rye (about one quart) 
with two quarts whole oats, and Timothy 
hay. What is the trouble? o. w. 
New York. 
If azoturia was present it attacked the 
mare after she had stood for a day or 
more idle in the stable eating her usual 
rations, and the urine at time of attack 
would be the color of strong coffee. In 
lameness following azoturia the muscles 
of the region of the thigh, between stifle 
and hip, waste away and the stifle drops 
downward when the animal walks. If 
these symptoms are present clip the hair 
from the thigh and blister with canthar- 
idine blister at intervals of two or three 
weeks until she goes sound. If such 
symptoms are not present it will be ne¬ 
cessary to have a graduate veterinarian 
make an examination and locate the seat 
of the lameness and prescribe appropriate 
treatment. a. S. a. 
Tail Rubbing. 
I HAVE a colt three months old which 
is always rubbing its tail on posts, and 
boards. Can you tell me if it is pos¬ 
sible this colt has worms of any kind, and 
what remedy to use? H. V. 
New York. 
Fin worms in the rectum may cause 
the irritation, or that may be due to a 
collection of dandruff substance. Wash 
the tail clean and then bathe with strong 
salt water twice a week. Inject into the 
rectum a quart of soapy water containing 
half a cupful of decoction of tobacco 
leaves or stems. Repeat the injection 
each night if the irritation persists. It 
would be best to make sure that pin 
worms are present before giving or con¬ 
tinuing the injections. A. s. A. 
Urticaria. 
J IIAVE a colt two years old, weighs 
about 1.250 to 1.300. Last year he 
_ suddenly developed Knots all over his 
body. He went blind, that is, his eyes 
were shut, but he got all over it before 
night, and has been all right ever since. 
What ailed the colt? F. H. S. 
Indiana. 
The colt had a sudden attack of urti¬ 
caria (nettle rash or surfeit) which is 
akin to “hives” of a child. It is caused 
by a change of feed such as green grass. 
A light physic should be given and the 
skin bathed with a solution of one ounce 
of granular hyposulptiite of soda in a 
quart of soft water. a. s. a. 
LIVE STOCK NOTES. 
Why not a National Swine Show? 
This has been the hope of members of the 
Illinois Swine Breeders' Association. 
This matter was brought up at a recent 
meeting of the Illinois Breeders held in 
Springfield, and a later meeting earlier 
in December was held further to con¬ 
sider the National Show, which is to be 
patterned in a measure after the dairy 
show. 
Tilly Aleartra, owned by the A. W. 
Morris & Sons Corporation, of Califor¬ 
nia, is the new world’s champion milk 
producer. This Holstein cow has 30.- 
452.6 pounds milk to her credit in 365 
days. Pieterje 2nd held the world’s rec¬ 
ord milk production for nearly 27 years. 
February 23, 18S8, she completed her 
year’s semi-official test and her record 
was 30.318 14 pounds of milk. Tilly Al¬ 
eartra was six years old October 2, and 
she freshened at two and one-half years. 
The American Jersey Cattle Club have 
voted a recent appropriation of $10,000 
for the Jersey display at the Panama Pa¬ 
cific Exposition $5,000 had previously 
been voted in behalf of Jersey interests. 
The Kansas Agricultural College has 
inaugurated a campaign to enlist 20.000 
boys and girls in agricultural and home¬ 
making contests. A state organizer has 
been appointed. 
The Sicilian farm laborers are among 
the poorest paid workers in Europe. 
Their average weekly wage is less than 
50 cents. Girls receive from $25 to $40 
a year in Finland, and much of their 
work is about the dairy and in the field. 
They do all milking, feeding, and in the 
short Summers work in the fields. 
Hancock County. Ohio, will have a 
contest supplementing the corn contest 
in that county. Prizes will be given for 
the best porker between the age of five 
and eight months in the Poland China, 
Berkshire, Chester White and Duroc Jer¬ 
sey classes. 
The Michigan Experiment Station is 
endeavoring to secure names of farmers 
who will seed Alfalfa in the Spring. It 
is intended to secure a carload of seed 
from the Northwest. 
Twenty California boys have been 
made happy as the result of their agricul¬ 
tural work. One boy made a profit of 
$-15.44 on nearly three and one-fifth tons 
of tomatoes grown on one-fifth acre. An¬ 
other boy cleared $12.76 on a quarter- 
acre beans which yielded 319 pounds. 
Another boy made $41.17 on one-fourth 
acre of potatoes, which yielded 71.7 bush¬ 
els. Another boy had a net profit of 
$36.18 on one-eighth acre planted to 
mixed vegetables. 
Edmonton, Alberta, promises to be 
the live stock center of Western Canada. 
An English syndicate has secured a loca¬ 
tion indicated by the city council as de¬ 
sirable for stock yards. The company 
has offered the city a free site in the vi¬ 
cinity of the yards for a municipal stor¬ 
age plant, and abattoir. 
Five hundred cars of table grapes were 
shipped from Sanger, California, this 
year, and many more cars are yet to be 
shipped. The Tulare Co-operative Poul¬ 
try Association of that State shipped 
4.500 dozen eggs during the month of Oc¬ 
tober. In Tulare County $81,000 was 
paid out by creameries during the month 
of October, and the returns for butter fat 
was from 33 to 37 cents a pound. 
The report comes from Alabama that 
one hog brought to town and sold a few 
days ago yielded more than a bale of cot¬ 
ton. It weighed 300 pounds and sold for 
$41. while the expense of raising it was 
much less than that of raising a bale of 
cotton. 
Nov. 23. Wheat $1.05; oats 45; rye 
SO; corn 60; clover seed $7.50; clover 
and mixed hay $12; Timothy $12.50; Al¬ 
falfa $14. Fat hogs $7.25; fat cattle 
6 to 7; milch cows $50 to $80. Potatoes 
60; apples 70 to 90; butter 28; eggs 30. 
Live chickens 12 to 14. m. e. h. 
Woodstock. O. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
Q UOTED wholesale prices are not below 
20 and 21 cents for dressed turkeys, 
15 and 16 cents for fowls and 15 
and 14 cents for ducks and geese but 
a large lot of dressed ducks and chick¬ 
ens sold at retail on the market for 
16 cents, all looking as good as ordinary 
poultry. Live poultry is four cents lower 
than dressed. Apples and potatoes have 
not advanced. Local competition lias 
brought down the Pacific coast apples till 
a city store now posts a notice offering 
“fancy table apples at 15 cents a dozen.” 
Apples are $1.50 to $3 per barrel retail, 
good Seek-Xo-Furtliers retailing at 50 
cents a bushel. There is much effort to 
market them in bulk, to escape the effect 
of the new packing law, which makes the 
unbarreled fruit cheap. Potatoes are so 
dull that some farmers who were busy at 
other crops and have some still in the 
ground in December say they shall not dig 
them unless there is still some fine weath¬ 
er for the work, which is not likely. The 
wholesale price is not above 45 cents, 60 
cents retail. One Erie County farmer re¬ 
ports that he had 12 acres of potatoes, 11 
acres of corn, and 30 acres of grapes, all 
coming ready for harvesting at once, so 
the potatoes, being least perishable, suf¬ 
fered. The markets are full of celery; 
the quality is good, large bundles of it 
retailing for 25 cents, or S to 30 cents 
per dozen wholesale. The price of lettuce 
is also cut some on account of warm wea¬ 
ther^ and while the quoted wholesale price 
is 35 to 40 cents for two-dozen crates and 
some grocers are holding big heads for 30 
cents, others are unloading it in miscel¬ 
laneous lots for 10 cents. Vegetable 
oysters also retail for four cents a bunch. 
There are still some Catawba grapes of¬ 
fered at 12 cents per pony basket, whole¬ 
sale^ but California Tokays of fine quality 
retail for eight cents a pound. Cran¬ 
berries are from eight cents down re¬ 
tail. Hubbard squash is as low as it ever 
was at this time of the year the whole¬ 
sale price not being above $1 per hun¬ 
dred and the retail two cents a pound. 
The quality is good. Ordinary vegetables, 
parsnips, beets and carrots, retail at five 
cents a measure, string beans at 30 cents 
a quart, radishes, two bunches for five 
cents. Butter_ still sags off not being 
quoted above 35)4 cents wholesale, though 
some retailers still ask 41 cents. Cheese 
is steady and unchanged at 17)4 cents for 
best domestic. Eggs are all prices, quoted 
at 50 cents for fancy wholesale and sell¬ 
ing for 30 cents retail. j. w. c. 
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