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The Great Milk Making Feed 
K rause Dairy Feed has made a top notch record as a milk 
producer. It is recognized by expert dairymen everywhere as 
a feed of the highest grade, on which they can always depend for in¬ 
creased milk production and healthy cows. It is a money-maker 
because it takes the place of high priced, home grown grains*” 
saves time and labor of mixing*” provides a better ration than any 
other combination and one which produces big and certain results. 
Krause Dairy Feed 
Krause Dairy Feed is made under a 
formula which has been approved by 
experts of two leading agricultural 
colleges. It contains distillers’ grains, 
gluten feed, cotton seed meal, wheat 
bran, malt sprouts, wheat middlings, 
brewers’ grains, hominy feed, linseed 
meal and a fraction of of salt. 
A Scientifically Balanced Ration 
Each of the ingredients in Krause 
Dairy Feed has distinct and specific 
value. They are combined iii such 
proportions as to produce a scientifi¬ 
cally balanced ration which possesses 
maximum food and milk-making value 
—will keep your cows in perfect con¬ 
dition and produce a big milk yield 
without forcing. Your herd will 
relish Krause Dairy Feed and respond 
to it immediately. 
Feed ‘‘Krauae** this Winter 
Sell your high priced grains and make 
Krause Dairy Feed your standby for 
fall and winter feeding. Fed alone 
or with any home grown stuff that 
does not bring a high market price, 
it is always a money maker. Com¬ 
pare the cost and results with any 
lower grade mixture and you will find 
you are saving money and making 
money. 
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Krause Dairy Feed, also useful pock¬ 
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name of your dealer. 
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e Cow's Health.- First qf All' ^ 
To think of the milk yield first and the cow’s health afterward is putting 
the cart before the horse. Many “poor miihcrs” only need to have their 
systems working properly to become good producers. 
KOW-KURE, the great cow medicine, makes cows healthy and keeps them 
healthy. Working on the digestive and genital organs, it ts a prompt, sure 
remedy for Abortion, Barrenness, Retained Afterbirth, Scouring, Lott Appe¬ 
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a big knee like this, but your hone 
may have a bunch or bruise on hie 
ankle, hock, stifle, knee or throat. 
ABSORBine 
TRADE MARK REG.U.S.PAT. OFF. 
will clean it off without laying up 
the horse. No blister, no hair 
gone. Concentrated—only a few 
drops required at an application. $2 per 
bottle delivered. Describe your case for special instruction* 
and Book 8 M free. ABSORBINE, JR., the tntl. 
septic liniment for mankind, reduces Painful SweUingi. 
Enlareeil Glands, Wens, Bruises, Varicose Veinsi allay* 
Pain and inflammation. Price SI and S3 a bottle at druggist* 
or delivered. Made in the tf. 8. A. by _ 
W. F. V0UN8, P.D.F., 88 Temple St.,.Springfield, Mass, 
Sore Necks and Shoulders 
Causes and Treatment of Collar Galls and Tumors 
Tart I. 
The heavy rlraft horse is still in de¬ 
mand and unexcellerl for short-haul work 
in the large cities, and has not yet ef¬ 
fectively been replaced by the tractor in 
the woods and on the average farm. Such 
horses cost a lot of money, and as feed 
and help are high, must perform a maxi¬ 
mum amount of work if they are to prove 
profitable. In view of this economic 
uecessit}', anything that tends to impair 
the utilit.v and efficiency of the work 
horse now, more than ever before, must 
be prevented. Sores of the neck and 
shoulders, therefore, deserve serious con¬ 
sideration, as they greatly lessen the work 
value of the affected horse. 
Various Kinds of Collar Sorks. —As 
sores or galls from the rubbing and bruis¬ 
ing of ill-fitting collars are not all of one 
kind, treatment to succeed will depend to 
a considerable extent upon a correct un¬ 
derstanding of the sort of sore present. 
A description of such sores, therefore, 
will be given here. 
Sores on the Neck. —These may first 
be considered. The first stage of .sore¬ 
ness is inflammation of the iskin or ery¬ 
thema, a foi-m of chafing and scalding 
due to friction and sweating. If the 
cau.se is not removed, the condition aggra¬ 
vates, the outer layer of skin being worn 
off and the true .skin (dermis) becoming 
red, bloody, craeked and pus-infected. 
When iiartial healing re.siilts from rest 
and remedial treatment, the affected skin 
becomes white, scurfy, cracked and thick¬ 
ened, with stiff bristles of the hair of 
the mane protruding. When the horse is 
])nt to work again in this condition acute 
inflammation quickly recurs and a rest 
period is again necessitated. At first this 
is the simplest form of sore neck, but it 
tends to assiiine tlie Troublesome chronic 
character desci-ibed and then jiersists un¬ 
less jiroper jircventivc and remedial treat¬ 
ment is given. 
Formation of Si r-i-Asr.--»'hronic ery¬ 
thema and callusiiig of tlie skin tif the 
neck under the top of the collar soon 
take cm a more serious form, if the Imrse 
is kept at work and made to wear an ill- 
litting collar. A portion of the affected 
skin dies, but cannot he cast off or 
sloughed, tind .so remains in jilace as a 
“sit-fa.st.” Ill tluit condiiam .i tliick. 
horny i>ateh or core of skin fills the cen¬ 
ter of the sore area, tiiul from a di'cj) 
fissure around it pus oozes or inclines to 
burrow. The condition is induced or ag¬ 
gravated by clipiiing tff the mane, as the 
short, stiff bristles so formed are pressed 
inward by tlie collar, Tf i>us burrow.s, ii 
third and worse condition results, viz.: 
an abscess containing pus and eventually 
forming a fistula or a large, hard fibroid 
tumor. 
Sores of- the Stiout.DERS.—These are 
ct first of the nature of skin infiamina- 
tion or er.vthema, hut .soon take (>n a 
more serious form. Sueli sores ccune prin¬ 
cipally from rulihing. while the deeimr 
and more serious troubles result from 
bruising. The most common sore is a 
red, hairle.ss spot in tlie center of a 
swelling, and this sore gradually becimies 
large and thick, or remains compara¬ 
tively small, but associated Avith an un- 
sightlj’ baggy lump or tumor. Tn other 
cases a small, hard, jiainful no<le or 
“bunch” forms at first, quickly softens, 
bursts and discharges pus. This is called 
a “collar boil” ami usually is followed by 
a chronic sore, but may heal and be fol¬ 
lowed by recurring boils of like sort. 
ItESLn.TS OF Bki istm:. —Severe pinch¬ 
ing and bruising may cause formation of 
a serum or blood-filled abscess or <-yst in 
the connective tissues just under the .skin, 
or a collection oi piis, small or large, 
deep under the great muscle (nmstohio- 
humeralis) tb.it runs down the neck and 
over the shoulder, and if the pus fails to 
find vent or is not liberated by cutting, 
nature may .surround it with a thick wall 
of fibrous tissue, and reabsorb the pus 
and form a fibroid tumor. In some in¬ 
stances the baggy tumor referreil to in the 
foregoing and the fibroid tumor just men¬ 
tioned are due to an invasion of the parts 
by the fungus known as botryo-m.vces, 
and such are termed bortryo-mycotic. tu¬ 
mors. “ ' ’ A. S. ALEXANDER. At. D. C. 
Beef Making in New England 
In looking up this matter of beef rais¬ 
ing in New England, we have run upon 
some rather novel or strange propositions. 
There are a number of people who think 
that the production of high-class beef 
points the way out for a certain class of 
dairymen who have had great difficulty 
in securing help. Evidently this beef¬ 
making is a business of itself, which re¬ 
quires the finest kind of judgment and 
considerable capital. Of coui-sc when a 
cow is giving milk from day to day there 
is a daily income which goes to take care 
of current expenses; When a heifer or 
a steer is raised for beef, 11161 X 1 will be 
no income for two or perhaps three years, 
and this will require u larger capital to 
carry the blisine.ss on than tlie ordinary 
dairy would demand. It may seem like 
an easj’ thing for some farmers to switch 
right over from dairying to beef-mak'ng. 
but tliere are a good many things to be 
considered which do not appear at first. 
A. W. lieynolds has a place in Eastern 
Connecticut where he is working up this 
beef bn.siness. lie says he has 50 head 
of purebred Angus cattle, which of coursi* 
requires a large capital, for the.se cattle 
are high in price. Mr. Tleynqlds says he 
buys no grain except cottonseed meal 
aside from the necessary grain needed 
for feeding show cattle. lie say.s, how¬ 
ever, that he can rai.«e all the rough 
forage for these cattle, and with one man 
can do all the work of taking care of 
them, except fill’ng the silo. They turn 
off 10 or a dozen steers each year, and 
these are butchered on the farm. The beef 
is sold in the local market at top prioe.s-- 
the sides go to the butchers and the quar¬ 
ters generally being taken by neighbors, 
who seem to he willing to buy the beef 
in this way and keep it on hand, eitlier 
fi'esh in cold weather or canned for 
warmer weather. 'I'his jilau ahso involves 
selling a consideraide number of breed¬ 
ing stock, and this .seems to lie an im- 
]iortant side of the heef-iiiaking business. 
31 r. lieyuolds .says that ho saws wood, 
grinds corn and cob. puts in the hay and 
fills till' two sdos. with an automobile 
ffir jiower. Tie .sa.vs he never iaaird of 
anyone else doing that much work with 
a car. The corn is cut with a grain 
reaper, cutting two rows at a time, witli 
a light, fast team, going fa.ster than any 
corn harvester he has seen. The reaper 
puls the corn down in bundles that are 
easy to handle and some of the corn is 
of g(K>d .s'ze. with big stalks and. ears. 
Mr. Keynol(ls"also says he uses a one- 
horse riding cultivator that he made him- 
.self. and we slioiild judge that he is some¬ 
thing of a Vankee when it comes to work¬ 
ing out these devices. 
As to the price obtained for beef stock, 
Mr. Keyiudds says he showi-d a yearling 
steer at tlie Spr'ngfield .show that never 
tasted any grain aside from one pound 
of cottonseed meal per da 3 ’ during last 
Winter, fl'his was fed with silage, and 
the grain started on August 0. This steer 
is not really fat, hut could be sold any 
day at TO cents per pound, and he weighs 
slightly over 1,000 pounds. As nearly 
as it can be figured, this steer has cost 
^Oil.riO to produce. 
Mr. Tteynolds says he has crossed the 
Angus bull on nearly all kinds of grade 
cows, and lie has yet to see a calf that 
was not black, hornless and of the beef 
type. ()f course in order to do that a 
farmer must have a bull of the natural 
beef typo, and a purebred specimen of 
good breeding. Just how far New En¬ 
gland dairymen would follow out such a 
jilan is a question. It evidentlj’ requires 
a man of ability and fine judgment to 
handle a busine.ss of this kind and make 
it pay. It is evident, however, that in 
the pre.sent condition of dairying all such 
things are worth trying out, and we ought 
to get full particulars about them. 
“Wonderful old oak; I wonder what 
v'ou would say to me if you could speak?” 
“Well,” said the gardener, visibly affect¬ 
ed, “my guess is; ‘I beg your partlon. 
•Miss, but I am a beech.’ ”—Christian 
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