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December 15, IblT 
RURAi- NEW-YORKER 
Care of Erc od 
Hoover has callefi for more pork arc! 
farmers are r^aponding. There are good 
reasons for not sending too much. com. 
meal abroad. The Europeans are not 
accustomed to it as a diet and the meal 
is likely to heat and spoil on the voyage. 
'V^'hat is needed is a full supply ot “con¬ 
centrated corn”—that is pork from 
corn-fed hogs. Thus the pig crop will 
be increased this year and the brood 
sows will come in for extra care. The 
brood sow should be cared for fairly. 
She needs good food, a warm clean nest, 
sunshine and a chance to keep herself 
clean. She should have constant access 
to bone, ashes and charcoal. Better 
not pen her up alone but let the brood 
sows run together provided they are 
not crowded and that they are well fed. 
The picture on page 1428 shows a group 
of Berkshire sows that are kept in a 
bunch after the litters are weaned. This 
makes them quiet and good-natured and 
it is easier to care for them. By all means 
give the brood sow' a chance. 
Mississippi is Tick Free 
December 1 is “Tick-free Day” in Mis¬ 
sissippi. That means little to most of 
you, perhaps, but it is like an escape from 
slavery to many a farmer in Mississippi. 
The small but pestiferous cattle tick has 
long been a curse and a menace to the 
State. Years ago w'e saw progressive 
farmers import pui-ebred cattle into the 
State, only to have them fade away as the 
cruel tick fastened upon them. This hate¬ 
ful insect has for years cut much of the 
South out of polite cattle society. 
Before the ticks were dipped out these 
parasites annually killed many cattle with 
tick fevex*, steadily sucked out of cattle 
vast quantities of blood which should have 
gone to make meat or milk; wasted, there¬ 
fore, much of the grain and forage fed to 
cattle; and, finally, prevented the intro- 
duc-tion of non-iramune breeding stock for 
the impi'ovement of local beef and daix’y 
herds. The presence of the tick barred 
shipments of local cattle from the open 
competition of the free pens at the pack¬ 
ing centers and forced their owners to sell 
them at a disadvantage from quarantine 
pens for immediate slaughter only. 
The ticks are killed by dipping the cat¬ 
tle in oil—making them swim through 
tanks •which contain water with a thick 
film of oil on top. Fields and buildings 
are sprayed and this painstaking work 
has been carried out over .879,312 square 
miles of territory. The work has paid 
great returns and no wonder Mississippi 
makes a holiday out of the killing of the 
last tick. It is like a ticket to prosperity. 
Salting Butter 
How' much salt, by weight, is required 
to salt a pound of butter properly? 
A. E. M, 
The amount of salt to add to a pound 
of butter varies according to one’s de¬ 
sires, and according to the method of salt¬ 
ing used. If the butter is spread out on 
the worker and salted dry, use about 
three-fourths of an ounce to one ixound of 
butter. If butter is salted in granular 
state in chui-n and same amount of w.ater 
added as salt, use twice as much as ■when 
dry-salting is practised. IT. r. .T. 
Keep; ng Quality of Sweet Butter 
‘Will butter be as good, and keep as 
well, if churned when the cream is sweet ? 
Kew York. MRS. M. M. 
Butter made from sweet cream has bet¬ 
ter keeping qualities than butter rr’''de 
fi'om ripened cream. This is particularly 
tiue ii. the cream is first pasteurized by 
beating it to 145 degrees Fahreij.heit and 
holding for SO minutes. H. F. J. 
Pasteurized Milk in Indiana 
I enclose a clipping from our local 
daily relative to a milk order which has 
ju't been made. I think I remember 
reading in The R. N.-Y. about a similar 
case in the State of New York, and that 
it did not 'W'ork. I ha^"’ ' '•'"•’'c und 
sell some milk to tb^ ".^...^ors, not as a 
money-making proposition, but beeau.se I 
Lave more than I can use, and as an ac¬ 
commodation. ■V\’’e have two milk routes 
in this place, and the proprietor told me 
there were more than 60 family cows here 
in the city limits. It looks as though the 
big bug wants to eat up the little bug. 
Does it make any difference whether the 
milk is delivered or the customer calls at 
the house for it? F. P. B. 
This is the clipping referred to: 
A sweeping order recently made by 
the State Board of Health, notification of 
■which has been received by dealers in 
this city, goes into effect on the first day 
of next January. lu compliance with 
the order, every drop of milk sold in the 
State must first be pasteurized. This 
means that dairymen, milk dealers, and 
even the pei'son who has been supplying 
a few of the neighbors fi'om the family 
cow, must pasteurize milk before dispos¬ 
ing of it, or see that it is pasteurized, if 
a dealer only. There is a very severe 
penalty prescribed for violation of the 
order. 
The following note from the State 
Food and Drug Commissioner of Indiana 
confirms this report; 
Last .Tanuary the State Board! of 
Health passed a rule, which in Indiana 
has all the force and effect of law, requir¬ 
ing that after January 1, 1918, all milk 
would be graded, as is the case with milk 
sold iu New York City. This in effect 
requires the pasteurization of all milk 
except that which will grade as Gi'ade 
A-Raw. ir. e. harnajrd. 
State Food and Drug Commissioner. 
AILING ANIMALS 
. Indigestion 
I have a horse, recently bought, 10 
years old, affected with worms. I gave 
remedy recommended in The R. N.-Y. 
for one week and intermission of 10 
days, and then gave it to him another 
week. It helped, but he does not take 
on flesh. Is there any danger of using 
too much of the sulphur, salt and sul¬ 
phate of iron? Can you tel’ me of any¬ 
thing else to use? n. ii. 
New Jersey, 
Copperas kills worms so that they are 
digested and dc not pass in the manure. 
It aggravates indigestion and that, rath¬ 
er than worms, appears to be your 
horse’s ailment. Have the horse’s teeth 
attended to by a veterinarian. Stop 
feeding rock salt, corn and bran and al¬ 
low small feeds of whole oats and sound 
hay. Feed from a large box to prevent 
bolting of feed. Work or exercise the 
horse every day. Night and morning 
give one tablespoonful of Fowler’s solu¬ 
tion of arsenic until he is in good con¬ 
dition, then gradually discontinue the 
medicine taking 10 days iu so doing. 
A. S. A. 
Cough 
I have a number of sheep that cough 
a great deal. They keep in rather poor 
condition, although their appetite is 
pretty good. I would like to hear from 
you in regard to the treatment of such 
disease. What would be the treatment 
for iung worm? Q. P. T. 
Pennsylvania, 
Lung worms would be a likely cause. 
If they are present eggs or worms may 
be seen by a microscopic examination of 
the discharge from the nose or mouth. 
The veterinarian should inject medicine 
into the windpipe by means of a hypo¬ 
dermic syringe and may also fxxmigate 
with burning sulphur or iodine vaporized 
from a hot »brick or pan. Feed gener¬ 
ously as that is most important. Home 
treatment will not be likely to succeed. 
A. s. A. 
Lice and Fleas 
What is good to cure lice on dogs, 
also the mange? I have a little Scotch 
collie about two months old. It has lice, 
little tiny round things that buirow into 
the hide. The dog has little sores scat¬ 
tered all over her body, but the worst 
are under the fore legs and on the 
breast. Today I found another speci¬ 
men of insect, long and brown in color. 
I bathe her often and let the suds dry. 
Will you give treatment? A. d. m. 
New York. 
^ The dog no doubt is infested with both 
lice and fleas and these may readily be 
destroyed by tubbing in a solution of 
coal tar dip made and used according to 
directions given by the manufacturer. 
Also make an ointment of two parts of 
sulphur, one of coal tar dip and five of 
lard, and rub into the sore places every 
three days after using the dip solution. 
A. S. A. 
Ailing Cow 
1.—I*liave a cow five years old that has 
been sick for three weeks. She doesn’t 
eat much, was in good order, but has 
fallen off badly. She can walk, but often 
when standing she holds her head down 
almost to the ground. I have drenched 
her three or four times with salts; after 
I drenched her twice, she seemed to get 
better and her flow of milk increased to 
three-quarters of what it was before she 
was sick but for the last few days she 
seems to be worse. 2—1 had a calf with 
swelling on both jaws, finally burst and 
ran. Calf kept poor regardless of what 
I fed him, and died. 
Virginia. a. n. C. 
1—Dcfrangement of the digestive organs 
fi'om a sudden change of feed, such as too 
many apples suddenly allowed, may be 
the cause of the cow’s loss of flesh, ap¬ 
petite and milk, hut tuberculosis so great¬ 
ly is to be feared iu such cases that you 
should have the cow tested with tubercu¬ 
lin, dn cold w'eatbei', should she recover 
from her pi-esent sickness. Meanwhile, 
give twice daily in a pint of flax-seed tea 
or gruel, 20 grains of quinine dissolved 
in a teaspoonful of tincture of iron, and 
given along with 1 ounce of alcohol or 
two of whisky or bi*andy. Increase these 
doses if she does not quickly recover. Feed 
her whole oats, wheat bran, oatmeal and 
good hay and grass. Withhold apples 
for the present. 2. The calf had an ab- 
cess which should have been promptly 
opened for liberation of pus. Absorp¬ 
tion of pus probably caused death. 
A.* A* 
Worms 
I would like to know the symptoms of 
a dog with worms, and W'hat is the cure? 
Ohio. :m. W. 
A worm-iufested dog does not thrive 
well; often vomits, or has a voracious 
appetite; has foul breath; may have diax’- 
rhea or constipation, and sometimes rubs 
the hind parts upon the ground. Suit¬ 
able medicine may be bought ready for 
use at any up-to-date drug store, or starve 
the dog for 24 hours and then give one 
to two drams of freshly powdered kamala 
in cream or soup, and repeat the dose in 
two weeks. A, S. A. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 333 W. 30th St., N. Y. 
Isn*t it Strange? — — But Dairy Dan*s Wife had the Right Idea! 
The Sharpies Separator Co., West Chester, Pau 
Dairy Dau was a regular 
feller—had a ten-cow dairy 
aud a hxed-feed separator. 
But he couldn’t turn that 
fixed-feed separator up to 
regulation speed. He lost a 
dime’s worth of cream any¬ 
how—twice a day. 
He hated to admit that this 
constant loss would have 
morethan paid for a modem 
separator which skims clean 
at any speed. 
But one day he discovered 
a hole in the pocket of hla 
6-days-a-week suit —com¬ 
monly called overalls. 
And he sure did give Marla 
an awful call-down for her 
carelessness. 
She got peeved and showed 
him how he could mend his 
carelessness— bj' buying a 
SHARPLES SUCTION- 
FEED separator. S42 
