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JT/ic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 12, 191S 
WHY KEEP COWS? 
^ Why not let cows keep you? The 
average cow is insufficiently fed and work¬ 
ing two-thirds time. The lost one-third would be 
nearly all profit. 
^ What you want is results not theory. 
What makes a 10000 lb. or 30000 lb. cow? 
jimply good feeding methods and the right feed. 
Our business is feeding cows right. 
Why did Jolie Topsy make 1032 lbs. 
fat? She was fed Unicom Dairy Ration. 
Unicorn helps any cow do her best. 
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^ Practice beats theory. You can’t fail 
with Unicom. Dairying is profitable with 
good cows. Feed your cows Unicorn and make 
more money. 
^ Don’t save fifty cents and miss fifty 
dollars. Representative leaders of every 
dairy breed are now using Unicorn with satisfac¬ 
tion. Every bag equally uniform. Send for free 
copy of Cow Testers’ Manual and proofs. 
CHAPIN ca. CO., 
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successful dairying 
HOGS ADVANCE 
200 PER CENT 
Buyers at Chicago are paying as high 
as 18f* per pound for live hogs, the highest 
price in history. Compared with two years 
ago, this is an advance of 200%. The de¬ 
mand is strong and sure to continue. Here is the 
opportunity of a lifetime to secure big returns. 
Feed your pigs 
Reichard’s Digester Tankage 
and watch ’em grow into dollars. This superior brand of tankage supplies the necessary mus¬ 
cle and bone-building materials lacking in all grain feeds. It insures health, perfect digestion, 
quick and even development and makes big profits sure. You can’t afford to do without it. 
The sensational Berkshire boar shown above—Majestic Mammoth 229500 —weighed 407 lbs. 
at seven months of age. He was bred by Mr. C. H. Carter, West Chester, Pa., who regularly 
led him Reichard’s Digester Tankage. 
Write ior samples of tankage, prices and interesting booklet, FREE. 
ROBERT A. REICHARD 15 W« Lawrence St., Allentown, Pa, 
LET US TAN 
YOUR HIDE. 
Horse or Cow hide. Calf or other skins 
with hair or fur on, and make them 
Into coats (for men and women), robes, 
rugs or gloves when so ordered. Your 
lurgoodc will cost you less than to buy 
them and be worth tnore. 
Our Illustrated catalog gives a lot of 
Information. It tells how to take off 
and c.are for hides; how and when we 
pay the freight both ways; about our 
sale dyeing process on cow and horse 
hide, calf and other skins; about the 
fur goods and game trophies wo sell, 
taxidermy, etc. 
Then we have recently got out an¬ 
other we call our Fashion book, wholly 
devoted to fashion plates of muffs, 
neckwear and other fine fur garments, 
Vi ith prices ; also lur garments remod¬ 
eled and repaired. 
You can have either book by sendingCt 
Four correct address naming which, or 
both books if you need both. Address 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
571 Lyell Ave., Rochester. N. Y. 
APPLETON 
D SAWS 
Give perfect ser¬ 
vice loT years. Tre¬ 
mendous ly strong 
rigid frame of angle 
steel,orhardwood, 
bolted.braced and 
mortised — can’t 
get out of line 
ordiding from awy strain. 
tables Lathe-turned steel shaft. 
innon-rigidboxesidustproof.non-heating. self- 
adjusting—keep saw true and steady even after 
years of wear. »Ten styles. Send for booklet. 
APPLETON MFC. CO. 627 Fargo St.,BataTia,lll. 
Pounder Harrows Do 
lOutwork and outwear Steel . A sk 
._^ir>u,0(K) users. Dealers seller U 
Mlflfrct price catalog. 1." sizes. All 
”»warnt(LWorayF’’t. UHltchOn. 
Write C. H. Pounder, sta. 78 Fort Atkinson. Wis. 
More Pork On Less Feed 
"ou can help save the feed and do an act of Patriotism, at t^: 
“ heesen feed cookers, 
T 4 Anfpr 9 find other farm eauipment make money for farmery eve^- 
free from disease. Write for “Growthy Porker's^ 
iessapre, privinjr valuable facts about cooked food. 
IEESEN BROS. & CO. Box Ho. 700 Tocumsen, Mich. 
AILING ANIMALS 
Cough 
I have a cow eight years old and one 
three years old, which have a cough. 
Both of them have a discharge from the 
nose and sometimes it is like a thick 
mucus. It seems very hard for them to 
breathe and at times they walk with 
dropped heads. They eat well and the 
bowels seem to be all right. Theij pas¬ 
ture has been in a wet marshy field. Do 
you think they could have taken cold or 
eaten something from the pasture which 
brought this on? What remedies should 
be used and is it safe to use the milk? 
I’ennsylvania. a. b. 
We should not feel justified in pre¬ 
scribing treatment, as the cows in all 
probability have tuberculosis which is 
contagious and incurable and makes the 
milk dangerous for use by man or beast. 
Have a qualified veterinarian test the 
cows with tuberculin, but not in very 
hot weather. It will determine whether 
or not the disease is present and is per¬ 
fectly harmless to an unaffected cow, 
A. 8. A. 
Indigestion 
I have a Guernsey heifer calf 3% 
months old that does not seem to thrive 
as well as three others of about the same 
age which I am r.aising. She always has 
a good appetite and eats same as others, 
but I can always see her ribs. She does 
not seem to put on flesh. Could you tell 
me what ails her, and what medicine, if 
any, she requires. E. C. I. 
New York. 
We suspect that this is a case of 
chronic indigestion, and should advise 
you to give two or three ounces of castor 
oil iu milk to clear the bowels, and then 
add one ounce of limewater to each pint 
of milk fed. Feed the calf milk three 
times a day from a self-feeder so that it 
will suck instead of drink the milk. I‘ lax- 
seed jelly, made by pouring boiling water 
upon whole flaxseed and allowing the 
bucket to stand covered for some hours, 
should make a beneficial addition to the 
milk. Oatmeal gruel also is sometiines 
found beneficial in cases such as you de¬ 
scribe. Allow free access to rock salt 
and a big lump of chalk. 
A. 8. A. 
Thin Horse 
I have a horse 15 years old that seems 
to feel well and have a good appetite, but 
is very thin. He has been out in pasture 
and I have been feeding three quarts of 
whole oats morning and night. He does 
no work. His teeth were ground last 
Spring. Could you advise what could 
be given him that would put him in 
sh.ape? M. C. 
Ohio. 
Have the teeth again attended to by a 
veterinarian and then give, night and 
morning, one quart of blackstrap molas¬ 
ses mixed with two or three quarts of hot 
water and stirred among cut hay, wheat 
brail and cormiieal. Feed whole oats at 
noon and long hay at night. It may be 
necessary to starve the horse to the mo¬ 
lasses feed at first, but he should soon take 
to it with a relish, and then should plump 
up quickly and in a healthy manner. 
Drugging with arsenic might have a sim¬ 
ilar . effect, but is ohjection.ahle and a 
drugged horse soon “goes to pieces” when 
deprived of his dope. ‘a. S. a. 
Lame Cow 
I have a cow that has become lame in 
one hind foot. The claws are somewhat 
spread apart and the foot is badly swol¬ 
len. I can see no injury that has caused 
the trouble, but the skin has become 
cracked between the claws. Can you in¬ 
dicate treatment? I bought her about a 
week before the trouble began. Was the 
foot likely to have been infected before I 
bought her? Slie eats well. j, p. ii. 
Massachusetts. 
We should judge that the cow had been 
liable to this foot trouble or that she bad 
partially recovered from an attack at the 
time you bought her. _ The ailment is 
commonly termed “foul in the foot,” and 
is caused" by wading in wet. mud, manure, 
grit or filth, and lodging foreign objects, 
such as pieces of cornstalk, between the 
toes. I.ight scratches or wounds of the 
hoof-head and fine skin between the toes 
readily become invaded by the filth germ, 
bacillus necropborus, which then causes 
ulcers or canker (eating) sores. So far 
as possible do away with_ the causes 
which induce the disease. Keep the cow 
in a clean box stall. Treat by perfectly 
cleaning the foot; if need be. apply a 
poultice of hot flax-seed meal, and when 
clean cut away every bit of loose or rot¬ 
ten horn of the hoof and scrape each sore 
clean. Then immerse the foot for a few 
moments in a solution of two ounces of 
sulphate of copper (bluestone) in hot 
water and then cover the affected parts 
with oakum or cotton soaked in a five 
per cent solution of coal tar disinfectant 
and kept in place by means of a narrow 
bandage passed between the toes, criss¬ 
crossed about them several times and then 
tied around the pastern above the hoof. 
Renew the dressing daily until well. 
A. S. A. 
Healthy Udder 
—Good Milker 
The milk flow will be easier and more gm- 
croua if the udder is free from sores, cuts, 
ehaps, bruises, cracks, bunches or inflammauom 
Bag Balm, Uie great heaUng ototment. Is 
used in tliousands of the best dairies for all 
udder troubles, cow pox, and any exterior 
wound or hurt. Caked Bag Is Quickly re¬ 
moved by Bag Balm: lu great penetrating 
Qualities soothe and soften the tissues and 
basteu normal healing. Keep Bag Balm oa 
^‘^Sold^m^^Wg 80o PMkages by feed d^era 
and dnigglsts. Write for free booklet, 
•'Dairy Wrinklea** 
dairy association CO., Lyndonville, Vt, 
ThJ8 mechanism 'whirla the flftt 
tooth spiral enclosed cylinder 
Kemp-clim:^ 
' ^ - Spreade r 
Spreads all kinds of barn manure, fertilizer, lime 
evenly—quickly; with least draft. 
Simple, strong, easy-operating—2-hor5e spreader; 
equipped with self-sharpening graded 
Flat Tooth—Enclosed Cylinder 
Tiirtoatructible; teeth are bolted to bars. Shreads in 
V Ule uniform strips. Does not clog or bunch manure. 
If rite for catalogue and prices. 
Dealers: Good PKOPOsinox— Write NOW. 
N. J. KEMP CO„ 36 Swan St., Batavia, N. Y. 
j With this wonderful new Ub- 
rbey Automatic Water Bowl. 
‘Each bowl controls own water 
‘BUfiply. Animal moves lever, 
fopening water valve, when it 
I starts to drink. Lever 
rswinga back closing valve 
/ when animal stops drinking. 
'Nofloattank TOTuired Bowls 
may be pat at different heights 
or in any stall or pen. Cannot 
, ’’overflow; cannot get out of order; 
almost no water left in bowl. Most 
I sanitary bowl ever sold. Prevents spread of con- 
Itagious diseases. Increased milk yield quickly 
I pays back cost. Saves labor; saves 
I feed. Write today. If interested in 
I Stanchions, Stalls, Carriers, etc., 
I ask for Generai Catalog. Sent free. 
C, A. LIBBEY COMPANY 
1200 Marion St. Oshkosh, WIs. 
WERTHAH 
PAYS 
HIGHEST 
PRICES 
FOR 
EMPTY 
BAGS 
CASH FOR 
EMPTY BAGS 
We pay highest prices and 
also freight charges. Be sure 
to get our prices before dis¬ 
posing of your bags. They’re 
worth money to you and we’ll 
pay you best cash price for them 
as soon as receivedand assorted. 
I Write us at once stating bow 
•many you have. 
WERTHAN BAG COMPANY 
66 Dock Street St. Louis, Mo, 
BEFORE YOU BUY WRITE PON 
NEWCATALOQ DESCRIBINO THE 
GUARANTEED MONEY-SAVINO 
Jb international 
SILOS 
strongest built.siniolest to put up and easiest operated 
on the market. Adjustable automatic take-up hoop;;- 
contlnuous open-door front—air-tight door and pe*. 
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Upward CREAM 
SEPARATOR 
On TriaL Easy running, easily 
cleaned. Skims warm or cold 
milk. Whether dairy is large or 
__ _ small, get handsome catalogue 
and easy monthly payment offer. Address 
AMERICAN SEPARATOR CO., Box 5075 Bainbridge, N.Y. 
Froo In colors explains 
vqtaiog how you can save 
money on Farm Truck or Road 
Wagons, also steel, or wood wheels to fit 
any running 
gear. Send for 
It today. 
Electric Wheel Co. 
48 Ehx St.,Ouincy,lll.' 
iE have books on 
all subjects of 
farming by rec¬ 
ognized authorities. 
Write us and we will 
quote you prices 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street, New York 
