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R U R A 1. N E W-Y O R K E R 
February 2, 1918 
By grinding the grains and properly cut¬ 
ting and grinding the roughage you can feed your 
farm animals and get better results with 10% to 25% 
less feed. This means that where you now use 100 lbs. of 
feed, you can get the same or better results with 75 to 90 lbs. 
of feed. It means that of every ton of whole grains you 
feed there is an actual waste of 200 to 500 lbs. 
jppose that each one of a million farmers should save 500 
/feed. That would mean 500,000,000 lbs. or 250,000 tons more 
Su 
lbs. of feed. __, 
of cereals to feed the hungry world. 
Why waste this enormous amount of valuable feed? It profits you noth¬ 
ing—it doesn’t help anyone. It’s nothing less than unpatriotic waste; why be a party 
to it? The way to get the full feed value of your grain is to grind it with a 
FEED MILL 
I Self-Sharpening SilenbBulu^ 
Leading authorities agree that grind¬ 
ing feed saves from 10% to 25%. Tests 
conducted by the Michigan State Agri¬ 
cultural College clearly prove that, on an 
average, cows fail to masticate 22.75% 
of whole corn; 12.06% of whole oats and 
26.46% of whole corn and oats. Carefully 
conducted experiments show that 9% 
less feed is required for mules and horses. 
You Need This Great 
Grain Saver Right Now 
You need a Letz Mill because it will 
save you 10% to 25%. You don’t 
merely need a feed mill—you need a 
Letz mill—the mill that has self-sharp¬ 
ening, silent - running, self - aligning 
buhrs—the mill that will grind awy- 
thing without clogging. Letz mills are 
made in all sizes for every need. Write 
for the Letz catalog now. State h. p, 
of your engine and mention your 
implement dealer’s name. 
LETZ MFG. CO. 
310 'East Road 
Crown Point, Ind* 
72 
when ground. It is estimated that In the 
feeding of whole corn to hogs there is an 
actual loss of nearly 20%. _ Can you, in 
the face of these facts, continue to waste 
food products that are so badly needed 
throughout the world? Can you con¬ 
tinue to feed whole grains when the 
saving of feed in one season will pay for 
a feed mill that will last a lifetime? 
Raise More 
The Allies Need More Food For 
Their Great Armies—You Can Help 
One Way to Help is by Moving to 
Winterless California, where Large 
Crops are Grown All the Year 
If you are tilling WORN-OUT 
LAND, where Winter snows you in 
five months out of twelve— 
If you are Winter-feeding livestock 
with products of acres that might 
have produced FOODSTUFFS I.-OR 
OUR SOLDIERS— 
If your poultry and your cows are 
EATING THEIR HEADS OFF— 
Then resolve now to take the step 
that will put you where the SEASONS 
ARE JUST RIGHT. 
Get yourself a farm In SUNNY 
CALIFORNIA, where every month 
is a growing month. 
In California livestock forages out¬ 
doors all the year. 
In California fruits, vegetables, 
grains and other products, yield a full 
return for your hard work, with a 
minimum of labor. 
California gives you sunshine and 
warmth and rain and soil adapted to 
your needs. 
California affords you abundant 
markets and amfile transportation, so 
you can get good prices from the great 
consuming centers. 
A REASONABLE INITIAL IN¬ 
VESTMENT will get you started 
on a fine and big productive farm, 
among prosperous neighbors. After¬ 
wards it is up to you to make good. 
I know of numerous chances to buy 
farm land on very easy terms. 
It is a PATRIOTIC DUTY you 
owe your country and your country¬ 
men, your fighters on land and sea, 
and your city people who are doing 
the necessary work of our great in¬ 
dustries, to get out where you can 
better help to meet the present emer¬ 
gency of inadequate food supplies all 
over the world. 
To till most efficiently you must 
till where returns are SUREST AND 
LARGEST. California is the land 
of sure and big returns. 
Write to-day for our folders de¬ 
scribing San Joaquin Valley, Cali¬ 
fornia. And ask any questions you 
please; will promptly answer. The 
Santa Fe Railway has no land of its 
own to sell in California. Our sole 
interest is to settle men like you along 
our line in that rich region. 
C. L. Seagraves, Industrial Commissioner 
Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Ry. 
1165 Railway Exchange, Chicago 
Ailing 
Indigestion 
I have a two-yeav-old mare which 
seems to have trouble to pass her water. 
She eats very fast, and can never get 
enough. We feed her ground oats as 
she dues not chew whole oats. She eats 
all the straw that we bed her with, and 
we give her plenty of hay. i. e. p. 
I’a. 
rias from indigestion causes pain and 
retention of urine merely is iucideutnl. 
The urine passes as soon as spasm from 
pain subsides. b''eed Avhole oats from a 
very large box to prevent bolting of feed, 
or mix cut hay and straw with the oats. 
A few hard pciis mixed with oats also in- 
dtice more perfect mastication. Bed 
with sawdust or shavings or muzzle tlie 
mare after meals. Have her teeth at¬ 
tended to by a veterinarian. Allow free 
access to rock salt. After each attack- 
give her a pint of raw linseed oil. See 
that she is worked or actively exercised 
every day. A. s. A. 
Mange 
fan anytliing l.e done to cure a cat 
that has mange? The cat first begins 
.scratching about the head and ears with¬ 
out any evidence of eruption on the skin ; 
in about three or four weeks the disease 
spreads pretty well over the head, espec¬ 
ially the top of the head, and little white 
scabs form. It is worse about the ears, 
finally spreads under the hair and gets 
into the eyes. Cats finally sicken, lose 
ajipetite and die if they are not chloro¬ 
formed. The disease is very contagiou.s, 
fully a dozen neighbors lost cats by jt 
in the Summer of 11110. One neighbor’.s 
fine collie dog contracted it and had to 
be shot. We have been treating cats 
with a wash of diluted creolin every few 
days: she does not seem any better or 
any worse. MRS. L. A. S. 
New York. 
The cat.s evidently have parasitic 
mange, and creolin itself or carbolic acid 
disinfectant should not be used, as they 
are absorbed by the skin and are ijoisou- 
ons to cats. Prepare a mixture of one 
dram of flower of sulphur and seven 
drams of pure lard, and rub it well into 
the affected skin once daily for three or 
four days in sncce.ssion. The skin should 
then be washed clean with soap and 
warm water and then be left untreated 
for a day or two. The body then should 
l>e thoroiighly brnshe<l with a moderately 
stiff bristle brush to remove scabs or 
scales, after which the ointment is to be 
reapplied as before. If this does not 
suffice try a mixture of one part of coal- 
tar, one part of oil of cade and six or 
eight parts of benzine applied with a mod¬ 
erately stiff brush daily for four days in 
.succession; th<‘u wash clean and in two 
days repeat the treatment. Keep the 
medicine out of the eyes. A. s. A. 
Collar Sore 
In .Tannarv, 1916, I had a horse with 
bad collar boils. I went to a vetennariau 
and had them removed, letting the horse 
stand still 2y2 months. The sores finally 
healed to about the size of a 10-cent piece, 
when it was necessary for me to start 
working him, which isoou made them 
wor.se. and by the end of Spring’s work 
they were in verv bad condition. In 
August. 1917. I again had them removed 
by a veterinarian, and they are now 
pretty well healed by letting'him stand 
still. ’ There seems to be bunches in there 
the same as before, and I am afraid if I 
start working him they will break out 
again. Is there not something I can use 
to absorb the bunches? What is your 
advice, and will he ever be any better? 
New York. E, J. L. 
If the tumors were perfectly removed 
they should not return. Have them dis¬ 
sected out again by a graduate veterina¬ 
rian. then pack the cavities daily with 
oakum saturated with a mixture of equal 
quantities of turpentine and raw linseed 
oil. When filled up wet any remaining 
sore three times a day Avith a lotion com¬ 
posed of one ounce of sugar of lead and 
.six drams of sulphate of zinc in a pint 
of soft Avater. I.abel the bottle “poison” 
and shake it often before use. A. s. A. 
Progeny of Wind-broken Horses 
Does a Avind-broken horse transmit the 
trouble to progeny, and if so, may it be 
prevented by careful use Avheii training, 
and when colt is young by not Avorking 
too hard? When AA-onld the trouble ap¬ 
pear, if it should result? What causes 
Avind-brokeii horses? S. i). G. 
NeAV York. 
The term “Avind-.broken” commonly is 
applied to heaA-es, but it may be that the 
stallion Avas afflicted Avith “roaring” (lar¬ 
yngeal hemiplegia). Tendency to both 
diseases is considered hereditary, but 
there is no certainty that the colt Avill 
become affected. Special management, 
other than A-ei'y careful treatment.-.should 
the colt develop strangles (colt dis¬ 
temper). need not be gi ^ni with the hope 
of preventing roaring, bi hea\’es usually 
is preventable by net feeding heavily on 
roughage and working a horse Avith the 
stomach distended with such feed. Bead 
Animals 
what the stallion law of the !<tate pro¬ 
vides regarding nn.souudne.^s of public 
service stallions. a. S. a. 
Depraved Appetite 
In the last six Aveeks my horses have 
taken to cheAA-ing the wood of their stalls, 
eating large holes out of the boards. They 
have never done that before. What Aviil 
cure them? a. c. it. 
NeAV York. 
Have a A-eterinariau attend to the teeth 
of each horse, and then give treatment for 
worms as often advised in these colnmn.s. 
Allow the horses free access to poplar 
(“popple”) boughs and stems, if that is 
possible. The bark acts as a remed 3 - in 
such cases. Saturate the woodwork Avith 
kerosene. a. s. a. 
Boils 
Can j-on tell me AA-hat is t.l matter 
with my hogs? They are seA^ou mouths 
old: Ave have three in a yard together. 
Two of dhem get raised lumps like boils 
and smaller, and some like Avater blisters 
broken out back of their ears and on their 
ear.s, noAV and then on their neck and 
back. Their ears, that the.v can rub 
easily, keep raA\' from rubbing the scabs 
off. ^ They groAV and seem to be hearty. 
West Virginia. x. b. 
Confinement. OA-er feeding and filth may 
cause such a skin trouble as yon describe. 
Allow the pigs free range on pasture and 
reduce corn ration. Swab the sores daily 
with tincture of iodine or appplj- strong 
iodine ointment. Cut each lump open be¬ 
fore applying iodine. a. s, a. 
Foul in Foot 
I have .some coavs that are verv lame 
in one hind foot; they swell a little and 
seem to be inflamed, and afterwards thev 
crack open between the toes and are very 
sore. Can j’on give me .sonn* remedj’, and 
what di.seji.se Avonld yon cull it? 
New York. m. ,t. k. 
Lodging of grit, filth or other foreigji 
bodies between the toes or AVJiding in mud 
or manure induce sncli lameness, and the 
sores become iuvjtdcd by the filth germ 
haciUvs ■nccrophorus and then are difficult 
to heal. Cleiin.se the feet perfectly and 
then immerse for a few minutes in a so¬ 
lution of two ounces of sulphate of copper 
in one pint of hot water. Then cover the 
parts with oakum or cotton saturated 
AA'ith a fiA-e per cent solution of coal tar 
disinfectant and keep in phu'e h_v means 
of a uarroAv bandage criss-crossed between 
the toes and around the pastern. BenoAv 
the dre.ssing daily, keeping the coavs in 
the stable. a .s a 
Swelling 
For 10 days or more my five-year old 
mare 1ms been slightly swollen between 
the fore legs, OA-er an area eight by four 
inches. It was a very superficial'swell¬ 
ing or inflammation and scarcely per¬ 
ceptible. Yestei-day morning aa-c found 
her chest badly SAVolleu in front of and 
to the left of the first swollen surface. 
It forms a large rounded SAvelling ]() 
inches by 7 inches in extent and appar¬ 
ently tAA'o or three inches in thickness or 
depth. It seems not very sore to the 
touch; nor is it very hard. It is nothing 
like a boM. Y'esterday it was someAvhat 
sore, today although larger it seems to be 
less sore. We are working the mare 
every day moderately on farm. She 
seems in good health otherAvi.se. 
New York. t. g. r. 
Bruising upon the manger or neck 
yoke probably has caused a collection 
of serum in a sac or cyst such as forms 
on the elboAvs when bruising causes a 
shoe boil. Were pus present the swell¬ 
ing Avonid he intensely isensitive and 
Avonld become extensive until an abscess 
“pointed” or became soft and ruptured 
or was opened with the knife. In the 
case in question the swelling away from 
the bruised part containing serum, prob¬ 
ably feels like dough or clay, “pitting” 
under pressure of the finger.s. Do aAvay 
Avith the cause and persistently bathe the 
swollen parts Avith a lotion composed of 
a pint each of vinegar and soft cold Avater 
and one ounce of sulphate of zinc. Open¬ 
ing of the sac should only be done as a 
last resort, should the liquid not be re¬ 
sorbed. If it has to be liberated, inject 
tincture of iodine after the fluid and 
clots of blood or fibrin haA-e been removed 
and then pack the cavity once daily with 
oakum saturated with a mixture of equal 
parts of turpentine and raAV linseed oil. 
It might be added that when bathing 
with the lotion prescribed in the forego¬ 
ing does not remove the collection of 
serum, after surrounding swelling has 
subsided it is well to apply tincture of 
iodine once daily. Where there is no 
history of bruising as the cause and the 
dropsical (edematous) swelling gradu¬ 
ally invoh'es the entire breast, some ser¬ 
ious affection of the heart may be sus¬ 
pected and a qualified A^eterinarian 
should be asked to make an examination 
and prescribe treatment, but such con¬ 
ditions are unpromising. a, s. A. 
