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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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fo 0ve you 
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S EVENTEEN years* experience 
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the cows, may infect their milk. 
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will it blister the skin. 
Ask your dealer for 
Cow-Ease and keep 
your cows contented 
" andingoodcondition. 
If he cannot supply 
you, send me your 
order per my liberal 
trial offer. 
Vtet-President 
CARPENTER-MORTON CO. 
Kstahlishtd 1840 
96 Sadbnrv Street Boston, Mas*. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
333 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
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Working Beef 
III muiiy parts of New England and 
New York St:ite working team.s of oxen 
are eoniing back. .Some years ago every 
hill farm had its ox team. While .slow, 
the oxen were steady, and could work 
on rough ground to better advtintage than 
horses. They were easy to keep, and 
ivlnm thf'ir work wtts done they could be 
sold for beef. Tin* Devons make tlie best 
oxen, being quick and active, ea.sy keep¬ 
ers. (tf good size and readily fattened. It 
would .seem as if an age in which tractors 
and automobiles play a large part could 
Imv** little use foi' oxen, yet the higli 
price of beef, ami tlie demand for heavy 
horses, is giving the oxen another good 
chance. Home of these Western farmers 
who buy carloads of steers and put them 
through the lazy life of serving as middle¬ 
men to handle the grtiin crop will smile 
at the thought of making those steers 
work. Men and horses are expected to 
wait on the liizy fellows. The working 
I may .say in closing that every cattle 
feeder to whom yon mention this load of 
steers :ind the profit either laughs or 
swears, according to his nature. j. 
That story was started by a certain 
man here who would like to have every¬ 
body believe that the farmers are rolling 
in wettlth and not entitled to any pay for 
their many hours a day. We bought a 
car of cattle sifter Mr. Adauk bought his, 
and sold before he did. and. counting ac¬ 
tual value of feed, we lost $2.75 every day 
we had them. l. c. b. 
I.,ABOR AND Corn Not Counted. 
Mr. Adank sends us the following 
.statement: 
Tlie statement about .$2,000 is news¬ 
paper exaggeration. The cost of the steers 
was .$1,002.20. .selling price, including 
freight. ,$.‘>,080.24, leaving a i»rofit of 
.$1,000.04. This includes labor (which T 
performed myself). 1 fed these steers 
514 months on inferior corn that T con¬ 
sidered iilmost a dead loss, four tons of 
cottonseed meal at .$."0 per ton. four tons 
of clover hay at .$18 per ton. corn fodder, 
straw, and a small amount of sil.ige. 
Those articles and the corn I would be 
A Yoke of Devon Oxen at a Neic York Fair 
ox pays his way, waifs on the other farm 
stock, and then walks off to the butcher’s 
shop. His steak and roast may be a 
little tough, blit the work he has done 
ought to |iiit extra protein into them. At 
aaiy rate, he is coming back. 
Feeding a Carload of Steers 
Big Profits Whittled Down 
.Something is wrong with the Rochester 
(N. Y.) Jferald. It loses no chance to 
sneer at farmers who undertake to de¬ 
fend their business, tind jiersists in mis¬ 
representing the stories of farm profits 
wliich go floating through the papers. 
On May 7 of this year the IleraUl jirinted 
the following: 
A Mi.staken Farmer. 
A market jiage dispatch from Crown 
Point. Ind.. says that “Frank Adank. a 
farmer of this vicinity, recently sold a 
carload of steers at a profit of ,$2,000. 
They were fed on soft corn, and made 
substantial gains on it.” 
Mr. Adank of Hoosierland no doubt 
will be dismayed when he receives figures 
from a distinguished agriculturist down 
in New York to prove that he did not 
make ti profit of .$2,000 on his steers, but 
actually siiffered a lo.ss of ,$16.87. A 
fariiK'r who confesses that he h'as made ti 
dollar during the last year invites correc¬ 
tion by this profound authority. 
Several of our readers .sent us this 
clipping, evidently thinking that we rep¬ 
resent tin* “iirofound authority” men¬ 
tioned. 
lYe have caught the Herald at this 
trick of juggling figures before. It is 
about like the babyi.sli plan of saying 
that a hen lays ,$4 worth of eggs in a 
year. She lives on uorms and “table 
scraps." and tliercfore does not cost any¬ 
thing. Thus all you have to do is to 
keei) 1.000 liens and make a profit of 
.$4,000. Doing familiar with the Roch- 
esti'r Herald's methods, we wrote Mr. 
Adank. and also to several of our own 
readers at Crown Point. Ind., for the 
figures. 
The Local Opinion. 
Here are the comments from farmers 
wlio live nearby. Of course, tlie.se local 
farmers realize what an injury it is to 
them to have such fool stories going over 
the country : 
unable to jmige as to the exact amount 
in dollars tind cents. This leaves ,$1,702.04 
for my corn and labor, fka.nk ada.xk. 
I iidiaua. 
There were 25 head of steers. They 
cost .$0 iier liundred, and after feeding 
TD /2 months were .sold at ,$14.00. There 
was an increase of weight of ’i.'H 3/5 
pounds per steer. Tlie cost of shiiiping 
was about .$20. Mr. Adank says his 
labor was worth ,$(>() per month, or .$.‘>.”.0 
total. That would leave .$1.,302.04 to 
pay for the corn- needed to make 5,060 
pounds of gain on these steers. On the 
average a biisliel of corn will make about 
seven pounds of gain, which means about 
8,50 bushels or its eiiuivalewt of good 
corn. Whether Mr. Adank's com could 
be sold or not, it cost him good money 
to raise it. He writes us that he picked 
the best corn out of 70 acres to feed this 
lot of stmrs. f’orn last AVinter sold at 
(’hicago for .$].,50 tind more. The corn 
ret]Hired to put 5.060 pounds of gain 
on tho.se .steers would have cost at least 
,$l.‘200r Yet tlie Rochester Herald in its 
eagerness to show that farmers liave all 
or more than is iiroperly coming to them 
argues that Mr. Adank should charge 
nothing for his labor and nothing for his 
corn, though that rejiresents his .season’s 
work. And liere follows a statement of 
cattle feeding in Ohio: 
Corn and Cattle 
T'util the iiast Winter I have had no 
experience feeding soft corn, but 5 vliile 
it was frozen I ground the corn, and 
later, when .soft and spoiling, it was fed 
in the ear, as the cattle liked it better 
that way. As to the gains. I cannot say, 
as my aim was to ii.se up the com before 
it spoiled. AA’hen feeding sound corn to 
two-year-old steers, seven pounds of gain 
to a bushel of corn is a fair result, .so 
that 2,50 pounds of gain would retiuire 
around 35 bushels of com. in addition to 
roughage and pasture. Thirty-five bush¬ 
els of corn fed over a periotl of five and 
one-half months would mean a daily ra¬ 
tion of 12 pounds, or six pounds at each 
feed. 
Th(‘ labor of feeding IS or 20 steers 
would depend on their location, whether 
in feed lot. shed or field, but two hours 
per day. ])erliai)S. ought to cover the time 
t)f preparing the feed, feeding the steers 
and caring for them in other ways. This 
time does not seem large, and is not 
missed in the .slack .season, but cuts into 
.Tunc 2?*, IP Is 
field work badly in tlie Spring and Fall 
when there is so much to be done. 
Twelve pounds of corn iier steer is not a 
full daily ration, so it would be a good 
plan to .sort the cattle and handle them 
in two bunches, so that each would get a 
fair share of the feed. I grind the feed, 
but most feeders depend on hogs to fol¬ 
low the cattle and salvage the waste corn 
in the droiipings. It is usual to estimate 
that the manure produced offsets the 
labor item, so that the com tind rougliage 
cost of ciittle. interest and taxes are the 
items usually considered in computing 
cost of iirodiiction. Thirty-five bushels 
of corn at ,$1.,50 per bushel amounts to 
.$d 2.50; divided by ‘2,50 iioiiiuls of gain, 
gives a cost of 21 cmit.s iier pound, just 
for the com. Deforc Winter began last 
Fall I decided I could not afford to feed 
corn to cattle at the ruling prices, so 1 
sold my surplus corn to ti hog feeder at 
.$1..50 per bii.sliel and wintei-ed the cattle 
on roughage and a light grain ration. 
The cattle came through the Wintor rath¬ 
er tliin. but tire gaining rapidly on grtiss. 
Ciittle fed sound corn last Winter were 
fed at a big loss, and tlmt tliere were as 
many (-tittle fed as were fed was due to 
so much soft and spoiling corn on the 
farms in the corn belt. w. e. d. 
AILING ANIMALS 
Heaves; Lumpy Jaw 
AA hat will crn-e heaves in ti liorsi’? Is 
tliere any <-ur(* for liimiiy j.-iw in cattle‘/ 
AA'e have doctored a yotirliiig for a month 
past. She seems now a little better. 
New York. s. 1 . n. 
Heaves, wlnui established is inciirtible, 
for the ail- (-ells of the lungs are liroken 
down into abnormally birge cavities tind 
drugs cannot restore iiormal conditions. 
Tli(‘ distrt'ss of heaves may be ridievtsl by 
giving ti proiu-iettir.v lii'tive -I'emcdy, or 
Fow ler‘s solution of arsenic in one-lmlf 
oiiii(-(‘ (loses night and morning. F(‘(‘(l 
grass in Summer and wet o;it straw, silage 
and com fodder in Winter in ]U'ef(‘rence 
to hay. Do lutt allow any hiilk.v RmhI at 
noon if tlio horse htis to work, and do not 
work him imiiK’dititely after a meal. We 
shtill he gliid to ii(lvis(‘ treatnumt for the 
supposed case of liimiiy jtiw if yon give us 
a description of the coiKlitioii pr('sent ttnd 
tell ns what treatment has been given. 
Sneezing Horse 
I have :i seven-yetir-old <‘arriage liorst* 
tlmt is continimlly siu'ezing whih* on the 
road. He is a good roadster, travels ID 
miles every day. He is ted clean hay and 
oats; is now on grass for three honi's a 
day. I have started using Fowler’.s so¬ 
lution of arsenic, jis I can see no sign of 
a cold. He has had this trouble for 
some time now and I have iioticM'd many 
oU'er hors(‘s willi the same trouble: nos¬ 
trils are wet and continually siKM’zing. 
('onnecticiit. R. A. s. 
4'he arsenic .solution is useful in heaves, 
blit we do not tliink it will do any good in 
the condition described. Tlie mucous 
membranes lining the nostrils are irritated 
and cause a flow of nuicons whicli indnci’s 
“blowing th(‘ nose‘’ or sneezing. \A'et till 
feed. Have tin* stable kept clean tind 
Iierfectly ventilated to previmt the for¬ 
mation of irritating gases. If tiie troiihh’ 
continue.s medicating the atinosidieii' 
of the stable with steam from hot water 
oonttiining a talih’spoonful of (‘ucalyidiis 
oil or compound tinctni'o of luMizoin per 
gallon might ludp. S. ,\. 
Thriftless Filly 
I a two-yeai-ol(l filly tlmt has not 
grown as wdl as I thinl': she .slioiild this 
liast AA'inter. She is three-fourths IVr- 
ch(‘ron: seimis to feel good and is not 
poor. l)(‘alers here say they cannot g('t 
bran, so T could not fc(‘d it. I have 
thought I miglit get lioiu* meal (or bone 
flour) and mix tlmt with other fei’d. 
AVoiild you advise it‘:' If .so. how iiuich 
per day‘/ If not. advise. u. s. 
New York. 
Allow tlie filly all the wlu>l(‘ oats she 
cares to clean up daily and as wheat bran 
cannot be had add flaxsi-ed meal. The 
mixture should, if possible, be dampened 
at feeding time. Also f(*(‘(l sweet skim- 
milk. It may be used to wet the fei'd and 
thus may he given in small qiianities. 
Blackstrap molasses diluted witli hot wa¬ 
ter and added to tlu’ feed should iirove 
beneficial. Bone meal would not be indi¬ 
cated. Blood meal may. however, be aild- 
ed if the other feeds (lo not suffice. F.x- 
amine the f(>ces carefully for minute blood 
worms, and if found give tlie worm pow¬ 
ders often prescribed here. A. .s. A. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
June 26—Avrshires. H. C. McKenzie. 
AYalton, N. Y.' 
•Tune 27 — Holsteins. Middlefield, Ohio, 
by A. AA’. (Jroen. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
,Iune 26-28—American Association of 
Nurserymen, Chicago. Ill. 
July 24—New .Tersey State Ilortioul- 
tiiral Societv Field Meeting. Olassboro, 
N. .T. 
.August 26-30—Oliio State Fair. Coliiin- 
biis. ()hio. 
Octobi’i- 10-10—National Dairy Show, 
Columlnis, Ohio. 
