■Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 21 1918 
1412 
Milking Shorthorns on the General Farm 
((’outinucd from page 1410) 
calving, they can promptly be turned into 
good beef, in a very few weeks, and this 
cannot be said to the same extent of any 
of the so-called dairy breeds, and this is 
worthy of consideration when selecting a 
cow. If the steers were wanted for oxen, 
what better could you want than these 
great, powerful, gentle beef-breed grade 
steers, strong, ((uiet and hardy, and after¬ 
wards beef if desired when their services 
as beasts of burden were overV My re¬ 
marks on this class of cattle are not in¬ 
tended as any reflection on the dairy 
breeds, whose value is too well known to 
all of us to be injured by any such re¬ 
marks, but only to show what I believe 
is to the advantage of the general farmer, 
who is in the majority all over the coun¬ 
try. 
The following figures will give you 
some idea of the milk and butterfat yield 
of this breed of cattle: Itose of (lien- 
side. owned by May & Otis, Granville 
Center, Pa., dropped a calf March 1, 
19(M). It was taken from her March 3, 
when she began her test, which ended 
Alarch 2, 1910. under the supervision of 
the Pennsylvania State (’ollege. Result 
of test, one year. 18,075 pounds of milk, 
()24.7(; pounds of butterfat; average test 
for the milk. 3.45 per cent, and at 85 per 
cent fat, 735 pounds of butter; and this 
cow was eight years old at the beginning 
of the test and weighed 1,450 pounds at 
the close. 
The Missouri College of Agriculture, at 
Columbus, Mo., has maintained for a 
number of years a fine herd of milking 
Shorthorns. The following figures arc 
records of three of their cows: 
Lbs. 
Av. % 
Lbs. 
Milk 
Fat 
Butter 
Lula . 12.341 
4.17 
000 
Panama Lady... 13,789 
(\duiiibia Lulu, 2 
3.55 
572 
years . 4,114 
4.45 
214 
The roans, as a rule. 
are a stronger 
type of the bleed, owing to the fact that 
for many years the reds were a more 
fashionable color, and for this reason 
were bretl too closely in some herds for 
the good of the breed, and though the reds 
are the handsomest, I should give the 
roans or whites the preference A. M. L. 
Cow Knowledge Wanted 
I am a young man, 17 years old, and 
am running a 45-acre farm at present. I 
have four cows, and am doing the work 
on the farm alone. I wish to get a book 
telling all about cows, as my ambition ia 
to learn all about a cow. I love farming 
and intend to follow same; my father, 
being a railroader, does not know farm¬ 
ing, but bought (his farm for a home. 
New Jersey. F. G. H, 
We have .sent this young man a list of 
books on dairying and live stock. lie 
should also write to the directors of the 
following experiment stations and ask for 
bulletins: New Jersey, at New Bruns¬ 
wick ; New York, Ithaca and Geneva; 
Connecticut, at Rtorrs, P. O.; Vermont, 
Burlington; Maryland, College Park; 
Pennsylvania State College; Wisconsin, 
Madison, and Iowa, Ame.s. In this way 
he can obtain a mas, of in formation about 
cows and their tree' . His State sta¬ 
tion at New Brr v. ■ \ i be of great 
service to him. It will al.so pay to write 
the secretaries of the various cattle breed¬ 
ers’ associations, and get their pamphlets. 
In this way he can study and compare the 
records of the different bi’eeds. The best 
part of his study will be right on his own 
farm with the cows he ha.s. He can learn 
to balance their I'ation and try different 
food combinations and al.so learn to keep 
records in weighing :ind testing the milk, 
lie can get information and suggestions 
out of books and pamphlets, but it will all 
have to be tried and tested in his own 
barn. It is a fine thing for a young man 
to start farming in this way, with a deter¬ 
mination to learn all about a cow. We 
wish him all success. There is a good fu¬ 
ture for anyone who can become an ex¬ 
pert in cow knowledge. 
Packing Butter from One Cow 
Will you give mo a recipe for prceerv- 
ing butter for later use? We have one 
cow and get about five pounds of butter 
per week, and have a surplus of about 
two jiounds per week. MRS. J. w. L. 
Virginia. 
I note that you have about three pounda 
of surplus butter a week that you wish 
to store for use later in the season. If 
you like a butter with comsiderable flavor, 
the cream should be ripened until it just 
begins to taste sour. Do not let it get 
too sour, and churn often enough so the 
cream has a clean, fresh flavor. Wash 
the buttermilk from the butter thoroughly, 
and salt it at the rate of an ounce to the 
pound. The butter should be firmly 
jiacked in a stone crock that has been pre¬ 
viously washed and rinsed out with a 
strong brine .solution. Keep adding butter 
to the orock each Aveek. If the butter 
varies an appreciable amount in color a 
piece of jiarchment paper Avhich has been 
soaked in brine can be iilaced between the 
different churnings. When the crock is 
full to within an inch of the top cover 
the butter with a piece of cheesecloth, 
sprinkle on some salt and add a little 
Wiiter to dissolve. Put cover on crock and 
store in a cool room. The cellar is the 
best place if free from odors. It is, of 
course, hardly possible to make butter at 
this season of the year that will have the 
flavor or keep as well as that made on 
grass, n. f. j. 
AILING ANIMALS 
Catarrh 
T bought a six-yeai’-old sheep last Sum¬ 
mer. She has recently been breathing 
hard with a rattling noise in her nose. 
Can you suggest a remedy which might 
prove beneficial? i/. C. 
Cleanse the nostrils if clogged and then 
inject a little sweet oil or liquid vaseline. 
It is probable, however, that gadfly grubs 
in the upper passages and cavities of the 
head are causing the difficulty and ther 
is no satisfactory treatment. Gadflies 
may be prevented from depositing their 
embryo larvse in the nostrils by keeping 
the noses of sheep well daubed with pine 
tar during the time of fly attacks in 
Summer. ^, S. A. 
Cough 
I have a horse coming six years next 
Spring \\Tien he was just a colt he 
caught a cold. He has coughed ever since 
and about three weeks ago became .sick. 
His fever went up to 105 degrees. He 
seems to breathe fast. 1 think he has 
heaves. Yellow matter runs from his 
nose. I feed him a gallon of oats to a 
feed, saltjieter along with the oats. He 
is losing flesh badly, (’ould you tell me 
what to do for him? Another horse has 
become very lame in back. s. K. 
Ohio. 
We should not feel justified in pre¬ 
scribing treatment in thi-se cases, as we 
have a strong suspicion that glanders 
may be present in both cases. You should 
at once have a trained veterinarian make 
an examination. When glanders is found 
present State law requires destruction of 
the affected horse, cleansing and disin¬ 
fection of the stable and inspection of 
the remaining horses at intervals until 
known to be unaffected. The disease is 
communicable and fatal to man as well 
as contagious and incurable in horses, 
hence we have to be careful in dealing 
with such cases, although it may, of 
course, transpire that heaves or simple 
catarrh is present. a. s. a. 
Itching Skin 
A young bird dog, with long black hair, 
has hecn bathed several times, but still 
keeps scratching him.self all the time. I 
do not think he has fleas, but judge that 
he was born in an unclean spot. I see 
on his body little pieces of dirt. Perhaps 
yon can advise me as to some salve or 
soap to cure this. r.. B. 
New York. 
Tub the dog in a bath of coal tar dip 
solution made according to directions 
given by the manufacturers, and repeat 
the bath Avhen seen to be necessary. Comb 
and bru.sh the dog thoroughly every day 
after the bath. a. s. a. 
Lame Pig 
I have four pigs about 10 weeks old, 
which I bought at the age of four weeks. 
Three of them seem to be doing well on 
skim-milk and equal narts of wheat and 
buckwheat middlings, with as many sweet 
apples as they will clean up. The fourth 
does not seem to be as well, and is lame 
in one front leg, and also seems to be ten¬ 
der on his hind feet as well. Can you tell 
me what is thc matter with him and hoAV 
to remedy it? I have about 150 binshels 
of ear corn to feed. Tell me what to buy 
and feed with it to make the most eco¬ 
nomical ration for these pigs. Will only 
have skim-milk a few days. G. n. R. 
Pennsylvania. 
Physic the pig with castor oil in milk, 
or epsom salts in slop; then allow' free 
range on grass. We suspect rickets from 
confinement. If any joint is enlarged, 
paint it w'ith tincture of iodine every 
other day. Feed shelled corn, wheat mid¬ 
dlings and digester tankage from a self- 
feeder. Tankage need not form more than 
10 per cent of the ration. If possible, 
add Alfalfa hay. a. s. a. 
Worms 
I have reason to suenect mv cow's have 
worms. Would you send me a good worm 
powder? Cows are not expecto<l to calve, 
w. 1*. R. 
Please tell us what Tea.son you have to 
suspect that the cows are infested with 
worms. With the exception of calves 
which somefiines suffer from the presence 
of lung w'orms or stomach w’orms, cattle 
rarely show any ill effects from worms, 
nor is it found necessary to give them 
medicinal treatment on that account. 
A. S. A. 
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acteristics of butter, and discusses the 
problems connected with its manufacture 
and marketing. The author, who is pro- 
fes.sor of dairy industry at Cornell, di.s- 
cusses all the processes involved in detail, 
and there are numerous illustration.s, 
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