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Live Stock Notes 
New Cure for Hard Milkers 
Some time ago I saw in The R. N.-Y. 
reference to a hard-milking cow; teat 
having a spider or some obstruction in it. 
Last Spring I had a cow with which I 
had to use a teat dilator and a milking 
tube. The teat got worse in spite of all 
I did. A neighbor told me to take a 
clove, as long and perfect as possible, 
and when I got through milking to put 
one in her teat and leave it till next milk¬ 
ing. throw that clove away and use a 
fresh clove every time. I did so, saved 
the teat and I think the cow as a milker 
was worth a lot to me. albert j. iiotis. 
New York. 
The Useful Milch Goat 
It I was to answer the goat query by A. 
Cochran on page 1423 I would do it in 
this way. I have a friend who lives on a 
lot that he used to work as a truck gar¬ 
den, but finally went into a shop as more 
paying, lie has two small children, but 
did not want to keep a cow. lie heard of 
the good milking qualities of a goat and 
bought one. Now he gets about two 
quarts of rich milk a day, sometimes 
more, so that he can make a little butter 
if he wants to. The children like the milk 
and also the goat, while the family took 
to the idea so that the father has now 
bought another goat and will have two 
next year. So far the venture is a fine 
success. I think that if I lived on a 
large city lot I would do something of the 
sort, but if I had a farm that afforded 
good pasture I would prefer cows. Goats 
cost, but little to keep if land produces 
mostly bushes and rough stuff, or if they 
can be kept where cows are not available; 
otherwise, I should say—cows ! j. w. c. 
Kerosene for Foul in Foot 
The following is a simple cure for 
fouls: Take up the cow’s foot, clean off 
the foot, then take just common lamp oil 
and pour on the foot from the back, soak¬ 
ing it well two or three times, and it is 
all done. I have never had it fail me yet. 
Pennsylvania. h. s. Lyons. 
Sheep and Dogs 
I wfeh sheepmen knew that dogs don’t 
raise ali at once for a raid. Scare the 
first dog that is caught strolling through 
the sheep pasture; make him get out or 
stay in. and keep that rule always. No 
dog permitted to roam in the sheep pas¬ 
ture has been our rule for 18 years, and 
we have never had a raid. The old gun 
barks, and bites the second time. There 
have been a dozen raids in our neighbor¬ 
hood, but, among our sheep, never. 
Iowa. E. G. T. 
Tell B. II., Orange Co., N. Y., to get a 
good collie dog to raise with his sheep. 
Tie the puppy near the sheep pen. Be 
sure the pen is tight, as the puppy will 
want to play and it will not take the dog 
long to find out the sheep are his, and the 
sheep will not be chased by dogs, as they 
will not be afraid of a dog’s bark. It is 
the same as a cat and dog. Bring a cat 
up with a dog and he will run every time 
and the dog will chase him. Our dog 
played with our sheep; when they got 
tired all the sheep did was to put her 
head down and drive the dog out of the 
pasture, and he went. M. L. 
Hampshire Cc., Mass. 
Butter Fat in Holstein Milk 
I beg to take issue with you on the 
answer to C. O. B. of Maine on Holstein 
cattle, page 1300, in regard to the per¬ 
centage of fat. I think you are entirely 
too low when you state that the bulk of 
milk from the black and whites will test 
about 3 per cent butter fat. and many 
cows go below this figure. I have been 
having Holsteins for the last 10 years, 
would keep from six to 12 cows, and I 
never knew their test to run as low as 
3 per cent. My milk, for the past year, 
has gone to the Gravenstein Co. of Phila¬ 
delphia. and my lowest test in that time 
was 3.28 per cent, and the highest was 
4.30 per cent, the average of which would 
be 3.78 per cent, and if you will confer 
with majority of breeders of the modern 
Holsteins, I think you will find that this 
is not an unusual average. We have one 
other herd of purebred Holsteins that 
have been under my observation in this 
vicinity, which have done even better. We 
have a herd of registered Guernseys in 
our community, and my test has been av¬ 
eraging very little below this herd, and 
on some occasions much above. We as 
breeders of Holsteins do not generally con¬ 
tend that they will average with the Jer¬ 
seys and Guernseys all through; how¬ 
ever, the difference in the quantity will 
far more than offset the difference in the 
percentage of fat. There are entirely too 
many people who call anything that is 
black and white, whether they have an 
ounce of purebred blood in their veins or 
not, Holsteins, and I think there is 
where a great deal of misconception 
arises. jonN c. bream. 
Pennsylvania. 
On page 1390, in the inquiry of C. O. 
B. about Holsteins, your reply seems to 
be only partly true. In respect to the 
leading family of Holsteins, that is an 
unsettled question with the breeders them¬ 
selves. W here I do not like your reply 
is with regard to the butter fat test of 
Holstein milk. You make out that the 
average Holstein milk tests under 3 per 
cent, for you say many are under that, 
while a few will test above. Perhaps the 
best way to get at the average test of any 
breed is to take the total number of cows 
tested for yearly records. In 1915 there 
were 1,992 purebred Holstein cows for 
yearly records, and the average per cent 
tat was 3.43. My experience as a breeder 
has been that Holsteins will test right 
around 3.5, while anyone can select a 
family that will test 4 per cent or above. 
New York. roy. w. chamberlain. 
License for Horseshoeing 
. S. W. B., on page 1429, asks if there 
is a bill before the Legislature of New 
York State prohibiting farmers from do¬ 
ing their own shoeing. In reply you say 
there is no such law. Would you state 
when the law, Chapter 558, Laws of 1899 
of the State of New York, was abolished, 
which required that any man shoeing 
horses was obliged to have a license? At 
that time, if you had been a master horse- 
shoer. that is, been in business for your¬ 
self three years, before that bilf was 
passed, you could go to the county clerk 
and take an oath and he would give you a 
license. If you had not run a shop three 
years before 1S99 you had to go before the 
board and pass an examination, which I 
am told that a great many failed to pass. 
At that time there seemed to be quite a 
number of men shoeing horses who were 
not experienced enough to fit shoes and 
drive nails without causing a great deal 
of suffering to the horses. I do not re¬ 
member just what the fine was for viola¬ 
tion of the law, but I think it was 850 
for the first time. f. j. 
R. N.-Y.—At the Attorney General’s 
office in Albany we learned that Chapter 
o58. Laws of 1899, was repealed by Chap¬ 
ter 83 of the Laws of 1907. We cannot 
find any recent legislation on the subject. 
Abscess; Dairy Feed 
1. M ill you advise me how to treat a 
cow that has had an abcess and lost all her 
milk on the two hind teats? She was a 
very good producer. We treated her with 
hot water compresses and massaged her 
with lard. The abscess seems to be gone, 
but a large lump can be felt in the udder. 
2. Also recommend a good economical ra¬ 
tion for Llolsteins with following roughage 
and feed on hand: Good clover hay, oat 
straw and sweet cornstalks, with plenty 
of small ears still left on, and dairy feed. 
3. \\ ould you list the composition of the 
most common feeds used for dairy cows? 
New York. ' B . f. 
1. It would seem that there was noth¬ 
ing that you could now do to get the cow 
to give milk again out of the hindquar¬ 
ters. at least not for this lactation period. 
It is possible after freshening again use 
of quarters may be returned. 
2. Feed two feeds of clover hav a day. 
Cows may have access to straw at middle 
of day and cornstalks may be fed after 
supper. Give cows all the water they 
will take twice a day. A large roughage 
consumption will save on the grain bill. 
Mix 300 lbs. dairy feed. 100 lbs. gluten, 
100 lbs. oil meal. 50 lbs. cottonseed meal, 
together with one lb. salt added for each 
100 ll>s feed. 
3. The digestible composition of the 
common feeds used for the dairv cow fol¬ 
low. 
Feed 
Per ct. 
Digest¬ 
ible 
Per Ct. 
Digest¬ 
ible 
Per Ct. 
Digest¬ 
ible 
Protelu 
C’liyd’te 
! Fat 
Torn silage. 
LI 
15 
.7 
Corn stover. 
o o 
47.S 
1.0 
.9 
Alfalfa hav. 
10.fi 
39.0 
Clover hay. 
7.fi 
39.3 
l.S 
Mixed hav. 
4.3 
44.3 
1.2 
Cornmeal . 
fi.9 
09.0 
3.5 
Hominv feed. 
7.0 
61.2 
7.3 
Gluten feed. 
21.fi 
51.9 
3.2 
Wheat bran. 
12.5 
41.fi 
3.0 
Wheat middlings... 
13.4 
40.2 
4 3 
Ground oats. 
9.4 
51.4 
4.1 
Ground harlev. 
9 0 
fifi.S 
1.6 
Cottonseed meal.... 
33.4 
24.3 
7.9 
Linseed oil meal... 
30.2 
32.fi 
0.7 
Dried brewers’ grains 
21.5 
30.5 
6.1 
H. f. or. 
The annual business meeting of the 
Rural Savings and Loan Association will 
be held January 13th, 1919, for the pur¬ 
pose of electing officers and directors for 
the coming year. m. g. keyes, 
Secretary. 
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