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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 13, 10J9 
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A RE you in any degree familiar with the two 
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International swivel-reach coupling? If you are a 
wagon user and do not know these improvements, 
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You will find the International fifth-wheel is a strong and 
solid support between bolster and sandboard. It is already 
famous for reinforcing and saving wear and tear on the en¬ 
tire front gear, preventing breaking and bending of king bolt 
and circle iron. 
You will find the International swivel-reach coupling re¬ 
lieves the reach, hounds, and wheels of all twisting strains 
under roughest road conditions. Compare it with the racking 
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These are both exclusive International features, each worth 
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The Cow and Her Care 
Trouble with Milk Preserving Cottage Cheese 
( an you tell me the cause of milk going 
thick or clabbered half an hour after 
milking? The milk is quite sweet. It 
has happened twice in succession in the 
morning. Cow is a Jersey, four years 
old. had second calf last March and is 
in calf again three months. The milking 
utensils were clean. I feed eornmeal, 
ground oats middling, oilmeal and mixed 
hay. This last week cow has pastured on 
ragweed, smartweed and milkweed. I 
feed plenty of these weeds to the stock 
when they are young and tender, and 
they are crazy for them, but this week’s 
rain has made plenty of them grow, and 
I have fed a lot of them. The cow seems 
to be quite healthy and cleans up all I 
feed each meal. w. ir. j. 
New Jersey. 
I do not think there is anything about 
your feed that would cause milk to 
thicken so soon after it is drawn, al¬ 
though it is hard to tell what so many 
and such a variety of weeds might do. 
The only likely cause of the milk thick¬ 
ening would be bacterial growth. There 
are a group of organisms known as sweet 
curdlers that occasionally cause milk to 
curdle without going sour, but seldom in 
so short a time as you mention. Milk 
from an udder infected with garget also 
thickens up some, and is rather ropy when 
it is drawn. H. F. j. 
Foamy Cream 
I am shipping my cream, and the last 
two cans are reported as arriving foam¬ 
ing and running out. Please tell cause 
and remedy. w. s. M. 
New York. 
It would seem that your cream must 
contain gas organisms or yeasts. Either 
might cause the foaming. It is more 
likely gas. The main source of either of 
these organisms is feed, bedding and barn 
dirt. If much dirt, particularly feces, 
gets into the milk from the body of the 
cow, gassy milk and cream is most sure 
to result rather quickly at this time of 
year. Care should also be taken to keep 
all utensils, especially the separator, 
strictly clean. H. F. j. 
Dairy Ration; Lime and Seeding; 
Freezing Ice Supply 
1. I have four cows that have nothing 
for roughage but rather poor hay the year 
round. I feed !\ grain ration of equal 
parts of wheat bran, middlings and 
gluten. I feed about a peck of this mix¬ 
ture to each cow twice a day. Could you 
suggest anything better? I don’t want 
over three ingredients, as my mixing box 
will only hold three sacks at a time. 
2. When you speak of liming land, what 
is meant, building lime, such as we use 
in making plaster, or pulveria d lime rock, 
or will either do? 3. About how much 
grass seed should be sown to the acre in 
seeding down, and about how much clover 
seed to the bushel of grass seed should be 
used? 4. Do you think a good quantity 
of ice could be put up in the following 
manner: Take four 12-in. boards of such 
length as to make an inclosure, say 12x14, 
or bigger if necessary, and fill this with 
water, and after it freezes solid take the 
boards off and set them on top of the first 
layer, drawing them in an inch and filling 
again and freezing, and so on until a good 
bulk of it is built up. The filling to be 
done a little at a time, say an inch or 
two, and repeated as fast as it freezes. 
T s there anything that could be used on 
the boards to keep the ice from adhering 
to them? After a good block of ice was 
built up in this way a house could be 
built over it and kept in the ordinary 
way. ii. b. i). 
Albany, N. Y. 
3. If you are going to use only equal 
parts of three feeds it would he better to 
use cottonseed meal in place of middlings 
to put the necessary protein into the 
ration. 
2. Either air-slaked building lime or 
ground limestone may he used for liming 
land. 
3. In seeding down land use about 22 
lbs. of Timothy and <5 lbs. of clover seed. 
4. It does not seem to me that the 
scheme you mention would be a practical 
one. If one was sure of constantly freez¬ 
ing weather it might work, but even then 
there would be the difficulty of removing 
the ice in small cakes for use. 
Keeping Rennet 
How can I preserve rennet? I have 
some, and some worms have got into it. 
I washed the rennet clean in water and 
then put it back in the bag, then added 
fresh milk to same, hung it over a fire 
until it dried, and then placed rennet in 
cellar. IIow can 1 prevent the worms 
from getting in rennet? T. B. 
Peekskill, N. Y. 
You should blow up the rennets and tie 
a string around the opening and hang 
them up in the air away from the sun to 
dry. Another way is to split them open 
and salt them on both sides and store 
them until ready for use. I should judge 
that rennets that had been coated with 
dried milk would get in bad shape. 
II. V. J. 
Is it possible to preserve cottage cheese 
for several months by packing it. tightly 
in jars and covering with paraffin, or is 
there any other method by which it may 
be kept for some time? mbs. p. f. c. 
Connecticut. 
The only known way to keep cottage 
cheese for more than two or three weeks 
is to put it in cold storage and freeze it. 
It is all a matter of keeping it at a low 
enough temperature to prevent the bac¬ 
teria from continued development. Good 
clean flavored cheese can be kept in an 
ordinary refrigerator for a few weeks if 
it is put in the refrigerator immediately 
after it is made. u. f. j. 
Rye, a Dual-purpose Crop; Currying 
Cows 
An item in “Hope Farm Notes,” issue 
of November 16 last, attracted my atten¬ 
tion to a great extent, as it so admirably 
fits our own case. The writer speaks of 
rye thrashing being over, and that the 
reason of there being an excess of rye over 
crops of former years was that because 
of labor conditions the rye which was 
sown for cover crops was not all plowed 
down last Spring, so was left for grain. 
He further states that since rye can be 
used as a cover crop and still 'be left to 
mature for grain if so desired, for this rea¬ 
son he advocated sowing rye on every 
piece of ground that is left to lie open. 
This struck me as so nearly our own 
method a^-d advocacy that we could not 
help but comment upon it. For a number 
of years I have advocated just such a 
practice, and for a few years have prac¬ 
ticed what I preached, but in certain in¬ 
stances have been unable to get all seeded 
that I desired, owing to scarcity of help 
or other reasons, one of which was a badly 
tangled cornfield wh n the time came for 
60 wing the cover crop. The beauty of the 
practice lies in the fact expressed by the 
writer of “Hope Farm Notes,” in that it 
can be left to mature or be plowed under 
for green manure, thus making it a dual- 
purpose crop. We frequently find those 
who do not like to work with rye. but to 
those who are thus inclined I would say 
that they have not the welfare of their 
soil at heart, or they would brave the 
prickly job for the sake of the added fer¬ 
tility the additional straw gives their soil. 
There is a man living in my immediate 
locality who not so long ago remarked 
that the majority of farmers do not raise 
enough rye to maintain the fertility of 
their soil. And he can back up his state¬ 
ment with good crops and a fertile soil. 
He has raised considerable rye, returning 
the straw to the soil. Yet his success 
would have been even greater had he used 
rye as a cover crop in addition to his 
other work with rye. 
. .There is just one more point that we 
have found still better in the growing of 
rye as a cover crop, and that is it may be 
used as a hay crop if we wish to do so. 
So when we sow it early and it gets an 
early start and heavy growth before Win¬ 
ter sets in, we have a good stand for 
Spring growth, and a fair chance for a 
heavy hay crop if we do not get it plowed 
under for green manure. Thus it serves 
as a cover crop, or as a hay crop, or if 
not utilized for either, as a grain crop. 
Speed the day when farmers realize that, 
if conditions permit, they are neglecting 
their duty when they fail to utilize the 
cover crop' system. 
Saving Feed with the Brush.— 
There is an old traditional story of an 
old woman who kissed her cow and said, 
“Everyone to his own taste.” I once read 
of a man who actually scrubbed the teeth 
of his cows with a toothbrush. To pass 
from these bits of nonsense to some real 
sound dairy logic, I wonder why more 
people do not use the brush on their 
cows as they do on their horses. It pays 
to use the brush on horses. Then why 
not on cows? Or, do they seem to think 
it is just a fad or bit of nonsense, as we 
figure those of the woman and man above 
referred to? There are various reasons 
why we should not fail to use the brush 
on our cows. Chief of these is the ap¬ 
pearance, saving of feed, and, above all. 
the sanitary effect it has upon the milking 
operations. It certainly adds to the better 
appearance of the herd when the brush is 
frequently used. That smooth, glossy ap¬ 
pearance cannot be secured from neglect¬ 
ing our cows. It requires skillful feeding 
and careful grooming to achieve that fine, 
sleek appearance we all love to see in 
cattle. It means a saving of feed, siuee 
the more we groom the better the appear¬ 
ance with the same amount of feed. If 
the same appearance were to be obtained 
without grooming, an enormous amount 
of feed would be required, and then no 
presentable appearance Could be attained. 
Most of all should we groom because of 
the sanitary condition that we should aim 
to secure in the milk. No one can expect 
the milk to be clean and free from disease 
germs when cows are coated with manure 
continually. Keeping them clean will 
mean much toward keeping milk pure. 
Of course many, in fact, all of us, aim at 
doing this by liberal bedding, but this is 
not enough. Bedding is necessary and 
proper, but it will not fill the bill. The 
essential thing is to use the brush, and 
then use it some more. 
WARNER E. FARVER. 
