748 RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Pasture and Barn Notes 
Protecting the Pastvre.^A good 
many pastures are ruined by letting cat¬ 
tle trample on them too early in the 
Spring. It is not an uncommon sight to 
see two or three acres adjacant to dairy 
barns that are rendered practically worth¬ 
less for grass production in this way. 
In our own experience there is another 
reason also for keeping cows off the pas¬ 
ture until they are ready to be turned 
out full time, and that, is the fact that 
as soon as they begin to get a little grass 
to eat they commence to be uneasy, and 
are almost sure to go off in milk pro¬ 
duction. We therefore plan to keep the 
cows off the pasture and closely confined 
until we are ready to turn them out for 
good. 
Teaching the Cow to Lead. —Some 
time ago -we wrote a note expressing our 
determination to teach all of our purebred 
animals to lead at an early age. It will 
be some time, however, before the fruits 
of this resolution are evident in the milk¬ 
ing herd. Every little while we are called 
upon to lead a cow that has never been 
through the experience. After a little ex¬ 
perimenting we have come to the con¬ 
clusion that it pays to have a headstall 
ready for just such emergencies. Most 
farmers—and we have made the same 
mistake ourselves—will tie a rope around 
the cow’s horns and attempt to lead her 
that way. If she fights, this will cause 
her to stand on her head and cut other 
antics which are not recommended as ex¬ 
ercises 'for a valuable dairy cow. With a 
snugly-fitting headstall, however, she is 
controlled much more easily, and will in 
most cases give in rather quickly. 
Barnyard Itch. —Occasionally we have 
cases of barnyard itch break out. W e 
don’t know much about the disease^ or 
where the infection comes from, but do 
know that it will entirely disappear for a 
time, only to unexpectedly occur on some, 
animal. After considerable experiment¬ 
ing we have found that a quick and easy 
wash to cure it is to mix up a paste of 
sulphur and kerosene and apply it lightly 
to the spot with a finger. This seems to 
heal it up quickly and stop the spread. 
The spots will hair over. 
Water for Cai.vf.s. —We have had un¬ 
usually good results raising our calves 
this Winter. When we put' the water 
buckets into the barn for the cows we put 
one in each box stall where the calves are 
kept. They learn to operate them quickly 
and as a result we have had fresh water 
for them continually. While we have no 
direct proof of the fact, we are attribut¬ 
ing part of the unusual results we have 
got from the feed that we have used to 
this constant supply of fresh water. 
DAIRYMAN. 
Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Johne’s Disease 
All last Winter our cow’s bowels were 
very loose. She had clover hay and corn¬ 
stalks for roughage: her grain was a 
mixture of cottonseed, bran, gluten and 
oilmeal. We thought it was the bran 
that caused the trouble, so changed to 
ground oats, without effect. In the 
Spring, when turned on grass, she in¬ 
creased in flesh, but her bowels continued 
the same. She was fresh the last of 
July, and dry only about three weeks. 
We sold the calf when four days old. and 
she continued all right except for her 
bowels for two weeks or more, then had 
a bad attack of indigestion. She recovered 
from the indigestion, but browned flour 
given had no effect, on her bowels. Is 
there anything we can do to check the 
trouble so her movements would he nor¬ 
mal ? i.. w. B. 
Ohio. 
We think there can be little question 
that the cow is afflicted with Jolme's dis¬ 
ease, also called chroni • bacterial dysen¬ 
tery. It is contagious and incurable. The 
infection is contained in the feces and 1 
so is spread in contaminated bedding or 
feed eaten by other cattle. Appetite is 
retained to the end. the animal becoming 
gradually emaciated and always dying of 
the effects of the disease. Scouring tem¬ 
porarily may eea-e, in some cases, when 
feeding is generous, but it returns when 
the cow weakens from calving or other 
cause. Isolate the animal at once and 
have the veterinarian arrange to have 
scrapings of mucous membrane from the 
rectum and feces examined microscopi¬ 
cally at the State Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station or veterinary college. The 
acid-fast germs of the disease, which are 
very similar to the bacilli of tuberculosis, 
sometimes may be detected in this way. 
After death the lining membranes of the 
small intestine, latter third, are found in¬ 
tensely puckered or wrinkled. This is 
characteristic, but absolute proof of the 
presence can only be had by discovery of 
the germs. 
Coughing Steer 
I have a four-year-old steer which 
coughs quite a little. When he is used 
he coughs more. He is in good flesh, eats 
well; hair is shedding. Ilis breathing 
makes a wheezy noise. I would like to 
know what troubles him and what can he 
done. J. M. C. 
Connecticut. 
Tuberculosis is to be suspected as the 
cause of the chronic cough. The disease 
is incurable and contagious. There are 
many other causes of cough, but as tu¬ 
berculosis is a possibility it would be well 
to have a graduate veterinarian apply the 
tuberculin test. That will determine the 
matter one way or the other inside of 
48 hours. An affected animal should be 
destroyed. 
Depraved Appetite 
My calves, about one month old. lick 
and gnaw at most any kind of wood, and 
are not as thrifty as the average. Each 
one has a cow, adopted to suck. Cows 
have all the salt they want. Can you 
suggest what it is the calves are craving? 
New Jersey. n. p. p. 
Allow free access to rock salt. Where 
it can be obtained a lump of chalk placed 
in the pen for the calves often proves cor¬ 
rective or remedial in such cases of in¬ 
digestion. Lime water in milk also is 
helpful. Allow oats, wheat bran and 
oilmeal. 
Ringworm 
My cattle have a very bad case of barn 
itch. I should like your advice as to 
what will cure them. M. M. m. 
Vermont. 
Scrub spots clean, if necessary, first 
saturating daily with sweet oil. and then 
paint those on face twice daily with tinc¬ 
ture of iodine. Cleanse spots on neck and 
body in same way, and then wet them 
once a week with a solution of one pound 
of sulphate of copper (Milestone) in two 
quarts of hot water. Isolate affected 
cattle, as the disease is contagious. 
Cleanse, disinfect and whitewash stables 
and rubbing places. 
Warts 
I have a heifer 23 months old and 
coming fresh in about a month. Her ud¬ 
der has not developed very much, but 
instead there are clustered bunches of 
round balls. At first they looked like a 
bunch of grapes. One or two of them 
have grown as big as horse-chestnuts. 
They cover the two left teats. They 
just started about two months ago. Will 
you tell me rf they will go away them¬ 
selves or what would be a good treat¬ 
ment for them? Will the other two teats 
milk enough to feed a calf? f. b. 
Massachusetts. 
April 10, 1920 
Twice daily thoroughly rub iu some 
castor oil or olive oil. If that does not 
suffice try the effects of a solution of all 
the bicarbonate of soda hot water will 
dissolve. Twist off any wart that has 
a long, slim neck. All of the growths are 
warts and they may interfere with milk¬ 
ing or make it necessary to allow the calf 
to suck. 
Thin Cow 
I have a cow about five years old and 
about three-fourths Shorthorn, which I 
have been feeding wheat with straw which 
was grown too much to thrash. Timothy 
hay and Red-top, mixed with a little clo¬ 
ver, oats, cornmeal, and sometimes I put 
a handful of salt iu a feediug of 2 y 2 qts. 
of cornmeal o:- a handful of baking "soda. 
My cow eats well and drinks about two 
pails of water a day. She is as thin as she 
can get, I believe, although she gives 
about six to eight quarts of milk a day. 
and we are able to make about three to 
four pounds of butter per week. IIow 
can I fatten her? w. o. a. 
New York. 
Have the cow tested with tuberculin, 
as tuberculosis commonly causes such 
emaciation, and it is incurable and con¬ 
tagious and makes the milk dangerous 
for man or beast. Meanwhile stop the 
wheat and wheat straw and feed good 
clover or Alfalfa hay along with ground 
feed. 
Mrs. Flynn : "The neighborhood seems 
a bit noisy, Mrs. O'Brien.” Mrs. O’Brien: 
“Yis. Th’ only time it's quiet here is 
whin the trucks go by an’ drown th' 
noise.”—Credit Lost. 
Two Men With the Perfection 
Milker Take the Place of Five 
Men Milking by Hand 
S. E. Van Slyke’s Farm. 
on 
asked “How many cows can a milking- 
machine take care of in an hour?” S. E. Van 
Slyke, a practical dairyman who lias owned a Per¬ 
fection Milker for four years, said: “That all de¬ 
pends on the cows and the operators of the milker. 
We find that two men can milk as many cows per 
hour as five or six did by hand and do it much more 
easily. The Perfection sure is a time saver for the 
farmer.” 
Better Than Hand Milking on 
A. R. O. Test 
“The first winter we used the machine we 
tested a number of two-year-old heifers on seven- 
day A. R. O. work. As they had never been milked 
before we did not use the milking machine on them 
until the test was completed. You can be sure 
we were both surprised and pleased to find that 
their milk flow increased when the Perfection was 
put on them. 
“As they were milked four times a day for 
some time with the Perfection without anv udder 
trouble, we are 
confident the ma¬ 
chine will not hurt 
the cows as long 
as they are rightly 
used. We hope to 
do considerable A. 
R. O. work in the next year and will use the Per¬ 
fection for all of it.” 
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