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Vht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 11, 1920 
MERIDALE 
JERSEYS 
ANNUAL SALE 
September 17th, 1920 
We Shall Sell: 
A Gold Medal Daughter of The Jap 
A Two-Year-Old Son of The Jap 
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Daughters of Ten Register of Merit Bulls 
A Long List of Register of Merit Cows— 
some with records close to 1,000-lb. mark 
An Imported Son of Sybil’s Gamboge out of 
a Prize Winning Daughter of The Jap 
A Handsome String of Daughters of The 
Cid—a Prize Winning Grandson of 
The Jap 
This is Your Opportunity— 
for the cattle go at Buyers’ Prices 
For Catalogue Address 
TOM DEMPSEY AYER & McKINNEY 
Sale Manager or Merridale Farms 
Westerville, Ohio Meridale, New York 
AYRSHIRES 
SOUTH FARM 
AYRSHIRES 
We are offering animals of all ages for sale. 
Let us know your wants. Visitors welcome. 
GEORGE A. CROSS. Mgr. - Willoughby, Ohio 
MILKING SHORTHORNS 
Milking Shorthorns & u e $ 
for milk and meat. The Durham cow of our forefathers. 
Inquiries invited. WALNUT DROVE FARM. Weshingtoiwille. N. Y. 
MILKING SHORTHORNS. Everett Fox. Lowell. Mass 
| . HOLSTEINS :: | 
Reg. Holstein Bull Call & b£S5.““»S 
Heifer Calves. $50 upwards. Grade Holstein Heifer 
Calves. $15 to $25. HENRY K JARVIS, Port Byron, N.Y. 
tlnlxteln-Krietinn Heifer find Hull Cnl, Pure hred register- 
11 ed and high grade. Splendid individuals and breeding. 
Reg. Dll roc Pigs. BR0WNCR0FT FARMS. McGr.w. Cortland Co.. NT. 
r „„ o„|„ Twenty-Five Head U n |olaino Fifty head 
ror oalfl—Fine. High tirade 1101816103 registered 
Hampshire sheep. Write SUNNV SLOPE FARMS, Scia, Naw Fork 
Reg. and HIGH GRADE COWS 
the kind that show a profit above high-priced Feed and 
Labor. KAItMNtiER. Monrey, N.V. -Phone (oun.” 
HORSES 
For Sale—Reg. Belgian Stallion 
Redskin 11., No. 86R3, foaled May 1,1914. Light Bay, Proven 
Sire, Blue Ribbon Winner. Sire: Redskin. Dam: Draga. 
“THE ORCHARDS.” Lakeville, Conn. 
GOATS 
n.-.i.,., Cnrm offers for sale Toggenburg Milk Goats, 
Koselawnrarm Pure bred and Grades. Milk Stock. 
A. A. HALEY - Old Mystic, Conn. 
| DOGS and FERRETS 
Collie Puppies Femllel. $12 
Also poultry, hares and Holstein cattle. Hatching 
Eggs and Breeding stock for sale. Write your wants. 
Catalog Free H. A. Souder, Sellersville, Pa. 
Airedales, Collies, and Old English Shepherd Dogs 
Trained male dogs and brood matrons; pitpsall ages. 
FLEMISH GIANT. NEW ZEALAND AND RUFUS RED BELGIAN 
RABBITS. Send 6c. for large instructive list of what 
you want. W. K. WATSON, Box 1745. Oakland. Iowa 
rr n n rTQ For Sale. ETSSSKW.S5! 
PlRnr I .1 Price list free. Catalogue 10c. 
1 la III 11 Li 1 W 0.11. KF.FlKJt A CO., (jr.euwlcli, Ohio 
mi I ft? DTTDO The handsome and intelligent kind, 
LuLLlL rUTJ Nelson Bkos., Grove City, Pa 
For Sale—A Fine Litter of Airedale Pups mOTf?o 
Iriih Terrier* and Police pups. Mn. FRANK MEAD, Aminii, H.T. 
HOLSTE1NS 
Paid in milk for Purebred 
Holsteins 
The Reveille, Bellingham, Wash., re¬ 
ports that the Pacific Coudensary Co. 
sells high-grade Ilolsteins to the ranchers 
at cost, taking payment in milk. 
The company needs more milk and by 
introducing Holsteins expects to make 
dairying a profitable industry, thus in¬ 
creasing the acreage in dairy farms as 
well as the milk output per average cow. 
.Tust another instance of the standing of 
Holsteins among business men. 
Send for Free Illustrated Booklets. 
They contain valuable information for 
any Dairyman. 
THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION 
105 Hudson Street 
Brattleboro, Vermont 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIA1N 
CATTLE 
Registered heifer and bull calves of 
excellent breeding at farmers’ prices, 
Also a few choice fresh and springer 
cows. Write your wants. 
R. H. BEARD & SONS, Cortland, N. Y. 
REGISTERED AND 
GRADE HOLSTEINS 
.you calf club pro- 
I hare 50 registered 
calves, 3 to 10 mos. old, 
1 OO each for tlie lot; choice, 
28. 20 registered and high 
heifers and bulls, car of 
any age that you 'want, X 
Holstein heifer calves, 320 
each, express paid, in lots of 5. 
JOHN C. REAGAN. Tully, N.Y. 
Two Well Bred Heifers For Sale 
Their sire is by a son of KING SEGIS PON¬ 
TIAC ALCARTRA, the famous $50,000 bull. 
Their dams are by a son of JOHANNA KING 
SEGIS, the famous 40-lb. grandson of KING 
SEGIS. 
For Pedi (trees and Prices write 
G. G. BURLINGAME, R. F. D. 2, CAZENOVIA, N. Y. 
How Not to Treat Fistula 
A barbarous treatment for fistula of 
the withers was recommended the other 
day by a horseman who, no doubt, meant 
well, but did not know better. We wish 
most emphatically to condemn the method 
as cruel, inhuman, unnecessary and liable 
to do more harm than good, and to sug¬ 
gest that anyone guilty of such malprac¬ 
tice should be prosecuted to the extent 
of the law. 
The empiric referred to advised satur¬ 
ating the withers of the poor horse with 
turpentine and then heating it in with a 
red-hot shovel, such its is used by a black¬ 
smith. Tha.t, he said, would be sure to 
Cure the case, despite the fact that fistula 
of the withers means deep-seated abscesses 
containing pus, dead or necrotic tissue 
and sinuses, often termed “pipes,” leading 
to the surface. In such a condition ra¬ 
tional treatment consists in laying open 
the pockets and pipes to secure free drain¬ 
age. removal of the dead or diseased tis¬ 
sues. swabbing with tincture of iodine, 
or some other disinfectant preferred by 
the veterinarian, then packing the cavi¬ 
ties with antiseptic gauze or oakum sat¬ 
urated in an antiseptic solution. The 
veterinarian also will direct as to after 
treatment and probably give hypodermic 
injections of bacteria against pus forma¬ 
tion. The turpentine-hot-iron treatment 
cannot possibly get rid of pus or diseased 
tissues, but surely causes terrible suffer¬ 
ing and may induce extensive sloughing 
of skin. 
Never shall we forget a “demonstra¬ 
tion” of the quack treatment mentioned! 
It was done on a big Clydesdale farm 
at which wc happened to arrive just in 
time for the event. The owner ran out 
of his farm forge building carrying a 
straightened wagon tire, one end of which 
had been bent into a hook and heated red 
hot. “.Tust in time.” he cried. “I’m go¬ 
ing to try out a new plan of treating 
‘thixtelo.’” he added. “You bathe the 
withers with this dope aud then it is to 
be het in with this iron. Here goes!” 
And it did go, with a vengeance, and so 
did the mare. The dope consisted largely 
of turpentine and kerosene, and it had 
been lavishly applied to the withers and 
ran down on the shoulders of the mare. 
When the hot iron hook was held over 
the withers the mare went up in the air 
and the hot iron set the liniment in a 
blaze. At once she broke away and ran 
to where long stacks of hay had been built 
as windbreaks around the farmyard, 
started rubbing to quench the flames, hut 
set the hay on fire. Then there was some¬ 
thing doing on that farm ! The mare ran 
half a mile before stopping, and nobody 
laid a hand on her for several weeks. 
Happily the fire was put out before much 
harm was done; hut the fistula was not 
cured. The farmer was scared and mad. 
and remarked to us before we .drove off 
disguisted: “They can fool a man once, 
but that’ll bo enough for me.” Inci¬ 
dentally it may he added that the fistula 
on the mare iu question, and on several 
other purebred mares on the same farm, 
had been caused by n stallion biting, 
which suggests that vicious sires should 
be muzzled. a. s. a. 
Hidebound Horse 
What can I do for a hidebound horse? 
Connecticut. R. W. R. 
Hidebound condition indicates general 
ill-thrift, which may be due to any one of 
a large number of different causes. Com¬ 
monly, however, one finds that indiges¬ 
tion is the direct cause, aud that may he 
induced by irregularities of the teeth, or 
sharp points, or split or diseased molar 
(grinder) teeth, or shells or crowns of 
milk-tooth premolars lodged on the in¬ 
coming permanent molars, or between 
them and the cheeks or tomrue. A veter¬ 
inary dentist, therefore, should be em¬ 
ployed to put the teeth in order as the 
first step of treatment in all such cases, 
and in addition the coat should be clipped 
off, if it is long and rough. Next exam¬ 
ine for intestinal worms. Their presence is 
indicated by a furry collar of dandruff¬ 
like substance around the anus and streaks 
of mucus in that region. If such indica¬ 
tions are found, mix in th’o-feed night and 
morning for a week a tablespoonful of a 
mixture of two parts of table salt and one 
part each, by weight, of dried sulphate 
of iron (powdered copperas) and flowers 
of sulphur; then stop for 10 days and 
then repeat the treatment to destroy 
worms hatched from eggs left by the, first 
brood. The medicine blackens the feces 
and kills the worms internally, so that 
they should not be looked for in the feces. 
Omit iron for a mare in foal and increase 
sulphur correspondingly. Colts take less 
doses, according to age and size. If 
worms are not found present, mix in the 
feed night and morning for two weeks a 
tablespoonful of a mixture of two parts 
of powdered wood charcoal and one part 
each of bicarbonate of eoda and pow¬ 
dered mix vomica, hydrastis and fenu¬ 
greek. Feed crushed oats and one-ninth 
part of wheat bran, by weight, allowing 
one pound of the mixture for every hun¬ 
dred pounds of body weight in three feeds, 
as a day’s ration. Allow a similar 
amount of good hay, most of it to be given 
at night. Increase grain feed when the 
horse is working hard, and decrease it 
materially during spells of idleness. 
A. S. A. 
JERSEYS 
Investment 
Cows 
J ERSEYS not only pay dividends 
in butterfat, but often return 
more than their original cost in 
offspring. Jerseys lose less milk¬ 
ing time than any other breed. 
Jerseys have more yield years. 
Cost less to keep, are healthful, 
and productive wherever a cow 
can live. 
Start with one Jersey and she will 
make you want more. This is the 
way the most profitable herds in 
the country have grown. If you 
have scrub cows that are eating 
their heads off without bringing 
in a dollar profit, sit right down 
and write for money-making facta 
about Jerseys— 
“The Profit Breed* 
The American Jeriey Cattle Club 
324-G Weit 23d St., New York 
An Institution for the Benefit of 
Every Jersey Owner 
HAMILTON irDCrVC 
FARM U LK9L I 9 
Several Grandsons of 
FERN’S OXFORD NOBLE 
P 5012 ITC—Out of R. of M. Dams. Priced to 
SELL IMMEDIATELY 
HAMILTON FARM. GLADSTONE. N. J. 
For Sale-One Reg. Jersey Bull 
2 yre. old, whoso Sire is Jaooba’s Fairyana’s Pogis. On. 
registered Holstein Bull, X yr. old, whoso Sire is King 
Piotortje Segis Corona. Ono registered Holstein Bull,If, 
mos. old, with good hacking. All at farmer's prices. All 
tuberculin tested. I.. A. STOUT. Mcidaw View Firm, Porlaillc. N.Y. 
Fosterfield’s Herd Registered JERSEYS 
ALL AGES. On account of being unable to see to 
my cattle personally I will make prices that will 
lead to business. CHARLES G. FOSTER, P. 
O. Iioxl73, Morristown, Morris Co., N. J. 
CAI p One Pure Hred JERSEY HULL CALF. 
oiU'L Ruben A. Skinnkr, K. F. I). 8. Rockville, Conn. 
RABBITS 
It Pays to Raise Hares 
From lull Blooded Sires & Dams 
All Specimen. Illuttriti* C«talo|u« 10c- 
JOSEPH BLANK, Dept. A 
421 Highland Av«,. MOUNT VEKN0N. H. T. 
I Cl m A N Pedigreed, 83 and up. Flemish Giants 
J"—*-"-?*?—Black, Pedigreed, 84 and lip. 
Ralnieti Unena Fine breeders for sale. Bucks and 
Belgian flaroS does. Also young stock. Write 
for price*. Ileelthy stock, r. STKVltNS. ll»,™nimlll«. X.Y. 
Flemish Giant Rabbits I'edVgrc'd 'Flem¬ 
ish Giant Rabbits. ALFRED WHITNEY, lluleolt Center, N.Y. 
F or Sale. Black SIBERIAN HARES. Apply 
W. 1 . XV IIKHI.K, 424 Princeton ltd., R. F. 0., Fitchburg. Man. 
1 AA Flemish Giants to be sold regardless of Price. 
1UU stamp, please. llKi.i.mt Kauuithv, K. Aurora, N.Y. 
FLEMISH GIANTS, young and matured, from pedigreed and 
l eg. stock. Prices reasonable. H. B TEH ETCH, Somemlla, N. J. 
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Chemung Counties. N. Y. 
Prefer men who have horse or auto. 
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