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Vht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
January 15, 1921 
Designed with consideration 
for the cow and in observance 
of the principles of milk secretion 
Designed Right 
Built Right 
Installed Right 
It is Right 
A Better Way oi Milking 
T ONG ago the De Laval Company realized there is 
no more reason for hand milking than for harvesting 
a grain crop by hand. But designing a milker was not 
simply a problem in mechanics. A successful mechan¬ 
ical milker must work in harmony with the delicate 
organism of a living cow. 
After many years of thorough research and test, and 
after four years of commercial use, the De Laval 
Milker has proved itself to be a better way of milking. 
Now the many De Laval users are practically unanimous in 
their agreement that it not only saves time and eliminates 
drudgery, but actually increases the flow of milk. 
The De Laval will make your dairy business more 
profitable and pleasant. Write for full information. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR COMPANY 
NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO 
165 Broadway 29 E. Madison Street 61 Beale Street 
. Uniform Pulsations 
'Please the Cow 
Soon er or later you will use a 
De Laval 
Milker or Cream Separator 
Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Cough 
We have a heifer that has a cough in 
the morning. I have been giving her 
flaxseed syrup in scalded bran every night 
for 10 days. She is not any worse, but 
does not get better. A. j. H. 
Ohio. 
Cough is a symptom of irritation, which 
may be due to any one of a large number 
of causes. To relieve it one must deter¬ 
mine and remove the cause. On general 
principles it is always well to have the 
tuberculin tost applied, as tuberculosis is 
a very common cause of cough in cattle. 
The teeth, tongue and throat should be 
carefully examined. Cough affecting cat¬ 
tle in the morning often is due to irritat¬ 
ing gases in a badly ventilated stable that 
is not kept clean, or from dust from hay, 
when a cow stands near the hay chute. 
Depraved Aopetite 
I have two purebred Guernsey calves 
about one and two months old, that chew 
the boards on their pen all the while. I 
feed them well. They have milk to drink, 
Alfalfa hay to eat, also whole oats. 
New York. K. w. H. 
Indigestion usually is the cause of this 
desire to eat wood, bones, etc. Add wheat 
bran and' oilmeal to the ration, allowing 
the calves to help themselves to it at will. 
Also add limewater freely to the milk, 
and, if possible, put a big lump of chalk 
in the pen for the calves to lick. Rock 
salt may also be allowed. Should the 
trouble persist, give a dose of castor oil 
in milk and afterward mix bicarbonate of 
soda in the feed twice daily, or give it 
dissolved in water. Start with a tea¬ 
spoonful dose and increase that if neces¬ 
sary. 
Thrush 
What is good for the thrush in a horse? 
Pennsylvania. ' e. m. 
The term thrush is applied to that dis¬ 
ease of the cleft of the frog of the foot 
which is characterized by a discharge of 
thin, foul-smelling liquid from that part. 
It is caused by standing in wet and filth 
in the stable. Treat by perfectly cleans¬ 
ing the sole, cutting away all loose or 
rotten horn of frog and cleaning out the 
cleft of the frog. Then puck calomel 
into the cleft and on each side of it. cover 
with pine tar and oakum and repeat the 
treatment every three days until well. In 
very bad cases repeat, the treatment daily. 
Keep the horse out of wet and filth. Bed 
the stall with planing-mill shavings or 
sawdust after cleansing. If possible, 
scatter land plaster (gypsum) freely on 
the stall floor after cleansing. Calomel 
is rather expensive, therefore it is eco¬ 
nomical to add an equal part Of sub¬ 
nitrate of bismuth and powdered alum, if 
many horses have to be treated. 
SILOS at HALF PRICE 
My Winter Sale of Silos is now 
on. I will allow a discount of 
50 % on all silos sold this month. 
My silos are of a well-known 
make, all new and first-class in 
every way. Built of the genuine 
Clear Oregon Fir, the most 
durable material used for silos. 
Your neighbor probably bought 
one from me last year. Ask 
him how he likes it and how 
much he saved. 
M. L. SMITH, 
MFRS. ACT. 
113 Flood Building 
MEADVILLE PENNSYLVANIA 
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EveryPart 
built to weather 
the storms. Tight-fitting^ 
r heavy staves, creosoted; heavy 1 
steel hoops with rolled threads; ' 
'doors like safe. Beautiful red cedar roof. 
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CREAMERY package MFG. CO. 
I West Street Butlaud, VS* 
GREEN MOUNTAIN 
’NION GRAINS was the first ready- 
mixed, balanced dairy Tation ever 
offered—and it’s always been known as the biggest 
producer that ever came out of a feed bag. 
Big Dairies use it. The Hershey Chocolate Company’s big herd of 2,000 
cows have eaten it for years and the Hershey Company urges all the farmers 
whose milk it buys to use it. They want more milk. They want it pro¬ 
duced as cheaply as possible. So they buy an average of four carloads of 
Union Grains every month. And they’re the kind of people who know 
whether it pays or not! 
Seventeen years of experience in mixing dairy feed goes into every bag. It’s a work 
of real experts. You can’t be sure that your own mixtures are the best you can do 
until you have tried Union Grains. 
Write (or a Union Grain* Cost Sheet and know what dairy (eed actually is costing yon. 
We also make Ubiko Stock Feed, Ubiko Pig Meal, Ubiko 
Buttermilk Egg Mash, Growing Mash, and Scratch Feed. 
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THE UBIKO MILLING CO. 
Dept. R 
Cincinnati, Ohio 
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I YORKER in Ohio. Prefer men who have horse or auto. Address 
J.c. MULHOLLAND, General Delivery, Columbus, Ohio 
or 
The Rural New v 3-ker* 333 W. 3Qth St., New York City 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a *‘square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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Lameness 
I have a mule, and as soon as I work 
her she goes lame in her rig’ht front leg 
and throws her leg out from her body in 
walking. I have blistered her shoulder, 
but it does not cure. E. n. h. 
Virginia. 
A personal examination is necessary 
in all cases of mysterious lameness, so 
we cannot give confident advice in the one 
described. In shoulder lameness the 
horse stands down squarely on the foot 
of the affected leg. but has difficulty in 
stepping over an obstacle, and may drag 
the toe. The foot is thrust forward if * 
it is the seat of the lameness. If you are 
certain that the shoulder is the seat of 
the lameness, it would be well to repeat 
the blister, provided the skin has fully 
recovered from the one first applied. It 
would be best, of course, if you could have 
an expert make the necessary examina¬ 
tion and prescribe appropriate treatment 
after locating the seat of the trouble. 
Heaves 
Will you tell me what to give my horse? 
lie has a slight symptom of heaves; oc¬ 
casionally he coughs and belches gas after 
drinking. Is pine tar and raw oil, equal 
parts, good for the cough? If so, how 
much for a dose, ai^ how often given? 
New York. s. J. T. 
If the horse really has heaves, gas will 
be expelled from the rectum during sp^Us 
of coughing, and a double, bellows-like 
action of the abdomen will be noticed at 
the flanks. A heavey horse can inhale 
air normally, but cannot exhale it with¬ 
out help of the abdominal muscles, which 
action causes the heaving characteristic 
of the disease. A mixture of equal parts 
of pine tar and oil, given in lialf-ounce 
doses two or three times a day to allay 
cough, is fairly effective for the purpose, 
but confirmed heaves is incurable. Bet¬ 
ter results usually are had from giving a 
half-ounce dose of Fowler’s solution of 
arsenic night and morning in a little 
water or mixed in feed. The bowels 
should be kept active at. all times, if neces¬ 
sary feeding bran mash or raw linseed 
oil mixed in the feed. Prefer wet oat 
straw or oat sheaves to hay in Winter, 
and in Summer let the affected horse live 
on grass. Do not give any bulky feed 
at noon, if the horse has to work, and 
do not work him soon after a meal. Pro¬ 
prietary heave remedies also are useful in 
lessening misery and enabling the horse 
to work. 
