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ttr RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 5, 1921 
CENTS a day invested in a 
DE LAVAL may save you 
from 25 cents to s 19° a day 
A 
DE LAVAL Cream Separator is the best paying invest¬ 
ment any cow owner can possibly make. 
It saves twice a day, 730 times a year, over any other 
system or inferior separator—in quantity and quality of prod¬ 
uct, time and labor. 
Its cost represents an investment of about 5 cents a day 
for ten years, including cost of operation and interest on the 
investment. With simple care it will give good service for 
20 to 30 years; it practically never wears out. 
Such an investment may save you from 25 cents to $1.00 
or more a day, according to the number of cows, returning 
from 500% to 2000% profit on the investment. 
Today a De Laval Cream Separator is one of the cheap¬ 
est things you can buy. With cheaper feeds and butter-fat 
at present prices there is more profit today in butter-fat than 
there was a year ago. Relatively, a De Laval is cheaper 
than it was a year ago. 
See the nearest De Laval agent. Even though you have 
only one good cow, it will pay you to own a De Laval. 
The De Laval Separator Company 
NEW YORK 
165 Broadway 
CHICAGO 
29 East Madison Street 
SAN FRANCISCO 
61 Beale Street 
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Use Dandelion 
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Add a half-teaspoon- 
ful to each gallon of 
winter cream and out 
of your churn comes 
butter of golden June 
shade to bring you 
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Shade” in your butter | 
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Standard Butter Color : 
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Will not color the buttermilk. Tasteless. 
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^Rxduce^Bursal Enlargements, 
Thickened, Swollen Tissues, 
Aj Curbs, Filled Tendons, Sore- 
W ness from Bruises or Strains; 
Jl 6top9 Spavin Lameness, allays pain. 
Does not blister, remove the hair or 
lay up the horse. $2.50 a bottle 
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strains, painful, swollen veins or glands. It 
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Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Caked Udder 
My cow has a badly caked udder each 
time she freshens. I have never done 
anything to prevent it. and am wondering 
if I can. She has an udder as hard as 
a stone every time she drops her calf. I 
have fussed with it for two weeks and 
even three; it does not get normal, and 
she gives a small amount of milk through¬ 
out the season. I believe if the harden 
ing of the udder could be prevented, she 
would be a valuable cow. She is due to 
calve in a month, and I am milking hei 
now once a day only. Can I safely mas 
sage her udder before calving? 
New York. e. h. k. 
Dry off the milk secretion as quickly 
as possible. Stop grain feed, but allow 
bran and a little oilmeal to regulate 
bowels. Add good hay to the ration. Let 
the cow take outdoor exercise every day. 
but do not allow' her to lie on cold ground 
or a bare concrete floor. Massage udder 
three times daily as calving time ap 
proaches, and w'hen she is about to calve 
give her a pound dose of Epsom salt iD 
three pints of water as oue dose, slowly 
and carefully from a' long-necked bottle, 
and afterward a tablespoonful each of 
powdered saltpeter and poke root, night 
and morning until the udder softens 
Milk three times daily after calving, mas 
saging the udder well each time, and 
make the cow take plenty of exercise 
Keep her bowels relaxed. 
Azoturia 
I have a five-year-old mare which w’as 
taken down w'itb a bad case of azoturia 
about three w'eeks ago. She is able to 
be on her feet most of the time again, 
but if she tries to walk about she gets 
aw'fully tired. Iler hind lees begin to 
tremble and she lets herself dbwn behind 
Do you think she will ever be right 
again? H. w. 
Pennsylvania. 
The mare should make a perfect recov 
cry. but if the muscles of the thigh of one 
hind leg waste away (atrophy) it may 
take 12 months for them to be restored 
If the muscles of both hind legs waste 
away, you might as well put the mare out 
of her misery. It would be a good plan 
to turn her loose in a box stall, and there 
support her with veterinary slings, if that 
is found necessary. If the muscles start 
wasting, clip off the hair and blister the 
wasting part as often as the condition of 
the skin will allow. The more exercise 
the better, if wasting starts. 
Fits 
I have a boar pig 14 months old which 
has fits or something similar to blind 
staggers in a. horse. He appears normal 
when fed skim-milk and hard corn, but 
just its quick as he is fed slop, such as 
middlings and milk or some other similar 
feed, at the first mouthful he will drop to 
the floor, roll and kick and tumble as 
though he bad no control over his move 
ments. This will last for about three 
minutes, then he will get up and eat. 
New York. n. c. 
Excitement or fast drinking often in 
duce such fits, but the pig in that event 
usually is affected with indigestion 
Worms are a common cause, so that it 
would be well to treat for them by with¬ 
holding feed for 24 hours, and then giving 
in a little slop, for each 50 lbs. of body 
weight, 2 y 2 grains each of calomel and 
santonin, 1 dram of • freshly powdered 
areca nut and one-half dram of bicar 
bonate of soda. Repeat the dose in 40 
days. Allow the pig to run out, so far 
as possible, and let it help itself to cloveT 
or Alfalfa hay. slaked lime, wood ashes 
and wood or corncob charcoal. Salt may 
be given from a clean trough, once a 
week. 
Thin Horse 
One of my horses, weighing about 1.500 
lbs., and about eight years old, has soft 
teeth and does not seem to keep in flesh 
on corn. What would you suggest, both 
as a Winter ration and a working ration? 
At present I am giving him hay twice a 
day and about six quarts u day of A1 
falfa feed, with a few ears of corn when 
he has any work on the road. lie does 
not 6eem to pick up as he should, though- 
I have had his teeth looked after by a 
veterinarian and keep salt before him all 
the time. About how much hay, by weight, 
should such a horse have each day? In 
this part of the country the farmers all 
say that corn is better for horses than 
oats. My own belief is that good oats are 
better than corn. I was thinking of feed¬ 
ing this horse four parts of oats, two 
parts of bran r.nd one part of eornmeal 
IIow much of si.'b a ration should he re¬ 
ceive now and v/jen working hard? 
New Jersey. A. T. D. 
Good sound whole or crushed oats and 
one-ninth part of wheat bran,, by weight, 
will make the best work ration. Allow 
1 1b. of this mixture for each 100 lbs. of 
body weight, divided into three feeds, as 
a day’s ration. Add ear corn at noon in 
very cold weather. Allow a like amount 
of good hay, part of it in the morning 
and most of it at night, when .working 
hard, and also allow some bright oat 
straw and corn stover. Omit Alfalfa feed 
again? And do you know what would 
help her? h. w. 
