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Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 8, 1921 
Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Copyright 
1921, 
C. P. M. Co. 
When You Buy a 
Mechanical Milker 
The modern farmer knows that a mechanical 
milker will do his milking in one-third the time 
it takes by hand. Mechanical milkers keep 
hired help more contented—allow more time 
for rest and recreation—are better for cows— 
increase the milk yield. 
If you desire sanitation, greater milk yield and 
convenience, buy a mechanical milker—but to 
be sure of always getting best results see that 
it is equipped with a 
CURTIS Vacuum Pump 
Makes the MilkerMilK* 
One of the most vital parts of the milker is the 
vacuum pump—the better the pump, the better 
the milker will work. The Curtis embodies the 
experience of more than 67 
yearsdesigningand building 
pneumatic machinery — to 
which vacuum pumps (ire 
kindred. It is not an ex¬ 
periment—it has never been 
necessary to alter the final 
design, because it was 
adopted only after many 
fie'd tests had proved its 
•uperiority. 
AIRCOMPRE5S0R5-HDI5T5-TR0LIEY5-CRANE5 
Copyright 1921 
C. P. M. Co. 
established 1854 
The Curtis Pump never leaks oil through the 
breather port—runs 1 0 to 14 times longer on the 
same quantity of lubricating oil. Is more sani¬ 
tary, reduces fire hazards 
and chances of breakdown. 
Hay and clover seed or 
other matter cannot get 
into the crankcase and cut¬ 
out bearings—has sealed 
breather port—saving in oil 
ultimately pays for Curtis 
Pump. Buy a milker—in¬ 
sist that it is equipped with 
a Curtis Pump. 
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1658 K.IENLEN AVENUE ST. LOUIS, MO. 
Branch Office: ,1.16-E Hudson Terminal, New York City 
Holding Up of Milk 
Is there any method or treatment to 
break a cow of holding up or keening 
back the milk? Is it very good practice 
to milk while cows are feeding or is it 
better to feed after milking? w. J. c. 
Ohio. 
A cow has no power to wilfully “hold 
up” her milk. The secretion of milk is 
entirely involuntary and controlled by 
the sympathetic nerve system, not by the 
voluntary or motor nerve system, although 
both are closely related. Chill, shock, 
irritation and extreme nervousness tend 
to suppress or impair milk secretion. In 
many instances the teats are tender and 
fear of the milking act causes non-secre¬ 
tion of milk. It should be understood 
that the udder is congested with blood 
at. milking time, hut that each teat and 
the milk cistern above it ouly contains a 
small quantity of milk. The secretion of 
milk proceeds when the calf nurses or 
when the cow is milked by hand. Placing 
a calf in front of the cow at milking time 
or allowing the cow to eat some relished 
feed helps to induce milk secretion. 
Change of milkers has been known to im¬ 
prove secretion. A. s. A. 
Stomach Worms 
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WILSON BROS.. Box, i» Easton, 
My sheep and lambs are troubled with 
stomach worms. I have treated them 
with gasoline with fair results, but I 
have heard of using sulphate of copper. 
Can you give me full information in the 
matter? f. k. 
New York. 
The modern treatment is a one per 
cent solution of pure sulphate of copper 
(Milestone) made by dissolving four 
ounces of the drug in one pint of boiling 
water and then adding three gallons of 
eold water. The dose for a lamb is three- 
fourths to one ounce, and from that up 
in increasing doses for older sheep, with 
3‘Vj ounces as a maximum dose for an 
adult animal. Starve the sheep for 24 
hours before starting the treatment. Olive 
the medicine by means of a hard rubber 
syringe or nozzle, small rubber tube and 
glass funnel. Be careful not to cause 
choking. Repeat the treatment in 10 
days. As a preventive some shepherds 
give it once a month. Better not give 
the medicine to ewes in lamb. This is 
a good time of year for its administration 
and again before turning ewes and their 
lambs on grass. 
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Mammitis 
T have a four-year-old cow, due to 
freshen in February, running on range. 
About two weeks ago she failed to come 
tip. and it was eight days before T found 
her. She had evidently been sick, we 
believe poisoned by mash from an illicit 
still. Three of her teats leak and those 
three quarters of her udder have come 
back to normal flow of milk. I have 
been massaging the fourth quarter, which 
was badly caked and swelled, with mutton 
tallow and turpentine. 10 drops of tur¬ 
pentine to one tablespoon of tallow once 
a day and simply rubbing the afflicted 
quarter in the morning. There has been 
a marked reduction in the swelling and 
the quarter is much softer, but there is 
almost no milk from it. Can you recom¬ 
mend a treatment which will cure the 
trouble without-drying up that bad quar¬ 
ter. if possible? f. a. c. 
West Virginia. 
Milk the affected quarter every two 
hours, massaging it well every time. 
Twice daily thoroughly rub in a mixture 
of one part each of pure turpentine and 
fluid extract of pokoroot and six parts of 
melted unsalted lard, lanolin or sweet oil. 
Twice daily in feed give the cow half an 
ounce of powdered saltpeter and two 
drams of fluid extract of pokeroot iu 
water or soft feed. In four days reduce 
to one dose a day. This may help, but 
mammitis caused by germ infection 
(streptococci) usually ruins the quarters 
attacked. Paint flic tips of the leaking 
teats with flexible collodion after milking. 
Stop for a time when the parts become 
irritated. 
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Abnormal Breathing 
Could you tell me what is wrong with 
a cow that when she breathes her whole 
jbody is in motion? She coughs some¬ 
times. but seems perfectly healthy. 
New York. T. G. 
It is possible, but uncommon, for a 
cow to have emphysema of the lungs 
(heaves) the same as a horse. Tt is more 
probable, however, that tuberculosis 
causes the cough and the abnormal 
breathing. To find out if this is the case 
have a qualified veterinarian apply the 
tuberculin test. Meanwhile it*would be 
best to isolate the cow and reject her 
milk. 
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