The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Prevention of Milk Fever 
Could you tell me what to substitute 
for oilmeal for cows the last few weeks 
before calving? The dust from the oil- 
meal gives me a bronchial trouble. I have 
heard this meal is a help to prevent milk 
fever. What sort of linseed oil is proper 
to give cows? L. H. F. 
Massachusetts. 
Milk fever can be traced to the use of 
rations relatively rich in protein and gen¬ 
erally fed right up to the time of calv¬ 
ing. An excessive amount of nitrogenous 
material in the blood during parturition 
is in part responsible for this paralyzed 
condition. The sudden flow of milk-mak¬ 
ing nutrients that previously had been 
supplied to the foetus are rushed to the 
udder and as a result a paralyzed con¬ 
dition inheres. Milk fever attacks only 
high producing cows. For this reason 
it is good judgment to deny cows of this 
reputation rich food or very much grain 
during the week or 10 days previous to 
calving. Linseed meal, since it is a laxa¬ 
tive, has a tendency to thin down the 
blood and this is why, perhaps you have 
been told, the use of this product previous 
to calving is a preventive measure. 
As you know, linseed meal carries 
about 35 per cent of protein ; gluten meal 
carries about 40 per cent of protein, and 
gluten feed around 24 per cent. Hence 
a combination of gluten feed and gluten 
meal might replace linseed meal in the 
ration if it is the protein that is desired. 
You do not state what you are using 
along with the linseed meal, but a combi¬ 
nation of gluten feed and gluten meal 
will serve your purpose. Two parts of 
the feed to one part of the meal will give 
you a mixture carrying a little less pro¬ 
tein than the linseed meal. Whether or 
not this would relieve your bronchial 
complaint I do not know, as there would 
be considerable dust in handling this 
feed. Perhaps if you mixed it with the 
moistened beet pulp your trouble would 
be overcome. 
Raw linseed oil is used as a purge for 
dairy cows. If your cows are high pro¬ 
ducers and you bring them to a high 
condition during the dry period the way 
to avoid milk fever is to let up on your 
feed just previous to calving. Give your 
cows a good purge through the use of 
raw linseed oil or epsom salts previous to 
calving and then do not milk the cow en¬ 
tirely dry for the first few days after 
calving. Of course you are familiar 
with the oxygen or air treatment. F. c. M. 
Crop for Summer and Fall Pasture 
What can I sow for late Summer and 
Fall pasture? It is Fall-plowed sod. 
Ovid. N. Y. c . D . 
In all my experience there is nothing 
that takes the place of rye for quick late 
pasturage. I have sown it among the 
standing corn, although this is a difficult 
job, just before the last cultivating and 
after early potatoes also. If sown after 
potatoes it is better to roll the ground 
after sowing. From one and one-half to 
two bushels to the acre is about right 
according to soil conditions. It germinates 
very quickly, and soon forms a mass of 
green pasture and it will come on again 
in the Spring, and finally there will be a 
good sod to turn under after the Spring- 
pasturing. We all know how this helps 
to keep up soil fertility. The earlier the 
rye is sown the better. h. e. c. 
Rush, N. Y. 
Butter With Strong Flavor 
I notice on page 330 that Mrs. M. S. 
asks why her butter is strong. It may 
be because part of the cream is not sour 
when churned, as is apt to be the case in 
cold weather, and then, too, perhaps she 
does not get all the buttermilk out of it. 
I notice she says it is packed right up. so 
thought it was not worked over second 
time. I myself make butter from one 
eow r in exactly the same way as Mrs. M. 
•S„ setting it in open pans, and churning 
twice a week. I wash it thoroughly in 
eight or 10 waters, and then salt it, l 1 /^ 
oz. to the pound.; let if stand over night 
and the next day work it good and hard 
to get out every last drop of buttermilk, 
as that is what turns it strong if left in. 
I then make it into pound prints, or pack 
in jars, and have no more trouble with it. 
New Berlin, N. Y. MRS. c. R. c. 
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Cream Separator Facts 
Worth Thinking About! 
It is not enough to buy a cream 
separator that skims fairly clean 
and that runs fairly easy—you 
want one that gets all the butter- 
fat down to the last drop and that 
runs so easily that a child can 
turn it. In addition, you must get 
construction that makes many 
years of good service possible. 
In recent tests, the Illinois Cow 
Testing Association found it a 
common occurrence, on average 
farms, for out-worn, poorly con¬ 
structed, poorly cared-for separators 
to waste $25 Worth of butter fat 
every month. Think of it, $300 
wasted in a single year! If the 
machine you are using is failing 
you in such a manner, you can¬ 
not afford to operate it a single 
week longer, regardless of the 
so-called “bargain price” you 
may have paid for it. 
It is unnecessary for you to suffer 
such butterfat losses. You can 
escape them by throwing out 
the wasteful machine now and 
replacing it with a new, efficient 
McCormick-Deering Ball-Bear¬ 
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represent genuine economy. 
From the viewpoint of long 
life, easy-turning, and close-skim¬ 
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You need one on your farm! 
If ready cash is not plentiful, 
ask our dealer for his liberal 
terms. Let a McCormick-Deer¬ 
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profits for you and apply the 
extra dollars on the easy pay¬ 
ments the McCormick-Deering 
dealer will offer you. 
There are five popular sizes—all of standard 
McCormick - Deering ball- bearing design. 
jds\ the McCormick-Deering dealer about 
the size best suited to your herd. 
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Many Barren or Aborting 
Cows Can Be Saved 
Don't be too quick to call in the butcher. 
Often a valuable cow is barren or abortive 
simply because her genital and digestive 
organs are in a sluggish condition and fail 
to function until strengthened through 
xnedicinal aid. 
Kow-Kare is used successfully in thousands 
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the vital functions of sick and unproductive 
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“We have been feeding your Kow-Kare for 
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We haven’t had one to abort since we began 
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“My cows had been aborting, as many as 75 
per cent, some years. After using Kow-Kare 
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Milk Fever, Lost Appe 
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