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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 12, 1924 
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A New Book By John J. Dillon 
This book is written in three parts. 
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Agricultural Industry. In five chapters. 
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Live Stock and Dairy 
Congested Udder; Blood in 
Milk 
Can you advise me if there is any 
treatment for a cow giving bloody milk? 
I have a heifer two years old, first calf 
now three days old. I milk after calf has 
fed and get bloody milk from two teats on 
side opposite those next to me when I 
sit to milk. This heifer is a purebred 
Guernsey, a big, fine-looking cow ; always 
had good care, good food and plenty of it. 
Was raised by me. I consulted a vet¬ 
erinarian, who said she might get over 
this after a time. z. T. 
New Jersey. 
It is a very common occurrence for 
blood to stain the first milk given by a 
heifer just after calving. The cause Is 
rupture of tiny blood vessels in the mam¬ 
mary gland or milk-secreting tissue of the 
udder. It should be understood that as a 
preparation for milk secretion and pro¬ 
duction it is absolutely necessary that 
blood should engorge the udder. Were 
such engorgement, which is also called 
congestion, not to occur, the udder would 
not develop and there would be little if 
any milk for the calf or milker. The 
condition is therefore termed physiologi¬ 
cal, and the swelling and hardening of 
the udder, when not abnormal, may be 
considered a certain indication that the 
Separating Thick Cream 
How do shippers of cream make the 
cream so thick? I sell cream in the Sum¬ 
mer, but the cream shipped from New 
York City and up the State is thick, like 
a jelly. These shippers must add some¬ 
thing to the cream to make it stand up. 
Also tell me what 20 per cent cream i«, 
how many quarts of milk to make one 
quart cream? p. M. b. 
Grahamsville, N. Y. 
Since the pure food laws do not allow 
the addition of any foreign substance to 
cream to make it thick without being 
properly labelled, I doubt whether the 
cream of which you speak has been thus 
treated. Undoubtedly the percentage of 
fat is very high. We know that a high- 
testing cream becomes thick and heavy. 
These qualities are increased with low 
temperatures. The combination, there¬ 
fore, that is generally found in cream 
coming from the city, namely, a high fat 
percentage and a cold temperature, will 
often account for thick cream. As cream 
approaches 50 per cent in fat content and 
goes higher it becomes very thick. I 
have seen such cream on dairy farms in 
New Jersey where the cream would not 
flow from the bottle when the latter was 
inverted. A spoon was required to re¬ 
move the contents of the bottle. This 
necessitates a very close adjustment of 
the separator cream screw. This screw is 
turned in toward the center. Under or¬ 
dinary farm methods of separation, where 
no separator is used, it is impossible to 
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Comfortable Anti-milking 
heifer is to prove a good producer of milk. 
So great may the pressure be that the 
tiny capillaries cannot withstand the 
strain and they break, allowing blood to 
escape into the surrounding tissues and 
cavities (acini) and milk ducts of the 
udder. When the pressure is not so se¬ 
vere it merely forces liquid of the blood 
(serum) into the tissues and a dropsical 
or edematous condition results, indicated 
by swelling which pits or dents when 
pressed with the finger tips. 
In the case in question, only two of 
the quarters of the udder appear to give 
milk that is bloody. That being the 
case, it is quite likely that growths in the 
teats bleed from irritation at milking 
time. By rolling the teats between your 
fingers and thumb it may be possible to 
feel the growths, which are of a warty or 
fibroid character, and usually have nar¬ 
row necks. When just inside the opening 
of the teat the growths may be removed 
by a veterinarian. He inserts a special 
instrument for the purpose which has a 
sharp-edged cone on a rod inserted in a 
square-shouldered tube, like a milking 
tube. The cone passes beyond the growth; 
then the growth is worked between the 
base of the cone and shoulder of the tube 
and is squeezed and cut off by pulling 
the cone downward hard upon the tube 
and pulling out both parts of the instru¬ 
ment together. 
When the growth is located high in 
the teat it is. better to let a calf nurse or 
to dry off the milk secretion in the af¬ 
fected quarter. When bleeding occurs 
from all quarters it should soon subside 
when the feed is reduced, a physic of 
Epsom salts administered, followed by 
mixing one teaspoonful of dried sulphate 
of iron and three teaspoonfuls of salt in 
the feed once or twice daily, as found 
necessary. We suspect growths as the 
cause in the case described, and the vet¬ 
erinarian should treat the case accord¬ 
ingly. A. S. A. 
Harness for the Cow 
get a cream that will test higher than 25 
per cent fat. This, you will note, is a 
very light, thin cream. 
One hundred pounds of 4 per cent milk 
will yield 20 lbs. of 20 per cent cream if 
no fat is lost in the skim-milk. A quart 
of 20 per cent cream weighs 2.11 lbs. 
Therefore 100 lbs. of 4 per cent milk will 
yield about 9.5 quarts. In general, we 
can say it will require five quarts of milk 
to make one quart of 20 per cent cream. 
The milk must test, however, not less 
than 4 per cent. J. \v B. 
Prohibition for a Self¬ 
milker 
The cow shown dropped bull calf this 
Spring, which was allowed to run with 
the mother for two or three months, and 
was then disposed of by the owner, Mrs. 
Edgar Johnson of Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
After the disposal of the calf it was 
noticed that the cow had acquired the 
habit of sucking herself, and various 
means for preventing this were suggest¬ 
ed by the neighbors. A harness-maker in 
Pine Plains, N. Y., made the simple har¬ 
ness shown in the photo, which has 
proved most effective. 
The advantages of this scheme over the 
customary nose band with spikes is easily 
seen. A headstall connected on each side 
with the surcingle, leaving just enough 
freedom to permit the cow to swing her 
head from side to side in feeding or 
brushing flies, but uot enough to permit 
her to reach the teats is all there is to 
the arrangement. c. w. reed. 
Virginia Ham Recipe 
I would like to know from some of 
the Virginia folk how to get the best re¬ 
sults from Virginia ham. A friend sent 
me a ham which was dark and hard, and 
on regular boiling it turned out hard and 
dry, difficult to cut. There must be some 
way of getting all that is claimed from 
them, as they sell for 40 to 50 cents per 
pound. Please give some recipes. 
N.JERSEY. 
Friend : “I suppose thee ’re kept pur- 
ty busy diggin’ graves?” Sexton : “Some¬ 
times I am, and sometimes I ain’t. The 
trouble is people won’t die regular.”— 
Sydney Bulletin. 
