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lire RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 1®, 1924 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Approved By The 
U. S. Government 
A. Strainer Funnel. 
B. Sterilized cotton through which 
milk MUST go. 
C. Coarse wire screen ring for clamp¬ 
ing cotton pad to bottom of 
funnel. 
D. Wire Clamp. 
THAT’S ALL 
Cows and First Free School 
A reader in New Jersey sends us the 
following note, taken from the News 
Leader of Richmond, Va.: 
The dairy cow is responsible for the 
first free school in Virginia and Amer¬ 
ica, according to an anecdote told dele¬ 
gates of 'the Holstein-Friesian Association 
by T. J. Strauch, chief dairy inspector of 
the Richmond Bureau of Health. 
“In those far-off days, people did not 
know how to gauge butter fat so accu¬ 
rately or to make combs from the casein 
in milk,” said Mr. Strauch. “But they 
knew that milk was a good food, and that 
some cows w’ere good and some were bad. 
“It was in 1642—Feb. 12, to be exact 
—when the first free school in this com¬ 
monwealth was founded by the dairy 
cow. It began with a bequest by Benja¬ 
min Symes of Elizabeth City County. He 
ordered in his will that 200 acres of his 
land and his eight cows be set aside as 
and were taught by this negro. The man 
was greatly respected and lived to a 
good old age. It seems that there are 
many such incidents in the history of the 
old South. There were a number of col¬ 
ored men, former slaves, who were un¬ 
doubtedly greatly respected and honored 
for their ability. 
During the carpetbag days in Missis¬ 
sippi, it is said that an effort was made 
to find a young negro intelligent enough 
to pass the examination and enter the 
University of Mississippi. A number of 
members of the faculty of that institution 
publicly stated that they would resign if 
any negro was admitted, and then the 
Governor of the State attempted to give 
them the opportunity to resign by enter¬ 
ing a colored man. Apparently he was 
unable at the time to find any negro who 
could pass the required examination. 
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This picture, taken by one of our readers near Rome, N. Y., shows a grade Suffolk 
ewe and her twin black lambs. The father was a Cheviot grade. The lambs were 
about six months old when picture was made. The local butcher bought them and 
had the pelts dressed into rugs. 
an endowment for a free school for the 
county, profits from the sale of the milk 
and first increases of the herd to be used 
to build a schoolhouse, and future profits 
to be used to operate it. The school was 
successfully established according to bis 
plan, and county records show that five 
years later the school bad a herd of 40 
cows.” 
This story was told at n recent meeting 
of the IIolstein-Friesian Association, and 
adds another note to the great record of 
the dairy cow r . We are not told what 
breed of cow was used in this herd to en¬ 
dow the free school. These animals were 
probably just “cows,” but whatever they 
were it may be said that they started the 
dairy cow's record as a friend of human¬ 
ity and a friend of education in good 
shape. 
Another story comes to us regarding a 
negro preacher, who, years ago, taught a 
school in North Carolina and educated 
many prominent white men. This story 
is told by Joseph Eacy Seawell. It ap¬ 
pears that John Chavis was a full-blooded 
negro who probably came from the West 
Indies to North Carolina. His education 
seems to have been the result of an ex¬ 
periment to see if it was possible for a 
negro to receive a collegiate education. A 
bet was made that a negro could not be 
educated and, as a result Chavis studied 
at Princeton as a private pupil. He 
acquired a good knowledge of the classics, 
and for some years was in great repute 
as a preacher in the Presbyterian Church. 
In 1831 a number of slaves in Virginia, 
headed by one Nat Turner, rose in insur¬ 
rection and killed a large number of 
white people. As a result of this North 
Carolina passed a law prohibiting all 
negro preachers from preaching or speak¬ 
ing in public. Thus John Chavis, denied 
the right to the pulpit, opened a school 
for preparing young men. for college. 
This school was well attended by both 
white and colored boye. and it is said that 
some of the most noted men of the time 
j in North Carolina attended the school 
Thin Ram 
I have a ram which is very thin and 
poor, with hardly ambition enough to 
move ( around. I thought perhaps he 
might have stomach worms. I have a 
flock of ewes with lambs that are all 
thrifty. I am feeding good hay and 
grain twice daily. The ram is a year¬ 
ling. j. g. w. 
Greene Co., N. Y. 
We think it quite likely that the ram 
in question is infected with stomach 
worms, but there is a possibility that he 
is harboring tapeworms, or lung worms, 
or liver flukes. If worms are the cause 
of the thin condition and weakness, you 
will find that the mucous membranes 
lining the eyelids abe fpale in color, 
whereas in a healthy sheep they are rosy 
pink in color. You may also be able to 
find worms in the feees by washing them 
through cheesecloth, if they cannot other¬ 
wise be noticed. 
Stomach worms are like bits of pinkish 
white thread. Tapeworms pass in seg¬ 
ments or joints, like little bits of narrow 
tape, with serrated edges. If lung worms 
are present the sheep will cough and 
have a catarrhal discharge from the nos¬ 
trils. Gadfly grubs, may, however, cause 
similar symptoms, so that to determine 
definitely that lung worms are present a 
microscopic examination of the nasal or 
mouth discharges should be made by an 
expert. 
Before giving medicinal treatment of 
any kind hold the sheep, or have it held, 
so that its teeth may be examined. 
Sometimes we find thin condition due to 
sharps points, or split or diseased molar 
teeth, which can be cut off or extracted. 
In other cases we have found gumboils 
causing such discomfort that feed could 
not perfectly be masticated. It is an easy 
matter to lance such boils, and that gives 
immediate relief. Following lancing and 
evacuation of the pus, the wound should 
he swabbed with tincture of iodine as 
soon as bleeding has stopped. After¬ 
wards swab daily with a 1 per cent solu¬ 
tion of permanganate of potash. 
If worms are found to be present, faM 
the sheep for 24 hours and then give it 
four ounces of bluestone-tobacco solution, 
made as follows: Dissolve four ounces 
of pure bluestone in one-half gallon of 
boiling water in an earthenware vessel. 
Steep four ounces of tobacco snuff over¬ 
night in one-half gallon of boiling water. 
In the morning mix the tw’o solutions 
and add two gallons of cold water. Strain 
and use. 
Make a larger quantity, in the same 
proportion of ingredients, if more sheep 
have to be treated; better treat the en¬ 
tire flock, if worm medicine has not been 
administered, but do not give it to a ewe 
that has not lambed. The treatment may 
be repeated in 10 days, if thought to be 
necessary. It is also well to give it again 
in Autumn. Lambs may then be given 
similar treatment. The dose for a lamb 
under one year old is 1% to 2 oz., ac¬ 
cording to age and size. There is no 
remedy for flukes. a. s. a. 
New York State Jersey 
Breeders 
The following information is obtained 
from the American Jersey Cattle Club: 
During the past few months Jersey 
breeders of New York have been particu¬ 
larly active in forming new county asso¬ 
ciations and reorganizing old ones, and 
in addition the State club has been reor¬ 
ganized on new lines. At the present time 
there are 21 county Jersey cattle clubs be¬ 
sides the State club, and of this number 
13 (including one tri-county club) have 
been organized this Spring, so in all 15 
counties have hee^i organized within the 
past two months. 
The retailing of Jersey milk under its 
own name is rapidly increasing, and in 
many districts the demand cannot be sup¬ 
plied. A premium of from 3 to S cents a 
quart over legal milk is obtained for Jer¬ 
sey milk, and with feeding costs for the 
breed at a low average this premium 
places dairying on a profitable basis. 
However, the Jersey breeders who sell 
whole milk to the large distributers are 
not in quite such a favorable position. 
The reason for this is that the fat differ¬ 
ential has been out of proportion. This 
will be appreciated when one considers 
that the large distributers have recently 
been paying $1..S6 per cwt. for 3 per cent 
milk and 4 cents for every point above 3 
per cent. In other words, for the first 
3 per cent of butterfat the price is 61-5 
cents a point, but above 3 per cent the 
price drops down to 4 cents a point, or is 
reduced 35 per cent. This represents too 
big a spread, and places too great a 
premium on low-grade milk. 
The existing scale of prices for milk 
actually penalize the producer of high- 
testing milk. A slight difference in price 
between milk testiug 3^4 per cent and 
milk testing above that is justified, but 
the abrupt drop in price for milk above 
3 per cent cannot be satisfactorily ex¬ 
plained. 
The members of the various county Jer¬ 
sey clubs report that there is a good de¬ 
mand for Jerseys, especially for grades, 
as the dairymen working with low-testing 
breeds like to have a few Jerseys to help 
their test, but hesitate to get purebred 
Jerseys for fear of ridicule by their neigh¬ 
bors. Jersey heifer calves sell readily for 
this and other purposes. When a Jersey 
cow is installed in a herd of 10 or 20 low- 
testing cows she is expected to raise the 
test of the entire herd at least 1 per cent, 
and when «lie does not do this she is crit¬ 
icized. 
These county meetings enabled Jersey 
breeders to become acquainted with one 
another, and more co-operation and more 
good-fellowship has resulted. Picnics 
have been planned for this Slimmer, and 
useful projects have been adopted in 
many cases. The feeling among these 
breeders is that the low price of milk has 
emphasized the value of Jerseys, and that 
only a fairer price scale for butterfat is 
needed to make the growth of this breed 
very rapid in New York .State. 
Jersey clubs were organized this Spring 
in the following counties: Cayuga, Onon¬ 
daga, Goshen, Ontario. Saratoga, Scho¬ 
harie, Steuben, Wayne, Madison. War¬ 
ren, Allegany, Monroe, Oneida, Orange 
and Jefferson. 
The officers of the New York State Jer¬ 
sey Cattle Club are Harry S. Gail, East 
Aurora, president, and M. A. Clark, 
Elma, secretary. 
“Are you the plumber?” “Yes, mum.” 
“Well, see you exercise care when doing 
your work. All my floors are highly pol¬ 
ished and in perfect condition.” “Oh, 
don’t worry about me slippin’. mum. I’ve 
got nails in me boots!”—The Passing 
Show. 
“I 'see in the paper that a widower 
with nine children out in Nebraska has 
married a widow’ with seven children.” 
“That was no marriage. That was a 
merger.”—Washington Post. 
