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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
December C, 1924 
MORE MILK 
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In tests, 6 pounds of dried beet pulp have replaced 10 pounds 
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The Milk Committee of Fifteen 
The Committee of Fifteen, which met 
in Utica on November 22, reports prog¬ 
ress on its work, which has for its pur¬ 
pose the development of a plan to end 
price cutting by producers and producers' 
groups in the markets available to dairy¬ 
men in the New York milk shed. One 
of the definite policies adopted at this 
meeting Avas the plan to secure the co¬ 
operation of the 30 independent farm- 
owned plants now operating separately to 
join the organized groups in a purpose 
to help stabilize the milk markets. With 
this is also the purpose to secure the co¬ 
operation of the individual farmers who 
are not connected with any of the present 
groups or units. The committee holds 
that it is not important to which of the 
present groups these units and individual 
producers align themselves, provided they 
come into the organized system through 
any one of the groups now existing or 
through an entirely new group if they 
prefer that course. It is admitted by every¬ 
one that any one of the groups, whether or¬ 
ganized or unorganized, can continue the 
present price-cutting policy even though 
all the others co-operate to do away with 
it, and that it will require the co-opera¬ 
tion of all of the groups to stabilize the 
market and realize anything approaching 
a reasonable price for milk in the whole¬ 
sale markets. 
A special meeting of the sub-commit¬ 
tee of five was arranged for preceding the 
Dysentery; Service of Bull 
1. Can you tell me what is the trouble 
with our cattle, all pur'bred Jersey? 
There are two coavs and four calves, one 
three weeks old, one six weeks old. one 
6Vo, months and the other one year old. 
They all have the scours very badly, only 
the year-old one. They have had this 
trouble about' two weeks and it does not 
seem any better. The droppings are 
green or brown in color and have a very 
bad odor. I feed each coav two quarts 
of ground oats, one quart of cornmeal, 
one pint of bran, one pint of oilmeal, 
four quarts of soaked beet pulp at each 
feeding, also add a little salt each time. 
I feed each calf in accordance with size 
and age. Tavo small ones get milk and 
what feed they will eat. About three 
weeks ago I got some cottonseed meal 
and gluten feed and gave each coav one 
pint of each at a feeding. I stopped this 
but the trouble is no better. The 614- 
month-old calf gets only ground oats and 
salt at present but is no better. The 
cows are turned out mornings about 8 
o’clock and have clean spring water to 
drink and some fodder corn. Can it be 
that they are turned out too early while 
the frost is still on or can the fodder 
corn have anything to do AA’ith the trou¬ 
ble. They all eat well and seem hungry; 
do not act sick in any way. 2. IIoav old 
should a bull be before he is ready for 
light service. M. AV. 
1. It is quite evident that some of the 
feed is disagreeing with the cattle and 
that should be determined and removed 
or Avithheld. It is always best to feed 
whole oats to calves unless the ground 
oats can be screened for perfect removal 
of the hulls. The hulls greatly irritate 
the mucous membranes lining the intes¬ 
tines. Pigs are quite commonly injured 
in that Avay, piles or protrusion of the 
rectum being the evidence, or necrotic 
enteritis is induced and in time usually 
proves fatal. Calves are less often af¬ 
fected in that Avay. It may be that the 
beet pulp is at fault and w T e should sug¬ 
gest omitting that feed for the present. 
Also he careful to exclude any feed that 
is in the slightest degree moldy or other¬ 
wise spoiled. It is best to keep cattle 
from eating any feed that is covered 
with hoar frost, or that has been frozen. 
It may be suitable or safe after the frost 
has gone, but such feed may be consid¬ 
ered suspicious in all cases and should be 
made at best but a small part of the ra¬ 
tion along Avith plenty of sound feed. This 
applies chiefly to frozen silage, roots and 
root tops. 
Cottonseed meal has the tendency to 
correct looseness of the bowls; oilmeal on 
the contrary is laxative in its effect. So 
is bran. The latter feed may therefore 
be omitted for a time Avhen there is a 
tendency to scouring or dysentery. Be 
careful, too, that the drinking Avater is 
pure. Contaminated drinking water 
often causes mysterious derangement 
of the bowels, characterized by more or 
less diarrhoea. Change the drinking wa¬ 
ter if that used has been impure in any 
next meeting of the committee, which oc¬ 
curs on December 20, and it is hoped that 
sufficient 'progress will be made at that 
time so that a tentative form of or¬ 
ganization to federate the groups may be 
adopted. 
Mr. F. W. Bauder of Fort Plain, one 
of the representatives of the independent 
group on the committee, reported that 
since the policies of the committee have 
been made known there has been little or 
no trouble from the independent members 
in his territory outside of the organized 
groups. He said that the greatest danger 
came from a want of full understanding 
of the purposes of the committee. When 
and where these purposes were under¬ 
stood, the producers are not only Avilling 
but anxious to co-operate with it for bet¬ 
ter results. 
After rather a lengthy discussion on 
the price of milk for December, it was 
clear that a strong sentiment existed for 
an advance in the price, but it was 
thought better not to fix any definite 
price, but contented itself Avith the recom¬ 
mendation that the price committee se¬ 
cure the best price possible for the month 
of December. 
It was recommended that the president 
invite Mr. C. F. Bigler, who was recently 
elected president of the New York State 
Dairymen’s Association, again to co-oper¬ 
ate with the committee. 
way, or possibly is contaminated. 
If scouring persists give the calves 
boiled milk to drink. That may also help 
affected adult cattle. If not, then mix 
in each feed for the adult cattle one ta¬ 
blespoonful of a mixture of two parts of 
prepared chalk and one part each of 
bismuth subnitrate, powdered catechu 
and poAvdered alum. In each pint of 
milk fed to the calves mix one teaspoon¬ 
ful of a mixture of half an ounce of 
formalin and 151£ ounces of boiled wa¬ 
ter, to be kept in a colored bottle to pre¬ 
vent chemical changes. In severe cases 
it is sometimes best to give a dose of 
castor oil in milk before starting with 
the other medicines and if the latter do 
not then prove effectual substitute 10 
to 20 drops of pure beecliAvood creosote 
and half ounce of oil of eucalyptus given 
two or three times daily in two ounces of 
cottonseed oil. The latter medicines are 
most effective when there is a gassy and 
foul-smelling condition of the feces, or if 
the passages are in any way streaked or 
stained with blood. For the younger cat¬ 
tle try the effect of triple sulpho-carbolate 
tablets, instead of beechwood creosote and 
eucalyptus, or prepare a mixture of one 
part of salol and two parts of bismuth 
subnitrate and of it give half to one tea¬ 
spoonful or more every three, four or six 
hours, according to age and size of calf 
and severity of attack. 
2. It is best not to use a bull for ser¬ 
vice when but 12 months old. If he must 
be used at all not more than one or two 
cows should be allowed. Early service 
may not, apparently, prove injurious at 
the time, but the bull will be likely to 
become early impotent or unreliable as 
a sire. At 12 to 18 months alloAv 5 to 
10 cows; 18 to 24 months, 10 to 15 cows; 
2 to 3 years, 15 to 25 coavs ; 3 to 4 years, 
30 to 50 coavs and that number yearly 
from 4 years up until powers abate Avhen 
fewer and feAver may be allowed. If well 
distributed throughout the season the 
above numbers may be exceeded, if the 
bull is Avell fed and managed. On no 
account should he be allowed to run with 
the cows. a. s. A. 
Dropped Sole 
After reading the question asked by A. 
B. C., New London, Conn., page 1332, I 
would like to state my experience with a 
horse with dropped sole. I did not blis¬ 
ter the feet, as I do not believe in it. I 
used Barbadosa tar at the top of the hoof 
three days in succession, and then omit 
three. It softens the foot, causes it to 
grow and makes it tough and healthy. If 
this remedy cost as much as some others 
it Avould be used more. Anyone having a 
horse afflicted in this manner, following 
this advice, will have good results. The 
feet on my horse were in a normal condi¬ 
tion after three months’ treatment in the 
Winter, when feet do not grow as in 
Summer. F. il. H. 
