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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 13, 1924 
Seeds 
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MILK 
CHECKS 
You will be surprised 
how your milk checks increase and 
the health conditions of your herd im¬ 
prove when you feed the “Old Reliable” 
SUGARED 
Schumacher Feed 
J and 
Boss Dairy Ration 
Sugared Schumacher Feed (composed of Com, Oats, 
Barley and Wheat products) is the greatest carbohy¬ 
drate feed in the world. Finely ground and properly 
balanced with Oil Meal, Salt and Molasses, it makes a 
palatable, health-giving, body building ration which 
fits them for long and heavy milking periods. 
Boss Dairy Ration with its 24 °/o PROTEIN CON¬ 
TENT furnishes abundant protein concentrates 
and increases their milk yields. Just give these 
two feeds a trial—you will soon see a marked 
improvement in your herd and also in your 
milk checks. Read this letter: 
"We have been feeding your feed to our large 
herd of pure bred Guernseys for about three 
months. In addition to a big improvement in 
the condition of our cows, they have also shown 
a large increase in milk flow.’’ 
The Oaks Farm, Cohasset, Mass. 
Your dealer can supply you. 
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The Quaker 
Oate Company 
1651 Railway Exchange Bldg. 
Address Chicago, U. S. A. 
J/iis We Guarantee ! 
International Special Dairy Molasses Feed is actually worth $ 15 more per ton than corn or 
oats for dairy use. Corn and oats feed today is selling $ 10 per ton higher and Special Dairy 
costs no more than last year. Can you wonder at Special Dairy’s popularity ? Twenty extra 
quarts of milk from every sack is guaranteed in any fair test. Compared with wheat feeds or 
ground grains, this increase has been secured in hundreds of tests. 
INTERNATIONAL 
SPECIAL DAIRY FEED 
“20 Extra Quarts from Every Sack” 
International Special Dairy Molasses Feed is accepted as O. K. by 
dairymen everywhere. One dairyman, with 16 cows, writes us that 
he increased his milk check $87 in thirty days by using Special 
Dairy instead of another feed costing the same price. $87 a month 
is over a $1000 per year! We have hundreds of similar testimonl 
als. If you want more milk, sack for sack of feed, then Interna¬ 
tional Special Dairy Feed is your one best bet. 
Write to us, giving number of cows owned, also name of local 
feed dealer, and we will mail you a free copy of our famous book 
‘‘Feeding the Dairy Cow for Profit.” Act! 
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Thrush and Canker of the 
Sole 
(Continued from page 1540) 
which is characterized by a discharge of 
thin, foul-smelling liquid from the cleft. 
The disease is caused by the horse being 
compelled to stand much of the time on a 
wet, filthy floor in the stable, or in mud 
and filth outdoors. To prevent the dis¬ 
ease the stall floor should be kept clean 
and dry and well bedded with straw or 
baled shavings. It is a good plan to 
sprinkle the stall floor with gypsum (land 
plaster) after each cleansing, as that is 
clean, drying and a valuable fertilizing 
element. 
Thrush is cured by cutting away all 
loose and rotten horn from the frog and 
sole, cleansing the parts thoroughly with 
soap and hot water, and when dry pack¬ 
ing the cleft of the frog full of calomel 
and keeping that in place by pressing 
pledgets of tow or oakum, upon which a 
little pine tar has 'been spread. If the 
cracks or crevices at the sides of the frog 
also discharge they should be similarly 
treated. 
When thrush is not so treated and the 
conditions causing the disease are allowed 
to continue, canker may result. In that 
disease the frog becomes a spongy, pink 
or whitish mass, and may give off a foul 
odor, as a thin, acrid liquid may be dis¬ 
charged. In the worst cases the sole be¬ 
comes similarly affected, and if the fun¬ 
goid mass is cut off with a knife or 
burned off with a redhot iron it tends to 
grow again very quickly. We have seen 
it reproduced in a single night. Treat¬ 
ment consists in cleansing the part per¬ 
fectly, putting on a wide, flat shoe, after 
making the walls level, and then swab¬ 
bing the sprouting growths with full- 
strength formaldehyde solution. When 
that has been done the entire frog and 
sole should be well covered with pow¬ 
dered alum, covered with a layer of ab¬ 
sorbent cotton and kept in place by means 
of thin metal tucked under the shoe at 
each side, after being laid across the sole 
or frog. If that plan does not work well, 
the blacksmith may adjust a light plate 
of metal to be fixed on tlie shoe by means 
of small screw nails. In addition to the 
local dressing, which is to be renewed 
daily, the horse should be stood during 
the day on a stall floor covered with en¬ 
gine cinders. This should be kept clean. 
Internal treatment consists in giving 
the horse half an ounce of Fowler’s solu¬ 
tion of arsenic night and morning in a 
little water or sprinkled upon the feed, 
and in a week increasing to three such 
doses a day. When the medicine is no 
longer needed it is discontinued gradual¬ 
ly, taking at least 10 days to the process. 
It is also necessary to withhold corn and 
feed only a very little oats if the horse 
works. Bran may be added, and carrots, 
along with good hay, but it is not well to 
feed a full ration or allow bran mashes or 
ground feed of any kind. It has been 
found that overfed, fat, sluggish, consti¬ 
pated horses which are not worked or ex¬ 
ercised outdoors every day, that are in¬ 
sufficiently groomed, and that live in a 
hot, dark, dirty, badly ventilated stable 
are most liable to become affected with 
the disease. 
Mr. William Goat as 
Policeman 
In regard to goats defending children 
and sheep from dogs, on page 1403, I am 
going to give facts from my personal ex¬ 
perience with goats. When 10 years old 
I got my first goat, two days old, which 
I raised until she was four years old, 
when she died. If a dog came after me 
and she was not near me, all well and 
good, but if they went for her she would 
run until she got on something high, like 
steps, rocks, or tree stumps, and then she 
would fight. Very few dogs will tackle a 
goat. Four years ago I had a bill.vgoat 
I used as a guard. We lived in a lane; 
ours was the last house. I worked in the 
city and was away from home from 5 :30 
a. m. until 11 p. m. At dusk my wife 
would feed and let the goat loose, and 
nobody came to visit us at night without 
telling us first. When I came home I 
had to stop and be inspected. One night 
I slipped on some ice and he stuck his 
horn in my hand. No dog could scare 
him. Now I have 10 goats here, but only 
one doe will drive any dog out, my own 
dogs included. But why expect more 
from goats than from people? How 
many people love animals, and how many 
hate' them? .Tust the same with goats; 
all are not alike. edwin c. wtlson. 
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