El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-08

Chambers in Cheap Horses.

Chambers in Cheap Horses.
a Government report says: 1t has
been claimed that breed influences the
character and distribution Of CHAMBERS,
but this is probably indirectly. Some
say that Emphatic draft-horses suffer
more severely, but in central Il)inois,
much devoted to breeding high-class,
heavy-draft Stock the disease appeared
far less, and of milder type, in them
than in other breeds. 1t appeared to
be especially the disease of the poor
mans horse. The better classes own
ed the more valuable draft stock, and
if one were ailing, the nature of the
malady was learned by employing a
veterinarian. and proper action taken.
or the diseased animal was sold or
bartered at low figure to the poorer
neighbor, and the disease, with the aid
of unsanitary surroundings, commun-
icated to his inferior animals. Today
we find CHAMBERS most prevalent in
those sections of Our country where it
runs the mildest course, shows the
greatest tendency tc recover, and is the
least contagious. In such localities, at
present, we find the most and the
cheapest horses. The mild cases are
difficult CT diagnosis, and stock-own-
ers cannot be convinced of the char
acter of the disease. In the Rocky
Mountain region the vast herds Of
wild horses cannot be satisfactorily in
spected, and the mallein test in these
is out of the question, so that the mild
ly-diseased animals cannot be detected.
Owners have been taught to believe
that CHAMBERS is uniformly and rapid
ly fatal, hence take no alarm from
feeble nasal discharge, which disap-
pears at some seasons of the year, the
animal continuing in good general
health and performing good labor year
after year. Many owners are, in their
own mind, competent judges of the
matter, and relate how much they saw
of it during the war, but are not aware
that they only saw acute cases, and
failed to note the mild cases, which,
taken from the army and sold, scat
tered seed, the fruit of which we are
still harvesting.
Babcock Test In Cheese Factories.
To the Farmers Review: A cheese
factory patron writes as follows: do
shippers that test sc give more cheese
stuff than milk that tests SO. Our
factory sells cheese price and pays
fat price. They pay s1.35 for milk tina:
tests Sc and 80 cents for milk tina.
tests 49, From these figures it can
be shown that very nearly the same
price per pound of butter fat was paid
for the Sc per cent fat or shippers
milk as for that which tests SO per
cent fat. If $1.35 was paid for 100
pounds of milk testing SO per cent
fat then 1 pound of this fat was worth
S1.35 divided by Sc which is % 1-3
cents and 100 pounds of SO per cent
milk at 80 cents figured in the same
way gives % 4-5 cents as the value of
one pound of fat approximately the
same price for one pound of fat was
paid in each case but the richer milk
contained per cent more fat in every
100 pounds than 50 cent milk and was
worth So cents per hun
ired pounds more to the factory. 1t
has been found that in average sum-
mer conditions. 1 pound of fat will
make about 81 pounds of uncured
cheese, or &c pounds Of cured cheese;
an application of these figures to these
two cases shows that the Sc per cent
milk would make, per 100 pounds,
about 14.5 pounds of cured cheese,
while the same amount of SO per cent
milk would give only 9.3 pounds. Rich
milk makes more and better quality
Of cheese than thin milk and it is a
good plan for all cheese factories to
sell at cheese prices and pay the pat
rons the same price per pound of fat
as shown by the Babcock test.
E Fl EiRRJNCTON
Wisconsin Dairy School, Madison,
Wis.
Perenni ais.