182 Ij you are planning to build the Readers’ 
hos Service can often give helpful sug gestions 
when impelled 
by the simple 
little engine 
shown on this 
page. Merely 
attach a pipe 
to your well, 
spring or run- 
ning brook, and 
you may have a 
large or small 
reservoir of 
water at an al- 
titude far above 
your house; 
that is, one of 
these pumps is equivalent to an unfailing gravity supply 
the year round, and yet the power is right under your 
eye and can be regulated to suit your needs and con- 
veniences. ‘This power is practically automatic; it 
requires no skilled attendant or engineer; it 1s ab- 
solutely independent of any condition of wind or 
weather, and once installed, a 
HOT-AIR PUMP 
LASTS A LIFETIME 
Water will run up hill 
‘The cut upon this page shows the ‘‘Ericsson’’ Hot- 
Air Pump. The “‘Rider’’ is asimilar pump. The 
motive power in each is identical; the ‘‘Rider’’ 
merely being of larger capacity. The world-wide 
popularity of these pumps and their adoption into 
every clime have naturally resulted in the appearance 
on the market of imitation pumps, not only inferior in 
construction and lacking in durability, but so named 
as to deceive the innocent purchaser. Complaints 
received from many, who have been thus imposed 
upon, impel us to advise intending buyers to look 
carefully at the pump and be sure that the name-plate 
of the Rider-Ericsson Engine Co. appears upon your 
purchase. When so situated that you cannot make 
personal inspection before ordering, write to our 
nearest office (see list below) for the name of a rep- 
utable dealer in your locality, who will sell you only 
the genuine pump. Over 40,000 are in use through- 
out the world to-day. 
Write for Catalogue U, and 
ask for reduced price-list. 
Ruiper-Ericsson Encine Co. 
35 Warren Street, New York 234 Craig Street West, 
Montreal, P. Q. 
22 Pitt Street, 
Sydney, N.S. W. 
Amargura 96, 
Havana, Cuba 
239 Franklin Street, Boston 
40 Dearborn Street, Chicago 
40 North 7th St., Philadelphia 
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WE HAVE 80 OF THESE BIG SILVER MAPLES 
SHADE NOW 
20 26 “ 
20) 20100 WG tOlSine ee 
NOT A GENERATION HENCE— 
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Trained to single leader, 
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with a fine system of fibrous 
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THEY’ VE BEEN 
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And trees of the same age 
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They can be safely shipped 
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have 
“6 3 
NURSERYMEN AND SCIENTIFIC 
TREE MOVERS 
LONG ISLAND, N. Y. 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
APRIL, 1908 
Some Hints to Amateurs by a 
Professional Dairyman 
M* experience has convinced me that 
cows are more profitable in winter 
than in summer and for this reason I like to 
have cows fresh some time between October 
and January. In winter I feed corn silage 
twice a day, and clover or alfalfa hay once a 
day, with bran, gluten, or some other protein 
feed according to the price, allowing the 
cows to judge as to the amount they will 
digest properly. In this way they will go 
on a grass diet in good shape and will do 
nearly as well through the summer as cows 
that are fresh in the spring, and, in the fall, 
when the pastures are dry and the latter 
will shrink in their milk, my cows take 
their yearly vacation. If you are raising 
a calf you will have more time to take care © 
of it during the winter. A six months 
heifer will be ready to go on grass and will 
stand the sun and flies better than a young 
calf; and the skim milk you would feed a 
young calf during the summer can be fed 
to the pigs and chickens. : 
In case you have a surplus of milk and are 
in doubt whether to ship it to market or to 
convert it into butter it may interest you 
to know that I make at least fifty cents 
more on a can of milk by keeping it myself, 
making butter from the cream and feeding 
the skim milk to the pigs, than by sending 
it to the city; besides, I am saved the disagree- 
able task of hauling the milk to the railroad 
station daily. 
A man who has good alfalfa hay to feed 
with corn silage will not have to buy much 
grain, as the protein in the alfalfa balances the 
excess of starchy matter in the silage. 
A well built permanent silo can be put 
up for about $1.50 per ton of capacity. 
That makes a cost of $300 for a silo that 
will hold 200 tons of feed. This amount 
of feed will supply twenty cows with all the 
silage they should have, even if they are 
large cows and are fed the year round. It 
would be impossible to build for $300 a 
barn that will hold hay for twenty cows even 
for a winter ration, therefore the silage is 
the cheapest roughage possible to feed 
when we consider the cost of the structure 
that contains it. 
Without the necessity of providing for 
bulky feed one can construct a dairy stable 
with the object of getting cleanliness and 
light, building it long and low and securing 
a flood of light from three sides. This 
structure does not have to be as heavy as it 
must be if it is to sustain a heavy super- 
structure. A silo solves the problem of 
how a dairyman can make a living from 
fifty to one hundred acres of land. 
I plant twelve acres of corn to fill my 120- 
ton silo, or ten tons of silage per acre. While 
sweet corn and ordinary field corn can be 
used to fill a silo, the best satisfaction is 
obtained from some of the dent varieties 
which will produce considerably more feed 
of both fodder and grain per acre. 
Get a variety that will fully mature before 
frost. In feeding silage, corn stover, and 
red clover hay, feed one pound of grain to 
every three and one half to four pounds of 
