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C7>e  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
February  5,  1916. 
immilWfel 
Oats  and  Peas  as  Hog  Pasture 
I  am  wintering  17  September  24th  pigs. 
I  have  a  young  orchard  of  about  1 
acres  close  by.  I  am  thinking  of  sowing 
this  land  early  to  Canada  field  peas  and 
oats  for  pasturage  as  a  supplement  green 
feed  to  fatten  this  bunch  of  pigs  on  in 
May  and  June;  then  I  want  to  put  the 
laud  into  late  potatoes  or  sweet  corn. 
Will  my  proposition  work,  and  will  the 
pens  and  oats  make  a  feed  relished  by  the 
pigs  that  will  pay  me  for  my  work  V  I 
sowed  two  bushels  of  Canada  field  peas 
and  oats  last  year,  and  they  made  an  ex¬ 
cellent  growth.  The  land  is  sandy. 
Ohio.  s.  H. 
With  a  good  season  the  plan  will  work, 
though  you  may  not  get  the  full  feeding 
value  of  the  oats  and  peas  before  it  is 
time  to  plant  potatoes.  You  will  have  to 
turn  the  pigs  in  early  if  you  expect  to 
get  much  pasture.  It  depends  on  lmw 
late  you  can  plant  potatoes  and  corn 
with  hope  of  making  a  crop.  The  oais 
and  peas,  fairly  well  matured,  will  make 
a  good  hog  pasture.  You  should  read  bul¬ 
letins  on  pasturing  hogs  from  the  Iowa 
Station  at  Ames  and  the  Missouri  Sta¬ 
tion  at  Columbia. 
expenses  were:  lumber  for  trough,  $1  ; 
roll  of  barbed  w  ire,  $2.40 ;  extra  pasture 
during  Summer.  $0.10;  total  cost,  except 
work  and  feed.  $118.50.  Income  as  fol¬ 
lows:  Wool,  $38.04 ;  four  ewes,  $20.05; 
ram,  $0.00;  10  lambs,  $70.22;  total  in¬ 
come.  $151.41.  We  have  on  hand  now  23 
head  (four  more  than  we  bought)  as  fol¬ 
lows  :  12  bred  ewes,  five  choice  ewe 
lambs  and  six  smaller  lambs  being  fed 
for  market.  During  the  year  we  lost  one 
ewe  by  death  and  one  we  butchered  for 
meat.  On  our  investment  then  of  $118.50 
and  work  and  feed,  we  have  a  cash  income 
of  $151.41.  and  four  lambs  -worth  $20. 
and  I  lie  original  number  left,  One  ewe 
brought  in  an  income  of  $17.50  or  about 
300  per  cent,  on  her  cost  price.  I  think 
that  is  better  than  owning  hank  stock. 
One  reason  we  bought  these  sheep  was 
that  the  pasture  field  was  very  weedy, 
and  in  1014  the  owner  requested  us  to 
mow  weeds  down,  which  we  did,  and 
broke  our  mower  on  them.  They  were 
such  weeds  as  the  cows  and  horses  would 
not  eat.  The  last  season  the  sheep  did 
the  job  satisfactorily,  and  we  did  not 
break  any  mower  on  them  ;  besides  they 
paid  us  handsomely  for  the  privilege  of 
doing  it.  SAMP.  IIEYMAXN. 
Huron  Co.,  Ohio, 
Velvet”  For  Dairymen 
West  Chester,  Pa. 
February  3rd,  1916. 
Mr.  Dairyman 
We  have  a  wonderful  new  invention  and  I  want  to  tell 
you  about  it  myself.  It  is  a  source  of  new  profit  for  dairy¬ 
men  without  added  expense  which  I  call  “velvet,”  for  it  is 
all  profit 
Thirty-five  years,  longest  in  America,  the  Sharpies  plant 
has  been  devoted  exclusively  to  the  Cream  Separator. 
Its  inventors  produced  the  first  cream  over-flow  bowl 
with  its  superior  quality  of  smooth  even  cream,  the  first 
directly  driven  steam  Separator,  saving  power,  fuel  and  wear, 
the  first  and  only  tubular  bowl  with  its  doubled  skimming 
force  and  efficiency  and  extreme  simplicity,  the  bottom  feed, 
the  hanging  tubular  bowl,  all  making  for  convenience,  dura¬ 
bility,  economy  of  maintenance  and  operation. 
Now  we  have  made  another  great  invention,  greatest  of 
all  as  a  profit  producer,  though  so  simple  that  it  seems  we 
should  have  had  it  long  ago. 
Thousands  of  carefully  made  observations  by  competent 
investigators,  government  officials  and  scientific  men  have 
proven  beyond  question  that  95  "o  of  all  the  hand  driven  cream 
separators  in  America  are  turned  below  regulation  speed,  below 
the  speed  marked  on  the  handle,  a  great  part  of  the  time  and 
every  hand  separator  is  under-speeded  some  of  the  time. 
No  matter  which  separator,  whose  make,  or  what  it  is 
capable  of  doing  when  turned  at  full  speed,  it  will  lose  cream 
and  a  lot  of  it,  when  the  speed  is  allowed  to  drop  even  for  a 
moment,  and  with  the  cream  goes  the  profit. 
THE  NEW 
SHARPLES 
SUCTION  FEED 
Separator  will  stop  this  loss,  aggregating  millions  of  dollars  annually  to 
America’s  dairymen — stop  it  at  once  and  forever. 
No  matter  if  you  turn  this  Separator  at  widely  varying  speeds,  fast  or 
slow,  it  skims  equally  clean  —  no  cream  will  be  lost.  The  bowl  drinks  its 
milk  supply  as  it  needs  it,  always  in  exact  proportion  to  the  separating 
force  within  the  bowl.  At  slower  speeds  it  drinks  less,  at  faster  speeds 
more,  but  always  just  the  right  amount  for  clean  skimming. 
A  thousand  of  these  machines  are  in  regular  daily  use;  we  demon¬ 
strated  them  to  a  finish  before  announcing  them;  it  is  the  Sharpies  way  — 
absolute  perfection  before  sale. 
The  Sharpies  Suction  Feed  Separator  has  several  very  important  ad¬ 
vantages  in  addition  to  its  certainty  of  clean  skimming  at  any  speed.  The 
varying  of  speed  does  not  change  the  thickness  of  cream  ;  fast  turning  in¬ 
creases  the  capacity  much  above  normal,  just  as  you  whip  up  a  horse, 
when  in  a  hurry.  The  supply  can  is  but  knee  high  and  the  machine 
throughout  is  simpler  and  better  than  ever. 
We  sell  our  Separators  now,  as  always,  subject  to  free  trial  by  the 
buyer;  but  a  stronger  guarantee  than  any  trial  is  the  unbroken  record  of 
the  growth  of  this  business  from  the  small  beginning  of  35  years  ago  to  its 
immense  proportions  of  to-day.  It  could  not  grow  so  except  by  the  un¬ 
broken  rule  of  complete  satisfaction  to  customers. 
Lack  of  space  prevents  explaining  more  fully ;  but  send  today  for  new 
book,”  Velvet  for  Dairymen,”  that  tells  all  about  this  money-saving  invention. 
Sincerely  yours. 
Jerseys  or  Holsteins 
I  have  a  bunch  of  Jersey  cows,  about 
15,  which  are  not  paying  me  the  way 
they  should.  I  intend  to  make  a  sale  of 
them  about  March  1.  take  the  money  I 
realize  for  them  and  come  to  New  York 
State  to  buy  Holsteins  with  the  money. 
I  also  intend  to  buy  a  No.  1  registered 
bull.  A,  p. 
Pennsylvania. 
I  would  say  that  with  some  men  it 
might  he  a  very  successful  move,  but  for 
the  average  man  I  should  consider  it 
rather  unwise.  We  keep  Holsteins.  and 
they  are  my  favorite  breed,  and  I  think 
it  all  right  for  this  man  to  make  the 
change,  but  I  should  go  at  it  slowly  and 
carefully.  It  will  probably  be  an  easy- 
matter  for  him  to  dispose  of  his  herd  of 
Jerseys,  blit  there  are  mighty  few  farmers 
who  can  go  out  and  pick  up  a  bunch  of 
Holsteins,  or  of  any  other  breed,  and 
make  a  satisfactory  deal.  Men  are  not 
as  a  rule  selling  their  best  cows.  Unless 
this  man  is  a  most  excellent  judge  of  cat¬ 
tle  lie  would  be  very  liable  to  come  home 
with  some  poor  cows.  It  takes  years  of 
steady,  persistent  effort  to  build  up  a 
good  dairy  herd,  and  tlm  average  man 
who  has  built  up  such  a  herd  is  loth  tn 
part  with  the  best  of  them.  There  are 
other  dangers  to  he  avoided.  This  man 
would  want  to  look  out  for  cows  affected 
with  tuberculosis  and  abortion,  very  com¬ 
mon  diseases  in  New  York  State  to-day. 
I  should  say  that  it  would  lie  bettor  for 
him  to  start  his  Holstein  herd  with  the 
raising  of  calves.  Dispose  of  part  of  his 
Jerseys  if  he  wants  to,  and  get  a  few 
first-class  calves,  preferably  pure  bloods, 
each  year,  and  build  up  that  way.  He 
will  soon  have  a  first-class  herd,  and  the 
cost  will  not  be  excessive.  ,j.  I.  mcc. 
The  Sharpies  Separator  Co 
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