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Sao  Francijco,  Cal, 
New  England  Notes 
SANITATION 
IS  THE  RELIABLE  METHOD 
FOR  PREVENTING 
FOOT  AND 
MOUTH  DISEASE 
HOG  CHOLERA 
AND  AM.  OTHER  CONTAGIOUS 
DISEASES. 
You  can  make  all  live-stock 
quarters  sanitary  by  using 
KRESO  Dip  No.  1 
The  Standardized,  Reliable 
Dip  and  Disinfectant. 
We  will  send  you  free  a  booklet  on  tbe 
treatment  of  mange,  eczema  or  pitch 
mange,  arthritis,  sore  mouth,  etc. 
We  will  send  you  free  a  booklet  on 
how  to  build  a  bog  wallow,  which  will 
keep  hogs  clean  and  healthy. 
We  will  send  you  free  a  booklet  on 
how  to  keep  your  nogs  free  from  lice  and 
parasites  and  disease. 
Write  for  them— they  are  free. 
KRESO  DIP  No.  1  has  been  used  at 
the  large  state  fairs  in  the  United  States 
for  the  last.  ten  years  to  prevent  the 
spread  of  contagious  disease.  It  hr,s  done 
it.  and  KRESO  DIP  No.  1  will  do  the 
same  for  you  on  the  farm. 
KRESO  DIP  No.  1  is  Easy  to  Use— Reli¬ 
able— For  Sale  by  All  Druggists— 
Effective— Not,  Expensive. 
PARKE,  DAVIS  &  CO. 
Dep’t  Animal  Industry.  DETROIT,  MICH. 
STANDARD  LIVE  STOCK  BOOKS 
Types  and  Breeds  of  Farm  Animals, 
Plumb  . 2.00 
Diseases  of  Animals,  Mayo .  1.50 
The  Rural  New-Yorker.  333  W.  30th  8t..  N.  Y. 
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SO-BOS-SO  KILFLY  has  been  used  by 
thousands  of  farmers  and  dairymen  all  over 
the  country  for  the  past  16  years.  It  is  a 
tried  and  proven  preventive  for  flies.  You 
should  use  SO-BOS-SO  KILFLY  on  your 
cattle  and  horses  if  you  want  them  to  give 
the  best  that  is  in  them.  SO-BOS-SO  keeps 
the  animals  from  becoming  nervous  and  irri¬ 
tated  by  keeping  the  flies  away.  In  some 
cases  it  has  been  the  means  of  increasing  the 
milk  production  as  much  as  20 °lo. 
You  can  buy  SO-BOS-SO  from  your  deal¬ 
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us  for  a  gallou  can  postpaid.  The  Sprayer  is 
60  cents  prepaid. 
Send  for  descriptive  circular  telling  about 
other  farm  uses  for  SO-BOS-SO  KILFLY ; 
also  for  testimonial  from  leading  breeder  of 
prize  cattle. 
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VARIOUS  RESULTS  OF  COW  TESTING. 
One  of  the  largest  cow  testing  associa¬ 
tions  of  New  England  is  in  Worcester 
County,  Mass.,  with  over  1.000  cows  en¬ 
rolled.  The  cows  seem  to  loll  under 
three  classes :  Those  which  pay ;  those 
that  do  not  pay;  those  that  have  passed 
from  the  no  profit  to  the  paying  class  as 
a  result  of  closer  management. 
Here  is  a  herd  of  six  cows  that  made 
2.S86  pounds  of  milk  in  a  mouth  and 
showed  just  .$5- SO  profit,  on  the  whole 
herd.  Three  cows  showed  a  loss  that  was 
just  about  offset  by  the  profits  of  tw  o 
tbe  others,  so  that  practically  all  tit 
profit  was  made  by  the  sixth  cow.  In 
other  words,  the  ownt"  would  have  made 
as  much  money  wit  loss  work  had  lie 
kept  only  (he  one  best  cow.  The  other 
five  averaged  to  pay  for  their  feed  and 
that  wns  all. 
Another  representative  herd  of  11  cows 
is  all  of  the  second  >r  paying  class,  every 
cow  showing  a  profit  ranging  from  $5.3  1 
to  $14.(13,  averaging  $11.0(5  each  for  the 
month. 
A  herd  of  eight,  cows  of  the  third  class 
would  have  been  losing  money  only  for 
the  fact  that  the  milk  was  credited  at 
seven  cents  a  quart  retail.  The  milk  was 
costing  f!1/^  cents  and  some  of  the  cows 
were  mere  hoarders.  The  following 
month,  by  a  change  in  rations,  the  cost 
was  cut  to  4.4  cents  a  quart,  with  a  total 
saving  at  the  rate  of  $550  a  year,  a  very 
fair  salary  for  the  herd  manager.  An¬ 
other  herd  of  20  cows  was  moved  into  the 
desirable  class  by  feeding  a  better  bal¬ 
anced  grain  ration  costing  $(^  move,  but 
increasing  Hie  yield  by  $37,  for  the 
month,  a  very  important  change  reckoned 
by  the  year. 
The  adjoining  county  of  Franklin  is 
developing  some  good  yields  through  a 
little  friendly  competition  among  tested 
herds.  So  far,  the  best  records  are  by 
two  purebred  IToIsteius  owned  by  E.  F. 
Copeland  &  Son,  63.5  and  05.3  pounds 
butter  fat  in  one  month,  and  milk  yields 
of  1.713  and  1.S01  pounds.  Six  cows 
produced  over  1.500  pounds  each  in  a 
month  and  22  produced  over  1.000  pounds 
each  in  one  month.  There  are  about  200 
cows  in  the  competitive  test-  The  testers 
advise  the  feeding  of  a  little  hay  to  cows 
at  pasture,  the  hint  applying  to  the  few 
farmers  who  have  hay  left  (his  season, 
also  a  light  feed  of  grain  to  he  increased 
later,  just  enough  to  keep  up  the  yield 
as  the  pasturage  falls  off.  For  this  pur¬ 
pose,  a  mixture  is  recommended  of  100 
pounds  hominy  or  comment,  100  pounds 
middlings  and  50  pounds  gluten  feed. 
New  Hampshire,  while  not  posing  as  a 
great  dairy  state,  has  a  very  creditable 
showing  in  its  10  cow  testing  associa¬ 
tions,  with  over  4,500  cows.  The  records 
show  that  between  75  and  100  unprofita¬ 
ble  cows  are  being  sold  by  members  each 
year.  The  South  Lyndeboro  Association 
shows  a  steady  yearly  increase  of  the 
earning  power  per  cow  from  $30. SO  per 
cow  in  1011  to  $152.21  per  cow  in  1014. 
The  gain  amounts  to  nearly  $4.(500  a 
year  for  the  herds  of  the  town,  and  such 
an  improvement  in  the  income  of  the  milk 
farmers  could  hardly  fail  to  he  reflected 
in  the  shape  of  greater  general  prosper¬ 
ity  in  the  towns.  It  appears,  however, 
from  the  collection  reports  that  about 
one-third  of  the  tested  cows  of  the  State 
Still  show  a  loss  rather  than  a  profit 
after  the  feed  is  accounted  for. 
PRESERVING  THE  GAME  NUISANCE. 
The  State  fish  and  game  hatcheries  are 
turning  out  a  varied  output  at  very  con¬ 
siderable  cost  to  the  taxpayers.  The  new 
trout  rearing  station  in  Vermont  has 
been  stocked  with  100.000  brook  trout 
fry  and  various  other  young  stock  which 
will  be  placed  in  the  lakes  and  streams  a 
few  weeks  later,  ’t  is  to  he  Imped  the 
results  will  be  more  useful  than  the  out¬ 
come  of  various  fish  stocking  experiments 
in  neighboring  States.  The  average 
large  pond  or  lake  was  usually  stocked 
by  nature  with  sucli  native  fish  as  can 
stand  the  conditions,  and  the  people  of 
the  vicinity  could  take  a  cloudy  day  off 
for  fishing,  with  fair  certainty  of  catch¬ 
ing  a  mess  of  perch  and  bullheads,  with 
occasional  bass  or  pickerel-  But  the 
State  intervenes,  stocks  (he  pond  with 
trout  and  salmon  and  shuts  off  all  fish¬ 
ing  for  perhaps  five  years.  During  that 
time  there  is  a  groat  increase  of  fish,  hut 
mainly  of  the  predatory  kinds,  especially 
pickerel,  which  kill  out.  nearly  all  the 
perch  and  native  fish,  and  most  of  the 
newly  stocked  kinds.  Then,  with  the  re¬ 
opening  of  the  pond,  there  is  a  rush  from 
all  quarters.  Wagons,  automobiles  and 
motor  cycles  throng  the  shores,  and  fish¬ 
ermen  roost  on  every  rock  and  promon¬ 
tory.  The  pickerel  are  promptly  and 
easily  caught,  and  then  it  is  all  over,  for 
the  pickerel  have  killed  out  everything 
else,  and  the  lake  is  spoiled  as  a  local 
fish  mg  resort. 
In  stocking  with  imported  game,  the 
story  is  often  about  the  same.  At  the 
game  farm  in  Western  Massachusetts 
they  are  raising  2.500  young  pheasants 
this  Summer,  feeding  them  on  “baked 
pudding”  and  other  stuff.  In  a  special 
house  is  kept  a  lot  of  rotten  meat  to 
breed  maggots  for  the  young  pheasants, 
which  like  the  rest  of  the  pheasant  tribe 
bid  fair  to  become  an  unmitigated  nui¬ 
sance  when  turned  loose  upon  the  farms. 
They  live  very  much  like  a  flock  of  wild 
poultry,  stealing  sweet  corn,  peas  and 
other  garden  or  field  crops,  and  appropri¬ 
ating  the  natural  feeding  grounds  of  the 
very  useful,  insect  eating  native  quail. 
Then  when  they  have  fattened  well  on 
the  farmer’s  produce,  along  come  a  horde 
of  trespassing  loafers  and  strange  gun¬ 
men,  with  crack  shooting  irons  and 
trained  dogs,  filling  the  air  with  noise 
and  shot  and  carrying  away  everything 
that  looks  like  game;  pheasants,  quail, 
partridges  and  squirrels. 
The  wild  deer  are  perhaps  the  biggest 
nuisance  of  1.  Like  other  game,  they 
are  raised  on  the  farmer's  property,  but 
they  seem  to  have  developed  a  special 
fondness  everywhere  for  destroying  the 
numerous  young  orchards  that  have  been 
set  all  over  New  England  of  late  .years. 
Trying  to  get  pay  for  this  damage  is  a 
heart-breaking  experience,  partly  because 
few  of  the  game  wardens  understand  the 
cash  value  of  thrifty  fruit  trees.  Some¬ 
times  they  actually  wish  to  settle  on  the 
basis  of  what  the  trees  cost  at  the  nur¬ 
sery  perhaps  seven  or  eight  years  before. 
The  Vermont  Horticultural  Society  is 
trying  to  establish  values  on  a  basis  of 
$1  for  the  first-  year  and  $1  more  for 
each  year's  growth.  That  is  an  estimate 
quite  often  made  and  may  be  fair  enough 
for  a  whole  orchard,  but  no  fruit  grower 
would  have  gaps  made  here  and  there  in 
his  orchard  rows  for  any  such  price, 
PATROLS  CHECK  FIRES. 
Maine  and  New  Hampshire  will  get 
together  in  the  forest  fire  campaign  this 
Summer.  The  rough,  wooded  country  up 
around  tin1  sources  of  the  Connecticut 
and  the  Magalloway  rivers,  is  very  much 
alike  on  the  two  sides  of  the  interstate 
line,  and  a  fire  on  nue  side,  unless  quickly 
discovered  and  checked,  is  likely  to  make 
trouble  across  the  boundary.  High  land 
on  either  side  overlooks  to  best  advan¬ 
tage  certain  forest  areas  in  (lie  other 
State,  so  that  the  fire  patrols  and  look-  * 
outs  may  co-operate  to  advantage.  A 
little  study  of  tbe  forest  fires  in  Vermont 
shows  the  value  and  need  of  careful  pa¬ 
trol  work-  Just  about  three-fourths  of 
the  year’s  fires  were  under  10  acres  in 
extent.  These  numerous  small  fires  did 
hut  little  damage  altogether  and  cost  not 
much  to  put  out,  although  there  were 
nearly  100  of  them.  About  two-thirds 
the  total  damage  was  done  by  half  a 
dozen  fires,  and  nue  large  fire  burned 
more  than  twice  the  acreage  covered  by 
04  small  fires.  To  fight  this  one  big 
fire  cost  nearly  one-half  of  the  whole  ex¬ 
pense  of  fighting  forest  fires  for  the 
year-  g  b.  f. 
Buffalo  Markets 
This  is  a  terrible  season  for  the  raiser 
of  garden  truck.  The  rain  has  boi-n  so 
excessive  that  not  a  few  of  the  truckers 
have  given  up  for  the  season  and  gone 
into  shops.  Some  fields  and  gardens  are 
under  water  and  others  which  have  been 
planted  are  washed  out  or  *<>  wet  that 
they  cannot  be  cultivated.  Still  (he  stuff 
comes  in.  It  is  one  of  the  odd  tilings 
about  the  truck  market  that  home-grown 
fruits  and  vegetables  are  often  higher 
than  others  that  come  from  outside. 
Most  prices  are  now  on  a  Summer  basis, 
though  everything  is  very  late. 
The  price  of  potatoes  still  soars  and 
if  it  does  not  go  to  $2  it  will  not  be 
on  acount  of  the  home  crop.  As  a  rule 
potatoes  are  not  planted,  tbe  rains  pre¬ 
venting,  so  that  they  will  be  very  late 
at  the  best.  The  wholesale  pro-*  is  now 
$1.50  for  No.  1,  with  Bermuda  $5.50 
and  $6  per  bbl.,  and  $5.50  and  $0.50  for 
southern.  On  account  of  the  damp 
weather  the  old  potatoes  have  sprouted 
badly. 
Apples  are  holding  their  owui  well  at 
$2.75  and  $4.75  for  all  grades.  The  sup¬ 
ply  is  small.  Strawberries  are  going 
down.  being  quoted  at  10  and  11  cents 
for  fancy,  with  a  few  southern  raspber¬ 
ries  at  12  and  14  cents.  The  arrival 
of  melons  marks  the  Summer  season. 
Canteloupes  are  $4  and  $0  for  ('alifornias 
with  a  few  watermelons  at  40  and  75 
cents  each.  Huckleberries  have  also  ap¬ 
peared,  at  13  cents  a  quart. 
In  vegetables  there  is  still  a  heavy 
supply  of  asparagus,  which  appears  to 
like  the  wet  weather,  selling  at  $1.50 
and  $1.75  per  dozen  bunches.  Wax  beans 
an*  down  to  $2  and  $2.50  per  hamper. 
Cabbage,  $2.25  and  $2.50  per  crate;  cel¬ 
ery,  $1.75  for  Florida ;  cucumbers,  $1.75 
per  basket;  lettuce,  very  plenty  at  30 
cents  per  doz. ;  pieplant,  15  cents  per 
doz.  bunches;  radishes,  15  Cents  per  doz. 
bunches;  hothouse  tomatoes,  $3  and  $3.50 
per  carrier. 
Butter  remains  firm  at  about  former 
prices,  32  cents  for  best  creamery  prints 
to  27  cents  for  best  crocks.  Cheese  has 
dropped  back  to  1(5  and  17  cents  for  best 
and  11  for  fair.  Eggs  are  in  more  de¬ 
mand  at  2G  cents  for  best  white  and  24 
cents  for  candled. 
Large  supplies  of  poultry  have  weak¬ 
ened  that,  market,  with  frozen  No.  2  tur¬ 
key  2(5  cents ;  24  cents  for  chickens,  32 
cents  for  broilers  and  31  cents  Jtor  ca¬ 
pons,  with  fresh-dressed  ducks  25  cents. 
I.ive  poultry  is  about  3  cents  lowmc.  Re¬ 
tailers  are  asking  60  cents  a  pound  for 
Spring  chickens,  dressed  and  25  cents 
for  fowL  J.  w.  e. 
