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Ration  for  Pastured  Cows  so  impressed  me  with  the  gigantic  man¬ 
ufacturing  interests  of  this  age  as  either 
Can  you  give  me  a  balanced  ration  for  a  day  or  night  ride  from  Youngstown  to 
my  herd  of  eight  Ayrshire  cows,  varying  Pittsburgh, 
in  weight  from  SCO  to  1,100  lbs?  I  have  The  followin 
nothing  but  grass.  Timothy  and  clover  .  _  _ _ _  _ 
they  will  not  eat  hay.  In  a  couple  of  for  State  College  in 
months  I  shall  have  some  turnips  and 
mangels  to  feed.  T.  P. 
New  York. 
A  good  grain  ration  for  cows  on  pas¬ 
ture  such  as  you  describe  is  as  follows : 
1  part  dried  distillers’  grains.  2  parts 
middlings.  1  part  gluten  feed,  1  pai't 
bran,  *4  part  cottonseed  meal,  1  per  cent, 
salt.  Feed  this  at  the  rate  of  1  lb.  to  4*4 
to  5  lbs.  of  milk.  H.  F.  J. 
g  morning  found  me  on  a 
train  on  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  bound 
a  heavy  rain  which 
obscured  the  landscape  and  lasted  until 
after  2  P.  M.  We  reached  there  a  little 
after  1  P.  M.  and  were  herded  into  an 
immense  hall :  there  were  two  train  loads 
numbering  over  1100  persons;  and  treat¬ 
ed  to  short  speeches  by  the  heads  of  sev¬ 
eral  divisions  including  Dean  Watts  of 
the  College  of  Agriculture;  also  two  read¬ 
ings  by  a  student  professor  and  two  or¬ 
gan  recitals  by  a  lady,  the  daughter  of 
otfe  of  the  founders  of  the  institution, 
upon  a  very  large  and  fine  pipe  organ, 
presented  to  the  college  by  the  class  of 
1014.  The  men  giving  the  “talks’*  were 
interesting  speakers  and  live  enthusiasts 
in  their  different  jobs.  1  might  add  that 
they  were  all  fine  specimens  of  physical 
manhood,  nud  in  high  glee  over  the  crowd 
that  bad  come  so  far  to  see  them. 
Dean  Watts  gave  some  interesting 
facts.  The  students  taking  the  agricul¬ 
tural  course  numbered  more  than  1,000. 
In  the  rapid  increase  of  students  want¬ 
ing  to  enter,  they  had  run  across  the 
singular  fact  that  there  were  boys  who 
did  not  know  wheat  from  rye,  or  Hol- 
steins  from  Jerseys,  so  they  had  to  make 
a  rule  not.  to  accept  a  student  who  had 
not  worked  at  least  a  year  on  the  farm. 
The  college  runs  an  experiment  station 
as  a  necessary  side  line.  He  gave  an  ex¬ 
ample:  lie  and  many  others  supposed 
that  Alfalfa  would  injure  a  young  or¬ 
chard  ;  they  were  trying  it  out  and  the 
result  was  that  an  eight-year  apple  or¬ 
chard  showed  greater  thrift  where  Al¬ 
falfa  was  the  catch  crop  than  where  corn 
and  potatoes  were  growing. 
Instead  of  returning  to  Pittsburgh,  I 
decided  to  go  up  to  Ithaca,  see  the  exper¬ 
imental  flower  plantation  there,  and  go 
home  via  Rochester,  stopping  long  enough 
to  see  some  of  the  parks  in  their  fine 
beamy.  On  the  way  was  Williamsport, 
some  SO  miles  distant,  and  to  reach  there 
I  had  to  change  cars  three  times  to  make 
it  in  five  hours,  reaching  there  about  10 
in  the  evening.  Theu  I  had  to  arise  at 
2.15  to  push  on  to  Elmira,  and  thence  to 
East  Itliaea  and  Cornell  University.  The 
agriculture  here  is  extremely  slow,  espe¬ 
cially  in  the  valleys  along  the  railroads; 
just  how  the  people  made  a  living  was 
Lard  to  see,  hut  I  judged  it  was  iu  milk 
production  as  the  little  new  stations  were 
not  far  apart  and  I  saw  two  milk  eou- 
denseries.  The  cows  I  did  not  see,  and 
only  in  one  neighborhood  any  silos.  There 
is  a  surfeit  of  low  mountain  outline,  bu* 
when  the  road  climbs  the  hills  around 
Ithaca,  a  wonderful  landscape  of  tens  of 
thousands  of  acres  extends  iu  all  direc¬ 
tions  and  from  the  Western  edge  of  Cor¬ 
nell  quadrangle  much  of  Seneca  Lake,  40 
miles  long,  is  included.  One  of  the  most 
astonishing  features  of  the  landscape  is 
large  fields  of  orange  red  as  if  covered 
with  blooming  sorrel.  It  is  not  sorrel, 
but  a  weed  unknown,  ns  far  as  I  know, 
in  Ohio,  and  popularly  known  in  the  East 
as  devil's  paint-brush.  It  resembles  in 
form  of  flower  the  white-topped  weed  of 
Ohio  clover  fields.  The  n  ’tals  are  red. 
the  center  vellow.  In  one  pasture  field 
[  saw  this  weed  in  combination  with  wild 
buttercup  and  ox-eye  daisy.  It  s  a  weed 
combination  bard  to  beat.  As  cows  eat 
neither.  I  wondered  what  they  bar  to 
eat.  The  loss  to  agriculture  of  land  de¬ 
voted  to  crops  from  weeds  must  be  a  con¬ 
siderable  percentage  of  the  profits.  An¬ 
other  loss  must  come  from  failure  to  have 
good  gardens,  as  they  are  very  scare* 
outside  of  Western  New  York  and  North¬ 
ern  Ohio.  It.  has  been  extremely  wet.  and 
all  through  New  York,  crops  are  either 
implanted  or  suffering  from  water.  The 
farms  at  tRate  College  are  handicapped  by 
the  weather,  and  the  difficulty  of  getting 
help.  At  Cornell,  the  Legislature  made 
no  appropriation  for  farm  help,  and  after 
July  1st,  experiments  -will  have  to  halt 
unless  some  way  out  is  found. 
The  number  of  students  in  all  agri¬ 
cultural  colleges  is  increasing  faster  than 
appropriations,  and  the  teaching  force 
uses  all  the  funds.  I  moved  on  to  Roches¬ 
ter  in  time  to  see  some  very  beautiful 
parks  and  flower  gardens,  and  from  there 
left  for  Cleveland  at  10  F.  M.  Delays 
in  Buffalo  caused  a  change  of  plans  as  I 
could  make  home  in  time  for  an  early 
train.  Had  I  done  so  I  would  have  bee., 
from  home  only  60  hours,  and  seen 
enough  to  fill  a  hook. 
What  I  saw  that  was  fresh  and  beau¬ 
tiful  must  he-  told  in  another  article, 
which  1  hope  to  make  both  helpful  and 
interesting.  The  total  expense  was  less 
than  $23  and  the  distance  travelled  about 
900  miles.  I  was  told  that  complications 
arising  from  efforts  to  keep  sleeping  cars 
for  troop  transportation  are  causing  diffi¬ 
cult;’  in  movine  through  trains  on  time. 
L.  B.  PIERCE. 
SEPARATOR 
i  single  day  longer 
IF  YOU  ARE  SELLING  CREAM 
or  making  butter  and  have  no 
separator  or  are  using  an  inferior 
machine,  you  are  wasting  cream 
every  day  you  delay  the  purchase 
ot  a  De  Laval. 
THERE  CAN  BE  ONLY  TWO 
real  reasons  for  putting  off  buy¬ 
ing  a  De  Laval;  either  you  do  not 
really  appreciate  how  great  your 
loss  in  dollars  and  cents  actually 
is  or  else  you  do  not  believe  the 
De  Laval  Cream  Separator  will 
make  the  savings  claimed  for  it. 
IN  EITHER  CASETH  ERE  IS  ONE 
conclusive  answer:  “Let  the  local 
De  Laval  agent  set  up  a  machine 
for  you  on  your  own  place  and 
SEE  FOR  YOURSELF  what  the 
De  Laval  will  do. ’ ' 
YOU  HAVE  NOTHING  TO  RISK 
and  more  than  a  million  other 
cow  owners  who  have  made  this 
test  have  found  they  have  much 
to  gain. 
YOU  CAN’T  AFFORD  TO  WAIT 
till  next  spring  or  even  for  an¬ 
other  month.  Let  the  De  Laval 
start  saving  cream  for  you  RIGHT 
NOW  and  it  will  earn  its  cost  by 
spring. 
SEE  THE  NEAREST  DE  LAVAL 
agent  at  ONCE  or  if  you  do  not 
know  him  write  us  direct  for  any 
desired  information. 
Ration  for  Holsteins 
How  should  I  mix  a  balanced  ration 
for  fresh  Holstein  milch  cows,  good  size, 
about  900  to  1,000  lbs.?  I  have  dried 
brewers’  grains,  old  process  oilmeal,  and 
wheat  middlings.  "What  else  must  I  add 
to  this?  For  roughage  we  have  well¬ 
eared  corn  silage  and  good  clover  hay. 
We  sell  milk  by  Babcock  test.  n,  A. 
New  York. 
I  judge  by  the  feeds  mentioned  that 
your  cows  are  not  on  pasture,  therefore 
you  will  have  to  feed  grain  as  in  Win¬ 
ter.  The  following  makes  a  good  bal¬ 
anced  ration,  using  the  feeds  you  have 
on  hand  with  oue  or  two  others:  .10  lbs. 
corn  silage  and  10  lbs.  clover  hay  daily 
and  1  lb.  of  grain  to  114  to  4  lbs.  of  milk 
of  this  grain  mixture:  2  parts  dried 
brewers*  grains,  2  parts  middlings,  1  part 
oil  meal.  1  part  bran,  1  part  gluten  feed, 
1  per  cent.  salt.  H.  F.  J. 
THE  DE  LAVAL  SEPARATOR  CO. 
165  Broadway,  New  York  29  E.  Madison  St.,  Chicago 
50,000  BRANCHES  AND  LOCAL  AGENCIES  THE  WORLD  OVER 
Ration  for  Jersey  Cow 
I  have  just  bought  a  purebred  Jersey 
cow.  10  years  old.  medium  size.  What  is 
a  balanced  milk  ration  on  grass,  and 
when  I  put  her  on  dry  feed,  with  good 
clover  hay?  g.  s.  w.  p. 
Pennsylvania. 
To  balance  pasture  grass,  feed  a  ra¬ 
tion  made  up  of  equal  parts  of  hominy, 
bran,  middlings,  and  gluten  feed.  Feed 
1  lb.  to  5  or  6  lbs.  of  milk  produced  daily. 
When  the  cow  is  taken  from  pasture  and 
put  on  clover  hay  the  following  grain 
ration  fed  wPh  15  lbs.  of  clover  hay 
daily  should  g:- ?  good  results:  2  parts 
hominy  or  eornmeal,  2  parts  bran.  1  part 
dried  distillers’  grains,  2  parts  middlings. 
2  parts  dried  beet  pulp.  1  part  gluten 
feed,  1  per  cent.  salt.  Feed  this  at  the 
rate  of  1  lb.  of  grain  to  3  lbs.  of  milk. 
Cleaner  Milk 
M  is  the  insistent  demand  of  health 
W  authorities.  It’s  impossible  to  pro-  1 
f  duce  clean  milk  in  dark,  unsanitary 
stables.  Make  your  dairy. clean,  sweet- 
smelling  end  healthful  with 
EUREKA  Harness 
Oil  keeps  leather 
so  ft  and  pliable. 
Makes  the  harness 
look  better  and  last 
longer. 
A  snow-white  mineral  pnint  with  which  is  com- 
_ _ - - - - 
Prevents  foot-und-rnouth  discos:. 
etc.  Mix  with  water  and  it’s 
bined  the  most  powerful  germicide  known  to  science. 
-  -  *  ■  -Nt  -  anthrax,  cholera, 
ready  to  apply. 
Use  II  Instead  of  Whitewash 
Iniry.  piggery  and  poultry  houses.  Put  it.  on 
\  brush  «*«r  Epmyer.  <*aipoSaicivc8  a  Ivuminrul, 
<>tli  white  surface.  Positively  will  notnnke, 
lor  blister.  Endorsed  by  lowing  experiment 
tioiiS.  At  your  If  Will  not  supply 
For  preserving, oiling 
and  blacking  harness, 
carriage  and  automo¬ 
bile  tops. 
Sold  Everywhere 
Standard  Oil  Co. 
of  N.  Y. 
CPrincipnl  Offices) 
New  York  Albany 
h  Ziufialo  Boston 
Winter  Dairy  Ration 
How  is  the  following  ration  for  1.000- 
pound  Ilolstoins?  It  for  the  Winter 
months:  30  pounds  corn  silage  (15 
pounds  a.  m.  and  p.  m.  L  15  pounds 
clover  hay  (Alsike  and  fed)  fed  at  mid¬ 
day,  10  pounds  gluten  feed,  fed  five 
pounds  each  morning  a  d  afternoon, 
about  1  per  cent.  salt.  Would  not  a 
variety  of  grains  prove  better  and  less 
expensive?  Gluten  feed  at  $33  per  ton. 
Massachusetts.  F.  C.  R. 
A  Winter  grain  ration  made  up  solely 
of  gluten  feed  to  substitute  corn  silage 
and  clover  hay  is  expensive,  unbalanced 
and  lacking  the  desired  variety.  A  much 
more  desirable  ration  would  b<-  made  up 
of  30  pounds  corn  silage  and  12  pounds 
clover  hay  daily,  fed  with  one  pound  to 
four  pounds  of  milk  of  the  following  bran 
mixture :  two  parts  distillers’  grains, 
iy2  parts  gluten  feed,  one  part  middlings, 
one  part  cottonseed  meal,  one  per  cent, 
salt.  H.  F.  J. 
Here  Is  the  first  real,  practical  idea  for  a 
perfect  lioine-mafle  concrete  mixer  ever  yet 
produced.  Endorsed  by  nil  farm  papers-,  by 
concrete  engineers  and  by  hundreds  of  users. 
Vou  make  it  with  a  few  tin  oak  barrel 
aud  a  few  castings,  tiond  your  name 
and  get  full  instructions  and  #9)V. 
close  of  a  nice  June  day,  for  Pittsburgh,  I 
was  not  travelling,  but  just  going  some¬ 
where.  and  my  objective  was  to  join  an 
excursion  from  that  city  to  State  Col¬ 
lege.  a  little  village  consisting  mostly  of 
people  connected  with  Pennsylvania’s 
very  nicely  equipped  College  of  Agricul¬ 
ture  and  closely  allied  lines  of  education. 
Reaching  Pittsburgh  in  the  evening  I 
had  to  cross  the  Smithfield  Street  bridge 
to  reach  a  nearby  hotel,  and  was  struck 
by  the  fairy-like  view,  which  seemed  like 
the  work  of  enchantment.  Up  and 
across  the  river,  red  and  green  and  white 
signal  lights  were  interspersed  with, 
myriads  oi  other  lights,  while  on  either 
side  were  other  myriads  sandwiched  be¬ 
tween  electric  signs  of  all  kinds  in  de¬ 
gree  and  shape ;  all  this  was  reproduced 
upside  down  in  the  water.  Just  before  me 
was  a  bridal  couple,  aud  the  girl  seemed 
more  than  ordinarily  observing.  “Just 
look,  Charley,"  said  she,  “thaths  just  as 
beautiful  ns  the  lagoons  at  the  San  Fran¬ 
cisco  Fair  I  saw  last  Summer'’  and  peo-  f  ,  . 
pie  from  around  here  declared  they  bin1 
never  seen  the  like.  The  view  as  we 
skirted  the  Ohio,  from  Beaver  down,  was  A  well-known  banker  in  a  downtown 
equally  wonderful.  Both  hanks  and  restaurant  was  eating  mush  and  milk, 
islands  in  the  river  are  lined  with  iron  "What’s  the  matter?"  inquired  a  friend, 
works;  some  of  them  of  gigantic  size,  "Got  dyspepsia.”  “Don’t  you  enjoy  your 
using  and  transforming  whole  train  loads  meals?"  “Enjoy  my  meals?  My  meals 
of  ore  and  coal  and  limestone  every  day.  are  merely  guide  posts  to  take  medicine 
There  is  nothing  I  have  ever  seen  that  before  and  after." — Sunday  Magazine. 
THAT’S  GUARANTEED 
— to  produce  more  milk  than  any  other  ration 
either  bor.  -  mixed  or  purchased  and  do  it 
without  giving  yuur  cows  constipation  or 
,inr!  r  trouble.  Ready  to  use  right  out  ot  the 
sack  without  any  mixing. 
It  will  mix  2%  cu.  ft.  at  a  batch, 
has  self-lilting  dump,  runs  by  hand  or  1  h.p.- 
engine.  Will  keep  from  2  to  6  men  busy.  B -*a  finest 
Work,  Mjnal  to  any  |200  machine— and  Cost-  /ou  almost 
nothing  in  comparison.  Just  drop  me  your  name  on  a 
post-card  today.  Full  instructions  and  hlu'  print  piucs 
will  Coma  si  once.  FREE. 
SKELOON  MANUFACTURING  CO..  «n  2475  Dehaota.  Nit] 
Absolutely  free  from  tutolLenmts  and  fillers,  just 
like  the  feed  you  would  mix  for  youraclf.ie  a  i-pecinl 
combination  of  choice  cottonseed  meal,  dried  beet 
pulp,  gluten  fecd.Corndistillors'gTiiinB.w'iwait  bran, 
wheat  middlings  and  a  little  snlt.  that's  all;  each  in- 
gradient  weighed  by  automatic  scales  nud  nil 
thoroughly  mixed  in  Inigo  power  driven  mixers,  no 
that  it  la  alwayu  absolutely  uniform,  und  always 
good.  An  extra  quart  or  two  of  milk  daily from each 
cow  may  turn  a  loss  into  a  profit.'!  ry  LARKO-f'  i  v.lJ 
for  more  profits.  Sold  on  ”nuu»|  back  II  not  ***‘**'"*1 
plan,  the  de^  ion  being  entirely  up  to  vou.  LA  KUO 
dealers  almost  everywhere:  write  if  none  near  you. 
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VENTILATORS 
furnish  fresh  air,  keep  cattle  healthy,  make 
each  animal  more  profitable,  cure  hay  quickly 
and  prevent  spontaneous  combustion. 
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Dept.  A  -  •  •  Troy.  N.  Y. 
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