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C’Ae  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
October  7,  1916. 
SHARPLES 
SUCTION-FEED 
fi.  Straining  a  remedy  for  dirt.  Just 
because  one  figures'  lie  strains  all  the 
dirt  out  of  his  milk  is  no  reason  why 
he  should  not  be  careful  to  have  as  lit¬ 
tle  to  strain  out  as  possible.  Straining 
is  simply  a  last  precaution  to  prevent 
that  sediment  which  has  got  by  the  most 
careful  hands  from  getting  into  the  bot¬ 
tled  or  canned  milk.  Any  farmer  can 
demonstrate  to  himself  the  value  of  tiie 
small-mouthed  pail  by  buying  one  and 
then  examining  the  strainer  cloth  when 
the  milk  is  drawn  into  an  open  pail,  and 
then  into  a  small-mouthed  pail  under  the 
same  conditions.  After  he  makes  this 
demonstration  the  open  pail  will  most 
likely  be  used  in  feeding  the  calves. 
Small-Mouthed  Milk  Pail 
That  milk  is  no  place  for  dirt  is  a 
foregone  conclusion.  It  looks  badly  in 
the  milk,  it  makes  the  milk  taste  badly, 
it  introduces  bacteria  of  an  undesirable 
nature  into  the  milk,  and  hence  helps  to 
make  for  milk  of  very  poor  quality  that 
you  and  I  do  not  desire  to  drink.  Un¬ 
less  a  cow’s  udder,  flanks  and  abdomen 
are  cleaned  to  such  a  degree  as  is  im¬ 
practical  under  ordinary  conditions, 
there  is  always  present  a  certain  amount 
of  dirt,  some  of  which  falls  into  the  milk- 
pail  during  the  milking  process.  Ob¬ 
viously  less  dirt  will  fall  into  milk  drawn 
into  a  small-mouthed  pail  than  into  a  pail 
entirely  uncovered.  This  certainly  is 
reason  enough  to  warrant  the  use  of  the 
small-mouthed  pail. 
To  use  a  small-mouthed  milking  pail 
is  to  take  advantage  of  one  of  the  most 
potent  factors  which  help  iu  producing 
a  high-grade  milk.  The  official  govern- 
vRROW 
COLLARS 
ARE  MORE  FREE  FROM  SPECKS  AND 
STAINS  AND  LAUNDRY  FAULTS 
THAN  OTHER  COLLARS  AND  HAVE 
AMPLE  CRAVAT  SLIDE  SPACE 
GOTHIC 
The  New  Car 
It  is  something  of  an  event  in  the  life 
of  a  farm  family  when  a  new  automo¬ 
bile  comes  to  be  a  part  of  tbe  farm  equip¬ 
ment.  It  is  getting  so  now  that  one  great 
ambition  of  the  farmer’s  children  is  to 
15  c  each 
6  for  90c 
Cluett,  Peabodv  &  Co.,  Inc.,  Makers 
$80,000,000  worth  of  cream  is  lost  annually, 
due  to  turning  old-fashioned  separators  below 
speed  (19  out  of  20  farmers  turn  too  slow) 
Sharpies  is  the  only  separator  that  will  avoid 
this  loss— skims  clean  at  any  speed.  Over  a  million 
users.  Made  by  the  oldest  and  largest  separator  factory 
r  in  America. 
The  Sharpies  Separator  Co.  -  West  Chester,  Pa 
Branches :  Chicago  San  Francisco  Portland 
Toronto 
Pull  stumps  by  kand 
The  Farm  Family  Looks  Over  ihe  New  Car 
Clear  your  stump  land  cheaply.  No  expense  for  teams  or 
—  powder.  One  man  with  a 
_  HAND 
merit  score  card  which  is  used  iu  rating 
dairies  on  the  basis  of  equipment  and 
methods,  allows  five  points  out  of  40 
which  are  allotted  to  equipment  if  the 
small-mouthed  pail  is  used,  and  none  if 
the  ordinary  wide-mouthed  pail  is  used. 
At  the  Stores,  (’nun..  Experiment  Sta¬ 
tion,  and  at  the  (Jeneva,  X.  Y.,  Experi¬ 
ment  Station,  it  was  found  that  the  use 
of  the  small-mouthed  pail  resulted  iu  a 
50  to  70'/r,  reduction  in  the  numbers  of 
bacteria  present  in  the  milk,  the  more 
dirty  the  cows  and  stable  the  greater  the 
percent,  reduction. 
Why  It  Is  Not  Used 
1;  .1* tli an ge  is  involved.  When  a  man 
gets  used  to  using  an  open  milkpail  such 
as  has  been  used  on  his  farm  ever  since 
cows  were  milked  on  that  farm,  there  is 
no  incentive  for  him  to  make  a  change 
so  long  as  the  pail  he  is  using  will  hold 
milk,  unless  he  is  actually  shown  the 
change  will  do  him  some  good. 
2.  The  advantages  of  the  small-mouthed 
pail  hare  not  been  sufficiently  demon¬ 
strated  to  the  fanner.  Within  the  last 
two  or  three  years  certain  creamery  and 
milk  plant  operators  and  the  like,  have, 
by  means  of  the  sediment  test,  shown 
their  patrons  the  amount  of  dirt  in  a 
pint  or  quart  of  tlieir  milk.  (The  sedi¬ 
ment  test  simply  consists  of  straining  ;i 
certain  amount  of  milk  through  a  cot¬ 
ton  filter.)  These  companies  have  then 
bought  small-mouthed  milk  pails  for  their 
patrons  and  charged  them  to  their  ac¬ 
counts.  The  patrons  have  then  been 
shown  by  the  sediment  test  a  wonderful 
change  iu  cleanliness  brought  about  by 
the  small-mouthed  milk  pail. 
fi.  Small -mouthed  pails  not  easily  se¬ 
cured.  The  local  country  store  has 
heard  little  of  the  small-mouthed  milk¬ 
pail  and  so  seldom  carries  them.  An 
up-to-date  hardware  store  in  your  near¬ 
est  town  will  usually  carry  them.  If 
not,  they  may  be  secured  from  a  dairy 
supply  firm.  The  tinsmith  cau  solder  a 
part  cover  on  to  an  open,  pail  for  50c  and 
if  it  is  a  good  pail  with  seams  well 
Soldered  and  lie  does  a  good  job,  it  makes 
a  good  small-inonthed  pail. 
4.  Might  <v  1  ra  expense.  The  extra  ex¬ 
pense  of  a  small-mouthed  pail  may  be 
50  cents,  but  this  is  a  mere  trifle  as 
compared  to  its  value. 
5.  Xot  as  easy  to  mill'  into  ns  the  open 
pail.  (let  the  pail  with  the  elliptical 
opening  about  5xN  inches.  This  opening 
is  easier  to  ‘'hit"  than  the  round  open¬ 
ing  of  the  same  area.  A  very  little 
perseverance  overcomes  this  oh’'’cl!op. 
own  or  drive  a  car.  We  find  that  our 
own  children  know  more  about  the  differ¬ 
ent  kinds  of  cars  and  the  ways  of  hand¬ 
ling  them  than  we  ever  did  about  the 
different  breeds  of  live  stock.  The  car 
lms  now  come  to  he  such  an  essential  part 
of  modern  life  that  the  young  people,  and 
'especially  those  of  a  mechanical  turn  of 
mind,  are  deeply  interested  in  it.  Our 
picture  above  shows  a  new  car  as  it 
has  come  to  the  farm.  All  hands,  from 
father  and  mother  to  the  hired  man.  have 
come  out  to  give  the  car  a  thorough  over¬ 
looking  and  critical  study.  Soon  as  many 
as  possible  of  them  will  pile  into  it  and 
give  it  a  spiu  of  several  miles  around  the 
road;  then  the  rest  will  take  their  turn 
so  as  to  give  it  a  thorough  breaking  in. 
The  girls  are  ready  to  drive,  in  fact  it  is 
probable  that  when  father  and  mother 
start  out  they  will  go  as  passengers  on 
the  hack  seat  with  some  of  the  young 
folks  at  the  wheel.  We  all  begin  to  real¬ 
ize  now  what  the  modern  car  has  done 
for  farm  life.  It  is  stirring  up  the  people 
as  nothing  else  has  ever  done,  mixing 
them  together,  and  giving  every  member 
of  the  family  a  new  sense  of  power. 
There  may  l>e  still  a  few  country  people 
who  prefer  to  jog  along  behind  old  Billy 
or  Doll,  but  the  great  majority  of  them 
enjoy  the  sense  of  power,  and  the  fresh 
breeze  of  life  which  comes  to  them  as 
the  car  carries  them  rushing  along  the 
country  road. 
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