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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 22, 1922 
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In Only 48 Hours 
Your Hay Profits 
are Made or Lost 
The first forty-eight hours after hay is cut deter¬ 
mines whether the farmer has a crop worth any¬ 
thing or not,” says F. E. Durham, manager and 
buyer for the Denver Alfalfa Mills and Pro¬ 
ducts Co. 
That’s why he urges using a 
side-delivery rake and air-curing 
hay. 
The Dain system of air-curing 
hay makes hay that pays $6 to $10 
per ton more than hay not proper¬ 
ly cured. It requires no extra tools 
or labor—you merely use a left- 
hand side-delivery rake instead of 
some other style. 
“When the side-delivery rake is 
used,” Mr. Durham points out, 
“all the hny is moved gently onto 
clean stubble in a light, fluffy 
windrow, with the stems protrud¬ 
ing outward, exposed to both sun 
and air. The delicate foliage is in 
the shade of the inner part of the 
windrow, where it is cured by the 
passing air currents. By this meth¬ 
od, the stems are thoroughly cured 
and the leaves do not shatter or 
become sunburnt, an even quality 
of well-colored hay results.” The 
hay is air-cured the ideal way— 
“Nature’s way.” 
The John Deere-Dain System 
Rake is the most successful for air- 
curing hay because— 
1. It is the. rake with the inclined 
frame —its capacity is greater 
where volume of hay is largest—• 
no winding of hay into tight coils. 
The frame being low at the front 
end and set slightly nhead of the 
tooth bars, causes the hay to come 
up against the frame and pitch for¬ 
ward into a loose windrow, placing 
the leaves inside and the stems 
outside. 
2. It has curved teeth with an 
unusually large rang£ of tooth ad¬ 
justment. Curved teeth lift the 
hay and do not drag it. 
In case of rain, you can, with 
this rake, turn the windrows up¬ 
side down as often as necessary, 
always keeping the windrows 
loose. 
Farm implements 
are your cheapest 
investment. The 
University of Mis¬ 
souri found the im¬ 
plement cost of pro¬ 
ducing a crop of com 
last year to be only 
one-ninth the total 
production cost per 
acre. Based on this 
year’s prices, the 
costwill be only 
one-thirteenth. 
The Dain System Rake is sold by John Deere dealers. 
Write us today for booklet describing fully this 
system of making high-grade hay. Address John 
Deere, Moline, Illinois, and ask for Booklet DR-737. 
Dain System Rako 
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POINTS 
OF STAVE 
SUPPORT 
GLOB E 
SILOS 
G LOBE SILOS are the choice of 
Dairymen and Stockmen who in¬ 
vestigate before buying. They insure 
full silage capacity because the exten¬ 
sion roof has nearly straight sides. They 
have continuous opening adjustable 
door-fronts. The door fasteners make 
a convenient ladder. They are built 
to stay and keep silage because the 
stave joints have six points of support, 
making the Silos absolutely air tight. 
Prices for Globe Silos have been reduced to the 
1917 basis. Write for the Globe catalog, and ask 
about special discount offered for early orders. 
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Live Stock News 
Making Milk Without Grain 
We have often had questions from peo¬ 
ple who want to know if it would not be 
possible to conduct profitable dairying 
without feeding cattle on grain. Would 
not a ration of good silage and clover hny 
alone prove economical? A number of 
experiments have been made along this 
line, but in most cases it has been dem¬ 
onstrated that grain feeding is a neces¬ 
sity for large production of milk. It is 
quite possible, however, to withhold the 
grain and obtain a fair yield. The De¬ 
partment of Agriculture tells of a Hol¬ 
stein cow on a farm in Montana. During 
the Winter months she received nothing 
but corn silage and Alfalfa hay. For 
I IOV 2 days and 9S nights .she was on pas¬ 
ture. Duriug the rest of the year she 
consumed 0,014 lbs. of Alfalfa hay and 
S.O.’lo lbs. of corn silage. While fed this 
ration the cow maintained her weight 
and produced 14,210 lbs. of milk and 
470.24 lbs. of butterfat. Then there fol¬ 
lowed 12 months of grain feeding in ad¬ 
dition to the roughage. During this time 
the COW was fed practically all the grain 
she wanted. This meant 1,093 lbs. of 
Alfalfa hay, 8.325 lbs. of silage, 4.230 
lbs. of beets, aud 7.050 lbs. of grain. She 
was on pasture 130 days. The milk pro¬ 
duced for the year was 25,400 lbs., the 
butterfat, S23.ll lbs., and the cow gained 
200 lbs. in weight. The question for a 
practical fanner to answer is: Does this 
.314 tons of grain pay for the increased 
amount of butterfat? At the price that 
you would have to pay for an ordinary 
grain ration, did this cow give a profit 
on grain consumed? Take the ordinary 
price paid for milk and butter in your 
market. Did the grain feeding pay? It 
is evident that a cow will give a fair 
amount, of milk and butter when fed on 
silage and Alfalfa hay alone. But the 
question is whether an increased yield 
which comes from grain feeding pays us 
a profit. What would be the answer, so 
far as this cow is concerned, in your 
barn ? 
Plastering Silo 
In reply to L. II. F„ page 449, I do 
not know about stucco, but I had an old 
silo in which silage did not keep and we 
lathed and plastered it, using cement and 
lime. I would not use wire, metal or 
wood, lath being better. Be sure to fur¬ 
row out from the walls at least % in., 
having the furring close together, so 
pressure will not break plastering. 
Connecticut. R. F. 
Humane Butchering 
Will you say to D. Smith of New 
York that we do not approve of his 
method of killing hothouse lambs? It 
makes even us old butchers shudder to 
think of sticking a live animal with a 
knife. It is much more humane to stun 
to insensibility before bleeding. The 
lamb would die easier if not so soon if it 
did not have to suffer the agony of break¬ 
ing the neck after suffering the knife. 
Clearfield County. Pomona Grange No. 
33, recently passed this resolution unani¬ 
mously: "Any member drawing the blood 
of an.v animal with a knife without first 
rendering the animal unconscious to pain 
is guilty of cruelty to dumb animals." 
Thp churches, public schools and Granges 
are all for humane butchering. 
Clearfield Co., Pa. f. rerton i.ee. 
Destroying Lice on Cattle 
I have had a few cars of cattle from 
the Buffalo stock yards, and they are 
always covered with black lice. I have 
used linseed oil. but I like crude oil and 
kerosene oil. usiug one quart, of kerosene 
to one gallon of crudio oil. I only use it 
mice a year, and find it very effective. 
I put it 011 with a scrubbing brush on a 
warm day. and rub them all over. One 
dose is sufficient. G. d. 
I am sure that many of our readers 
will be very glad to have your advice 
as to an appropriate means of eradicating 
lice on cattle. The only objection I have 
found to crude oil is the fact that it is 
very apt to blister animals with tender 
skin, and that the average caretaker of 
cattle is likely to use it in extravagant 
amounts. Very often animals shed their 
hair following an application of Ibis char¬ 
acter, which condition does not. prevail 
when raw liusoe,| oil. to which has been 
added a small amount of gasoline, is used. 
If the anidials are badly infested with 
lice. I am inclined to believe that it will 
require more than one treatment to de¬ 
stroy all of the nits. 80 far 1 do not 
know of any treatment that will destroy 
the nits, but it is usually an easy matter 
to destroy the lice after they have hatched. 
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Guard Against 
Roughage Shortage 
A full silo not only protects you 
against a poor hay crop, but insures 
your cattle a fresh, succulent, milk- 
producing roughage that will great¬ 
ly reduce your feed bills. 
Get a Craine Silo. The Craine is 
the silo built with triple walls. The 
inner wall is of upright fitted staves, 
then a wall of Silafelt water and 
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spots, but protection in every inch 
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Rain, juice, frost, air—nothing pene¬ 
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in a PERMANENT building that pays 
you rich dividends every year, and 
eliminates the need of a new silo every 
few years. 
You can rebuild your old, broken-down 
stave silo into a new, permanent, hand¬ 
some Craine, and save half the cost of a 
new silo. DO IT. 
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