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HOMES WANTED—The PLACING OUT BU¬ 
REAU, 415 Broome Street, New York, desires 
to communicate with responsible Catholic fami¬ 
lies who will take as members of their house- 
liobi suitahle boys between 7 and 12 years. 
There is no greater charity than this. 
MODERN farm borne, bath, Otsego County. New 
York, would board one or two elderly ladies: 
*10 weekly. ADVERTISER 055, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
IIONEY—Pure buckwheat extracted, postpaid, 
3d zone, 22-oz. can, 32c; 5 lbs., 00c; 10 lbs., 
$1.81; price list free. ROSCOE F. WIXON, 
Dept. G. Dundee, N. Y, 
SLEEP on a genuine Aunt Hannah Adirondack 
balsam pillow: soothing, refreshing, invigor¬ 
ating: 3-lb. pillow, $1.25: cash with order. 
HANNAH PAYNE. Pine Hill Camp, Rnquette 
Lake. N. Y. 
PURE Vermont maple products direct from the 
maker; send for price list. BRIMBLECOMBE, 
Marshfield, Vt. 
FOR SALE—Finest white clover extracted 
honey; 5-lb. pail, $1.15; 10-lb. pail, $2.20; de¬ 
livered to 3d postal zone, and insured. NOAH 
RORDNER, Holgate. 0. 
PURE MAPLE SYRUP for sale—10 gals, or 
over, $1.00 per gal.; 4 or 6 gais. at $2. 
GEORGE L. MARVIN. Andover, O. 
PEANUTS direct from grower are better and 
cheaper. Five pounds, $1.25: ten. $2.25; 
twentv, $4.00; insured, postpaid; quick delivery. 
MAPLE GROVE FARMS, Franklin. Va. 
FOR SALE—Pure maple syrup, $2.25 gal.: 5 
gals, or more. $2 gal.; f. o. b. ERNEST 
HELD. Bloomville, N. Y. 
DELICIOUS cocoanut creams or nut kisses, 
homemade, 2 lbs., $1. G. E. HILL, Yales- 
vllle, Conn. 
MILK CHOCOLATE—Made at our dairy; box of 
120 pieces, 2 lbs. net, postpaid, $1; sold in 
stores. $1.75: send remittance with order. R. 
W. WIND, Babylon, L. I., N, Y. 
WANTED—Air pressure tank for hotel water 
supply system; also large refrigerator suit¬ 
able for hotel use. H. GURLEY. Route No. 2, 
Ueekskill, X. Y. 
NEW Hartt-Uarr traetor, absolutely right; will 
demonstrate; large Case grain separator, en¬ 
gine and tank; Bower three-quarter ton auto¬ 
mobile trailer, with cow rack: offer these at bar¬ 
gain prices. W. A. WITHROW, Route 4. Syra¬ 
cuse. N, Y. 
FOR SALE—Superior sanitary churn: 15 gal¬ 
lon capacity; Burrell No. 1 butter-worker; 
both $22; used very short time; best, condition. 
ELM RIDGE FARM. Senrsdale. N. Y. 
EDISON AMREROLA; 80 records; all in fine 
condition, for Maple evaporator. 3-5 h.p. gas 
engine or good Incubator. M. L. KUHN. Spring- 
wafer, N. Y. 
NEW MAFLE SYRUP, absolutely pure; $2.25 
gallon; over 5 gallons. $2; sugar, 10-lb. pails. 
$2.50; orders filled promptly, with extra choice 
product; satisfaction guaranteed: send your or¬ 
der today. G. L. HOWARD. Essex Junction. Vt. 
REES! REES! BEES! — Produce yonr own 
honey; bees work for not bint; and board them 
selves; we furnish Italian bees and queens at 
attractive prices; free nrlvice to beginners; wp 
ship anywhere; write for prices: safe arrival 
and satisfaction guaranteed. \ AN'S HONEY 
FARMS, Van Wyngarden Bros., Props. Hebron, 
luil. 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Water in Silo 
I have a silo that water rises in. It 
has a had odor. I have not been giving 
it to my cows. Some say it. is all right 
for them, I put it out in the field so the 
cows could pick over it and eat what they 
liked. j. e. T. 
. Tut a cement bottom in your silo, run¬ 
ning the concrete, high enough to exclude 
water that might, be encountered from 
surface drainage. It is not necessary that 
a silo have a drain in the bottom; but it 
is fundamental that it be air-tight to 
prevent spoilage and undue fermentation. 
If the silage is merely unpalatable owing 
to the excessive moisture present, it 
would be wel! to allow the cows to pick 
it over as you have done. By taking the 
silage out of the silo some time before 
feeding and allowing it to drain it might 
be possible for you to prepare a product 
that could he fed in a limited quantity. 
The addition of beet pulp to the damaged 
silage might increase its palatability and 
hay be fed twice daily, morning and night, 
and that the cows be given access) to the 
bean pods during the middle of the day. 
Cattle with Worms and Lice 
I noticed in a recent, answer that you 
warned a party to be sure bis stock was 
free from internal parasites, and that if 
there were any indications of them to give 
a salty bran mash. I would suppose from 
this that you believe a salty bran mash 
will ordinarily cure worms. I have 10 
head of horses, several of them infested 
with pin worms. I have described the 
symptoms to a local vet. and he has pre¬ 
scribed a treatment that is nearly pro-, 
hibitive in time, etc. It includes a daily 
internal injection, a daily feed of powder 
into a bran or ground feed and a pint or 
quart of raw linseed' oil at the expiration 
of a week of such steady treatment. My 
cattle and horses are both troubled' with 
lice. B. p. a. 
It was not my intention to suggest that 
Dark lines show six divisions: 
dotted lines show five divisions. 
The one-inch marks would make 
12 and 10 pieces respectively, or 
those can be doubled by using one- 
half inch marks. 
Measuring with a Square 
The other day I had a chance to advise 
a friend as to how to divide a board into 
equal parts. He had a 9%-in. board he 
wanted to divide into six equal parts, be¬ 
fore ho started to rip it with his saw. 
His method, although absolutely correct, 
was to figure it by arithmetic, a slow 
method when the width of the material 
is in fractions. I showed him a trick I 
fell into while serving my apprenticeship. 
You take a carpenter’s steel square, 
which almost every farm boasts, and place 
it diagonally on the board at the point 
where the tongue joins the blade. In the 
case of six equal pieces, as my friend had. 
you swing the blade around until a num¬ 
ber is at the other edge of the board that 
can be divided by six. such as 12. 18 or 
24; i. e., if one takes 12. you will take 
your pencil, sharpened to a point, and 
point off at the numbers on the square, 
as 2, 4. 6, 8. 10. 12. If one wanted five 
pieces, you would take a number like 10. 
15, 20. and other numbers for other 
width work in the same way. 
Massachusetts. john a. mac lean. 
HONEY—Onondaga County clover or buckwheat 
extracted, 0 lbs., $1.13; 10 lbs.. $2, postpaid; 
we are Farm Bureau members. RANSOM 
FARM. 1310 Spring Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 
WANTED—A one-horse mower: give size, con¬ 
dition, price and make. EDWARD SEDMAN, 
Sunbright, Tent). 
IIONEY—Pure extracted, postpaid third zone: 
clover, 5 lbs., $1.25: buckwheat. 5 lbs., $1; 
10 lbs., $1.00. WALNUT ORCHARD FARM. 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
PURE delicious Vermont maple syrup. $2.25 
gat.; 0 gals., $2: 10-lb. ean sugar, $2.50; 2-oz 
cakes (5 lbs.), $2.50; satisfaction guaranteed; 
cash with order. BERT PRESCOTT, Essex 
Junction, Vt. 
STERILE ERGS, three days old, by the crate 
or dozen; suitable for packing in water-glass. 
FLUHRER FARM, Mountaindale, Sullivan Co,, 
N. Y. 
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enable you to dispose of it in this man¬ 
ner. I do not believe that it would be 
injurious. 
Ration Without Silage 
I wish a balanced ration for 25 cows 
for the best milk production. I have no 
silage. For roughage I am feeding good 
clover and Timothy. Cows are young and 
mostly fresh now. E. B. 
Assuming that your cows will soon 
have access to abundant pasture, I sug¬ 
gest the following : 300 lbs. of cornmeal, 
400 lbs. Of gluten feed. 200 lbs. of coarse 
bran. 100 lbs. of 43 per cent cottonseed 
meal. Feed this in proportion to the 
daily milk yield, and allow the animals 
all of the roughage that they will con¬ 
sume. The addition of 100 lbs. of linseed 
meal would improve the ration and should 
be used in case your hay consists largely 
of Timothy. After the cows have the run 
of the pasture I should simplify the ra¬ 
tion by leaving out the linseed meal. The 
grain should be continued throughout the 
pasture season in order that the cows 
may continue their maximum production 
throughout their lactation period. 
Ration with Bean Pods and Clover 
For roughage I have beau pods, corn 
stover and mixed clover hay. I have 
plenty of corn and oats. What would you 
advise me to mix with the corn and oats 
for a good milk ration? j. v. d. 
Since your roughage traces largely to 
legumes, it will be possible for you to 
feed a ration relatively low iu protein. 
This is especially desirable since your 
cows will soon have access to pasture. 
The following is proposed: Cornmeal, 
250 lbs,; ground oats. 250 lbs.; gluten 
feed, 300 lbs.; bran, 100 lbs.; 43 per 
cent cottonseed meal, 100 lbs. 
Allow one pound of this for each 3V> 
pounds of milk produced per day. While 
this ration lacks variety it. may serve 
your purpose. Since you do not have 
silage, I would suggest that the clover 
a salty bran mash could be substituted 
for a vermifuge. For horses we have 
used successfully a combination of fer¬ 
rous sulphate and powdered gentian, the 
dose being a heaping tablespoonful twice 
daily for a horse weighing 1.200 lbs. This 
can he mixed with the regular grain ra¬ 
tion and fed for four or five days in suc¬ 
cession. At the end of this period it is 
well to reduce the daily allowance of 
grain and give the horse a bran mash. 
Tins will have the effect of expelling the 
parasites that have been released by 
the former dosage. Your veterinarian 
has advised you correctly, and the use n£ 
a vermifuge, which is to be followed by 
a dose of raw linseed oil. will work a 
cure. 
I 'brieve that the most effective method 
with lice is to apply with a stiff body 
brush a mixture consisting of eight parts 
of raw linseed oil and two parts of gaso¬ 
line. If this is thoroughly rubbed over 
the animal’s body the parasites will 
promptly be under control. 
Ration for Holstein Cows 
I have cob meal, gluten, cottonseed 
meal, ground oats and wheat brau: for 
roughage, corn fodder and common hav • 
no J. j. s. 
If you desire to use the ingredients 
mentioned as a ration for Holstein cows. 
I would suggest that they be combined in 
the following proportion: Cornmeal, 200 
; gluten meal, 300 lbs.; ground oats. 
200 lbs.; wheat bran, 150 lbs.; 43 per 
cent cottonseed meal, 150 lbs. Unless 
there is some clover combined with vour 
mixed hay I should add 100 lbs. of* lin¬ 
seed meal to this combination. Feed 1 
lb. of this mixture for each 346 lbs. of 
milk produced per cow per day. and allow 
the animals all of the roughage that they 
will consume with relish. This combina¬ 
tion is intended for cows in milk. For 
the dry cows I should use equal parts of 
cornmeal. ground oats, wheat bran, to 
which has beeu added 15 per cent of oil- 
tneal. 
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