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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 80. 1922 
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H Trial Offer 
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Jndgr Dunbar’s Double Diamond ^ 
rf ((uar Feeding Molasses. We will ship 
lUJJr yOU a gallon Trial Keg, for only $1, ^fflTlT 
\jfe plus freight. Send $1 today. Ask for prices 
y and liberal terms on quantity shipments. ^ 
Double Diamond Feeding Molasses 
“Makes Poor Feed Good and Good Feed Better ** 
Double Diamond is guaranteed to be pure sugar-cane mo- 
JL lasses containing at least 55% combined sugars. . 
Write for your copy of "Feeding Hints That 
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What’s Comfort to the Cow ? 
25% extra milk production—in many cases it's the difference 
between profit in dairying and just breaking even. Because — - 
the cow can devote to milk making, the energy otherwise wasted in fretting and 
striving for physical comfort Louden equipment gives cows greatest comfort— 
greatest natural freedom they can obtain in the barn; gives sanitary surroundings 
that protect their health; enables one man to handle twice as many cows—feeding, 
watering, cleaning the barn—and do it with half the work. 
Sanitary Steel Stalls and Stanchions 
Will last as long as your bam stands. Constructed only of new, heavy, high car¬ 
bon, steel tubing. Smooth, simple in design, strong. No corners to hurt tows. 
No crevices to hide disease germs. No flat surfaces to collect dirt —absolute 
cleanliness . Louden Swinging Stanchion is the strongest stanchion made; Heavily 
reinforced at hingd*to prevent twisting; Simple latch /* U. Write Today for 
—operates at touch of mittened hand—cannot be / f „ n _ 
released by the cow; single chain holds it freely at ■ JjL m 1 
topand bottom,allowing cowto liedown naturally — ... . . w *5> . No matter what you 
turn her head freely to card herself or sleep with WaD ni^, p OW ;„ a n 11 . 1 
head nestled against her body—real pasture comfort. '"■tmsmJvtfite ™ U, ^? e wni 
Smooth V shaped bottom end prevents cow from # atiswer fully end 
catching or injuring front legs. The only stanchion * send complete jliustrsied 
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2686 Court St., Fairlield, Iowa 
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will reduce them and leave no blemishes. 
Stops lameness promptly. Does not blis* 
ter or remove the hair, and horse can be 
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ABSORBINE, JR., (or mankind, the entiieptlc 
liniment for Boils. Brunei, Sore*. Swellings, V»rico»e Veir.l. 
Alliyi Fain anil InliainmatloD. Price SI.2$ a bottle at drug* 
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W. F. YOUNG. INC.. 88 Ttmplo St., Springfield, Ma«. 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
The Dairy Cow Situation 
The dairy farmer is now being penal¬ 
ized for an over production of market 
milk. In nearly every section of the 
country where dairy cows are maintained 
on an extensive scale there is a surplus 
of milk, and naturally the price is deter¬ 
mined by the demand of the consumer 
for dairy products. The era of depression 
has forced many families to out down 
their daily allowance of milk; the popu¬ 
lation of a great many war-made cities 
has dwindled: much of the milk that 
was formerly sold to coudenseries is now 
diverted to the consumption channels, for 
the outlet for canned milk was suddenly 
cut off and restricted to home markets. 
In many cases farmers who wore not 
regular dairymen were forced to milk 
cows aud to sell milk that ordinarily 
would be taken by calves; they had no 
other means of making new dollars, and 
the opportunity was promptly grasped. 
These and many other factors have 
helped to bring about the present very 
serious condition in the dairy industry. 
^ ery few districts arc equipped to handle 
this surplus intelligently, for cheese-mak¬ 
ing: and even butter-making on a com¬ 
mercial scale is not practical in such 
sections, Wisconsin is geared up to take 
care of all the milk produced in that 
8tate, for the late Governor Hoard was 
far-sighted enough to lead his fellow 
dairymen away from the production of 
more market milk. lie sensed the belief 
that a balanced production of dairy pro¬ 
ducts would solidify dairying in Wiscon¬ 
sin, and his wisdom prevailed. 
In Now York State the Dairymen’s 
League has promised to utilize or market 
the entire production of its members at 
some price; but what is the advantage of 
a mere outlet if the price received by the 
farmer docs not satisfy the cost of produc¬ 
tion? How long should the farmer con¬ 
tinue to produce milk just because he is 
promised an outlet for his product, with 
no assurance that he will get a new dol¬ 
lar for a spent one in the transaction? 
Any policy which ignores the item of 
supply anti demand and clings to the 
hope that mere co-operative marketing 
ideals will surely solve the problem, irre¬ 
spective of flic actual economic principles 
involved, is neither a safe doctrine to 
proclaim nor a wise policy to initiate. 
In reality each and every farmer must 
carefully analyze his own problem. Effi¬ 
cient and economical production of milk 
is his daily task, and he must rely upon 
his good cows and his daily feeding prac¬ 
tices rather than a mere community spirit 
to carry him through. Unless his cows 
are carefully selected and their daily 
ration wisely chosen he cannot justify 
his existence as a dairy farmer. Just 
keeping mere cows and feeding (hem junk 
feeds will never enable any farmer to 
qualify as a successful dairyman. 
The greatest menace to profitable dairy¬ 
ing today is not surplus milk or filled 
milk nor any invading tropical substitute 
for hutterfat. It is the low producing 
cow that is being fed on junk foods. In 
many cases her production is down be¬ 
cause’the low-grade feeds used do not have 
punch enough to stimulate the milk-mak¬ 
ing function. They scarcely contribute 
enough net energy for maintenance, and 
there is nothing left for milk production. 
Such cows appear in good physical con¬ 
dition, have sleek coats, and display an 
abundance of vigor, but they have no 
fuel for making milk. The practice is 
not unlike attempting to burn kerosene 
in a motor tuned up for gasoline. 
Within the last year the demand for 
grade dairy cows from distributing cen¬ 
ters in Wisconsin, Michigan and New 
York State has been exceptionally brisk. 
Buyers from the West and South gladly 
paid inflated prices for Springers, espe¬ 
cially if they were Guernseys or Jer¬ 
seys, for it would seem that many 
dairymen were anxious to improve the 
quality or color of their milk in the 
hope of retaining an outlet for their milk 
when the surplus season was encountered. 
If a cow is worth feeding at all she is 
worth feeding well. With the quality of 
carbohydrate feeds, such as corn and 
hominy meal, so low in cost, and with 
an abundance of home-grown roughage, 
there is no possible excuse for purchas¬ 
ing or using high fibre feeds containing 
cheap roughage which arc put on (he 
market as concentrates atfd sold as carbo¬ 
hydrate carriers. Unless the feed manu¬ 
facturer actually [nits quality products 
into a feed the cow cannot produce qual¬ 
ity products from its use. There is quite 
as much difference In milk as there is in 
feeds, and a surprisingly large quantity 
of market milk does not carry the essen¬ 
tial vltamines simply because the cows 
from which it was produced were improp¬ 
erly fed with incomplete rations. 
The poor cow problem will not be 
solved until many more dairymen appre¬ 
ciate ihe importance of introducing and 
establishing feeding qualities and an effi¬ 
cient milk-making function through the 
agency of purebred sires mated with high- 
produciug dams. Home-grown cows are 
quite as essential as home-grown rough- 
ages, more especially if the farm is 
equipped with a herd sire of pure breed¬ 
ing, one qualified by inheritance to estab¬ 
lish milk-making type and function among 
his progeny. Genuine feeding qualities 
are inherited quite as surely as color or 
size or other distinctive breed character¬ 
istics. Purebred sires reproduce true to 
type, while grade or cross-breds are 
strangely inclined toward reversion and 
wide variation in bolt) form and function. 
Iu certain districts, notably in Eastern 
and Southern sections, tin- community 
live stock breeders’ association is promot¬ 
ing what appears to lie a real constructive 
effort toward improving tin* type and 
milking qualities of dairy herds. It is 
proposed that any owner of a grade hull 
who will consent to selling this animal 
for beef be given the opportunity of pur¬ 
chasing a purebred and registered sire at 
the same price as that received for the 
scrub animal. The American Guernsey 
Cattle ('Iiih was the first agency to sug¬ 
gest this method, ami through its various 
State, aud local clubs has been instru¬ 
mental in making the plan effective. 
Other breed associations have gladly co¬ 
operated if the seller of tin* grade animat 
expressed his preference for a bull of an¬ 
other breed. The possibilities for im¬ 
provement resulting from the use of the 
so-called community-owned sires are very 
great, especially in sections where the 
herds are small and where the cows are 
regularly culled upon information ob¬ 
tained by the active cow test associations. 
Competition will naturally force the in¬ 
efficient dairyman back to his old-time 
job, and many farmers who are only ten¬ 
tative dairymen will not Keep cows when 
the prices for farm products become ad¬ 
justed to the changed economic condi¬ 
tions. In any event, the man who takes 
advantage of existing events and pro¬ 
ceeds to cull bis herd and to release his 
heavy milkers from Ihe so-called forced 
production and thus conditions them for 
the period when milk can lie sold more 
profitably will find his IrCnehes well built 
and mightily useful. The roamer farmer 
who perchance goes along with the crowd 
sees only what the crowd sees, while the 
man who clings to his own job and works 
while the other fellow marches often en¬ 
counters the objective for which the 
roamer was searching. 
( have abounding faith in the efficiency 
of the dairy cow aud in the ability of the 
dairy farmer to carry through the surplus 
milk season in good form. If he avoids 
buying junk feeds, and refuses to feed 
choice quality products to inferiot mere 
visitor cows, he will be exercising that 
judgment which is essential for success 
in dairy farming. f, c. At. 
A visitor to Chicago was standing at 
a busy downtown comer with a map in 
his hand. He gazed at it intently. A 
kindly passerby offered his assistance, 
whereupon the man with the map smiled 
wanly. “I reckoned I'd figure it out very 
well.” lie said, "with this little map, but 
I guess I’m beat.” "Yes, yes.” said the 
Good Samaritan soothingly. "I dare say 
youM have managed very well, hut you’re 
looking at a map of New York.”—New 
York Globe. 
