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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 31 
‘'STRIPPINGS” AT A DAIRY BARN. 
The day has been a stormy, blustering 
one, the worst of the new year. It is 
one of the days when one gives all his 
attention to the cows, and thanks for¬ 
tune that he has a good dairy, that 
prices are high, and that most of the 
fed rations are home-grown. The prices 
are the highest in years, the milk sell¬ 
ing at the stable door at $1.50 per 100 
pounds, a trifle over three cents a quart 
net. That is a high price at the farm in 
Ohio; it pays, and gives employment to 
others, and makes two homes that we 
know of happy, and that is something 
after all to be counted in with the price. 
Yes, but dairying makes long days. 
True, it wants regularity to take care 
of cows well. We commence milking at 
5.30 A. M., and at 5 P. M., and take long 
noonings to even up; and it is care-tak¬ 
ing of the cows and not farm work be¬ 
tween milkings in the Winter months, 
and there are no complaints coming 
that we hear. The man who wants to 
make Winter milk must have regularity 
in milking and feeding, and uniformity 
of task and conditions. 
We are feeding largely a home-grown 
ration this Winter; the cows are giving 
their full usual messes, and are in fine 
fiesh, and “bright” in look. We had 
some fears about the silage, as the corn 
grew last Summer in deluges of rain, 
and rooted in the mud. The season was 
so cold and cloudy that little earing was 
made, and we surmised the silage would 
not feed as well. It is coming out of 
the pits as fine in condition as any we 
ever had, and the 50 pounds each a day 
seems to be all that they can eat. The 
grain ration is changed from last Win¬ 
ter. This Winter, we are feeding corn 
and oats ground together half and half, 
and adding a third by weight of best 
fine middlings, and feeding six pounds 
a day of this in two feeds, to a cow; 
some are getting more, and some less. 
Once a day, less of the mix is given, and 
a pound of linseed meal put in for each 
cow. We are finding this ration is do¬ 
ing fully as well as the all bran and 
gluten of last Winter. We have gen¬ 
erally exchanged oats for best bran, get¬ 
ting about 3,000 pounds of bran for a 
ton of oats; but the prices this Winter 
balance the weight, so we are feeding 
the oats, and putting in the cornmea) 
to starch up the nearly earless silage. 
Yesterday was quite pleasant, and we 
turned out the cows for an hour, as they 
had been in the barn something over 
three weeks, and expected to see them 
take their exercise, but they wandered 
aimlessly about the yard, and soon be¬ 
gan to huddle at the door to go back in. 
When allowed, every cow was quickly 
at her tie, and they soon were lying 
down on their straw beds, chewing their 
cud for contentment. We are still firm 
believers in the twice-a-day feeding, 
giving all that the cows will eat up 
clean, then water, and give them their 
dry food, mixed hay, clover, and now 
and then nice bright oat straw, and then 
give them the next eight hours to di¬ 
gest their breakfast; at night no dry 
food. Between meals they have fresh 
water in abundance and at will, and I 
find that when cows can drink when 
they like they have a most individual 
way of not doing just as the cow in the 
next pew may do. 
One tiling we miss this Winter and 
that is an abundance of road dust as a 
“drier” and deodorizer in the gutter. It 
was so rainy last season there was no 
chance to get dust, and we are using 
South Carolina rock as a nitrogen catch¬ 
er, It performs its part well, but it 
costs something, and we cannot now say 
that we worked on the road last Sum¬ 
mer. Of course the rock balances up 
the manure better, and we get full re¬ 
turns in its use after all. It has been a 
good time so far to draw the manure 
direct to the fields, and spread where 
wanted. I notice that the Ohio Station 
reports it the best way, and that sum¬ 
mered manure lost over 40 per cent of 
its value. 
The ventilators in our stables are do¬ 
ing the same fine work, and the purity 
of the air in the stable all the time is a 
matter of common remark. I am con¬ 
vinced that failure to make them draw 
is because too large, and not tall 
enough. Ours are 30 feet in height, and 
with an inside square of 13 inches being 
made of 14-inch wide inch lumber and 
made with close corners going straight 
up, without angle or bend. With a 
storm hood these shafts pull all the 
time, and if Prof. King’s tables are cor¬ 
rect, one of these shafts will take out 
of a stable 22,000 square feet of air in 
24 hours. This means one of these 
shafts to each nine or 10 cows. There 
is no chance for air to stay long enough 
to foul, or condense vapor. We found 
we had too much outside intake space. 
While the stable can be shut up tight 
there is an incoming of air which is sur¬ 
prising, and in experiments we have 
never been able to close up the stable 
so closely against outside air, but what 
the pull of the air shaft would take 
feathers and chaff out at the top, which 
shows its pull. The intake of air should 
be as much as possible at the top of the 
stable into the warm air, and thus have 
the stable currents down. The regula¬ 
tion of the temperature with the fioor 
ventilators is under almost perfect con¬ 
trol. If it gets very cold outside, shut 
off the intakes a little, and turn the 
damper to correspond in the ventilators, 
and when 50 degrees is reached, open up 
a little again. With plenty of windows 
to admit sunlight, ventilators to keep 
the air pure, and warmth regular, easy 
ties, and clean beds, and all liquids ab¬ 
sorbed and deodorized, it seems as if 
there was very little for the Winter 
milch cow to go out of doors for. Yes. 
but says some one, if these cows do not 
have outdoor exercise think of the in¬ 
fluence on their offspring, and enfeebled 
constitutions! Remember these are 
Winter milkers, dropping their calves in 
the late Fall, and being bred in January 
mostly; by April 20 these cows will all 
be afield for the next six months or 
more, the most important in influence 
upon the offspring. 
I have been measuring the silage in 
the pits, and making calculation about 
some being left for next midsummer 
soiling. The silage crop was cut short 
by the unfavorable season, and still I 
am hoping for some—if not over 20 tons 
—overplus. I know of nothing that 
takes the place of some good silage in 
July and August, and it makes one 
practically independent of the feed men. 
Three years ago we fed some that had 
been in the pits almost three years, and 
could not detect but it had its full feed¬ 
ing quality, and was relished as well as 
that which was put up nine months be¬ 
fore. JOHN GOULD. 
Western Reserve, 0. 
1 he Separator. 
The Easy Riinnln*: Kind. 
Will bott«r B&tiBfftotion, inftk« jou more 
monej and lest longer than any other. Our 
, book BhowB why. Send for It 
lEmoire Cream Separator Co., 
1 B1X)0MF1ELD, N. J. 
Cows'barren^ years 
MADE TO BREED. 
Moore Brothers, Albany, N. Y. 
MORE EGGS-LESSFEED 
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Green Bone and 
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will double your egg yield and out your feed 
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lUmPHREY A SONS, Box 38, Joliet, III. 
fetches e*rgs all winter. Sent on 
TEN DAyS'FREETRIAL, 
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F. W. MANN CO., 
Box 15 , Milford, Mass.; 
Breeders’ Directory 
Registered Jersey, Bull Calves 
from Imported Golden Lad at fair prices. 
B. F. SHANNON. 907 Liberty <Street, Pittsburg, Pa. 
INCUBATORS 
Front •• np. Beat roMOunblo priood 
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L. A. BANTA, LIGONIER. INU 
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JERSEY BULL 
—^Four weeks old; dams in 
_ pedigree have records from 
16 to .60 pounds of butter in seven days; at a low price 
If taken soon. IRA P. WATSON, Fredonia, N. Y. 
—Three grandsons and one grand- 
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Bulls 4,5 and 12 months old; heifer, 15 months!served). 
J. ALDUS HERR, Lancaster, Pa.,K. K. No. 4. 
A Foundation Herd of 10 or 20 young registerea 
HOLSTEIN COWS is offered at a special price 
by DELLHURST FARM. Mentor. Ohio. 
VICTOR 
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Hatch every fertile egg. Simplest, 
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lUlt wALC months old; Chester Whites, all 
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$ I Fo*' 
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INCUBATOR 
Perfect in eonstmetioa and 
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GEO. H. STAHLi Quincy, III. 
Holstein-Friesiatis 
rest breeding for sale. Prices reasonable. Every 
vnimal registered. WOODCBEST FARM, Rifton, 
Olster County, N. T. 
A I p Purebied Devon Calves 
I at reasonable prices. 
B. J. WIGHTMAN, West Eaton, N. Y. 
The Sure Hatch’s Latest 
An automatic, direct acting 
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In Incubators. Send for new lllus- 
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Clay Center, Neb., or Columbus, Ohio. 
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EVERY HORSE OWNER 
Should Keep Constantly On Hand 
the old reliable remedy for gnavlna, IMngbonea, Curbs, 
Splints, etc., and all forms of I.uineness. 
USED FOR 25 YEARS. 
University Ave.,San Jose, Cal., May 21,1900. 
Dr. B. T. Kendall Co., Dear Sirs:—I have been using your 
Spavin Cure for twenty-five years, and find it very efficient as a 
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Endorsements like the above are a sufficient guarantee of its 
merits. Price *1; Six for >5. As alinimentfor family use it has 
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address DR. B. J. KENDALL CO., ENOSBURQ FALLS, VT. 
JACKS FOR SALE. 
150 Jacks, Jennets and Mules now ready for the 
Fall trade. Some bargains. Address 
BAKER’S JACK FARM. Lawrence, Ind. 
IMPROVED imi YORKSHIRES 
hog. Pigs of all ages from Imported stock for sal". 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM, Rochester, Mich 
W^. P. Chinas, Berkshires and C. Whites, 
8 wkB. to 6 mos.. mated not akin. 
Service Boars, Bred Sows. Write for 
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■ lllSnDR finJlTC ff'Fe handsome, hardy and 
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The Greider Strains. 
fifty of them, are bred to make prize winner*.'^ 
Very low prices on birds and eggs, considering 
quality. Elegant 1903 catalogue sent postpaid 
for 10 cents. Write to-day. 
B. H. GREIDER, RBREMS, FA. 
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Easier, need attention only part of 
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With OMBpl.a Caldro^^KaiptlM It* 
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Sloan s Liniment 
There is nothing like it to kill 
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Invaluable for cuts, kicks or bruises. Manu¬ 
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Sold by Dealers generally. 
Horse size, 60c. and $1.00 i>er bottle. 
Family size, 25c. per bottle. 
