1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
431 
EFFECTS OF THE GROUTOLEO BILL 
What the Dealers Say. 
In our opinion the effect of the National 
oleomargarine law has been beneficial, as 
prices have averaged higher and more uni¬ 
form than before. The dairy interests are 
therefore in a safer and stronger position, 
and the future looks bright. 
New York. brown & root. 
We are of the opinion that the oleo law 
has been of quite material assistance to 
the butter trade, and our observation is 
tliat since the colored oleo is practically 
out of the market, the heavy demand for 
oleo. which existed in former years, has 
very largely decreased. 
F. W. BROCKMAN COMMISSION CO. 
St. l-ouis. Mo. 
AVe think the National oleomargarine 
law has been a success and a benefit to the 
dairy interest of the country. The sales 
of oleomargarine are very much less here 
than they have been in former years. It 
is our judgment that there will bo a great 
deal less oleomargarine sold the coming 
year, than there has been the past year. 
Baltimore, Md. G. m. lamb and bro. 
The oleomargarine law has been the 
means of curtailing the output of that 
article on this market to a large extent, 
and the butter trade in consequence has 
been much better. The only trouble we 
have found is that speculative buyers were 
enlhused to such an extent last June and 
.July, during the storage season, that they 
held markets too high, and while a few 
of them worked out with a fair profit, 
many came out with considerable loss. 
The law has been the means also of keep¬ 
ing store-packed butter at an unreasonable 
lirice. and from what we can learn it has 
lost many holders considerable money. On 
the other hand this may be a good object 
lesson, and we hope to see goods stored 
this June at a fair value, which would be 
remunerative to the producer, the cream- 
eryman, and the receiver. AVe must say 
the law is a good thing, and only wants 
a proper adjustment on the dealers’ part 
so that all can make a fair profit of the 
business. crawford & lehman. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
From our observation and experience, 
we think that the effect of the law on 
the butter trade has been beneficial. We 
notice in this ma.rket that practically all 
of the hotels and restaurants that were 
using oleomargarine previous to the law, 
are now using butter. We also notice 
nearly all of the small grocers and butter 
dealers have given up the sale of oleomar- 
gerine the past year. AA'^e have had several 
grocers tell us that they took out the 
license for oleoniargerino, hut practically 
did no business, as they found the demand 
under present provisions was so small that 
they gave up the .sale of it entirely. This 
result is due to the color provision. These 
.■^mall dealers and many others no doubt 
formerly sold a large proportion of their 
oleomargarine as butter, which of course 
they cannot do under the present law on 
account of the color. The high average 
price that has prevailed during the past 
yeai- on butler is in our opinion strong 
evidence of the benelicial effect of the law. 
Detroit, Mich. m'donnell bro.s. co. 
OUTLOOK FOR DRAFT HORSES. 
The outlook Is very good for draft horse- 
breeding; they are scarce and high priced. 
The demand is good, the heavier the bet¬ 
ter, provided they have quality an.1 finish, 
and no farmer can make as much money 
trying to raise any kind but heavy horses. 
Good big mules will also be profitable. 
Raymond, Neb. e. f. black. 
there was never so great a demand nor 
the supply as short as at present of the 
better grades of draft horses. The kind 
that sell for the best prices are the heavy 
"eights; that is, weighing from 1,700 to 
2.000 pounds, with plenty of good clean 
bone and showing good square action and 
a good deal of Intelligence. It matters but 
little what breed they belong to as long 
as they have these qualification,s. with 
good sound feet; I think more of the 
grade Percherons are being taken by the 
buyers than any other of the many draft 
breeds. There is also a good demand for 
farm chunks to go into the rural districts 
on farms (where there ought to be horses 
going to market). Tfiiese chunks are a 
good type of a draft horses weighing from 
1.300 to 1,600. but they do not bring the 
Piices that the heavyweights do. As to 
Ihe future outlook I can see nothing to 
discourage the breeding of good draft 
horses for a good many years to come, as 
the suppy of colts foaled each year is not 
pqual to the death rate in this country, and 
the export trade. As we can breed and 
raise as good a horse in the United States 
as anywhere in the world, and do it much 
cheaper than they can in the thickly set¬ 
tled countries of Europe, they will be 
looking to us for a good many horses, if 
"e have the kind that their markets de¬ 
mand, which is the good heavy draft 
horse tliat J mentjonei}, Another reason 
that the demand will keep up for a long 
time is that there is a great shortage of 
brood mares, of any kind that are of a 
proper age to breed, and especially is this 
true of the heavy draft breeds, as at the 
time of the panic in the early nineties, 
w'hen the price and demand went to the 
bottom, farmers were scared and sold ail 
their best breeding stock and went out of 
business, and the demand for good young 
mares at present is very great; prices 
very high and sure to go higher. 
Elkhorn, Wis. H. a. briogs. 
There is a great demand for draft horses 
all through the Middle West and even into 
the far Northwest. We also receive a 
great many inquiries through the East, 
especially New York and Pennsylvania. 
Being a breeder, most of my inquiries 
come from farmers, a large part of whom 
want the clean-legged kind with good feet 
and plenty of size and quality. The in¬ 
quiry for mares is for them to weigh from 
1,600 to 1,800 and sometimes 2,000, and for 
stallions from 1,800 to 2,000 with an occa¬ 
sional inqtiiry from the South or far East 
for horses weighing less than 1,800. There 
has been a great improvement in farm 
machinery, all of w'hich calls for more 
and heavier horses. There is nothing that 
brings a farmer as good returns at present 
as the brood mare that can raise a colt 
every year and do her share of the farm 
work. At three years old the draft colt 
tills a good place on the farm, and is soon 
ready for the city market, which will bi' 
very brisk for many years to come. The 
I’crcheron seems to bo the universal favor¬ 
ite for the farmer. The big ones make 
grand horses for the packers and heavy 
truck wagons, and those that are a little 
under size make an ideal express horse. 
Attica. Ind. _ A. p. nave. 
Milk Notes. 
Milk is flush at the present, but with the 
warm weather the demand for it will in 
crease. I am making 30 cans—8% quarts— 
and sell it at the barn to a man who runs 
a route in the city. I am milking now 21 
cows. F. P. K. 
Worcester, Mass. 
Usually when apples are plentiful we 
have fed a good many of them to the 
milch cows. We would not feed very many 
at the first few feeds, but after a short 
time can give six of eight quarts to a feed, 
if one has plenty of them. We make no 
difference about sour apples; all varieties 
are fed the same without any bad effect. 
AA'^e have never cut apples for feeding 
cows. e. b. 
AVilbraham, Mass. 
The dairyman who is situated so he can 
make and market his own butter wall in 
the long run succeed the best; the one who 
sells fluid milk will make the least The 
cooperative creamery is the ideal way, but 
like shipping milk, it takes too much time 
to deliver the milk. If some system of co¬ 
operation could be devised to get the milk 
then it would be better, but the average 
man likes an excuse to put in the best 
part of the forenoon at that job when he 
is needed at something else. The outlook 
for milk in this vicinity is very poor for 
this Summer, as pastures are drying up 
badly, and very few have made any pre¬ 
paration for soiling later; in fact nothing 
is growing. j. a. e. 
Pattersonville, N. Y. 
'Phis part of the State is suffering badly 
from the drought. Foi-est fires can be 
seen in any direction at night, and to cap 
the whole thing as cows are failing and 
pastures drying up, comes a drop of one- 
fourth cent per quart on milk and an ad¬ 
vance on mill feeds of $2 per ton. About 
May 15 here both creameries stopped all 
skimming, and had rush orders to send 
all milk possible to New York. 1 am sure 
the retail price never changed an iota, 
there. On meadows to-day that have been 
untrodden on since last Pall there is not 
good pasture, and oats look yellow and 
thin. The peculiar feature of this Spring's 
weather is we have no dews at all; neve’’ 
since the month came m has the grass 
been wet of a morning. p. b. b. 
Hurleyville. N. Y'. 
Grain Ration for Cows. 
We have a herd of Holstein cows that 
will average about 1,000 pounds in weight 
and are feeding them all the pea silage 
they will clean up. For a grain ration we 
use the following: 300 pounds bran, 200 
pounds middlings, 200 pounds gluten, 100 
pounds oil meal; and are feeding about six 
pounds of grain to a cow that is in full 
flow of milk. AVould you suggest any 
change in this grain ration? f. s. t. 
Rome, N. Y. 
The nutritive ratio of the grain ra¬ 
tion would be 1:3.3; that is, there is one 
part of protein to 3.3 parts of carbohy¬ 
drates. This, fed in connection with 
pea silage, which is also rich in pro¬ 
tein, would, I should think, be feeding 
altogether too much protein. Cornmeal 
in the place of the gluten would make a 
nutritive ratio of 1:4.3, a trifle better. 
A ration of mixed hay would be benefl- 
cial. Get Bulletin No. 154, Cornell Ex¬ 
periment Station, and flgure these ra¬ 
tions and then lifllance them about 1:5.5 
to l:6.5. CQOK, 
EMPIRE CREAM SEPARATOR COMPANY, 
Bloomfield, N. J, 
WESTERN OFFICE.—F'ishop Bld^., Chicago. 
to be simpler m con¬ 
struction, easier to 
turn, easier to clean 
and keep clean than 
any other separator 
made. That’s the fa¬ 
mous 
EMPIRE 
Cream Separator. 
It is not the oldest separator in the 
world, but it’s the most up-to-date. It’s 
not the biggest, but it is the simplest in 
construction, and it almost never gets 
out of order. Don’t be talked into buy¬ 
ing a separator before you try the Em¬ 
pire. That’s all we ask. Just try it and 
then decide which machine you’d rather 
have. 
Our Separator Book is Free. 
y i> 4 
Money AKea.d. 
At the en«l of the first year you can 
count up a good profit ii you run an 
AMERICAN 
Cream Separator. 
The one that la sold on test. The 
one that is sold at a low price. 
One that received Paris Exp^ition Medui 
Write for catalogue. Itis free. 
AJIKHU’AN SKPAnATOR CO., 
Box 101)0 Balnbrid^e, N. Y, 
A MUk Cooler 
is a device for cooling milk quickly 
just after it is taken from the cow. 
S The object is to expose every par¬ 
ticle of it to the air. thus cooling 
lit and driving out all bad odor. 
>-und germs which spoil milk very 
quickly and reduce its value. 
The Perfection Milk Cooler and Aerator 
does this quicker and better than any other. 
Send for prices ahd free circulars. 
L. R. LEWIS, Manfr., Box 12. Cortland, N. V. 
iheSHARPLES 
Tubular 
Separators. 
There are two kinds of cream 
separators and only two. 
OURS and the OTHERS. 
The Tobnlar bowl. 
The patent protected kind. 
[The bowl without eompll- 
eatlun, that ie eullj 
cleaned. 
The en tlrely elean tklmaier 
under all eoadlUona* 
The can’t fet out of order 
kind* 
There is a lot of real dif¬ 
ference in the two kinds 
and it amounts to big money 
in a year’s time. Investigate. 
■ Separators are different. 
Free Catalogue No. 153. 
P. M. SHARPLE8, 
West Chester, Pa. 
THE 8HARPLES CO., 
Chicago, ills. 
The bucket bowl. 
The free for all kind. 
The bowl with dliCf, 
cones, fcratern or con¬ 
traptions that can't be ^ 
kept clean. 
The fairly elean skimmer 
under favorable condi¬ 
tions. 
The bound to give tron-J 
ble kind. 
SEND FOK CATALWUE AND 
PRICES OF THE 
DIRIQOSILO 
Manufactured by 
D.B. STEVENS & CO., 
AUBURN, MK. 
AGENTS WANTED. 
ROUND SILO 
The “Philadelphia.” 
The only Perfect Continuous 
Open Front Silo made. See our 
Patent Roof. Ask for catalog. 
E. F. SCHLICHTER, 
331 Vine Street, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
Also made in the 'West hy the 
DUPLEX MFG. CO., South 
Superior, Wis. 
“ASilo is Known 
BY THE 
Cattle it Keeps.” 
BEST BREEDERS 
USE 
GREEN MOUNTAIN 
SILOS, 
Dairy Goods, Corn Planters, 
Gasoline Engine.s, Ensilage 
Machinery. All Catalogs Free. 
Stoddard Mfg. Co. 
RUTLAND, VT. 
uncAin cAinAuiun 
FREE 
This is a genuine 
offer made to introduce the People, 
Cream Extractor In every neighbor¬ 
hood. It is the best and simplest In 
the world. We ask that you show it to 
your neighbors who have cows. Send 
your name and the name of the near¬ 
est freight office. Address 
PEOPLES SUPPLY CO., 
Dept. 86. Kansas City, Mo. 
KATTLE KOMFORT 
neighbors. Money for yourself. Increased profits for 
them, and contentment for the stock. Once used al 
ways used. Dozen Sprayers free with first orders. 
Write now. KATTLE KOMFORT CO., Columbus,N.J. 
Big Profit 
in Cows 
is but a question of getting a I! the cream 
(butter fat) out of the milk. With the old 
setting system yoiirloss Is over 
80 per cent greater than with a 
NATIONAL 
Hand Separator’ 
A valuable machine you can 
test iu your own home or dairy 
I O Days Free 
If you like—buy it; if you 
don’t, we take i t back and pay 
all expense—you have noth¬ 
ing to risk. Our catalogue 
gives full particulars. 
National Dairy Machine Co., Newark, N. J. 
IN THE USE OF 
INFERIOR CREAM SE PARATORS 
A very important practical-use test just concluded by one 
of the big- western State Colleges and Experiment Stations of 
the different makes of 55100.—farm separators discloses the fact 
that the amount of cfeam of buttef-fat left in the howl 
(something the average user never thinks of at all) in the 
“Empire” and other machines of that type amounts to enough 
in the course of a single year to alone pay the cost of a 
DE LAVATj machine in the first place, aside from the many 
other advantages and superior construction in every wa-v of a 
DE LAVATj machine. 
It was found too that only the DE LAVAL and one other 
machine would run milk as cold as 70 deg. (something every 
user is frequently called upon to do) for as long as 10 minutes 
without clogging up, and this one other machine—the 
“National”—skimmed very poorly at low temperature while 
the De Laval work was almost as clean as at high temperature. 
A De Laval catalogue and any desired particulars in reference 
to Cream Separators will be gladly furnished upon application. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO., 
Randolph & Canal Sts., 
CHICAGO. 
1213 Filbert Street, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
217-221 Drumm St., 
SAN FRANCISCO, 
General Oflices; 
74 Cortlandt Street, 
NEW YOKK. 
121 Touvllla Square, 
MONTREAL. 
75 (k 77 York Street, 
TORONTO. 
248 McDermott Avenue, 
WINNIPEG. 
