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A STRONG PLEA FOR DAIRYMEN. 
The Eastern Farmers’ Position. 
Part II. 
Now what is it proposed that you 
shall do? That you shall advocate the 
defeat of the Grout bill and, practically, 
that you shall encourage the sale of col¬ 
ored oleomargarine as a fraudulent sub¬ 
stitute for butter. Colored oleomargar¬ 
ine is sold in dishonest competition with 
butter. It is cheap, and can be sold as 
butter for a much lower price than but¬ 
ter. Suppose it causes a fall of but five 
cents per pound in the price of butter; 
this means a loss of $12.50 on the value 
of the product of a cow producing 250 
pounds of butter a year. It means a loss 
of $125 on 10 such cows, and a loss of 
$500 on 40 cows of this class. You all 
know that this difference is oftentimes 
more than the difference between suc¬ 
cess and failure. Why should you sub¬ 
ject the eastern farmers and dairy farm¬ 
ers in general to this ruinous blow? 
Does the Grout bill threaten you? Will 
you get less for your cattle if there is a 
tax on colored oleomargarine? Of 
course not. *he right to sell untaxed 
colored oleomargarine will help the 
packer and the oleomargarine manu¬ 
facturers, but surely not the producer 
of beef. It seems to me that every prin¬ 
ciple of fairness, of honesty and of jus¬ 
tice would impel you to protect dairy¬ 
men from the dishonest competition 
that they now suffer. It affects the 
cheese maker and milk snipper as much 
as it does the butter maker, because the 
price of butter governs that of milk. 
There is one other feature in this dis¬ 
cussion that appears to be worthy of 
mention. The price of land in the East 
is now on a lower plane than it is in the 
Middle States and in the West. Farms 
that will raise a given amount of corn 
and pasture a given number of cattle, 
can now be purchased more cheaply in 
Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania or 
New York than in Illinois or Iowa. The 
price of beef is now at a point that is 
tempting to many dairymen; some 
dairymen in the Central States are now, 
notwithstanding the high price of but¬ 
ter, turning their attention to the pro¬ 
duction of beef. Free butter from un¬ 
fair and dishonest competition and this 
change will not be extensive. Dairymen 
will stick to their trade. Permit the un¬ 
restricted sale of colored oleomargarine, 
the price of butter will fall, dairymen 
will become beef producers and the 
price of beef will follow the price of 
butter. 
Last Fall there was a fat stock show 
in Philadelphia, and on the night of 
Thanksgiving Day there was a banquet 
of 500 men interested in the develop¬ 
ment of the home-dressed beef trade as 
opposed to the trade in western dressed 
beef. It was shown that there is a large 
and growing demand for beef killed at 
home. You may be surprised to learn 
that the dealers in home-dressed beef 
now have the upper hand in markets of 
Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. 
This means that there is to be more 
competition in buying butcher cattle, 
which will aid you, but it also means 
that when the eastern dairyman is com¬ 
pelled by dishonest competition to pro¬ 
duce beef he will not be without a local 
market. The eastern farmers must 
change back to beef production if they 
are driven to it by fraudulent competi¬ 
tion in their special industry. There are 
4,000,000 cattle in New York and Penn¬ 
sylvania. If but 10 per cent of these are 
marketed as ripe beeves each year, it 
will mean the production of as many 
cattle as are now annually exported to 
England, and the effect of the sale of 
those 400,000 eastern steers will be felt 
keenly from Montana to Texas, and will 
lower the price of cattle in Omaha, Kan¬ 
sas City and Chicago; and what would 
the effect be if twice as many of them 
were so marketed each year? 
Pennsylvania Milk.— The following dis¬ 
patch from Altoona, Pa., is said by one of 
our readers to be correct. Since it was sent 
the milk handlers have made some conces¬ 
sions to farmers and put the price to con¬ 
sumers to seven cents per quart. “ The 
milk war between the Morrison's Cove milk 
combine and the Altoona retailers is on in 
earnest. January 15 the combine cut down 
the supply to a few cans to favored dealers, 
and sent word that January 16 not a drop 
of milk would be shipped by the combine 
to this city. It is estimated that Altoona 
was 1,800 gallons short, which is within 200 
gallons of the total consumption. The com¬ 
bine demands that the retailers charge 
eight cents a quart, but the public refuses 
to pay over six cents, and is using con¬ 
densed milk.” 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 1 
BARN AND STOCK QUESTIONS. 
What is the best kind of cow tie? 
1 am diffident about recommending 
any of the cow ties on the market, be¬ 
cause it is one of the questions where 
the likes and dislikes of the owner must 
be considered. Where one would use an 
expensive stall and not fasten them at 
all probably me “Droun stall,” manu¬ 
factured at Madison, Wis., which is a 
modification of the ‘‘Bidwell,” would 
suit. A simple chain tie is also satis¬ 
factory. The Newton tie fills the bill 
with many. I am inclined to like a 
swinging stanchion, and we use them 
for the greater portion of our stock; 
stanchions hung at the top and bottom 
with chains and with side pieces not 
over two inches square, thus enabling 
the cow to reach every part of her body 
with her head. These are quickly fas¬ 
tened, the cows keep clean and alto¬ 
gether a success 
1 expect to build a silo for 30 or 40 cows. 
What are the merits of wood or stone, 
round or square? What size is needed to 
feed once a day for nine months? How 
about hooping with Page fence? Can a silo 
be built successfully with 2x4 rough hem¬ 
lock for staves? 
To feed 40 cows 40 pounds a day for 
nine months will require 216 tons. A 
round silo 23 feet in diameter and 30 feet 
deep filled as fuu as would be ordi¬ 
narily put in at one continuous cutting 
would have about the required amount 
of silage. I do not think that there is 
any debating the question of a round 
silo to-day. While we have only one 
round silo in use it is by far the most 
satisfactory. Whether it be built of 
wood or stone may somewhat depend 
upon the builder. I should use staves 
not less than 2 Y 2 inches thick and six 
inches wide, beveled to the circle, and 
put together with dowel pins, or grooved 
and tongued. What we need is to hold 
each stave to its place, and this cannot 
be done if they are not In some way 
fastened. I have not been able to find 
anyone satisfied with the rough hem¬ 
lock staves held together with Page wire 
fence. The silo has long since passed 
its experimental stage; why not build 
permanently? The hoops can be solid 
five-eighths inch rods or one-half inch 
steel wire rope. I prefer the rope on 
account of its flexibility and the ex¬ 
pense is not greater. We have one silo 
painted inside and outside witn “Car- 
bolineum Avenarius,” and while it has 
been on only two years 1 have faith 
enough in its preserving power to use it 
on every vat we make. Stone or ce¬ 
ment will of course be absolutely per¬ 
manent if the builder cares to go to 
some extra expense. If I should give all 
the information at hand on the silo and 
methods of filling, etc., I would require 
an entire issue of The R. N.-Y. 1 would 
advise visiting a silo that was up-to- 
date, and get by the eye points that can¬ 
not be given with pencil and paper. 
Grow fairly well-ripened corn, cut fine, 
build a substantial airtight pit, feed 40 
to 50 pounds a day, and success is as¬ 
sured. H. E. COOK. 
Lambs Did Not Balance Ration. 
At the Michigan Station a test was 
made during the Winter of 1894 and 1895 
which showed that 10 lambs being left to 
choose for themselves corn, wheat, oats, or 
bran, consumed in 13 weeks 556 pounds of 
corn, 1S9 pounds of wheat, 247 pounds of 
oats, 467 pounds of bran, and during the 
time consumed 924 pounds of clover hay. 
This indicates that when fattening lambs 
are left to choose for themselves between 
corn and the other grains mentioned they 
will invariably consume a much larger 
amount of corn than of any other grain. 
By figuring out the nutritive ratio of the 
different feeds consumed in the experiment 
referred to above, we find that the nutritive 
ration was 1:6.6, which is not very different 
from the standard nutritive ratio for fat¬ 
tening lambs, which varies all the way 
from 1:4.5 to 1:5.4. We are not warranted 
in di-awing the conclusion from this that 
domestic animals when left to choose for 
themselves, will necessarily consume feeds 
which would make up an ideal balanced 
ration, even were we quite certain that the 
palatability of the different feeds furnished 
the sheep is equal. 
[PROF.] H. W. MUMFORD. 
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Where to Buy Farm Trucks. 
Of course you ought to have a low-down, broad-tire 
flat-platform, short-turning farm truck, and you ought 
to have one that pos¬ 
sesses all these fea¬ 
tures. There is but 
one such truck, and 
the Farmers’ Handy 
Wagon do., of bagi- 
naw, Mich., own the 
patents for it. Have _ 
you ever seen their catalogue? You ought to send for 
one at once. They are 
free. They tell you 
all about farm trucks. 
You Know these people 
up in haeinaw were 
the first who ever built 
trucks for farmers, 
_ Theirs are the only 
ones used by the U. S. Government. During the late 
war they built 50 solid 
wheeled farm trucks per 
day for our Uncle bam. 
They build trucks for 
nearly every civilized 
country on the globe.. 
These are the reasons 
why they can build _ 
trucks cheaper and better than anyone else. Then, 
too, they can ship u 
farmer any kind of a 
truck he needs, for 
they build all kinds 
as they own all the 
patents there are on 
farm trucks. They 
guarantee their 
patented wood wheels 
for five years, while it 
__ _ is impossible for you 
to get a guarantee on any other make longer than for 
one year. Well!! I can’t 
stop here to tell you all the 
reasons why these Michigan 
people are in better position 
to supply your wants than, 
anyone else, but if you wilit 
just send your nnme on a 
S ostnl card to the 
’armers’ Handy 
Wagon Co., Sagi¬ 
naw, Mich., they will gladly 6end you full 
information and prices. Try it. It will cost 
you only one cent and may bring you infor¬ 
mation that will be valuable to you. P. S. 
I forgot to say that these same people can 
supply you with metal wheels for your old wagons. 
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Missouri College of Agriculture 
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The machine (U. S.) did excellent 
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sometimes a mere trace of fat in the 
skim milk. 
C. L. WILLOUGHBY. 
Instructor. 
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