1809 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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MILK-GIVING MALES. 
If a calf cow will give m'ilk at six 
months old, why ever serve her? She is, 
probably, too much of a sport to per¬ 
petuate her type. There is a case well 
authenticated by a scientific traveler in 
South America, of a man in the Amazon 
region left with a baby on his hands. 
He humored its nursing instinct until 
mammary glands and a sufficient milk 
flow were established. e. c. birge. 
I believe the structure of the male and 
female mammary gland is identical, only 
the male gland seldom is developed. I 
have frequently “milked” the famous 
Holstein bull, Sir Henry of Maplewood, 
and obtained a thin whiitish fluid. I 
have never seen an analysis of the milk 
secreted by a bull, and do not know how 
it would analyze. ir. iiayward. 
Pa. Exp. Station. 
Personally, I have never seen a case 
of the rudimentary teats of the bull 
yielding milk, but in view of what is 
known in this direction, I see nothing 
unreasonable in its occurrence. For 
many years, it has been a well-estab¬ 
lished fact that males may produce milk 
to a small extent. 
Blyth in his work, Foods; Their Com¬ 
position and Analysis, gives numerous 
interesting statements bearing on the 
secretion of milk by males. He says, re¬ 
ferring to humans, “Adult males have 
not only secreted milk, but that in 
abundance enough to suckle.” Hum¬ 
boldt relates the case of Francisco Lo¬ 
zano, whom he saw, and whose case he 
carefully investigated, and it appears 
established that this man did secrete 
from his breasts a nutrient fluid on 
which his infant son lived for many 
months, it is said, indeed, a whole year. 
Schlossberger, in Annalen der Chemie 
u. Pharmacie, gives the following analy¬ 
sis of the milk from a male goat: 
Milk fat. 26.50 
Casein, with salts soluble in al¬ 
cohol . 9.60 
Sugar, with salts soluble in alcohol 2.60 
Ash. 0.78 
Dr. Bitting, the veterinarian of this 
Station, tells me that, where the rudi¬ 
mentary teats of the stallion have been 
worked for a few days, as in prepara¬ 
tion for milking, what is regarded as 
milk is given off. 
In consulting books on subjects rela¬ 
tive to milk, I can find no analysis of 
milk from a male, other than that which 
is given above. The milk of various 
kinds of animals varies considerably in 
the percentage composition of the dif¬ 
ferent constituents. Perhaps, however, 
the milk from males, while quite un¬ 
usual in occurrence, will not show a 
more unusual composition than is found 
in the milks of fen?ales of some species 
not used by man. But if it be a secre¬ 
tion from the mammary gland, then it is 
milk, whether from male or female. 
Indiana Exp. Station. c. s. plumb. 
RAPE FOR THE SHEPHERD. 
Rape is too valuable to risk in the 
corn crop, for with us we are liable to 
nave a hot, dry August, and the corn, 
being big, will take all the moisture. 
The rape, if it grows at all, will be very 
small when the corn is removed from 
the field. Two years ago I sowed rape 
in 20 acres of corn the last of July. The 
crows had cleaned out spots all over the 
field, sometimes a dozen hills in a place. 
All the rape of any value I had October 
1, was in those open spots; the rest of 
the field was so small that it was value¬ 
less for feed. If we have plenty of rain 
rape will do well sown in corn, but with 
us 'it is too risky. 
This year I sowed two acres in June. 
August 1 I turned 125 lambs on it. With 
other feed to run on, it lasted three 
weeks; they ate it so that there was 
nothing left but stubs. I turned the 
lambs off for one week, and then those 
stubs had leaves, so that I got another 
week’s feed from them. To keep up a 
succession, I sowed 12 acres to rape 
about August 1. That seed lay in the 
ground four weeks before we had rain 
to bring it up. I have just put my 
lambs on it. Rape requires warm, wet 
weather to grow a good thrifty plant, 
but when you get it as large as cabbage, 
with a stump that will reach to moist 
earth, you can feed it off, and then the 
stubs will send out twice as many 
leaves as there were before. 
With early sowing good feed is sup¬ 
plied all Summer, and better roots are 
provided to furnish Fall feed. I do not 
like it after it freezes hard; it is likely 
to cause bloating. Better sow some rye 
on corn stubble; that will give good 
feed in the Spring as well as Fall. Sow 
two fields of rape in May or June, and 
by the middle of July there will be suffi¬ 
cient feed to keep 50 sheep to the acre, 
in alternate periods of three weeks, until 
snow flies. That is an average of 25 
sheep to the acre from July until the 
middle of November. If I had sown that 
12 acres in June this year, instead of 
late July, 'it would have been worth 
double what it was to me. 
Commerce, Mich. a. h. paddock. 
White Crested Ducks.—I have two all- 
white ducks with a tuft of feathers on 
head of male, weight 12 pounds. What 
name will apply to that description or 
species of duck? The female laid 81 eggs 
in 87 consecutive days. n. b. l. 
Ans. —These ducks are, probably, a 
cross of Pekin and White Crested; the 
weight of drake indicates such a cross, 
as does also the laying qualities of the 
female. 
NEW 20TH CENTURY 
CREAM SEPARATORS 
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1900 or improved 20th CENTURY “Baby” or 
“ Dairy” sizes of De Laval Cream Separators. These 
improvements denote another great advance in cream 
separator construction and efficiency, materially increase 
capacities, and render the new “Alpha” disc machines 
simply unapproaclnible by anything else in the shape of a 
cream separator, either in efficiency, mechanical con¬ 
struction or practical cheapness. Overwhelming as has 
been the conceded superiority of the De Laval machines 
heretofore their standard is now raised still higher and 
they are more than ever placed in a class by themselves as 
regards all possible competition. No effort nor expense has 
been spared to make the new 20th CENTURY De Laval 
machines literally perfect separators—machines for every¬ 
body, that nobody can criticise and nobody ask for any¬ 
thing better or cheaper. 
Send for “New Century” catalogue. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
Western Offices: 
Randolph & Canal Sts. 
CHICAGO. 
General Offices: 
74 CORTLANDT STREET, 
NEW YORK. 
Branch Offices: 
1102 Arch Street, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
Hard Milker.— What remedy or treat¬ 
ment shall be given to a seven-year-old 
cow that milks extremely hard, to make 
her milk easier? n. b. l. 
Ans. —The usual cause 'is a stricture 
of the muscles at the end cf the teat. 
Small plugs of wood or rubber are some¬ 
times used. A good veterinarian can 
slit the end of the teat and enlarge the 
opening. This is no job for the ama¬ 
teur. 
The Breeders’ Gazette states that about 
the heaviest range-bred steer ever mar¬ 
keted in Chicago was recently shipped 
from Montana. He was six years old, 
weighed 1,970 pounds, and brought $5.25 per 
100 pounds. 
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VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
A friend from Tacoma, Wash., tells us 
that it is not long since range horses were 
sold at an Oregon cannery for $1.25 each, 
yearlings 90 cents, and colts thrown in. 
Prices are advanced now, and the Klondike 
boom seems to have much to do with the 
increase. 
Canadian horse breeders are seeking a 
government appropriation of $25,000 to aid 
in their exhibition of heavy harness horses 
at Paris next year. There is a large de¬ 
mand for horses on the Continent, and an 
attractive exhibit at the Paris Exposition 
will be a good advertisement for stockmen 
on this side the Atlantic. 
Holstein Notes.— We have just added 
the celebrated Holstein bull, De Kol’s But¬ 
ter Boy No. 19210 to our herd of over 100 
Hoi steins. A little two-year-old heifer of 
our own raising gave us, in her regular 
dairy work during the month of August, 
during the greatest drought ever known 
in our section, 1,107 pounds of milk. An¬ 
other two-year-old has milked over 10,000 
pounds in her first milking year. A four- 
year-old has given us over 11,000 pounds in 
nine months. With working records like 
these, do you wonder that our faith and 
confidence in the Holstein breed grows as 
we get better and better acquainted with 
them? h. B. VAN CLEVE. 
Ohio. 
Cheap vs. Cheap. 
There are two kinds of 
teap. One means good 
due for the money paid, 
le other means nasty 
eap ; that is, low first 
st, regardless of qual- 
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r m separators ; that is, 
g value for the money. 
Sharpies Farm 
sparator is a 365 days 
n-years-without-repai r 
r Catalogue No. 25. 
The Sharpies Co., P. M. 
nal A Washington Sts., 
CHICAGO. 
per year and a 
separator. Send 
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West Chester, Pa., 
U. S. A. 
Make More Butter. 
profits 
Others 
Increase each cow’s 
at least $10 a year, 
are doing it who use 
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Easiest running, least cost to 
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money back. That’s 
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wanted where wo have 
none. Free book, “Good 
Butter, and How to Make It,” to every¬ 
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IQRE BUTTER.. 
and better butter is what every cow 
owner desires. This demands some, 
tiling better in the dairy than the old 
milk pan or the modern creamery. Wh 
have it in our improved patent 
Aquatic Cream Separator. 
Centrifugal Separators cost too much money and 
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178 Factory 8qr. Watertown. N. Y. 
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The kind that a fancy private 
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the color that does not contain 
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THATCHER MFB. CO., Potsdam, H.Y. 
SMALL'S CALF FEEDER. 
Calves suck their milk, grow sleek, 
hriftyand very large, commanding the 
highest market prices for veal or dairy. 
Write for free circulars. 
J. 11. Small & Co., Boston, Mass. 
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The most practical and hnmane Fastener ever in¬ 
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Newton’s 
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Holds them firmly, draws 
them forward when lying 
down, pushes back when 
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