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April 9 
MANCHESTER'S DAIRY NOTES. 
Economical Food Production. 
Can you advipe how to produco most food 
lor two milch cows, from about 1"J* acre 
of land on hill, but fairly fertile? About 
one-half acre is now in pasture. J. d. h. 
Geneva, Ill. 
If you are after feed for this year 
only corn is one of the great crops. We 
should put a half acre into good corn, 
the remainder into oats and peas, and 
use what were necessary for green feed¬ 
ing, and cure the remainder for hay. cut¬ 
ting before they were too ripe. Shred¬ 
ding or cutting up the corn stover with 
the cornmeal and the oat-and-pea hay 
early cut will give you a good feed. A 
little oil or gluten meal added will help 
out during the Winter. At the last cul¬ 
tivating of the corn sow in barley or 
rye for some late feed or some of the 
clovers for hay next season, and you 
can plow up and sow to corn or other 
crops after harvesting one crop. This 
keeps the ground occupied, and idle 
ground, like idle children or even men, 
gets into trouble. 
Weight of Milk and Cream. 
Will you tell me how many pounds 40 
quarts of milk will weigh, and how much 
40 quarts of cream will weigh? Can a man 
sell milk for three cents a quart and com ■ 
out whole at the present price of feed and 
hay? Please let me know. ' c. c. o. 
Marbletown, N. Y. 
Normal milk weighs 2.15 pounds per 
quart, and normal cream is about 1% 
per cent lighter, so that 40 quarts of 
milk would weigh 86 pounds and 40 
quarts of cream 84.7 pounds. Perhaps 
it might help you to know that milk 
has a specific gravity of 1.03, cream 1.02 
and skim-milk 1.035; that is, if a given 
bulk of water weighs 100 pounds the 
same bulk of whole milk will weigh 103 
pounds, of cream 102 pounds and skim- 
milk 103% pounds. There are a good 
many dairymen who are making millc 
that wholesales at three cents per quart 
or even less, and are making a living, 
although we think the “living” could 
bo improved. A farmer who has to buy 
hay and grain for cows and sell the 
milk at three cents per quart would 
better quit the business. A dairyman 
has no business under ordinary circum¬ 
stances to buy coarse fodders for his 
cattle, and in many localities it is pos¬ 
sible to grow what grain is needed, or 
grow food that requires scarcely any 
grain with it. Three-cent milk usual¬ 
ly is sold by quantity and not quality, 
so cows can be purchased or raised that 
will give the largest flow of milk pos¬ 
sible without much regard to quality, 
and Holsteins or their grades are well 
suited for this purpose. To get a large 
flow from home-grown fodders will take 
some good management, but no extra 
expense. Hay must be early cut. Early- 
cut hay has twice as much digestible 
protein as the same hay late cut. The 
quantity harvested may be slightly less, 
but the quality is far superior. The too 
prevalent custom of haying after the 
Fourth of July or after hoeing is all 
done regardless of the season will not 
get us this quality of hay that we want 
to produce a big flow of milk. Early- 
cut hay also gives a chance for at least 
one big crop of rowen and sometimes 
two, and rowen hay is a better milk 
producer than cornmeal. We want to 
grow all the clover possible, as that 
also is equal to cornmeal. The trouble 
that too many of us have with clover 
is that we try to sun-dry it, and when 
we haul it in the barn we have a lot of 
coarse sticks that haven’t much in 
them. It should be cured largely in 
the heap to preserve all the leaves and 
tender parts, as when sun-dried these 
drop off and are lost. A silo will also 
help us much to make milk that will 
pay a profit at three cents a quart. 
Grow corn only a little thicker than 
you would for the largest possible crop 
of ears, and cut it just as the ear is 
passing out of the milk stage. Given 
what silage they will eat up clean twice 
daily of this quality, and all the early- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
cut hay or rowen or good clover hay 
they will eat up clean once daily and 
little or no grain will be required, and 
you are independent of the milling 
trust. If you are so wedded to the 
grain bin that you must feed it, pui 
your money only into feeds like gluten, 
oil meal, cotton-seed meal, corn distil¬ 
lers’ grains or something that has lots 
of digestible protein in it, and let cheap 
feeds (which are very dear), like corn¬ 
meal, hominy meal, all oat and corn- 
and-oat feeds and similar combination 
feeds alone. h. g. Manchester. 
“Mamma, do animals know by what 
names w'e call them?” asked kind-heart¬ 
ed little Bessie. “Why, no, dear. What 
makes you ask such a question.” “Oh, 
I am so glad! I was thinking how mor¬ 
tifying it would have been for the pigs!” 
Lowell Weekly Journal. 
Local agencies and complete repair stocks everywhere 
DEERING 
HARVESTERS 
International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago, U. S. A. 
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The Difference That Pays 
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The Stockbridge Special Manures are made differently for different 
crops or classes of crops. In this they are different from other 
fertilizers, even if the other fertilizers are called “Specials” in 
imitation of the “ Stockbridge,” which were the Original Special 
Manures introduced in 1875. 
The Stockbridge Special Manures are richer than other fertilizers 
in plant food and plant food solvents or elements which act upon 
the latent plant food in the soil and make it available for crops. 
In this also they are different from other fertilizers. 
The Stockbridge Special Manures cost a trifle more than other 
fertilizers, but on account of their special adaptability, and on 
account of their extra strength, they go further in the field; 
and it has been found that a small amount of Stockbridge is 
more effective than a large amount of other kinds. It iS thCSC 
differences that pay when the crops roll out at harvest time. 
To put it another way: Many of our customers have said when 
reporting experiments beside other brands : “ It would have paid 
better to have used all Stockbridge than to take the other kinds 
even as a gift!' Others say: 
“ The differe?ic.e in yield in favor of the 
Stockbridge more than paid for the fertilizer 
used.”—John E. Francis, Newport County, 
Rhode Island. 
“After deducting the extra cost of the Stock- 
bridge, the difference is $ 34.60 per acre in its 
favor over the other fertilizer used.”—II. 
Edblad, Aroostook County, Maine. 
Try it yourself this year. Take $18 or $20 worth of Stock- 
bridge and compare results with a ton of any other kind costing, 
say, $25 or $30. 
For Prices and further information see our Local Agents , 
or address 
BOWKER 
Fertilizer Company 
43 CHATHAM ST., BOSTON, MASS. 
