1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
687 
'■ KEEPING ONE COW.” 
(continued.) 
little care will secure customers who will 
send daily for the milk, and thus afford 
much relief, and yield as adequate re¬ 
turns as though the product was made 
up in butter. But the majority of fruit 
and vegetable growers, as well as many 
who have suburban residences, desire to 
keep a cow or two and utilize the product 
in their own families. With a good cel¬ 
lar, a modern refrigerator, and plenty of 
ice, every one who knows how to care 
for milk and make butter has plain sail¬ 
ing, and will need no advice. Yet among 
the classes I have above named, these 
requisites are the exception rather than 
the rule. 
With proper facilities for caring for 
milk, the first requirement is absolute 
cleanliness. During hot weather par¬ 
ticularly, every vessel, including pail, 
pan and churn, must be rinsed, scalded, 
scrubbed, rinsed and aired, so as always 
to be perfectly sweet and clean. At each 
milking, the amount of milk that will be 
required for table use, cooking, etc., be¬ 
fore the next milking, should be placed 
separately in the cellar or, better, in a 
good refrigerator. Shallow setting in 
open pans will, in most cases, be neces¬ 
sary. In a cellar where the temperature 
does not go above 60 degrees, the milk 
will have raised its cream and be ready 
to skim in 24 or 36 hours. The cream 
should be put together for ripening, or 
held in the refrigerator for churning 
time, say about twice a week. During 
hot weather, perhaps the surplus but¬ 
termilk and skim-milk will be more 
profitably fed to a pig than to chickens. 
But this is a matter of opinion or con¬ 
venience. 
Where the cellar is too warm, no ice to 
be had, and no refrigerator in the house, 
the real trouble of the housekeeper 
comes in. Not many years ago such was 
the condition of affairs with us. A pit 
or vault was dug in the bottom of the 
cellar, the sides walled with brick laid 
in lime mortar and cement, and the 
bottom made of soft brick. A frame of 
six-inch chestnut timber was laid in 
mortar on top of the walis of the vault. 
A trap-door of two-inch plank was 
hinged to the frame, and when closed 
covered the vault about air-tight. The 
vault was three feet square and three 
feet deep, inside measurement. A box 
or stool placed in one corner of the 
vault, answered for a step in getting in 
or out of it. Milk set in shallow pans 
was skimmed as soon as it thickened. 
The cellar was so warm that the milk 
soured too soon for the best results. 
Cream was kept in the vault until a short 
time before churning. The butter, after 
being taken from the dash churn, was 
rinsed and in the tray placed in the 
vault till cold enough to work and pack 
away. Occasionally the vault was 
cleared of its contents, washed out and 
a pail of cold water thrown in, which 
would be almost instantly absorbed by 
the soft bricks. The gradual evapora¬ 
tion of this water, kept the temperature 
of the vault a great deal lower than that 
of the cellar. With a warm cellar, and 
no ice on a farm, this device for keeping 
cream and butter cool during hot 
weather, is the most effective and eco¬ 
nomical that I can recommend. 
_w. D. BARNS. 
FEEDING STOCK IN VIRGINIA. 
It is only when the larger portion of 
the grain food is grown on the farm that 
the feeding of cattle and sheep for the 
market is profitable in this part of the 
country, but when too carbonaceous in 
character, as is usually the case, it is 
economy to supplement it with bran or 
linseed meal ; if for cattle only, cotton¬ 
seed meal, also. For sheep, I do not 
consider cotton-seed meal a desirable 
food, while for hogs the experience of 
some of my neighbors would indicate 
that it is very injurious, and that, if fed 
to hogs continually, even in small quan¬ 
tities, it will kill them outright. 
If the grain for cattle and sheep must 
he bought, no better foods are obtain¬ 
able here than corn and wheat bran. 
For horses, corn is the chief grain used, 
but with equal parts of corn and oats, 
and a little bran, they keep in better 
condition and show more life and greater 
endurance. The buying of protein foods 
to balance the ration is so generally ad¬ 
vised that everywhere great quantities 
are bought for consumption by stock, 
no doubt with profit, when judiciously 
fed, even when the manurial value is 
not considered. I believe, however, 
that many feeders, more particularly in 
the South, are making a needless expen¬ 
diture for such food stuffs. It may be 
behind the age to advocate such a course, 
but it is my opinion that the farmer 
here should look more to his farm for 
the products he and his stock require, 
and to a large extent stop this everlast¬ 
ing buying. 
We can grow crops that enable us to 
come nearer to a complete ration thaD 
some farmers think. This latitude is 
the home of the cow pea and Soja bean, 
and there is no crop that horses, cattle 
and sheep will eat with greater relish 
Analyses of cow-pea and Soja-bean hay 
place them above clover hay in protein, 
while the Soja beans are richer in this 
element than linseed meal, and cow peas 
50 per cent better than wheat bran. My 
experience in feeding them in this way 
has been very encouraging.: 
The high fertilizing value of bran, lin¬ 
seed and cotton-seed meals is a great in¬ 
ducement to their purchase, but a look 
at their analyses will show that, of the 
$19 worth of plant food in a ton of lin¬ 
seed meal, $3 will buy all the potash 
and phosphoric acid, and less than $3 
the same substances in a ton of cotton¬ 
seed meal. Bran contains a greater pro¬ 
portion of the mineral fertilizers than 
the other foods mentioned, and as stock 
feed, independent of its fertilizing value, 
is the best the farmer, in this part of 
the country, can buy to go with his own 
products, of which corn forms the 
greater part. But with a right selection 
of crops, little bran, even, is really 
essential. 
It may be that the fertilizing proper¬ 
ties of some of the mill products have 
inclined many to buy them, but may not 
these be obtained cheaper in other ways? 
Cow peas, beans, clover, etc., with good 
tillage, will often reveal a supply of 
phosphoric acid and potash that was 
little suspected. If found to be in¬ 
sufficient, buy and apply them direct, 
but depend on the legumes to furnish 
the costly nitrogen. 
Virginia. albert r bellwood. 
However bad the Cough, relief will come through 
a judicious use of Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant, and 
In the great majority of cases, a permanent cure 
will follow. 
The Family Pill— Jayne’s Sanative.— Adv. 
Many people are skeptical regard¬ 
ing testimonials. We offer 
$5,000.22 Reward 
to any person who can prove bogus 
one letter that we publish in praise 
of the famous veterinary remedy 
Tuttle's Elixir. 
Send three 2 -cent stamps for post¬ 
age on sample bottle, and list of tes¬ 
timonials. 
DR. S. A. TUTTLE, 27 Beverly St., Boston. 
ULSULSl£JL5UL^^ 
Cows’barren 3 years.i 
MADE TO BREED. 
Free! Moore Brothers, Albany , N . v . 
Oak>tanned leather Harness 
Send your address with 2-cent stamp for Illustrated Catalogue, 
all kinds of Single and Double Custom-Made Harness, sold direct to 
the consumer at wholesale prices. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. 
KING HARNESS CO.. Nr- 0 Church St., Qwego, N.Y. 
"BUZZARD” 
Horse Ice Calks. 
Medal awarded at 
World’s Fair. 
Prices to Agents reduced. 
’For particulars address 
S. W. KENT, Meriden, Conn. 
I! Finest Pigs He Ever Grew! 
Granith Statw r vapor nn» m Harveysburgh, Ohio, June is, 1897. 
. Granite State Evaporator Co. Harveysburgh. Ohio. June 15,1897. 
Gentlemen:—I purchased one of your 50 -gallon I-ecd Cookers last December, and 
have cooked feed for my pigs ever since, consisting of barley and oats ground to- 
gether. 1 have the finest pigs I ever grew. The Cooker I bought is most too small. 
Yours truly, B. Y. COLLETT. 
25 gallon, $12; 50 gallon, $17; 100 gallon, $24. 
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Remember, our officers have BRED and EXHIBITED BLUE RIBBON WINNERS. Particulars 
cheerfully given. Write us. AMERICAN LIVE-STOCK COMPANY. 24 State Street, New York City. 
Refers by permission to The Rural New-Yorker. 
A TIME SAVER. 
Time is of great value on a dairy farm. 
A Safety Hand Separator costs less than 
tinware necessary 
to run a dairy of 30 
cows. In the ag¬ 
gregate its use will 
save hundreds of 
hours now used in 
washing cans and 
pans, and in doing 
the hand skimming 
It will increase 
your output both in 
quality and quantity, earning its first 
cost in less than a year. Send for circu¬ 
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Dubuque, la. West Chester, Pa 
Omaha, Neb. Elgin, Ill. 
Prosperity to Dairymen. 
Dairymen can get prosperity 
by using our 
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Thousands in use. Easy for cattle. Durable, 
convenient and cheap. Price and 
circular on application. 
ROY BROTHERS, East Barnet, Vt. 
JL CARROLL’S 
Stock-Watering Device 
Will pay for itself every 3 months 
In Increased milk and butter. 
Agents Wanted. 
Send for Circular. 
Carroll, Arnold & Co., 
Pawling, N. Y 
^'TPCSEE THAT HOOK? 
WITH THE 
IMPROVED 
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a y n°yM a ze, C ^ DEHORNER 
or kind of horn without crushing. No other de- 
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WEBSTER & DICKINSON, Christiana, Pa. 
: 
For a knife that will cut a horn without I 
crushing, because it cuts from four . 
• — sides at once get 
THE KEYSTONE 
—DEHORNER— 
It is humane, rapid and durable. Fully 
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A. C. ItJROSIUS, Coeliranville, Pa, 
NEWTON’S 
LATEST IMPROVED 
DEHORNERS 
Save time and money by dehorning 
your cattle. Write us for special 
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H.H. BROWN MFG.CO. 
DECATUR. IJLIm 
BONE MEAL FOR POULTRY 
Crushed Oyster Shells, Caleite, Crushed Flint, Granu¬ 
lated Bone, Ground Beef Scraps. Send for Price List.. 
YORK CHEMICAL WORKS, York, Pa. 
Poultry Supplies 
| Our Catalogue of Poultry Supplies is full of j 
, meat. You should have it if at all interested , 
i In Poultry. Sent free. 
Dutch Bulbs and Narcissus and Lillies. 
Send for Illustrated list, just published. 
JOHNSON & STOKES, 
317-219 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
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28 Vosey Street, New York City. 2 
% 
Guernseys. 
225 purebred Guernseys of the best American and 
Island breeding. Butter average, whole herd, 318 
pounds per head. No catalogue. Come and make 
your own selection. 
EKLERSLIE STOCK FARM. 
BHINKCLIFF. K. X. 
Put FAT In your MILK by using 
Wlllswood Herd 
Guernsey Cattle. 
Offers a few cows, heifers in calf, bull and heifer 
calves. WHiLS A. SEWARD, Budd’s Lake, N. J. 
Six Registered Guernsey Cows. 
Five Registered Guernsey Heifers, bred. 
One Registered Guernsey Bull, 10 months. 
A. J. SNYDER, Plumsteadville, Pa. 
JERSEY CATTLE FOR SALE. 
R F ^HANNflN ■! 907 Li ^orty Bt., Pittsburgh, Pa 
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/CHENANGO VALLEY STOCK FARMS, Greene, N 
V* Y.—Dutoh Belted and Jersey Cattle; Dorset and 
ttambonillet Sheep; Poland-China, Jersey Red and 
Suffolk Pigs; White and Bronze Turkeys, Peafowls 
and Blooded Chickens. J. D. VAN VALKKNBURGH 
SHEEP WANTED. 
State age, weight, condition, price. 
G. E. BUCK, Palmer, Mass. 
SHROPSHIRE RAMS 
Shropshire Bams for 10 days. Some lino large home 
and Canada-bred ones to choose from. Apply 
J. C. DUNCAN, Supt, Wa-wa-nund, Lewiston, N.Y 
Smith FlnWIK both sexes > ages, for sale. Prices 
uuutu Dunuo reasonable. L B. Frear, Ithaca, N.Y 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshlres 
and C.WHITES. Still selling 
at hard times prices. Choice 
Boars and Sows, not akin, all 
ages. Sows bled. POULTRY. 
__ Write us. 
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CHESHIRES 
— lOO Klght-weeks’-old 
Pigs, in pairs and trios 
not akin. A fine lot of 
young Sows and Service Boars, farrowed last March. 
Write for circulars and prices. W. E. MANDEV1LLE, 
Brookton, Tompkins County. N. Y. 
CHESHIRE PICS. 
B. M. LINDSLKY, Monticello. N. Y.. has a lot of fine 
Cheshire Pigs ready for delivery at farmers’ prices. 
STOP! 
You are looktng for a good POLAND- 
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■ We have one to sell at $10. 
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Fox Hounds, Beagles, Scotch Collies of the highest 
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f ill DllfllQ 8tam P f or cat. showing how it’s done. 
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YnilR U CIIQ- are lousy unless you do 
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