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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 19 
Live Stockatid Dairy 
DAIRY AND FARM NOTES. 
Cheese Notes. —^Central and northern 
New York has just experienced a loss 
of $25,000 to $30,000 due cheese factory 
patrons for a single shipment, or two 
in some cases, by the failure of R. Mc- 
Adam & Sons. The main cause pri¬ 
marily is said to be due to gambling by 
one Higham, the sales agent and confi¬ 
dential clerk for the firm, who resided 
in New York. The loss is so widely 
spread that with one exception no great 
hardship will be felt. I mention the 
fact in these notes on account of the 
terms of settlement which have been 
accepted by a majority of the creditors 
so reported, of 26 cents on the dollar, 
and no effort made to punish Higham. 
To permit an agent of a firm to steal 
the money of hard-working farmers, and 
be permitted by the firm itself to go 
scot free, should receive some attention, 
and cheese salesmen should see to it 
that the fellow is punished. The custom 
in northern and central New York is to 
buy, on the regular sales days, Satur¬ 
day and Monday, and pay the following 
sales day, or sometimes two weeks 
hence. This permits the large buyers 
that a trade direct with the retailer 
should be a higher-priced trade. Often 
it is, but they are not as prompt payers 
unless one can meet them from week 
to week. We furnish in our local towns 
to those dealers who are prompt, and 
all goes well. The private family trade 
has not proven satisfactory as a whole— 
people do not like to write for stuff; 
they seem to prefer to buy of some one 
they can meet, and the cost of transpor¬ 
tation on small quantities quite handi¬ 
caps the trade. Express charges are 
uniformly one cent a pound gross 
weight, making 1 % cent on the net 
weight of the package, and freight 
charges on less than 100 pounds are 
about the same as express. We have 
therefore sought out and worked for a 
reliable class of dealers who sell to the 
retailer, and all seems to work well. 
Our arrangements are such that we 
manufacture almost wholly upon orders. 
When the cheeses are ready for ship¬ 
ment we know just where they are 
to go. 
Sn>o Notes. —^We are to-day (October 
5) completing the silo filling. Except¬ 
ing the mud, which has caused some 
THE HOLSTEIN COW MARGARET 
to carry several thousand dollars of 
farmers’ money. Really I do not see 
how an immediate cash payment sys¬ 
tem can be easily inaugurated. The 
whole business world is built upon con¬ 
fidence. Business soon stagnates when 
there is so little conndence that regular 
10, 20, or 30-day credits are not given. 
But when a trusted agent goes wrong 
under this system, punishment should 
follow as a warning to others. The only 
safety to our cheese producers, in fact, 
to all wholesalers of dairy products is 
to get their pay, and that promptly. The 
prices paid for tnese staple goods is al¬ 
ways upon a close margin over cost of 
production, and the loss of a single 
week’s money means the profit of per¬ 
haps a half year’s business. I am not 
speaking of this instance because we 
are losers by the failure; we had no 
uealings with the firm. 
'The Home Trade.— This leads to a 
thought in regard to selling butter and 
cheese. We have sold to every class of 
trade, from the private family who 
bought as small a cheese as five pounds 
all along the list, grocer, wholesale 
grocer, jobber, exporter and the local 
dealers who buy regularly. The home 
trade is coming to be the most reliable, 
and all things considered, the wholesale 
grocer or a jobber who stands in tne 
same relation to the trade is the most 
satisfactory customer. It would seem 
LINCOLN 2D DEoKOL. Fig. 326. 
trouble with the harvester, we have 
housed about 600 tons witn the least 
friction and annoyance in my experi¬ 
ence. I feel that corn handling has 
reached nearly iierfection. A heavy pair 
of horses and a McCormick harvester, 
with a careful man to run it, has done 
work that it would hardly seem pos¬ 
sible could be done by a machine. Wet 
land and a hard wind tangled the corn 
in all shapes, yet this machine would, 
human-like, take every stalk not abso¬ 
lutely flat on the ground, straighten it 
up, and tie it. Men quite object to 
handling unbound corn, and I don’t 
blame them. Another year’s experience 
with a blower adds to my satisfaction. 
We tried a Canadian machine last year 
which worked well. 'This year we 
bought in conjunction with two neigh¬ 
bors a No. L 14 Blizzard. While I have 
no desire to give any machine free ad¬ 
vertising, this certainly does not need 
it, but the work has been so completely 
and perfectly done that I feel like 
speaking of it. The com is almost cut 
to a pulp, every kernel cut from the cob, 
mixed with stalk and leaf, and elevated 
40 feet without a half bushel on the 
ground. My appreciation of the blower 
is shown by letting a good chain ele¬ 
vator machine stand idle. 1 have Just 
halted between two opinions; 50 tons 
of corn was to remain after tilling one 
silo. Should we stack it, pile it, shock 
it, or* what? We had a small bay which 
was cleaned out, and the corn, as I 
write, is going into it. I shall level it 
down, keep the top and edges wet, and 
expect to have more net food value than 
by any other means. It is so finely cut 
that I feel sure it will pack and keep. 
If it does not I will report the result. 
We tried a quantity several years ago 
in this way, but it was immediately fed 
out. This will not be fed for a month 
or six weeks. ir. e. cook. 
A GOOD HOLSTEIN COW. 
Margaret Lincoln 2d DeKol, the cow 
shown at Fig. 326, is owned by Mr. 
Goodell, president of the Goodell Manu¬ 
facturing Company, Antrim, N. H.; es¬ 
tablished her first record the week she 
was three years old by producing 16 
pounds 11 ounces of butter. At the New 
England fair at Portland, Me., 1896, she 
won first prize for a three-year-old and 
at the last New England fair, 1900, she 
was a leading member of the herd, win¬ 
ning the first prize at the same place, 
also winning first prize in the 24-hour 
butter test at the same time. Mr. 
Goodell breeds Holsteins as a pastime, 
but like many other good business men, 
he has seen the necessity for good blood 
and good performance, and has thus se¬ 
cured some fine specimens of the breed. 
Just now interest in the Holsteins is re¬ 
viving. At the Pan-American dairy 
test the black-and-white cattle were for 
a long time behind the Guernseys, Jer¬ 
seys and Ayrshires in actual profit from 
butter. Now, at the wind-up, they are 
gaining, as the following report will 
show: 
“In the Model Dairy at the Pan- 
American Exposition one of the no¬ 
ticeable features is the manner in which 
the Holsteins have maintained their 
large flow of milk. They have, in fact, 
shown the least inclination to decrease 
as the season advances of any breed in 
tne stable. A study of the rations fed 
to these cows will in a measure account 
for these results. At the time green feed 
was first furnished the herdsman in 
charge of these cattle cut hay entirely 
out of his rations and also reduced very 
materially his grain feed, making the 
bulk of the Holstein rations from green 
feed. Now, when the time nas come 
that no green feed is given and depend¬ 
ence must be had on silage, by return¬ 
ing to the amount of grain that he fed 
in the beginning of the season, he has 
been able not only to keep up the flow 
of milk, but to advance his herd above 
the position that they occupied during 
the Summer, thus again demonstrating 
the fact that excessive grain feeding for 
a long period is not always conducive 
to profit or production, particularly in 
combination with green forage crops. 
HORSE COLIC, 
Distemper, Founder, Pneu¬ 
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forms of Lameness, Contract¬ 
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are instantly relieved, and in¬ 
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Satisfaction guaranteed or 
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Beware of so-called Elixtis—none gennlne but Tuttle’a. 
Avoid ail blisters; they offer only temporaryreUef if any. 
FLEMINSV 
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Easily and thoroughly cured. 
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Breeders’ Directory 
JERSEY BULL 
Te»rHn(f—registered, from a great show cow; al. 
most faultless, hr a producing sire Farmer’s price 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty 8t., Pittsburg Pa. 
ST. LAMBERT and Combination. For sale? Cows. 
14 Heifers, 25 Bulls. 8 K. NIVIN, Landenburg, Pa. 
123 HOLSTEINS 
DBLLHDRST FARMS. Mentor. Ohio. 
FOR SALE 
—PUREBRED HOLSTEIN-FRTE- 
ready for service. Above from best families. Write for 
breeding and prices. W. W. CHENEY, Manlius,N.Y . 
Holstein-Frieslan Bull 
ready for service, and a fine lot of Bull Calves. Best 
of breeding, and from deep producing families. 
C. K. RECORD, Peterboro. N. T. 
rnn Oil c— Uolsteln-Frieslan Bull Sir Tanga- 
rUn OMLL noxle No. 26210 H.F.H.B. First Prize 
Winner. Beautiful animal; gooO-natnred. Age, 
two years nine months. ORMSBY HILL FARM, 
E. W. SCHUCUARDT, Mgr. Manchester, Vt. 
F or sale—T horoughbred 
HOLSTKIM-FRIESIAN OATTLB 
Of the best families. Also, 30 high-bred Bnlls at 
reasonable prices. Write the MAPLES STOCK 
FARM, Binghamton, N. Y., Wm. Rood, Prop 
Short-horn and Polled Durham 
Calves, must go. Bulls, $26.50; Heifers, $18.50; orated, 
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Berkshire Swine 
state what you require. Prices reasonable. 
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American Dnroc-Jerseys cZ?. 
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