1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
735 
DAIRY AND FARM NOTES. 
More Corn. — The manufacturer 
makes his plans ahead; why not the 
farmer? How many are arranging for 
next year? “Think not of the morrow.’’ 
Yes, but we must for successful busi¬ 
ness. We should have our cropping 
pretty thoroughly arranged for the 
coming season, before Winter is upon 
us. One of the things that at present 
interests me is the growing of a large 
acreage of corn for husking, or rather 
for ear feeding. We have formerly put 
everything into silos. This year the 
high price of corn and the great growth 
with us has given a quantity for hog 
and horse feeding. Why not raise every 
pound required for such use? That is 
just what we shall do next year; the 
plots are already laid out, and plowing 
has commenced. Plowing in the Pall? 
Yes; each year confirms more fully an 
opinion that Fall plowing in a snowy 
country is best, giving more time in the 
Spring for harrowing. In wet seasons 
the difference in production is not no¬ 
ticeable. In dry seasons it is always 
in favor of Fall plowing. The furrow 
slice becomes compacted with the soil 
beneath, permitting easy and rapid ca¬ 
pillarity. As soon as dry enough har¬ 
rowing begins, which checks loss of 
moisture. We shall plow until Winter 
shuts off operations, if not completed 
before. 
Why this increase of grain? I am sat¬ 
isfied that our eastern farms can grow 
corn as well as the prairie, and the 
higher price, it seems to me, may re¬ 
main for a time. That is, I do not look 
for 40-cent corn again soon. When we 
could buy cornmeal in quantities at $15 
a ton it hardly paid to handle the ears 
other than in the silo; $25 a ton changes 
the tune, or even at $20 we should raise 
our corn. We are now shocking and 
picking off the ears as fast as needed 
without husking. The hogs will take 
care of it, and by the way, corn on the 
ear is a good horse food, especially for 
horses after passing the 10 or 12-year 
mark. When buying I never found one 
older than that. 
Tke Farm Horse. —This idea leads to 
the most profitable horses for farm 
work. My mind has changed very ma¬ 
terially on this question. I was edu¬ 
cated to think that horses had passed 
their best usefulness at 10 years. I say 
now that the last half of a horse’s life 
is worth more than the first half. That 
is, if a horse lives to be 20 years old. 
His service from 10 to 20 will be of more 
value to the farmer than from birth to 
10. I speak from the standpoint of 
horses that work hard nearly every day 
and are driven by hired men. Horses 
in early life are more nervy and active, 
hut they cannot, if they have not pre¬ 
viously been injured, stand as much feed 
and strain as the more mature animals. 
Then again, farm work is of such a na¬ 
ture that much time is saved if the 
horses will stand at the door or any¬ 
where for a moment without hitching. 
We are keeping these horses as long as 
they will be useful, and then giving 
them a decent burial. We have one at 
the present time 22 years old, which 
will be given his long rest before this is 
printed. He could not be bought—faith¬ 
ful old fellow—he shall not have abuse. 
I bought a pair of horses a few days 
ago; one of them has galls and collar 
bunches. When looking at the collars 
it was all explained; dirty collars. A 
few minutes each day will Keep them 
clean, and then with a hard, smooth 
collar—the harder the better—few 
breasts will get sore. The cheap 
“sweats” which are sold and used so 
generally in our section are a curse to 
horses. They get wet from rain or per¬ 
spiration, and then, like a wet glove, 
make a sore. I have cured sore necks 
and breasts with a new collar of the 
best quality, without ointments. A 
noble animal is the horse, but some farm 
horses are shamefully treated, not only 
from poor driving and sometimes light 
feed, but from ill-fitting harness. Have 
the collar fit close to the neck; if too 
large cut it down. h. e. cook. 
HIGHEST AWARD 
A Second-hand Separator. 
I have a small dairy; keep four cows in 
milk the year round, as I make butter. I 
can buy a No. 2 De Laval separator, used 
a few years, foi about $40. A small-sized 
machine of this make or of any other, can 
be bought for about $60. Is it policy to get 
a small machine even for a small dairy? 
Will it do the work as well and as easily 
as a larger one? The different parts to 
the large machine are heavy to handle 
and clean, and must, I presume, turn 
harder than a smaller one. Is it advisable 
to purchase this second-hand large ma¬ 
chine, or to buy a new one of the small 
size for $20 more? Some tell me butter 
made from separated cream is not as good 
as that made by the old way of ripening 
the cream on the pan. What is your 
opinion? s. d. c. 
Fairfield Co., Conn. 
Before buying the second-hand sep¬ 
arator take a sample of skim-milk from 
it, and put it through a Babcock test. 
If it leaves more than one-tenth of one 
per cent butter fat reject it, and buy a 
new one, which will have a guarantee 
with it. The small machines will no 
doubt be ample for your requirements. 
Your butter will be of the finest quality 
if the cream is only properly ripened. 
Hold cream at a temperature of 50 de¬ 
grees for two days, cooling each skim¬ 
ming to that degree before mixing. 
When ready to ripen, warm the whole 
mass to 60 to 65 degrees, and hold at 
that temperature until thick; then cool 
down to 52 degrees; let stand five to 10 
hours, according to circumstances, then 
churn. h. e. c. 
The Tenant’s Share. 
What would be a fair share for me to 
receive to work a farm on shares in this 
manner: I have to rent a house close to 
the farm for $6 a month, and take care 
of three cows for the people, and do not 
get any share of the milk from those. 
The feed for them is to come from their 
share, and I am to furnish one horse and 
pasture for the cows in the Summer. They 
are to furnish one horse all the time, and 
an extra horse during haying. I am ex¬ 
pected to feed the horses that they fur¬ 
nish from my share when I have the use 
of them. A. H. s. 
Dallas, Pa. 
In our section on rented farms the 
tenant furnishes teams and tools, does 
all of the work; the owner furnishes 
stock, grass and clover seed, and all 
other seeds each party furnishes one- 
half. All concentrated food is paid for 
one-half by each; everything sold from 
the farm is divided equally. The teams 
are usually fed from undivided foods. 
The conditions in the question seem 
somewhat peculiar, or else it is not a 
dairy farm. One cannot advise with 
much intelligence, not knowing the size 
or value or producing power of the land. 
It would seem that you should be paid 
for taking it, if you are required to pay 
house rent and take care of stock from 
which you get no returns; $72 a year is 
pretty strong house rent. On rented 
farms houses and all necessary buildings 
are furnished. Unless you have some 
income not mentioned in your inquiry 
better let the job pass. h. e. c. 
CREAM SEPARATORS 
BUFFALO EXPOSITION. 
Just as in the case of every representative exhibition or other 
contest since the invention of the Cream Separator twenty years ago, 
the De Laval machines have maintained their supremacy at the Pan- 
American Exposition, Buffalo, having received the Gold Medal on 
Cream Separators. 
This is the highest and only award of its kind on Cream Separa¬ 
tors. The Sharpies machines received a Silver Medal. The Vermont 
Farm Machine Co. received a Gold Medal for its combined exhibit of 
cream separators, Babcock testers, churns and other apparatus, and 
A. H. Reid a Bronze Medal for a similar exhibit. With characteristic 
advertising honestly, the Vermont Company is claiming this Gold 
Medal to be an award to its “U. S ” Separators. 
The jury of awards on cream separators consisted of Dr. S. M. 
Babcock of the University of Wisconsin, the famous dairy authority 
and inventor of the test bearing his name, and Prof. H. W. Spangler 
of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. This jury awarded the Gold 
Medal to the De Laval machines, a Silver Medal to the “U. S.'’ 
machines (Vermont Farm Machine Co.), and a bronze one to the 
Sharpies machines. But the after “pulling and hauling,” which 
unsuccessful exhibitors always resort to in an exhibition contest of 
this character, finally resulted in the general award authorities 
granting awards as above announced 
In the Model Dairy at Buffalo the work of the De Laval machines 
was in keeping with their recognized superiority in ordinary dairy 
practice. Four makers of separators were offered opportunity to set 
in machines. Two of these, the Sharpies and Reid, evaded doing so. 
Of the third a prominent dairy expert writing under date of October 
10th says: “I hear that neither natural gas nor soft coal would make 
enough steam, so that they had to use wood and coke to run the 
‘U. S.’ machine, keeping water ready to put out the fires that had 
been started two or three times in the roof of the engine house by 
the heat from the smokestack,”—the machine being one of those 
“light” running “dairy” turbines of the make in question, which like 
the other sizes of such separators run as easy “on paper” as De 
Laval machines. 
OTHER GREAT EXPOSITIONS. 
The supremacy of the De Laval machines at Buffalo is a contin¬ 
uation of their triumphant record at all previous great expositions. 
At the World’s Fair, Chicago, in 1893, they received the Gold and 
only medal awarded by the regular jury of awards and were the only 
separators used in the Model Dairy. At Antwerp in 1894 and at 
Brussels in 1897 they received the Grand Prizes or highest awards. 
At Omaha in 1898 they received the Gold Medal, and again at Paris 
in 1900 the Grand Prize or highest award. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 
Randolph & Canal Sts., 
CHICAGO. 
1102 Arch Street, 
PHILADELPHIA 
10:i & 105 Mission Street, 
SAN FRANCISCO. 
General Offices: 
74 CORTLANDT STREET. 
NEW YORK. 
327 Commissioners Street 
MONTREAL. 
75 & 77 York Street, 
TORONTO. 
248 McDermott Avenue. 
WINNIPEG. 
SHARPLES DAIRY CREAM SEPARATORS. 
‘Business Dairying,” a very valuable book and Catalogrue No. tea tree. 
“- 
Sharpies Co.. Chicago, Ills. 
P. M. Sharplesy west Chester* Pa. 
1 
Mt plan of caring for old hens and pul¬ 
lets this time of the year is to give them 
plenty of corn to start them to laying, and 
about once a week give them sulphur, 
about one tablespoonful to 50 hens. Give 
them plenty of lime, and keep your hen¬ 
house yard full of small bits of cracked 
earthenware. Pound it up fine enough 
HO they can swallow it. Keep them in a 
warm house, and give plenty of charcoal. 
That is all I do, and I get plenty of eggs, 
and have healthy chickens. w. r. n. 
Bloated Cows. —A writer in Hoard’s 
Dairyman gives this experience in reliev¬ 
ing cows that were bloated: "We fed Al¬ 
falfa hay twice a day, and occasionally 
we would get some of the third and fourth 
cutting, that had been frostbitten before 
harvesting. This would usually bloat two 
or more, about every time. It was sug¬ 
gested by a veterinarian that I try a one- 
inch hose, six feet long, by running it 
down the throat to the stomach, allowing 
the gas to pass off at once. It requires 
one man to hold the cow while another 
puts the hose down. Some cows are dam¬ 
aged by tapping, while the hose In my 
experience saved many a valuable cow.” 
The Full Yield of Cream 
Is euthered by the 
National 
Hand Separator 
The saving of this Separator 
over other makes Is equal to 
the product of aue.xtra cow. 
You can test this machine 
111 your own dairy for ten 
day.H, nbsoliittdy with¬ 
out cost. If claims are 
unsupported, return it 
at our expense. Write for particulars. 
NATIONAL DAIRY MACHINE CO. 
Newark, N. J. 
The Best Dishorner. 
Msieefon both opermtor and cow, becaase it makea 
the smoothest, quickest cut, ta the 
CONVEX DISHORNER. 
My Bucker Stock Holder and calf dishomera are 
equally good. All dlshorniug appliances. 
GEO. WEBSTER, 
Christiana* Pa. 
Buys wShr 
complete with cover, elbow, pipe and damper. 
Kettle Is polished and smooth. Jacket made of 
heavy steel. Burns any kind of fuel. Flues dis¬ 
tribute heat all over. Bolls bOgallous In 23 min¬ 
utes, cooks anything. Handy for butcherlogand 
a hundred other ibines on the farm. Other sizes, 
18 to 76 cals., at reduced prices. Send for large 
free ('ahilogglving prices on 16,000 articles. 
Marvin Smith Co., SS-S9 N. Jefferson St., Chicago, Ills. 
BRAND NEWSTEEbROOFING 
Bought at Receivers' 8al» 
Sheets either flat, eorr» 
gated or “V” crimped. Kt 
tools except a hatchetoi 
hammer is needed to lav 
the roofing. We lumUl 
free with each ' order 
enough paint to a I TR 
coverand nailsto lay. Price Per square, ' v 
A square means 100 MUare ft. Write for Free Catalogvn 
Ho. 57 on Genera! tferehudlse. Chicago House 
Wrecking Co., WestSSth and Iron Sts., Chicago, Ul. 
