1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
293 
Many breeders of purebred live stock complain that 
some would-be buyers think that they should be able 
to secure first-class animals of the breed desired, per¬ 
fect in every point, at about the price of ordinary 
stock. This is unreasonable. Such stock is worth 
much more ; first, because it has cost much more to 
produce it, and second and chiefly, because the years 
of intelligent breeding and care that it represents, 
have fitted it to reproduce, in a great degree, those 
qualities which render the breed a desirable and valu¬ 
able one. It costs much more to produce choice pure¬ 
bred stock than scrub animals. There is always 
present a tendency toward degeneration, and the 
breeder must be always on the alert, selecting the 
best and mating them intelligently, to maintain the 
standard of the breed. Many inferior specimens must 
be sacrificed at far less than the cost of production. 
Probably never before could good breeding stock be 
purchased so cheaply ; yet extreme low prices from 
unknown breeders must always cast suspicion upon 
the quality of the stock. Poor stock is dear at any 
price—for breeding purposes. Don’t expect to get 
something for nothing. Don’t expect to buy a sitting 
of eggs that will hatch prize-winning, purebred fowls, 
for the same price that you would pay for a dozen at 
the corner grocery. Don’t expect choice stock for 
scrub prices—unless you are a scrub man. 
0 
The Filled Cheese bill as reported to the House of 
Representatives, by the Ways and Means Committee, 
passed that body by a good majority at the closing 
session last week. The bill was not all that was 
desired by the advocates of the bills first introduced, 
one of the best of which was the Wilber bill, which 
was outlined in The R. N.-Y. of March 14 ; but it is 
fairly satisfactory to the dairy interests, and it is 
hoped that it will pass the Senate and become a law 
without delay. If it do, it will put filled cheese in 
the same category as oleomargarine and other abom¬ 
inable frauds. The bill, as passed, makes the fee for 
the retailer’s license only nominal; but this, of itself, 
is of small moment. The greatest point is to enforce 
the stamping of the cheese with its true name, and to 
force the selling of it for what it is. Formerly, large 
quantities of this cheese have been made for exporters, 
sent from the factory without being branded, and 
branded by the exporters according to the orders re¬ 
ceived. This abominable practice has nearly ruined 
our export trade in cheese. Some mendacious news¬ 
papers have striven to make capital for themselves by 
claiming that this act was oppressive of the poor man 
by cutting off his supply of a cheap and wholesome 
article of food. Nothing is farther from the truth. 
Filled cheese is not wholesome and nutritious, and is 
not cheap when its nutriment is compared with the 
nutriment contained in full-cream cheese. Further¬ 
more, this act does not prevent its sale, but enforces 
its sale under its true name, so that the poor man, or 
any other man, if he wish filled cheese, may get it as 
such, and not buy it under a full-cream name, at full- 
cream prices, and then learn that he has nothing but 
an abominable fraud on his hands. One of the largest 
butter and cheese dealers in this city well said, 
“There should be a law to prevent the adulteration 
of all food products, as the first principle of adultera¬ 
tion is the desire to cheat.” Let the good time come. 
No one who is honest will object to it. 
WHAT THEY SAY. 
Silo for Eight Cows.—E. W. V. asks about a silo 
for eight cows. It will not pay to build one for that 
number. I would suggest to cut the corn at the same 
stage as for ensilage, let it dry, house it properly, cut 
it as needed, scald with hot water, and let it lie in a 
tight chest 12 hours. The product comes near being 
ensilage, if not better, and, I think, is cheaper. I 
cut a field of grass last season for hay, and then 
planted it to corn the last day of June. In that severe 
drought, it made a fair crop, only it came a little 
later than I like it. After feeding all we could up to 
November 20, we hauled the rest—10 four-horse loads 
—to the barn. As it was not dry, I shocked over 
part of the hay, and wherever I could find room. We 
usually cut equal parts of this and the husked fodder, 
to last for a week. I shall do the same again this 
season. 8 . c. u. 
A Handy Hand Separator. —Some time ago, one 
of Tiie R. N.-Y. subscribers advised its readers not to 
buy a hand separator, as it would not pay. This ad¬ 
vice delayed my buying a separator for a year, conse¬ 
quently I lost money by it, as we made five pounds of 
butter more in a week from three cows by using a 
hand separator. Of course, when hot weather comes, 
and the rest of the cows come in, we shall save a good 
deal more proportionately. The calves we are raising 
are doing a good deal better on the skim-milk contain¬ 
ing some animal heat, than on that warmed on the 
stove. Besides all that, it takes some work from the 
house, and is a good deal less trouble to wash than a 
lot of pans. A man can turn the crank of one of 
those separators a good deal easier and with consider¬ 
able less wear and tear on the nerves than a woman 
can skim the milk and pick out the flies, little specks 
and mothmillers. <j. K . 
Georgetown, Conn. 
R. N.-Y.—One man advised against the separator, 
but at least half a dozen said : “ Get it ” ! 
BUSINESS BITS. 
In their artichoke advertisement last week, we gave the address 
of Van Ness Bros., as Tremout, Mich. It should be Fremont, 
Mich. If inquiry letters are returned from Tremont, the cause is 
thus explained. 
Some people have hard work to believe that any spraying ma¬ 
chine made can be used to cover 30 acres of potatoes in one day. 
It is a fact, however, that such maclnues are made. Thomas Pep¬ 
pier, of Hightstown, N. J., makes one, and will tell you all about it. 
One thing about a galvanized steel tank—there is no trouble 
about hoops coming off, simply because there are no hoops. The 
sun will not cause such a tank to shrink or to leak. The Kelly 
Foundry and Machine Co., 27 Purl Street, Goshen, Ind., makes an 
excellent line of these tanks, and will send catalogue if you are 
interested. 
Ip you have sidehills to plow, and want to save hard work for 
yom-self and team, you will have a sidehill plow. The “ Yankee” 
swivel plow is made especially for this kind of work, and it has 
every improvement to make the work easy for both man and 
team. The Belcher & Taylor Agricultural Tool Co., Box 75, 
Chicopee Falls, Mass., will send fuller description on application. 
A very handsome and elaborate illustrated catalogue of bug 
gies, surries, phaetons, farm wagons, road carts, harness, saddles, 
and horse goods, showing a great variety of styles .and shapes 
has just been issued for 1890 by the Alliance Carriage Co., Cincin¬ 
nati, O. Prices are printed in plain figures in their catalogue, 
and goods are sent anywhere subject to examination. If you own 
a horse, and say so, you can get one of their catalogues free. 
Milk bottles usually have a metal cover that fastens down over 
the mouth of the bottle bv means of a clasp or wire spring. Unless 
much care be used in cleaning these, they become sour, and taint 
the milk. They are pretty sure to become rusty, anyway. The 
Thatcher Mfg. Co., Potsdam, N. Y., have done away witli this cover 
entirely, by making a groove in the neck of the bottle, into which 
a round piece of cardboard is pressed, thus sealing the bottle 
both air and milk-tight. The manufacturers will scud illustrated 
descriptions on application. 
Tub Dutton mower-knife grinder is, we think, one of the neces¬ 
sities in hay or harvest time. You imll the machine knives out 
of the guards, fasten the grinder to the wheel of the machine, and 
while the team is resting a bit, you have the knives sharp and 
ready to go on again. You save going to the barn to grind, and 
you need no one to turn the stone. You can do it all yourself. But 
the great gain comes from the fact that you will sharpen the 
knives if you have the grinder in the field with you, while you are 
tempted to go on with the dull knives, without it; such, at least 
is our own experience. 
Within recent years there has been much improvement in all 
classes of agricultural implements and appliances, the primary 
object of which has been to do away, to a great extent, with hand 
labor. In no particular, has there been more improvement than 
in the construction of the low-down, broad-tired, steel farm 
trucks. The Havana Metal Wheel Co., Havana, Ill., makes an ex¬ 
cellent truck in this line. It is constructed entirely of steel except 
the tongue, and combines lightness and strength. Being low, it 
is easily loaded ; having the wide-faced tire, it travels over the 
fields without cutting or rutting, hence is of easy draft. This firm 
also manufactures steel truck wheels of any size and any width 
of tire to fit the ordinary farm wagon. Thus a farmer, bv the 
simple purchase of a set of these steel wheels, may have a wagon 
adapted either to the road or farm. These wagons are great 
labor-savers for man and team, and the cost is comparatively 
low. The above firm will send catalogue giving fuller description. 
Why results 
from Stockbridge 
seem surprising. 
In writing to us, some farmers have expressed snrprise 
that a bag of Stockbridge tried in the field alongside of a bag 
of some other fertilizer should produce uniformly such supe¬ 
rior returns. It is really not so surprising when one con¬ 
siders that the bag of Stockbridge almost invariably is 
sure to contain twice as much plant food as competing 
brands that are sold at nearly the same price per bag; 
even though the “bulk” or size of the bag is the same. 
The Stockbridge Manures are made “double strength” and 
contain on the average twice as much plant food as ordi¬ 
nary fertilizers; so that one ton of Stockbridge will go 
further and cost less than two tons of other kinds. There¬ 
fore, shrewd farmers buy the Stockbridge for economy’s 
sake if for no other reason. In one of the Stockbridge 
Manures an increase of 40% in the potash has been made 
this year. 
There are other reasons, too, why farmers 
succeed with the Stockbridge. Some of them 
are shown in our annual catalogue, which we 
send free to any address. If you are a customer 
von know many of these reasons. If not, a 
knowledge of them can do you no harm. 
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Fine Ground Dried Fish. 
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know that the largest yields and 
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containing at least lO% of 
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Without the liberal use of Pot¬ 
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vegetables of a quality that will 
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Our pamphlets are not advertising circulars boom¬ 
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are really helpful to farmers. They are sent free for 
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