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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 10 
The Agent’s Share. 
Our Contest for Trial Subscriptions for the rest of tbis year, closed 
September 30. The winners of the Sweepstake Premiums were : 
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money, and we are glad of it. We have given them all the money they 
collected for subscriptions, and a little more besides. We would, of 
course, rather the clubs had been so large that there would be a little 
left for us ; but no matter, our profits will come later, and we are going 
to give our agents and friends some more money in another Contest 
right away. 
October i to November 14. 
The next Contest will close November 14, and all names sent after 
October 1 will count. We will continue to allow the regular 15 per cent 
discount as formerly. 
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October 17, to the agent who sends the largest club for that week ; and 
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agent who sent the largest club who won no other weekly premiums 
since August 15. 
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For First Largest Club, 
For Second Largest Club, - 
For Third Largest Club, 
$25.00 
15.00 
5.00 
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September 30 premiums. The first three premiums are open to all. 
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Chas. R. Farnum, R. R. Gage and C. A. Miller. 
Then, to make sure that every one gets paid for his work, we will 
guarantee a premium of $5, November 14, to every agent who sends 20 
yearly subscriptions during this Contest. 
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for the rest of this year, free, to those who subscribe for 1897. That is, 
you can give new subscribers the inducement of getting The Rural 
New-Yorker every week from now until January 1, 1898, for $1. 
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by agents who did a little work. Do you want some of this money ? 
You can tell your farmer friends that 
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when the time paid for expires ; and they can haye their full $1 back in 
three months if they are not satisfied with the paper. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
REMEMBER THIS: 
IMPROVEMENT IN DAIRY STOCK 
IN NEW YORK DAIRY COUNTIES. 
Dairy stock in this county has improved greatly 
in the past 10 years. At that time, only a few of 
the very beet farmers had pure bloods; now good 
grades and full bloods can be found on almost 
any farm. I think that 1 am safe in saying 
that the average grade of to-day will make one- 
fourth more butter than natives of old times. The 
improvement is due to both improved feeding and 
breeding. Corn and wheat bran are the cheap¬ 
est feeds that we can buy. r. R. 
Steuben County. 
I think that the dairy stock has been improved 
fully one-third in the past 10 years. I do not think 
that the average grade cow of to-day will make 
more butter than the native of olden times. 
The improvement is due to feeding. I have ex¬ 
perimented some with feed, and never fed over six 
quarts per day—two quarts each of cotton-seed 
meal, wheat bran and hominy—that gave me the 
best results for butter. I have never fed for milk. 
If I could get the genuine old native cow, I would 
prefer her to any other. w. s. h. 
Delaware County. 
The dairy stock of this county has greatly im¬ 
proved in quality during the past 10 years; I 
should say fully 25 per cent. There are very few 
scrub cattle to be seen in this section of the coun¬ 
try nowadays. The grade cow of to-day will 
make, at least, 20 per cent more butter from the 
same amount of feed than the old-time native. 
But this is not a butter-producing neighborhood, 
being in the New York milk district, and our 
cows being bred for milk rather than butter. 
The improvement in milk production is partly 
due to blood and partly to improved methods of 
feeding and better care. In winter, our cows are 
stabled in warm buildings, with running water 
constantly before them, and fed regularly a bal¬ 
anced ration, adjusted to their needs. The 
cheapest grain we can buy, to-day, is ship feed— 
that is, wheat bran with the middlings left in—at 
$10.50 per ton by the car-load, laid down at our 
nearest railroad station. This, of course, is not 
a balanced ration in itself. c. a. evans. 
Orange County. 
Our county has hardly kept pace with other 
sections of the country in the improvement of the 
dairy. The increase of the dairy product is from 
25 to 50 per cent; the greater part of it is due to 
better regulation in feeding and milking, better 
conveniences for water, warmer stables, better 
fencing, more White clover in the pasture, better 
milkers and kinder treatment, earlier cut hay, 
and a better balanced grain ration. For the past 
10 years, I have added a variety of grains to my 
feed, as I found that they would produce more 
butter than one grain alone. D. t. e. 
Columbia County. 
The dairies of this county have greatly im¬ 
proved in the past 10 years, in quantity and qual¬ 
ity. As this is a milk-producing section, 1 can’t 
say in regard to the butter. The native cow of 
to-day is producing one-third more milk than she 
did 10 years ago; the improvement is due to bet¬ 
ter care and better feeding. As I am in the milk 
business, I feed to produce the largest quantity 
of milk at the least cost. I feed mostly hominy 
meal, sprouts, bran, gluten meal and cotton-seed 
meal. The cheapest grain to-day is hominy meal 
and bran. G. w. martin. 
Orange County. 
In this part of the county most of the dairies 
are making milk for the creameries; but taking 
the county altogether, the dairy cows have not 
been improved very much along the line of the 
railroad, as the cows are changed so often, new 
ones filling the places of those that are milked 
out. Back from the railroads the dairies have 
been improved to the extent of 30 or 40 per cent 
in the last 10 years, due to better breeding and 
better feeding. The farmers have learned much 
in feeding stock in the last 10 years, and a great 
deal of this knowledge has come through The 
R. N.-Y. In regard to feeds, bran, middlings and 
gluten feed mixed, are the best for milk; but for 
butter, bran and corn meal, with oats, are the 
best. I don’t like the gluten feeds for butter. 
The cheapest feeds are bran and gluten for milk 
and middlings and corn for butter. The quantity 
of butter produced has increased about 30 to 40 
per cent. N. r. b. 
Sullivan County. 
I believe that the dairy stock of this county has 
been improved, at least, 20 per cent in the past 
10 years, the improvement consisting in both 
better breeding and better keeping. I think that 
the average grade cow of to-day will make one- 
fifth more than the native of old. The improve¬ 
ment is due to both better blood and better feed¬ 
ing. The feeding has changed in this section, 
considerably, by the use of ensilage and the in¬ 
creased use of grain. We use more wheat bran 
than any other grain, and believe that, if it is 
bought at the right time of year, it is the cheap¬ 
est for US. J. M. BREED. 
ChemuDg County. 
The dairy stock of this county has been greatly 
improved in the past 10 years, which is due about 
equally to improved blood and feeding. There 
are still some scrub dairies which are fast giving 
way to the more improved grades of cattle. The 
average grade cow of to-day will make one-third 
more butter than the native of old times. The 
method of feeding and caring for stock has 
changed a great deal in the past 10 years. The 
cheapest feed at present, I think, is ship feed, 
which can be bought for $12 per ton, with the 
addition of a little heavier feed, such as linseed, 
cotton-seed and corn meal. w. s. Reynolds. 
Sullivan County. 
The average grade cow or purebred Jersey has 
been improved about 25 to 30 per cent, first in im¬ 
proved breeding, second by better feeding, third 
by warmer stables and water easy of access 
without wallowing through snow and then drink¬ 
ing ice water at that. I hardly know what is the 
cheapest feed to buy; perhaps, corn and bran. 
We don’t buy grain through this section; we 
raise corn fodder and hay, and for a grain ration, 
feed barley, oats and peas, corn and buckwheat, 
such as we have. These make good feed. I 
never have had any experience with cotton-seed 
meal and distillery feeds. b. i. g. 
Steuben County. 
When we used scrub stock, we thought that, if 
we got two 80-pound firkins of butter to the cow, 
we were doing pretty well; but now, as a general 
thing, the dairy with grade Jerseys, and with 
about the same feed, will make about 240 pounds 
to the cow. Most of the dairymen are improving 
their stock, but we have a few old-timers that 
stick to the scrub cow for fear of exjiense and 
trouble. Dairy stock have been improved more 
than 25 per cent during the past 10 years, and 
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