1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1O1 
A HEN WATERING PAIL 
I send you a sketch of a pail we arc 
using for watering and giving milk to 
chickens. They will not soil the feed 
because they don’t stand on the top. Take 
a candy pail and put a hoop six inches 
from bottom of pail; take off the top 
hoop, then saw out three five-inch slots 
down near to the hoop for the fowls to 
reach through. Better then give a coat 
of linseed oil, then two coats of paint, 
and keep in the shade. Ours has worked 
a year and yet looks new. 
Michigan. alonzo borden. 
RATION FOR MILCH COWS AND 
BROOD SOWS. 
I have cotton send men 1 in large quantities, 
low grade flour and excellent grade of coarse 
wheat bran, and corn-ami cob meal (cob and 
grain ground together very line). Mow much 
of each shall 1 give a cow that has been 
fresh four months and giving about one gal¬ 
lon or more milk twice a day? What pro¬ 
portion should I give the same to sows with 
pigs two weeks old I mean bow much should 
each sow have of each three times a day? 
The cows are fed twice a day and have all 
good, clean, wheat straw, and all excellent 
corn fodder, (little or no corn In same,-as 11 
has been husked), thal they can eat. Sows 
are penned separately and average seven and 
eight pigs each, (old sows). They also aver¬ 
age one gallon skimmed milk each a day. I 
also have some nubbins of corn, and give two 
or three to each sow at noon. The cotton¬ 
seed meal Is guaranteed analysis protein 
38.(11. L. H. CBMWB. 
Maryland. 
You do not say bow much these feeds 
cost, which is always an important thing 
to know in compounding a ration. Your 
coarse feeds are all heat-forming, and 
somewhat constipating. The cot ton-seed 
meal is also of the latter nature, as is the 
corn-and-cob meal. At the prices usually 
prevailing this Winter the cotton-seed 
meal and cornmcal are much cheaper than 
the wheat feeds. You should get good 
results from two pounds of each of the 
cotton-seed and cornmcal, three of the 
wheat bran and one of the flour, a total 
of eight pounds per day for each cow 
fed in two Seeds. If you should substi¬ 
tute a pound of oil meal for the one of 
flour, you would doubtless get better re¬ 
sults, and it would be more healthful for 
the cows. This latter can now be bought 
for about $28 per ton, and is high in pro¬ 
tein, should be about 32 per cent. 
As for the pigs, ! would feed no cot¬ 
ton-seed meal to them. Give each sow 
what she will eat three times a day a mix¬ 
ture of two parts flour, one part wheat 
bran and two parts cornmcal. The pigs 
by now..should be past the lime when they 
would be endangered by overfeeding the 
sows, and they will soon begin to eat 
with them. The cheapest and best feed 
they can have is their mother’s milk, and 
it is wise to stimulate it. If you get 
the oil meal, add one part to the mixture. 
He sure to see that the pigs get exercise, 
and are where they can get some fresh 
earth; otherwise they will get too fat, 
and die with fatty degeneration of the 
heart. Keep where the sows can get it a 
mixture of half a bushel wood ashes, half 
a bushel of charcoal, one peck of salt and 
two quarts sulphur. This will aid their 
digestion. edward van alstyne. 
SaVINU Tiik Chicks. Tiiw It. N. Y. for 
.lunuary 29 lias just come to hand, and after 
reading Mr. Mapes’ article on lirst page the 
Spirit moved me to relate our chicken story. 
In the beginning will sa.v that I personally 
dislike fowls and really know nothing about 
them, but II seemed lies! to try the chicken 
business. In February, 1900, my husband 
bought two 50-egg Incubators and 50 chick 
brooders. The lirst I had ever seen running 
were these after they were set up; we soon 
learned the regulations and put in the eggs. 
I had them In our dining-room and fairly 
lived with them. Results were 89 chicks from 
lirst one 24 hours too soon, bright, active lit¬ 
tle fellows, and 35 from the other one on 
time, sleepy and dull, too. But they all did 
well for two weeks, or thereabouts, when they 
were attacked with the same trouble appar¬ 
ently as “Poultry Woman,” page 910, states 
hors were, and I lost all but 15 of the lirst 
lot, and had begun on the second lot, when 
unfortunately or otherwise my husband fell 
111, and I called the doctor. After ho had 
prescribed for him 1 said: “Doctor, I wish 
you could prescribe for my chickens." “What 
Is the trouble? Perhaps I can," said he. 
He did, and It not only saved all the rest 
of the chickens that had not become sick, but 
cured those that were already so Imd I said 
they would be dead In the morning. The 
remedy is a heaping teaspoonful of boraelc 
acid to a gallon of water, and give them 
no other kind of drink. Incorporate the acid 
thoroughly In the water with the linger. I 
found It best to use a little water with tin' 
add and then add the desired amount, as It 
is rather dlllicult to mix It. All Spring and 
Summer when the chicks l>egnn lo droop from 
any cause, I hastened to water them with the 
acid and had no further trouble In that line, 
and raised 130 altogether. mus. .r. j. 
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If you can increase your butter production 
without any increased cost or any more work 
won’t it pay you to do it? And if you can get 
more butter from you milk with less 
work, that will bo still better, won’t it? 
That’s exactly what you can do if you 
will do as Mr. Leiting did—buy a 
Sharpies Tubular Separator. Here’s 
what he says about the Tubular: 
Randolph, Nebraska, Feb. 15th. 1906. 
Gentlemen:—On tho 23rd day of January, 
1906, I took a No. 4 Sharpies Tubular Separator 
cm trial. On learning that I was in ttie market 
for a cream separator, the agent for the disc 
style "bucket bowl” separator brought one to 
my farm and requested me to give it a trial be¬ 
fore making a purchase. After giving both 
machines a fair trial, l concluded to keep the 
Tubular as I consider it far superior to the other 
machine. It skims closer, runs easier, and is 
very much easier to wash, there being so many 
less parts. From ( hrne nklniiiiliign of milk from 
7 flown, we worn able to mako 1 lb*, more hut- 
tor with (tin Tubular than wo could with tho 
“bucket howl” machine. B. LEITING. 
The Sharpies Tubular 
Separator 
gets all the cream there is in the milk, does it so 
easy that it’s not work to run it at all, and is so 
simple, with only one little part in the bowl to wash 
and keep clean that comparison is out of the question. 
The extra cream it gets makes the Tubular a regular 
savings bank for its owner. 
All the other good money-making points are told 
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Toronto, Can. 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO., 
WEST CHESTER, PA. Ohloa 0 o, III. 
Why You Should Have 
- A Cream Harvester 
F you are keeping three or more 
I F you are keeping 
cows, it will pay you to own a 
Cream Harvester, because its 
use brings greater returns in the form 
of increased quantity and better 
quality of products, and because it 
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nected with dairy work. 
It makes no difference whether you 
are making your cream into dairy 
products on your own farm or are 
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case the separator is equally im¬ 
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and leaves you the skimmed milk to 
be fed while yet warm to pigs or 
calves. If ground feed is added to 
this skimmed milk it becomes as 
valuable for feeding purposes as 
whole milk. This is one of the great 
advantages of a cream separator. 
Then, the three big advantages of 
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work and fresli skimmed milk for 
feeding, and these are sufficient to 
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same for you. Some make more 
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are so hard to operate and so hara 
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when you buy a separator. 
It will pay you to call on the In¬ 
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You can try for yourself, and see 
how easily they are operated. 
Notice in the illustration how the 
handle is at just the right height, and 
that the supply can is low while tho 
milk and cream spouts are high. 
You can see the excellent gearing, 
and how, though all the parts are 
covered to prevent dirt getting into 
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You can 
see how 
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key note a 11 
through, and, 
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