THIS RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
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moo. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
r N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square de al.” See guarantee page 12. 
Investigate. Then Buy. 
When a farmer contemplates buying 
a grain drill, lie should, in his own be¬ 
half, investigate that implement before 
he purchases. The best way to do is, 
to write to the manufacturer for his 
catalogue, read it carefully, and then 
go to the nearest retail imolement deal¬ 
er, and insist on seeing the drill before 
purchasing. That’s what The Ameri¬ 
can Seeding-Machine Co., Incorporated, 
Springfield," Ohio, wants the farmers to 
do regarding the old, time-tried drill, 
the Farmers’ Favorite. This drill has 
been on the market continuously for 
more than half a century satisfying 
the most particular farmers in every 
section of the grain raising world. 
With it the user can sow any and every 
known seed from the smallest grass 
seeds to the largest beans. It will also 
handle successfully all known brands 
of commercial fertilizers. It is sold 
under a fair and square liberal guar¬ 
antee to do everything claimed for it. 
Therefore, purchasers are at no risk in 
buying it. There are so many unique 
and valuable features on the Farmers’ 
Favorite that it is impos ible to tell 
about them here. Write to the manu¬ 
facturers to-day for a copy of the Far¬ 
mers’ Favorite catalogue, red it care¬ 
fully, and go to your dealer and insist 
on seeing the drill. Should he not be 
willing to supply your wants, the manu¬ 
facturers will do so. 
WITH GROOVED TIRES 
4 in. wide. The Groove protects 
the heads of spokes from wear, 
which maKes wheel good and 
strong till tire is worn out. We 
make plain tire wheels in other 
widths. We make wheels to fit 
any thimble skein or straight 
steel axle. Getour free catalog 
of Steel Wheels and Low Down 
Handy Wagons. 
HAVANA METAL WHEEL CO., 
Box 17 /. Havana, HI. 
BAD LEGS 
made sound. Spavin, curb, splint, 
knotted cords, ring bone, etc., quick¬ 
ly yield to the unequaled curative 
powers of 
TUTTLE’S ELIXIR 
Considered a neceesity on thousands of farm*. 
Don’t experiment. Get Tuttle’g and be Bure. 
Veterinary Book Free. Care of tho horse 
in elcknees and health. Good as a Veterinary 
In the bouse. Write for it today. 
16 — . al TUTTLE’8 JSLIXIR CO. 
‘‘UJU-iUr- _ 8Qteererly Street, Boston, Masf. 
Ask 
for the 
Clean” 
HORSE OWNERS 
^Here's your friend. A comb 
always clean. Perfect auto¬ 
matic action. Easy on the horse. 
Saves time and labor. Pays | 
. for itself over and over. Worth 
a dozen ordinary combs. 
WeTvill give you a Comb 
if you'll pay the postage (15c stamps 
or silver) and send full address of your | 
dealer. This offer is good only till 
your dealer has them. Send today. 
CLEAN COMB MFG. CO. 
Dept. 45, Racine, Wis. 
THE NEW 
ECONOMY 
CHIEF 
CREAM 
SEPARATOR 
* 28 = 
TO 
60 DAYS’ TRIAL 
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Our beautiful new Cream Separa¬ 
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the very latest ideas in dairy methods 
and all sorts of useful information 
about milk and butter. You need 
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SEARS. ROEBUCKcmcaoo 
PORK MAKING IN THE ROCKIES. 
On page 54 there appeared a letter 
from H. B. N. of Montana, who stated 
his intention of going into the pork 
raising business on a 160-acre irrigated 
ranch in Montana. As the climatic 
conditions here are somewhat similar 
to those in Montana, nearly identical 
with that of the Flathead Valley, and 
as I have had some little experience 
here in growing pork, I will comment 
on that letter a little. As I have had 
no experience in irrigating I will not 
presume to advise. Fie said he was 
told he could fatten 100 shotes on an 
acre of sugar beets. The beets yield, 
he says, about 16 tons to the acre, so 
a ton would fatten seven shotes, or 
about 300 pounds of beets for each pig. 
Five hundred pounds of beets are equal 
to 100 pounds of grain, so the beets 
fed would be equivalent to a bushel of 
wheat, and it would take very judi¬ 
cious feeding to make a bushel of 
wheat produce a hundred pounds or 
more of pork. If he had given the 
matter a thought he would have seen 
the man who was talking to him was 
simply guying him. He will find also 
that an acre of Alfalfa will not sup¬ 
port four sows and their litters; it 
might support the sows minus the lit¬ 
ters. I do not know the cost of pro¬ 
ducing a ton of sugar beets, but they 
have a selling value of about $5 a ton 
on board cars for sugar making. I 
suppose that is every cent they are 
worth for producing five-dollar pork, 
but he would save the cost of harvest¬ 
ing and loading on cars, which would 
be quite an item. I think on irrigated 
land he could produce pork cheaper 
with peas. He should be able to get 
two crops in a season by harvesting the 
first crop and sowing again imme¬ 
diately. . If the second crop did not 
ripen very well it would make a lot 
of pig feed anyway, and he could sell 
enough of the first crop to pay all 
expenses for both crops and have enough 
left for seed another year. He must 
be unusually well situated in regard to 
help to raise the number of acres of 
beets he talks about, and I am afraid 
the proposition will make inroads on 
his capital unless he gets a better price 
than $5 per 100 for his hogs. It would 
seem as though the day for raising $5 
pork is past, and he will surely find 
that on this side of the Rockies it is 
no get-rich-quick scheme. I believe 
Dwarf Essex rape furnishes a cheaper 
feed for hogs than Alfalfa, and if J. 
B. N. will sow a couple of pounds to 
the acre in his beets at the last culti¬ 
vation he will get a lot of additional 
feed at a trifling expense. 
THOMAS HALFORD. 
Terry Co., Washington. 
Jewish Farmers. —An article on page 
987 says that there are 900,000 Jews in 
New York. It would be a bad plan to en¬ 
courage them to go to the country as farm¬ 
ers. They are very poor farmers; at least 
the kind that are buying farms about here 
are. They do not seem to know the least 
thing about it. Some of them don’t even 
know a calf from a dog. One of them 
near me came over one morning for my 
uncle to bring his gun, as there was a 
queer-looking dog in his barnyard and he 
was afraid of it. It proved to be a young 
calf horn in the night. They are buying 
all the farms that they can get hold of, 
some of them good ones. I call to mind 
now 14 farms sold to Jews in the last year 
in a radius of six miles of us. They will 
pay almost any price provided the first 
payment is small enough. It suits them 
best to buy with all moveables, and pay a 
little less down than the moveables are 
worth. The farm next mine was sold to a 
Jew about one year ago, and it is not 
worth as much to-day by several hundred 
dollars as when he bought it. H. H. K. 
Middlesex Co., N. J. 
Beef Scraps. —Several persons have 
asked how the beef scrap so commonly sold 
for chicken feed is prepared. The Cyphers 
Incubator Company give us the following 
information : 
“These beef scraps are collected daily from 
the butcher shops of New York and Brook¬ 
lyn, and as soon as they are dumped from 
the wagons on to the clean platforms lo¬ 
cated conveniently near the rendering room, 
men carefully sort the scrap over while it 
is sweet and" clean, throw out the pork and 
mutton, and cut off from the bones that 
may be in it all the beef and fat it is 
possible to scrape off readily with knives. 
The pure beef and fat, or “beef tallow” 
as it is called by Tenderers, is then put 
into large steam-jacketed kettles and the 
fat rendered while it is sweet and clean. 
After all of the fat or tallow is drained 
off, i. e., all that can be rendered by the 
application of heat, the scraps are then 
placed in large powerful screw presses. 
These presses are arranged somewhat sim¬ 
ilar to cider presses, only of course on a 
much larger scale. The whole mass is sub¬ 
jected to a pressure of 600 pounds to the 
square inch, and the remains when removed 
are in cake form and very nearly as hard 
as wood. These cakes, which are about 30 
inches in diameter and about six inches 
thick, are stood on edge and allowed to 
remain in the drying room for about 30 
days. They are then broken up ^nd put 
into a powerful grinding machine. The 
cylinders of the grinding machine have at¬ 
tached to it short stubby hut very sharp 
claw-looking prongs, which tear and grind 
the scrap into small particles.” 
This ■■■— 
New Huber 
Thresher 
Makes 
Farm Land 
More Valuable 
It saves grain that other machines send to the strawstack. It saves it in a cleaner, more 
perfect condition. It does your threshing in less time. It requires^less power. There is 
absolutely no waste. Every kernel of grain is cleaned up. The “New Huber” patented 
devices for doing these things are not found in other threshers. The cylinder of this thresher 
is perfect. The bars are made double. The shaft is of the finest rolled steel. The teeth 
have been perfected after long experience and could not be made any- better. They never 
get loose. The “New Huber” double reverse beater, the flexible deflector, the separators, 
fans, racks, riddles and all other parts are carefully adjusted to give the best results. 
We want you to have the New Huber” catalogue. It is FREE, and will be sent 
promptly on request. It tells all about our 
Threshing Machines and Traction Engines 
All details are illustrated and explained. Read it and you will know why our thresher makes 
farm land more valuable—why all our machinery will outlast other makes. We back up every 
claim we make in this book. If you are interested in Threshing Machinery and Traction 
Engines this catalogue will give you new ideas—better ideas—ideas “hammered out” right 
here in our own shops—tested out on thousands of American farms. There are no fads in 
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THE HUBER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Dept. 7, MARION, OHIO 
When Your Tools 
Need Grinding 
It is but the work of a minute to sharpen a 
chisel, a plane, a knife or any edged tool on a 
Keen Kutter Grindstone. 
Made of very carefully selected Berea grit— 
mounted on an extra braced tubular frame that 
never sways or “wabbles.” Ball bearings 
and double tread make it run as easy as a 
bicycle. With this grindstone and an outfit of 
mn 
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Tools and Cutlery 
you are always ready for the finest or heaviest work. 
Keen Kutter Tools are tempered for lasting edges and once sharpened 
stay sharp indefinitely. 
For the home they are ideal, doing better work with iess attention 
than the ordinary nameless kinds. 
Remember the name and look for the trademark next 
time you buy any tool—whether it be a hammer or a 
saw, an ice pick or a can opener, a bread knife or a 
cleaver. Then you are sure of satisfaction; for all 
Keen Kutter Tools are guaranteed. 
If not at your dealer’s, write us. 
SIMMONS HARDWARE COMPANY (Inc.) 
St. Louis and Now York, U. S. A. 
125 Egg Incubator 
and Brooder B F °$ 0IU 
I If ordered together we 
< send both for #10 
Jand pay freight. Well 
made, hot water, copper tanks, 
double walls, double glass doors. 
Free catalog describes them. 
Wisconsin Incubator Co., 
Box SO, Racine, Wis. 
L 1 
POULTRY 
our new 
book fir the 
nse of poultry rais¬ 
ers. Keep account of 
your eggs, chicks and 
profits. Our Diaryj^ 
shows how and also tells about our new ; jt/ 
Incubators. It tells why our prices are^ 
so low. The Diary is free. Better write for 
it today. Tell us if you are thinking of buy¬ 
ing an Incubator and what size you want. 
We pay freight. Geo. Ertel Co., Quincy, Ill. a 
To Get Right Down To A Workable, MONEY 
Basis in your Poultry 
Work—to stop your loss 
in spoiled eggs and dead 
chicks—to get you such 
chicks as will reach the 
MONEY line—this is 
the mission of 
IM NEW METHOD INCUBATOR 
—the New, Automatic Fire-Proof, Steel-Lined. 
Open Nest Incubator that CANNOT be overheated 
—that is as automatic in MOISTURE and PURE 
AIR as a live hen, and whose chicks are the liveliest 
and “ snappiest ” embodiments of what WELL 
HATCHED chicks should be that you ever saw 
come out of an incubator. 
Such is the NEW METHOD— 
the Incubator that is “Different.” 
I have a Special Trial Proposition for every 
reader of The Rural New-Yobker. I want to 
send you this Proposition, also our Free Catalogue 
which explains one of the greatest causes of chicks 
dying in the shells, and why incubator chicks have 
always been more or less WEAKLY. This Book 
is free if you mention The Rural New-Yorker 
when writing. 
Drop me a postal TO-DAY, for the BOOK, and 
let’s get acquainted. It might do us BOTH good. 
Address j. MOORE, Gen. Mgr., 
NEW MKTHOI) INCUBATOR CO., 
136 W. Main St., Morrow, Ohio. 
■55 Buys 
the Best 
140-Egg 
Irvcvibarior ever Ma.de 
Freight Prepaid 
Double eases all over; best 
copper tank: nursery,self-regu¬ 
lating. Best 140-chlck hot-water 
Brooder,*4.50. Ordered together *11.50. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. No machines at any price are better. 
Write for book today or send price and save waiting. 
Belle City Incubator Co., Box 48 Racine, Wis, 
[ We ship 
quick 
from St. 
Paul,Buf¬ 
falo, Kansas 
1 City or Racine 
World’s Best Incubator 
Has stood all tests in all climates 
for 15 years. Don’t experiment, 
get certainty. Get a 
SUCCESSFUL 
Incubator and Brooder. Anybody 
can operate them and make money. 
Let us prove it to you. Booklet,* 
"Proper Care and Feeding ofB 
Chicks, Ducks and Turkeys," 10c." _ 
Poultry paper, 1 year, 10c. Write for free catalog. ■ 
Des Moines Incnbntor Co., 1S9 2nd St,, lies Moines, la. | 
Hatch With the Least> 
Cost Per Chick 
That is what we guarantee you 
can do with the 
Invincible Hatcher 
Try it and If it don’t produce more strong, healthy 
chicks than any other incubator, regard less of price, 
senditback. 50-Egg Size Only $4.00. Same low 
prices on larger Hatchers, Brooders and Supplies. 
Write for 176-page FREE catalogue. 
The United Factories Co., Pept.X31, Cleveland, O. 
Hatch Chickens by 
St&hl “Wood¬ 
en Hen" and 
Excelsior" 
Incubators assure big hatches. 
Well-built, reliable, practical- 
thousands in use. Catalogue free. 
GEO. H. STAHL, Box72D Quihcy.Ill. 
Steam 
EAR TAGS 
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Illustrated catalog mailed FREE upon request. 
CYRIL FRANCKLYN, 62 BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK 
