Ask the WIFE 
SHE WASHES IT 
Your wife know 
bowl—with just one tiny, plain piece inside, a; 
complicated ‘‘disc” or “bucket bowls” shown i 
Show her these pictures, made from ac¬ 
tual photographs. Ask her which cream sepa¬ 
rator bowl she would rather wash ? She’ll put 
her finger on the Tubular every time and thank 
you for saving her needless labor. 
You will appreciate the many exclusive 
advantages of the 1909 Tubular “A” Cream 
Separator. 
You will like the low supply can, single fric- 
tionlessballbearing supporting thebowl, entirely 
enclosed self-oiling gears and ball bearing, the 
plumb bob attached to the frame for quickly 
leveling the machine and keeping it level, the 
single piece frame and the great simplicity of 
the entire machine. 
Put your heads together and talk this 
over. You’ll agree that the 1909 Tubular “A” 
is the finest cream separator money can buy. 
Tubulars Are Entirely Different From all Others 
Built on 29 years’ experience, in the world’s 
greatest cream separator factory. 1908 sales way ahead 
of 1907—way out of sight of any other make, if not all 
others combined. Write for complete catalog No. 153. 
The Sharpies Separator Co. 
Toronto, Can. WEST CHESTER, PA. Portland. Ore. 
Winnipeg, Can. Chicago, III. San Francisco, Cal. 
Mashinjj the Sharpies Dairy Tubular 
bowl. Only three pieces. The brush, 
the girl is using, cleans the inside in a 
moment. Easier washed, more durable 
than any other bowl. 
She Will NOT Want These 
What woman would choose to 
wash any of these heavy compli¬ 
cated “bucket bowls” when she 
can have a simple Dairy Tubular 
instead ? What man would expect 
any of these complicated “ bucket 
bowls” to be as durable as the 
simple Dairy Tubular?” 
This is the Sharpies 1909 Dairy 
Tubular “A.” So simple and perfect in 
construction, that the medium sizes can 
be turned by one who is seated. Self 
oiling enclosed gears. Low, steady sup¬ 
ply can. Plumb bob attached for quickly 
leveling the machine. 
212 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
SOME BREEDING POINTERS. 
Practically every farmer is a breeder 
of live stock and of plants, and some 
knowledge of the principles of breeding 
should be a part of his education. “Like 
begets like,” is one of the foundation 
truths of breeding, and one that is so 
often disregarded. For instance, a 
farmer has two or three family cows of 
fair ability to produce milk, and their 
breeding is heterogeneous, with Short¬ 
horn blood predominating. There is an 
excellent Jersey sire nearby and enthusi¬ 
astic for milk, the farmer breeds his 
scrub cows to this bull. Perhaps he 
gets some heifers from this cross and 
by the time they are of breeding age 
his fancy has changed from Jersey to 
Short-horn or Hereford, and maybe there 
are one or two pure-bred bulls of'these 
beef breeds near this nan, and he 
breeds his half-Jersey heifers to a beef 
sire. After trying Short-horn sires for 
a time an Angus bull comes into the 
neighborhood, and the crossing goes on 
with a more or less violent change of 
type each time, and a consequent loss 
of fixity of character in the herd. Such 
vacillating breeding will induce very 
marked variation in type and likely 
cause a reversion to an earlier and 
more worthless form. The same mis¬ 
take is made in breeding horses, and 
in a less degree with hogs and sheep, 
for with these smaller animals the char¬ 
acters of different breeds are less an¬ 
tagonistic than in the different breeds 
of horses and cattle. From the above it 
wil he seen that the tendency of off¬ 
spring to resemble parents, heredity in 
fact, enables ns to break up the fixity 
of character of a breed by crossing, but, 
mn the other hand, it enables us to fix 
the character and type of a breed if we 
mate animals having a sameness of 
type, and then select such of the result¬ 
ing offspring as approach our ideal type. 
The term heredity is usually used to 
mean the tendency to resemble the im¬ 
mediate parents or ancestors, but it 
should also include the term atavism, 
or the tendency to resemble remote an¬ 
cestors, for both atavism and heredity 
mean almost the same thing, and both 
are opposed to variation, whether varia¬ 
tion be caused by crossing of dissim¬ 
ilar types or by changes in feed and 
environment. 
When we reach the point in selection 
and breeding, where we wish to fix the 
type then variation becomes a foe, to be 
fought by more rigid selection, the mat¬ 
ing of quite similar types, or even 
close inbreeding. Variation can never 
be eliminated, and fortunately so, for 
then progress would end, so it remains 
for us to take advantage of variation, 
to add up or accumulate, the good char¬ 
acters it gives us and to eliminate the 
bad ones, by means of careful selec¬ 
tion. Though inbreeding has played a 
large part in the origination of breeds 
and races selection has played a much 
larger and more important part, and 
will continue to do so in the future. 
Inbreeding fixes type, because closely- 
related animals have almost exactly 
similar characteristics; so the fixing of 
type bj' inbreeding is more certain and 
rapid than where one depends upon 
to one thing till he shall have accom¬ 
plished what he set out to do, or some¬ 
thing far better He will not be raising 
scrubs one year and beef grades the 
next, or perhaps dairy grades; a race¬ 
horse now, drafters later and finally 
coachers; he will not change according 
tc every flitting fancy of his own or 
of his neighbor, who is - good fellow 
and a plausible talker. There are farm¬ 
ers. in every neighborhood who breed 
their stock in just such a helter-skelter 
way, and who, perhaps, make some 
money, but they would make more 
money by raising stock capable of mar¬ 
ket classification and they would de¬ 
rive more pleasure from handling the 
finer stock, and the children would not 
be led to consider the farm as not giv¬ 
ing scope for the use of education. 
Note the animals shown and then an- 
February 27, 
mend any breed or type, but to urge the 
farmer and the breeder to breed true to 
type; thus, if you have draft mares breed 
to draft stallions of any breed, and if 
you have the beef type of cows, breed to 
beef sires of any breed, if intended for 
the market only; however, if you wish 
to produce stock for breeding purposes 
you must breed true to breed as well 
as to type, if you desire success. 
The man who breeds a general pur¬ 
pose mare to a draft stallion, the re¬ 
sulting filly to a coacher and the off¬ 
spring of this union, to a trotting stal¬ 
lion, because of impulses of fleeting 
fancy, is very liable to backslide in 
other ways. Flexibility of mind is 
very desirable but one can be flexible 
without giving up salient principles; it 
is the easy, indifferent, happy-go-lucky, 
seeking the path of least resistance, dis¬ 
position that leads you nowhere in 
breeding live stock, or in any other field 
of endeavor on this planet. w. e. d. 
Hillsboro, Ohio. 
TWO EXAMPLES OF BEEF BREEDING 
mating unrelated animals of apparently 
similar type. Besides adding together 
good qualities, inbreeding will as cer¬ 
tainly add together bad qualities and 
constitutional weaknesses, and this is 
where the danger lies, so we must stop 
before this occurs. 
At present the origination of new 
breeds and the fixation of type need 
concern us but little, for others have 
done that for us, and from their hands 
we take several fine breeds of live 
stock, which, however, we are on our 
honor to at least keep up to the stan¬ 
dard. by good management and which 
we may further improve by careful 
selection and breeding. To succeed as 
a breeder of live stock a man must not 
be vacillating in character; lie must have 
a fixity of purpose and ability to stick 
swer this: Could a man who changes 
his mind and his methods with the wind, 
produce a breed of live stock, whose 
individuals equal the fine specimens 
shown here, and which are all very 
much alike in form, color and weight? 
The two Angus, cattle shown are very 
fine animals, but if properly bred the 
majority of the individuals are of an 
equally fine type, and the same is true 
of every other breed of live stock and 
of plants, also. No one should attempt 
to breed a pure strain of live stock, 
until that person shall have decided 
definitely what particular breed he likes 
best, and just what ideals he will select 
and breed for; then, if he be true to 
his ideals and possesses a fixity of char¬ 
acter and mind, he cannot fail in his 
work. This is not written to reeom- 
Butter from One Cow. 
When I have small quantities of cream I 
use a two-quart Mason jar for a churn, 
grasping top and bottom iu each hand anri 
shaking it back and forth. Jar should not 
be more than half full (o allow for a good 
shake; if too full it will be apt to turn 
light, like whipped cream, especially if 
cream is cold. I use about eight drops of 
color to one quart cream. In this way I 
have made all butter we have used for two 
months and have some ahead. If I had to 
keep cream until there was enough for a 
churning it would be too old and get hitter 
and make hard churning. With my way I 
can hold the jar over the stove (and the 
heat of the hands helps, too,) and soon 
warm it up and have from three-quarters 
to a pound of butter and no heavy churn 
to wash. I think this is original with me, 
as I have never heard of anyone else using 
it. H. M. T. 
Spring Lake Beach, N. J. 
Ans. —We have often made butter in 
this way. If carefully done you can 
turn out good quality. Some years ago 
we saw an “invention”—a shaker which 
whirled and shook up a jarful of cfeam 
by turning a handle. 
Lady : “What do you want, my little 
man?” Little Boy (carrying a cat): 
“I want that five dollars you offered 
as a reward for the return of your 
canary bird.” Ladv: “That’s not a 
canary; it’s a cat.” Little Boy: “I 
know it; but the bird’s inside.”—Judge. 
