THE: RURAL NEW-YORKER 
316 
1909. 
JUSTICE TO MOLLY OF EDGEWOOD. 
I notice your article on page 179, 
headed “A Wonderful Cow,” and that 
is just what Molly certainly is. She 
happens to be a slight acquaintance of 
mine, and I assure you that she is very 
modest and unassuming, and T have no 
doubt that she would resent any “fairy 
tales” told about her, and give that 
fool newspaper man a free ride on her 
horns if she could get at him. It is 
ready too bad to blame Molly because 
he didn’t know the difference between 
pounds and quarts of milk, and she has 
too many friends here in Connecticut 
to allow her to be abused in print 
without a protest. Now, Molly of 
Edgewood No. 167956, really gave 14,- 
036.5 pounds (pounds, notice, not 
quarts) of milk in a year, which tested 
705.99 pounds fat, equivalent to 835 
pounds and 5 ounces butter, 85 per cent 
fat. These figures are duly authen¬ 
ticated and sworn to hy the representa¬ 
tives of the Connecticut Agricultural 
Experiment Station. When she finished 
her years work she stood third in the 
Register of Merit of the Americali 
Jersey Cattle Club for both amount of 
milk and butter fat produced in a 
year. Thus you see that the article was 
very nearly correct, considering the 
fact that it was printed in a newspaper. 
She is no longer a “third-prize cow,” 
however, as the four-year-old heifer 
Rosaire’s Olga 4th’s Pride, 179509, has 
recently made a year’s authenticated 
record of 14,104 pounds, 13 ounces of 
milk, and 984 pounds, 11 ounces es¬ 
timated butter; Adelaide of Beechlands, 
168699, 15,572 pounds, otT* junce milk, 
and 999 pounds, eight ounces estimated 
butter,- and, finally, Jacoba Irene, 146443, 
17,253 pounds, three ounces milk, and 
1,121 pounds, two ounces estimated but 1 
ter, 85 per cent fat. More are coming 
so thick and fast it is almost impossible 
to keep track of them. Jacoba averaged 
nearly 24 quarts per day for a full 
year. To be sure, 38 quarts per day 
is a long way from that, but the “good 
old (Jersey) cow” is headed that way 
so fast that it really seems too bad to 
discourage her by calling even that a 
“fairy tale.” No! Molly is no fairy 
tale, even if the papers did misquote 
her, and hasn’t milked herself away 
into water either. She is just a splen¬ 
did type of the old Connecticut Jersey, 
and still busily at work, giving the best 
of Jersey milk, and, incidentally, coin¬ 
ing money for her fortunate owner, 
Mr. Holt. J. H. PUTNAM. 
Connecticut. 
HIGHEST PRICE FOR BUTTER FAT. 
An inquiry from Michigan as to 
whether 40 cents a pound for butter fat 
is as much as should be “paid for Feb¬ 
ruary milk can hardly be answered by 
yes or no. It would certainly depend 
upon the price of butter, and might also 
depend upon what is done with the fiit- 
If sold in the form of cream, the 
operators might pay more than they 
could if sold as butter. Some might 
say it would make no difference how 
the product is disposed of, but I think 
it should. The skim-milk here is good 
pay for .handling the milk. Flour 
pounds of fat are supposed to make 
four and two-thirds pounds of but¬ 
ter, although some operators claim that 
an overrun of one-eighth is ample al¬ 
lowance, since the pure food laws went 
into effect. With us, milk sells in 
February at $1.80 per hundred, regard¬ 
less of the test, and I suppose the 
test does not average above four per 
cent. This is equivalent -to 45 cents 
for fat. I know of people in other 
localities who get 47 cents for butter 
fat in March, bv selling the cream only 
and keeping the skim-milk on the farm, 
while we were getting 45 cents and 
selling the whole milk at that. I know 
of another place where milk testing 
5.2 per 100 sold at the rate of nearly 
44 cents for fat, or $2.28 per hundred 
pounds. February prices are likely to 
be in most cases lower than March. 
While Michigan conditions may be dif- 
' ferent from ours, I am rather inclined 
to guess that 40 cents for butter fat 
in February may not be so bad, pro¬ 
vided the other months of the year are 
given their proper credit. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. h. h. lyon. 
CHANCES IN CERTIFIED MILK. 
What shall we do to make the medium¬ 
sized farm pay dividends on capital in¬ 
vested, and present high-priced labor and 
mill feed for a small dairy of 10 good 
cows ? 
Warren, Ohio. o. a. c. 
The same mail that brought me this 
inquiry brought a letter asking sugges¬ 
tions on the following plan: “I am 
thinking of producing certified milk and 
charging about 10 cents per quart. Like 
most small towns, it is impossible to 
buy milk from the present dealers in 
the Summer that will keep 12 hours, 
which shows that there is something 
radically wrong in the way the business 
is handled. By the work I propose I 
think I can benefit the community and 
made a good thing for myself.” 
Now, this looks good to me. There 
is a large and growing demand, even 
in our smaller cities, for milk that is 
not doubtful. The suspicion that at¬ 
taches to a large part of the dairy 
product retailed in our towns and cit¬ 
ies destroys its relish and curtails con¬ 
sumption. There is an increasing num¬ 
ber in these small cities who will gladly 
pay an extra price for that which is 
regularly and attractively furnished, and 
which is above suspicion. The man 
who proposes the certified milk business 
will supply a city not so large nor 
nearly so wealthy as Warren. Suppose 
you investigated. The labor problem 
can be solved only by the man on the 
spot. There is opportunity for a vast 
amount of headwork in its solution. It 
is possible to reduce very materially the 
feed bill on many dairy farms. The silo is 
too well known in Trumbull County 
to need an advocate. It is indispensable 
to cheap milk. 
The high-priced mill feed is purchased 
to supply the element of protein. All 
other elements are contained in abun¬ 
dance in the farm-grown feeds—there¬ 
fore, the dairyman need give little at¬ 
tention to purchased feed constituents 
other than protein. At present prices 
one pound of digestible protein costs 
in oats approximately 19.5 cents; in 
cornmeal, 14.5; wheat bran, 14; hom¬ 
iny chop, 13.5; gluten feed, 6.2; oil 
meal, 6.1; cotton-seed meal, 4.6. It 
will be seen at a glance that corn and 
oats chop, wheat bran arrd hominy 
(stand-bys in many dairies), are very 
expensive feeds; four to six pounds per 
day of a mixture of gluten feed, oil 
meal and cotton-seed meal together 
with the protein contained in the farm- 
grown feeds will supply the needed pro¬ 
tein to a cow giving a large flow of 
milk at a cost of 10 cents per day. 
Alfalfa will enable you to solve the 
feed problem. It is not impossible to 
grow it in Trumbull County as I have 
demonstrated. Fit a small piece of 
ground for it, making it rich, clean 
(from weeds), dry (drainage), sweet 
(lime) and inoculated, and keep try¬ 
ing till you succeed. It will pay you. 
Trumbull Co., O. f. l. allen. 
Trodrle with Brood Sows.—S ome 
time ago a reader wanted to know what 
was the matter with his brood sows at 
farrowing time, as they would not let 
pigs nurse, and some one answering him 
said the trouble could be summed up in 
just three words, too much feed. I don't 
think he was well pleased with that an¬ 
swer. The past three years I have raised 
about 200 pigs, and from my experience 
I would rather say the trouble can be 
summed up in just one word, constipation. 
Auburn, N. Y. J. f. d. 
HEELS VP-HEAD DOWN 
There are some mighty funny things about common “bucket 
bowl” cream separators. One is that the bowls used in them actually run better when 
turned heavy end down-— heels up, head down, as you might say. 
Prove it? Why, we knew it ten years ago, and have been 
proving it by building Tubulars with bowls hung heavy end down 
ever since. 
But we have just proved it again—this time in a very simple 
and practical way with a “bucket bowl” itself. We took a com¬ 
mon, disc filled “ bucket bowl ” machine—the sort with the bowl set 
heavy end up and fed through the top. The machine looked all 
right, but the bowl had the “ shakes ” so bad—that is, it trembled, 
leaned and strained against its bearings so hard—that we could not 
run it even 6,ooo revolutions per minute, though it was supposed to 
run 8,ooo in every day use. 
You see, a separator bowl set heavy end up is always top heavy, 
always leans sidewise, even though the eye can’t detect it, and con¬ 
sequently always trembles in its bearings. These tremblings grad¬ 
ually increase until they wear the bearings, shake them loose, bend 
the spindle and create so much friction that it acts like a brake and 
prevents getting up speed. That was the trouble with this disc filled 
“ bucket bowl ” we are talking about. 
When we found this “ bucket bowl ” would not run in its own 
machine, we took it out, cut a thread on the bottom of the spindle, 
and hung it, heavy end down in a Sharpies Tubular Cream 
Separator, just as we would a bowl of our own. You should have 
seen it run then. No trouble at a21 to run it 8,ooo revolutions per 
minute. We easily ran it 12,000. 
that the suspended bowl and 
bottom feed used only la 
Sharpies machines is the 
right way to build a cream 
separator ? 
Tubulars are built in the 
world’s biggest, best equipped 
separator factory. 1908 sales 
way ahead of 1907—out of 
sight of any competitor, if 
not all competitors combined. 
The additional good points of 
our 1909 Tubular “A” are 
making 1909 better yet. 
Get our catalog 153 and 
then you’ll know all about it 
*—you’ll be on the safe side. 
Could you ask any better proof 
that common “bucket bowl” sepa¬ 
rators, with bowls set heavy end 
up and fed through the top are 
built all wrong? Or better proof 
The many exclusive advantages of the 1909 Sharpies Tubular 
“A” cream separators are possible because only Sharpies Sep¬ 
arators have suspended bowl and bottom feed. This makes dairy 
Tubular bowls the lightest and simplest known, yet gives them 
twice the skimming power of common bowls. Also permits a low 
supply can that need not be lifted off to remove the bowl; wholly 
enclosed, self oiling gears; a 
fwyi | 1 single frictionless ball bearing 
1 he sharpies Separator f^o. from which hangs the bowi ; a 
crank set just right for easy turn- 
West Chester, Penna. Portland, ore. ing; a plumb bob for quickly 
leveling the separator. 
Toronto. Can. 
Winnipeg. Can. 
Chicago, Ills 
San Francisco, Cal. 
