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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
FEED FOR A DAIRY FARM. 
We plowed up some poor pasture 
and drilled in peas and oats which will 
make good feed when the pasture is 
short, and what is not needed will 
make good hay. I also planted half an 
acre of early sweet corn and will plant 
half an acre more, and some late, 
which I have found is a great help 
in keeping up the flow of milk during 
August and September. For Fall feed 
1 plant an early flint about the first 
of July. It will be nearly glazed be¬ 
fore frost. The cows eat ears and 
stalks. Some people prefer this to si¬ 
lage. With us there is no preference, 
as the Bordens do not allow us to feed 
silage. For Winter feed corn and cob 
meal, fed with clover or Alfalfa, makes 
a nearly balanced ration and solves the 
feed problem for me. If stalks form 
part of the feed, cotton-seed meal 
should be mixed with the corn and cob 
meal. For fresh cows linseed meal 
should be substituted for the cotton¬ 
seed meal, also when the cows are too 
constipated. george w. everson. 
A JERSEY MILK MACHINE. 
Prof. W. J. Fraser, of the Illinois 
Experiment StatioA, sends us the pic¬ 
ture of the cow shown at Fig. 235 and 
information about her. This cow, 
owned by A. O. Auten of Jersey 
County. Illinois, produced in one year 
17,253 pounds, or nearly nine tons of 
milk, equal to 1,112 pounds of butter. 
This is an “official record” and reput¬ 
able men vouch for the fact that this 
amount of milk actually came from the 
cow. This means an average of 47 
pounds of milk each day in the year! 
Prof. Fraser sends the following fig¬ 
ures about the cow: 
This is over four times the production 
of tlie average eow for Illinois, and seven 
times that of the poorest fourth in Illinois. 
There are 250.000 poor cows in Illinois, 
so poor that it would take 20!) of them 
to equal one such cow as .Tacoha Irene iu 
actual profit. How much easier to milk 
one such cow than 200 poor ones. The 
first would he play, the latter, drudgery. 
During this year she would have supplied 
80 people with the average amount of milk 
consumed per capita, and furnished cream 
for their coffee, besides. This was rich 
Jersey milk, containing 5% per cent but¬ 
ter fat, and worth, for direct consumption, 
at least 8 1-3 cents a quart, amounting to 
$053.50 a year. A dairyman would need 
only four such cows to supply milk for 
the average sized milk route, make him a 
good living, and have an excellent profit 
besides. If one could be so fortunate as 
to own 10 such cows, he could have a 
nice little income of $6,535 a year. The 
17.253 pounds of milk produced by Ja- 
coba Irene during the year contained 14.05 
per cent, or 2.527 pounds of total milk 
solids. This shows something of the per¬ 
fectly enormous amount of work done by 
this efficient dairy cow in one year. Com¬ 
pare this with the work done by the aver¬ 
age steer, weighing 1.100 pounds at the 
age of two years. When born, he will 
weigh close to 100 pounds. Thus, in the 
two years of growth he has actually pro¬ 
duced 1,000 pounds of carcass, only one- 
fifth, or 200 pounds, of which is edible 
dry matter. This means that .Tacoha Irene 
produced as much edible solids in one year 
as would twenty-five steers, thus certainly 
establishing, by a good margin, the world's 
record for a cow of any breed. 
WILBUR J. FRASER. 
CRIMSON CLOVER AND CATTLE, 
Will it harm new milch cows to be 
turned into a field of Crimson or Scarlet 
clover? The neighbors here tell me it will 
kill them. ' j. h. r. 
New York. 
The clover will not kill the cows 
but they may kill themselves with it. 
We have known cattle and sheep to 
kill themselves in this way when 
turned into clover or Alfalfa for the. 
first time. They gorge on the green 
feed, gas forms and the animals bloat. 
Unless relieved they will die. There 
is nothing poisonous in the clover and 
if you handle the cows right there 
will be no trouble. Cut an armful of 
clover first and let them eat it outside 
the barn. Next day turn them in for 
half a hour and then drive them out; 
longer the next day, and so on until 
danger is past. When they are used 
to the feed they can stay on it all the 
time. Cornmeal is the best grain to 
feed when beginning on the clover. 
We know of cases where feeding corn 
meal has prevented bad cases of bloat. 
FEEDING PERCHERON COLTS. 
How should thoroughbred I’erclieron colls 
bo fed and handled for best results? We 
have four mares due to foal in May and 
August. Have Blue grass pasture, corn, 
wheat, oats, oil meal, cotton seed, Timothy. 
Should the stallion colts be differently 
handled from the mare colts? Would addi¬ 
tional feeds to the above be of advantage? 
Tonti, Ill. e. e. 
Unless it is desired to put those 
purebred Percheron coifs in the show 
ring, their mother’s milk and generous 
pasture will be all they need until 
weaning time, and the approach of 
Winter. Horse colts need no greater 
amount of feed unless actually larger, 
than do the mare colts, nor are they 
handled essentially different. Of the 
feeds mentioned, cotton seed should be 
dispensed with as unsuitable for 
horses. Corn, wheat, oats and oil 
meal may be mixed into an ideal ration 
and easily be made to supplement the 
Timothy hay. Clover or Alfalfa hay 
added to the above list would greatly 
cheapen the cost of the feed required. 
Avoid the mistake of feeding too much, 
hay, and keep them from straw. While 
it is very desirable to feed liberally, it 
should be remembered that colts 
should have plenty of outdoor exer¬ 
cise. For a more extended treatment 
of feeding horses, see Farmers’ Bul¬ 
letins Nos. 170 and 346 to be procured 
from the Secretary of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. vv. E. u. 
Ohio. 
WORLD’S CHAMPION JERSEY COW, JACOBA IRENE. Fig. 235. 
Are you willing to wash and 
dry 50 to 100 times more tinware 
surface than you need to? If 
not, why not let “ bucket 
bowl ” cream separators alone 
and get a Sharpies Tubular? 
Is thoroughly washing and 
y carefully drying tinware so 
zr\ easy that you don’t care how 
much you wash? Had you 
not rather wash a single 
piece, that has no more sur¬ 
face than the palm of a man’s 
hand, than to wash 40 to 60 
pieces that, together, have as 
much surface as a piece of 
carpet two yards long and a 
yard wide? 
That’s a pretty big con¬ 
trast, for sure. 
But it shows truly the dif¬ 
ference in the work of wash¬ 
ing a common disk filled 
“bucket bowl” cream sepa- 
jjjF rator as compared to washing 
the light, sanitary, wear for¬ 
ever modern 
bowl used in 
Sharpies Dairy lL • ^Jfjl 
Tubular Cream 
save a lot of work, wear and expense ” 
by letting the “bucket bowl” sort Da^xXiTbowi! 
entirely alone and getting a Tubular? Washed easily in 
It is not surprising that Tubular three minutes, a 
sales exceed those of most, if not all, | ew thruj * ts ' vlth the 
7 7 brush does it. 
other separators combined. “Bucket 
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styled “original” disk maker) has found it necessary to 
commence suits against a catalog house and others that 
have been making and selling cheap separators with 
disks like his for a number of years. Why? Because he 
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that he’s scrapping for trade with the catalog house and 
other cheap concerns. 
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irples Separator Co. 
West Chester, Penna 
Chicago, III. 
Washing 42 disks, and other 
bowl parts, from a disk filled 
“bucket bowl” machine. Other 
“bucket bowls” are about as bad. 
The disks in the full pan belong 
inside a “bucket bowl.” The 
little piece in the other pan is all 
there is inside Sharpies Dairy 
Tubular bowls. 
Portland. Ore 
Toronto, Can. 
innipeg. 
