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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 5, 
ABOUT THOSE POULTRY “FADS.” 
I have read the article on page 509, 
and find the “meat or kernel” of it, off 
flavor or worm-eaten, if you so prefer. 
This man owned a wonderful hen, 
laying many eggs and apparently be¬ 
cause she could not, or the male mated 
to her did not, reproduce her (untold) 
productiveness, he concluded the 
chicken industry could not be improved. 
Years ago you could not get new-laid 
eggs in the Winter at any price; to-day 
it is a known fact many are specializ¬ 
ing for Winter eggs, and can show 
yearly accounts by the condemned sys¬ 
tem of trap-nests of fabulous numbers 
of eggs produced by many purebred 
hens for generations, and certainly our 
poultry has not degenerated in vigor or 
productiveness. One New York poul- 
trymau of my acquaintance supplied 
the Fifth Avenue Hotel for 26 years 
with semi-weekly shipments of eggs, 
and missed one shipment only in that 
time, and then the snow was drifted so 
deep that the team could not get 
through. This statement was broad¬ 
cast, and doubting it. I asked Mr. Dar¬ 
ling of the hotel, and he told me it was 
correct. 
Then again, he swings off on to cows. 
I will venture the assertion that in his 
county there are to-day more purebred 
Jerseys and Jersey grades than all the 
“natives” put together, and if he knows 
less about chickens than he shows he 
does about cows, I am sorry for him. 
I will not “throw mud” at any man’s 
favorite breed, but when he deliberately 
goes out of his way to condemn a breed 
which you can find in the hands of 
more farmers than any other, and have 
invariably proven themselves the money 
makers of thousands, he should not 
have so much prominence given his ar¬ 
ticle. Ask the farmers and their wives 
what improvement their Jerseys and 
Jersey grades have done and are doing 
to their farms and pocketbooks. Ask 
them if they have found them wild, 
pampered and unprofitable, so much so, 
that they have gone -back to any old 
scrub that can rustle around a fence 
corner or strawstack, knee deep in l-.e 
mire, as I suppose your correspondent's 
“natives” can be found any Winter? 
Pittsburg, Pa. R. f. shannon. 
R. N.-Y.—While this article has been 
severely criticised by some stockmen, it 
is highly praised by others. We refer 
particularly to the “trap-nest” method. 
This plan has now been tried f some 
years. If it enables poultry keepers to 
really 'improve their laying stock there 
should be facts and figures to prove it. 
We want them if they are to be ob¬ 
tained. 
SELLING TIMOTHY HAY. 
On page 490 of The R. N.-Y., Mr. 
Long condemns outright the practice of 
selling Timothy hay. There is no ques¬ 
tion as to the value of clover and Al¬ 
falfa, nor that taking off any crop, 
without returning something to the land, 
will make both the farm and the farmer 
poor. There is a limit on most farms 
as to the amount of stock that can be 
kept to consume all the legumes that 
might grow. Simply to feed produce 
to stock, in order that the plant food 
may be returned to the land, with no 
other profit from them, will enrich the 
soil, but it will not buy shoes for the 
babies, nor pay the interest on the 
mortgage. There is also a limit to the 
amount of work a man can get done. 
The crop which brings the largest 
gross returns when sold, is not always 
the most profitable. To me, the sys¬ 
tem of the western farmer, of turning 
stock into the cornfields, and losing 
most of the fodder, seems wasteful in 
the extreme, but to him, it is real 
economy, for he, with one hired man, 
in eight months, can take care of 160 
acres, and he needs few buildings. By 
so doing, he has more net cash at the 
end of the year than if he husked his 
own corn and saved all his fodder, at 
a greatly increased cost of labor. 
Take my own case: I can devote 50 
or 60 acres—naturally adapted to grass 
—to growing Timothy for market—not 
to feed. I shall not get as much grass, 
for this crop, as for many others, but I. 
can grow it with a minimum of labor, 
and $12 to $25 net on an acre, pays 
good interest on the value of the land. 
I keep 80 head of cattle—old and 
young—a flock of sheep and one of 
hogs, besides the farm horses and a 
colt or two each year. Were I to keep 
more stock, to eat up the clover or Al¬ 
falfa that might grow on this hay 
land I should have to build more stable 
room, and keep more help. I often 
find it difficult now to get the right 
kind of help to care for the stock prop¬ 
erly, and gather the fruit and other 
crops without loss. Clover will only- 
stand one year, which means a shorter 
rotation, more plowing, and labor. 
These lands will mow good crops of 
Timothy from five to 12 years. Were 
Mr. Long to see the crops of corn 
that follow the hay on these Timothy 
meadows when they are broken up. I 
am sure he would not say the land was 
impoverished. There is always an af¬ 
termath to provide humus; a light 
dressing of manure will make the 
meadow “bud and blossom like the 
rose.” The editor speaks of using fer¬ 
tilizer. We are now applying on our 
meadows, a dressing of 500 pounds of 
nitrate of soda, 500 pounds of ground 
bone, 800 pounds of S. C. rock, and 
200 pounds of muriate of potash. This 
will analyze 4.5 per cent nitrogen, 11.1 
per cent phosphoric acid, and 5 per 
cent potash. It costs $27.37 a ton. We 
use 400 pounds to the acre. I can write 
my name with this mixture, and a way¬ 
faring man, passing by can read it 10 
days after it is put on. To sell Tim¬ 
othy hay, wheat, potatoes, or any other 
crop, and return nothing to the land, is 
not good farming or good business. 
It always stirs my Dutch blood when I 
read or hear a wholesale condemna¬ 
tion of selling Timothy hay. In some 
cases it is, of course, unwise to do 
so. In others—like my own—it is very 
wise and profitable. We should never 
lay down hard-and-fast rules for all to 
follow, simply because such are good 
for us, under our peculiar conditions. 
Better be guided by the underlying 
principle. edw’d van alstyne. 
THE PROBLEM OF MILK MAKING. 
One of our readers in Connecticut 
sends us a copy of the Newtown 
(Conn.) Bee, in which we find the fol¬ 
lowing letter from E. S. Lovell: 
Good Times for Farmers. 
While talking with a business man from 
a nearby city, one day last week, about 
the prospect of better limes, etc., my friend 
made the statement that “it must be good 
limes with tile farmers.’’ I told him the 
dairy farmer could hardly make expenses 
at the present price of milk and grain, 
and lo prove my statement I will give a 
few figures which may be of interest to 
some of our wise friends who assert we 
are becoming overburdened with the cares 
of increasing wealth. On Saturday, May 
8, 1 weighed all grain fed to my dairy of 
31 cows, feeding very carefully to get. an 
average amount in order to be accurate. 
The day was line, making the milk yield 
something like 20 to 50 pounds higher 
than if it had been stormy. Grain was 
best: wheat mixed feed, corn and cob meal 
and cotton-seed meal. The 31 cows were 
fed 358 pounds grain or 11% pounds each. 
At the market price: 
358 lbs. feed at $1.60 cwt. $5.73 
15 lbs. hay each by estimate at $15 
a ton . 3.49 
Total cost of day's feed. $9.22 
Borden's weight of milk de¬ 
livered .771 lbs. 
Add 30 lbs. used at home... 30 lbs. 
801 lbs. 
Price, $1.25 cwt.$10.01 
Balance .79 
Pictures Against laik 
N O matter *how complicated his cream sep¬ 
arator, every “bucket bowl” manufac¬ 
turer claims his machine is simplest and 
easiest to clean. Even the makers of disk 
machines—with 40 to 60 pieces inside the 
bowl—make the same claims. Yet none 
of these “bucket bowl” fellows dare 
put pictures of their separator bowl 
parts into their advertisements—they 
all realize that pictures would 
make their claims ridiculous. 
The Sharpies Dairy Tubu¬ 
lar Cream Separator is, with¬ 
out exception, the only sim¬ 
ple, sanitary, easy to clean 
separator made. We put pic¬ 
tures against “bucket bowl” 
talk. We frequently show you 
pictures of the light, simple 
Dairy Tubular Bowl and of 
heavy, complicated “bucket 
bowls. ’ ’ Compare them. They tell the whole story. It will take you less 
than thirty seconds to put “bucket bowl” claims where they belong. 
The self styled “original maker of disk machines” is trying to maintain 
sales by patent infringement suits against equally cheap machines, that have 
been made for several years with disks like his. If you want to avoid work, 
expense and dissatisfaction, get a Sharpies Dairy Tubular. Made in the 
world’s biggest and best separator factory. Branch factories in Canada and 
Germany. Sales greater than most, if not all, “bucket bowl” separators 
combined. Write for catalog. No. 153. 
The Sharpies Separator Go. 
Toronto, Can. West Chester, Penna. Portland, Ore. 
Winninpfr Han Chicago. Ills. San Francisco. Cal. 
One pan contains the single little 
piece used in Sharpies Dairy Tubu¬ 
lar bowls. The other contains noth¬ 
ing but disks from a single “bucket 
bowl.” Which is simple and easy 
to clean ? 
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to 
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Capacity 
TAKE 
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Never before In Cream Separa¬ 
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superior of any 885 to 8110 Sepa- 
rator.atsuch alow.dlrect-from- 
factory price as I’ll make you. 
Save 8:15 to 850 this way. I 
make and sell so many I can 
afford to make the price as 
low to you as dealers and 
jobbers have to pay in 
lots—spot cash—for other high 
ieparators. 
DAYS’ FARM TEST OF A 
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“Bath in Oil 1 " Separator 
Closest skimmer — Easiest running—Easiest to 
clean—No trouble oiling or danger of running dry 
like otlie-s, which alone Is worth 850 extra. Costs 
nothing extra on a Galloway. Send me your name 
today so I can write you my Special Proposition, at 
the price I’m making direct to farmers and dairy¬ 
men, based on my output of 14,500 Galloways this 
year. I’ll also send you my big HOOK FREE. Ad¬ 
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JOHN . 1 . POTTER, 14 Mill St., Binghamton, N. Y. 
A PERFECT COMBINATION 
THE MODERN SWING STANCHION, WATERING BASIN, 
REVERSIBLE MANGER PARTITION, STEEL GUARD RAILING, 
and extension bar preventing cattle from putting head 
in at side. A whole herd of cows can be stanchioned in a 
jiffy—Hiitc, comfortable and clcitn. 
Write to-day for full information and prices. 
GLOR BROS. & WILLIS MFG. CO., Attica, N. Y. 
Labor: 
3' men milking, feeding, etc., 2 
hours in morning. 6 lirs. 
3 hours in afternoon. 6 hrs. 
2 men and team cleaning sta¬ 
bles, e<tc., 1 % hours each.... 3 hrs. 
1 man and team to deliver milk..l% hrs. 
2 men putting in cows and feed¬ 
ing at noon . 2 hrs. 
At 15 cents an hour.18% hrs. 
We have a balance of 79 cents over 
what the feed cost. Now, deduct the 
labor. 18% hours at 15 cents an hour. I 
am just $1.98 behind. I think any dairy¬ 
man of experience will allow that this is 
about the right weight of grain for profit, 
10 to 12 pounds, and that it is above the 
average amount of milk produced. It 
seems to me there must be a screw loose 
somewhere, and I think it would he a good 
thing to thrash out this problem and try 
to find where the trouble is. I would like 
to have statements from other producers 
and see if they cannot show a better re¬ 
sult. Have not mentioned the question of 
taxes, insurance, interest on investment or 
cost of teams and many other things. 
We print that in order to obtain a 
wider discussion of the problem 
through The R. N.-Y. We ask our 
readers, particularly those who are sell¬ 
ing milk to the Bordens to figure the 
cost of a pound or quart of milk as 
they deliver it. Then tell us what they 
feed. The hay and grain for Mr. Lov¬ 
ell’s cattle cost $ 1.0214 per 100 pounds 
of milk. We assume that he raised his 
own hay, and perhaps some of the corn. 
In that case the cows paid him for his 
labor in growing the fodder. Now let 
us see if any of our readers, by grow¬ 
ing Alfalfa, Soy beans or roots, can 
make 100 pounds of Borden milk for 
less than one dollar. Silage is barred 
out of this discussion, as the Bordens 
will not accept milk from cows fed on 
it. 
FERTILIZER LIME*£".£15 
WALTON QUARRIES, Harrisburg, I’a. 
Cow-Ease 
Keeps Off 
Flies 
Makes More 
Miik 
A clean, harmless liquid preparation—easily 
applied by spraying—enables cattle to feed 
in peace. Never makes milk taste or smell. 
Saves its cost many times over in extra milk. 
Free Trial Offer. 
If your dealer will not supply you with 
COW-EASE, send us liis name and we will 
tell you how to get a GALLON CAN AND 
SPRAYER FREE. 
Carpenter-Morton Co., Boston, Mass. 
MORF milk from cows i 
IVlUIVEi WORK FROM HORSES • 
Why buy feed and let flies rob your profits 
I Keep fliea off your stock and they'll take on flesh. Cows 
give niore & richer milk, and horses do more and better 
I work on less feed. Animals pestered by flies can't digest 
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Shoo Flu, 
Tht 
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Kill* every fly It strikes ! worth saves S qts. milk. 
1 gal. protects 3 auimaia a season. Cures all sores, and 
I prevents infection. Heals from bottom without scab. 
Prevents itchiug. Nothing belter for galls. Used by 
I leading veterinarians nnd dairymen sinco 1885. Write 
for testimonials. Kills lire anti mites wherever sprayed. 
Accept no substitute. If your dealer hasn't it send hie 
name and $1, and we'll send enough Shoo-Fly to protect 
8 animals 30 days and improved 3-tube gravity sprayer. 
Name Kxp. olllce. tjtl refunded if animals not protected. 
Shoa-FJy Mfg.Co., 1317 N. 1 Oth .St.,Phlla.,Po. 
Agents wanted everywhere. Special terms. Write today. 
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Henry II. Albertson, Burl¬ 
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stanchions add greatly 
comfort of my cows.” 
WHY TORTURE 
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Send for specifications 
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WALLACE li. CRUMB, Box 318, iforcatvllle, Conn. 
