1909. 
THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
586 
PUREBRED PERCHERONS. 
We have four Percberon mares registered 
in what is called “The Stubblefield Book.’’ 
Of six so-called purebred Percherons in 
this neighborhood, all with pedigree papers, 
but one is registered in the "Stubblefield 
Book.” The question arises, did we, in 
buying these mares for purebred registered 
Percherons (one of them is imported), get 
what we paid for? And can we breed 
them to a Percberon stallion registered in 
any but the “Stubblefield Book.” and have 
progeny that could be registered in any 
record book recognized by the Government 
as official? E. E. F. 
Tonti, Ill. 
The purebred Percherons mentioned 
by E. E. F. as being registered in “The 
Stubblefield Book” are all right, without 
doubt, and most certainly recorded in 
the books of the Percheron Horse 
Breeders' Association, located at the 
Union Stockyards, Chicago, and of 
which Geo. W. Stubblefield is secretary. 
There are two other Percheron associa¬ 
tions, one at Columbus. Ohio, of which 
Chas. C. Glenn is secretary; the other 
at Plainfield, Ohio, John A. Forney, 
secretary. Any of these secretaries will 
answer the query as to whether one «fs- 
sociation will record horses recorded in 
other associations. As the Chicago as¬ 
sociation is the nearest to E. E. F. 
it would be most convenient to continue 
with that association. w. e. d. 
Ohio. 
MATERIAL FOR CONCRETE SILO. 
I am much interested in Mr. Van Al- 
styne's article on concrete silos, on page 
344, but he will have to “show me” how 
he can make so much wall from the small 
amount of material named. With a 1-2-4 
mixture, the kind usually used for such 
structures, I figure that it will take 39 
barrels (about eight tons) cement, at $1.00, 
$02.40; 32 yards, or 40 tons, stone, at 80 
cents, $32; 16 yards (about 3.10 bushels) 
sand, at 4 cents, $14; total. $108.40. This 
will be cut a very little by making deduc¬ 
tions for doors, but no allowance has been 
made for reinforcing metal, probably $10 
to $15. w. a. w. 
Weedsport, N. Y. 
This seems to be a case where doc¬ 
tors disagree. My first figures were 
gone over by a friend of mine, who 
should know, and he pronounced them 
correct, although I thought the amount 
too low. What the questioner and 
everybody else wants are facts, in view 
of which I submitted the original fig¬ 
ures to an expert builder, one who has 
had a large experience in cement con¬ 
struction. His answer I give below; 
it is between the amount either of us 
put it, and figured on a different prop¬ 
osition, which he says he knows to be 
all-sufficient. 
“According to my calculations a silo 
of the dimensions given (nine feet in¬ 
side, 30 feet high) would take 39 tons, 
390 pounds stone, at SO cents, $31.36; 
11*4 yards of sand, at 90 cents, $10.13; 
2 T 4 yards of cement, $20; total, $61.49. 
The estimate is based on a mixture of 
one, three and six, of cement, sharp 
sand and crushed stone. Xo allowance 
is made for freight, cartage or rein¬ 
forcing. The cost of the latter would 
probably add $15 or $20 to the above. 
The cost of the frame for moulding 
and the work of building same, and 
the mixing of material, and filling the 
frame might add very materially to the 
cost. I do not think such a silo could 
be built for less than $150.” 
I am sorry I was like to mislead; 
but I am always ready to acknowledge 
and apologize when I am shown to be 
wrong. EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
HEN KEEPING IN SOUTHERN MARYLAND. 
As I said in my former article, I keep 
my Leghorn pullets during the Winter in 
a house made of pine poles, covered with 
cornstalks, and am more than pleased with 
the arrangement. The 210 pullets, April 
and May hatched, kept in one house 45 
feet long and about 14 feet wide, laid in 
January 2,105 eggs and in February 2.414 
eggs, not counting any small or broken 
eggs, but only those fit for market. I did 
not supply any scratching material, but 
kept a hopper always filled with whole 
corn, and at night gave a 10-quart bucket 
of wheat until February 6, since which time 
I fed a mash made up of four parts corn- 
meal, two parts linseed meal and one part 
meat meal, a mash very high in protein, 
but as I have found out from the Winter’s 
experience that it will not pay me to keep 
the pullets another year, I have decided 
to get all possible from them the first year. 
I do not use the eggs from this lot to set. 
1 give all the mash they will eat; very 
often there is some in the troughs the next 
morning. We have had a very open Win¬ 
ter and the chickens could run out every 
day; plenty of green food for them at all 
times from the grass and clover growing 
all around. Another lot, about 180, con¬ 
sisting of 1907 and a few 1900 hatched 
birds, S. C. W. Leghorns, fed and housed 
in exactly the same way, laid in January 
224 eggs and in February 810, so you can 
very readily see that under the conditions 
I keep poultry, hens do not pay. From 
January 1 to March 1 the pullets ate 21 
bushels corn and 10 bushels wheat; I can¬ 
not tell exactly how much of the mash. 
The hens ate IS % bushels corn and 10 
bushels wheat and only about one-half the 
mash eaten by the pullets. I have not fed 
mash so heavily, as I use eggs from them 
for hatching. I ship all my eggs to pri¬ 
vate customers in Washington, D. C., and 
stamp each one with name of farm and 
date laid. 
Just a line about my lambs from ewes 
fed Alfalfa and little corn. I made my first 
shipment of lambs February 4, the oldest 
only 45 days old, as my first lamb was 
dropped December 21; weighed, live, 38 y 2 
pounds, and sold for 22 cents live weight. 
I enclose account of sales of second lot, 
that weighed a pound less, but netted me 
over $7.50. I have now turned my sheep 
in wheat and Crimson clover, and lambs 
are gaining very fast; a shipment made 
February 25. 12 lambs, netted $89.50, at 
20 cents per pound. jno. B. key. 
St. Mary County, Md. 
CHEESE SITUATION IN NORTHERN N. Y. 
The cheese season in Northern New York 
is fully under way. though the make con¬ 
tinues light. Pastures are very backward 
for the time of year, many dairymen not 
turning their cows into the field until after 
May 15. Grass is making a rapid growth, 
however, tinder tlie effects of the frequent 
rains. The weekly sales of cheese on the 
Watertown Produce Exchange are running 
about 4,000 to 5,000 boxes per week. Prices 
on April cheese in this section were the 
highest ever recorded for fodder make, some 
sales near the end of April ranging at 13 
to 14 cents on colored twins. Demand thus 
far has been brisk and for the first three 
weeks of May no sales were made at less 
than 12 3-8 cents for twins and as high 
as 13 1-2 cents was paid on May 1. The 
make the first half of May ran chiefly on 
colored twins, owing to the shortage in the 
supplies of old colored cheese. Since May 
15 white cheese has been in the better 
demand. But little large cheese has been 
made this month, as exporters were unable 
to compete with home traders on prices. 
Dairy twins have had a larger demand than 
usual this Spring. 
The Watertown Produce Exchange, at its 
regular session. May 15. endorsed the Bos- 
liart bill, requiring the branding of skim 
and "soaked curd” cheese, and called upon 
Governor Hughes to sign the bill, which 
passed both branches of the New York State 
Legislature. The bill calls for the branding 
of all washed or soaked curd cheese with the 
words “watered process cheese.” This kind 
of cheese has considerable demand in some 
New England markets, owing to the fact 
that many customers prefer a soft cheese. 
The washed curd cheese, where the curd is 
given a cold bath of five or ten minutes, is 
a product, when properly made, not open to 
criticism. But when the curd is left in the 
water for 20 to 30 minutes an abnormal 
quantity of water is altsorbed. giving the 
cheese too much moisture. Such cheese is 
not an honest product, as the long soaking 
of the curd removes some of the fat and 
leaves the cheese without decided flavor. 
The soaked curd cheese will not stand hold¬ 
ing and must be used up shortly after'being 
made, as it soon deteriorates' in quality. 
As it was found difficult by the framers of 
the bill to draw the line between washed 
curd cheese and soaked curd cheese, both 
were included iu the provisions of the bill. 
L. L. ALLEN, 
Secretary Watertown Produce Exchange. 
TROUBLE WITH INCUBATOR CHICKS. 
Have any of the experiment stations 
ever issued a bulletin giving results of 
experiments with incubator chicks? 
Five or six weeks ago I took off a ligtch 
of sixty chicks from 110 eggs. A more 
thrifty lot would be hard to find. Not a 
single one has died. Two weeks ago 1 took 
off another hatch of eighty chicks from 
150 eggs, and a more sorrowful looking 
bunch I have never seen. They were taken 
with a bowel trouble two day's after they 
were batched and have been dying at the 
rate of four and five a day. They were 
hatched in the same machine, broo'ded in 
the same brooder, and have had the very 
same care. What would cause this great 
difference? -r. v 
Mt. Holly', N. J. 
Your last lot of chicks must have been 
subject to a chill shortly after hatching. 
A chill usually causes bowel trouble, 
which often prove fatal. Following is a 
list of publications on incubation and 
brooding: Report 1905, 3 00(5. 1907, On¬ 
tario Agricultural College. Guelph. Ontario 
Can.; Farmers’ Bulletin 230 and 309, U. 
S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, 
D. C.; Bulletin 99, Arkansas Experiment 
Station, Fayetteville, Ark.; Reading Course 
Bulletin No. 19, N. Y. State College of 
Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y. : Report 1902, 
R. I. Experiment Station, Kingston, R. I.; 
Bulletin 309 and 130. N. C. Experiment 
Station, Raleigh. N. C.; Bulletin 00, Utah 
Experiment Station, T.ogan, Utah; Bulle¬ 
tin 245, Michigan Experiment Station, Ag¬ 
ricultural College, Mich.; Bulletin 78, 
North Dakota Experiment Station, Agri¬ 
cultural College, North Dakota; Bulletin 
150, Kansas Experiment Station. Manhat¬ 
tan. Kan.; Bulletin 26, Montana Experi¬ 
ment Station, Bozeman, Mont. c. f. b. 
Another Infringer Nailed 
Sharples Separator Go. 
John Deere Plow Go. and Deere & Webber Go. 
Sued For Infringement Of 
DE LAVAL DISC 
Cream Separator Patents 
For the information and caution of all whom it may concern 
announcement is made that THE DE LAYAL SEPARATOR 
CO. has brought suit in the UNITED STATES CIRCUIT 
COURT against the SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO. for 
infringement of LETTERS PATENT NO. 743,428 by the manu¬ 
facture and sale of cream separators containing DISC bowl 
construction covered by the claims of said letters patent. 
And that similar suits have been or will be filed as quickly 
as possible against the JOHN DEERE PLOW CO. and the 
DEERE A W EBBER CO., who are jobbing such infringing 
SHARPLES separators to dealers in the Western States. 
Attention is pertinently called in this connection to the 
recent hypocritical advertising tirade of the SHARPLES con¬ 
cern against DISC separators. We have known for some time 
that they ivere getting ready to bring out a DISC machine and 
thus moving up in line with more modern DE LAYAL 
imitators and would-be competitors. We have but now, how¬ 
ever been able to obtain one of these new DISC machines and 
the necessary evidence of infringement. The facts speak for 
themselves and require no further comment. 
In addition to the above suits the DE LAYAL COMPANY 
now has infringement suits pending against the STANDARD, 
IOW A, PEERLESS and CLEYELAND Separator Companies 
and the W m. Galloway Co., all covering the manufacture or sale 
ol INFRINGING DISC SEPARATORS, which infringement 
applies equally to machines being made by different ones of 
these manufacturers and sold under their own and various other 
names by several “mail order” and other concerns, as well as to 
EVERY USER of any such infringing separator bought of ANY 
of these parties. 
To avoid any possible misunderstanding and dispel the 
pretense of some of these concerns that their machines are 
similar to the DE LAYAL it is proper that we should add that 
none of the patents sued upon involves the DE LAYAL 
“SPLIT-WING” FEEDING DEVICE or its combination with 
the IMPROVED DISC construction utilized in the up-to-date 
DE LAVAL separators and that none of the machines is in any 
degree equal in efficiency, all-around practicability and dura¬ 
bility to the IMPROVED DE LAYAL machines of today. 
AYe have for years patiently stood the appropriation by 
would-be competitors of abandoned, discarded or patent expired 
DE LAVAL inventions and types of separator construction, 
but have now determined to put a stop to the more brazen 
utilization of LIVE patents. 
There are STILL OTHER infringers of DE LAYAL 
patents who will be held accountable in due course. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 
42 E. Madison Street 
CHICAGO 
1213 k I2ir> Filbert Street 
PHILADELPHIA 
Diiumm k Sacramento Sts. 
SAN FRANCISCO. 
General Oflices: 
165 Broadway, 
NEW YORK. 
173-177 Wl 1.1,1 AH Sl-KEET 
MONTREAL 
14 Si 16 Princess Street 
WINNIPEG 
107 First Street 
PORTLAND, OREC. 
