THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
72© 
1909. 
A DRAIN TILE CEMENT ROLLER. 
On page 640 you explain how one can 
make a good roller out of cement, how 
to cut wood to make it round, etc. The 
writer made two excellent rollers by 
using some Akron pipe (I think about 
18-inch pipe), cutting four pieces of 
wood and putting two in each end, as 
shown in diagram, and then boring a 
hole where they join, or, in other words, 
at the exact middle. Inserting a piece 
of gas pipe, it left a hole through the 
DRAIN TILE CEMENT ROLLER. 
centre for an axle-rod. We then filled 
the pipe with cement, and fitted a handle, 
and had a most excellent roller. Re¬ 
inforcing the pipe with cement has kept 
it from breaking, although we have 
given it some very hard usage. # Rest 
the pipe on a board when filling. Take 
off the flange carefully with a cold 
chisel before filling. 
Massachusetts. george a. simonds. 
COST OF EASTERN BEEF. 
I want to gather data as to the probable 
cost of raising a steer to the age of three 
years for beef: cost each year, and value 
of manure made. My idea is to raise corn 
and cattle on a New England abandoned 
farm. Can you tell me if any of the east¬ 
ern agricultural colleges have issued any 
bulletins on the subject? E. G. B. 
Hillsdale, N. J. 
The question of raising beef In the 
East is a vital one. My own opinion is 
that on many farms, where the land is 
better adapted to pasture than to culti¬ 
vated crops,and where at the same time 
corn can be grown, particularly if a 
portion of it can be put in the silo, 
there would be a greater profit in feed¬ 
ing beef cattle than in making milk. In 
either case—in the majority of in¬ 
stances—the most real profit comes 
from turning the farm crops into cash 
through the animal, and in the value of 
the manure as a builder-up of the soil. 
Nevertheless, I was •surprised when in 
the corn and cattle feeding belt of Ohio, 
to find many abandoning steer feeding 
and taking up dairying. I am sure, in 
most instances, they will find this to be 
a mistake. As I see it, the real trouble 
is in their system of feeding, w'hich I 
cannot discuss here. 
The type of steer fed—whether dairy 
or beef—will make a decided difference 
in the returns. At the Iowa Station in 
1905, they found that they could make 
a pound of beef for slightly less cost, 
on a dairy than on a beef steer, due ap¬ 
parently to the fact that it had been 
bred with a better capacity for diges¬ 
tion, but that the former put the meat 
on the portions of the body where the 
cuts were of less value; the latter on 
the loins, back and hind quarters. 
1 heir beef averaged $4.88 per 100 ; that 
of the dairy type, $3.75, making the 
profit or price received for feed much 
greater for the former. At the Indiana 
Station in 1906-07 it was found that 
when the cattle were fed silage, in addi¬ 
tion to shelled corn, cotton-seed meal 
and clover hay, at the end of six 
months the cost of gain was $1 per 
100 pounds less than with a similar lot 
without silage. When the above was 
fed without cotton-seed meal, the lot 
receiving it weighed 130 pounds less 
per head than those that had it. From 
the above it is apparent that the type 
of steer, and the character of the ra¬ 
tion have much to do with the ex¬ 
expense of keeping, as well as the 
profit 
The same station made a six months’ 
test of Winter feeding, for two seasons, 
between calves, yearlings and two-year- 
olds. There was a greater profit the 
second Winter than the first. The aver¬ 
ages for the two years were as follows: 
The calves ate daily 9.5 pounds of 
shelled corn, 1.5 pounds cotton-seed 
meal, 2.5 pounds clover hay and 10 
pounds silage. They gained daily 2.0S 
pounds. The yearlings ate 15.4 pounds 
of shelled corn, 2.5 pounds cotton-seed 
meal, 3.6 pounds clover hay, 15 pounds 
silage and gained daily 2.30 pounds. The 
two-year-olds ate 17 pounds shelled 
corn, 2.8 pounds cotton-seed meal, 4.25 
pounds clover hay, 15 pounds silage, 
and gained daily 2.57 pounds. Con¬ 
trary to the prevailing opinion, the 
two-year-olds made the most gain, and 
their beef brought more per 100 pounds. 
They made a profit per steer of $16.36, 
as against $11.52 from the yearlings 
and $7.51 from the calves. However, 
less money need be invested in the 
younger stock, and as they cat less food 
per animal the per cent of profit would 
not vary much. The cotton-seed meal 
was valued at $28, the clover hay at $10, 
silage $2.50. The corn was worth about 
40 cents a bushel. Fed to the steers, it 
brought 60 cents. Hogs followed the 
steers and ate the undigested corn, and 
the cattle were credited with what the 
hogs made from the corn. In the 
East, the corn would ground, and 
let the hogs—if there were any—eat at 
the first table. The selling value of the 
cattle at the end of the feeding period 
was $5.83 for the calves, $6.08 for year¬ 
lings and $6.15 for two-year-olds, all 
per 100 pounds. Both feed and beef are 
higher at present. Corn in the East 
always averages from 10 to 20 cents 
higher than in the West. It is safe to 
say the relative cost of pasture would 
be the same for the different ages as 
of the Winter breeds. These tests were 
carefully made, and the feeding skill¬ 
fully done, according to the western 
method, and are a fair basis to figure 
on. Bulletin 129 from Purdue Univer¬ 
sity, Lafayette, Ind., gives the work in 
detail, as does one from the Station at 
Ames, Iowa. As this is a question of 
much interest at the present time, I 
have taken fully as much space as I 
should in summarizing the results. 
Doubtless few of the R. N.-Y. readers 
have seen them. In looking over the 
Experiment Record for the past year, I 
can find no bulletin on steer feeding 
from any of our eastern stations (there 
are several from the South, where other 
feeds than those obtainable here were 
given), except Pennsylvania State Re¬ 
port, 1906, pages 145 to 154, and Bulle¬ 
tin 121 from Maryland Station, at Col¬ 
lege Park. A mature steer will void 
annually about 20,000 pounds of solid 
and 8,000 pounds of liquid manure. Ac¬ 
cording to Lawes & Gilberts’ tables, this 
manure will have a value of over $2 
a ton. How carefully it is saved and 
utilized will materially affect its real 
value to the land. As much of the ni¬ 
trogen and potash are in the liquid, the 
importance of saving all of it that is 
possible is apparent.' 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
Horse Sold at Auction. 
and Respiratory Tract. 
This preparation is a blend of the most potent reme¬ 
dies discovered for the relief and cure of the above 
troubles, and is composed of the active medicinal prin¬ 
ciples of herbs grown in India and Russia, reinforced by 
the most successful herbs growing in the United States. 
Mild and prompt in its action and leaves no bad after¬ 
effects. will benefit the wind of race horses, stallions 
and brood mares. Should be given to horses that are 
being shipped, so as to fortify them against colds, fever, 
influenza and similar troubles. If your horse has thick 
wind, runs at the nose, cold in the eyes or head, is in¬ 
clined to have the heaves, or has them good and hard, 
try this remedy as directed on the bottle and you will 
not be disappointed. Book 10-D free. Place $1, 4 oz. 
bottle; 82, 12 oz. bottle delivered. 
W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F.. 68 Temple St., Springfield, Mass. 
Tubular Cream Separators beat all 
others. The little piece in the almost 
empty dish pan is all there is inside 
Sharpies Dairy Tubular bowls. The 
many disks i n jgi||||^the other pan 
are a 11 from one com¬ 
mon “bucket bowl’’ sep¬ 
arator—just " an example 
of the work of ff cleaning com¬ 
mon separa- ~ tors as 
compared ,/ .toclean¬ 
ing the simple Dairy Tubular. 
Tubulars are 'made in the world’s 
greatest separator factory. Branch fac¬ 
tories in Canada and Germany. 
Sales exceed most, if not all, 
others combined. Write , 
for catalog No. 1S3. 
MINERAL. 
N. HEAVE 
% REMEDY 
NEGLECTl 
Will Ruin ^ 
Your Horse1 
Send today for 
only 
PERMANENT 
!fST $3 PACKAGE ^ 
a will cure any case or 
>2 money refunded. 
3 $1 PACKAGE 
•V cures ordinary cases. 
Postpaid on receipt of 
" nrire. Anonts Wanted. 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO 
West Chester, Pa. Chicago, Ill, 
Toronto, Can. San Francisco, Cal, 
Winnipeg, Can. Portland, Ore, 
SAFE 
CERTAIN 
Mineral Heave Remedy Co.. 461 fourth Avenue, Pittsbura. Pa 
Or Money Refunded 
NEWTON’S 
Heave, Cough and 
, Distemper Core. 
$1.00 per can at dealers, 
or express paid. 18 years’ 
sale. Send for booklet. 
Horse Troubles. 
TIIE NEWTON REMEDY CO., Toledo, Ohio. 
AND UClIlUITCIl 
UP * 
. “BATH IN OIL” 
High Grade Separator—Direct 
I Save $25 to $50 direct at my factory 
A price—freight prepaid. Get the only 
to* Separator that runs in “Rath of Oil/* 
m like a $5,000 automobile. This 
alone is worth $50 extra, but 
costs you nothing extra. 
■ Take 
Farm Test—Freight Prepaid 
Why pay $85 to $110 to dealers or agents 
who cannot sell you a separator equal 
i to the Galloway—closest skimmer— 
I easiest run—easiest cleaned-10-yr. 
8k guarantee. Send for BOOK FREE 
^ WM. CALLOWAY CO. 
663 Calloway 8ta., Waterloo, la. 
THE PAPEC 
PNEUMATIC 
Ensilage Gutter 
will prepare you a better silage and fill your 
silo in less time, with lesr power and with lees 
trouble to you than any other blower ensilage 
cutter made. 
It is the most convenient and the easiest to 
operate. It never clogs, never gets out of 
order, never disappoints. We guarantee every 
machine to bo perfect and to do the Work 
claimed for it. 
1 It you need an ensilage cutter you need a 
Papec. Send for catalog giving full particulars. 
Papec Machine Co., Box 10 Shortsville.N.T. 
FOR FAST, PERFECT, 
ECONOMICAL WORK 
you must use Gale-Raldwin cutters. The only 
perfect, successful cutter for ensilage and dry 
fodder. Does the work with less power, in less 
time, than any other. Just the machine for 
people with Ughtpower engines. You’ll find that 
Gale-Raldwin 
ENSILAGE CUTTERS 
are best after caretu 11 nvest lgation. They are the 
up-to-datecutters, with elevators to fill the high¬ 
est silos. Safety ftywhee’,safety treadle lever. 
Cut 4 different lengths, cut fastest, feed easiest. 
With or w ithout traveling feed table. We will 
saveyou money, if you write now for Free Book. 
The Belcher St Taylor A . T. Co. 
Box 75, 7.ii F 
Chicopee Folio. Jfe/ \ 
Maes. r i, jjSS§®Fir 
SILO FILLING 
MACHINERY 
m With BLOWER and Traveling —JT,;jJJ 
M FEED TABLE 
Made j — —^ ' 
in sizes JT 1 ?! 1 "* ■ rr » raf a-w* 
to suit . * 
all wants [I U . J fi7v3i\' 
from 5 to || \W 'yr&l 
i 5 Horse “ 
Power Engine. 
Sold on their own merits. Pay ™ 
for same after tried and satisfied. 
LARGEST CAPACITY AND STRONGEST BUILT 
Death to Heaves Guaranteed 
Beats All 
This picture shows just one of the 
many ways in which Sharpies Dairy 
'^YOUNG’S FEVER & 
Cough Remedy 
Indicated in cases affected with 
Cough, Cold, Distemper, Influenza. 
Plpk Eye, Strangles, Bronchitis, 
Asthma, Catarrhal Fever, Heaves, 
Thick Wind. Roaring, "Wheeze, Gleet, Incipient 
Glanders, Inflammation or Disease of the Membranes 
MONTROSS METAL SHINGLES 
Have been made for over 20 years, all users satis¬ 
fied. No experiment,Durable,Fireproof,Inexpen¬ 
sive. Catalos. Muntross M. S. Co., Camden, N. J. 
Write for catalog. We have had 59 years 
experience and are the largest and oldest man¬ 
ufacturers of Ensilage Machinery in the world. 
THE E. W. ROSS CO., Box 13 Springfield, Ohio 
We aha make ROSS SH.DS and MANURE SPRCABERS. 
Spread Manure with the Roller-Bearing, Light Draft 
SUCCESS SPREADER . 
A horse was hid off to me at an auction, 
but owing to delay in giving my note for 
him the auctioneer sold the horse again. 
The second price was for less than my bid. 
Can they hold me for the difference? 
New York. r. M. d. 
An auction is a simple contract, the 
bidder makes his offer and the auctioneer 
accepts it by ‘“knocking it off” to the 
highest bidder. In your ease the auction¬ 
eer, who is the agent of the party selling, 
closed the contract by selling the horse to 
you, he then declined your offer and put 
it up for sale again. .If he approaches 
you toll him to deliver the horse and you 
will pay the price. You are the only one 
to complain, as it was sold to you. Before 
a thing is sold the auctioneer may with¬ 
draw the goods or the bidder may with¬ 
draw his offer hut in this case the horse 
was sold to you, then sold again . They 
assumed the risk by selling it again. 
Save half the labor both for yourself and horses and make the manure go twice as far as by hand spreading. 
The Success pays for itself over and over again in increased fertility of th? land. It’s the spreader based on 
experience. We’ve been building spreaders 31 years. It contains all the most valuable patented devices. The 
only roller-bearing spreader. Light and strong. No gear wheels to break. Equipped with wooden or metal wheel* 
as desired. Write us about the Success. Be sure you know the Success before you buy a Spreader. 
Kemp & Burpee Mfg. Co 
Syracuse, N. T. 
Get 
Our 
Free 
Catalog 
The Roller Bearings 
One Hcrse Lighter Draft 
