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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 20, 
5!£ Disks from one Common BowL 
World’s biggest separator factory. Branch 
factories In Canada and Germany. Oldest 
separator concern in America. Sales exceed 
most, if not all, others combined. Tubulars 
probably replace more common separators 
each year than any maker of such machines 
sells. 
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Catalog 
__ No. 153 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO. 
WEST CHESTER, PA. 
Chicago, Ill.,San Francisco, CaL,Portland, Ore. 
, ^ Toronto, Can., Winnipeg, Can. 
r*DI IMD'C IMPROVED 
WARRINER 
STANCHION 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Under this’ heading we endeavor to give 
advice and suggestions about feeding mix¬ 
tures of grains and fodders. No definite 
rules are given, but the advice is based upon 
experience and average analyses of foods. 
By “protein” is meant the elements in the 
food which go to make muscle or lean meat. 
“Carbohydrates” comprise the starch, sugar, 
etc., which make fat and provide fuel for 
the body, while “fat” is the pure oil found 
in foods. “Dry matter” means the weight 
of actual food left in fodder or grain when 
all the water is driven off. A “narrow 
ration” means one in which the proportion 
of protein to carbohydrates is close—a 
“wide" ration means one which shows a 
larger proportion of carbohydrates. 
. it to us at the wholesale price of the 
grain which goes to make it up, $1.70 
per ton for mixing and bags, and will 
allow us a rebate of 80 cents per ton 
for bags returned in good condition. 
We are going to make a trial ton of 
the following:: 
500 
lbs. 
Cottonseed meal. . 
. (a $29.50 
$7.37 
250 
lbs. 
Linseed meal. 
. m 
32.25 
4.03 
600 
lbs. 
Gluten meal. 
. Cn 
30.90 
9.27 
400 
lbs 
Malt sprouts . ... 
.(d 
36.00 
5.20 
250 
lbs. 
Distillers' grains . 
■ m 
31.75 
3.97 
$29.84 
Bags 
and mixing. 
1.70 
CHAIN HANGING 
CATTLE STANCHION 
The Most Practical 
CATTLE FASTENER 
ever invented. 
Manufactured and for 
sale by 
O. H. ROBERTSON, 
Forestville, Conn. 
Boyle’s Steel Stanchion 
THE ORIGINAL 
Lined with wood,with Thumb Post Littb 
DURABILITY Bc*| Material and 
Workmanship. Built to laat a Lifetime. 
COMFORT Hun( on chain* allow¬ 
ing full freedom of neck. No weight to 
carry. 
CLEANLINESS K«pi the cow in 
place. Forward when lying down. Back 
when etanding. 
BooVdiWni MoJtl Dairy 
tu H« Print iWlA Jrlallt fat rrtdlng 
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Stanchion FtattHt - 
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SOLE MAKERS 
„MjAS. BOYLE & SON 
UrSl- SALEM. OHIO. U. S. A. 
Dairymens Supply Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 
f^The Burr Starkweather Co.Rochester,H.Y, 
ONE MILLION IN USE 
Separators 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO 
165 BROADWAY. 
NEW YORK 
42 E. MADISON ST. 
CHICAGO. 
MIX YOUR OWN 
-STOCK FOOD 
When you buy ready-mixed Stock Food you pay at 
the rate of $250 a ton l’or bran, meal and other ingre¬ 
dients. You can mix your own for $3.60 a hundred 
pounds Upon request 1 will send you FREE a form¬ 
ula for mixing the best STOCK Food known to the 
Veterinary Profession. Send postcard today for this 
FREE FORMULA. 
^ S. H. KENT, D. V. S., 104 Market St.. Cadiz. Ohio, j 
FARMERS SHOULD SEE THIS HEATER. 
THE: NELSON TANK 
HEATER 
WANUTACTURED BY 
NELSON MFG.CQ. 
DEERFIELD,WlSk 
■SlW 
* 
1 » I 7/PT 
HEAT i WASTt'O" 
SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICES. 
“ My bam that was 
BURNED 
was fitted with Crumb's 
Warriner Stanchions. If it 
had not been for the ease with 
which these fasteners were 
opened I should have lost my 
cows,” writes Mr. Everett 
Gains, Bemardstown, Mass. 
CORN FOR MILCH COWS. . 
I have 1,000 bushels of corn on ear which 
I wisli to feed to milch cows. I have 12 
cows, mostly fresh. What should I buy in 
the feed line to make a good ration? I 
sell my milk to creameries by the quart. 
1 have corn fodder and good mixed hay. 
New York. J. M. b. 
You have made a serious mistake by 
husking your corn instead of making it 
into silage. Your cows will not eat the 
corn fodder or stover without waste 
until it is cut or shredded, and it would 
have cost less to put it into a silo than 
it has to husk it and prepare it for 
feeding. You can also produce more 
milk at a lower cost by feeding silage 
than is possible with any system of dry 
feeding. However, the following ration 
is as good as any you can use under 
the present conditions: 
Digestible 
Carbohydrates 
Feeding Stuff Dry matter Protein Fat 
10 lbs. corn fodder 5.78 .234 3.492 
12 lbs. mixed hay 10.452 .5064 5.5503 
7 lbs. corn & cob meal 5.95 .308 4.655 
3 lbs. cotton-seed meal 2.754 1.1103 1.3447 
1 lb. linseed meal O. P. .908 .2876 .4869 
25.844 2.4463 15.5289 
Nutritive ratio 1:6.3 
Although this ration is rather wide it 
cannot easily be made any narrower and 
■still use the maximum amount of home¬ 
grown feeds. Only cows which have 
been fresh at least two weeks should 
receive the full ration, and the cotton¬ 
seed meal should he discontinued at 
least two months before parturition. I 
would never feed cotton-seed meal to 
dfy cows intended for future milk pro¬ 
duction, as it is too strong and heating 
for animals in that condition. 
C. S. GREENE. 
Selling Oats and Buying Feed. 
I have 100 bushels of oats to sell. 1 
wants to put the money into feed for two 
cows. One freshens this month ; one in Feb¬ 
ruary. I can buy bran at 826 a ton; 
sucrene prepared feed $28. Cows test over 
four per cent fat. Weight about 900 
pounds, both hearty eaters. I never had 
any experience feeding grain to milch cows. 
What would he cheapest and best? Have 
cut cornstalks, clover and Alfalfa. 
New York. H. F. C. 
You cannot afford to pay $26 per ton 
for wheat bran to feed with clover, Al¬ 
falfa and cornstalks. You will find it 
much better to -buy sucrene at $28 per 
ton, as that is practically a balanced ra¬ 
tion, and will save you the trouble of 
mixing your own feeds, which would 
scarcely pay for one or two cows. If 
you had more cows it would pay you 
to go to the trouble of purchasing sev¬ 
eral kinds of grain with which to com¬ 
pound a balanced ration. For this pur¬ 
pose I would advise the following as an 
approximate guide: eight pounds Al¬ 
falfa or 10 pounds clover hay, 20 pounds 
cut cornstalks, two pounds Ajax flakes, 
two pounds cotton-seed meal, one pound 
oil meal. Divide the grain ration, feed¬ 
ing half in the morning and half at 
night. Do not feed any cotton-seed 
meal to cows within two months of par¬ 
turition, or within two weeks thereafter, 
as it is very strong feed and may cause 
trouble. Any change of feed should be 
made gradually and each cow should be 
fed according to her individual require¬ 
ments. C. S. GREENE. 
Buying Grain by Formula. 
All sorts of plans for cheapening 
the grain ration are being tried by 
dairymen who like to investigate. In 
Vermont last Winter at a place where 
considerable grain is bought, a proposi¬ 
tion was made to a miller to mix a 
grain ration at wholesale prices. Our 
reporter stated at that time: “The dealer 
offers to mix us a grain ration and sell 
$31.54 
“This will carry 31.4 per cent crude 
protein and 26.6 per cent digestible. We 
will try it on the cows and see how it 
works. If it is all right the purchas¬ 
ing agent of the Grange will buy in car 
lots and sell to farmers at an advance 
of 50 cents per ton. The price, of 
course, will vary with the grain market, 
and our formula will be varied accord¬ 
ing to the market price of the different 
grains.” 
This seems like a good scheme. It is 
only one p'an for doing business through 
co-operation._ 
FAIR JUDGES THAT EDUCATE. 
Morris, N. Y., is an inland town eight 
miles from nearest railroad, yet for 
more than 30 years in succession it has 
had a successful fair. This year the total 
entries for premiums in all classes were 
more than 11,000, with quality good 
enough in many cases to win anywhere. 
Among other interesting and instructive 
things was a lecture on judging cows. 
Score cards were prepared and given out 
to farmer boys. Then, calling these 
young men together, a cow was led into 
the ring and Dr. Smead went over the 
whole animal, pointing out defects and 
points that were correct, giving reasons 
and at same time inviting questions for 
further information from the young men 
or anyone else. 
When this was done a second cow was 
led in which the doctor and the young 
men each for himself proceeded to score, 
the young man getting nearest to Dr. 
Smead’s score winning two dollars, and 
the second nearest one dollar, thus get¬ 
ting knowledge without cost and pay for 
the most accurate use of it. 
CHAS. BENNINGTON. 
SIMPLE 
Manufacturers of 
Common cream 
separators put 40 
to 60 disks, or 
even worse con¬ 
trivances, into an 
old-style bowl 
and call it simple 
and modern. The 
52 disks shown 
on the sticks be¬ 
low are all from 
one such bowl. 
These contrap- 
T ^M:; 1,Ie tions must all 
Tubular bowls. be washed twice 
daily. 
But Sharpies Dairy Tubular bowls have 
nothing inside except the tiny, instantly re¬ 
movable piece shown above on the thumb. 
And Tubulars out-skim, out-last 
and out-class all other separators. 
Thatisbecause Ej gEHBft. Tubulars are dif¬ 
ferent—are the only simple, sani¬ 
tary. modern tTL f separators made — 
are the World’s L Best. 
‘^Tjoiv caw mofec maze money 
zvilhyowz cows the 9~H~C ura 
Y OU are doing a vast amount of useless work and losing a big lot of 
money if you are skimming milk “the same old way” your grand¬ 
parents did. 
Better turn over a new leaf and try the I. H. C. Cream Harvester way. 
That means you’ll gdt all the cream—and you can’t do that by hand- 
skimming. Every morning and evening you are feeding good cream or 
butter-fat to your calves. That butter-fat is worth 25 cents a pound and 
upwards. Can you afford such high-priced feed for the calves, pigs and 
chickens when skim-milk and corn meal will do just as well? 
You can find hardly a trace of cream in milk separated with an I. H. C. Cream Harvester, 
which separates to a ten-thousandth part. And that’s not half of the story. 
Four or More Cows Make a Cream Harvester Pay. 
It will pay because it practically cuts in two the work of keeping cows. It does away with 
washing numerous pans, crocks and strainers. You skim right at milking-time and have done 
with it all. You have only pure cream instead of a wagonload of whole milk to haul to the 
creamery. You have fresh, warm, sweet milk—that has life in it—for the calves. You can keep 
more cows and greatly increase your profits without any increase in labor. 
You are not keeping cows for the fun of it; but for the money you can make out of them. 
The I. H. C. way is the money-making, labor-saving way. There are two I H. C. machines— 
the Bluebell and the Dairymaid—each made in four sizes. Both are easy to turn and easy to clean. 
Investigate by calling on any International local agent. Or, if you prefer, write to us for 
catalogues and further information. 
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA 
(Incorporated) 
CHICAGO, U. S. A. 
SeldomSee 
a big knee like this, bnt your horse 
may have a bunch or bruise on his 
Ankle, Hock, Stifle, Knee or Throat. 
^BSORBine 
•will clean them oft without laying the 
horse up. No blister, no liairgono. 
$2.00 per bottle.doliv’d. Book 8 D free. 
A11SOK15IN1S, JR., for mankind, $1. 
Removes Painful Swellings. Enlargod Glands, 
Goitre, Wens, Bruises, Varicose Veins, Vuricos- 
lties, Old Sores. Allays Pain. Book froe. 
W. F. YOUNG, P. D._F., 88 Temple St., Springfield, Mass. 
