1909 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1067 
LIQUID MANURE. 
J. T. R , Sherman, Conn .—Will you give 
(he best way for storing and handling 
liquid manure? 
Ans. —These liquids are the best part 
of the manure. They contain that part 
of the food which is digested and passed 
by the animal. This is particularly true 
of nitrogen and ootash. A German esti¬ 
mate shows this comparative value of 
horse manure: 
Pounds in One Ton. 
Phosphoric 
Nitrogen. Acid. Potash. 
Solid . 8.8 7. 7. 
Liquid . 31. 30. 
From this we see that we throw away 
the best part of nitrogen and potash 
when the liquids are wasted. There 
are three ways of saving them: Storing 
by themselves, holding mechanically by 
litter, and holding chemically. In some 
cases a cistern is dug in the barnyard 
and lined with concrete. Cement floors 
are laid in the stable, with drain pipes 
running to this cistern. This holds the 
liquid, and it is pumped into carts and 
sprinkled over grass lands. It gives 
much the same effect as nitrate of soda. 
In some cases the solid manure is piled 
over this cistern and from time to time 
the liquids are pumped up and soaked 
into the manure. In this way both li¬ 
quids and solids are used together. Some 
farmers depend on absorbents to soak 
up and hold the liquids. It is still the 
practice in some stables to use the dry 
horse manure behind the cattle. It is 
wheeled from the horse stalls and 
dumped into the gutter, and there ab¬ 
sorbs most of the liquid. Other forms 
of bedding, like straw, planer shavings, 
forest leaves or dried swamp muck, 
hold the liquids and go into the manure 
pile with them. Dried muck is one of 
the best materials for this purpose. Like 
the other kinds of litter, it holds the 
liquid mechanically, and, of course, part 
of it is lost. Another plan is to use 
substances that will make a chemical 
combination with the nitrogen in the 
liquids, and thus hold it. Land plaster 
is useful for this purpose. Kainit, one 
of the German potash salts, will hold 
the nitrogen, but is bad for the feet 
of the stock. Acid phosphate is better 
than either for holding the nitrogen, but 
has the same objection as kainit. 
“Floats” or ground phosphate rock is 
used, but is not a very good absorbent, 
and does not combine with the ammonia 
as well as the acid phosphate. A good 
cistern will save most of the liquid, 
but means extra labor. Next to that 
we would rather use bedding freely, 
with an abundance of dried muck in 
the gutters. Get the manure into the 
pile rapidly—unless it is hauled out each 
day—and use acid phosphate on the 
pile. _ 
FIGURING THE MILK PRICES. 
You printed recently some figures about 
Borden's prices, giving $1.87 for this Win¬ 
ter as being the highest price ever paid by 
them against $1.77 two years ago. I have 
not seen anything in the paper since about 
these prices, and I do not understand your 
figures. I figure it out about $1.68 per 
can (about 4*4 cents per quart) against 
$1.77 two years ago (or about 4% cents 
per quart). I don’t sell to Borden, but 
have to sell at Borden’s prices: $1.89 
would be toward 4 % cents per quart. The 
farmers should get at least that much for 
honest milk, but I do not know of any 
getting over 4% cents at Borden's prices. 
Only once in a while a farmer is getting 
more than a living at Borden’s prices. 
There is a little confusion over milk 
prices this Winter. This is not uncom¬ 
mon, since there are so many that may 
be considered regular, besides numerous 
others that arc special. Some of the 
prices are made by the hundred pounds 
and others by the can of 40 quarts. 
•Again, some prices are operative in one 
“zone” only, while others are fixed for 
two “zones,” or may be for milk de¬ 
livered in New York City. Beginning 
October first the Bordens pay two 
prices, one for the 26-cent zone and the 
other for the 29-cent and 32-cent zones. 
There is 10 cents a hundred pounds 
difference between the two. Tn the 
outer zones the price is as follows: 
October, $1.80; November, $1.90; De¬ 
cember, $1.95; January, $1.95; February, 
$1.90; March, $1.70. This is by the 
hundred pounds. The average of this 
is $1.87 per hundred, or about $1.60 
per can of 40 quarts. The price in the 
26-cent zone being 10 cents higher each 
month averages $1.97 per hundred 
pounds, or about $1.69 per 40-quart 
can. Two years ago the average prices 
per hundred in the two zones were 
$1.83 and $1.93 respectively, making the 
price per can approximately $1.57 and 
$1.65. _ H. H. L. 
SORES ON UDDER. 
What ails my cows? Some of thorn have 
lumps on the hind quarters of their udders. 
The lumps have broken, and blood and mat¬ 
ter runs out of them. I have been told 
it is cow pox. What can I do for them? 
Connecticut. b. b. 
In cow pox little vesicles form and burst, 
and then a scab follows, which may come 
off at milking time and cause bleeding and 
soreness. The disease is spread from cow 
to cow by the milker's bands. Affected 
cows should be isolated, and milked last, or 
by a man who does not go near the other 
cows. Wash the affected udders twice daily 
in a lukewarm solution of half an ounce of 
granular hyposulphite of soda to the quart 
of water. Wash the hands in a similar so¬ 
lution before and after milking each cow. 
Apply glycerite of 'tannin to the sores as 
required. In bad cases the milk may have 
to be drawn off with a milking tube. In 
that case see that the tube is sterilized by 
boiling and baking before using it each 
time, else it will be sure to do much more 
harm than good. a. s. a. 
One dishpan shows the 
only piece used inside 
Sharpies Dairy Tubu¬ 
lar Cream Separator 
bowls. The other 
dishpan shows the 
disks from a com¬ 
mon separator bowl. 
Is it not easier to 
handle, wash and turn the light Dairy 
Tubular bowl? Is it not common 
sense to expect the simple Dairy 
Tubular bowl to run steadier and resist 
rust, knocks and wear longer than 
a common bowl with a dishpanful of 
disks inside ? Of course it is. 
World’s biggest separator factory. 
America’s oldest separator 
concern. Branch factories 
in Canada and Germany. 
Sales easily exceed 
most, if not all, others 
combined. Tubulars 
probably replace 
more common sepa¬ 
rators every year than 
any maker of such machines sells. 
Write 
tor 
Catalog 
No. 153 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO. 
WEST CHESTER, 1»A. 
Chicago, Ill., Toronto, Cnn., Son Frnnolseo, Cal., 
Winnipeg, Can., Portland, Ore. 
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KELLY 
DUPLEX 
GRINDING MILLS 
Alfalfa Seed in Rhode Island. —A few 
weeks ago you had an inquiry about Alfalfa 
seed ripening in this section. I spent the 
last few days of last August with a friend 
on his poultry farm, about 10 miles south 
of Providence, R. I. A few years ago my 
friend made some rather unsuccessful at¬ 
tempts to grow Alfalfa. There are a few 
roots of Alfalfa still alive in his meadows. 
Noticing something peculiar about these 
plants. I examined them and found they 
bore seed pods. The seeds were not fully 
ripe, but seemed to have a good chance 
to become so. This was on the second 
growth for the season. ii. s. b. 
New Britain. Conn. 
Superior to any other make. Do more 
and better work, require less power 
and produce a better grade of 
feed. Write for Catalog and 
THE 
KELLY 
I. tho only mill 
mado with a 
double sot ot grind¬ 
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durable. ESPECIALLY 
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DUPLEX MILL & MFG. CO. 
Box 32, Springfield, Ohio 
Feed Dried Beet Pulp 
For Larger Profits! 
What the Secretary of 
Agriculture thinks of 
Dried Beet Pulp. 
The highest authority 
on Agricultural Subjects. 
Department of Agriculture 
Office of the Secretary 
Washington. D. C. 
The Larrowe Milling Co. 
Gentlemen: I acknowledge the re¬ 
ceipt of your letter of November 7th. 
relative to the value of dried beet 
pulp. I would rather have a pound of 
dried beet pulp to feed to a dairy cow 
than a pound of corn; and I would 
rather have it in many other cases 
where the object Is the making of fat 
solely. 
Very truly yours, 
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary 
Dealers! 
If you are not handling Dried 
Beet Pulp, you are losing good 
sales. No customer ever discon¬ 
tinues it once they try it. 
Write us today for quotations. 
“June Pasture 
the Year "Round” 
Sold Everywhere 
by Grain and 
Feed Dealers 
More Milk! More Flesh! 
Healthier Cows! Cheaper Ration! 
No matter what you are now feeding, you can add Dried 
Beet Pulp to the cows’ ration, and increase the flow of 
milk and keep the cows in the pink of condition. 
You know too heavy grain-feeding with dry roughage 
is bad for the cows. It is the cause of a great many dairy- 
cow ailments, and is expensive besides. 
Cows do better, and give more milk if part of their food 
is vegetable—succulent, palatable and digestible. 
Too often you find undigested grain in the voidings of 
the cow. That means waste. Now, if your cows can digest 
that feed and turn it into milk instead, your profits are 
going to increase just that much. 
See the point? 
That’s just what Dried Beet Pulp will do. It relieves the 
compaction of heavy foods in the stomach, so that every 
particle of food comes in direct contact with the gastric 
juices. The cows not only benefit by the nutrition con¬ 
tained in the Dried Beet Pulp but also extract all the nutri¬ 
ment from the rest of the ration. 
Dried Beet Pulp satisfies their craving for green food— it 
is really “June Pasture in bags, the year ’round.” 
Cut out some of your bran, cornmeal, gluten, hominy, 
cottonseed meal or other concentrated feed, and balance 
the ration with appetizing, 
digestible Dried Beet Pulp. 
You’ll have healthier cows 
and you’ll get more milk 
Write for 
FREE 
Sample and Booklet 
These People Are Unprejudiced 
Yet Read What They Say 
Mass. Experimental Station: “The experiments proved 
the pulp to have a high average digestibility. It was bulky 
and eagerly eaten.” 
New Jersey Experimental Station: “There was a ten¬ 
dency of the cows to get off their feed with the hominy diet, 
but at no time did they refuse the beet pulp. The beet pulp 
•was much better relished; regulating and keeping the ani¬ 
mal in a good, healthy condition.” 
Chas. F. Saylor, a Special Agent of the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, says: "It is nutritious, and its sanitary 
effect is remarkable.” 
Just give Dried Beet Pulp a trial—the results will amaze 
you. If you can’t get it of your dealer, order from us di¬ 
rect. Better write us anyway for the free sample and book¬ 
let. Do it today. [2] 
at less cost. There^s noth¬ 
ing secret about Dried 
Beet Pulp; it contains all 
the beet except the sugar— 
the only natural, vegetable 
feed on the market. 
THE LARROWE 
MILLING CO. 
1552 Ford Building 
DETROIT, MICH. 
MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY 
For FREE Sample and Booklet 
The Larrowe Milling Co., 
1552 Ford Bldg., Detroit, Mich. 
Please send me Free Sample of Dried Beet Pulp and booklet “Feeding for 
Larger Profits.” 
Name. 
P. O. 
State_ 
If satisfactory, I would like to buy Dried Beet Pulp through my dealer 
(Write dealer’s name here) 
