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<1TIH> KUKA.lv NICW-YOKKICK 
February 2I\ 
SHEEP SHEARING MACHINES. 
Clin you (ell mo uuytllllig ubout sheep 
shearing machines? I have watched your 
paper for two yen cm nnil have not n» yet 
not Icoil one lulvcrl l/md or even mentioned 
lu TlllO It. N.-Y. Home uny liefe (lint (he 
wool comes from the miiehlne loose, not 
lilt chad together like II Ik when shcurcd In 
the old way, and Hint the kill von get hot 
and burn the shnop. If they are prnctlcnl 
woubl you iuIvIko a sheep man to buy one 
for 50 Hheep? 1|, m. M. 
Vermont. 
I have wondered why the sheep shear¬ 
ing machine people do not advertise in 
The K. N.-Y., for yours is not the first 
query. I have had concerning them. 
They are a practical machine. They 
work as do the crank horse clipping 
machines. In fact, tlie same standard 
gear and tubing may he used, with a 
knife or clippers particularly adapted 
to the sheep. They will leave the wool 
ill much better fleece than when 
sheared by hand, unless the operator 
allows the sheep to kick il to pieces. 
This 1 have known to happen with a 
poor hand shearer. By the time the 
knives got hot enough to “burn the 
sheep” they would have ceased to cut. 
1 have used a machine for six years, 
and I never knew the knives to get hot. 
In fact that is nonsense. The one who 
said these things would belter heed 
Josh Hillings, when he said: “It is bet¬ 
ter not to know so much, than to know 
so many things that ain’t ho." As to 
buying one for fit) sheep, that will de¬ 
pend, The machines cost $15 or $20. 
One would have to shear quite a num¬ 
ber to gel the hang of the machine. 
'I hey arc not difficult to use. 'I he im¬ 
portant thing is to know how to hold 
the sheep, which is also true in hand 
shearing. It takes two men, one to 
turn the crank, the other lo shear. If 
yon are able to get a good shearer who 
will do the work well and not cut the 
sheep, il will hardly be worth while to 
buy a machine for 50, unless you want 
to use it with another knife to clip 
horses. On the Other hand, if as in 
the writer’s neighborhood—the old 
shearers are all gone, a handy man will 
shear with the machine much more 
easily and leave the fierce and sheep in 
better condition than he possibly can by 
hand, and time will he saved, even with 
two men, for the one who turns the 
crank needs nothing but muscle and en¬ 
durance. My son, who never sheared 
a sheep by hand, will run off from four 
to six an hour, and do a fine job. The 
knives gel dull after shearing 25 sheep, 
and arc not easily sharpened at home. 
Two or more come with the machine. 
Each year before shearing time we send 
them to the factory, where for a few 
cents’ postage, and 30 cents for the 
work, they put them in as good con¬ 
dition as new. kdwaiui van alstyne, 
AILING LAMItS. 
I have three I<iniI >m one yenr old next 
April wbOMO noses run nil the lime; they 
also have coughing .spells, do not ent well, 
und ore In jioor condition. I feed them 
corn morning and evening, iiIho liny, struw 
and beiin pods, alternately. Kent of dock 
have same feed Mini an* In good condition. 
YVhnl onuses the I rouble, and wlml must 
1 do to euro them? u. c, t. 
New York. 
I should judge the trouble with your 
lambs is intestinal worms. The cough 
ing spells indicate this as well as their 
general low condition. The running at 
the nose is only an incident. Give them, 
after they have fasted 12 hours, a table- 
spoonful of gasoline, with three times 
that amount of milk or sweet oil. He 
very careful lo pour il slowly down 
their throats, with the head only slightly 
elevated, so that they do not strangle. 
In 24 hours give them another dose, 
and after an interval of five days give 
them another. A little far on their 
nostrils will perhaps relieve the dis¬ 
charge. Tt is likely that more of the 
flock have the worms, hut their systems 
are in better condition, and they arc 
more resistant, ! would advise you to 
get a lot of tobacco stems, cut them 
up, dampen them slightly and mix them 
with their salt, keeping this before 
them continually. If they arc like my 
sheep, they will soon eat it readily. You 
will probably find the skin of the 
affected lambs blue instead of a healthy 
pink. They should he put by them¬ 
selves and given some more nourish¬ 
ing food, some roots if possible, with 
oals and a little oil meal. For growing 
lambs, your ration lacks blood-making 
material, not only for their health, but 
to insure most gain at the. least cost. 
All the protein feed they now get is 
the bean pods, which arc excellent. If 
you will substitute for a part of the 
corn, a gill daily of nutted oil meal I 
am sure it will pay. Give them only 
a part of this amount at the start. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
SOILING COWS. 
I inn In possession of live acres of lnnd 
and can rent 10 or 20 acres more. !m It 
poHMlble for me to keep about five cows, 
feeding In stable the year round, buying 
only (be grain, raising roughage myself, 
doing all tbo work myself? I have ua In¬ 
cubator and raised 500 chickens Iiihi year, 
but wImIi (o Increase It. I nm somewhat 
now to the business of Into years, but ns 
a boy worked and was practically raised 
on a farm. My business Is now ho poor 
Hint I fear I shall have to make my five 
acres support my family, wife and throe 
niiimM children. I have figured It out ho 
tlint I think il might bo made profitable, 
1ml feed Is ho very high IIiIn year that 
profits would I think lie very miiiiiII di¬ 
rectly from products sold from the cows. 
1 need manure, however, end would like 
to do II iih outlined above. I have Ih'cii 
studying Henry's book and figuring cost of 
rations as there «et forth at present prices, 
and I cannot see much In 11. Ills cheap¬ 
est ration In about U5 cenln per day, and 
It seems to me a good cow that will 
make profitable returns on this outlay the 
year round. Bran here Is $1.30 per 1 u<); 
gluten meal $1 40; middlings $1.40; wheat, 
$1.05; corn, ko con Is; com stover, per Ion, 
$0. Milk H<>bt lo the denier brings 14 
cents. Would you give me your vIcwh? 
It Is a Hiu mIX proposition Iml a most. Im¬ 
portant one to me. I cannot nITord lo huh- 
tain much If any loss. . 1 . u, a. 
Frio Co.; N. Y. 
Yes, five good cows will pay if you 
handle them right and can grow such 
roughage as pens, clover of different 
kinds and possibly Alfalfa. These fod¬ 
ders save grain. Send lo the New Jer¬ 
sey Experiment Station for bulletins on 
the soiling system of feeding cattle and 
plan for a succession of green crops. 
Start with oats and peas, and follow 
with millet, clover, fodder corn, 
sorghum, etc., always seeding some of 
your land in I’all lo rye and wheat, so 
as to have green forage early in Spring. 
Study all you can learn about Alfalfa—• 
it is the great grain saver where il will 
grow. You will find that when you have 
an abundance of good clover hay the 
feed ration question will he much sim¬ 
pler. Of course you must understand 
that all this means hard and constant 
work. During the season the green fod 
der must he cut and hauled every day. 
This is, however, the way to keep cows 
for large production, and it is possible 
for you to work il out. 
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The 1101.LAND STOCK RHMI’DY 
COMPANY, WillliiKton. Ohio. 
Seldom See 
a big kune Ukn II.Ih, but your homo 
umy liavo il bunch or brulsii on lit* 
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AjgSORBINE 
will clnan tlieiii otr wlthoiiMaylnf^rio 
. |i home liI». No blist er, no liulr gone. 
1 f2.00por bottle itellvrioil. Hook H (j 
r iBunl f "' ,K ABBORBINH, Jk., for mankind, 
- Mil 11 tt-l<Hl. He move* Hoft Hunches. (Jaies 
‘•“bW Varlcoso Veins, Varicocele, llvdrooolo. 
Kupturod Muscles or l.lgiwiients, Enlarged 
Glands. Alluya l’aln. Mfii. only by 
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The discrtminah'nq '•(jp farmer keeps a supply of 
SLOAN’S LINIMENT 
For spavin, curb, splint, sweeny, capped hock, founder, strained 
rendons. wind puffs and all lameness in horses- 
For thrush, foot rof and qarqeF on caffle and sheep* 
For hoq disl-cmper, hoq cholera, fhumps and scours in hoqs* 
ror diarrhoea,canker and roup in poulfry - 
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DR .WEARR’d 
HEAVE REMEDY 
That lioftvf.M can bo cured Imn been 
proven ill llioimitiids of cusan where 
Hr. Woare’s Hen.vo Iteinedy Imn been 
used according to directions unit the 
borne Iiiih been restored to health. 
Hundreds of eases of long standing 
where i.lie lie rue lias been practically 
worthless are recorded as almost cured. 
fi piililUl package j)r, Wourp's Heave 
Remedy sent prepaid any where, $04. 
JCnnugb to cure any ordinary case. 
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Wheels 
WITH GROOVED TIRES 
4 In. wldo« Tbo Groovo protect) 
the heads of npnUen from wear, 
which mnKea wheel Rood and 
•trong till tiro In worn out. Wn 
make plain tire wIicoIh In other 
width a. Wo make wheels to (il 
any thtmblo skein or atralghfc 
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HAVANA MUTAL WHEEL CO.. 
Box 17 Havana, Ill. 
A Man From Ohio Talks 
Them is 
Bll years of 
ex perienee 
in this 
machine 
IL runs 
a horse 
lighter 
than any 
other 
About the Success Manure Spreladcr 
"It ban linen the most satisfactory piece of machinery I ovor purehniod, It spreads all 
kinds or iiiainirn hotter and covers more ground than can Ini done by hand. The narrow 
front trucks «|p away with all Jerking of the longue against the horses on rough ground, 
I can start a load that a team cannot shake on a wagon. I can get In and out nr places 
-lint I couldii t with a wagon It ban changed the hard and much dreaded Job <if ninnurti 
spreading Into a snap. I would not do without It A. O. I'resuo, Mention, < I. 
The Success is Now Completely Roller Bearing 
Huvon nntiM, oiio to whool, two on liontnr. ono on bo/ifor flrlvo. That NnttloM 
tlio ih’til’t lironlnm, 11- in ntill tlm nlfumrhoMt, bout working Mprmulor in/itlo. Bttnl for 
cfit.filog Imfnrn you Imy, 
KEMP & BURPEE MEG. COMPANY, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK. 
J 
Bill Galloway Says You Owe 
Him a Letter or 
(lalloway pays lie’* too hnnyshlii- 
I | fl I Ws Fj I ping Manure Spreaders to write 
an''ad" this week. Ilutlie wnnlx 
you to write him, anyway,unit iulvo yourself (IK) Just 
iiv diilng It. hond him a postal touay. 
I lien ImMI show you rlghton Urn Jump 
Imw tn clean II |I (Ml anil make (WO In 
(MX) extra on yimr erep. 11 it'll l) x Use 
yen can put file Hiireader on your place 
Crea, mid work It80 days, Just tn prove 
Ms I'lalMiM. Iieferoyeu letlwnse of a cent. 
Ilalleway has (lie only successful Wagon Ilnx 
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fop* 
‘Write 
/At Once” 
Hsys 
Oalluwujr 
Hpriuidnr. Ileven Original I'ul.enln. 'Ills raelnry”" 
turns out70 a day. (Inllnway makes yell a prlee that Is right. 
When you get (its bed Hot 1’ronuMl I Ion you'll lie In for a 
kVee Trial right away. Write Oalloway this very day. 
Spend 
1 Cent 
Make $50 
■. r . »» • i i-r - i ■ i nuy ill'll v»'»jr 
i oloiply mu v, 'florid Mo Your Spronder Proposition Atul 
$ Dl(r Prcm I 'ntolojf," und Utlelrnnw hltn naraorially. 
Win. OalloWsy. Proa., WM. GALLOWAY CO.. 
080 Jolloraen St., Waterloo. Iowa 
MAINTAIN 
YOUR SOILS 
FERTILITY 
with Ah, 
J. //.£. 
MAMUPE SPREADER 
T HE best of nil fertilizers Is burn- 
ynnl mnmit o. Il Is your duty to 
iipiily it on (be land, so that you 
will get the moat out of It, nnd 
avoid tlie lie cHslly ol hiiylng cxpeiiulvo 
commercial lei tili/.elH. 
You ono make every load of manure 
r ’ou Imvo go twice as far, by Kpicading 
i will) one of tlie-.e Nli'oiig, durable, 
rigid working I. II. C. *i»rcudei h. 
Kemp 20tii Century (Kctuin Apron 
Spreader). 
Clovrrlcsl (Kndlnmi Apron Sprondar). 
Corn King (Return Apron Spieadni). 
If you Imvo tipwurda of n hundred 
loads of manure to spread, any one of 
these mac hines will nioro Ilian pay for 
itself tlm Inst season. 
Tim spreader will do this l>y enabling 
you to cover more ground with I lie same 
manure, by getting a bettor stand of 
giutn or gi.iHs, by doing your soil more 
permanent good, and bv greatly elect eas¬ 
ing I he labor of nmiiuie bundling. 
With an I. It. C. spreader, tlio wm Ic 
ol hauling out and spreading inaimie is 
icdnced j11• -1 about one ball, and it is 
made agreeable wm k Instead ol a Job 
In lie dreaded and postponed us long as 
possibles every year. 
Any way you look at It, an I. II. C. 
spreader is n good Invosliuent. 
•Should you not make such an invest¬ 
ment lids year? 
Every I. II. C. spreader Is made so 
simple, strong and durable, that, with 
reasonable euro, Il will last you your 
lifetime. 
The International agent lu your town 
will supply you with catalog and nil 
Information you desire concerning tlm 
I. II. C. spreader Im handles. Oi II you 
prefer, wi lie for catalogs, colored 
hangers, otc., direct to the homo ollico. 
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA. Chicago, U. S. A. 
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