11 ) 08 . 
Tine KIJ R A I. 
NICW-YOKKKK 
IH!I 
HORSE BREEDING IN TIIR EAST. 
Have we readied the much-talked-of 
horseless age when the farmer can press 
a button and harvest his crops, or pull 
a lever and deliver the goods? I think 
not, yet the eastern agricultural press 
seems to treat the great industry of 
producing the horse that works and the 
horse that sells as of minor importance. 
I do not wish to belittle any other 
branch of agriculture -far from it. 1 
know that a better acquaintance with 
our land, better cultivation, feeding the 
soil what it requires, better cattle, hogs, 
sheep and poultry, arc of the greatest 
importance to make the farm pay a 
large profit, and right here I want to ad 
vise every farmer, as far as possible, to 
.indy and plan and make his place the 
home of purebred stock. Start in as 
small and inexpen' ive way as you like, 
but start with one idea in view, and 
that t<> make your flock or herd better 
each year. Urecd to a type and to one 
line, and even if you do not all get those 
extremely high prices for your purebred 
stock, you will make a larger profit than 
with scrub stock, and will make it 
easier. I here is also a big item of satis 
faction and pleasure in producing and 
handling any line of purebred stock. 
Hut to do all these things and to handle 
an up-to date farm properly we cer¬ 
tainly must have horse power, and lots 
of it. Every improvement in farming 
methods means more work for Un¬ 
horse, and this means that some one 
must produce the business and draft 
horse. We all know that most eastern 
farmers have been buying second and 
third class farm chunks, shipped in 
from the West and sold at from $175 to 
$850, or an average of about $800, 
I hese horses arc from three to lit) 
years old, and in many eases quality and 
soundness are both lacking. These 
horses must be acclimated carefully to 
avoid a possible loss. Our large cities 
are paying $:i50 to $500 each for their 
heavy draft horses, also bred in the 
West. An eastern bred horse of the 
same quality would sell for $50 above 
these prices. We call only guess or es¬ 
timate the' number of horses that are 
brought and sold in New York State 
alone each year, and it would sur¬ 
prise every one still more to realize the 
millions of dollars that have gone out 
of this Stale for business horses. There 
must be some good reason for ibis state 
of affairs, as farmers can least afford 
to pay out millions of dollars for a low 
grade of slock when they can easily 
raise the very best class of work horses 
in the world at a good profit. My opin¬ 
ion is that no Slate is doing itself jus- 
tics- when it pays out a dollar for any 
stock that can he produced at a profit 
on its own farms. I can only attribute 
the present scarcity of eastern bred busi¬ 
ness and draft horses to apathy, lack 
of enterprise and carelessness in breed 
ing any kind of a horse, as long as the 
stallion is handy and the service fee is 
too low to be considered. But we can 
change this in a few years by better 
breeding and better feeding of more 
good grade draft colts, well fed, which 
mature young, are easily broken, work 
young and sell young. A high class 
draft stallion means thousands of dol 
lars in improved and higher priced 
horses in- ally locality, and at the pres¬ 
ent time there is no excuse for any 
farming section b< iug without a pun- 
bred draft horse, as there are plenty of 
imported and American bred heavy 
stallions that can be purchased in al 
most any State from reliable dealers at 
moderate prices, and these stallions can 
lie kept at an average 50 per cent profit 
each year. For fear that your readers 
might possibly mistake my pica for 
more and better horses as advocating 
quantity alone, let me say right here 
that in no class of stock docs quality 
tut a larger figure in the profit account 
than in all and every class of horses, 
from a Shetland pony to a ton drafter, 
Make quality the password to every 
move you make in your horse business. 
Don’t be content to raise scrubs or the 
cheap kind. Aim higher; it costs no 
more to feed and sell a $500 horse than 
it does a $800 one, and with blit a few 
colts of the tight kind each year, for 
the next to years, the horse can be 
made the most profitable slock on the 
farm. There may be some readers of 
this article who do not agree with me 
on the horse question, but we can all 
agree on the fact that good business 
horses sell, and that every farmer needs 
the money. k. s, akin. 
New York. 
THE It AT QUESTION. 
Great Value of Cats. 
Three years ago at our farmers’ in 
stitute, when the questions were taken 
from the question box, among the rest 
was this one: "Which is the most use 
fill animal on the farm?" The ques¬ 
tion was referred to one of the speak 
ers. lb- said it depended some on per 
sonal opinion; it might lie the horse or 
cow, bog or chicken, It was discussed 
to some extent ; finally ft man rose 
up and said: "I put that question in 
the box myself. I think the cat is the 
most useful animal on the farm. How¬ 
ever, we will let each one decide for 
himsrlf,i I want to say two years 
ago we were overrun with rats; they 
simply got into everything, almost 
ruined a crib of corn, caught chickens, 
young and old, devoured them, etc. We 
tried poison, traps and everything we 
could think of, with very poor results, 
except eats. Well, as luck would have 
it, some kind neighbor dropped several 
mother cats at our place, as some neigh¬ 
bors will, hut it finally proved a bless¬ 
ing in our < a <\ I,haulm to their kindly 
deed. In a few months we had a goodly 
number of eats. I he result was rat 
hides wen- at a premium at our place, 
and rats got mighty scarce; in fact 
those the rat-, could not gel filially left 
for parts unknown, and we arc free 
from rats. Hut cats increased, and it 
began to look as if we would have to 
find some method of ridding ourselves 
ofofttu. It proved easy; visitors would 
conn- and carry off two or three at a 
time and so they were passed on to rid 
other farms of rats. I do not say cats 
are tin* most useful animal on the farm; 
they proved very useful to us. (let cats 
to get rid of rats. We saved two, Teddy 
Hear and Tommy Gray. They are keep 
ing up the good work." 
Ohio. c. H. KKUBOSH. 
Rats Cannot Climb Tile. 
I see on page 85 that some man wants 
to know limv to build a corncrib to keep 
rats out. I have a crib of that kind; 
it has been built eight years. I here 
has never been a rat in it yet, and 
mice cannot get in it either. I took 
posts of green chestnut, four feet long 
and seven inches thick, and put them 
down in the ground two feet two inches, 
letting them stick out of tlu- ground 88 
inches; then I took seven inch tile, 
which is two feet long and put them 
down over the posts. That left the tile 
two inches higher than the posts, hut 
tin- tile will settle and come down even 
with the posts in three or four years 
That leaves the nib nearly two feet 
above the ground and the tile being 
smooth the rats rannot elimb up and the 
posts will last longer. I have no other 
buildings or fence close to the crib, nor 
anything under it for rats to get up on 
to gel in the crib, so I have no bother 
with rats or mice in my cornn ib. If 
the man will keep his grain put away 
carefully in his barn su the rats cannot 
get at it they will soon leave; rats will 
not slay where they cannot get much to 
eat w, s. o. 
II ihhets, Ohio. 
Iv. N. Y. -Sonic of our readers have 
doubtless heard of the plan of killing 
rats and mice bv spreading disease 
among them. 'Ihe germs of such dis¬ 
ease arc mixed with “bait" or food Nat 
urally, as would he the ease with larger 
animals, some rats will resist the <li-. 
case longer than others It usually be 
comes established after a time, and 
spreads until most of the vermin disap 
pear, A rat with this disease usually 
leaves tin- house for the open country. 
The disease docs not trouble other 
animals. The name A/ora (rat virus) 
is given to the preparation. Scientific 
men tell us that Inis plan of propagating 
disease germs is Ixdlt practical and safe. 
★ " 
TEN TERRS AHEAD 
OF ALL OTHER 
CREAM 
SEPARATORS 
In skimming efficiency, simplicity, dura¬ 
bility and eonvc.nioneo, tho now I'.IOM Improved 
I >e La va l (’roam Separators are fully ten years 
ahead <>f any other machine oil the market, to-day. Thirty years 
of experience, protecting patents, and the many valuable im¬ 
provements devised and perfected by the Do Ijaval engineers in 
all parts of the world during the past, three years, are responsible 
I'm- this fact. Every feature of the Do Laval ha sheen improved, 
from t he supply ran to t lie base. Tho new <-ent,re-balanced howl 
with its separate spindle is alone a triumph in separator eon 
.struct.ion and must beacon to he fully appreciated. 'I hen, there 
is I he new one piece 'nnfi-sphisli”sanitury supply can, adjustable 
shelves for skim-milk and cream receptacles, new frame designs, 
and ma ny other hut less important improvements, al I combining 
to make the Do Laval as nearly ideal as a separator for farm ami 
dairy use can he made. There is the proper size machine for 
every size da i ry fro in the si mil lest to the largest and no eow owner 
can afford to he without one of these improved machines. It will 
cost you nothing to see and examine the new Do La va l and right 
at your own home too, if you will but say the word. Our new 
illustrated catalog describing the Do Laval improvements in de¬ 
tail is sent for the asking. Write US at once and you will receive 
this interest.iug book by first mail wit.li fill I information as to how 
you may ha ve a free demonstration of the improved Do Laval 
in your own home. It will pay you to do so and your only 
regret will be that you didn’t investigate sooner. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
1*4 K, A! A I nun* N'lUKKT, 
OHIOAOO 
19lfl A HI ft Kit.iutiir mt iiir ,icy 
PHILADELPHIA 
Du11 M m A Hauiia M IfNTO Htw. 
SAN I If A NCI SCO. 
(T in-nil Olllcesi 
74 Cortlnndt Stroot, 
NEW YORK. 
1711 177 William Nt tuner 
MON!HEAL 
H A lit I*ii i n i*it MM HtI tMMT 
WINNIPEG 
107 Kilt«r Mthic wr 
PORTLAND. OH EG. 
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Let Us Tell You IIow You 
Can Paint Your Home 
Without Its Cost¬ 
ing You A Cent 
In ordnr to Introduce* "ttnUn" faint 
Ovnry whoro, wo have, adopted a ,!<>• 
oporatlvn pinn forgetting our imlnln 
into every community wtilrli will 
pay nor palronn fur their Imlp. Vmi 
ran liuvn nil fin, Unit,, 1‘alnt) you 
waul either Ilouxi, or llnru falul __ 
In any rolor with out. Mending tin onft emit of money. I 
You not. only rn,i paint your own ImlldlngM without 
coxt to ynn, Imt, without etfnrt on your part ran 
inuku them tiring yon lutlual rani, - 
n“i Send No Money 
WiMiioan JUMlWliAt woaay —tlilN In our own ox 
eltiMlvo i»!iui and 1 m llio rent tout) paint olfor nvur 
tnadn. It lw not it plan to Hivo away 17nlto Taint. 
Our oo oporatl vo plan oimbloN you to moo tho paint 
to UNO tho paint anti yot you don't liavotopay a 
cunt for II not ovon whan llio Job In doin'anti you 
aro fu IIy HatlMHod. I f you nnoil any paint, don't pay 
outyour own nmnoy hut wrllti and jfat our 
lliOM (Jo tiporali vo riau. It will at'hially pay you 
earth to onn Unlto I'alnl. Kvory urallou of Ulilto 
1’alnt In haokotl by a f» year trnaiantoo. 
HlKUVH pntftt CaialoK froo for IhoaitUtfiK- Wrlto 
today now don't put 11 oil*. 
THE UNITED FACTORIES COMPANY, 
Dept. 1* 31* ( lrv< IiiikI. Ohio 
Free Veterinary Book 
Irifalllhlatfiililn. hi a lit vi ovory man 
hlii own homo doctor. I'oMtatfo ya\ 
Tutlle’s Elixir 
I tun i roM non ud hontnii. < 'u run Mpt Inf), 
cuirbi Mpavlii, oio. $iuo row am 
for failure whnromiro In pomdhlo. 
rirrm's kijxik co., 
30 llnvnrly St., Iloston. Mom. 
Is’rwitr* of ail i'/ix/rrx; //try t*4 
only trttiPoror y (/ any. 
"SEABOARD_ Ooutmirn SENT 
MAGAZINE” ii»:ai T i«)ard FREE 
—TRONQHOLD 
A MAN'S DISPOSITION 
In, Without ilnulit, xorlotlxly n (Ton tod liy Llio 
iillmutir eomlltloiiM whir It NiiiToutiiJ him 
ARE VOU PLSAHANTLY LOCATEDT 
An, you shut In hy tin. In, uml .nowof n rigor* 
nun winter, wll.h untight hill, n choerhxu, xlty to 
gar.,, upotif Wlwit) of yenr lundx now l Covered 
with xnow) How about your Ntockl llnvo to 1,0 
knot lioimml uml foil') 
Thu fll'inni-H In our terrllnry urn plowing,their 
xtorl, grazing on tin, 1,111x1(1,,n, uml In lip- 1‘iitnoUri 
Mannl.dii unction grow,,in urn xhlpning I liclr pro 
duels to Northern mui-tintx, receiving mmnrk- 
uhh, prlroH for Mum,, <!m> to I,In, xnuxon. 
Our liuiihi urn Juxt AN I'nrtlh, nx yoorx, produce 
mil. hm mill'll uml ut u Him, wlitm prlrox urn llio 
mxl,. It'« u July you own yournolf uml I'umlly to 
look Into HiIm. 
Cl IMA I K IS A MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR 
ill connection with tin, protllN, lui well in, plenu- 
nre. to ho ilorlvod froni your locution 
Wouldn't, you film to ho i,l«UNaill.lv xlliiut.od, 
xnrroumlml by climatic rnudltlnnMwhich pornili, 
work to In, rurrlod on tho ontlro yenr, uml wlmm 
tho xtruggh, for existence ugulnxt tho alouiolltH 
of u fro/.oii North hi not Known) 
Tho ciilmato In tho ulx Slutox truvnrxod l,y our 
lino hi uimuruuNNod any whom, uml tho prolltM 
lmlng dorlvod hy tlioxn who only n fow youi-n ago 
worn hul.I.Ilug with tho rlgorx of winter In u 
northorn location lx ovldonro of tho vultm of our 
luiidx. Do you upoiit to i-onialii wbaro yon an, 
uml k„„p up tin, xlruggtuY Why not conn, down 
IntoHoothurn xunxlilm, uml lx, pluuNunlly loculod 
whllo nl tin, iininii thin, you uro deriving hlg 
prolltn from from your rropu) 
OUR LITERATUHL IS FRKK. 
The, "Sonhonrd iMugn/.iim," propnnxl oupMclullv 
for tin, In,unlit, of purtioH coiih'inplntlng u i-hnilgo 
of location, will hnlp you. I,«t ux put your tiunin 
on our mulling llxt. Drop UN n poHlul today. 
J. W. Will I I', Clan r t ii I lniliiniil.il Audit, 
SLAHOARD AIK LINK RAILWAY, 
I’ortNinoutli, Vn., Depl. I A. 
OLDS engines 
V7 
^ Thhi nun puny hax Iipmii mulling nugliini uml 
nol IIIIIg i lx«- for Mil, I y yuan \V" urn • 111 :l no 
NpMI'lullulx 
It Miami i to rnuxoll that u hlg. xui-rnn d'iil OOII* 
*-i’rii likn thin, thill liilikoN mm thing, mm I multi, 
t.lnil min thing w nl I 
Our now factory In tho mo-1 complctn uml up 
to (lain uiiglm, fliclory In llm I'nllml : i.iii lie 
cmi'ii of III, roiiiphilo nti ii 1 1 iiii.mi t. wo run hiilld 
iRIghim, of Uio hlghoMt oliliiioiicy lit, llio very 
l(nvi'»l roll. 
Tlinl I i why wo run give you u dm nlilc, nIiii- 
|>lo, nIi iiiik. Iilglu-xl •urn<l„, |»,"rI,'H *worli- 
Inu, long-llv„,ri'iiglliM ul a low price 
Tlilx llhnrul propoxltloti lx tho ci-ownlag imm ou 
on top of u lot of good I'limmon i.aiixn oim i, why 
you uliouhl buy uni llch, Knglmi uml none nl lu,r. 
Wi, Have Any Kind ol'im 
Knudne Y on Want 
Our limv i-nlulogiiii tnllu nhoul llioiii In dutftll. 
I iixpoohillv wunl to cull your uIImiiUoii to our 
lloppMi- .1 ltd,cl Knglim on 1 1,i,I . or ..lx. II to 111 
h p , which lx ronil.v to run wh„n you gnl II Kill 
It with gUMolliii,, throw nil tlm uwltcdi. Iiirn tin. 
l WANT YOU TO GET the moat liberal 
premonition ever made on a gnaoliiie 
engine. It will save yon money. When a company like 
this, the oldest and biggest ex, lusivc gasoline engine manu¬ 
facturers in the country, make such a proposition, 
it means something. 1 have placed my proposition 
in tho hands of our representatives. Write to them 
or to me, and you will receive it by return mail. 
JAS. H. SKAGKK, Lon. Mgr. Old, (>ni Power Co. 
Tin, Ohlu Knglno lu t,h„ beat and eboupcHt,^ 
ICngln„ you cau buy It tw Uio almph-xt, 
hi e,mxl ruction, nioul, oconondeiil to 
run. will flo your work nl. flu, Hiiiiilh-Mt, 
oxpciiKc, and docu not got out of order, 
whonl iliiit'i, all. No pliilng hi coniiiMit. nothing 
In imt up. always rnudy, cun Imi movod anywlmrn. 
All 01,1 m ICughiiiN run properly, nr* nnv to 
Htart wlulur ami Humnior, Tim II, N. Ciovoru* 
im,tit mum Ihuiii. 
Don’t, Kill I to Wrlto 
for our in,w cntlllogu,' uml flu, l|)>,iral 
liri>|»ixtl lou al once. AddroMM flu, liiiiim oltlro 
or liny rnprimuptatlvo 
IN, not huy any other unglm, until yon hnvo 
got my 111 in rul propimlllmi It In noiiioI Ii Iiiu' 
iiiiiinuiiI. Vmi cnrtnlidy want to know nhout It. 
OI.I1M (JAS 1*0 W Kit CO. 
Ilnllin OlUcft, I.Mlioltig, MMl, i WON Hi. 
Uontoii, 7il WiirIiIii)|Iiiii HI . N. I’oriUlii], Urn., MO i list, 
MmiKrMi4flM4’(i»C1t»r.J'»«»tl«*AKok«»rHC h. KIkIdJIIi^O jh l(l\« i *t, 
Kmiinmn (Mir, I'4*40 W. KldVNIlll Ht. Kwlllldun, l‘n. 
Omalin, loin I''it 11 iii ii i HI., IImiinIoii.T en. I'll avIuHt, 
ID htt hit id l < Hi, N V..UNWiuddlii((uIi M. Nnrfulk, V'i». 
IMln iipu|hi||i«, IIIfl M. Third Ht. Mlutnl, K1 »»V \ I II, M(. 
I * I»11 o 1 1 ii 1 1 • 1,1 m , IHI M Mai Uul Ht, 
To Inmiru prompt dollvni'low, wn curry it full 1 1 ■■ 0 
of Kuglmm and 'purtu with our roproNKUtatlvox. 
