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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
March. 7, 
DAIRYING IN FLORIDA. 
I have received several letters making 
inquiries in regard to the dairy business 
in or around Tampa. In order to ac¬ 
quaint myself with the conditions so 
that I might answer these inquiries cor¬ 
rectly, I made a special visit to the 
dairy of D. S. Fisher, about three miles 
from the city. Mr. Fisher has a herd 
of 46 cows and heifers, .'56 of which he 
is at present milking. The average per 
cow of milk produced is about 750 gal¬ 
lons annually, though there arc some 
dairies around here that do not average 
more than 450 gallons per cow. 
I he price of milk at retail is 10 cents 
per quart, but when sold at wholesale 
the present price is 26 cents per gallon 
for “hot milk,” i. e., milk right from 
the cow, and 27 cents when cooled with 
ice. Ice costs 25 cents per 100 pounds. 
As to the cost of feeding, Mr. Fisher 
feeds daily 100 pounds each of shorts 
and cotton-seed meal, and 200 pounds 
of sucrene, a mixed commercial feed, 
and in addition about 200 pounds of hay 
produced in this State and costing at 
present $22 a ton. The other feeds cost 
an average of $1.50 per 100 pounds. 
During the Spring months, when the 
pastures arc at their best, no hay is fed. 
Prices of feed have advanced within 
the past two years nearly 50 per cent. 
Price of labor has advanced 23 per cent. 
Mr. Fisher has two men hired to whom 
he pays each $40 per month, they hoard¬ 
ing themselves. “Cows brought here 
from the North,” said Mr. Fisher, “in¬ 
variably get the tick fever, and almost 
always die; therefore dairymen usually 
raise their own cows, or purchase those 
raised in the South.” Prices for cows 
vary widely, running all the way from 
$30 up to as high as $100, owing to the 
value of the individual cow. Mr. Fish¬ 
er's men were planting corn the day I 
was there, February 5, and had growing 
potatoes and other vegetables, and a 
line bed of strawberries ripening, which 
were set out last November. 
J. W. GAMBLE. 
THE STRENGTH OF A PEDIGREE. 
Y ears ago the writer had experience 
iir handling pedigreed swine, and knew 
the beginning of the making of pedi¬ 
grees for Berkshire swine. The stand¬ 
ing of the man who wrote the pedi¬ 
grees was always the strongest factor 
in their value, and such is true of all 
pedigrees. If the writer writes what 
lie knows, or believes to be true, he 
may, of course, make a mistake which 
can be corrected. But if he writes a 
pedigree that he knows is not a true 
one, he at once goes on record for 
trouble. If a man writes a breeder for 
price and pedigree of stock, and he is a 
student of pedigrees and compares the 
several letters he may have from the 
breeder, and is a good student of 
human nature, he can usually form a 
correct opinion as to the reliability of 
the breeder. If the breeder is an hon¬ 
est man he makes a constant effort to 
write the facts; if dishonest, he is not 
so careful but that he will let it show 
honest breeder. For a time he escapes, 
but unless he quits the business volun¬ 
tarily, or death stops him, some man 
will discover his rascality. Then a 
course at law stops him, or else by com¬ 
mon consent, purchasers pass him by, 
and his business fails, and he realizes 
that his greed for gold has, in most 
cases, left him without it, and in all 
cases without honor or respect. There 
arc honest men who breed stock who 
keep the pedigrees correctly who do not 
reach the highest standard as to quality 
of animals produced. Then there are 
breeders who make the pedigrees cor¬ 
rect, and produce the highest class of 
animals. Both classes of men are hon¬ 
est in their work, but they differ in 
capability, and purchasers arc pleased, 
or disappointed, owing to which they 
have purchased from. Personal selec¬ 
tion is always best, but too often this is 
impossible. In this case, the purchaser 
should exercise much care, and place 
his orders only with honorable men, 
whether he finds them in the common 
or higher walks of life, always recog¬ 
nizing the indisputable fact, that the 
pedigree written is no stronger in char¬ 
acter than the character of the man 
who wrote it. john m. jamison. 
Ross Co., O. 
SELECTING GOOD SEED. 
The Minnesota Experiment Station 
makes a good argument in one of its 
bulletins for better farm seed—calling 
for plump, full grains. It says that but 
five to 25 per cent of grain grown on 
the average farm should ever be used 
for seeding. To separate such seed the 
bulletin suggests a device to go with a 
side-shake fanning mill. The little pic¬ 
ture is taken from the bulletin, and the 
following description: 
.Screen No. 1 should be just coarse enough 
to let the grain through. It Is used simply 
to run off sticks and straw. Hoard No. 2 
carries the grain backward In the mill so 
as to let it drop through the blast, at one 
place. The light kernels are blown past the 
end of screen No. 3, the heavier kernels fall 
on screen No. 3. Board No. 2 may be 
moved forward or backward to throw as 
large or small per cent of grain on screen 
No. 3 as desired. Screen No. 3 should he [ 
coarse enough to let the small kernels 
through on to screen No. 4. it Is adjust¬ 
able as to slant and may be moved forward 
or backward to regulate the amount of 
grain it will catch. Screen No. 4 Is line 
enough to carry nearly all of the grain ! 
over Info market grain. Any side-shake 
mill may be fixed up in this way. Separa¬ 
tion by weight cannot be made with the end- 
shake mills, but the large kernels can be 
separated from the small ones in any pro¬ 
portion desired, simply by using coarse or 
fine screens in lower part of mill. 
MoraJ—Bay a Simple Machine, 
No cream separators made are more 
eastly cleaned than the two simple, 
close-skimming I. H. C. cream har¬ 
vesters, Dairymaid and Bluebell. 
The two brushes which go with the 
machines, and a pan of hot water, will 
enable you to thoroughly clean your 
separator in short order. 
You can get at every part of the 
bowl and tinware with the brush. 
You can't make too much of the 
matter of cleanliness in using a cream 
separator. It avoids odors and taints. 
It enables you to make high-grade 
products. 
It is the worst kind of a mistake not 
to buy a separator anybody can clean 
easily and quickly. 
The Dairymaid and Bluebell cream 
harvesters are not distinguished 
merely for their easy cleaning. They 
have every requisite to make them 
right working and valuable to their 
owners. 
They skim to a trace; that is, they 
get all the butter fat down to the 
thousandth part. 
Their wonderful simplicity makes 
them most durable. One of the prin¬ 
cipal reasons why they are so popular 
with users is that it is almost impos¬ 
sible for them to get out of order. 
The Dairymaid is a chain driven 
machine. The Bluebell is driven by 
simple gearing. 
If you need a cream harvester, call 
on any International local agent and 
talk the matter over with him. He 
will supply you with catalogs and full 
particulars. Or, if you prefer, write 
direct to the Home Office. You will 
be interested in securing a copy of 
“Development of the Cream Sepa¬ 
rator" or colored hanger which will 
be mailed on request. 
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somewhere. As my experience goes, 
breeders do not keep duplicate copies 
of letters written to customers. Doubt¬ 
less it would save much trouble, often¬ 
times. Still, an honest man has not 
much to fear from not doing it, because 
he tries to write only facts, and facts 
are easily duplicated. But the rascal who 
writes a false pedigree is apt to fall 
into trouble at the second writing, un¬ 
less he has kept a copy of the first; 
even then he may not he sure, for he 
may not have kept a correct record of 
letter sent, for a written lie may have 
a beginning, hut it is very doubtful as 
to its ending. But there is this trouble 
with the majority of men who buy pedi¬ 
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