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February i. 
ALPHA 
PORTLAND CEMENT 
is absolutely the best tliat can be made 
for all farm work. Largely used by 
U. S. Government and in State, Munici¬ 
pal and Railroad work a reputation of 
20 years behind it. Ask your dealer for 
ALPHA 
Send lor Hooklet and learn why it is the best. 
ALPHA PORTLAND CEMENT CO., 
ADDRESS 
2 Center Square, EASTON, PA. 
The Milk Pail that 
Keeps 
Milk 
Clean 
IVill you try 
one IO Days 
Free f 
I” tlie only Olio tlml In n real at keeplnir milk < lean. 
There Ih no nlianre lor conlalnlnat•oil. Mill , purr, amt 
" tv eel, I oh L a h It Im ill a wo from the ™w, ein.P. Ill Into 
the | »nII noil It In all Unit ,/,„■* go then- “lllil shelf" 
cali’haa all hull iln.t „r tilth Unit (alia In,in lh„ row or 
uilihia. Milk ‘‘lii,rf>»o Jon ref Iii-.iiiihii It I , mill ft |inre. 
The pall la rlithl ahapeil, airohK, iiioiIh to Inal, ;.,/«// to 
■mthli. Von can’t know how Komi It In till you m>, p H inl 
try It. I'llrn, » 2 .r, 0 , Aak your ilenho . Iflm IniHi’t It we 
will hioiiI trial pall inopald. Simply return It if you don’t 
like It. Klro 1 ’llTlllnr. A,I,Irena 
STERILAC COMPANY, S Merchants Row, Boston, Mass 
Wo take nil cltnmtOH, for wo know yon w III lllcn It. 
Belli pi’i’)«iltl. If not niMhIuoI orv, rotiirii ol our 
oxponw. All tliifrymon approve It. '1 In- 
Sterilac Milk Pail 
Cook Feed 
(ltd largewt prollU from liorw-H, 
row*, Iiok», nlloop nml poultry liy 
leading rooked feed. (,’oatM In, 
than mw to reneli market tupping 
condition. The I 'm inri *’ Favorite 
I'o'il (looker mid Itollrr In practical 
mid Inrxpemdvo. Roll* nan, render* 
lard, coo KM HClappIc, idcilll/.cM milk 
cam , Ih>IIh Hpraylng mixture*. 
Send for Hjiirlol enle 11*1,. 
LEWIS MFC. CO., BuxC. Cortland,N T. 
foolish 
question 
No. 41144 
J^Pays Big 
Did the $25.00 to 
$35.00 profit you paid 
the agent make his 
cream separator any 
better in material or 
workmanship? That’s 
a foolish question, but 
there’s a sensible 
answer to it in the 
Economy Chief Dairy 
Guide for 1911. A 
postal card will bring 
it to you free. Write 
today. 
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Sears, Roebuck and Co. 
Chicago, Illinois 
BALANCING HOME-GROWN FOOD. 
Will you give rue a balanced ration for 
illcli cow for producing ••. good (low of 
milk and making butter? Corji on the car, 
oats and wheat I have raised on farm, to¬ 
gether witli clover hay and coarse corn fod¬ 
der and oat straw. Gluten meal, $1.50 per 
100; linseed meal, $2.50 per 100, hut think 
that to be high priced, i'dw is Holstein 
grade, fresh, calf three weeks old. The 
whole wheat to he ground, or Is It better 
to sell wheat and buy bran and middlings? 
Wheat 05 cents per bushel; bran, $1.50 per 
100; middlings, $1.05 per 100. 
Pennsylvania. w. o. k. 
Your feed dealer seems to be doing 
business on the “get rich quick” style to 
charge $2.50 per 100 for oil meal and 
$2 to $5 per ton more for other feeds 
than the market price. While wheat is 
retailing here at $1.20 per bushel you 
can get but 95 cents. Under these con¬ 
ditions 1 would not advise buying much 
grain, for the cost of hauling added to 
the difference between the cost and sell¬ 
ing prices would practically take all the 
profits off. For the grain ration I would 
suggest grinding the ear corn, oats and 
wheat all together and mix three pounds 
of gluten feed with six pounds of the 
home-grown mixture. (Jive your cow 
all the clover hay and corn fodder she 
will eat. This ration will give you a 
nutritive ratio of about 1 : (>, which is 
rather wide, but will produce fairly 
good results. The price of oil meal 
makes it prohibitive. As you have no 
laxative or succulent feed in the ration 
you will have to guard against constipa¬ 
tion. if your cow has any trouble in 
this respect 1 would suggest feeding a 
little molasses or beet pulp with the 
grain ration if it can he procured in 
your locality. c. s. 0 . 
A CONCRETE STABLE FLOOR. 
On page 1010 of last year 11. A. J. 
asks for information in regard to lay¬ 
ing cement floors over plank, and 
whether two inches thick would be heavy 
enough. I have had a little experience 
along this line, and my opinion is, that, 
unless your floor was absolutely solid, 
which, over a basement would be al¬ 
most impossible, it would not, hut would 
crack and leak, lit Mr. Brigham's plan 
in the same article, 1 think that it would 
he much better to place the fence wire 
reinforcement near the bottom, than near 
the top, for though while near the top 
it would help keep the floor from c rack¬ 
ing, if placed near the bottom, it would 
not only do this, hut would also ma¬ 
terially strengthen the floor, as before 
any part could settle the wires must be 
broken, or the hard top coating be 
crushed together. Five years ago 1 built 
some box stalls, or pens, in my barn, 
over a basement. The cross sills were 
heavy timbers, supported on posts K! feet 
apart. The joists were 12 feet long, and 
placed three feet apart. Over these I 
laid a floor of two-inch plank, spiking 
them down firmly, and where there were 
any cracks, through which the mortar 
would run, 1 tacked lath on the under 
side to stop them. Over this plank floor 1 
laid a coat about one inch thick, composed 
of one part cement to two parts sand and 
two parts clean gravel. Before this 
hardened enough to prevent nailing 
through it, I laid on it heavy woven wire 
fencing, being careful to let the edges 
lap over nearly a foot, and fastened it 
to the sides, and to the plank floor, with 
wire staples. I then put on another coat 
of concrete to two inches thick, 
mixed same as bottom layer, and finished 
with a coat about one inch thick, of one 
part cement to two of sand, raising it 
thicker at edges to prevent moisture get¬ 
ting in next to boarding. Ever since 
built, these pens have been occupied, 
practically all the time, by horses, colts, 
calves or hogs, and the floors are still 
as perfect as the day they were laid, 
while, in two other pens, built the year 
before, and floored with two thicknesses 
of plank, with tarred roofing paper be¬ 
tween them, the floors are getting unsafe, 
although used only a part of the time, 
and never occupied by hogs. 1 have 
since tried one or two experiments with 
lighter floors and without the wire re¬ 
inforcement and they have proved fail¬ 
ures. I am now thinking about a con¬ 
crete roof for some small outbuild¬ 
ings. Will some one who has had ex¬ 
perience tell of their success along this 
line? w. m. H. 
Constable, N. Y. 
Front Door, $4.60 
Suir 
Neweb 
Price 
$2.57 
w* 
Price 
$2.86 
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