1911. 
THE RURAIs NEW-YORKER 
4-4Q 
I X-* IS. HAULING MILK, 
The California Experiment Station has 
been testing methods of handling milk 
and cream. Among other things they 
looked up the care of cream which is 
“gathered” or brought from the farms 
into the creamery Much of this cream is 
brought in unprotected cans, and some¬ 
times in open wagons, so that the sun 
beats directly upon the can at a high 
temperature. There is no.doubt but such 
high temperature will often affect the 
milk or cream, and the cans ought to be 
protected. Cut below from this bulletin 
shows on one side an unprotected 
In effect March 1 the New York Ex¬ 
change price was reduced one-half cent to 
$1.61 per 40-quart can, netting 3% cents 
to shippers in 26-cent zone who have no 
additional station charges. 
No milk sold in this vicinity at present; 
creamery six miles distant to which some 
milk and cream is delivered in Spring and 
Summer. Poultry is 8 to 10 cents a pound; 
eggs, 14 cents a dozen; butter, 18 cents, 
gathered each week by hucksters and taken 
to Cincinnati. Heavy rain first of last 
PROTECTING MILK CANS. 
week and mud roads bad; a few warm 
days, but now cold again. J. A. m. 
St. Martin, 0. 
I have been reading your articles on the 
consumer’s dollar and am much interested. 
We peddled milk in a city of 40,000 popula¬ 
tion and there were many other farmers and 
three companies that bought and peddled 
milk. They paid an average of three cents 
per quart and retailed for from five to eight 
cents and then only made a fair profit. The 
trouble is they are all independent and want 
the other fellow’s customers, and they drive 
10 miles to unload or peddle 200 quarts 
of milk, where if they were properly or¬ 
ganized they could each deliver 400 quarts 
In driving one-half mile and have no bad 
debts. What we need is organized farmers' 
companies to market our produce direct to 
the consumers. We could then supply the 
city people at 10 per cent less than they 
are now paying and get 50 per cent more 
for our produce. A grocer told me if he 
couldn’t make 40 per cent, on potatoes and 
apples he wouldn’t handle them. That is 
how the city people think the farmers are 
getting rich. B. A. 
Hallstead, Pa. 
Grains for Milch Cows. 
I saw a question asked by J. S. D. con¬ 
cerning the storing of wet brewers’ grains. 
I know a farmer, a neighbor of mine, who 
has been using a section of his regular silo 
for this purpose for the last three years, 
buying by carload lots. This silo is a 10- 
foot section of his regular silo, which was 
blown over four or five years ago. Finding 
that considerable of the lumber was broken 
and that he did not require one so high for 
his use, he cut the original height down 
about 10 foot. After a year or so, being 
dissatisfied with the cement pits for grain 
storage, the remaining lumber of the silo 
was erected into a wet grain tank outside 
of the barn, even with the ground surface on 
a cement foundation. This tank or silo has 
given great satisfaction, the grains keeping 
well, and much better than in a square tank. 
Of course they must be tramped well when 
storing, and a carload of 20 tons can be put 
away nicely. Of course $7 per ton would 
require a good place to store them and 
save as much as possible. However, the 
grains here do not cost on an average of 
over $4 per ton. E. l. s. 
New Jersey. 
On page 333, J. S. D. asks if it would 
be practical to store wet brewers’ grains in 
silo. I would advise him not to attempt 
it; to keep them in that way during the 
remainder of the season he will surely 
lose them. The only way to keep grains 
in the Summer time is to dig a pit 10 feet 
deep, six feet wide and 12 feet long, or 
Us equivalent in cubic feet, and then lay up 
a waterproof concrete wall all around and 
protect it with a tight roof. When you 
put your grains in pack them down with 
ail the force you have, and don’t put over 
a ton in at a time without packing them 
down hard, using a little salt, say about 
one-half bushel to a carload. Packed in 
this manner they will keep at any season 
of the year, and in the Winter fed with 
sood clean cornstalks will produce more 
milk for less money than any feed on the 
market, but you must have your feeding 
tubs clean and don’t let any grains lie 
around to decay. c e s 
Bloomingdale, N. J. 
can. In the center is a can wrapped 
in ordinary burlap and kept wet. At the 
other side is a'can with a dry felt jacket. 
Experiments were made in taking the 
temperature of the cream in these differ¬ 
ent cans. In a covered wagon, where 
the cans were protected from the sun, 
after five hours the temperature in the 
unprotected cans rose from 60 to 82 de¬ 
grees. Where protected by the dry felt 
cover the temperature was 66 degrees, 
and inside the wet burlap 67. Where 
the milk was kept in the sun without 
protection, starting with 60, the unpro¬ 
tected milk rose to 96; that inside the 
wet burlap to 70 and that inside the dry 
cover 73. 
When you write advertisers mentiou The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
"a square deal.” See guarantee page lfi. 
“FOR DAIRY COWS” 
An Easy Way to Compound 
a Properly Balanced 
Ration. 
A good, substantial foundation for a 
properly balanced ration can be ob¬ 
tained from a combination of 4 lbs. 
Dried Beet Pulp (preferably moistened 
for several hours before using) with 2 
lbs. 41% Cotton-seed meal, or in place 
of the Cotton-seed meal use 3 lbs. gluten 
feed, 3)4 to 4 lbs. Distillers’ Dried 
Grains or 3)4 to 4 lbs. Dried Brewers’ 
Grains. Add to this combination any 
grain that is available to you—corn, 
oats, buckwheat, barley, middlings or 
bran—and you will have a ration which 
will closely approximate the Standard. 
If wheat bran or wheat middlings are 
used, 3)4 lbs. of'Dried Distillers’ Grains 
or Dried Brewers’ Grains should be 
ample, but with corn, oats, buckwheat 
or barley, use 4lbs. This recommenda¬ 
tion assumes that your roughage (is 
equivalent in feeding value to 18 lbs. of 
mixed hay. If the roughage is poor, it 
may be necessary to slightly increase 
the protein feed by using a little more 
Cotton-seed meal, gluten feed. Distillers’ 
Dried Grains or Brewers’ Dried Grains. 
Dried Beet pulp can be obtained from 
local feed dealers generally or from 
THE LARROWE MILLING CO., 
1507 Ford Bldg., Detroit, Mich. 
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? Who said you can’t i 
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A manufacturer of Cream Separators, our 
“would-be competitor,” bas advertised extensively 
the followiug false statement: 
“AN HONEST CAPACITY CREAM 
SEPARATOR” 
“We make the claim that under any and all 
conditions a DeLaval machine rated at 450 
pounds capacity will skim as much whole-milk 
in an hour as any “would-be” competitive 
machine rated at 600 pounds per hour, and 
we have proved this statement so often in 
actual contests, that it has come to be an ac¬ 
cepted fact by all well-informed dairymen.” 
So far as the United States Cream Separator is concerned 
this statement is absolutely untrue. We offer $1,000.00 to 
any State Dairymen’s Association before whom the DeLaval 
can prove their claim. 
The following facts are known world wide, viz: 
That the United States Separators run their full rated 
capacities, and more. 
That we Guarantee every UNITED STATES 
SEPARATOR to separate its full rated capacity. 
That the DeLaval and other “would-be competitors” 
have been beaten by the United States in capacity as well 
as in efficiency in every National and International contest; 
at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, in 50 consecutive 
runs, extending over 30 days with the milk of 10 different 
breeds of cows ; at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacilic Exposition at 
Seattle in 1909, where the United States wa,s awarded the 
only Grand Prize. 
In their efforts to overcome the superiority of the United 
States Separator, as demonstrated by the recognized truths, 
the DeLaval resort to extravagant and untruthful statements 
like the one quoted above. 
The United States Separator excels in efficiency and all 
other points that go to make a perfect cream separator. 
Send for Catalog No. 159 now and learn the full truth. 
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Distributing Warehouses in all Dairy Sections of the Country. 
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Ittakes 
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feeds 
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does tho work of 
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machine. It is indis¬ 
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Agents wanted. Sent prepaid 
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35Hermon Street. Worcester. Mass. 
dash boards, or any heavy material. 
Stewart’ s Automatic 
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CIRCULAR 44 
THE PRESERVATION OF TIMBER 
Ready for free distribution. 
Contains considerable information on the simplest 
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181 Franklin Street. New York, N. Y. 
Write 
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Motsinger Auto Sparker 
Starts Gas Engines Cheaper 
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