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N. Y. Exchange price $1.81 per 40-quart 
can, netting 3% cents to shippers in 26- 
cent zone. 
THE “BUTTER MERGER” FAKE. 
We hoped that old butter “merger” 
had been driven off the stage, but here 
it comes with a new lease of life. This 
is from the latest circular: . 
$lQOO. REWARD 
IF OUR MACHINE FAIUS TO MERGE 
ONE PINT of MILK INTO ONE POUND of 
Butter.# Pound 
We never -expect to get the $1,000, for 
if you read this carefully you will see 
that they hold the money if they can sell 
the butter for four cents a pound! 
This fake promises to “merge” a pint 
of milk weighing one pound into one 
pound of butter and have two pounds 
of butter, sweet and fine. They can 
blow $5 worth of wind into $5 of your 
cash and when the “merging” is com¬ 
plete they will have the $5 and you will 
have the experience. Their scheme is 
impossible, for the stuff they turn out 
is not “butter” at all, and if you tried 
to sell it you would be liable to arrest. 
Suppose these fakes told you to pour 
a gallon of skimmed milk into a gallon 
of whole milk and make two gallons of 
“milk.” Would you believe them? Yet 
this “merging” business is worse yet. 
The United States Government has 
been after these schemes, for they lead 
people into a direct violation of the 
pure food laws. Letters and circulars 
about these mergers are coming thick 
and fast The answer to all is—let them 
alone. Don’t “merge.” 
The Value of Milk. 
The N. E. Medical Monthly for February 
contains an article on clean milk by Dr. 
Edwin H. Schorer, who takes up the cost 
of milk production in considerable detail. 
In commenting on this article the editor 
of the Monthly says: 
“Farmers do not usually keep records 
which are accurate, and if they do they 
are not inclined to tell the man, who, they 
feel, has been hounding them, what they 
are. As we have before said, when all 
parties concerned are willing to work to¬ 
its ease of digestion, etc. Let us then see 
to it that the public ‘get wise’ to the fact 
that they can well afford to pay more for 
their milk, and then we can have all the 
clean fresh milk that we want It is now 
a matter of dollars and cents, and we have 
a duty right along this line.” 
Ration for Guernsey Cow. 
Would you give formula for a daily bal¬ 
anced ration for milk production for a 
good-sized Guernsey cow, with following 
feeds available? Fairly good cow hay, fod¬ 
der (field kaffir), mangels, rutabagas, bran, 
meal, middlings, oil meal. Also give me a 
balanced ration for Summer with good pas¬ 
ture for the same cow. " j. h. 
New Jersey. 
A good ration would consist of what hay 
and fodder the cow will eat fairly clean, 
and a daily grain ration of three pounds of 
bran, two pounds cornmeal and three 
pounds oil meal. Give from 10 to 20 pounds 
daily of the mangels and rutabagas, always 
feeding them soon after milking, so that 
they will not Impart their flavor to the 
milk. As to a Summer ration, I doubt if 
any grain will be profitable when the cow 
has plenty of fresh pasture grass. When the 
pasture becomes less succulent and the 
flow of milk begins to shrink, give from two 
to six quarts of two parts bran and one of 
cornmeal. The quantity of grain to be fed 
will depend upon how good the pasture is. 
C. L. M. 
Milk Ration. 
I have at the present time 12 cows in 
profit. Four of these are heifers with their 
first calf, that came in the forepart of last 
April. The other eight are cows ranging in 
age from four to 10 years, came in Sep¬ 
tember and October; all grade Ilolsteins 
and giving me under the present conditions 
120 quarts of milk daily. I am getting 50 
bushels of wet brewers’ grains weekly from 
ai nearby brewery. With that I am feeding 
about four quarts of beet pulp and a quart 
of cotton seed twice daily. 1 can get any 
kind of feed at the market price except beet 
pulp; cannot get any more of that. I have 
been feeding a good grade of fodder corn ; 
now that is fed up. No silage, nothing but 
mixed hay, and very poor quality at that, 
with oat straw that is A No. 1, cut at the 
right time, cured and thrashed and stored 
in barn. This mixed hay is meadow hay, 
Red-top, Timothy and wild hay. Can you 
tell me what would be the most profitable 
for me to feed? My cows keep in good 
flesh on the peck of grains, four quarts of 
beet pulp and one quart of cottonseed 
meal, but not being able to get more beet 
pulp I am afraid my cows will become con¬ 
stipated. G. A. 
I think that under the circumstances you 
are giving your cows a good ration. Of 
course oat straw is not the best fodder for 
milch cows, but plenty of grain will help 
to make up the deficiency. If you give ft 
pound a day per cow of oil meal there 
should be no danger from constipation, and 
it ought to produce as much milk as the 
beet pulp. Oil meal is very high-priced 
now, but under the circumstances it will 
pay you to feed a little. c. l. m. 
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They cost but a little more than the cheapest, while they 
save twice as much and last five 
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They save their cost every six 
months over gravity setting systems 
and every year over other sepa¬ 
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that they will actually pay for them¬ 
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Why then, in the name of simple 
common sense, should anyone who 
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Three or four calves can be raised on it at the cost of one where milk is fed. 
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Established at Leicester, England, in 1809. 
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gether, there will be a real advance in the 
attainment of clean milk. But the constant 
conflict and overlapping of authority and 
Inspection is a great obstruction to true 
progress. We wish that you could your¬ 
selves realize and teach others the actual 
nutritive value of milk. We can afford to 
pay a good deal more for milk than we 
have been doing. We quote from that very 
excellent little book, ‘Food Values,’ by Dr. 
Edwin A. Locke: 
“One hundred grams of milk will fur¬ 
nish to the consumer 72 calories of energy; 
100 grams of roast beef will furnish to the 
consumer 357 calories of energy; 100 grams 
of tenderloin steak will furnish to the 
consumer 286 calorics of energy ; 100 grams 
of roast lamb will furnish to the consumer 
200 calories of energy; 100 grams of roast 
chicken will furnish to the consumer 181 
calories of energy; 100 grams of boiled 
eggs will furnish to the consumer 169 
calories of energy. 
“We might quote others, but prefer to 
keep to these few' familiar forms of nitro¬ 
genous food. A quart of milk will be about 
1,000 grams and will therefore yield to the 
economy 720 calories of energy. It will 
cost as Dr. Schorer has figured it for tis, 
10 cents. 
“Two hundred grams of roast beef, i. e., 
two-fifths of a pound, will yield about the 
same amount of energy and will cost two- 
fifths of the 40 cents which you pay for 
that food by the pound or about 16 cents. 
Steak and lamb are manifestly more dear 
in proportion to their value as energy pro¬ 
ducers. When we come to chicken we must 
supply four-fifths of a pound of that at¬ 
tractive food in order to furnish the same 
amount of energy as from a quart of milk, 
and this chicken will cost four-fifths of the 
35 or 40 cents a pound which we have to 
pay for that delicacy, i. e., about 30 cents. 
Good eggs weigh about 50 grams each. To 
supply as much energy as a quart of milk 
calls for eight or nine eggs, and at the 
price now ruling, 60 cents a dozen, that 
means an investment of 40 or 45 cents. 
“Have we made our point clear? Milk 
as now sold is a cheap food. As physicians 
we know how good a food it is, not merely 
because of its caloric value but because of 
What is the matter with my cows? First 
one went off her feed, her udder caked up 
and the milk got ail lumpy and stringy. 1 
gave her a dose of salts and fed her a 
proprietary remedy, but it did not seem to 
help her. Her udder is still hard and she 
gives about one-balf pint of thick stuff yet 
with a little milk. The next one did not go 
off her feed, but one quarter swelled up and 
she gives some thick milk out of it; it still 
keeps hard. The next one was a cow fresh 
about two weeks. One morning her udder 
was all swollen and caked and I could 
hardly get the milk out of one teat, and 
there was some thick milk. I bathed her 
udder with hot water and rubbed it with 
lard and turpentine. The swelling all went 
out but there is not much milk in the one 
teat, and it is still hard to milk. I was 
feeding 100 pounds of bran, 100 cotton seed 
and 50 flaxseed, feeding eight pounds to the 
large milker and less to the other. I hqve 
been feeding a standard dairy ration for 
about a month with silage heavily eared 
and Timothy hay, all they would eat. Am I 
feeding too much? I have been in the dairy 
business for a number of years and always 
fed heavily and never had anything like 
this before. c. w. H. 
New York. 
The udder disease is due to infective 
germs which are carried by the milker’s 
hands and also contracted from infected 
floors. Always isolate a cow when anything 
goes wrong with her udder. It would be 
best to isolate and fatten the affected cows 
for slaughter, or sell them for immediate 
slaughter, as they will not be likely to prove 
profitable dairy animals, no matter how they 
are treated. You are feeding too much 
cotton-seed meal and the entire ration is an 
excessive one. Feed only what the cows 
pay for, leaving a living profit. You should 
weigh tbe feed and the milk and know what 
the cows pay for their board. If you do 
this we fancy you will find that you art- 
feeding too heavily, apart from possible 
harm done to the udders by high feeding 
and induced indigestion. a. s. a. 
Twin Calves. 
I have a fine pair of twin heifer calves 
born recently. I am told that they are not 
liable to breed when matured. I am aware 
that a twin heifer to a bull will not breed. 
I would be glad to hear some one that has 
raised twin heifers. w. o. n. 
The statement is incorrect, as twin heifers 
breed, but the female with a hull twin calf I 
usually proves sterile. a. s. a. 
I sold 50 head of neat cattle this week. 
Cows, $40 to $50; two-year-old heifers. $25 
to $33; yearlings. $15 to $25; shotos, $6.50 
per 100 pounds; hogs, $12 to $16 per ton; 
potatoes. $1 to $1.25 per bushel. Weather 
here close to zero for the last six weeks; 
sleighing quite good. . a. l. b. 
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