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THU RURAIi NKW-YORICICR 
January 25, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
BUTTER-MAKING ON THE FARM. 
One of the advantages of butter-mak¬ 
ing on the farm is the independence of 
the business. It is up to the proprietor 
of the place to keep things in a sani¬ 
tary condition, and produce a good 
article. There is no officious, and often 
ignorant, inspector from the city to tell 
you what you must or must not do. The 
matter rests with you whether you will 
conduct your business in a clean man¬ 
ner or not, and I have noticed that when 
one is doing an individual business, and 
his products are sold as being of his 
individual manufacture, he is apt to take 
more pains with his goods than he 
would if the products of many are put 
in together and the individuality is lost 
sight of. People who are clean because 
they want to be are a great deal cleaner 
than those who are clean under com¬ 
pulsion. 
Farm butter-making stimulates the de¬ 
sire to keep better cows. The cow that 
produces poor milk has no place on the 
butter-maker’s farm. It is a notorious 
fact that the cows of this State are pro¬ 
ducing a much poorer grade of milk 
than they were 20 years ago. This is a 
direct result of the general rule of buy¬ 
ing milk by the quart or by the pound 
regardless of the quality, so long as it 
comes up to the legal standard. A quart 
of poor milk can be produced for less 
money than a quart of good milk. 
Therefore the milk producer decides 
whether to keep cows that will give 
the very poorest milk that the law will 
allow. If any doubt the above state¬ 
ment, I will refer them to the fact that 
the law was changed a comparatively 
short time ago, reducing the legal stand¬ 
ard of milk in this State from 12 to 
11.5 per cent total solids. The reason 
for this was that so many of the milk 
producers had developed a strain of cat¬ 
tle that gave milk so close to the dan- - 
ger line that they frequently got over 
on the wrong side, and being banded 
together, they succeeded in forcing the 
Legislature to legalize their poor prod¬ 
uct, instead of the Legislature forcing 
them to give the consumer a good arti¬ 
cle. Personally I think that this was a 
mistake, for a poor article of commerce 
never yet made a demand for more, 
while a good article is always its own 
best advertiser. If I were living in 
a city and had to buy my milk, I should 
use a great deal of it if it were good, 
rich milk. But, on the other hand, I 
should use very little if I found that I 
was paying a high price for the nour¬ 
ishment which that milk contained. It 
has been so often proven that it is need¬ 
less to produce more proof that the cow 
that gives rich milk produces “solids” or 
nourishment at a lower cost than the 
cow that gives poor milk, even though 
she gives a much larger flow. 
The home butter-maker's farm is the 
ideal place for raising good dairy cows. 
I have been in the business as .a boy 
and man for over 30 years, and have 
raised calves on about everything that a 
calf can be raised on, and I am satisfied 
that there is nothing equal to home- 
produced skim-milk for raising the fu¬ 
ture dairy cow during the first eight 
months of her life. Skim-milk on the 
farm also makes it possible to raise 
pork at a profit, and there is no doubt 
of the fact that the farmer should raise 
at least his own meat supply. Then if 
he has a string of butter customers, it is 
but very little extra trouble to supply 
them with home-cured hams and bacon, 
and get 100 per cent on the dollar for 
another product. Skim-milk is also a 
fine supply of protein for the egg pro¬ 
ducer, and once again, it is not much 
trouble to take along some fresh eggs 
when delivering the butter. 
Then there is the very important item 
of the extra fertility retained on the 
farm where butter is made. The lot 
that served as a hog pasture the year 
before will generally grow the biggest 
crop of corn, and the calf pens and the 
pig pens in Winter contribute many a 
load of rich manure. A great many 
farms are being bought up all over the 
State that are in a rather run-down con¬ 
dition. These farms are often bought 
by people of limited means, and many 
times by those who are getting well 
along in life. They cannot afford to 
risk all in going in for some specialty 
with which they are unacquainted. To 
these people I would suggest a small 
dairy of good butter cows, a nice flock 
of hens, a little herd of easy-keeping 
swine and a good garden. If the farm 
is large enough to produce the hay and 
corn and a good patch of potatoes and 
beets, there is no danger but that the 
owner will get a good living. If his 
horse runs away and breaks his eggs he 
won’t smash the ham that he is taking 
along for some other customer. 
And greatest of all are the benefits 
that this business gives the people who 
run it. It brings out their individuality. 
They are not merely cogs in a wheel; 
not a number on the book of the in¬ 
spector that must be jacked up twice a 
year to keep him within the require¬ 
ments of the board of health. The man 
who produces and markets his own prod¬ 
ucts becomes more of a business map, 
and takes a keener interest in the affairs 
of the outside world. He lives a broader 
life himself, and leaves a better farm 
Tor the next generation after he is dead. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
Direct Trade in Butter. 
You will remember that on page 1114 
we printed a note from a Connecticut man 
who wanted to buy butter direct from 
farmers or dairymen. Several people have 
asked how this came out, so we print this 
letter: 
I thank you for your interest in the 
.matter, and wish to say that I have had 
six replies from farmers and that we 
are using now some very fine farmer’s 
butter which we bought direct. Letters 
came from Vermont, Massachusetts, 
Maine and Pennsylvania offering farm¬ 
ers’ butter. I have sent for and received 
three 10-pound lots as samples and am 
much pleased with all three. The ex¬ 
press charges were 50 cents on each lot, 
so that the butter costs me about 40 
cents per pound. However, I shall try 
to have some friends join me when I 
send again, and think express will be 
less than half as much per pound on 
say 50-pound lots. I have persuaded 
three persons to try a pound. Each one 
says the butter is nice, but adds that 
they get nice tub butter for 38 cents at 
the store here. Whether others will 
send with me when I order next time 
I don’t know. My wife says she does 
not care if no one wants any more sam¬ 
ples, for we can use the 30 pounds 
easily. eldon l. french. 
Connecticut. 
Selling Cream or Whole Milk. 
I am at present selling cream to a cream¬ 
ery in St Louis; they pay me 34 cents a 
pound for butter fat delivered, charges be¬ 
ing 12 cents on a five-gallon can. Now 
they are going to start a cheese factory 
here, and will buy the whole milk. I 
sold cream to the amount of $415.19 in 12 
months from seven cows. What do you 
think will pay best, sell cream and feed 
the skim-milk to hogs, or sell the whole 
milk, and feed the cheese water, as they 
call it, same to be had free? e. h. 
Missouri. 
We could not answer this without know¬ 
ing what the cheese factory is to pay for 
whole milk. As a general proposition it 
pays better to sell cream and keep the 
skim-milk at home, but without knowing 
what the whole milk will bring we cannot 
figure. . 
Breaking Oxen. 
Have you at any time published any¬ 
thing on the “breaking” of oxen for farm 
work? Where can such information be 
found. p. c. J. 
It would be hard to tell in print how 
to break oxen for work, Tor more “in¬ 
stinct” is required in such work than in 
any other farm operation. There is more 
direct influence of “mind over matter” in 
breaking and driving oxen than in any 
other farm operation we know of. There¬ 
fore it is harder to put in words. 
Cows Pay 
Bigger Profits 
More milk, thriftier cattle, healthier calves, are as sure 
as sunrise when the daily ration liberally includes 
CROWN drTed GRAINS 
No feed matches this in milk-increasing powers. For Crown Grains provide 
the most palatable, digestible balance of proteids and fats. Name your feed- 
dealer and get interesting circular on cattle-feeding. 
Makes all other feed feed better. Saves money and makes money. E 
Look for Crown Brand on bag. Made by 
MILWAUKEE GRAINS & FEED CO. 
452 Third Street, Milwaukee, Wis. 
SAVE-THE-HORSE 
(Trade Mark BeclrteredJ 
THE LAME HORSE is never cured whose owner reads 
and doubts,—BUT FAILS TO ACT —Here Is a case In 
Point,—And what Happened to this Subscriber Is 
Taking Place with Thousands. 
Letter No. 1 Orleans, Vermont, April 26th, 1912. 
Troy Chemical Co., Binghamton, N. Y.—Your adv. has 
given me courage to try again. I have a valuable pacer. 
Two years ago he went lame. 1 tried every remedy and 
Doctors have blistered three times for spavin and twice 
hip. The symptoms are—etc., etc. I determined to see 
what you think. HALE MASON. 
Letter No. 2 
Orleans, Vt., May 2nd, 1912.—I received your letter and 
book yesterday and believe you are right about its being 
a bone spavin. I was so encouraged I drove eight miles 
and bought it bottle of Fred D. Pierce, druggist at Barton, 
’Vr.d Will closely follow your special instructions. Thank¬ 
ing you for your quick reply to my llrst letter, I remain, 
Letter No. 3 HALE MASON. 
Orleans, Vt, Oct. 2,1912.—Perhaps you expected to hear 
from me before, but I have been waiting to see if any 
trouble would return after stopping the treatment. I am 
pleased to say the horse is well. I cannot thank you 
enough for your interest and the advice you gave. If I 
had known about it two years ago it would have saved me 
a lot of money. Yours respectfully, HALE MASON. 
Save-The-Horse has stood alone and unique among 
veterinary remedies lor over seventeen years. 
Every bottle,of Save-the-Horsc Is aold with an 
fron-olad contract that has 960,000 paid-up capital 
back of it, guaranteeing to permanently cure or re¬ 
fund the money; no matterwhetherltls BoneorBog 
Spavin, Tendon disease or Puffs—nor how aged, seri¬ 
ous or complicated the lameness or blemish may bo- 
But write, describing your case, and 
we will send onr—BOOK—sample contract, letters 
from Breeders and business men the world over, on 
every kind of case, and advice—all free (to horse 
owners and managers). 
Write 1 AND STOP THE LOSS.' 
TROY CHEMICAL CO. 24 Commerce Ave., Binghamton, N. Y. 
Druggists everywhere sell Save-the-Horse WITH 
CONTKACT or sent by us Express Prepaid. 
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^correctingtlie cause, 
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.Indigestion. The 
original and only 
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for Heaves. Sold 
by druggists for 22 
years; used in veterinary practice over so years. 
One to three $1.00 cans cures heaves. Money 
refunded if results are not satisfactory after 
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Free booklet explains about the Wind, Throat, Stomach 
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Flconomical to nse; dose is small. Safe for the colt, 
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