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Live Stock and Dairy 
THE CHARACTER OF A MOLASSES FEED. 
In reading The R. N.-Y. of December 
25, page 1117, “Exposure of Fake 
Feeds,” I notice you quote “Badger 
Dairy Feed.” In addition to falling be¬ 
low the guarantee these feeds contained 
oat hulls, buckwheat hulls, old straw and 
weed seeds. The following is a letter 
the manufacturers have mailed me prior 
to the appearance of the above in The 
R. N.-Y.: 
Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 4, 1909. 
Dear Sir: Are you feeding the only mo¬ 
lasses feed that was fed at the National 
Dairy Show just held in Milwaukee, where 
the most costly and best registered cows in 
the country were exhibited? 
Badger Dairy Feed was the only molasses 
feed used, and let us tell you why,—“Be¬ 
cause it is the feed that makes good,” and 
leading dairymen in the country know it 
and are saving money by using Badger. 
They know they will get more milk and 
have better looking stock—and here is the 
important part of Badger—your feed bill 
will not be any higher—but on the contrary 
will be lower. Let us tell you why, because 
every ounce of Badger has its feeding value 
—there is no waste whatever—its protein 
properties produce the milk and the solid 
matter it contains builds up your cow. 
Therefore, it is up to you to use the feed 
that always makes good—the feed that will 
make your cows give more milk and produce 
more butter fat and will also save your 
money. 
Let us tell you another thing about Bad¬ 
ger. It is composed only of the best grades 
of raw material and does not contain any 
weed seeds, oat hulls, peanut hulls, corn¬ 
cobs or any adulterant whatever. There¬ 
fore, knowing that you are an up-to-date 
and progressive farmer who is always look¬ 
ing for something better—something that 
will give you more value for your money, 
we ask you to try Badger Dairy feed and 
we know (he results in the milk pail will 
convince you. 
Call on Mr. -, get a small quantity, 
give it a good thorough trial and the feed 
will convince you; if you are using Badger, 
increase your ration and watch the results 
in the milk pail. Also send for our free 
booklet which tells you how to take care of 
your stock in case of sickness, etc. 
I do not want to feed oat hulls, etc. I 
purchased GOO pounds the beginning of 
December; have used almost entirely 
for 10 days. The results thus far are not 
deleterious. Probably I do not feed 
' enough. I am feeding six quarts daily. 
The reason for writing you is to ascer¬ 
tain whether same Badger Dairy Feed on 
page 1117 is meant, as the letter attempts 
to induce me to become general user. 
Pennsylvania. J. f. fretz. 
R. N.-Y.—We obtained for Mr. Fretz 
a copy of Bulletin 316. On pages 234, 
235 and 236 he will find the record of 
three samples of this Badger feed. Here 
it is: G means what the company guar¬ 
anteed and F what the chemists found: 
Protein. 
Fat. 
Fibre. 
No. 
1. 
. G. 18. ' 
F. 16.78 
4.50 
4.91 
7.39 
No. 
2. 
. G. 18. 
F. 13.08 
G. 4.50 
4.10 
10.15 
No. 
3. 
. G. 18. 
F. 16.08 
4.50 
4.15 
7.96 
Examination under the microscope 
showed that these feeds consisted of 
molasses, brewers’ grains, malt sprouts, 
cotton-seed meal and corn with various 
adulterations. Among the waste stuff 
found were buckwheat hulls, oat hulls, 
particles of straw and weed seeds. The 
following weed seeds were found in the 
three samples: corn cockle, charlock, 
catchfly, yellow foxtail, green foxtail, 
fambs’ quarters, lady’s thumb, wild buck¬ 
wheat, barnyard grass, ragweed. 
We simply took these samples at ran¬ 
dom in preparing the former article. 
These records show that they all fell 
below guarantee, all contained “stuff,” 
and weed seeds. The chemist of the 
Massachusetts Experiment Station writes 
us that in 1909 three samples of Badger 
feed were examined with the following 
result: 
Frotein. Fat. Fiber. 
Sample. Found. Guar. Found. Guar. Found. 
No. 1. . . . 16.50 18.00 
No. 2. . . 15.80 18.00 
No. 3. . . 15.01 16.18 
4.88 4.50 11.52 
5.23 4.50 12.82 
3.31 3.5-4.5 11.20 
No examination with the microscope 
was made. We have no doubt this feed 
will make milk. Molasses, cotton-seed 
meal and brewers’ grains are all good 
THE RURAb 
feeds—but why pay for weed seeds and 
mill sweepings at the price of good 
grain? The New York Station certainly 
found this trash in these feeds. Why 
not buy molasses and these other good 
grains separately and mix them yourself 
if you want a feeding mixture? 
Sheep on Shares. 
If I take sheep on shares, half of the 
wool and half of the Increase, should they 
be divided every year, or wait till the part¬ 
nership is ended? e. s. m. 
Unless otherwise specified in the 
agreement, when a person takes sheep 
agreeing to give the owner half of the 
wool and half of the increase, the di¬ 
vision is made every year at the usua 
time for disposing of such produce. 
C. S. GREENE. 
NEW-VORKER 
January 29. 
Feed for Roasting Fowls. 
Would that formula for poultry mash 
by Professor Rice, of Cornell University, 
bo a good growing feed for Fall chickens 
intended for Spring roasters, feeding them 
at night all the whole grain they wanted? 
As I understand the article in December 
11 issue, they don’t feed any whole grain 
until night. g. g. 
Whitman, Mass. 
The formula given on page 1075 is for 
laying hens, but it can be used to good 
advantage for growing chickens by add¬ 
ing a feed of warm mash at noon. This 
wet mash should contain a liberal 
amount of such feeds as ground oats, 
buckwheat, and cornmeal, with enough 
wheat bran to make it the proper con¬ 
sistency when moistened. It should be 
fed in a crumbly condition about noon. 
Do not feed all the chickens will eat 
except when you feed whole grain at 
night. c. s. GREENE. 
Water Pressure System.— It is with a 
good deal of interest I read the answer to 
questions of M. G., Reinhold Station, Ta., 
page 5, as (o a pressure system of liot-water 
heating. The answer in this part of the 
country would not be taken as correct. A 
pressure system is one that is connected 
direct to the street mains and has no ex¬ 
pansion tank. You will find many of them 
in 1 he vicinity of Malden and Melrose, 
Mass. I do not consider it a safe system 
as usually installed. Any stoppage or freez¬ 
ing of street supply means an explosion. 
There is another system of pressure or force 
system used in many of the modern eight 
and ten story buildings recently built in 
Boston. This system has the water first 
heated and then pumped bv force through 
the system. This is the most costly but 
up-to-date system of heating known. 
J. A. P. 
R. N.-Y.—The answer on page 5 refers to 
a familiar system of greenhouse heating, 
often installed where there is no city water 
system. 
Too bad any woman must wash a com¬ 
plicated cream separator. Too bad anyone 
is misled into thinking complicated bowls 
are necessary. Look at the upper picture. 
Those 52 disks were all used in one common 
disk machine that was 
discarded for a Sharp¬ 
ies Dairy Tubular. 
Look at the lower 
picture. It shows the 
only piece used inside 
the wonderfully light, 
simple, sanitary, easy 
to clean, wear-a-life- 
time Sharpies Dairy 
Tubular Cream Sepa¬ 
rator bowl. Any won¬ 
der T ubulars probably 
replace more common 
separators every year 
than any one maker 
of such machines sells? Tubulars skim 
faster and cleaner than any other sepa¬ 
rator. 
Tubular sales exceed most, if not all, 
others combined. World's biggest sepa¬ 
rator works. Branch factories in Canada 
and Germany. The only modern separator 
—The World’s Best. 
Write for 
our new 
Catalogue 
No. 153 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO. 
WEST CHESTER, PA. 
Chicago, TIL, Son Francisco, Col., Portland, Ore. 
Toronto, Can., Winnipeg, Can. 
SHETLAND PONIES 
An unceasing source of pleasure and 
robust health to children. Safe. In¬ 
expensive to keep. Stallions and mares 
for breeding. Complete outfits. Write 
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belle Meade Farm, bept. S, Markani, Va. 
PUREBRED 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
A purebred Holstein cow holds the 
world's championship for yielding 28.44 
lbs. of butter in 7 days. This test was 
made at the Cornell Experiment Station. 
This kind of information should point 
out to you that for dairy supply you 
should look carefully into the merits 
of the wonderful milk-producing Hol¬ 
stein as a means of increasing the profits 
of your dairy. These cattle are rugged 
&v S ttiy ^ and healthy; of large stature, 
^ and will thrive on less care 
than other breeds. Why not 
aliaRl investigate them ? 
"Uolsteins are the most profitable cattle.' 
Send for Free Illustrated Booklets 
Holstein-Friesian Association 
100 American Bldg., Brattleboro, Vt. 
REGISTERED OHIO 
HOLSTEINS - FRIESIANS. 
THE KAH’NDAI.K STOCK 1 ARM 
For three years the borne or I’ietertje Jlenger- 
veld’s Count DeKol. Eighty head. Bull calves 
for sale. Address. 
CHAS. IV, HOUR, 
Wellington, Ohio, 
BUTTER-BRED HOLSTEINS 
I am offering two very fine and three-quarter white 
Bull Calves that have 25 A. R. (). sisters, one with 
over 31 lbs. butter in 7 days. They are one month 
old and the first draft for $50 takes one Registered 
and transferred. Also Yearling Heifers, Fresh 
Cows and Springers. 
FLOYD M. PELTON, La Grange, Ohio. 
BULL CALVES-* YOUNG BULLS 
ready for service, that are of good size and individ- 
nuiity. All are from officially tested dams, ami are 
sired by Homestead Girl I)e Kol's Sarcastic 
Lad. We have sixty daughters of this Bull that 
wiH lie kept in the Beni ami officially tested. 
Write for description and prices. 
WOODCREST FARM, 
Rifton, Ulster County, New York. 
Fill* Cola —as my farm will pass Into other 
■ vi uaici hands April 1st next, my pure bred 
Holstein-Friesian herd, comprising 35 head, must 
be disposed of before that date. This stock was 
bred on lion. Peter 11. McLennan (of Syracuse) 
Farm, and 1 am permitted to refer to him as to the 
high merit of these cattle. For full particulars 
apply to- H. H. WEAVER, JOHXSTOWN, PA. 
The BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
HOLSTEIN-FKIESIANS 
are bred for large production. Good size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these are the kind you want write or come to 
see them. 125 to select from. Animals of both sexes 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please you. 
A special offer on some nicely bred Buli, Calves. 
A. A. CORTKLYOU, Somerville. N. J. 
I AIIRFI — REGISTERED JERSEYS ONLY 
knU I ILL. Fern’s Jubilee 73852, ns well bred in 
"butter lines” as any bull in the 
L k D M world, heads the herd. 
I A 11 IV stock for sale. 
■ n il ill J. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton, N. Y. 
JERSEYS 
—Combination and Golden Lad; for 
sale, 9 cows, J3 heifers, li bulls. 
S. E. N1VIN, Landenburg, Pa. 
Ynn PonH Afford A Grade, when I can sell 
IUU UClII l HIIUIU you a reg. Jersey bull, best 
dairy stock, ready for service at farmer’s price, 
li. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
HilS View Ayrshires 
FOR SALE, 
BUHL CALF, sired by Dairy King of Avon; dam 
Mayflower Monkland, who is the dam of the cham¬ 
pion 4-year-old Ayrshire cow of the world. 
Also other animals of all ages for sale from my 
great herd of producing and show animals. All 
tuberculin tested. 
For prices and further particulars, address 
W. W. BLAKE ARKCOI.L, Faoli, Pa. 
HILL TOP FARM AYRSHIRES 
One of the Good Herds of the Breed 
The home of the Champion two-year-old heifer and 
the ex-Cliampion two and three year old heifers. 
Herd headed by the great A. li. sire Noxemall, 7312. 
Young Bulls for sale, of approved type and 
backed by official records. Herd tuberculin tested. 
L. A. UEVMANN, WHEELING, W. Va. 
THE WOODLAWN SHORT-HORN FARM 
OFFERS FOR SALE MILKING SHORT-HORNS 
We are at present offering for sale at reasonable prices a 
number of good young bulls from milking Short-Horn 
Cows, liose of Sharon, Ruby’s Blight Eyes, Young Mary, 
Peerless, Nonpareil, and other well known strains repre¬ 
sented. All these bulls are sired by Orange Sultan 283522, 
son of the champion Whitehall Sultan 163573, and first 
irize two year old bull at Ohio State Fair in 1908. The 
lulls range from four to eight months old. 
For particulars and prices, address 
C. P. WEST A SON, Box 86, Blooiningburg, O. 
The 
Cuernseys 
have proven them¬ 
selves 
the Most Economical 
Producers of Dairy 
Products of the 
Highest Quality and Best Color 
at the Pan-American Breed Test and Other Impartial Trials 
‘The MONTHLY GUERNSEY BULLETIN and information 
, regarding the breed free by addressing 
GUERNSEY CLUB, BOX R. PEIERBORO, N. H. 
Boyle’s Steel Stanchion 
THE ORIGINAL 
Lined with wood,with Thumb Post Latch 
DURABILITY Best Material and 
Workmanship. Built to last a Llctirae. 
COMFORT Hunf on chaina allow* 
intf lull freedom of neck. No weight to 
carry.- ., 
CLEANLINESS Keep, the cow fa 
place. Forward when lying do wo- Bach 
when • landing. 
Booklet i hotel ng Model Dairy Barnr~ 
Blue Print with Jeloili for ereeling 
Pip* Stanchion Ffamei - Pr!ctf~Fee* _ 
.« SOLE MAKERS 
faLjAS. BOYLE £? SON 
SALEM. OHIO. U. S. A. 
Dairymens Supply Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 
e Burr Starkweather Co.Rochester,N.Y, 
G UKltNSKY BULLS FOB SALE-I have a 
few excellent young bulls for sale from Ad¬ 
vanced Register cows and sired by Ledyard Bay 
No. 11074. Write for prices and pedigrees. 
OTTO W. POST, Ensenore, N. Y. 
MILK PRODUCERS for New York City market 
desiring information how to form branches 
of the Dairymen’s League, write to the Secretary, 
ALBERT MANNING, Otisville, N. Y. 
CCDDCTC - Here I am again, dealing in ruff 
iXnflblO on rats: THE FERRET. Enclose 
stamp for prices. CALVIN JEWELL, Spencer, O. 
COLLIE PUPS 
-From imported stock. Females 
cheap. Nelson Bros., Grove City, Pa. 
S COTCH COLLIES, Spayed Females, two to 
eiglitmos. Circ. SILAS DECKER, Montrose Pa. 
S OME good coon and fox dogs for sale: pedigreed: 
Birdsong and Walker strains. Sent on 10 days’ 
triul. K. F. JOHNSON, Assumption. Illinois. 
F ~OfTsALE-CHESHIRE BOAR No. 5174-Farrowed Sep¬ 
tember, 1908. C. A. BOLTON, Castile, N.Y. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES.^h 0 "' 3 ! 
in Connecticut. Send for new booklet just pub¬ 
lished; 40 sows bred for Spring 1910 Farrow; no 
culls; any one is a show sow. J. E. WATSON, 
Proprietor, Marbledale. Connecticut. 
S UNNY BANK FARM BERKSHIRES— Choice thorough¬ 
bred stork; matings not akin; sired by Hamp¬ 
ton Duke. King Long-ellow, Jr., and Loyal Master¬ 
piece- Registration free. 
A. F. JONES, Box 117, Brldgehampton, N. Y. 
Kalorama Farm 
Has a Splendid Crop of Young 
BERKSHIRE PIGS 
ready for shipment at reasonable prices. They 
were sired by imported boars and are out of large, 
mature, prolific dams. Would be pleased to price 
them to you. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan N.Y. 
L AKGE BERKSIURKS AT infill WOOD—Short, broad heads. 
Mature animals weigh from 700 to 900 lbs. Special offering 
of bred sows. Sows averaged eleven to the litter this spring. 
Four sons of Masterpiece, 7 months old, lor sale at a bargain. 
Write fur booklet. II. C. Sc H. li. HARPENDING, Dundee, N. Y. 
IMPORTATION of 1,10 best; large improved 
imrUniAIIUn English Yorkshires for sale. 
A. A. BRADLEY, Frewsburg, N. Y. 
KENTUCKY MAMMOTH JACKS 
Jacks, Jennets, Saddle Horse, Trotting and Pacing 
Stallions. 2G0 head to select from. Catalogues 
now ready. J. F. COOK & CO., Lexington, Ky. 
MULES 
i— Farm broken; 10 pair, 4 to 10 years. 
Prices Right—Mules Right. 
Delaware Stock Farm, 
MyerASon, Krldgcvllle, Del. 
RIVERLAND FARM 
OFFERS SEVERAL HEAD OF HIGH 
CLASS REGISTERED 
PERCHERONS 
Mostly mares in foal from Two to Five years. A 
few young Stallions, all priced at their real worth. 
JAY GELDER, Kanona, N.Y 
AMERICA’S 
Leading Horse importers 
PERCHERON STALLIONS 
And FRENCH COACH 
STALLIONS 
We import the BEST of each of the 
above breeds, and have them constantly 
on hand FOR SALE at VERY 
REASONABLE PRICES. 
McLaughlin bros., 
KansasClty, Mo. Columbus,0. St.Paul,Minn. 
LATCHFORD’S CALF MEAL 
The richness of Milk at the cost. 
Booklet, “How to raise Calves cheaply and successfully without milk,” Free. 
BLATCIIFORD’S CALF MEAL FACTORY, WAUKEGAN, ILL. 
Established at Leicester England, in 1800. 
