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TH EC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 12, 
THE BUCKWHEAT MIDDLING QUESTION] 
On naee 217. under heading "A Prob¬ 
lem in Buckwheat Feeding.’’ vou ad¬ 
vise V. T. S. to sell some of his buck¬ 
wheat and buv buckwheat middlings un¬ 
der certain conditions. Right in my lo¬ 
cality it is an impossibility to buy the 
buckwheat middlings. The millers are 
selling what they call buckwheat feed 
with an unknown and uncertain quan¬ 
tity of middlings and a similarly un¬ 
certain proportion of hulls. I paid 
$1.10 for 100 pounds of this, but after 
I weighed and sifted a pound and 
got G l /2 ounces of hulls out, I dis¬ 
carded it and am now buvine cotton¬ 
seed meal and bran as well as a little 
linseed. 'You can see that with the 
proportion of hulls which I received, 
mire buckwheat middlings were costing 
me almost $1.85 per 100 which is al¬ 
together too high when cotton-seed meal 
can be bought for $2. I would like to 
hear from other readers of your paper, 
whether thev can buv the pure middlings 
and if so at what price? R. 
R. N.-Y.—That is a good question. Let 
us hear the discussion and also try your 
hand at sifting a pound of the mixed 
feed vou buv. Then look through a 
microscope at what is left in the sieve 
when the sifting is done. How much 
does the middleman put into the mid¬ 
dlings ? 
VITALITY OF EMBRYO CHICKS. 
For the benefit of amateurs like my¬ 
self. I want to relate an experience of 
mine in hatching eggs last Spring. To 
me, it was in the nature of a discovery, 
and it may prove helpful to others who 
know not the endurance of the em¬ 
bryonic chick. In the first place the 15 
eggs I set were all from one 11-months- 
old pullet, or hen (I don't yet know the 
age- which marks the merging of the 
pullet into the hen). She did not begin 
to lay until about 10 months old, but 
I consider that more the fault of con¬ 
ditions surrounding her than her own. 
After the first few days it was custom¬ 
ary to find the hen to which I had given 
the eggs standing outside the nest in¬ 
stead of sitting within it, and the eggs 
would all be absolutely cold, for the 
nights here and some of the days, in 
early May, are very chill indeed. I 
would feed and water the hen and by and 
by she would return to the eggs. Then 
I noticed that her comb and wattles and 
even her white feathers seemed to be 
growing paler. At last when a week 
had passed, and I found that she would 
not sit in the nest even in the daytime, 
I concluded that she must be sick, and 
the eggs had received so little attention 
that they were worthless except as food 
for my dog. Accordingly I removed 
them from the nest and put them into 
a dish. I broke five for the dog’s break¬ 
fast—he is a large animal—and only one 
was infertile. Later I saw what appeared 
to be dust on the eggs in the dish. Look¬ 
ing more closely, I saw the “dust” specks 
move and I knew that I was becoming 
acquainted with the blood-sucking mite. 
To prevent the migration of those on 
the eggs, I filled the dish with cold 
water and placed it outside the kitchen 
where it remained until noon, the time 
of the water pouring being about 9 
a. m. At noon I broke three more. 
The second one contained twins about 
a third the size of the single chicks in 
the other shells. The sight of the twins 
interested me so much that I drained off 
the white and yolks in the shell to see 
if they were perfect. They were. 
More than that I saw the blood pulsate 
through the tiny bodies just as one sees 
it in a tadpole under a microscope, 
though, of course, I did not see the 
corpuscles. Then I broke the third egg, 
drained off the fluid as before and found 
the same pulsation within the minute 
body just exposed. For the rest of the 
day I left those shells and their con¬ 
tents on the table in a fireless out-build¬ 
ing taking them up once in a while to 
see if the chicks still lived, and it was 
night before the tiny chests ceased to 
move or the blood ceased to flow in the 
microscopic veins. As soon as I had 
seen the life in the eggs left unmothered 
so long, I had taken the remaining eggs 
from the water and placed five of them 
under another hen set at the same time 
and in the same box with but a slight 
partition between. Although the de¬ 
serted nest was swarming with those 
loathsome, tiny pests, not one had yet 
attacked the lien in the other compart¬ 
ment, as I found on lifting her and her 
eggs out preparatory to burning the 
mite-infested spot. I washed her eggs, 
too, and replaced them with the other 
five—I broke two of the 15 Rhode Is¬ 
land Red eggs accidentally—and in due 
time 20 of the 23 eggs hatched, four of 
the young chicks being the certified 
progeny of the aforesaid R. T. Red. 
The fifth egg was infertile. Two of the 
historic four were males, and met their 
fate as roasters before they became 
roosters. The two females are now as 
large as their mother was, and they 
began to lay before they were nine 
months old. I know they are somewhat 
tardy in attempting to reproduce them¬ 
selves, but conditions in which I am 
learning are by no means ideal. Per¬ 
haps I ought to add that the other parent 
of these particular birds was likewise 
a pure R. I. Red of the very same hatch 
as the mother. e. h. 
Peconic, L. I. 
A “BUTTER MERGER” 
I send a circular, “Butter Four Cents 
a Pound.” Is this a fake or not? 
Cumberland, Md. j. t. b. 
This is “the home butter merger.” 
It aonears to be a machine somewhat like 
an eeer beater weighing almost five 
nounds. You put butter and milk to¬ 
gether. turn the handle and the milk, 
including its water, is changed to but¬ 
ter. This is what thev sav: 
Our solution of the result obtained is 
that the friction produced by the rotary 
mixers and the temperature produced in 
the double cylinders causes the butter and 
milk globules to expand until they merge 
with each other at the same temperature 
they are in the cow. This is nature's 
own invention. 
Nature would be ashamed of herself 
to “invent” anv such game. She never 
put any “globules” in the milk except 
those of butter fat. Our friend who 
wrote the above must guess again. We 
make this remarkable offer: 
$ 1,000 paid to anyone who fails to merge 
one pint of milk into one pound of butter 
in two minutes with this machine. Pro¬ 
ducing a pure food product that gets just 
as hard—looks the same and is used for 
the same purposes as creamery butter. No 
chemicals or drugs used. Four cents a 
potfnd, think what this saves every family 
in one year. 
That will rank with Burbank’s $ 10,000 
nightshade bet. To “merge” is to “be 
sunk or swallowed up.” That is just 
what happens to the monev vou pav for 
this machine. You see he doesn’t claim 
to “make” butter out of the milk at 
all. A fake—let it alone. 
THE 
Business Man’s 
Crea m Separ ator. 
The T)E LAVAL is the business 
man’s Cream Separator, and the 
men who use cream separators as 
a business use the DE LAVAL. 
Ten years ago there were a dozen 
different makes of creamery oj 
factory separators in use. Today 
over 98 per cent, of the world’s 
creameries use DE LAVAL sepa 
rators alone, andnoeffortis longer 
made to sell any other kind. 
It means a difference of several 
thousand dollars ayear whether a 
DE LAVAL or some other make 
of separator is used in a creamery*. 
Exactly the samedifferences exist, 
on a smaller scale, in the use of 
farm separators. But the farm 
user doesn’t know it. Ninetiirrs 
out of ten he can’t tell when he is 
wasting $50 or $100 a year in quan¬ 
tity and quality of product through 
the use of an inferior separator. 
But every farm user of a sepa¬ 
rator knows that if it is absolutely 
necessary to use a DE LAVA! 
separator with the milk of a 
creamery it must pay relatively 
well to do so on the farm. No 
amount of argument can get 
around that conclusion. 
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GETTING LATE 
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