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April 9, 
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! TO FEED, 
| A CALF 
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DAIRYMEN:— Don’ t fail to 
look on the other side of 
this leaf; there is a message 
there that means money 
saving on every calf and 
every cow in your herd. 
The solution of the little 
picture puzzle there, points 
to the solution of the 
Dairy Calf problem. 
A DIP THAT DOES THE WORK j 
WITHOUT INJURY 
TO THE ANIMAL OR FLEECE U 
NO BURNING OF THE FIBRES: 
NO STAINING; NO POISONING: 
NO SICKENING. 
WHY USE DIPS THAT HAVE THESE DESTRUCTIVE 
AND DANGEROUS QUALITIES 1 WHY EXPERIMENT 
WITH UNKNOWN PREPARATIONS? 
KRESO DIP N9I 
’ STANDARDIZED ,-' 
INEXPENSIVE, EASY TO USE 
PERMITTED BY THE U.S DEPARTMENT OF 
AGRICULTURE FOR THE OFFICIAL DIPPING 
OF SHEEP FOR SCAB 
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS 
WE HAVE BOOKLETS GIVING FULL DIRECTIONS 
FOR USE ALSO MANY VALUABLE HINTS ON 
HANDLING SHEEP. WRITE FOR FREE COPIES. 
Parke, Davis &Co. 
DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY 
^DETROIT, MICH. 
DRY FEED HOPPER. 
The Kansas Experiment Station, in a 
bulletin on poultry, prints the picture 
shown in cut below. This box or hopper 
is intended for feeding a dry mash, 
Alfalfa meal or shells. As will be seen, 
HENCH’S 
20th 
Century 
Steel Ball Coupling Pivot Axle 
n ... . with Double 
Cultivator Row Corn 
Planter and Fertilizer 
Attachment complete 
in One Machine. 
Awa rded 
GOLD MEDAL 
at World’s Fair. St. 
Louis. A wonderful 
Improvement in culti- 
, vators,combining every 
possible movement of 
Bairns and wheels re¬ 
quired. Easily chaiiBed 
to different styles. 
Thousands in use. Jl’fr’s of all kind of Ag’r’l Im¬ 
plements. Agents wanted; write for circular. 
The Hench & Dromgold Co., Mfrs., York, Pa. 
LABEL 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
THE FAT TEST FOR CHEESE MAKING. 
Twelve or 15 years ago we were told by 
a college professor that the butter fat in 
milk was an index of its food value, the 
proportion of butter fat and casein being 
relatively the same. Cheese factories paid 
for milk by the “Babcock test.” Now that 
they have a machine for testing the amount 
of casein in milk, do they find that the 
professor’s position was correct? 
Massachusetts. a. h. m. 
The following quotations are from a 
bulletin issued in 1889 by Dr. S. M. 
Babcock, chemist at the Wisconsin Age 
Experiment Station. 
Total solids of normal milk vary from 
about 11 per cent to nearly 20 per cent; 
the difference being mostly caused by varia¬ 
tion in the amount of fat. The solids not 
fat rarely exceed 11 per cent or fall below 
8 per cent, while the fat will range from 2 
the slats prevent the hen from getting to 10 per cent. The milk serum comprises 
, . i -i i , „„ all that portion of the milk that is not 
into the box, while the cover, placed as fat _ * . The composition of the se- 
it is keeps her from walking over it or rum j s usually very constant for the same 
roosting on it. 
There seems no doubt 
that the dry method of feeding hens is 
gaining. 
cow, the solids rarely differing more than 
1 per cent, and it does not vary much in 
different cows. I have found no normal 
milk in which the serum solids did not fall 
between S.5 and 11 per cent, although my 
analyses include milk having a range of 
more than 10 per cent fat. . . . The 
solids of the serum increase slightly with 
the period of lactation, the amount being 
about .04 per cent per month. 
The variation in the amount of serum solids 
in milk from the same cow is rarely more 
than V 2 per cent; in milk from different 
cows of tlie same breed is usually less than 
1 per cent, and in milk from cows of differ¬ 
ent breeds not more than 2% per cent. This 
holds true when the fat varies as much as 
7 or 8 per cent. 
In summing up the results of a series 
LEARNING HOW TO MILK. 
Could you give me an idea as to the 
knack of milking with the hand? I have 
purchased a farm and intend to keep one 
cow. If I cannot milk myself, I shall have 
to hire. If you could tell me how to start 
to learn, I would he very much obliged to 
you. w. x. o. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
If you will buy a gentle easy-milking 
cow, you will find little difficulty in learn- of milk analyses extending from April 
ing to milk. Some one of experience 13 to October 25, and representing mixed 
. , . . j. , samples of milk from 48 different cheese 
•could choose such a cow for you, and fact £ ries in New York State, Dr. L. L. 
give a practical demonstration of the art. y an slyke fotind that the amount of fat 
In milking always place the stool on the in 100 pounds milk varied from 3.30 to 
right hand side of the cow, and near 4 40 pounds and averaged 3.77 pounds 
, x __.i during the season, and the amount of 
enough to her, so that you can easi y case ; n j n jqo pounds milk varied from 
reach all parts of the udder. Do not 2.20-2.85 pounds and averaged 2.48 
crowd up too close, or a slight sway of pounds during the season. The varia- 
her body in your direction might disturb tion by months was as follows 
your centre of gravity, causing it to fall 
outside the base of your stool. The pail 
is usually held between the knees, or on 
the “rest” of a stool made for the pur- 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 12. 
Pounds Pounds 
of fat in of casein in 
100 lbs. milk 100 lbs. milk 
April . 3.39 2.27 
May . 3.(59 2.44 
June. 3.68 2.50 
, ... r , , , , _ July . 3.63 2.41 
pose, but may with safety be placed on August. 3.94 2.39 
the ground or floor, if the cow is quiet Q^ohe? 6 ?.4.27 l.'ll 
and gentle. Many old milkers wet the Thi$ tabl ‘' sbows a varia tion in fat of 
teats with milk before beginning. Ihis 88 p 0 un d s anc l in casein of .54 pounds, 
is a useless and dirty habit, and should Dr. Van Slyke also found that the varia- 
be avoided. If a cow’s teats are hard or tion in the amount of fat retained _ in 
, , t r. i r „ cheese followed very closely the variation 
chapped, they may he softened with a jn fa( in mil £. Th f s wouM help 
little vaseline. Most milkers milk the explain the fact that rich milk will 
two fore-quarters together and the two make more cheese (as well as better 
hind-quarters together, but this is un- cheese) than poor milk, oi milk of med- 
essential. When the teats ate close ™ duality^ Thefotegomg h f from 
together it is often easier to milk y a n Slyke seem to show pretty . cmi- 
“cornerwise,” for instance taking the clusively that there is a relative variation 
right back teat with the left hand and of butter fat and casein, especially in 
r , . . • llf mixed samples from factories, neverthe- 
the left front teat with th i B ht ha . j esg ^ tbe percentage of butter fat cannot 
Avoid twitching and pulling the udder— be taben as an exact indication of the 
the squeeze is what draws the milk. a mount of cheese which can be made 
Squeeze from the udder down. If the from a given amount of milk. Some 
i • i , .i „ , .i,- cheese factories adopted the plan, when 
whole hand is shut together at once the payjng for milk by Babcock test, of add- 
milk will be forced back into the udder, incr two per cent to each patrons test 
instead of into the pail. The idea is an d then figuring on that basis. Thus 
with each pressure to shut off the flow the man whose milk tested four per cent, 
, 3 r it,. instead of receiving one-quarter more 
above and force tin. contents o. ‘ than his neighbor whose milk tested 
into the pail. If the hand is closed three per cent would receive only 
naturally, the little finger being the short- one-sixth more—for the first man’s 
est, will be the last to touch the palm, so test would be raised to six and 
i. o the other to five. I hi 
DANA’S EAR LABELS 
Are stamped with any name or address with serial 
numbers. They are simple, practical and a distinct 
and reliable mark. Samples free. Agents wanted 
C.H. DANA, 74 Main St.,West Lebanon, N.H. 
is was equiva¬ 
lent to conceding that, although rich 
the human hand seems to be a natural 
milking machine. Before leaving the wilfmake more and better° cheese 
cow, each quarter should be gently than poor milk, the increase will not 
squeezed between the hands, reaching be in exact proportion to the increase 
well upon the udder and working down » *&“ 
toward the teat. ibis will matenally giyk e that the first was dealing chiefly 
help in getting all of the milk, which, w ith milk from individual cows, where 
of'course, is very necessary. A gentle, vari a tion in fat is much more marked 
, KffU nronfinp , S „’11 ennn than in mixed samples; which the sec- 
easy cow, and a little practice will soon ^ authority analysed samp i es from 
solve your problem. c. s. M. f a ctory vats where the milk from many 
_ cows was mixed together, thereby can¬ 
celling extremely high and extremely 
Salesman: “Shirt, sir? Will you low tests. From all of the foregoing 
have a negligee or a stiff bosom?” Cus- evidence, as well as from our own ex- 
« ii s s perience in handling milk, I think we 
tomer: Negligee, I guess. The doctor may say d i a t the professor’s position 
said I must avoid starchy things.”— was essentially correct, a lthough not 
Credit Lost. _ mathematically accurate. c. s. m. 
Driven Home 
This personal, unsolicited letter is 
from the first purchaser of a 
Sharpies Tubular 
Cream Separator 
in Kearney County, Nebraska. You 
could not ask a better one. 
“Minden, Neb., March 1st, 1910. 
To Farmers: I bought the first Sharpies 
Tubular No. 4 that was sold in Kearney 
County, 11 years ago. This machine has 
been in constant use ever since and I be¬ 
lieve it is as good as the day I bought it. I 
have been milking from 6 to 14 cows during 
these years, until two years ago, when I 
turned the machine over to my son, who is 
still using it on the farm. This machine 
has not cost us one cent for repairs of any 
kind. It turns easy and skims perfectly. It 
is easy to 
oil, as you 
just pour a 
cup of oil 
on the 
wheels and 
the wheels 
run in oil. It is easy to clean, as there are 
only two pieces to the bowl to wash. It is 
always in shape, as there is less machinery 
about it than any other machine. 
PETER SODERBERG.” 
Tubular superiority has driven home to 
farmers the fact that Tubulars are The 
World’s Best. Sales easily exceed most, if 
not all, others combined. Tubulars prob¬ 
ably replace more common separators than 
any one maker of such machines sells. 
World’s biggest separator works. Write 
for Catalogue No. 153 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO., 
WEST CHESTER, 1»A. 
Chicago, UL San Francisco, Cal. Portland, Ore. 
Toronto, Can. Winnipeg, Can. 
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