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T'LTK RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January t\ 
Throttle Governed-Steady Quiet 
This Light Weight Truck is very handy 
for farm work. A boy can pull it around 
from job to job, yet it easily handles all 
work up to 4 or 4H. P. 
Cushman 4-Cycle Engines run very quietly 
and steadily, because of Throttle Governor and per¬ 
fect balance. No jerky, explosive hit-and-miss 
running. May be run at any speed—speed changed 
while running. Direct water circulating pump pre¬ 
vents overheating, even on all-day run. Equipped 
with Schebler Carburetor and friction clutch pulley. 
Farmer’s Handy 4 H. P. Truck 
Cushman Light Weight Engines 
For ASi Farm Work—4 to 20 H. P. 
Are built to run without trouble and do things no other engine will do. 4 H. P. 
weighs only 190 lbs.; 8 H. P. only 320 lbs. 
Wm. Holub, Reinbeck, Iowa, says: 
“I have experimented with three or four 
different engines, and I have found the 
Cushman the cheapest in the long run.” 
Ask for free Engine Book. 
CUSHMAN MOTOR WORKS 
847 North 21st Straet Lincoln, Nebraska 
8 H. P. 
2 Cylinder 
Wt. 320 lbs. 
The One Binder Engine 
The steady power and 
light weight of the 
Cushman 4 H. P. (167 
lbs.) permit it to he at¬ 
tached to rear of binder 
during harvest, saving 
a team. 
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If you require a larger engine, use the ^ 
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Lower picture shows the famous Bessemer Fuel Oil Engine. 
Widely used in irrigation, flour mills, factories, electric light 
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THE BESSEMER GAS ENGINE COMPANY 
123 Lincoln Avo. Grove City, Pa. 
1 Man+1 HUBER = 6 Hen+12 Horses 
Save time and money and solve your help problem by 
plowing, harvesting, threshing, hauling and operating 
your farm machinery with a 20-40 
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HUBER MFC. COMPANY 646 Center St. Marion, Ohio 
UU1 lclilil y WXUAX < 
HUBER 
A SUCCESSFUL CO-OPERATIVE 
CREAMERY. 
UTUST a little rumpus made us take 
| action which developed in the local 
co-operative enterprise”, declared Secre¬ 
tary W. E. Sheldon, of the Litchfield, 
Mich., Dairy Association. “We learned 
the lesson of co-operation first through 
the efforts of Prof. Raven, of the Agricul¬ 
tural College. Here we saw that 10 or 
a dozen men pulling together could work 
to mutual advantage. The old creamery 
was making butter on a three-cents-a- 
pound basis for its manufacture. It was 
finally announced that it could not be 
made for that, and some of us thought 
that it could. 
“Here is just where we got busy. We 
advertised in the local paper. We in¬ 
vited all farmers interested in our views 
of the matter to drop in and we would 
discuss the proposition of buying the 
creamery ourselves and doing business 
co-operatively. We had a big fight on ; 
we had to get right out and show’ the far¬ 
mers the benefit of co-operation. The 
meeting v’as only the first step. We did 
not go out and work the proposition in a 
half-hearted manner. Myself and one or 
two other men started in; we charged 
for our time, and w r e woi’ked the farmers 
far and near. We had to show them 
W’Lere it w’ould benefit them. We just 
pounded it right into them, and they 
passed it along. It was no easy job. but 
we were not only after our co-operative 
in the State of Michigan. He is gettin - 
better than $100, and he is going to get 
more. 
“The first month we did not make 
good. Our butter went in as second. 
One of his neighbors roasted one mem¬ 
ber regarding the price we w T ere able t<« 
pay. We told the neighbor: ‘I will give 
the boys one year to get organized and 
another year to reach Elgin quotations." 
However, the next month told a different 
story. Here are the figures for from 
March 13 to February, 1914. With effi¬ 
cient help, a pay-roll of better than $325 
a month for my salary as manager, for 
the butter-maker and assistants, and for 
maintaining our plant and improvements, 
still we have been able to keep the cost of 
manufacture down to 2.8 cents a pound, 
pay interest on investment, and make a 
quality product. Our average price paid 
for butter fat for this period w r as 34.2 
cents net, which is five cents above Elgin 
for that period. 
“We let the farmer in just the same 
as though he were a stockholder. The 
charge against each pound of butter is 
fixed. He must pay interest on invest¬ 
ment. salaries, maintenance, taxes, insur¬ 
ance and dividends to the stockholders. 
The same charges are made against the 
stockholder’s pound of butter, but where 
he gets in is on dividends on the amount 
he has invested. We insist on good qual¬ 
ity of cream. I have spent days out 
among the farmers tightening down the 
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HARRAH MANUFACTURING CO., Box M, Bloomfield, Ind. 
Pmo of good, sound, second-hand 
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couplings, 14-foot lengths and up, suitable for most 
any purpose. Also pipe cut to sketch or drilled for ir¬ 
rigation. We guarantee entire satisfaction or return 
money. PFAFF & KENDALL, 101 Foundry St., Newark, N. J. 
Our misfortune is your good fortune.! 
The war has cut off our foreign trade. Wo! 
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Prices are cut to practically coat. The! 
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' AMERICAN ENGINE CO. 
60S Boston St., Iletrolt, Mleh.j 
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THE A. W. STRAUB COMPANY 
Dept. E, 3740 Filbert Street Dept. T, 3709 So. Ashland Ave. 
Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago, III. 
Canada is Callin&Y&u 
to her RichWheat Lands 
'— She extends to Americans a hearty invitation to settle on 
her FREE Homestead lands of 160 acres each or secure 
some of the low priced lands in Manitoba, Saskatchewan 
and Alberta. 
This year wheat is higher but Canadian land ju9t as 
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wants you to help to feed the world by tilling some of her 
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averaged 20 to 45 bushels of wheat to the acre. Think 
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The Government this year is asking farmers to put increased acreage 
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ient Write for literature and particulars as to reduced railway 
rates to Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to 
J. S. CRAWFORD • 
301 E. Genesee St., Syracuse, N.Y. 
i ^^ Canadian Government Agent 
creamery but we were a>fter our salary. 
We were working as though we were try¬ 
ing to hold down a job, and that our life 
depended on it. Here is where co-opera¬ 
tive enterprises fail. The promoters give 
their time, they go after it half-heartedly 
and then give up. Several of us concern¬ 
ed in it charged $2 a day for our ser¬ 
vices. We charged for every minute, 
and we got the pay, too. We gave livery 
service, because we had our own horses 
standing in the barn doing little. 
“When we approached a farmer we ex¬ 
plained our idea. We figured that we 
could make our butter for less than three 
cents a pound, we could pay interest on 
investment and a small dividend to stock¬ 
holders. We limited the stockholders to 
farmers only, and no farmer could hold 
over 50 shares at $10 a share, and the 
maximum dividend should be 7 per cent. 
We capitalized at $3,000, all paid in, and 
we are glad to say we have not been com¬ 
pelled to make an assessment. 
“Here is the picture of the old fac¬ 
tory,” said Mr. Sheldon. “We purchased 
this; we have made one or two additions, 
but we have kept inside the tliree-cents- 
a-pound cost. We have installed best 
possible machinery through and through. 
Everything is new and efficient. It has 
cost money to do it, but the best has 
paid. 
“When we took over the factory we 
decided we did not want cheap men. We 
advertised for a butter-maker. We had 
applications from men who were willing 
to take charge of our plant, working 
from $50 a month upward. One appli¬ 
cant wanted $100 a month, and we said: 
‘There is the man we want.’ We told 
him in our correspondence that we want¬ 
ed to top the Philadelphia market with 
as much as possible. The first thing he 
required was $1,000 in new equipment. 
We did not feel the least discouraged, we 
did not question his judgment nor ask 
him to get along with what we had, but 
we told him, go ahead, and made no com¬ 
ment. He is the best-paid butter-maker 
cream separator screw. We are critical 
about sanitary conditions in the dairy; 
and we must have our product on time. 
One fault in co-operation is that the far¬ 
mer seeks to employ his co-operative 
manager and employees for nothing. This 
he can’t do; he must pay them and if a 
man starts an organization he should 
charge for his time, for it is a fact that 
when a man expects nothing he usually 
does nothing.” w. J. 
Winter Churning. 
I would like to tell the readers of Tiie 
R. N.-Y. my method of churning a small 
amount of cream in Winter as I have 
found it very satisfactory. My husband 
made a small dasher and cover that fits 
just inside a common sap bucket. The 
cover is 10^ inches n diameter, and 
sets below the edge of the bucket about 
an inch. I use two buckets which en¬ 
ables me to have one bucket of cream 
“ripening” while I am saving the cream 
in the other, as the great trouble in Win¬ 
ter is to keep the cream warm enough to 
sour it. I skim all milk sweet, being 
careful to put very little milk into it, as 
too much milk prevents the butter from 
coming. Anyone can prove this by whip¬ 
ping clear cream and trying to whip 
cream with a quantity of milk in it. 
I have the cream at 64 degrees to start 
with, but sometimes in Winter the cream 
cools while churning. I never add hot 
water, as that spoils the grain of the 
butter, but set the bucket in a pan of 
warm water. When the butter begins to 
granulate, as it will very quickly do i? 
conditions are right, I rinse with water 
warmed to 64 degrees, as the water is too 
cold in Winter. I hope this will be as 
helpful to others as it has to me. The 
bucket is so much more easily cared for 
than a churn, and four or five pounds is 
the amount I usually churn, though the 
bucket should be only about one-third full 
to obtain the best results. 
Otsego Co., N. Y. mbs. g. l. vooriiees. 
Mr. Brown had just registered and 
was about to turn away when the hotel 
clerk asked: “Beg pardon, but what is 
your name?” “Name!” echoed the indig¬ 
nant guest. “Don’t you see my signature 
there on the register?” “I do,” returned 
the clerk calmly. “That is what aroused 
my curiosity.”— Everyody’s. 
