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'I'MIS KU.KAL NEVY-VORKER 
February 13, 
Lighi Weight 1 
Cushman Fnqines 
ropAHFarmM/oi'k 
This Light 
Weight 
Cu shman 
Truck is so 
handy for all 
power work. 
So light a boy 
can pull it 
around from job 
} ‘ob, yet it easily 
landles all work up 
to 4 or H. P. 
Runs at any speed desired, speed changed 
while running. Pump circulation to water 
tank prevents overheating, even on all¬ 
day run. All Cushman Engines are 
Throttle Governed—Steady and Quiet 
No jerky, explosive hit-and-miss running. 
They are the most useful engines for farm 
work, as they do everything the big fel¬ 
lows do and so many jobs big engines cannofr do, 
May be attached to binders and other machines 
as power drive. Equipped with Schebler Carbur¬ 
etor and Friction Clutch Pulley. Not a cheap en¬ 
gine, but cheap in 
8 H. P. 
2 Cylinder 
4 H. P. 
Truck 
to 
Engine weighs only 190 lbs. 
Sizes 
the long run, 
4 to 20 H. P. 
Before buying any 
engine, better in¬ 
vestigate light 
weight engines. Ask 
for free Engine Book. 
CUSHMAN 
MOTOR WORKS 
647 North 21st Stroot 
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 
Get a 
Good Engine 
Fi rst 
Avoid trouble, repair expense, high fuel 
cost. A good engine saves time, money 
and hired men. A poor engine causes 
annoyance and costs more in the end. 
There is no economy in a scrap heap; 
neither is there in a poor engine. 
Pumpkins for Cows. 
I S it advisable to feed pumpkins to 
milch cows? Are there any fattening 
qualities in them for feeding dry 
cows, to fatten for beef? F. P. E. 
Brown son, Mich. 
The feeding value of pumpkin is low, 
and its efficiency in a ration for fattening 
cows is questioned. In localities near 
canning factories, pumpkins bring $4 a 
ton delivered. One ton of corn silage is 
worth 2% tons of pumpkins!, according 
to the results obtained from the Vermont 
Station: Silage is figured at $5 a ton, 
which is quite a high figure. It is said 
by practical feeders pumpkin seeds in¬ 
crease kidney excretions and should be 
removed before feeding. The United 
States Dispensatory says the seed is a 
vermifuge and makes no reference to any 
other property. It has also been said 
by feeders they have noticed no harmful 
effect? by allowing cows to have seeds, 
although it is comparatively easy to 
break the pumpkins and go around with 
baskets and scoop out the seeds with the 
hand. The feeding value when cooked 
and given to pigs at the Oregon Station 
has been quite satisfactory, 200-pound 
pigs, when fed 26 pounds common yellow 
field pumpkins and a small allowance of 
wheat shorts, gained IV 2 pounds daily. 
The farmer who has a cooker and pre¬ 
pares bis potatoes, pumpkins and turnips 
in the form of a stew, will get profitable 
results, and in this way much which 
goes to. waste may be made use of. The 
mess will be much more palatable to the 
pigs if fed in this way. 
Dairy Ration. 
W ILL you balance a ration for cows 
weighing from 800 to 1,000 pounds, 
giving from 20 to 45 pounds 
milk daily? I have good silage and mixed 
hay, no clover or Alfalfa; gluten, $1.60; 
diamond gluten, $1.75; cornmeal, $1.60; 
ground oats. $1.60; cotton seed, $1.60; 
molasses, $1.35; wheat feed, $1.35 to 
$1.60. A. B. F. 
llamden, N. Y. 
Mix three parts, by weight, of cotton¬ 
seed meal, three parts diamond gluten 
and two parts ground oats. Feed one 
pound of the mixture to three or four 
pounds of milk. Scatter era in over the 
silage. c. L. M. 
Grain With Hay and Silage. 
W ILL you give a balanced ration from 
the following feed; Dried grains or 
wheat bran, dairy 
hominy, cottonseed meal, 
process. I wish to feed 
and silage once a day. 
New Jersey. 
I believe the following will fill the bill: 
feed, gluten or 
or oil meal, old 
hay once a day 
A. c. T. 
WnEN you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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Pull an acre or more of stumps a day. Pull 
any stump in 5 minutes or less. Don't have 
loafer land when it’s so easy and cheap to pull 
the slumps out! Make 1000% profit by using 
the Hercules. £1281.00 the lirslyear on 40 acres! 
£750.00 every year after. Let us prove it. 
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Get the facts. Read our book. Tells 
what all steel, triple power means. Shows 
many features of the Hercules. Shows 
many photos and letters from owners. 
Postal will do. 
HERCULES MFG. COMPANY 
130 -23rd St. Centerville, Iowa 
The Cow Testing Association. 
The plan of cow-testing is pretty much 
the same the world over. The associa¬ 
tion idea is not an American one; it 
comes from Denmark to which* country 
the world owes much for its exemplary 
dairy practice. Dean Hills of Vermont 
tells us that a woman conceived the idea. 
It is simple enough too. He says any 
of us farmers can weigh our milk, tost 
our dairy herd and keep records. The 
manipulation of the Babcock test isn’t 
difficult if we go after it. We farmers 
are neglectful; we fail to keep up our 
farm bookkeeping. These are the reasons 
for the testing association. Twenty-five 
or 26 farmers in a community pay $1 a 
head the year to have their cows tested. 
The tester comes to Johu Smith’s house 
the first day of the month. He weighs 
and tests the product of each cow that 
night. He advises feeding her, he weighs 
and tests her milk the next morning, lie 
compiles records of the work of that cow. 
As he sits with the farmer and his family 
at the supper table, he tells him where 
he can change his ration a little, or 
modify it. At night he works at his 
records, tells the farmer where he can 
make more money dairying; he tells him 
what Paul Jones does over on his farm. 
The next day he goes to Paul Jones, re¬ 
mains with him, and continues the rou¬ 
tine. The cow tester doesn’t work on 
Sundays; as Professor Hills says “He is 
a God-fearing man.” 
The next month he comes to John 
Smith’s, has more to say and figures to 
give on Bess and Belle. Month after 
month the tester makes his rounds. He 
may not be able to tell the farmer the 
exact total butter fat for each cow, not 
within a dozen pounds, but his computa¬ 
tions are practically correct. He can 
toll in a general way which cow to 
eliminate, and which to keep. Dolly Brin- 
dle may be the one. that will stay, while 
Pet, who heads the row, may be the 
loafer. 
Cost Of Raising Pig. —Answering in¬ 
quiry of A. D. L., page 108, as to cost of 
raising a pig in New England, would say 
that here in Fairfield Co., Conn., this 
past year I bought 10 Yorkshire pigs at 
eight weeks old; kept record of feed con¬ 
sumed, except scraps from family table, 
and found that they made a profit of $0 
per head. On one pig I should say that 
the profit ought to run as high as $15. I 
think that everyone who has even a half 
acre of ground should raise at least one 
pig every year. The pig is a clean ani¬ 
mal if given half a chance and there is 
nothing better than to have a good barrel 
of home-grown pork in the cellar. 
Darien, Conn. r. c. l. 
Engines 
with their strong, carefully fitted adjustable parts, 
are economical in the use of gas, gasoline or kero¬ 
sene. Develop more power than rated. Start easily 
and run smoothly, simple, so that a boy can run 
one. Made in Portable Semi-portable and Station¬ 
ary— 2 }$ H. P. to to 11. p. 
Kvei-y part guaranteed for five years in writing. 
| Send for catalog and Free Engineering lessons. 
Address Christensen Engineering Co. 
Milwaukee, Wis., or 
J. B. NORTON CO., Inc. 
Distributors 
209 ELIZABETH STREET 
UTICA. N. V. 
Sows Fertilizers 
QUICKLY 
EVENLY 
Sows broadcast or in rows all kinds of 
commercial fertilizers—nitrate, phosphate, 
guano, lime, ashes, etc. Distributes it fast 
and evenly in amounts from one hundred to 
several thousand pounds per acre. Simple 
and strong. Gauge is easily end quickly set. 
STEVENS 
Fertilizer Sower 
Has only force feed which will sow Suc¬ 
cessfully all kinds of commercial fertilizers 
in large or small quantities. No springs or 
gears in box. Order one this season. We’ll 
refer you to a dealer if tools — the line of 
none near you. Send ||f[f 62 years’ sterling 
today for 64-page Cata- 
lug of Chicopee Line i every farm need. 
Belcher & Taylor 
Agricultural 
Tool Co. 
Box No. 75 
Chicopee Falls 
Mass. 
Dried grains, two pounds, wheat bran 
one pound, hominy two pounds, cotton¬ 
seed meal three pounds. Feed grain with 
the silage. c. L. M. 
Feeding Oat Straw. 
{{TTTE have a quantity of oat straw, 
yy We are going to run short of hay, 
and can we make use of it to 
acreage of oats makes it possible to 
This is the question 
farmers this season, 
hay was short, and a 
acreage of oats make 
much of the straw for 
the stock to work over 
the remainder be used for bedding, 
may have Timothy hay, and Dean 
use 
confronting many 
In many sections 
possible increased 
it possible to use 
feeding, or allow 
the oat straw and 
Some 
Cook 
The 
profit 
of St. Lawrence University says: 
oat straw can be fed at a greater 
if the Timothy hay is sold. The market 
is always good for this product, and the 
cash returns from this are thus made 
large enough to pay the expense of the 
small amount of nitrogenous feeds used 
to balance a home-grown ration.” 
Oat straw is the most valuable of all 
straw, barley second. Rye straw is 
harsh and woody, and wheat straw coarse 
and stiff, also quite unpalatable. In 
nearly every part of Europe straw is 
used in feeding cattle, horses, and other 
live stock. In some countries it is cut 
in very short lengths and fed mixed with 
concentrates. The average farmer who 
has little work for his horses in Winter, 
or who has dry cows, or those nearly 
dry, or other stock to maintain may use 
oat straw in the interests of his pocket- 
book. 
Horses which might largely be main¬ 
tained through the Winter on straw, are 
frequently fed valuable hay. A Michigan 
experiment shows in feeding horses, corn 
stover, oat straw, and carrots replacing 
hay, ear corn and mixed feed, cost about 
18 cents a head daily, and saved 40 per 
cent. In this trial corn stover and oat 
straw proved both economical and sat¬ 
isfactory substitute for Timothy as a 
Winter feed for horses doing moderate 
work. In Europe nearly all rations for 
horses contain straw, and the feeding 
value of straw follows in order, the high¬ 
est in oat, barley, wheat and last rye. 
. .. W. J. 
EMERSON 
Farm Tractor 
Model L—12-20 Horae Power 
A four-cylinder, 2-speed light weighs 
tractor of great power, suitable for 
any size farm. Will pull the im¬ 
plements you now have on your farm 
— grang: plows, harrows, mowers, binders, 
manure spreaders, road drag’s or graders. 
Will also operate your ensilage cutter, feed 
grinder, circular saw, etc. Does more work 
than horses—costs less and is so simple anyone 
can run it. 
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