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'THfcC KUKAL NEW-YORKER 
March 6, 
.THE, 
NITED STATE 
CREAM SEPARATOR 
The Interlocking Sectional Type 
differs vastly from the disc or any 
other separator construction. It is 
the modern product of new and 
better ideas and is manufactured 
under the latest cream separator 
patents, — antiquated, abandoned 
principles of construction having 1 
no place in its makeup. 
The Interlocking 
fected product 
of over twenty- 
five years’ ex- 
peri e n c e in 
lauilding- cream 
separators. 
It takes years 
of experience 
to develop a 
cream separat¬ 
or of highest 
efficiency. A 
large number 
in our factory 
have this expe¬ 
rience, having 
made a life 
study of the 
U. S.' 
When buying 
the U. S. you 
get a separator 
more improved 
than ethers, 
for example. 
The U. S. was the first to use the 
oil splash system. The U. 8. oils 
all the gears. Imitators oil only 
part of the gears. 
The U. S. is the first to have a 
Mechanical Washer. Others are 
spending large sums to invent one 
equally effective. 
The U. S. is the first to have a 
non-rusting bowl chamber liner. 
We predict 
others will copy 
it in years to 
come. 
The patented 
U. S. Interlock¬ 
ing Skimming 
device has 
proved a better 
skimmer than 
“disc” bowls. 
It would be 
imitated if not 
patented. 
The U. S. skims 
Nature’s way— 
cream at the 
top, milk a t the 
bottom. As yet 
we’ve never 
heard of any¬ 
one who has 
improved on 
Nature. Have 
you ? 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO. 
BELLOWS FALLS, VT. 
Pure Feeding Molasses 
We arc ,ir.st hands and can quote you absolutely bottom 
prices, delivered your station, in lots ot anywhere from 
one barrel to a trainload. Write tor booklet. 
THE MEADER-ATLAS CO. 
N. Y. Ollico, 107 Hudson Street, New York City 
THE SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE 
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 
trains students in all lines of veterinary work. Fa¬ 
cilities unexcelled. For catalogue, address Louis A. 
Klein,Dean, Dept E,39lh St. SWoodland Ave., Philadelphia, Pa 
w 
The impor¬ 
tant thing to 
do is to clip in 
the spring no 
matterwhat you . 
doit with. Even 
with the shears 
or the old two- 
hand clipper is 
better than 
not at all. 
BEFORE the SPRING 
WORK BEGINS 
you can help the horses a good deal 
by clipping off their winter coat. 
It is not of so much consequence how 
you do it so long as it is done. Even 
the old two-hand clipper or shears is bet 
, ter than none at all. Clipped horses 
sweat less, dry off quicker at night, 
rest better and get more good from 
their feed. It also adds to their sell¬ 
ing value. As stated above, the 
important thing is to clip, no matter 
how you do it, but if you want to do 
it the easy, quick way, use 
The 
Stewart 
Machine' 
Will Clip 
Horses 
Mules or 
I Cows 
Without 
Change 
The Stewart 
Ball Bearing 
Clipping Machine 
It costs only $7.50 and it will last a 
lifetime for its gears are all cut from the 
solid steel bar and made file hard, they are 
enclosed, protected and run in oil; the flex* 
J ible shaft is new style, light running and 
6 feet long and it has the highest grade 
Stewart clipping head — a truly marvel¬ 
ous machine at the money 
GET uNE from YOUR DEALER or send $2.00 
and we will ship C. O. D. for balance. 
PRICE 
HY NOT MAKE MORE 
WOOL MONEY? 
You can easily net from IS to 20 percent 
more on every sheep youshear. Don’t 
labor with hand shears, in the old, hard, - 
sweaty way. Don’t have aching, swollen 
wrists. Don’t spoil the wool with second cuts. 
Shear with the wonderful 
A skeep 
.would say 
Stewart No. 9 Ball Bearing 
Shearing Machine 
It’s the most perfecthand operated shearing ma¬ 
chine ever devised. Has ball bearings in every 
part where friction or wear occurs. Has a ball 
bearing shearing head of latest improved Stewart 
pattern. Complete, including four combs and four 
cutters of the celebrated Stewart quality $11.50 
Get one from your dealer, or send $2 and we will 
ship C. O. D. for balance. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
CHICAGO FLEXIBLE SHAFT CO. . _ ^ 
I4J N. LaSalle St.. CHICAGO, ILL. % _ 
Write for complete new catalog showing world', largest and moat 
modern lino of burse clipping and aneep shearing machinea. 
If they’d use a Stewart 
on me my fleece would 
come off smoothly and 
quickly in one unbroken 
blanket. I would’nt be 
scarred and disfigured 
with uneven shearing 
and second cuts. Try 
one on me and 
convince your¬ 
self of the 
wonderful 
results." 
The 
Stewart 
Shears 
Longer 
Better 
and 
More 
Wool 
The Motor Truck in Marketing Fruit 
R OAD CONDITIONS.—We live seven 
miles from our nearest market, Hunt¬ 
ington. AY. Ya.. anti have to cross the 
Ohio Itiver on a ferry boat. The river 
rises and falls according to the amount 
of rainfall, fluctuating between 18 inches 
during severe droughts to 07 feet in time 
of the great floods. There is much sedi¬ 
ment deposited along the banks when 
heavy rains wash the dirt from ground 
that is not held firm by good sod. mulch, 
or something to protect the banks or 
ground from washing away. Our roads 
run through hilly country, but have fair 
grades. There is a scarcity of limestone 
or any good material for road-building in 
this immediate section, and part of the 
road is covered with coarse sand dug out 
of the hills, some of it with creek gravel, 
some with river gravel, and some with 
furnace cinders. With such roads it did 
not seem wise to get a heavy truck, as 
there is danger of getting stuck some¬ 
times in had places, especially on the 
river grades. 
Experience of Three Years. —Three 
years ago I got one rated with a capacity 
of 1.500 pounds, but have hauled 2,800, 
though it was too much, and have 
managed to get along without very much 
trouble, hut if we had tried one with a 
capacity of throe tons or more it could 
not have made it many times when the 
Fruit By Aitomorile. 
small one went right through. When it 
was wet we put <»n chains and went right 
ou, though there is not much need of them 
on level road when if is wet, unless there 
are holes where one might get stuck. The 
•sand and gravel get soft and cut up in 
Winter, so it is too hard pulling for the 
truck to make economical travel, but it 
can go when it is frozen hard, and also on 
snow if it is not too deep. I have made 
good headway in six inches of snow. 
Rubber tires do not seem to slip on snow 
and ice as readily as steel tires. The 
truck cost $750, and has made about 750 
trips or more the past three years. It 
is about worn out, though it would have 
lasted much longer with better care, and 
used on good roads, so it has cost about'’$1 
per load in wear and tear of the machine, 
and operating expenses and repairs in that 
time cost about 75 cents more, or $1.75 
per round trip. Would a horse or mule 
team and wagon have been any less per 
load? The truck often made two loads 
when a team could have made only one, 
and we have made four loads a day many 
times with the truck, but it has been 
mighty few times one team lias made 
more than one trip a day. Constant 
travel will soon get the best of a team, 
but the truck can go right on, except 
when oiling, watering the radiator, filling 
with gasoline or tightening up some¬ 
thing. The more constantly it goes the 
better it runs, except as it needs atten¬ 
tion. It would take two teams and 
wagons and two drivers to deliver as 
much as the truck could, so the cost . " 
'equipment is less with the truck and one 
driver’s expenses saved, though it is often 
advisable to have an extra man along 
with the truck to help unload, or get 
through a had place, or repair if any¬ 
thing is needed. , 
Saving Time. —We used to get up at 
2 A. M. to get the team ready to go to the 
early morning market, as the early man 
usually gets the best prices and makes the 
quickest sales. When we got the truck 
we could sleep as late as 4 A. M., and 
got there about the same time, and get 
back home oue or two hours sooner. It 
does not take as much time to put the 
machine away and fill up with gasoline, 
oil and water, and screw up grease cups, 
as it does to harness up a team and hitch 
up. If one load a day is all that is 
needed, one can save from two to four 
hours’ time on the load, and be at home 
the remainder of the time. As he can 
make better sales early and deliver more 
in the same time than a horse team could, 
one may get more for a load by as much 
sometimes as a few dollars, so it seems 
fair that with one’s time saved, health 
kept up better, more dollars taken in. 
and horse feed saved, part of the high 
cost of running and wearing out a ma¬ 
chine should be offset by these extras. 
Also, one can make a sale on short no¬ 
tice, and deliver by truck in a hour, 
when it would be impossible to do so with 
horses, if it should have to go by express 
or boat and had only an hour to make it. 
and sometimes in the extra time it would 
take horses to deliver a load it might get. 
caught in a storm and ruin part of a load 
of peaches, cherries or some perishable 
fruit, when a truck could have got 
through in time to have it safely housed. 
The truck can also go to more distant 
markets than is possible with the horse 
team. 
Saving the Team. —Most farms are 
not equipped with any more teams than 
are needed on the place during the 
Spring and Summer seasons, and if the 
marketing must he done with the teams, 
there is often fruit to go t> market when 
the team is needed to plow some ground 
that is just right, or needs harrowing, or 
something should be planted or cultivated, 
or the spraying should be done just then, 
or the hay cut, raked or hauled in, or 
many other jobs that could he done to the 
best advantage just at that time. By tlie 
time the team can be spared at home, the 
ground may get mighty hard, the soil on 
the plowed ground may bake and let the 
moisture escape, and weeds get a start, or 
some planting might lie delayed on ac¬ 
count of drought or rain, or the hay dam¬ 
aged. or I lie spraying neglected till the 
worms have made a good start toward 
damaging the fruit, or the scab get start¬ 
ed on it. or rot get a start on peaches or 
plums, or loss from some other job that 
should have been done sooner. If one has 
a truck the teams can better keep up 
with the farm work. 
Experience Needed. —One has to learn 
.by experience most everything; so it is 
with running a car and selling fruit. The 
fruit should he packed tight in the pack¬ 
ages. and they should be packed tight in 
the bed of the truck. The constant mo¬ 
tion of the engine and machine jars the 
fruit and moves the packages if they 
have any room to move. I have noticed 
plums turn over in the basket while the 
machine was standing still and the en¬ 
gine running slowly, and it rubbed the 
bloom off and made the" took spotted, 
and in a short time they will look as 
though they are bruised. If only a few 
packages are in the front part of the bed 
when one starts he can watch them move 
hack a little at a time while the machine 
is running, and the rougher the road the 
more they will move and jolt. One must 
learn how to run and handle any ma¬ 
chine to get the most out of it; how much 
gasoline to give it, where to have the 
spark, how to stop and where, and also 
where not to stop or run out of the road 
in meeting or passing some one. I had an 
experience in meeting a man in a wagon 
and turned out where it looked aii right, 
but it was gravel, and not packed, and the 
more I pulled the more the wheel worked 
down grade, because it was sloping 
enough to plow out the gravel and slip 
down, and I had to get a team to pull 
back in the road. Sometimes, when one 
wheel is higher than the other, the upper 
wheel will spin around and the machine 
stand still. Experience is the host teacher 
in such cases. Always keep where it is 
nearest level and solid. Not everyone can 
drive a horse team, and it is only occa¬ 
sionally that one finds a real good team¬ 
ster, hut it is likely more people can 
learn to drive a car than those Avho can 
drive teams well. u. T. cox. 
Lawrence Co., O. 
An eloquent Irish orator, speaking of 
a tyrant, once said, “His tongue is that 
of a serpent, which lures but to destroy, 
and which holds out sugar-plums in one 
hand, while in the other it holds an un¬ 
sheathed dagger behind its back.—Mel¬ 
bourne Australasian. 
