THE RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock Notes 
EXPERIENCE WITH MILKING MACHINE 
[The following practical paper was 
read before the Burlington Co. (N. J.) 
Hoard of Agriculture by D. L. Crashaw.] 
About as soon as something new is 
tried in a neighborhood, either method or 
machine, the first thought and the first 
Uiiestion is "Will it pay? Why is it bet¬ 
ter than the old method?” I wish to 
show where a milker will pay a dividend 
on the average farm of 20 cows or more, 
especially where the help is more inde¬ 
pendent than the manager and they know 
you have to do all of the milking when¬ 
ever they choose to be away or alcoholic- 
ally disabled. 
1 suppose some men could make the 
milker pay 100%, others could not get 
satisfaction if one was given to them that 
ran by wind, but we get between those 
extremes with complete satisfaction to 
all about home this season. The milker 
must be cared for and adjusted, not a 
big job, but some one must take this 
part and give it a little study. The in¬ 
structions are plain and the time neces¬ 
sary would amount to about one hour per 
week in Summer, and half that much in 
Winter. Make an outline of how the 
milker pays an investment on a farm of 
20 to 10 cows with general farm opera¬ 
tions. like done in parts of Burlington 
County. We will find about two men, 
two teams, with the third man to do 
chores and assist milking. With the ma¬ 
chine the third man does all milking, 
keeping the two teams in field one hour 
longer. What will that amount to in 
1.10 busy days? The man who adjusts 
the machine will not consider it an im¬ 
position if the temperature is 100 in the 
stable and two flies to every square inch 
nf the cow, and the men with teams will 
be pleased to stay in field until nearly 
supper time. Aside from the 1.10 busy 
days with teams there will be about 50 
days of one hour each for two men, like 
cutting and husking corn. This gives the 
following. 
2 men. 2 teams, 150 days. $00.00 
2 mmi. §0 days. 15.00 
1 man less 3 mo. Winter. 25c board 105.00 
Satisfaction. 100.00 
$310.00 
Comparative Cost. —I have heard men 
say the milker cost too much. That 
sounds reasonable but compare the hours 
used per year with other machinery. In 
a dairy of 25 or 30 cows the milker 
would he used about TOO hours; or 70 
days of 10 hours each. What other ma¬ 
chine would be used as much? The bind¬ 
er is a more costly machine than the 
milker, compared with its cost and hours’ 
use per year. The manure spreader gives 
about the same amount of service com¬ 
pared with its cost as the milker, used 
about one-quarter as many hours and cost 
about one-quarter as much. I know but 
one man who can afford a spreader, but 
has not got one; he is waiting to get one 
after they are perfected self-loaders. I 
suppose he will use a milker when they 
are made to start by clockwork and do 
the milking while he lies abed. I think 
if we waited for perfection in any method 
or appliances there would be no progress. 
I believe a dairy farmer would have more 
use for a milker than he would for an 
automobile at about one-half cost per 
hour’s use, or maybe the man with the 
auto can figure that better than I. 
Satisfaction.— Extra sleep, every morn¬ 
ing, especially Sundays; you do not set the 
alarm up one hour earlier so as to make 
sure if no help is on hand. You dairy¬ 
men know the boss has all of the hard 
milkers, the small-teated cow and the 
kickers to milk if you are unfortunate 
enough to have one, and if you want to 
miss a milking or two that puts a grouch 
on those who have your share to do, and 
that will make a man quit if you keep it 
up, on Sundays in particular. Suppose 
a man takes a notion to leave in the 
midst of morning milking and you miss 
the train; he has the satisfaction, but 
if you got a machine and get down and 
meet the train about as usual you get the 
satisfaction. In case of injury to the 
hands or fingers, disabling you as a hand 
milker, you could operate the milker as I 
saw photographs and sketches in The 
It. N.-Y., where one-handed men were 
using milkers. You can get men who will 
half do the milking most of the time, you 
can do all of the milking part of the time, 
hut the milker will do all of the milking 
all of the time, and that is the feature 
which makes it more and more popular 
among the larger dairies. The milk is 
cleaner than the average hand milking. 
The cows are milked in an uniform man¬ 
ner twice a day every day of the yeai - , 
that increases production. Should a cow 
reach for feet or switch a fly there are 
no ribs broken with stool or no profane 
language. The milker relieves the man 
from the dairyman’s nightmare and re¬ 
lieves the cows from the hand milker ter¬ 
ror. There are three dairymen who do 
not need a milker; the man with less than 
20 cows, the man with three or four good 
boys or girls willing to help milk at all 
times; the man who leaves part of his 
machinery in the field where it was used 
last and the balance of it used for a hen 
roost. 
Cost And Upkeep. —We started using 
the milker February S last. The milker 
has not missed a milking since; though 
the gas engine missed one milking on ac¬ 
count of batteries used out, and that was 
when the milker proved its value over 
hand milking. With gasoline at present 
price it costs about four cents per day 
including oil to operate the milker. No 
cause for repairs yet. The milker is put 
in the barn complete with expert service 
until you are entirely satisfied you can 
handle it. That is a big item in the cost, 
and well worth the expense. 
In addition to this my experience as to 
the welfare of the cows which have had 
two lactation periods since using the 
milker; no trouble with teats or udder, 
cows breed regularly with big calves, and 
milk close to time necessary to get them 
dry in most cases. I sold no cows on 
account of using milker, but have three 
cows which could not keep if w’e milked 
by hand, hard milker, one small teat and 
one with a hole in side of teat about half 
way up, all handled with the milker all 
right. 
Separator for Small Herd. 
An inquirer recently asked how many 
cows one needs to keep to make it pay to 
buy a separator. For four years we had 
only one cow, and we thought it paid us 
to have a separator. We bought a small 
size machine. When one does not have 
a good place to set the milk the cream 
can be cared for after it is separated 
much better than the whole milk, and it 
makes a great, deal less work, as the wash¬ 
ing and caring for separator takes only 
a few minutes, twice a day, and you have 
the sweet milk to feed. Besides, we think 
we gain considerable in quantity of 
cream. At the present time we have 
three cows and are still using the one- 
cow separator; it takes a little longer to 
run it through than if we had the larger 
size, but that will come later. My advice 
would be to anyone who had cows, 
whether it was one or more, not to try 
to do without a separator. MRS. S. G. 
New York. 
THE HERD GENTLEMAN AT WORK. 
In 1783 Dr. Edwards, an English 
writer on farming, laid down the propo¬ 
sition that “Gentlemen have no right to be 
farmers.” There are dairymen who feel 
much the same way about the bull at the 
head of the dairy herd. He stands in 
idleness when he ought to be at work. On 
the first page are two pictures of such a 
gentleman at labor, and he, like every 
other laborer is made, better for it. Mr. 
R. V. Wicks who owns this bull tells his 
story as follows: 
I take pleasure of introducing to you 
King Wicks Merrilees DeKol, a three- 
year-old registered Holstein bull, by way 
of showing how one can turn an idle 
bull into a useful animal and make him 
gentle and docile as a ox. Last Summer 
I had my offside ox laid up with a foul 
foot (right in haying time). I told my 
son to yoke up King. We were mowing 
some black ground, and after the two- 
weeks’ wet weather first of July it was 
soft, and we mowed, raked and plowed 
with him for a couple of weeks, then the 
near side ox got a hole in his brisket and 
we yoked King up again on the nearside 
and drew out stone for the State road 
for a couple of weeks. When finished I 
wanted to break up some black ground 
that hadn’t been broken up in 15 years, 
a rolling cutter on a plow wouldn’t work, 
just clog up and slide off. My neighbor 
told me to hook on to his sulky plow, 
which I did, and on the back the ground 
was springy and the bull pulled the ox to 
his belly in the furrow. I found I would 
spoil my ox, the work was too much, so 
I looked over the other ox and found him 
fit to work, putting the oxen in the yoke 
and the single yoke on the bull and re¬ 
moved the double whiffletrees from the 
three-horse rig to hook the ox chain, using 
chain traces on the bull. I could turn a 
16-inch furrow with case. When finished 
we used the same rig on the 12-wheel 
disk. He worked as kind as an ox. only 
a little too fast. He is the quickest and 
handiest three-year-old bull I ever saw, 
and my boy of 10 years old can handle 
him. Of course we use lines on them 
snapped in their rings. Either the oxen 
or bull will work single. I also have a 
one-horse tread-power that I use for cut¬ 
ting stalks, and we use all three, one at 
a time on the power; they will cut almost 
as fast as a horse and no danger of calk¬ 
ing themselves. r. v. wicks. 
mml „ J- - campthinr NEW 
tffV 3 FOR fixing "fence* 
s W /I I' 1 building a wire fence you ean 
J ’K U do three hours’ work in one witli 
Ns. U this wonderful tool. It stretches 
wire, pulls staples, makes staples, 
1 AeWflL splices broken wire, ties wire, 
■ fastens stays. It’s 
■ The GIANT FENCE TOOL 
t revents lightning following the fence and killing 
stock Makes old split fence posts as good as new. 
In building new wire fences it will save 125 to 160 
posts per mile and make a stronger fence. Satis- 
taction guaranteed. 
AfiFNT'k can mak ® big money. Exceptional op- 
HULI 1 I O opportunity for ilrst man in each neigh¬ 
borhood. Write for circulars and proposition. 
uric* HARDWARE SALES CO.. ? 810-7910 WhiteshorsSt .Utica.N.T. 
A N T1 - COW^OCKER>^ 
Post . la 1 'teed AntLKieker. 'Only' 'dd- 
-, .. Jf vice for breaking heifers, cows 
v 1 -0 U with soro teats, or vicious kickers. 
THE MOORE BROS. OF ALBANY, N. Y. 
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DAIRY CATTLE | 
East River Grade Holsteins For Sale 
75 High Grade Cows just fresh, large producers. 
50 cows due to calve this month and next. 
40 extra nice heifer calves ten days old, sired 
by pure blooded bulls, from.high producing 
dams. Registered and grade bulls all ages. 
WE TUBEIiCULINE TEST. 
JOHN B. WEBSTER, 
Dopt. Y, Cortland, N. Y. Bell Phone 14, F. 5. 
Registered Holstein Yearling Bulls 
Grand Sons of Pontiac Korudyke and King of the 
I’ontiacs, from choice heavy-milking dams, at pop¬ 
ular prices. If you want to start a herd, might sell 
one heifer with eacli bull. Write me what you want. 
DONALD V. McLennan, Syracuse, N. Y. 
HOLSTEINS FOR SALE 
% Holstein heifer and bull calves $15 each, ex¬ 
press paid to your station in lots of 5. Registered 
bulls $55 to $5U each, 5 registered heifer ealves $500. 
Registered bulls ready for service, registered and 
high-grade cows. Reagan Bros., Tully, N. Y. 
SPRINGDALE FARMS 
Holsteins. 300 fancy cows and heifers to select 
from. F. P. Saunders & Son, Cortland, N.Y. 
HnUtpin Sprvirp R n 11—Grandsons of Pontiac Koru- 
noibTein oervice dun dyke and King Segis (one 
to 10 mo. old.) If you are looking for the blood 
which produces world champion cows, write to 
Ira S. Jarvis, Hartwick Seminary, N. Y. Prices moderate 
READY FOR SERVICE - pRICES - 575 00 ‘“Siso.oo 
iichui run otnwiuc RegisteredHo | gteiuand 
Jersey Bulls. Splendid individuals witli great 
backing. Best blood in the land. Also younger bull 
calves. Write for list. HOMEWOOD FARMS, RYE, N. Y. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves F f 0 o, Sa s e u lYFai 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM. Chitlenango. N. Y. 
Registered Holstein Heifer 
Most productive blood lines. F. H. Wood, Cortland. N.Y. 
run rnUUUbllUN Registered Jersey bu 
calves, only, from producing dams and highest, tyn 
sires. R. F. SHANNON. 603 Renshaw Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pi 
FOR SALE 
Otterkill Farm Ayrshires 
15 young bulls, all ages, and well bred, from import¬ 
ed sire Howies Predominant, imported three years 
ago, who was bred by Robert Wallace Auchenbrain. 
He is also for sale. Prices to suit the buyer. Address 
RUDOLPH HESS, Mgr., Washingtonville, Orange Co. N. Y. 
THOROUGHBRED AYRSHIRE BULL CALVES 
FOB SALK from registered stock; beautifully 
marked, wonderfully developed. One born Nov. 6th, 
the other Dec. 6th, 1914. Though only a little over 
4 and 5 months old, they are now as large as yearl¬ 
ings. Warm, sweet milk and calf meal did it. They 
were fed as a calf should be fed. That accounts for 
their remarkable growth. Address, I)r. Win. 
More Decker, 1204 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. 
O■ lOKHCQUC ^ few registered Guernsey 
IaUvIII3Uj 9 bulls from 2 to 18 months 
old; also a few heifers; from A. R. stock. Regis¬ 
tered Berkshire pigs; fall boars at farmer’s prices. 
Herd headed by Masterpiece Premier C180800 
ELLENAVOOD FAltM, _ Ilatboro, Fa. 
CM I C Registered JERSEY BULL, 7 months 
old, by Karnacks Noble ex. Meadow 
queen of Allendale. Also two registered JERSEY HEIFERS. 
Effingham Lawronca, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island 
6P.3 
and. Ferrets 
f Do&) 
FpitpIq - S ingle, pairs and dozen lots. Stamp for 
rcncis Price list . CALVIN JEWELL , Spencer. (>. 
flfll I IF PIIDQ—the intelligent kind. Also Blood. 
UULLIC ruro hounds. NE LSON’S, Grove City, Pa. 
SCOTCH COLLIE PUPPIES Saa 
w. c. B. Polish, Partridge Wyandottes, S. C. Buff Leg¬ 
horns, 13 eggs, $ 1 . 00 . Catalog. 25 varieties. 
Berkshire P ioneer Poultry Yards, Berkshiro, N. Y. 
For Sale: 
* FEW CHOICE 
THOROUGHBRED 
Swiveller strain. sire and dam registered, 
weeks old. I-'IU.VK MKAI>, Amenia, Now Vork. 
Airedale Pups 
Ten 
SWINE 
-CHESHIRES- 
THE NEW YORK FARMERS’ HOG 
Weanling pigs and young brood sows for sale. 
Department of Animal Husbandry, 
Cornell University, ; Ithaca, New York 
0.1. C.’s & Chester Whites 
Spring pigs from Big, Typy, Healthy, Prolilic Stock. 
$10.00 each, also Pairs and trios. A few choice bred 
gilts, also 400 pound service lwars. 
VICTOB I’ABMS, : Bellvale, New York 
Six weeks old 
■ | ■ \_J> B ” | V 3 from matured 
7----- stock free 
from disease. Registered. Ten Dollars each. GEO. E. 
SCARRITT & SON, North Crook, Warren Co., N. Y. 
80 Registered 
Chester White Pigs 
10 wkn. to 8 moffi old; 7 
Jersey Heifers 2 to 4 yrs. 
old; 4 bull calves 2 to 4 
bios. old. Collie Puppies. 
A variety of Poultry and — ■ . ■ - - . 
Eggs for Hatching. jSend for descriptive circular and prices. 
EDWARD WALTER, Dept. R, Eureka Stack Farm, West Chester, Penna. 
BERKSHIRES 
l'orty sows bred for Spring litters to the famous 
Rivals .Majestic Boy 1411407. These arc of the best 
type, and Individuality, Write for prices. 
TOMPKINS FARM. !•! I, V N SI) A I. E. PA. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES 
10 Bred Gilts for June farrow. 
Service Boars and March pigs. 
J. E. WATSON, - Marbledale, Ct. 
WITH QUALITY’, TYPE AND 
BEST OF BREEDING. A line 
lot of show and breeding stock 
to offer. Write your wants or 
H. M. TERWILLIGEK, Kirkville, N.Y. 
Berkshires 
come and see. 
Discriminating Buyers Satisfied Farm’ffishh-es. 
All fashionable families; outstanding individuals. 
Orders for export given especial care. 
It. Y. KUCKLEY, "Woodrow”, Broad Axe. Pa. 
RprlfshifP Piorg - Choice ones at a moderate price. 
DBI *3IIice ngb Also a f0w S0rviee boar8 am f j, re(1 
sows. M. H. TAYLOR, West Alexander, Pa, 
CHELDON FARM REGISTERED DCROCS 
, Pics of both sex. Bred Sows. Service Boars. 
Best of breeding. C. E. BARNES, Oxford, N. Y. 
Woiidlypn Farm Berkshires;,?^.ffi,"!!, 
Pineville, Pa. 
John W. Cooper, 
Bred Berkshire Sow Cheap i™V r SV*£n 
marked; deep, mature sow, “Premier Longfellow” blood; bred 
to Masterpiece boar. Moving—must sell. First clierk for |i;o 
takes her—worth » 100 . Old Landing Farms, Millsboro, Dal. 
I ARGE BERKSHIRES AT HIGHWODO-No foot and mouth 
disease ever in county. Shipments permittep 
everywhere, on inspection. Special offeringof Boars 
and Boar Pigs. H C. 8 H. B. HARPENDING, Dundee N. Y 
Thoroughbred Berkshires—Gilts bred to farrow in 
June. One service boar—young sows and boars, 
four months old—all vigorous animals from liigli- 
§ rade stock. The New York State Training 
ehool for Boys, Yorktown Heights, N. Y. 
FOR PURE BRED TAMWORTH SWINE 
write or visit WESTVIKW STOCK FARM, R. 
F. I). No. I, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 
DURflH PIRQ— 1 $10pair. Pedigreed Buff Leghorn 
uunuu r IUO Eggs,$l .50 set. S. Weeks, OeGraff, 0. 
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IMPORTED PERCHERON STALLION 
L A N D A I S 
Registered in Percheron Society of America 
Dark Dapple Grey 4 years old 
Beautiful Conformation Weight 1850 lbs. 
Fee $25.00 to insure in foal. 
$5.00 payable at first service. 
Return privilege. 
Walnut Grove Farm 
WASHINGTONV1LLE, N. Y. 
Shetland Ponies^,™ d • 
$50. HARTZELL BROS , Established 1883, SEB RING OHIO 
Highland View Stock Farm 
Our barns are tilled with the best Percheron and 
Belgians at the lowest prices. 
0. N. WILSON, Prop., - Kittanning, Pa. 
100 Percheron and Belgian Stallions 
MAKES AND HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 
Also SHETLAND PONIES. Free circular. 
A. W. GKEEN, . MitldlefieUl, Ohio 
KENTUCKY JACKS AND SADDLERS 
Fine Mammoth Jacks and Jennets. Saddle Stallions, Mares 
and Geldings. Percheron Stallions and .Mares. Write us 
describing your wants. Home cured Blue Grass Seed and 
Cedar fence posts. Tfce Cook Farms, Box 436 0, Lexington, Ky. 
For Sale 
An Imported black 5-year-ol<l 
PERCHERON STALLION. A 
_ . , Worker, a Breeder and a 
Bargain. Weight, 1700. 8. 1>. WICKS, Pornfret, Conn. 
