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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 6, 1915. 
AJAX FLAKES 
T HIS valuable distillers’ grain contains about 
31% protein, 13% fat. It is twice as strong as 
bran. You cannot make milk economically if you 
use bran. One pound of AJAX FLAKES does the 
work of two pounds of bran, and saves $! 4 per ton. 
AJAX FLAKES 
Hold* hundreds of official records and many world’s records. It is used and 
recommended by Cornell Agricultural College, Pennsylvania State College 
and prominent breeders. You should lay in your supply now, 
Send for Feeders ’ Hand Book with tables and feeding instructions 
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS 
CHAPIN & CO., Dept. R HAMMOND, IND. 
SWINE 
Originators of th« 
Famous O. I. C. 
Swine 1863 
T wo O.I.C. Hogs 
Weigh 2806 lbs. 
v, 
Why lose profits breed- 
'ing and feeding scrub 
hogs? Two of our O. I. 
.t i-j C. Hogs weigh 2806 lbs. 
i Will ship you sample 
1/ pair of these famous hogs on 
' time and give agency to first ap¬ 
plicant. We areoriglnators. most ex¬ 
tensive breeders and shippers of pure bred 
hogs in the world. All foreign shipments 
U. S. Govt. Inspected 
We have bred the O. I. C. Hogs for 51 yean 
and have never lost a hog with cholera 
or any other contagious disease. 
Writm — to-day— 
for Fret Book, * * The 
Hog from Birth to Sale“ 
THE L. B. SILVER CO. 
S62 Vickers Building, Cleveland, Ohio 4 
100 Registered 
Chester White Pigs 
10 wk8. to 8 mo8. old: 6 
Jersey Cows 2 to C yrs. old: 
and 8 bull calves 4 to 10 
Dios.old. 60 Lincoln lambs. 
Write for descriptive circular and price list. 
EDWARD WALTER, Dept. R, “Eureka Stock Farm," West Chester, Penna 
Pedigree Chester Whites s ° t «‘ u of E S , le" t 
Kidgely Manor Farm, . Stone Kidge, N. Y. 
o. i. c. whitest 
pies. They give sa 11 s f a c t i on. W A Y S 11) K 
FARM, CHATHAM, N. J. Address A. L. 
Page, (Owner), 014 Cortlaudt St., N. Y. City 
FOR PURE BRED TAMWORTH SWINE 
write or visit WESTVIEYV STOCK FARM, R. 
F. 1). No. 1, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 
ONE MORE PIC 
PER LITTER is only one of the 
many advantages Reds have 
over the less hardy breeds. My 
\ Free Book details them all. 1 
Write for it. j 
rBoxlTl ‘ 
Kinderhook Duroc-dersey Swine Asso. - ”®^ 
in the East for registered stock of all ages. Best of 
breeding. Free from disease. Paii'8 not related. 
Jas. E. van Alstyne, Sec'y, Kinderhook, Columbia Co., N. Y. 
SEPTEMBER 20TH 
Duroc Pigs, $4 
registered, $5. Grades, $3. Registered Guernsey 
bull calf, $35. Oxford buck, $12. 
W. H. DOW & SON, - Middlebury, Vt. 
S HELDON FARM REGISTERED DCROCS 
Pigs of both sex. Bred sows. Service boars. 
Best of breeding. C. E. BARNES, Oxford, N.Y. 
nilB HP? - Nice pigs; $15pair: not akin. Fed. W 
UUnUUd SERENO WEEKS, De Graff, O 
rite 
Ohio 
CHESHIRE SERVICE BOARS 
me your wants 
-Sows and pigs at rea¬ 
sonable prices. Write 
G. E. SMITH, Castile, N. Y. 
L 
Dogs fiiicl Ferrets 
Collie PopsT,Ii:,,i“ l S 
son’s, Grove City, Pa. 
FERRETS FOR SALE 
Booklet and price list Iree. 
JN0. F. MURRAY, New London, 0. 
3000 FERRETS 
C. M. SACKETT, . 
FOR SALE. Fine stock. Il¬ 
lustrated catalog and 
price list free. 
Dept. R, Ashland, Ohio 
Ferrets forSaleT,?,l ther c ? lor - laree or 
lots. Choice stock. 
small; mated pairs or dozen 
C. H Keefer & Co., Greenwich, Ohio 
Horses and. Mules 
Shetland Poni 
Lord in biggest Shetland Producing County in U. S to 8150 
100 Percheron and Belgian Stallions 
MARES AND HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 
Also SHETLAND PONIES. Free circular. 
A. W. GREEN, - Middlefield, Ohio 
Highland View Stock Farm 
Our barns are filled with the best Percheron and 
Belgians at the lowest prices 
0. N. WILSON, Prop., - Kittanning, Pa. 
DRY SKIM MILK 
for pigs, calvesor chickens. One pound makes 
6 liquid quarts. Low cost. 
W. A. RANDEL & GO., SE c Y o M «X UR 
JST7^7"X3NTE 
TYWACANA BERKSHIRES 
50 CHOICE GILTS 
(Cholera Immune) 
Bred to our great Boar, 
Successor's Longfellow 180,- 
594, first prize senior yearling 
boar, 1914, at Forest City, 
Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin 
State Fairs. 
Write For Oescriptive Circular and Prices 
TYWACANA FARMS, A. E. Wright, 
Supt. Box 68, Farmingdale, L.I..N. Y. 
Branford Farms Berkshires 
Headed by tbe following GREAT BOARS : 
LEE PREMIERS RIVAL 
BRANFORD ARTFUL RIVAL 
LEE PREMIERS’ MASTERPIECE 
HOPEFUL LEE’S SUCCESSOR 
We are now offering bred and open sows — 
Service boars and pigs, both sexes. Buy a 
sow bred to, or a pig by Lee Premier’s Rival, 
the greatest boar we ever owned. Bred, raised 
and owned by Branford Farms. Daughtersof 
his will be bred to Branford Artful Rival, the 
boar who did such good work for A. J. Love- 
joy & Son. Satisfaction guaranteed. Specify 
your desires, and we will endeavor to meet 
them. Visitors always welcome. 
Branford Farms, Groton, Conn. 
Woodrow Farm Sold Out 
We beg to announce that we have nothing to offer 
for sale until after the first of the year, when we 
will have some outstanding bred sows and gilts. 
R. Y. Buckley, “Woodrow" Farm. Broad Axe, Pa. 
Large Berkshires at Highwood 
Regular fall offering of selected Service Boars. 
H. C.& H. B. IIARPENDING, Dundee, N. Y. 
Springbank Berkshires 
Nothing for sale but big March and April PIGS. 
J. E. WATSON, - Marbledale, Conn 
SPECIAL—A 13 months old show boar, large and 
fancy, sired by the great Algonquin, $30. Othergood 
hoars all ages. A lot of good Sept, boar pigs sired 
by Hopeful Lee 5th, price cut to $6. Ail registered. 
H. M. TERWILL1GER, Kirkville, N. Y. 
REG.CHESTER WHITES AND BERKSHIRES 
Best breeding; all ages; both sexes. Write for 
prices. Winlorton Farms, Toms River, N. J 
P UREBRED BERKSHIRE PIGS-six weeks 
old—sows. $6: boars, $5. So» s from last spring s 
litters, $10. Cloverdale Farm, Charlotte, N. Y. 
RFRK9HIRFS - ^'* le l° n 2. J ee P- heavy, bone type. 
DCnmnillCd Grown for breeders and guaranteed as 
represented. Prices right. A C. HOOPER, Bozman, Md. 
For Sale- Berkshire and 0.1. C. Swine 
two to twelve months of age. Good breeding. Ex¬ 
cellent individuals. Prices reasonable. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. TARBELL FARMS, SM1THVILLE FLATS. N. Y. 
H 
ORN DORSET RAM LAMBS AND REGISTERED 
ESSEX PIGS. CHARLES LAFEERTY, Little Valley, N.Y. 
Hampshire Yearling and Ram Lambs ‘Xed'to 868, 
Flower ram. Ewe lambs, extra fine. Prices right. 
HASLETT BROS., - Seneca, N. Y. 
Registered Shropshire Rams a,id ram la ">'>s- ai so 
for sale 
e\ve« and ewe lambs 
E. E. STEVENS & SO NS, Wilson, N.Y. 
RAMBOUILLETS FOR 
and Ewes bred directly from our own importation 
from Baron vou Homeyer. Markham & Putfer, Avon. N Y. 
Pleasant Ridge Stock Farm 
lett, Dorset, I unco In, Cots wold and Cheviot Rams and 
Ewes ever offered Also Poland, Duroc and Essex 
sows and boars, all ages Prices right Satisfaction 
guaranteed. D. H. TOWNSEND & SON, Interlaken. N Y 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Killing the Horns on a Calf. 
The picture at Fig. 502 is taken from 
a bulletin by the Nebraska Experiment 
Station at Lincoln. This shows the head 
of a calf where the horns were destroyed 
by means of caustic potash. We have 
many calls from readers for a method of 
doing this work. Caustic potash can be 
bought at a drug store. It usually comes 
in the form of sticks, which are about the 
size of a lead pencil. For the best treat¬ 
ment on a calf the little fellow should be 
taken when one or two days old, or just 
as soon as the starting horns can be 
easily felt and located. With a pair of 
shears or clippers cut the hair away from 
the spot where the horn is starting. Then 
A Dishorned Calf. Fig. 502. 
wet the end of your stick of caustic pot¬ 
ash and rub it on this little horn, until 
a sore spot about the size of a dime is 
produced. A quicker job can be done by 
breaking the skin over the horn before 
the potash is put on. That's all there 
is to it. When put. on the baby calf the 
horn is quickly killed. Do not turn the 
calf out into the rain immediately after 
using the potash, as in that case it might 
be washed off and get down into his eyes. 
Taking the horns off a calf in this way 
is a good thing to do, as the horns are 
of no value whatever to the animal, and 
are often dangerous when he grows up. 
Rapid Bacterial Analysis of Milk. 
In cities and towns the bacterial count 
of the milk sold to the inhabitants is a 
matter of much importance; so much so, 
in fact, that in many places there are 
municipal regulations as to the number 
of bacteria permissible in market milk. 
The greatest difficulty in administering 
these regulations comes in getting a rapid 
bacterial count which is reliable. 
The most reliable method consists in 
taking a small measured sample of the 
milk in question, mixing it with a little 
melted, sterile nutrient agar, and allow¬ 
ing the whole to harden in a shallow lay¬ 
er in the bottom of-a flat glass dish. It 
is then permitted to stand at about 70 
deg. Fahr. for about five days. Agar is 
a substance secured from certain sea¬ 
weeds, and is similar to gelatin in many 
ways. With water it can be melted by 
heat, and when it cools it solidifies into 
a jelly-like mass. It is used, with the 
addition of certain nutritive materials, 
for growing many bacteria and fungi. 
When some material containing bacteria 
is well mixed with agar which is warm 
enough to be melted but not hot enough 
to kill the organisms, the bacteria be¬ 
come scattered all through the medium. 
Then when the agar is spread out over 
the surface of a shallow dish and allowed 
to cool, the bacteria are held by the solid¬ 
ifying of the agar just where they hap¬ 
pen to be when the cooling takes place. 
There they commence to grow and multi¬ 
ply, and soon each living bacterium has 
produced thousands and tens of thou¬ 
sands of new bacteria; and as they are 
growing on a solid substance they can¬ 
not move but must pile up where they 
are produced. The mass of bacteria thus 
becomes large enough in a few days to 
be seen with the naked eye. Thus by 
counting the bacterial masses, or “colon¬ 
ies,” one can find out just about how 
many single living bacteria were in the 
sample taken. 
In the determination of bacteria in 
milk, however, it is usually desirable to 
have a quick count, the quicker the bet¬ 
ter. For this reason, when the method 
just described, known as the plate moth- 
( DAIRY CATTIjE 
Meridale Jerseys 
have been bred along definite lines 
for nearly thirty years. Their quality 
is indicated by an average yield of 
7995 lbs. milk, 518 lbs. butter, per 
cow per year, of 147 cows on Regis¬ 
ter of Merit test. Young bulls and 
foundation stock always for sale. 
Personal selection is preferred, but S 
full inf orm at ion will - r 
gladly be submitted by 
letter if desired. 
ayer & McKinney 
300 Chestnut Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
FOR SALE 
THREE REGISTERED JERSEY BULLS 
One, two and four years old. Solid color. By grand¬ 
son of “Champion Flying Fox’’(Lawson’s ten thous¬ 
and dollar bull). Dams are among very best cows. 
Mine is a working herd, never pampered or forced 
for big record. In our county testing association 
last year it scored the highest test as a herd and for 
individual cow. Either bull is worthy of consider¬ 
ation from the most exacting buyer. Farm in Rut¬ 
land county, Vt. I want to buy a good young bull. 
Correspondence solicited. Addiess 
J. K. P. PINE, . - Troy, N. Y. 
QUALITY 
FOR QAI F Jersey Bull, old enough for 
■ Un vNLk service; he has 8 dams with 
yearly records averaging 10.104 lbs.. 2 oz. milk 
and 617 lbs.. 1 oz. estimated butter: these dams 
have 14daughters with authenticated records; 
he also has 15 sires with 251 tested daughters. 
We also offer 20 heifers and heifer calves from 
Register of Merit sires and dams. Address, 
E. W. MOSHER, Prop., or H. E. CROUCH, Mgr. 
BR1GHTS1DE FARMS, AURORA. N. Y. 
■JERSEYS- 
LARGE, RICH MILKERS AND FINE TYPE. Three herd bulla, 
a son of Imp. Combination, Noble of Oaklands and 
a splendid St. Lambert. Each from a great dam. 
Yearly tuberculin teat. Ulsterdorp Farms, High¬ 
land, N. Y. (One mile from Poughkeepsie Ferry.) 
Fosterfields Herd CO WS, T HEIFERS* S AND 
H El FERCALVES—FOR SAL E. Prices very reasonable. 
CHARLES G. FOSTER, Box 173, Morristown, ftoir Jersey 
FOR PR00UGTI0N BREE0 up - N0T oown- 
run rnUUUUIIUH Registered Jersey bull 
calves, only, from producing dams and highest type 
sires. R. f. SHANNON, 603 Renshaw Bldg.. Pittsburnh. Pa. 
EastRiver Grade Holsteins For Sale 
120 High Grade Cows. Tbe best that can 
be found. SOME FRE81I, balance due 
Oct. and Nov. Come and look them over. 
Stay and see them milked. 
10 Iieg. bulls ready tor use. 
10 Heifer calves, 6 montbs old. 
20 Heifer calves, 10 days old. 
JOHN B. WEBSTER, 
Dept Y, Cortland, N. Y. Bell Phone 14, F. 5 
HOLSTEIN BULLS ? N E J 
Your Time 4* Interest 
Head of the Herd an ARO Son of King of the 
Pontines whose Dam has a 29.57 Record and 
113.96 lbs. in 30 days. Nothing but ARO cows 
on the Farm. Herd tuberculin tested ;yearly 
for years. Write 
JUSTAMERE FARM, Middletown Springs, Vt. 
HnUlpin Sprvipp Rllll - ® ra ndsonsof Pontiac Korn- 
noisiem obiyiob duii dyl . e and King yegis (on9 
to 16 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 
Ontario Don Pietiei!’ 0 , 1 ""' sept. 30 , 1914 .show 
U Id 1IU UUII r I c IJ C Holstein; more than half 
while; ready for service. Sire, 35.61 lb. bull; dam, 
royally bred twin heifer, 18.52 lbs. at 2 yrs., 6 mos. 
Price, $250, and worth 20 ordinary hulls. Send for 
pedigree. Cloverdale Farm, Charlotte, N. Y. 
SPRINGDALE FARMS &*%**£?• 
Holsteins. 300 fancy cows and heifers to select 
from. F. P. Saunders & Sou, Cortland, N.Y. 
Sired by 
Rex Pontiac. 
HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES 
31.09, seven days, 30 days, 134 66. They are extra good 
individuals, all from A. R. O. dams. Write for pedi¬ 
grees and prices. THE YATES FARMS, Orchard Park, N.Y. 
READY FOR SERUICEt prices s,b 00 ,oS150 00 
**'•* wGHllwt Registered Holstein and 
Jersey Bulls. Splendid individuals with great 
backing. Best blood in the land. Also younger hull 
calves. Write for list. HOMEWOOD FARMS, RYE, N. Y. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves f f 0 r o f a l e ~Y. ri a! 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM. ChiltennuQO, N. Y. 
1401 STRING - Males and females for sale. 
* L-Ii'IO \\. T. Snider, Newburoh. N. Y. 
R-6UE.RNSLY BULL vs o sure wav^ 
to increase your profits. Grodo up your 
Herd by usirvj a pure bred Guernsey 
Bull and you will be surprised at Results. 
Send for free literature. 
Guernsey CcMle CAub, 
Box R Peterboro, N.H. 
Reg. Guernseys for SaIe- h , ( f i(e h r ° s ad an f l ue co b ^ 
with size; bred to high-class bull. Also four bulls 
under 1 year, out of good dams; A. R. breeding. 
One each from the following four great sires—Yeo¬ 
man’s King of the May, Langwnter. Demonstrator, 
Dean of the May, and Equality of the Glen. Which 
do you want ? Clioice$lUU. T. E. HYDE, Bloomsburo, Pa. 
GRADE GUERNSEYS for Sale 
My entire herd containing 16 cows and 10-head year¬ 
lings. two-year-olds and calves. 
Fred M. BENNETT, Mohawk Farm, Fultonville. N. Y. 
ABERDEEN ANGUS HEIFERS due to calve 
" in Dec. Choice stock Priced rignt Send for 
full particulars. C W. ECKAR0T, 21 Liberty St., New York 
Registered Dairy Shorthorns 
C. D. Barclay, Hillsdale, 
WANTED. Descriptions 
and price first letter. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
