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od, is used, it is customary to keep the 
plate at a higher temperature (98-99 
deg. Fahr.) and count at the end of two 
days, although the plan of holding at a 
higher temperature and counting sooner 
is not so accurate as the other. A still 
quicker, but even less accurate, method 
is to put a measured very small amount 
of the milk on a microscopic slide, stain, 
and count directly with the microscope. 
This method is subject to a number of 
inaccuracies, one of which is that there 
is no way to distinguish between living 
and dead bacteria. 
In order to give more accurate results 
than direct microscopical count gives, 
and quicker results than are obtainable 
by the plate method, W. D. Frost, of the 
Wisconsin Experiment Station, has late¬ 
ly proposed through the columns of 
Science a new method which is really a 
combination of the old methods, and 
which seems to give much promise of ac¬ 
complishing the ends sought. By this 
method the bacteria are grown on agar 
as before, but instead of being hardened 
in a shallow layer in a dish a small 
known amount of the inoculated agar is 
spread over a fixed area on a micro¬ 
scopic slide so that a very thin layer is 
formed. This is kept at 98-99 deg. Fahr. 
under conditions which prevent evapora¬ 
tion until the bacterial masses or “colon¬ 
ies” are large enough to be seen readily 
with the low power of the microscope. 
This usually takes about six hours. At 
the end of that time, the cultures are 
dried down, the agar treated to prevent 
it from staining, and the colonies stained. 
It is then easy to count the colonies un¬ 
der the low power of the microscope, 
and if it is desirable to make further 
study of the bacteria it can be done un¬ 
der the high power. 
In discussing the new method, the 
author of the paper in Science states that 
the counts made by it check satisfactori¬ 
ly with the counts made by the ordinary 
plate method; and that the results are 
quickly enough obtainable to make it pos¬ 
sible to withhold a lot of milk from sale 
temporarily pending the result of the 
count, a procedure which is of course 
impossible with the standard plate meth¬ 
od of bacterial analysis. 
It occurs to the writer of this article 
that the new method is one that calls for 
more than ordinary skill and care in 
manipulation in order consistently to get 
accurate results. Of course it is possible 
that the method and the apparatus for 
doing the work may be so perfected 
that accurate results may be obtained 
with only the usual amount of care. 
H. E. MERN. 
An Auction Sale for Cows 
Other Plans for Foods and Markets 
Department 
New Activities. —The almost unlim¬ 
ited possibilities of helpful services to 
farmers in the work of the New York 
State Department of Foods and Markets 
is again indicated in the sale of cows con¬ 
ducted by the Department at Dover 
Plains, Dutchess County, N. Y., on 
Saturday, Oct. 30th. The cows were 
shipped by the members of the Tompkins 
County Breeders’ Association, and con¬ 
sisted of 20 mature cows, springers, and 
15 two-year-old heifers, also soon to 
calve; and 10 yearling heifers, not bred. 
They were high grades of Holstein and 
Guernsey blood. The sale was arranged 
by the Department through the activity 
of the Dutchess County Farm Bureau, 
committee, consisting of Mr. F. II. Lacy, 
the manager and Messrs. Frank Feeney, 
M. Glennon, Dr. C. L. Fletcher, A. P. 
Benson and H. F. Hufcutt of the county 
committee; all at the selling end, where 
a demand was discovered for the cows; 
and the Tompkins County Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation, through Mr. Babcock, who is 
also connected with the Farm Bureau 
work in the directing office at Ithaca; 
Mr. Owen Carman, secretary of the asso¬ 
ciation, assembled the animals and at¬ 
tended to the shipping and also attended 
the sale on behalf of the breeders. The 
Department arranged the details, ad¬ 
vertised the sale, furnished the auctioneer 
and the clerk, and arranged with a local 
bank to supervise the credits and to fur¬ 
nish money on approved notes for one 
year orders to the farmers who wished to 
buy on time. The sale was on as we closed 
forms for the press; but full account of 
prices will be published in next issue. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Farmer’s Needs. —This new de¬ 
parture together with what has already 
been done in apples in the orchard sales, 
and what is being done daily in the auc¬ 
tion sales of farm produce in New York 
City, indicates what may be done by this 
Department to help farmers find a profit¬ 
able market for their produce. The pos¬ 
sibilities are practically without limit. 
Among the farmers themselves the organ¬ 
izations or county bureaus of one section 
may indicate to the Department what it 
wants to sell. In another section they 
report what would find a ready market. 
The Department finds a sufficient supply 
in one place and indication of a satisfac¬ 
tory demand in another. The sale is ar¬ 
ranged and advertised, and properly con¬ 
ducted, and all are benefited. The cost 
of the service to the sellers is only 2% 
per cent, of the sales. 
Further Possibilities. —As time goes 
on and the season of harvest approaches 
the Department can easily catalogue the 
fruit or other produce of a neighborhood 
or of the whole State; and proceed to 
make a market for it before it is ready 
to ship. In this way with proper grad¬ 
ing and handling, much of the produce 
that is now wasted or produced at a loss, 
should be sold at a reasonable price. We 
can see how this work might be developed 
so as to sell New York apples in Kansas, 
and to bring calves, sheep and pigs from 
cattle States to be fattened on the surplus 
foods of New York farms, and after fat¬ 
tening the animals the Department would 
again take charge of them and arrange 
for their sale. A persistent pursuit of 
this work as begun will recover our own 
city markets for the products of New 
York farms. This would treble the value 
of every acre of fertile land in the State; 
and the increment of value would add a 
billion and a half to the taxable value of 
the land, and the work of the Department 
be a most valuable asset to the State. 
More Cows Wanted. —The Depart¬ 
ment has an opening for another sale of 
new milch cows or springers. The de¬ 
mand is for about 50 such cows. Any 
location or breeders’ association having 
the cows to sell, should confer with the 
Department of Foods and Markets, 204 
Franklin street, New York. 
Hay Sale. —The Department has also 
completed arrangements for an auction 
sale of hay at Syracuse, to be held about 
December first. Details of this sale will 
be given next week. 
O-l-C-’s&ChesterWIiites 
All aees, from choice prolific stock. 3 mos. boars, 
$15.00 each; 7 weeks, $16 pair; bred gilts $35 to $40. 
VICTOR FARMS, - Bellvale, New York 
Jcs-P'gs. 3 months, $10. 
HERBERTHAITH,Manlius,N.Y 
FOR SALE—OUROG JERSEYS^ 
boars. Write for prices. C. Rudd, Medford. N. J. 
DORSET-SHEEP 
We are offering a choice young flock of 25 ewes, 
Dorset and Shrop grades bred to a Registered 
Dorset ram. Priced to sell for we need their room, 
and expect to keep only registered sheep in future. 
TRANQUILLITY FARMS 
Arthur Danks, Mgr. AUamuchy, N. J. 
W ANTED—Four reoistered. tested GUERNSEY COWS, now 
milking. Describe fully—milk records, pedi¬ 
grees,bottom prices. SkyMeadows Farm. Stamford,Conn. 
sale—J ersey Heifer and Bull Calves c a w. Leg 0 
horn cockerels, $1. Geo. L. Ferris, Atwater, N. T. 
Hereford Cattle 
and Berkshire Swine. Stock of 
all ages and both sexes for sale. 
Ausable Valley Farm, Keeseville, New York 
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 Auehenbruin. 
He is also for sale. Prices to suit the buyer. Address 
RUDOLPH HESS, Mgr., W.shingtonville, Orange Co. N. Y. 
/ SUCCESS \ 
WITH FALL PIGS' 
•’The cooker 1 received from you some time &go 
is certainly a success for raising fall pigs, a9 it 
enables me to keep them provided with warm food 
during the cold weather and keeps them growing 
throughout the winter. Would not be without one 
for any price.’* F. O. 
You can raise your fall pigs on less food—fatten 
them faster and make Digger profits simply by 
cooking the feed you now give them raw. Hogs 
need warm feed in winter. 
NO MORE DISEASE 
Cooked food means less chances of hog cholera, 
worms and other diseases. 50,000 farmers prove 
it by using Heesen Feed Cookers. Send for liter¬ 
ature that gives you valuable information on feed- 
^ ing—it means money to you. It’s Free. Send for it 
%now. Heesen Bros. & Co., Boa 288 Tecumseh. Mich, i 
If you haven’t found 
time to attend a sale before this fall you surely will find time now. You 
have long realized your need of a new herd header and just 
The kind of a Herd Sire 
that you should have is King Dollar or the sons of Pontiac Korndyke, 
King of the Pontiacs, King Segis Pontiac Alcartra, King of the Black & 
Whites, Spring Farm Pontiac Cornucopia or other good ones that are 
offered. 
You want 
the best for the other kind is too expensive for any hut a moneyed man 
to own. The man who must make his living from the cow cannot afford 
inferior animals. To 
Attend 
these sales will be to attend one of the best sales of the fall season, best 
because the blood lines are right, because the animals are right and be¬ 
cause the consignors are right. 
The four great days of sale 
are to be held November 15 to 18, inclusive, November 15-16 at the Syra¬ 
cuse Sale Pavilion, Syracuse, N. Y., November 17-18 at the Holstein Sale 
Pavilion, Earlville, N. Y. 
These sales 
were arranged primarily for you. Earlville is hut 42 miles from Syracuse 
and the train service is such that you can attend all four days of sale, 
missing no portion of any day. Further, your purchases in the two sales 
may he shipped in one car lot. These sales 
Will include 
over 300 head of richly bred cattle, including daughters of some of the 
best bred and best producing sires in service to-day, open heifers and 
heifers soon due, fresh cows and springers. There are also 
Many good record Cows 
including those with records up to and including 30-lb. cows. 
Read this 
King Dollar; a son of the $50,000 bull, King Segis Pontia'c Alcartra, from 
a 32-lb. daughter of Pledge Spofford Calamity Paul; a son of the $15,000 
bull, Spring Farm Pontiac Cornucopia, from a 31-lb. daughter of Pontiac | 
Hengerveld Parthenea; Delia Homewood De Kol (30.28 lb.), and daugh- | 
ters of the following well bred hulls will he sold the first two days:— 
King Walker, King Pontiac Calypso, De Kol Paul Cornucopia, Pon- I 
tiac Almeda Korndyke, Prince Manor Pontiac Korndyke, King Pietertje 
Sprig, King Korndyke Pontiac Lass, Sir Pietertje Lyons Hengerveld, 
Spring Farm King Pontiac, Sir Korndyke Cornucopia, King Pontiac 
Ambrosia, Imperial King Korndyke, King Pontiac Asiatic, King oif the 
Pontiacs 18th, Dummerston Two, Pledge Spofford Calamity Paul, 
Duchess Ormsby Butter King, King Pontiac Carlotta, Beauty Pietertje 
Prince Count, Silver Coin Pietertje, Sir Sadie Cornucopia, Sir Tirania 
Segis, King Cornucopia Sadie Vale, Aaltje Salo Mercedes De Kol Prince, 
Sir Netherland Johanna De Kol, Sir Posch De Kol Artis, Elmwood Beets 
Korndyke, Correct Change, Pontiac Hengerveld Parthenea, King Colan- 
tha Segis, Tidy Abbekerk Prince, King Segis Pontiac Ideal, Count Pon¬ 
tiac Spofford, King of the Pontiacs, etc., etc. 
In the last two days there is included a son of King of the Black & 
Whites that may suit you better than anything sold in the two previous 
days. Then the females offered are fully equal to the two preceding days 
including daughters of the following high class sires:— 
Sir Beauty Veeman Cornucopia, Sir Beatrice Segis, Mooie Henger¬ 
veld Burke, Mapleholm Korndyke De Kol, Beauty Pietertje Butter King, 
Dutchland Sir Hengerveld Korndyke, Joe De Kol Burke, Rouble Peck 
Butter Boy, King Pietertje Walker, King Korndyke Pontiac De Kol, 
Beauty Pietertje Hamilton, Artis De Kol Walker, Spring Farm Butter 
Boy, Woodmont Duke De Kol, Westside Ladoga, King Pontiac Canary, 
Chenango Hengerveld Korndyke, Matador Walker, Peck Butter Boy, 
Korndyke Creamelle, Oakland Sandes Burke, Albina Butter Boy, Lord 
Korndyke Inka, King Pontiac Jasamine, King Segis Clothilde, Lilith 
Pauline De Kol’s Count, etc., etc. 
Nearly all the females are granddaughters of famous sires and dams. 
It would be impossible to enumerate them but merely to indicate the 
high quality we would mention King of the Pontiacs, Pontiac Korndyke, 
Hengerveld De Kol, Aaggie Cornucopia Johanna Lad, etc. The noted 
grandams including K P Pontiac Lass (44 lb.), Blanche Lyons De Kol 
(32 lb.), Sadie Vale Concordia (30 lb.), Tweede De Kol Lass (34 lb-J, 
etc. There are dozens of others just as good as some of these listed. 
Remember, all animals over 6 months of age will be tuberculin tested 
by State approved veterinarians and remember that 
Now is the time to buy 
Liverpool Sale & Pedigree Co., Inc., 
Sale Mgrs. Liverpool, N. Y. 
