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TShti RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 6, 1917. 
It’s Up to You When Your 
Cows Get “Off Feed” 
It’s mighty important that you do something for your cows when 
they are in this condition. But it’s just as important to care for 
them when they are giving a good flow of milk. A cow should be 
fed to her full capacity if she is to be profitable. The strain of milk 
production is apt to overtax the digestive organs. The heavy milker 
needs a tonic to act on the secreting glands that produce the gastric 
juices that convert the food into milk. Dr. David Roberts’ COW 
•TONIC does that very thing. It contains such roots, barks, herbs, 
as nature would supply if the cow roamed the meadows and woods. 
Dr. David Roberts^ 
cow TONIC 
is a great conditioner at all times, especially when cows are stabled or 
on ary feed. Cow Tonic is not a food, but a genuine tonic to act upon 
the digestive organs and enable cows to get lull benefit of their food. 
acts on organs of reproduction and gets animals in con- 
Dreeaing l onic dlUon for sure breeding. 
f'rtw f'l#***!**** removes the afterbirth naturally. Heals and loaves breed- 
V^lcallCl ing organs in normal condition. 
prevents scours and calf cholera. Keeps calves 
V^nOlcra Ixemcuy continuous growth. 
Calf Meal, Diolic . Badger Balm, Laxotonic and Stokvigor —valuable remedies, which 
should always be kept on band. 
Get Dr. Roberts' Live Stock Prescrip¬ 
tions at your drug store—nearly 4000 
dealers in U. S. Look for and insist on 
getting the package that bears Dr. 
Roberts’ picture. If you do not already 
have the 184-page “Practical Home 
Veterinarian,’’ treating all diseases of all 
live stock, send $1.00 and receive it by 
mail, postpaid. Address 
DR. DAVID ROBERTS 
VETERINARY CO. 
110 WUconsin Avenue, Waukeaha, Wia. 
Delivered prices Quoted on 
request. 
THE E. BIGLOW CO., New London, 0. 
IGHEST PRICES 
Paid for All Kinds of RAW FURS 
T NEKI) large quantities of 
•I all kinds of furs, and It 
will i)ay you to get iny price 
list. I especially solicit coin- 
luu nication with dealers hav¬ 
ing large lots to sell. Write 
for price list and shipping 
tags today to 
O. L. SLENKER 
P, O. Box K, East Liberty, O. 
His Back! 
Skunk fur is readily salable, and lots 
of farmers make money by ridding their 
land of those little pests. 
All you have to do is to set Victor 
traps every evening in Fall and Winter 
round about the farm in likely spots. 
You’ll get muskrat as well as skunk, and 
with a dozen traps working all the time two 
or three hundred dollars’ worth of fur is 
nothing out of the way by Spring. 
Start with a half dozen Victors. (You can 
get them from any hardware dealer.) They 
will pay for themselves—and a good profit 
besides in your first week of trapping. 
Oneida Community, Ltd., Oneida, N. Y. 
Skim-milk and “ Bob” Veal Laws 
The Legislature As a Witness.— 
Now that the Wicks Committee has com¬ 
pleted its hearings, suppose the New York 
State Legislature takes the witness stand. 
The R. N.-Y. will please administer the 
oath. Now we would like to know why 
you have passed and still retain so many 
“fool laws.” We will confine ourselves 
for the present to three that relate specifi¬ 
cally to the dairy industry. 
Prohibiting Skim-Milk. —Why do 
you prohibit the sale of skim-milk in New 
Y'ork City while permitting its sale in the 
rest of the State? To be sure the law was 
passed before the advent of glass milk 
bottles, and the Babcock test, Avhich 
makes the absence of cream a matter that 
can easily be demonstrated in a few min¬ 
utes. Is it now retained because you 
deem consumers and officials of New York 
City less competent to detect the absence 
of butter fat, or because food that is 
good enough for the balance of the State 
is not good enough for the people of the 
greater city? 
Value of Skim-Milk. —Skim-milk 
contains about 10 per cent, of dry matter 
or milk solids, and average whole milk 
about 1.3 per cent. Most of the excess of 
.solids in the whole milk is composed of 
butter fat. If it is butter fat that the 
ultimate consumer wants in that market 
wliy not let him buy it from his grocer? 
lie will sell him as much for about 40 
cents as his milkman gives him at the top 
of 13 milk bottles co.stiug .$1.30 at least. 
Prices of all articles of human food of 
animal origin have soared and are likely 
to soar until consumers are beginning to 
protest loudly. Why deprive them of the 
privilege of buying one of the best and 
cheapest of such foods, when it is being 
fed to pigs and other animals, and man¬ 
ufactured into casein, etc., at a price far 
below its value as human food? 
An Economical Food. —Skim-milk 
needs no glass bottle to disi)lay the cream 
line, and there is no good reason why it 
should not be drawn from a faucet di¬ 
rectly into consumers’ receptacles at four 
cents a quart, and pay about half of that 
price to the producer. Experts tell us that 
for either youths or adults it is hard to 
beat a good pudding made from skim- 
milk and rice, cost considered. The aver¬ 
age consumer wonders why he has to pay 
so much money for a tiny bottle of cream. 
Under your law as it is now, the skim- 
milk is a by-product of no value in New 
York City market. Dealers must charge 
enough price for cream to cover the whole 
cost of the whole milk from which it is 
made. Allow tliem to sell the skim-milk 
iis human food and one of two things is 
sure to happen. They will be able to re¬ 
duce tlie pi’ice of cream to consumers or 
else advance the i)rice of milk to produc¬ 
ers. Probably some of both. 
Young Veal. —"Why do you prohibit 
the sale of veal from a calf less than four 
weeks old? IMany of the scientists re¬ 
ferred to believe that nature guards a 
foetus with special care, so that it is never 
likely to be so free from disease germs, 
etc., as on the day it is normally born. 
According to the census of 1910 there are 
about 1,.500,000 calves born each year in 
the State. One of your laws says that 
milk is fit for use as market milk five 
days after parturition. The so-called fool 
law in question says that the calf is not 
fit for market veal until 23 days later. 
During these 23 days the mother ordi¬ 
narily pro,..uces fully 10 per cent, of her 
annual milk flow. If the calf gets it of 
course the babies cannot have it, too. 
As a practical farmer for 45 years T as¬ 
sert that a calf that is able and willing to 
“take his meals regularly” for five days 
has proved that he is “well born” and 
consequently as fit as he ever is likely to 
be for food for man. 
Wasting Milk. —Dealers have about 
reached the point where they do not know 
where to look for sufficient supplies to 
meet their demands. A good healthy calf 
consumes at least 230 quarts of milk in 
the 23 days between the time you say the 
milk is good for food and the time you 
say the calf is fit for food. Multiply that 
by the number of surplus calves born in 
the State every year and we have in sight 
a vast new source of supply right here in 
the State that awaits your word to be 
available. It requires at least 10 quarts 
(Continued on page 27) 
The Sinews of Uncle Sam’s Strength 
Looking over the entire field of American 
industry it is plain as a pikestaff that the 
backbone of the nation’s business is the 
careful, thrifty, intelligent live-stock farmer. 
Far removed from the hotbeds of specu¬ 
lation, socialism and the artificial life of 
towns and cities, he is the one fit custodian 
of the country’s conscience, the one de¬ 
pendable conservator of the country’s real 
welfare. 
His broad acres reflect the certain result 
of feeding out his crops upon his own land. 
He is no robber of the soil. He builds and 
builds and builds, while many of his less 
thoughtful neighbors are destroying the 
land they occupy. 
The best and most successful farmers as a 
rule will not be without the weekly visit 
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