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the SCIENTIFfC AMERICAN. 
MUNN&CO.K“KI 
niAAA CAIIAAI Agricnitnr.al conrso to pre- 
IflUllw OvnvvL pareiioys for self-support 
in country life. Admis¬ 
sion 11 to 14 years. New buihiing to he erected for 
more boys. Tuition, $200 for 12 months. Apply to 
F. li. KIGGS, Headmaster, Lakeville, Ct. 
SWINE 
BRED BERKSHIRE SOWS 
If you are looking for large, typey BERK¬ 
SHIRE sows, combined with the best of 
breeding, we have them. We can offer you 
large sows, safe in pig, for from $75.00 
to $200.00. 'I'hey are daughters of LEE 
PREMIER’S RIV.M.. Hopeful Lee’s Suc¬ 
cessor, and I.ec Premier’s Masterpiece. Not a 
common sow in the lot. The $75 sows we will 
guarantee to give satisfaction on arrival. Every 
sow so sold is guaranteed to be safe in pig. 
.\lso we offer a few spring 1916 boars and 
sows, for from $40 to $60. 
Kvcry aniinal CHOI.ERA IMMUNE by double treat- 
iiu-nf. .411 clean stock from a clean herd. 
Swiiie llept. ut EAST LYME, CONN. 
VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME. Address 
BRANFORD FARMS, GROTON. CONN 
HAMILTON FARM BERKSHIRES 
Biggest Winners at International Show 
IiK'lU'lini? first prize ber<! and grand champion sow, she has now 
won this honor six times straight this year, winning over all 
• •{her HOWS, North, South. Kast and West, incltnhiig National 
.''vvlne Show, a record never excelled and posslldy never e'ltialled. 
\\%* oiler a few bred sows, and a few service boar.4, including 
.Imilor Champion Oiiio State Fair, and other hoars such a.s tlie 
tJrand Cham|)ion at Illinois State Fair. Remember we have the 
leading herd of the Kast for 1916, and the Grand Champion 
Berkshire Sow of the World ! 
HAMILTON FARM, Fred Huyler, Mgr., Gladstone, N 
LARGE BERKSHIRES AT HIGHWOOD: 
Letter from E. Andrus, Claytonia, Idaho: “The 
boar arrived in good condition. Ue is just the right 
kind for my sows, having plenty of bone.” During 
the past few months we have exported Berkshires 
to fourteen foreign countries, mostly South Ameri¬ 
can, with the loss of only one pig in transit. 
H. C. & H. B. HARPENDING, Box IS, Dundee, N. Y. 
I SPECIAL BERKSHIRE SALE 
If you want a 350 pound gilt—a young service 
boar or a young pig write us; have them priced 
to sell, pride home farm, Howard, Pa. 
Springbank Berkshires 
Bred Sows and Gilts for March and April farrow. 
Open (filts, .Tune fano-ved. 6 Service Boars. 
J. E. AVATSON, Proprietor, Marbledale, Ct, 
BERKSHIRES 
Breeding and Quality unexcelled. Prices riglit. 
Write us your Wants. H. GRIMSHAW, North East. Pa. 
Berkshires for Sale «ilts 
to farrow in April. J. N. ROSENBERGER, Wycombe, Pa. 
Dnrl/oliirao purebred.fi-weeks-old breeders,$7; either 
oerKSnireS sex. CLOVERDALE farm, charlotte, New York 
FOR PURE BRED TAMWORTH SWINE 
write or visit WKSTVIFW STOCK FARM, K. 
F. 1). No. 1, Winston-Salem. North Carolina 
CHESTER WHITES and 
LARGE YORKSHIRES 
Boars ready for immediate service. These 
are good, large, vigorous animals of correct 
type and conformation. 
Also booking orders now for gilts of the above 
breeds to farrow in Spring of 1917 
HEART’S DELIGHT FARM, 
REGISTERED CHESTER WHITES 
lioars, Gilts, Bred gilts and Pigs. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. llidgely Manor Farm, Stone Ridne, N. Y. 
Rsgislered 0 . 1 . C. Gilts Siftm fSeman, ES. 11 
(inderhook Duroc-dsrsey Swine Assn. 
In the Kast for registered stock of all ages. Best 
• d breeding. Free from disease, 
t. M. FALMEK, Sec’y-Treas., Valatie, N. Y. 
ForSaie—Regisifirod 0.1. G. Pigs TowHSENo,M»nphh!N.Y' 
OLLINS JERSEY REDS 
Ihe best 
Pigs that make farming ' 
Pay Facts that show how and 
^ why Jersey Reds do it 
i are in our New Pig Book—FREE 
375lbs.in 
9 months. 
DAIRY CATTLE 
ForSale-Dutch Belted BulICalves ciass^stoci^u- 
roc-Jersey Red i>oavs, ready for service. April far¬ 
rowed. Council Grove Farm, Stockbridae, Mass. 
C. S. Mei-i.en, Owner J. G. Schilling, Manager 
PURE BRED GUERNSEYS FOR SALE 
A few young, tuberculin tested, registered Guern¬ 
sey Cows and Bull Calves. Sensible 
prices. Write tor particulars. 
Morell Smith, Supt., Manbaiset, Lono Island, N. V, 
RURAL 
ter plan. If there is no basement, then 
remove cuoiigh of the floor to let the silo 
go down to the solid earth. If the frame 
of the barn is strong, by setting the silo 
in a corner, advantage can be taken of 
the barn frame as “backing." Mliere 
girths tif tlie barn run horizontal, you 
can set up 2x-f.s against the barn walks, 
but across the “open’’ yon will need 
2x8-inch. If the barn studding is jier- 
pondicular. nm the silo girths horizontal, 
which will compel you to use 2x8-inch 
girths for the silo, locking them widl at 
the corners, placing them jibout two feet 
apart for half the way up. and “cutting 
the corners" with a IxlO-iuch board, 
shown in the cut, so .as to obviate the 
acute coT'iK'rs and’ be.sides giaaitly 
strengthen the frame. T'^se good, sound 
gi-ooved and toiigucd siding, splicing on 
a girth. I’ut in some well built-in “m.in- 
N E W-YO R K E R 
Cutting Corners in Square Silo 
liole.s” to inakt* the joints airtight, each 
al)out 18x24 iuche.s, with close-fitting 
doors, that fit in from the inside. 
If the fonudatiou. is not to be trou- 
l)led with surface water, I would not put 
in a cement floor, scooping out the nat¬ 
ural soil so to 1)0 somewhat lower in the 
center. Ileforc using, I would give the 
intei’ior a thorough coat of hot coal-tar 
jiaint. Such ii.aint applied to my silos 
.‘>0 yeai's ago. is still intact as ever. The 
only reasons urged against interior .silo 
buihlings. is that aseonding moisture 
from till' silage gathei's on the undci-side 
of the barn roiyf. l)ut as both my .silos 
iire inside the I)ig barn. I eaiinot, after 
20 year.s. sec that tlie objection is valid, 
esiiecially if the barn has roof ventila¬ 
tion. Tlie othi'r is that the room in the 
barn can bi‘ more prolit.ahly u.sed than to 
“house" a .silo. As to the sipiare silos, it 
may he a matt(>r of note, that six of the 
great 200 and 4(iG-ton silos built about 
liere in tbe last two years, liave been of 
tile si|ii:ii-e. horizontal girtli pattern. 
.T. G. 
The Canadian Bacon Hog 
The Canadian Department of Agricul¬ 
ture at Ottawa. Canada, lias issued 
I’amphlet No. 21. which is a good di.s- 
cussion of the bacon hog and the British 
market. The English people :ire very 
fond of bacon, and u.se it very freely. In 
recent years they have been buying much 
of this bacon in Denmark. The supply 
from that country is- now likely to he 
cut off. The swine industry of Denmark 
has sufTeri'd severely, and there is a 
great fjilling off in the number of pigs. 
The diflicnlty of obtaining grain aiuT 
food supplies has discouraged faimiers 
from breeding pigs, iind thus the supply 
is short. It also apiiears that since the 
war began Genminy has bought more 
and more food from Denmark, and ha.s 
outbid England in the purchase of but¬ 
ter and bacon. The outlook for the fu¬ 
ture, therefore, seems to be that the Eng¬ 
lish people must look in other untries 
than Denmark for a large supply of their 
bacon. The Canadians are after this 
trade, and they are beginning in a sys¬ 
tematic way to, develop it. First of all, 
in order to supi,iy a high-class bacon, 
they must have the proper carcass and 
the proper meat. The corn-fed, fat hogs 
from our Western States are not the best 
to provide bacon. They are better for 
lard or other form.s of meat. The high- 
class bacon wanted in England comes 
from a long-bodied, not over-fat animal 
of peculia shape and breeding. The 
feed too makes a great difference, not so 
much corn being required, but more of 
peas, skim-milk and similar food. Cana¬ 
da is after the trade, and is beginning 
by develojiing distinct breeds of bacon 
hogs. Tbs bulletin tells what they are 
doiog, apd how they are trying to do it. 
i 
Profitable 
From Every Standpoint 
Mr. F. Baumgartner of Joliet, Illinois, uses seven 
Double Unit EMPIRE Milkers, and says that 
four men are milking from 1 00 to 120 cows in 
one half the time previously required 
by seven men. His experience and that of 
thousands of other successful dairymen prove that 
P/:: 
m 
are 
Profitable from Every Standpoint. 
They will be as profitable for your Dairy. The 
wages you’ll save, alone, will pay for your 
EMPIRE Outfit. And besides, the labor problem 
will be solved for you—to say nothing of the extra 
hours your help can spend in the fields, and the 
extra quantity and higher quality of milk that usually 
result from using the EMPIRE. 
EMPIRE Milking Machines are simple and effi¬ 
cient—gentle and natural in their action, and above 
all.they milk the SAME WAY EVERY DAY, 
more uniform in action than even the calf. They 
are a safeguard to the condition of valuable cows. 
Let US tell you ALL the benefits they offer you. Write for 
Catalog 23—and also ask for information regarding EMPIRE 
Cream Separators, Gasoline Engines and Electric Plants. 
EMPIRE CREAM SEPARATOR COMPANY 
Bloomfield, New Jersey 
Chicago—Denver—Portland, (Ore.). Montreal—Toronto—Winnipeg, Canada 
The best recom¬ 
mendations tor 
Empire Milkers 
that we have 
seen have come 
bora users. They 
will interest you. 
Send for our 
illustra ted 
pamphlet "What 
Dairymen Say." 
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HORSES 
Shetland Ponies;ll‘;;.“S“o"£i 
her«i in >ljetlaii(i ITodiiciiig County In U. S. $50 to $150. 
SHETLAND PONIES 
200 Head to select from. Tweuty-six 
years experience. Write Dept. L, forcata- 
' Igiie. THE SHADYSIDE FARMS. North Benton, 0. 
For Sale~J A C K, serviceable 5 -year-old 
Albert VVooLsey, University Heights,N.Y.City 
V A Sure iireedev. No faults. Large, 
^ /A ^ sound and cheap. 20 large, young 
- mules, 6 to 30 months. Bargains. 
CLARK KROS. - Freeport, Ohio 
KENTUCKY JACKS and SADDLERS 
BIG BONE Kentucky JACKS and JENNETS. tVi hetul 
FIVE and CUBAN GAITED STALLIONS, geldings and 
mares. Fancy MULE TEAMS. WRITEUS'l.-s<-in.iiii!yii'u wHiit«. 
ASK FOR OUR 19i7 CATALOG 
THE COOK FARMS - Box 436L, LEXINGTON, KY. 
pOR SALE— Registered PERCHERON STAL- 
f i 
BROOD 3IARES, D) close estate. 
ELMWOOD STOCK FARM. W.S. Wright. Executor,Delmar,N.Y. 
F or SALE—Young Registered Percheron Mare 
and her WEANLING FILLY. Profitable breeder. I’hysi- 
caily aud mentally right. J. P. LONG, Naples, New York 
For Sale-Imported Percheron Stallion 
cription on request. O. W Reams, Eau Claire. Mich. 
For Sale-Reg. Percheron Stallion Va®’y‘-*R o^s^e 
Guernsey bull, 3 yrs. old. J. P. WILSON, Newark, Del. 
PERCHERON STALLION 
BELDING FARM - .Swauzey, N. H. 
Leading Live 
v.rAniV.y Stock Dealer. 
250 Percheron and Belgian Stal¬ 
lions, Mares, Shetland Ponies and 
Holstein Cattle. Come and see tlie 
t20,000 Holstein Bull. King Cham¬ 
pion Rag Apple, the greatest young 
bull on earth. Ih-ices riglit. Terms 
to suit responsible parties. 
A. Wo GREEN 
Middlelleld, O., R. R. Station, 
East Orwell, O., on Penna. R. R. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
One Pair Shetland Ponies Broken 
2-YEARS-OLD GELDINGS, PRICE.#150 
ONE PAIR I-YEAR GELDING ANO MARE . 120 
ONE GOERNSEY BULL. 8 MONTHS OLD. 60 
ONE PAIR TAMWORTH PIGS. 4 MONTHS OLD. .30 
THREE PAIR HAMPSHIRE PIGS, t weeksoldFeb. 8, per pr. 15 
ONE PAIR HAMPSHIRE PIGS. 3 MONTHS OLD. 25 
FOUR GRADE PIGS, 6 WEEKS OLD (EACH). 4 
A. W. HILLIS & SONS. South Worcester, N. Y. 
PAIR OXEN-Broken for all Farm Work 
4 years old. Reasonatile if taken at once. 
Mueller’sMapledaleFarm,Route 2,Westwood,N. J. 
Tiinio fJhoon both sexes. Write for literature .and 
1 unis oncc|J prices to J. N. McPherson, ScoUsville. N.Y. 
Swiss Goats «*«««"• 
S K V E It A I. Young 
SHARPLES, Centre Square, Pa. 
Bucks, Neakly Bcke 
Wild Animalq AND PETS bought aud sold. Garland Zoo- 
IIIIU AOlIOdlS iQjical Company, Box X 487, Oldtown, Me. 
DOGS 
Registered Walker Bitch fie 
6 months old. 
L1>9 8omer»s Conn 
Collie Pups 
NELSON BROS., Gkove City, Pa. 
CnlllA Plinnioe from grand working stock. 
UUIlie ruppies shipped on approval. Males, 
#6; females, #4. Win. W. Ketcn, Cohocton, N. Y. 
AIREDALE PUPPIES 
Stock with many notable Champions in pedigrees. 
-Males and Spaded Females. Prices reasonable. 
Write for circular. HERBERT TROHER, Woodstock, Va. 
AIRED ALE PUPSfor Sale oL»Sr.'j: 
Price moderate. M. W. von LOHR.R.F. 0. No. 2, Media, Pa. 
BarHarborKennels 
Importers and breeders of high-class Airedale Pups 
and breeding stock. Send for catalog and price list. 
AIREDALE TERRIERS 
Most alert, bravest watch dog ever bred. Used by Allies right now in trenches 
for niRht sentinel duty. One Airedale bitch once .saved us $500 in a niRht and has since 
earned $400 in puppies. Wc offer thoroughbred, pedigreed, registered, champion* 
bred, farm-raised, healthy stock that will do the same tor you. Ideal dote for POUL- 
TRYMEN, ORCHARDISTS. STOCK RAISERS. HUNTERS. Highly profitable, pup¬ 
pies raise themselves, sell readily for high prices. Puppies, grown dogs, brood 
bitches for sale. AT i^uD. Havelock Goldsmith, matrnificcnt, imported son of 
the internationally famous Champion. Crompton Ooranc. A getter of large litters of 
»._i ujt * —>pjes. Fee $15. Express bitches to Weston, N. J. Safe delivery. 
WE HAVE NEVER FAILED TO SATISFY A SINGLE CUSTOMER. 
BaN N E L S ,Box la, WESTON, N. J. 
square dealin 
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