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"Che RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 24, 10l'( 
Elasy to Keep Cleai^ 
TV/TADE of highest grade steel plate— 
tinned and retinned after rivet holes 
are punched. Pure solder sweated into 
all inside seams.making surface smooth 
as glass. Sanitary to the finest degree. 
Guaranteed capacity—each Sturges Can 
is built to measure. Saves work In 
shipping—Insures accuracy. 
Sturges Cans are built with the expe¬ 
rience of 50 years in making milk cans. 
Ask your dealer for them. 
Write for catalog No.60 
Sturges & Burn Mfg. Co. 
Ljtahli9h4d 1865 Chicago^ 111. 
Now York Office: 
1650 Terminal Bldg., SO Church St. 
For Sale-G UERNSEYS 
One 3-year-old due in Mny; one 2-yo«r-old due in 
April; one yearliiig: Pedigrees; fine condition: 
attractively marked. Also 2 re gistered Bull 
calves, grandsons of Golden Noble, 2nd. 
A. J. FELL . West Point, Pa^ 
GUERNSEY BULLS 
3 months to 2 years. 
Prices Reasonable. SUNNY BROOK FARM, Smithtown.N.Y. 
High Grade HOLSTEIN CALVES f.!fteed!l"i5 
each. Ship anywhere. F. H. Wood, Cortland, N. Y 
Holstein Ball Calves ffi 
lb sire, A. R. O. dams. Easy payments. Don’t use 
scrubs when choice ones like these sell so low. Send 
for pedigrees. CloverdaleFarm, Charlotte,N.Y. 
Grade Holsteins for Sale 
Onn extra fancy, well bred and nicely marked cows. 
tUU A number are recently fit-sh and otliers due to 
freshen soon. They are heavy producers and will 
please you. 
inn large, well bred two and throe year old heifers 
I UU bred to good registered H. F. (mils. All stock sold 
with a full guarantee. Special price on car load lots. 
F. P. SAUNDERS 8 SON Springdale Farms. Cortland, N.Y. 
Phone 116 or 1476 M 
High Price 
of Feed - - 
Demands that yon use the utmost 
economy in feeding your dairy cattle. 
^ Unicorn Dairy Ration has proved 
tl»e most economical ration. 
Q Contains the right feeds in just the 
proportions to give the greatest milk 
production at the least cost; the result 
of 43 years of experience in mixing 
dairy rations. 
Guaranteed uniform and absolutely 
reliable. Home mixed rations posi¬ 
tively cannot compete with it. Our 
manual ihows you why. 
Q Write us for free Cow Testers Manual. 
Chapin & Co. 
Dept. R-1 - Chicago, Ill. 
East River Grade Holsteins For Sale 
I 00 Kxtra high grade cows. Fresh and due to calve 
soon. Cows that are bred for milk. They fill 
the pail. Come and see them milked. 
12 Reg. b>ills, all ages. A few Reg. cows and extra 
liigli heifer caives, 10 days old. 
JOHN B. WEBSTER 
Dept. Y Cortland, N.Y. 
Phone 14-F-5 Phone 43-F.2 McGraw 
GUERNSEY BULLS Send for sale list. 
Edwin B. Maitlk - Ooatesville, Pa. 
u HOLSTEINS | 
For Sale-HOLSTEIN HEIFERS 
pure and grade. HARRY VAIL, Warwick, Orange Co., N.Y. 
PRICE 
$|00 
OELIVERED 
Money refunded if not satisfactory 
THE MOORE BROS. OF ALBANY 
NEW YORK 
GUERNSEYS 
Five official years’ records 
of one Guern.si-y Cow in 
Maryland average over 600 lbs. butter fat. 
The seven official records of her 8 daughtei-s 
average 6461bs. butter fat. Write forourfree booklets. 
AMERICAN GUERNSEY CATTLE CLUB, Box R, Peterbore, N. N. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get 
a quick reply and a “square deaL” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
Purebred Stock and Men 
This matter of purebred livestock for 
farmer.s ha.s iutere.sted me. From my 
earliest ror-ollectious, about IWG, when 
my father had the niu-leus of a fine herd 
of milking Shortlioru.s, or Durhams as 
the.v were popularly called, and my part 
of the stock business stopped at a round- 
eyed admiration of the blue-blooded titan 
heading the herd, the word “registered” 
has been fascinating to me. At about 
this time our county fair, which had been 
running very wide ojien, saw some legal 
troubles ahead, disbanded and everyone 
except stock fanatics or optimists, as 
you please, gave up breeding stock of 
all kinds. This cycle of 30 years is in¬ 
teresting to an.v student of animal hus¬ 
bandry and to us all in its relation to 
human nature, and it is the co-ordina¬ 
tion of the two I wish to bring out. My 
father’s iiartuer in the “Durham” ven¬ 
ture, then a young man, also allowed 
himself to rim out into scrubs, and for 
years patronized the dealer.s who buy 
the good-looking boarders in another 
county or State and ship them in here 
where there are yet many of us willing to 
bet .$100 cash against .$50 worth of beef. 
< )ur eye is better than the other fel¬ 
low’s Babcock and scales. Then, inher¬ 
iting some money he “retired” from the 
farm, “renting on shares” to an honest 
hardworking young couple who agreed 
and for 10 yeai’S have faithfull.v kept 
their agreement, to do all the work, pay 
one half the bills and give him all the 
profits. Ills interests have narrowed to 
the old axiom, a dollar at interest long 
enough will make two where one laid 
before. He opposes road or school im¬ 
provements, Grange, club, or county 
agent work, does nothing to make his 
communit.v a better place to live, except 
to pay spot cash for everything he buy.s. 
In fact in every other way backs water 
against everyone’s pull. At the same 
time one of the leading farmers, of the 
best family, head of the church to w’hich 
he belonged, who owned a fine herd of 
.Ter.s<*ys, and had a high-class trade In 
butter, suddenly lost interest in his herd, 
inbred unwisely, bought some scrubs and 
finally herd, farm, man, and family went 
down and out together. The farm, orig¬ 
inally one of the best in the community, 
with unequalled buildings, was sold at 
auction for one-third value, in compari¬ 
son with its neighbor. 
At about the time of this slump another 
man bought one purebred Guernsey cow, 
built up a herd, paid for a farm and 
equipment, is financially and every other 
way the best farmer and above all the 
best man in our community. This is not 
a comparison of breeds, but a history of 
what happened here among us, sharing 
the value of a stock building process in 
automatically building the builder. Car¬ 
ing for and developing animals seems to 
bring out the better side of men, yet 
allows them to maintain the balance 
necessary to lay a practical hold on the 
world. This has no reference to the mil¬ 
lionaire stunt of stocking an estate with 
expensive readymade world’s record 
stuff, but as a working proposition. Any 
young man with the amlntion to make 
a herd of purebred animals, has a run¬ 
ning start toward regular citizenship. 
Real aristocracy is a record of achieve¬ 
ment, and in humans a generation of 
success removes the necessity for the 
next to try; lazy luxury slips in and 
deterioration begins. Therefore I agree 
with the Yankee who says a man ma.v be 
born of anything and have a chance, but 
an animal must be born right to be 
worth taking a chance on. G. II. E. 
Bucks Co., Pa. 
Experience in Raising Calves 
Calves at an early age do not have the 
digestive fluids necessary to convert 
starch into grape sugar. There is no 
starch in milk, which is their natural 
food, and when we attempt to force 
them to eat raw grain and mill feed we 
are sure to cause indigestion, which may 
stunt the growth of the animal for its 
entire life. All the starchy food which 
we eat must be converted into grape 
sugar before it can be assimilated. This 
is true of all animals, as it is of people. 
The calf begins at an early age to 
secrete digestive fluids and will eat a 
little grain very early, which no doubt 
a.ssists in developing the secretive organs. 
A good many successful calf growers al¬ 
low the calf to help itself to shelled 
corn without forcing it to eat more than 
it should. We have been most success¬ 
ful in feeding a little parched meal with 
oat.s. By feeding a little parched meal 
in the skim-milk, the calf will put on 
flesh from the beginning. Do not make 
the change too suddenly, however. We 
prefer feeding the whole milk to the calf 
the first week of its life, then gradually 
substituting a little skim-inilk. At the 
end of the second week, put in a spoon¬ 
ful of pai’ched meal. If we are .selling 
our whole milk we substitute water with 
a .sprinkle of linseed oil meal. The oil 
meal is not necessary Avhen we have 
skim-milk, because there is plenty of pro¬ 
tein in the casein of the milk, but when 
water is used protein must be supplied. 
Milk contains a high percentage of pro¬ 
tein, which is necessary for the grow¬ 
ing calf. 
We think we get bettor results by 
feeding oats, parched meal, and linseed 
oil meal dry, giving the calf the drink 
separately, either skim-milk or water 
mixed with the whole milk. After a lit¬ 
tle time the whole milk can be taken 
away entirely. The calf should have 
grain or parched meal during its whole 
life, if we exjiect to market it as baby 
beef. Sometimes as a matter of prac¬ 
tice it is inconvenient to feed grain while 
the calf is in a distant pasture. After 
it has reached the age of five -or six 
month.s it will do fairly well on pasture 
alone, but it will take a little longer to 
get it ready for market, A good grade 
Angus calf, even from a thin grade dairy 
cow, if the bull used is a purebred and 
of outstanding beef type of Angus (as 
there are many Angus cattle more of 
the dairy type than of the beef type) 
can be kept in market condition at all 
times. GEO. b. saiitii. 
Co-operation for Hog Men 
The Colorado College “News Notes” 
tells of a group of farmers in the San 
laiis Valley who have formed a .strong 
organization: 
There are about 300 members of tlie 
Monte Vista Hog-Growers’ Association. 
Each member pays annual dues of .$12. 
They employ a veterinarian at a salary 
of .$2,400, who looks after sanitation, 
animal disease control, and practices lus 
profession for the benefit of members ot i 
the organization exclusively, 'i’lie vet -r- ; 
inarian is a deputy sherilT. i 
This organization was primarily ef¬ 
fected to fight hog cholera, which hau 
wrought a great financial disaster. Aft r 
four years, hog cholera has been com¬ 
pletely eradicated—they know how to 
handle it. The banks will loan iiione.r 
on hogs to the limit. There are five 
times more hogs in the valley than ever 
before, and hog raising may justly lie 
rated as their chief industi-y. The val¬ 
ley is unusually jirosperous. ’fhe organ¬ 
ization is now larger, more effective an T 
more secure than at an.v time in tlie 
jiast. 
A similar organization was effected 
about the same time in another part < r 
the San Buis Valley, at I.a .Tara. Ar¬ 
rangements are under way to organize 
a'o»g the same lines in the Montezuma 
Valley. _ 
Cost of an Indiana Heifer 
I note on page four the cost of rais¬ 
ing a two-year-old heifer. On May first, 
1914, I bought a five-months-old Jersey 
heifer for $25. She had a calf Sept. 
29, 1915, and at that time her total cost 
was $66.15. The first Summer she was 
kept in a pasture lot nearby and given 
some feed each day. December first I 
took her to the country (I am a subur¬ 
banite) and four months of Winter feed 
and care cost me $18 and six months 
Summer pasture amounted to $9. The 
balance of the expense was for halter, 
service, insurance, feed and fodder the 
first Slimmer and Fall. I consider her 
worth more than $100. because I was 
offered that amount. She is full blood 
and her milk tests 6.2. 
Her first calf was a heifer and I am 
raising it. It was very little bother and 
now is past 15 months old. She has cost 
me as follows: Weaner 75c; Summer 
pasture $4.25; halter $1;, service $1. I 
am keeping this heifer at home this 
M^nter, and she gets plenty of nice 
green clover hay and some millet hay 
which costs me $6 per ton put in my 
mow from the fields, so I figure this 
heifer .should be a mighty cheap cow 
when she freshens about October. 
■Monticello, Ind. F. P. B. 
JERSEYS 
n 
WHAT 
: IS' - 
• 1 
MILK ; 
9, 
is the title of a booklet which demon¬ 
strates in a convincing way the su¬ 
periority of Jersey milk. Gives tables 
showing its value compared with 
other foods. Prof. R. M. Washburn of 
the University of Minnesota, says: 
A quart of Jersey milk naturally 
yielded, is worth 50% more than the 
average standardized 
milk offered on our city 
markets.” 
Get the facts in this meaty 
booklet,” What is MLilk?”A 
postal brings it. Send today. 
The American Jersey Cattle Club 
830 West 23rd St. New York City 
MERIDALE 
JERSEYS 
F or sale—G randsons of Inter¬ 
ested Prince 58224 (Imp.), who has 
40 daughters in the Register of 
Merit, including Passport, the world's 
record Jersey milk cow. These young 
bulls are excellent individuals, well 
grown, and out of Register of Merit 
dams. For booklet and pedigrees ad¬ 
dress 
AYER & McKINNEY 
300 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Penna. 
Eureka Stock Farm 
We now offer 9 ReglsteredJersey Heifers, 2 to 
18 mos. old; 3 Bulls, 2 laos. uiid 2 yrs. old: 3 
Cows, 4 and 8 yrs. old; all of St. Lambert, Flying 
Fox and Noble of Oaklands breeding. Also 60 
Chester White Pigs, 10 wUs. to 7 mos. old. eligi¬ 
ble to registry. Write for Circular and Prices. 
Edward Walter, Dept. R.West Chester. Pa. 
Fosterlield’s Herd Reg. Jerseys 
FOR SALE 
COWS, HEIFERS and CALVES. Address 
Charles G. Foster,P.O.Box 173, Morristown, Morris Co.,N.J. 
Registered d erseys 
calvi-8, and a few good cows. D. J. KENEPP, MeVertown, Penn’s 
HOLSTEINS 
GRANDSONS OF KING 
SEGIS PONTIAC ALCARTA 
THE FAMOUS t$50,000 BULL 
The Best Blood at Bargain Prices 
The sire of every one of these bulls is King Segis 
I'oiitiao Calamity, one of the best sons of King 
Segis Pontiac Alcarta. He stands at the head of a 
liei-d of 200 cows and already has 80 daughters all 
of which will be tested and fully developed. 
No. 1— About two-thii-ds black, born Nov. 17th 
out of a 28.15 Ib. cow whose dam has 23.71 lbs. 
I’rice 81225.00. 
Xo. 4—Born January 20, out of a cow whose dam 
has an A. II. O, recoi-d of 23 lbs. butter in seven 
days. He is nearly all white. I’riec $65.00. 
Xo- 5—Born January 26, out of a splendid 4-year 
old with a 16 lb. A R. O. record, and at her next 
freshening she ought to increase this. Her dam 
has a 19-lb. 2-year old record, and is out of the 
taiine dam as Dutchess Skylark Omisby, the 
former world’s record cow for a years produc¬ 
tion. His 10 nearest tested dams average 27.9 
lbs. butter in 7 days. This bull is a beauty and 
you will make no mistake In getting him. 
Price $76.00. 
EXPRESS PREPAID EAST OP MISSISSIPPI 
G. G. BURLINGAME, Cazenovia, N. Y. 
'140 BULL'140 
A grandson of King Segis-dam and A.R.O. Cow with 
two daughters above 30 1 bs. A Iso 5 bull calves, 2 to 4 
months old, handsome fellows, l4to% white. Dams 
half sisters to a 40-lb. cow—sires 3 nearest dams 
average 30-lbs. of butter in 7 days; 18,000 lbs. of 
milk in a year: fat above 4%. Ue carries 25% of the 
blood of the world champion 50-lb. cow. Send for 
pedigree and pictures. Price low for the breeding. 
IRA S. JARVIS, Hartwick Seminary, N. V. 
Spot Farm Holsteins VIo" 
Ji Holstein heifer calves,416 to 
$20 each, express paid in lots of 
5. 2 carload high grade Hol¬ 
stein heifers, $35 to $75 each, l 
carload of high grade Holstein 
Icows,close springers.$86to$100. 
I carload or registered cows, 
$200 each, due in March. 6 reg 
istered heifers, due in March, 
$160 each. 18regiRtered heifers, 
3 to 16 months old, $80 to $126. 
15 I'egistered bulls, $26 to $100. 
J. C. REAGAN. TULLY, N. Y. 
Uni 9TCII1 Oni I QIDftllUC From well bred dams. 
nULolLin DULL DAnUAIno Sire’s dam 33.28 Ibs. but¬ 
ter, 717.8 lbs. milk. S. II. IILIST, Center Square, Penn. 
