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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 7, 191T. 
HOT WEATHER 
the season when a 
SEPARATOR 
saves most over 
any other separator 
or skimming system 
I T'S A GREAT MISTAKE for any dairy farmer without a separator or usiiig 
an inferior machine to put off the purchase of a New De Laval Cream Separator m 
the.summer months especially with butter-fat at the present unusually h-gh price. 
Great as are the advantages of the New De Laval over all other separators, as 
well as over any gravity setting system, at every season of the year, they are even greater 
during the mid-summer season than at any other time. 
This is because hot weather conditions occasion greatest butter-fat losses with 
gravity setting and render it most difficult to maintain quality of product with any gravity 
system or unsanitary separator, while, moreover, the quantity of milk is usually greatest, 
and any loss in either quantity or quality of product means more. 
Then there is the great saving in time and labor with the simple, easy running, 
easily cleaned, large capacity New De Laval machines over all other methods or sep¬ 
arators, which naturally counts for more at this time of the year. 
Hence the great mistake of putting off the purchase of a New De Laval Cream 
Separator in summer, whether you already have a poor machine or none at al, and 
every dairy farmer should keep in mind not only that a De Laval will pay for itself m a 
few months but may, if desired, be bought on such liberal terms as to actually save its 
own cost while being paid for. 
Every claim thus made is subject to easy demonstration, 
and every De Laval local agent is glad of the opportunity to 
prove these claims to you, in your own dairy, without cost 
or obligation on your part. 
V^hy not see the nearest De Lava! agent at once? 
If you do not know him, write to the_ nearest^ of¬ 
fice for new catalog or any desired information. 
THE DE LAVAL 
165 Broadway, New York 
50,000 BRANCHES AND LOCAL 
Every New De- 
Laval is equip¬ 
ped with a Bell 
Speed-Indicator 
SEPARATOR CO, 
29 E. Madison St., Chicago 
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back. $1 Package sufficient for ordinary cases. 
MINERAL HEAVE REMEDY CO., 461 Fourth A«e.. Pittsburg. Pa 
SANITATION 
IS THE RELIABLE METHOD 
FOR PREVENTING 
FOOT AND 
MOUTH DISEASE 
HOG CHOLERA 
AND OTHER CONTAGIOUS 
DISEASES. 
You can make all live-stock 
quarters sanitary by using 
KRESO DIP No. 1 
The Standardized^ Reliable 
Dip and Disinfectant. 
KRESO DIP No. 1 has been used at tho 
large state fairs in the United States for 
the last ten years to prevent the spread of 
contagious disease. It has done it, and 
KRESO DIP No. 1 will do the same for 
you on the farm. 
KRESO DIP No. 1 is reliable. It is 
easy to use. It is inexpensive. 
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 
We will send you free a booklet on the 
treatment of mange, eczema or pitch 
mange, arthritis, sore mouth, etc. 
We will send you free a booklet on how 
to build a hog wallow, which will keep 
hogs clean and healthy. 
We will send you^ee a booklet on how 
to protect your hogs from lice* and para¬ 
sites and disease. 
Write for them. 
PARKE, DAVIS & CO. 
Dept. Animal Industt^Vv DETROIT^ MICH. 
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than 600*000 in use. I furnish complete 
tratesready tohang or just thoGateSteels, 
hinires.bolts.etc. Everything but boards. 
Write for free catalog. A. V. Rowe, Bres. 
ROWE MFC. G0..27l5adami SL.Galeiburg.tll. 
Only $2 Down 
One Year to Pay!f^^^ 
Buys the New Butter- 
fly Jr. No. 2. Lightrunning, 
easy cleaning, close ekim 
ming. durable. Guaranteed 
,a lifetime. Skims 95 quarts 
)er hour. Made also in five 
arffer sizes up toNo.Sahown here 
I 30 Days* Free Trial 
it saves in cream, brines Er^ 
I alofir* folder and **direct-from-factory offer* 
1 Buy from the manufacturer and eavo money, 
ALBAUCH-DOVER CO. 
2171 Marshall Blvd. CHICAGO 
20 % 
More 
Milk 
With same feed plus plenty 
of water. Our free book tells 
how you can prove this with¬ 
out costing one ceiit. 
Livestock Individual 
Drinking Fountain Co. 
Box F Lynchburg, Virginia 
PRICE 
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OEUVEREO 
Live Stock 
Grading Wool 
Could you give sheep growers some in¬ 
formation as to how wool is graded? The 
quotations in market run from 4.5c to 
G2c per pound. The buyers would have 
us think we have the 45-cent kind and 
we do not know. What breeds are fine 
wools and what breeds furnish and 
“4” blood wool? D. D. G. 
Rushford, N. Y. 
You will notice that Ohio and Pennsyl¬ 
vania wool, Michigan and New York, 
and also other States, have a little dif¬ 
ferent quotations, with the fine wools in 
the first-named States a little in advance 
of the others. This may be accounted for 
from the fact that these States have 
stayed closer to the fine wods and conse¬ 
quently made more careful selection in 
breeding. You will also note that figures 
are named on washed and unwashed, but 
the custom of sheariug without washing 
has become so general that the differ- 
eats 262 and refuses 212; and the pig 
out of 24.3 plants eats 72 and refuses 171. 
What is a pig for? To live some po¬ 
lite life or make pork out of wastes? He 
is more useful in the latter occupation. 
We do not raise pigs for the pleasure of 
their society, or as a model for the chil¬ 
dren. but we want them to turn farm 
products into pork. The wider their 
range of food the cheaper pork they can 
make. 
SICK BEASTS 
BOOK on treatment of Horses, Cows, 
Sheep, Dogs and other animals, sent 
free. Humphreys* Homeopathic Vet¬ 
erinary Medicines, 156 Vfilliam St., N. Y. 
FI eece Wools 
Get our prices before selling. W rite us, stat¬ 
ing tlie quantity you liave, with tlie grade, 
and we will quote you price delivered on ears 
your shipping point, 
H, A. PERKINS & CO.. IVooI Merelinnts, 
6 Railroad Row, White Klver Junction, Vt- 
Butter With Objectionable Flavor 
We are having trouble with our cream 
and butter this Spring; it seems it is 
worse siuce the cows went out on pas¬ 
ture. For the first 12 hours there is no 
odor on the cream, or while it is kept 
cool, but just as soon as it begins to 
ripen it gets this peculiar odor, and after 
churning the butter is still worse. No 
matter how warm I get cream it does not 
seem to .sour as it should; it merely 
Sheep and Lamb Beside a Self Feeder 
ence paid wall not warrant washing. It 
is work, it reduces the sheep, and if done 
right removes more weight than the ex¬ 
cess per pound restores. 
Double X (XX) is Merino or fine 
wool of about two inches or under in 
staple. Delaine is a longer staple, se¬ 
cured by selection in breeding, until in 
cases it is three inches. “Half blood’’ is 
the result of crossing a full-blood coarse 
with a fine, and “three-eighths” is the 
full-blood with the half-blood. 
One can readily see from the way 
breeding is generally done how hard it 
will be to place clips in these classes. It 
will be hard even with pure flocks to find 
all the same length and fineness, and 
some flocks are a mixture of everything. 
There is a whole lot we do not know 
about handling wool to got a just price 
for it, and the “grade” is but one of the 
talking points of buyers. IR'ery kind is 
needed, but none of their prices has a 
fair relation to the prices woolens sell at. 
This much we know. Sheep husbandry 
has always been a nice occupation, and 
as profitable as any other for the man 
who treated sheep as well as other ani¬ 
mals. Again we know that the uncer¬ 
tainty of prices, and methods of the 
“higher-ups” have done more to reduce 
the flocks of the United States than dogs 
have, and you see a sample of it in the 
inquirer’s case. Further, we know that 
there has never been such a scarcity and 
such a demand for wool, and it must all 
be gathered to be manufactured and sold 
at startling prices. Quotations are a 
poor guide. Regardless of them wool of 
all kinds has sold at from 35 up to 70 
cents, for the same grades, and we have 
seen no “70” quotations. It looks like a 
good time for the man who has wool to 
“saw wood” and wait, wool grower. 
Pennsylvania. 
thickens, and is not sour. We have thrcf' 
cows that frechenod in March; and us>‘ 
a separator. I keep it very clean; nm 
very careful with my pails and straiuor 
cloths, wash thoroughly and .scald witli 
boiling water, and let them air well. I 
cool my cream as soon as possible after 
separating, keep it cool until about 12 
or 18 hours before churning. I am now 
trying to keep the cows’ milk separate 
aiid see if it is all alike. Do you think 
that pasteurizing the milk l)efore separ¬ 
ating would help, or could one pasturize 
the cream? If so, would you tell just 
how I could do it? Do you think there 
is any way I could I'enovate the butter 
that I have made so it would be fit for 
use i 
E. M. 
New York. 
Moneu refunded if not satisfactory 
THE MOORE BROS. OF ALBANY 
NEW YORir 
The Pig’s Food Habits 
We must all (says the “Pall Mall 
Gazette”) make our apologies to the pig, 
who has been grossly maligned in re¬ 
gard to his food. Instead of being ready 
to eat anything, he tuims out to be the 
most fastidious of animals. Experi¬ 
ments have been made in France and 
Sweden which show this to be the case, 
and in the latter country the record tells 
us that out of 575 plants the goat eats 
449 and refuses 126; the sheep out of 
528 plants eats 387 and refuses 141; out 
of 494 plants the cow eats 276 and re¬ 
fuses 218; out of 474 plants the horse 
It is impossible to state just _ what 
might be wrong with your butter without 
having a sample. However, you are fol¬ 
lowing exactly the right procedure to de¬ 
termine whether it is due to any oue 
cow’s milk being “off” and douhtle-ss ere 
thi.s you have located it. The “off’’ flavor 
you note might be due to .something the 
cows got hold of in pasture. Various bad 
flavors occur at this time of year due to 
this cause. 
If you desire to try pasteurizing your 
cream as a remedy if you do not h)cate 
the .source set the pail of cream iu a 
large pail or wash boiler of hot water. 
Keep receptacle over fire aud heat water 
so that cream in pail comes up to 140 
to 145 deg. F. When the temperature is 
reached, hold it there for 30 minutes and 
cool. 
Y'ou could improve tlu poor butter you 
speak of so you could use it at lca.st for 
cooking. Melt the butter and add hot 
Tvater to it equal in amount to the but¬ 
ter. Get this hot aud imu it through the 
separator. The butter oil will come out 
the cream spout aud the salt water aud 
curd out the skim-milk spout. Cool the 
butter oil and when 't reaches the proper 
consistency, salt and work. ir. F. J. 
Corn Silage for Steers 
The South Dakota Experiment Station 
has proved that corn silage will produce 
a good gain on beef steers, as we learn 
from “Farm aud Home News” : 
“A load of steers were recently mar¬ 
keted in Chicago by the South Dakota 
Experiment Station which had been fed 
corn silage only during a period of five 
months, and brought as killers within 
$1.^ as much per hundred as the best 
steers sold. The steers were on the road 
without any feed in the car for 35 hours 
and shrunk only 49 pounds per head on a 
rainy day. The average gain per head 
during the 148-day feeding period was 
two pounds. These steers consumed 97 
tons of silage and made a gain of 5.91.1 
pounds or an average of 296 pounds each. 
“This successful experiment was per¬ 
formed under the direction of James W 
Wilson, professor of animal husbandry 
and director of the experiment station. 
