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The Cow Knows —bnt SHE can’t talk. Ask the Dealer. 
Farmers Need 
SO‘Bos-sO 
Because it does away 
efFedtively with the 
Fly Nuisance- 
Keeps the cows and horses in good humor 
—enables cows to produce more milk and 
horses to do more work. 
SO-BOS-SO KILFLY keeps the flies away from the 
cows in the pasture and in the stable. Every horse owner 
should use SO-BOS-SO KILFLY, for it relieves horses of 
fly bother, thus preserving their vitality for productive 
work. SO-BOS-SO KILFLY car, be 
used on bogs and bog pens. And in a 
similar way it can be sprayed in ben 
bouses. It is a sure bane to lice and 
vermin. 
Your dealer will 
sell you SO-BOS-SO KILFLY. Send 
for descriptive folder and references 
from large breeder of blooded cattle. 
The H. E. Allen 
Mfg. Co., Inc. 
Carthage, N.Y. 
U. S. A. 
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worried—in fly-time? Spray with 
A tried and successful pre¬ 
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worries. Spray it once or 
twice a day on all stock. It is absolutely 
harmless—but effective in keeping flies off. 
Your dealer should have it. If 
not, his name and $1.75 brings 
prepaid one gallon of No-Fly^ 
sprayer, and our money-back 
guarantee. Agents wanted. 
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Box 50 Syracuse, N.Y* 
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Brooded Stock for Japan 
The picture shows an Ayrshire bull, 
which was recently shipped to .Tapan. 
This bull was bred by Mr. .J. W. ClLse, 
of AVashington, and is the second bull 
which the party in .Japan has bought for 
shipment. This Ayrshire ought to give 
a good account of himself in his new 
home. We understand that the .Japan¬ 
ese are importing quite a number of high¬ 
bred dairy cattle of the various breeds. 
Apparently all the breed.s are repre¬ 
sented in that country, and it will be in¬ 
teresting to knoAv more about the effect 
of crossing these various breeds with the 
native .Japanese cattle. Even in that 
comparatively small country there are 
great differences in climate and farm 
conditions, and ns our various breeds 
i-epresent different climates or conditions 
of handling .stock, it is but natural that 
all the breeds should find admirers. 
Home Cheese Making 
Would you give recipe for cheese mak¬ 
ing from goat’s milk, and aLso from cow’s 
milk’:;' I do not mean cottage cheese. 
New York. mks. C. w. 
To make Cheddar or common .\merican 
cheese from cow’s milk proceed as fol¬ 
lows : 
Place fresh milk in some receptacle 
sucli as a new wa.sh boiler. 
Heat milk to 85 to 86 degrees Fhr. 
and add rennet at rate of one-half ounce 
days it is a good plan to coat the cheese 
with melted paraffin to hold the molds 
in check and prevent too great evapora¬ 
tion of moisture. The cheese should cure 
for two months at least. It must lose 
its rubbery texture before it is palatable. 
It will probably require more than one 
attempt at making this chee.se before one 
is successful as it takes a little practice. 
The prime essential is good clean milk 
to start with. One of the most common 
difficulties is the getting of a gassy curd 
from unclean milk. When these gas holes 
develop to any extent it is “all off," and 
one must try again. 
Cheese may be made from goat’s milk 
by the same rule. ii. f. j. 
Silage from Sudan Grass 
The Oklahoma Experiment Station 
has isued a bulletin on silage made from 
Sudan grass. This grass is being grown 
very largely through the West and South¬ 
west, and many remarkable .stories are 
told about its feeding value and yield. 
In Oklahoma the grass was put into the 
silo in order to compare such silage with 
that made from corn. It seems tliat in 
that country Sudan grass has been known 
to heat and .spoil in the stack after be¬ 
ing cured for hay. When put into the 
silo, of course this danger is removed, 
and there is apparently less loss in the 
silo than in the stack. It seems to be 
the pi’actice in Oklahoma not to put any 
Ayrshire Bui! Exported to Japan 
to 12 gallons of milk. The rennet should 
be diluted in a half pint of cold water 
and stirred into the milk. 
Allow milk to set undisturbed until 
the curd breaks clean of the forefinger 
when it is drawn up through it. 
With a butcher’s knife cut the curd 
into cubical strips, about one-half inch. 
Heat slowly to 95 to 98 to expel the 
whey and firm the curd. This heating 
process should take about an hour and 
the curd should be stirred constantly in 
the whey to keep it from matting to¬ 
gether. 
Dip the curd out of the whey onto a 
cheesecloth-covered rack and allow the 
curd to mat together. Turn the curd over 
every 15 minutes. At the end of an hour 
the curd should tear apart like the meat 
from a chicken’s breast. 
Cut the curd into little cubes and salt 
at the rate of a pound of salt to 100 
pounds of curd. I.<et it stand a few min¬ 
utes and put it in the hoops. It is not 
necessary to have regular cheese hoops. 
A strong pan or pail with holes punched 
in the bottom will do. The container 
should be well lined with cheese cloth 
and filled to the brim with curd. Cover 
the top with the ends of the cloth and 
place a follower on top. This follower 
is a block of wood of the same diameter 
as the hoop so it will just fit down 
inside. In the follower place a block 
and over this a pole about 10 feet long. 
Catch one end of the pole under some¬ 
thing solid and place the cheese about 
two feet from this end. On the other 
end hang a weight such as a pail of 
bricks. Gradually increase the weight. 
In 24 to 48 hours the cheese will have 
sufficiently pressed and may be ban¬ 
daged with cheese cloth and removed to 
the cellar for curing. After two or three 
cover upon the silo, as there is usually 
not rainfall enough to cause any serious 
damage. The best farmers, however, are 
now covering the silos with a water¬ 
tight cover in order to make sure of the 
contents. As compared with corn, the 
Sudan grass gave a silage with greater 
bulk of a light brown color, and with a 
faint acid odor. It shows a little high¬ 
er analysis on the whole than corn sil¬ 
age, containing a little less water and 
considerably more protein. A comparison 
of Sudan grass hay, as compared with 
fodder from other well known crops, is 
given in this bulletin as follows: 
Carbohydrates 
Hay 
Protein 
Nitrosten 
Free 
Fat 
Sudan grass.... 
7.94 
Extract 
45.45 
2.04 
Prairie hay. 
42.66 
2 *>5 
Cane fodder.... 
6.62 
.52.01 
.3 .‘25 
Kafir fodder.... 
8.75 
45.51 
1.97 
Alfalfa . 
, . 14..30 
42.70 
2.20 
Bermuda . 
46.60 
2.09 
Millet . 
7.50 
49.(X) 
2.10 
Timothy . 
5.90 
45.00 
2.50 
The silo in which this silage was made 
was constructed of steel, with the doors 
arranged so as to make a perfectly air¬ 
tight enclosure It is evident that the 
use of Sudan grass is extending over the 
country, and we think it will be quite 
largely grown in the future. We have 
it growing in New Jersey this year, but 
the cold wet season has held it back. 
On the drier lands, and in v/armer 
weather, it will evidently give a heavy 
yield, and will we think take a leading 
part in providing both hay and silage on 
many of our Eastern farms. 
Grains With Alfalfa 
We cannot obtain brewers’ nor distil¬ 
lers’ grains in any quantity. Gan T bal¬ 
ance a desirable ration from bran, horn- 
July 28, 1917. 
iny, cottonseed, oil meal, good silage and 
Alfalfa hay? The dairy consists of 
about 45 milkers, not pastured at all, 
kept stabled except for exercise. Gould 
you suggest some grain suitable to take 
place of brewers’ or distillers’, or could 
a good ration be balanced from the above 
mentioned grains? c. E. s. 
New Y'ork. 
Since you have Alfalfa hay to feed 
with silage, the grain ration must con¬ 
tain some feeds which are low in protein 
in order to balance. At present prices 
bran and middlings (standard) are a 
good buy for this purpose. Bran will 
also supply the bulk. A good ration 
would be three parts bran, one part 
standard middlings, one part hominy, 
one-half part cottonseed ^ meal and one- 
half part oil meal. ir. f. j. 
Ration for Ayrhires 
1. I have an Ayrshire cow. just calved. 
What grain ration would you advise to 
feed her? I have plent 5 ’ of good pas¬ 
ture. 2. Is it not poor management to 
milk at 7 a. m. and 5 p. m.? Shouldn’t 
it he at least at G a. m. n. p. 
New York. 
1. A good grain ration for your cow 
on pasture is 100 parts hominy or corn- 
meal, 100 parts middlings, 100 parts 
bran, and 50 parts cottonseed, linseed oil 
or peanut meal. Since your pasture is 
good you will not need to feed grain in a 
greater proportion than one pound to 4.5 
pounds of milk produced daily. 2. It 
is better management to milk cows at 
regular intervals, as for example, 5 a. ra. 
and 5 p. m. ii. p. j. 
Sawdust Bedding 
As an answer to the que.stion asked by 
H. A. E., regarding sawdust on cement 
floors, I have the following statement to 
make: Sawdust is a very good material 
to bed cows in stanchion with. It stays 
in under the cows well, and it is cheaper 
than any other kind of bedding. If it is 
mixed with shavings it furnishes a stiil 
better bedding. Shavings alone will not 
stay under cows ^ery well, hut wheu 
mixed with sawdust in a ratio of half 
and half it stays under the cows we'l, 
keeps them clean and the floors can he 
easily cleaned. The manure will spread 
very easy when spread by hand. c. k. 
Morrisville, N. Y. 
Killing Calves Humanely 
As a subscriber to The R. N.-Y. I 
wish to congratulate Mr. Selter heartily 
for his word on killing calves humanely, 
page 84.3. Cruelty in the slaughter of 
animals is not only mor.ally wrong, but 
is degrading in the last degree to all 
those who are obliged to witness it. And 
the witnesses are generally the children 
on the farm. I think Ti’ou will agree with 
me that this is a matter which should be 
taken up and vigorously pushed by your 
paper, which is doing so much to raise 
the moral and social standards of rural 
life. T. M. J. 
Albany, N. 1’. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
August 7-8.—Purebred Live Stock 
Sales Co., Brattleboro, Vt., Ilolsteins. 
Oct. 2-,3.—Purebred Tiive Stock Sales 
Co., Brattleboro, Vt., Ilolsteins. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Annual Summer meeting. New Y’^ork 
State Fruit Growers’ Association, Pon¬ 
tiac Hotel, Oswego, N. Y., August 7-11. 
New .Jersey State Horticultural Socie¬ 
ty, Summer meeting, Minch Orchards, 
Bridgeton, Aug. 8. 
Connecticut Bornological Association, 
annual meeting. State Agricultural Col¬ 
lege. Storrs, August 9-10. 
Connecticut Poultiy Association, an¬ 
nual meeting, Connecticut Agricultural 
College, Storrs, August 6-8. 
Connecticut Daiz\vmen’s Association, 
annual meeting. State Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, Storrs, August 8-9, 
Society of American Florists and Or¬ 
namental Horticulturists, New Y'ork City, 
August 21-23. 
Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, August 
22-31. 
Ohio State Fair, Columbus, August 
27-31. 
Michigan State Fair, Detroit, August 
31-Sept. 9. 
Kankakee Interstate Fair, Kankakee, 
Ill.. Sept. 1-7. 
Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, Sept. 
2- 9. 
Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis, 
Sept. ,3-7. 
Minnesota State Fair, Hamline, Sept. 
3- 8. 
Illinois State Fair, Springeld, Sept. 
7-15. 
Solehui’y Farmers’ Exhibit, Solebury 
Deer Park, Solebury, Pa., Sept. 7-8. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y'., 
September 10-15. 
Agricultural Society of Queens-Nassau 
Counties, seventy-sixth annual exhibition, 
Mineola. N. Y.. Sept. 25-29. 
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