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RURAL NEW.YORKER 
October 1?, 1917 
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A Dairy Proposition 
Can you inform me how many cows I 
would have to keep to supply 100 custom¬ 
ers with say 120 quarts per day, allowing 
milk for say three to four sows. I have 
very little room, about seven acres, five 
acres of which is tillable ground, and 
about lli acres of the above in apple, 
pear and peach trees, planted about six 
years ago; the remainder only fit for 
chicken yard or hog run. I could not pas¬ 
ture them; would stall-fed cows do as 
well as cows in pasture? Some say bet¬ 
ter—others claim that .the cows eat weeds 
which regulate their bowels, and the stall- 
fed have to be doctored a great deal. I 
can secure acreage near by to plant corn 
for silo; also for hay. Would it pay to 
go to the expense of putting up a silo, 
imtting it up and buying the necessary 
machinery to supply this quantity of 
milk? Milk is selling at 12 cents per 
quart, and feed costs from $3 to $3.50 a 
bag. Which would be the better cow for 
stall feeding, Guernsey or Holstein? 
Would it be safe to throw up a city 
position at $100 per month and invest 
in the above? K. 
New .Terscy. 
You would have to keep 12 to 14 cows 
for the purposes you state, and they 
would have to be cows that would give 
7.000 to 8,000 pounds of milk a year. 
You would probably have to exchange 
cows some unless you were lucky enough 
to have but two or three dry cows at any 
one time. Stall-fed cows will do all right, 
but of course feed must be produced for 
them, and good pasture is the cheapest. 
There is no reason for having to doctor 
stall-fed cows more than any others. 
If cows have to he kept in during the 
Summer, silage is very essential. It 
would he particularly so in your case, 
since green crops would have to be grown 
off the fai-m, and it would be too ex¬ 
pensive to harvest them as needed. Put 
up a silo b'g enough so you can keep 
cows on it the year round, or nearly so. 
For the business you mention I should 
use high-grade Ilolsteins for the most 
part, keeping two or three Guernseys to 
keep the milk to chemical standard. The 
I Holstein is the economical producer of 
I market milk, even though she may need 
a little help in keeping her milk up to 
standard. 
It will co.st you at present about 8 
cents per quart to produce the milk, leav¬ 
ing 4 cents, or $4.80 per day, for your 
time and time of team for delivering 
same. In all probability your living ex¬ 
penses would be less in the country than 
in the city. After you got started there 
would probably be as much left after pay¬ 
ing expenses as there is now, on present 
position. It is, however, a proposition 
where the margin of profit is small, and 
ordinarily, if health was good and I could 
support self and family on the $100 a 
month job I should stay by it. In other 
words, if you must change and like farm 
work, you will doubtless enjoy it, but you 
cannot expect to much more than get a 
living from such a proposition as you out¬ 
line. ir. F. J. 
Grass Mixture for Pasture 
In the Tioga Co, (N. Y.) Farm 
Bureau News John H. Barron gives a 
set of grass seed mixtures suitable for 
seeding old meadows and pastures. There 
are thousands of such old pastures iu 
Now Y’oik, and we have many calls for 
seed mixtures. Surely Tioga County 
farmers ought to know about this. IMr. 
Barron says that Fall seeding may be 
done with rye or wheat, and Spring 
seeding with oats, buckwheat or barley. 
Lime is needed for best results, with 
acid phosphate sure to give results. 
A General Meadow Mixtiu’e. For es¬ 
tablishing a meadow on land in a good 
state of cultivation the following mix¬ 
ture per acre is very satisfactory. Tim- 
otuy, 15 lbs.; Red clover, 5 lbs.; Alsike 
clover, 3 lbs. 
A Pasture Mixture for Poor Land. 
On land that is not good enough to grow 
corn well use per acre: Timothy, 10 
lbs.; Canada Blue grass, 4 lbs.; Red- 
top, 4 lbs.; Orchard grass 4 lbs.; Alsike 
clovei-, 4 lbs.; White clover, 1 lb. 
Another Meadow Mixture. When the 
land is not high class, somewhat deficient 
in lime and inclined to be wet or to 
heave in Winter, the following mixture 
per acre is better: Timothy, 10 lbs.; 
Red-top, 5 lbs.; Alsike clover, 7 lbs. 
A Pasture Mixture for Good Land. 
For pastures on land that is good enough 
to grow corn satisfactorily, use the fol¬ 
lowing mixture per acre: Timothy, 10 
lbs.; Kentucky Blue grass, 4 lbs.; Or¬ 
chard grass, 4 lbs.; Meadow fescue, 4 
lbs.; Red clover. 5 lbs.; Alsike clover, 
3 lbs.; White clover. 2 lbs. 
communication from C. R. F., New Y’ork, 
on page 1040, in which be inquires as to 
the relative merits of the various breeds 
of swine. Also to the communication 
from J. F. Cotton, Maine, appearing on 
page 1092, in which he refers to the win¬ 
nings of the various breeds at the Inter¬ 
national. Mr. Cotton deduces the su¬ 
periority of the Poland China by reason 
of awards in the single animal classes. 
Too frequently high fitting by a skilful 
herdsman influences this class. We sub¬ 
mit that the car-lot classes of animals 
right from the feed lots are a much safer 
criterion to go by. The Berkshire breed¬ 
ers of the East do not fear competition in 
this section by the I’oland China. It is a 
good breed, popular in the West, and 
justly so, because the breed is adapted to 
Western conditions. In the East we do 
not turn in a carload of shotes to follow 
feeding steers and to be finished on corn. 
Much less would that practice be consid¬ 
ered now w’ith corn at present or pros¬ 
pective prices. The practice in the East 
and South is to utilize pastures, rape. 
Alfalfa or clover with waste products of 
the orchard or dairy, to grow out the ani¬ 
mal and finish with a minimum amount 
of grain. In fact, if pork is to be pro¬ 
duced at a substantial profit in such sec¬ 
tions, this general method must be fol¬ 
lowed. We believe no breed of swine is 
better adapted to this practice than the 
Berkshire. We have been running over 
a hundred young Berkshire sows during 
the Summer on rape. Alfalfa and clover 
pastures, with no other ration except a 
very light slop once a day. Such ones 
as we have recently culled out as not be¬ 
ing good enough to send out as breeders 
have sold at the top of the market, there¬ 
by indicating that they are in good flesh. 
We have not complete, data of the 
swine awards at each International show 
up to this time, but will quote from such 
reports as we find at hand: In 1908 the 
first prize carload was a bunch of 52 
Berkshires shown by Reeve & Keown of 
Illinois. This load ran on pasture till 
new corn was ready. Mr. Keown stated 
that they were turned into pasture, with 
light supplemental grain ration, when 
they were three months old. Their aver¬ 
age weight was 272 pounds, and this was 
the heaviest carload of Spring pigs, any 
breed, ever shown at the International to 
the present time. 
The same firm in 1909 showed a car¬ 
load of Berkshires from the Fall litters. 
They wore Grand Champion load of the 
show. They were grown out during the 
Winter, turned into Timothy and clover 
pasture in the Spring. The highest daily 
gain on feed was 2V^ pounds per animal. 
They averaged 406 pounds when shown, 
and their dressing percentage was 84 per 
cent, green weight. The dressing aver¬ 
age at the International that year was 
82 per cent. The reserve champion car- 
lot this same year was a load of Berk¬ 
shires from Spring litters, averaging 269 
pounds. And, by the way, these were not 
the only Bershires shown there in 1908 
and 1909. Berkshires also won in 1908 
Grand Champion barrow over all breeds 
and crosses. Grand Champion pen of 
three barrows; first on carload, 350 
pounds or over; first on carload, 250 
and under 350; first on carload, 200 and 
under 2.50; Grand Champion carload. 
In 1909 the Berkshires won Grand 
Champion pen of three barrows over all 
breeds and crosses; first on carload, 350 
pounds or over; first on carload, 250 and 
under 3,50; Grand Champion carload. 
They also won second on car lot, 150 
pounds and under 200. In 1910 the 
Berkshires won at the Denver Live Stock 
Show the Grand Champion barrow and 
Grand Champion pen over all breeds 
and crosses, and at the 1910 Interna¬ 
tional the Berkshires won Grand Cham¬ 
pion barrow over all breeds and crosses; 
also in dressed carcass class first and 
third, second in carload, 250 and under 
350. In 1911 the Berkshires were Grand 
Champion pen of barrows at the Inter¬ 
national. In 1912 at the International 
Berkshires won first and second in carload 
350 iiounds or over; second iu carload 
over 200 and under 250; Grand Cham¬ 
pion carload; Reserve Champion barrow 
and Reserve Champion pen ; also Reserve 
Champion carload. The Champion car¬ 
load this year was shown by George 
Runkle; were purebred Berkshires, aver¬ 
aged 417 pounds and dressed 83.48 per 
cent. This load was run on Blue-grass 
pasture through the Summer, with sup¬ 
plemental grain ration, and finished on 
corn. 
In 1913 at the International the Berk¬ 
shires won first on carload 350 or over; 
first on carload 2.50 to 350; second on 
carload 200 to 2.50; first carload 1.50 to 
200; Grand Champion carload; Reserve 
Grand Champion barrow; Reserve Grand 
Champion pen. From the show lots at 
this International in the open market, 
three loads of Berkshires brought an av¬ 
$8.38. 
No, International show was held in 
1914 or 1915. At tie 1916 show, in the 
dressed carca.ss class the Berkshires won 
first, second and third, 300 pounds or 
over. The first prize carcass showed a 
percentage of 87.39, the next high per¬ 
centage was a Chester White carcass with 
a dressing percentage of 84.85, while the 
highest dressing percentage shown by a 
Poland China was 83.33. At this show 
the Berkshires also won Grand Cham¬ 
pionship carload, with a load averaging 
440 pounds. The Berkshires also won 
first on carload 200 to 250 pounds. The 
Grand Champion load and the Reserve 
Grand Champion carload, also Berkshires, 
sold on the market for $11.75, the highest 
price brought by any breed. 
If it were not for the fact that we 
have already taken up too much space, 
we would detail the awards at the last 
two Smithfield shows. It is well known 
among swine breeders that the English 
Smithfield show is the court of appeals, 
in so far as it decides the excellence of 
bacon breeds and carcasses. Let the 
above-detailed awards at the recent Inter¬ 
national shows indicate the value of the 
Berkshire carcasses when fed out to a 
high finish and from a lard standpoint. 
At the English Smithfield shows the 
decisions are from a bacon standpoint. 
We have always contended that a half- 
starved Berkshire made a better bacon 
carcass than any of the so-called bacon 
breeds. As bearing out this contention, 
we call attention to the fact that at the 
two last Smithfield shows in competition 
with several English breeds and crosses 
of such breeds, the Berkshires won over 
half the first prizes in bacon classes and 
over half the second prizes in the same 
classes. 
We have laid much stress on the fore¬ 
going awards in order to correct any er¬ 
roneous impression that might be given by 
the two letters above referred to. How¬ 
ever, the best feature about the Berkshire 
is his docility. If we may be permitted 
a personal word, we formerly bred an¬ 
other breed than the Berkshire, kept a 
large herd of purebreds and managed them 
successfully for some time. At the re¬ 
quest of a friend who bred Berkshires 
we fed out a few and cared for them, for 
comparison. We soon determined to our 
satisfaction that more pounds could be 
put on the Berkshire with the same 
amount of feed. Swine breeding is not a 
fad with us. It is our living. We breed 
not only the hog that we believe to be the 
most profitable, but the hog in greatest 
demand throughout the Eastern and 
Southern States. 
II. C. & ir. B. IIARPK.Vni.XG. 
New Y'ork. 
STATEMENT OP THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGE¬ 
MENT, CIRCDX.ATION, Etc., Keciuired by tha 
Act of Congress of August 24. 1912. of THE RU¬ 
RAL NEW-YORKER, published weekly at New 
York. N. Y., for October 1, 1917. 
State of New York, ( . 
County of New York. I 
Before me, a Notary Public in and for the Stale 
and county aforesaid, personally appeared John J. 
Dillon, who, having been duly sworn according to 
law, deposes and says that he Is the business mana¬ 
ger of The Kural New-Yorker and that the following 
is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true 
statement of the ownership, management (and If a 
daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid 
publication for the date shown In the above caption, 
required by the Act of August 24. 1912. embodied In 
section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on 
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editor, managing editor, and business managers are; 
Publisher: The Rural Publishing Company, 333 West 
30th St.. New York, N. Y. 
Editor: Herbert W. Colllngwood, Woodcliff Lake. 
New Jersey. 
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Lake, New Jersey. 
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names of the owners, stockholders, and security hold¬ 
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and security holders as they appear upon the books of 
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knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and (■on- 
dltions under which stockholders and security holders 
who do not appear upon the books of the company as 
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than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has 
no reason to believe that any other person, associa¬ 
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stated by him. 
JOHN J. DILLON. Business Manager. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me tins 25tli day of 
September. 1917. 
P. J. NEWMAN, [Seal] 
Notary 1‘ublic, Rensselaer County. 
Certificate filed iu New York County, No. C9. 
Term expires March 30, 1919. 
Why the Berkshire Leads 
Our attention has been directed to the 
erage of $8.98; three loads of Poland 
Chinas, $8.75 ; four loads of Hampshires, 
$!8.50; three loads of Duroc Jerseys. 
