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Wm. Louden 
Oriainator of ] 
M'->aern Jinrn \ 
. i^gitipment I 
Many thousands of farmers and dairymen have built or remodeled their 
bams "The Louden Way.” They have saved money, saved material and 
saved labor by following plans worked out by Louden experts. In addition 
they have bams that are properly ventilated, more conveniently arranged, 
more profitable—superior in every way to the ordinary bam. 
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catelogr, but a 112-page book of practical plans and dollar-saving information. Sent post- 
».,d-no oh^ ^j Stanchions 
, . You can’t Kayo a profitable barn without modem equipment. Louden stalls and stan¬ 
chions, f«^ and I i»er carriers are the mainstay of the successful dairy bam. If you knew 
how much labor thw save, bow much comfort they r've to live stock, how easy they aretO 
nd how little they cost, you would not build a bam without 
install, and how little they cost, you woul 
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KEEP IT 
HANDY 
Ton can never tell when a borso ^ 
Is going to develop a Curb,Splint, 
Spavin, K!n~bcno or laiaonoss. 
Yet It IS boiind to happen sooner 
or later. And you can’t nrord to 
I keep him In tUo barn. Keep a bottle of 
Kendall’s Spavin Treatment 
' I Bronson’ 
>t be 
any 
cost. It is a valuable 
liniment for both man 
and beast." Get Ken¬ 
dall’s Fpavin Treatment 
BtanydruTrri-.t’s, H per 
bottle—fl for $5. “Trea- 
KtNDAU-^n^l tise on the Horse”— 
jBsvwTtfAmnHiH free-or write to 
Dr. B.J. Kendall Co. 
Enosburg Falls, Vt, U.S. A. 
(Cow Comfort 
Make your cows _com- 
fortable. They wi'-l re- 
pay you many times .in 
bi~£?cr cream and milk 
checks. Use 
HARRIS SANITARY STALLS 
AND STANCHIONS 
Our Stanchions are wood- 
: lined—no cold eteelon the 
animal's neclc. Roundedat 
bottom—no sharp comers. 
Patent T-shaped steel frame, very 
strong. Cow can not work loose. 
Arm never drops tq^^floor. Write to¬ 
day.for jfree'.printed'matter fully 
describing Harris. Barn Equipment. 
Harris Mfg. Co., SSO Main St., Salem, Ohio 
Live Slock Notes 
Separator for Small Herd 
How manj' qiiarta of milk per dn.v is it 
necessary to have for a cream separator, 
ami is it practical to put tho morning’s 
and evening’s milk together in the .sepa¬ 
rator? Would it pay to have a .separator 
for two or three J<tso.v cows? w. k. 
►Selden, N. Y. 
It wouhl pay you in the long run to 
get a milk sep.'u-aior. A small machine 
is entirely practical. They are reasonable 
in price and will do eflicient work. 
It is better to separate the morning and 
evening milking separately. ’Phe cream 
of the evening milking .should be cooled 
before it is added to the storage can con¬ 
taining the cooled morning cream, and so 
on. If the morning and evening milk 
were separated together, tho morning milk 
would h.Tve to be cooled and held cold all 
day, and then warmed up and mixed with 
the night milk before separating. 
u. r. ,T. 
Renovating Butter 
Last July we purchased two ik’Mb. 
tubs of creamery butter. The first one 
was right, but when we came to open 
the second we found the butter had ab¬ 
sorbed a'foreign'flavor, probably of the 
tub, although lined with paper, so that 
all the butter within an inch of the tub 
is very strong, almost useless. Can you 
recommend any way of renovating this to 
extract the strong flavor and leave the 
butter usable? K. o. L. 
New York. 
A method of remedying the flavor of 
your butter would be to melt the butter 
and then dilute the oil half and half with 
hot water. Run this through a cream 
separator, keeping the emulsion well 
stirred during tho process. The butter 
oil w ill come out of the cream spout and 
the water, salt and impurities out cf tho 
sl;im-m;lk spout. '’I'he oil can then be 
cooled and resalted. Unless the butter is 
very bad it can then he used for eating 
or at lea.st for cook.ing purposes. 
A method without a separator that I 
have never tried, but one that might help 
st>iiie, would be to i);’o<’eed as above and 
let the fat and water cool so the fat con¬ 
geals on the surface of the water. 'I'he 
fat could then be taken oJ and used fresh 
or .salted. n. p. ,t. 
Raising Calves Without Milk 
We had no e-viierience in raising calves 
until we bouglA two about the middle of 
August. Vde gave them about six quarts 
of milk a day with calf meal; gradually 
we reduced the m l': ; they are now get¬ 
ting three quarts^ a d::y and are fed three 
times a day. We have no cow and have 
to buy milk at eight cents a quart; it 
was six cents until the lirst of October. 
Would the calves lc.se in growth if we 
gradually worked cut the milk altogether, 
feeding them on calf meal? AVe are 
anxious to keep them growing, tho'ugh we 
find tl;<‘ miik vi-’ v expensive. M. m. q. 
Brewster, N. Y', 
I should certainly work the calves on 
to calf meal and water, rather th;in pay 
eight cents per quart for milk to fei'd to 
them. Give the cmlves all the good mined 
or clover hay they want. Make up a dry 
grain ration cf equal parts ground oats, 
bran and cilmeal and feed a little of this 
dry, .iust what they will clean up. '['his, 
with plenty of warm water and a little 
calf meal, should keep the calves in a 
thriving condition. u. F. j. 
Cows Closely Confined 
Tlic d.’iiryman who supplies me with 
milk keeps about four cows and buys 
most of his milk from local dealers. 'The 
cow.s have been confined In a very small 
dark .stable for months—not once being 
but at any time. What effect may such 
treatment have on their milk, and is it 
net <Tuelt.v to animals? k. 
I’enusylvauia. 
Confinement of cows to Miiall, di^rk 
stables could not affect the quality of the 
milk until it had lirst affected the health 
of the cows. This it might do, liowever, 
.such confinement rendering cows much 
more susceptible to tuberculosis. Whether 
or not such confluemeut could bo described 
as cruel would dejiend uiio- the. cir¬ 
cumstances of the confinement. Merely 
keeping cows shut up in comfortable 
quarters is not cruel; in fact, it is com¬ 
mon practice with many herdsmen. It 
might be made cruel if the cattle were 
not comfortable in their quarters. 
Without knowing that the cows that were 
con.fined to .small quarters were healthy. 
I should prefer not to use their luTk; 
and if the quarters were small, dark and 
unwholesome I sliould not use it anyway. 
Milk can usually be purcha.sed from 
dairymen who care for their herds prop¬ 
erly, and it would be a decided incentive 
to others to reform their methods if the'r 
patrons purchased their milk temporarily 
elsewhere. m. b. d. 
THE HENYARD 
Oil Meal for Molting Fowls 
1. W'hat is the value of oil meal for poul- 
tri- during a molt? I keep dry mash in 
hoopers at all time.s; this would be the 
only way I could give it to them. How 
much would you mix into five pounds of 
mash, as I have no way of mixing a largo 
quantity? I am using 100 lbs. bran, 100 
lbs. cornmeal, 100 lbs. ground oats, 100 
lbs. flour middlings and 100 lbs. meat, 
this being the m.nsh they use at Storrs. 
Do you think I should increase the meat 
of this mash from one-fifth pound to 
one-fourth, a.s our hens are most of 
the time confined and get no insects of 
any kind? I also supply them with plen¬ 
ty of salt. How long after a hen lays out 
its clutch of eggs does it take before it 
will lay again? In all the rations from 
all colleges there ai'C no oats mentioned. 
How soon would you advise using ground 
oats with the gi’owing chicks, and what 
amount of meat, say to four or five 
pounds of mash? C. H. 
Ivong Island. 
1. The chief value derived in feeding 
oil mejil to molting fowls comes from the 
fact that it is both laxative and rich in 
protein. When from five to eight per 
cent, is used in a well-balanced ration it 
has the effect of hastening the molt and 
aiding matcruilly in the growth of new 
feathers. Sunflower seed is also valuable 
for this purpose when fed in small quan¬ 
tities. The chief disadvantage in fee<ling 
oilmeal to fowls in the form of dry mash 
is that it is somew'hat unpalatable, and 
therefore it is sometimes advisable to 
moisten the mash wcasionally during the 
molting period. I would not increase the 
beef scrap in the ration which yon are 
feetling at this time. If, how'ever, your 
hens are laying heavily and start to lose 
flesh rapidly about the first of March it 
would do no harm to increase the meat to 
25 per cent, during the heavy, laying 
period in the Spring. 
•'rhere is no rule to determine how long 
a hen will remain idle after laying a 
clutch of eggs. It varies all the way 
from a few days to .several weeks or 
mouths, depending updii the time of year, 
age, i-ondition and laying ability of each 
individual hen. 
Ground oats contain too much fila^r for 
very young <‘hicl:s, unless the hulls are 
sifted out. AVe start fts'ding about 5 i>er 
cent beef scrap, also 10 per cent, ground 
oats, wd'.en chicks are four weeks of age. 
'Phe beef scrap is increased to 10 per cent, 
when chicks are about eight weeks old. 
Up to this age they are given skimmed 
milk to drink when obtainable, o. s. G. 
Winter Poultry Ration 
(’^11 hi you advise me of the be.st rations 
for feeding chickens this Winter, 150 
bir-hs go Tig on tw’O years old, 400 pullets? 
IJberty, N. Y'. J. M. L. 
'ITie best ration for this Winter cannot 
be planned now, for it will vary from 
time to time as tlie prices of feeds fluctu¬ 
ate. Corn and wheat are the basis of the 
whole grain ration, but barley will be 
substituti'd for wheat to a great extent 
w’hen it is available at a lower price, 
aud oats will be used to save corn as 
much as possible. Rye, buckwheat and 
kaflir Avill also be used to some extent. 
All the commonly used grains have about 
the same proportion -of protein in their 
composition and can be used interchange¬ 
ably, though corn, wheat and barley are 
most suitable for hens. As a dry mash, 
a mixture of the ground grains and mill¬ 
ing by-products, with wheat bran and mid- 
drng.s'as a basis, will be used. To these 
latter cornmeal, gluten f*^d. ground oats. 
Alfalfa meal, meat or fish scrap, oil meal 
and, per^'ans, cottonseed meal will be 
added. Formulas will vary with prices 
and availabil'ty, hut all will give a high 
proportion of jirote'n, and there is little 
hone that any <>f them can be low' in 
price. M. B. u. 
" Chinking” Log Jlouse 
Can yuu tell me what the l)“st mater'al 
is for filling up the spaces between the 
logs of a . log house? I liave tried sev¬ 
eral different materials, such as mud 
and clay, but it shrinks and cracks, and 
finally fell out in a short time. 
St. Ylury’s, l*a. F. J. M. 
We must turn that over to some “old 
pioneer” or log-houst*; hoildMc f^'r au- 
.swer. What is best for “chinking*?” 
