1302 
Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
mGLE (.AinPS 
DT ni» ramiiy* ne knew that the over- 
brilliant white lifirht—each as that from electric¬ 
ity, acetylene, mantle (ms or gasoline lamps and 
from the familiar round burner oil lamps—is re¬ 
sponsible for ninety percent otthe eyestrain 
and headaches which endanger Bight and 
health. Therefore he installed Angle Lamps. 
Test them for yourself for thirty days, they will 
cost you nothiM if they are not all we claim 
for them. The finest light you ever read by- 
soft and comforting to the eyes. 
Very economical, all the fight goes downward 
on your work, not up against the ceiling. Uses 
one-third the oil of round burners, one quart 
lasts 16 to 20 hours. No shadows on your work. 
Free from all dangar— can be refilled while 
lighted in perfect safety. Does not smoke or 
smell -easily cleaned—no valves, tubes, mantles 
or complications. Test it for your family’s sake- 
give them the benefit of the finest light there is, 
next to daylight. 
Your dealer can get AngleLamps from the jobber. 
1 to 4 burners-in handsome brass, copper or 
nickel finish. Learn all the benefits and savings; 
send for Catalogue No. W today. 
THE ANCLE MANUFACTURINO COMPANY. 
244-246 West 23rd St., Now York City < 
RAW FURS Wanted 
1 BUY RAW FURS—DIRECT PROM the hunter or 
triipper, the country fur buyer, or the local dealer. 
I'll buy one hide or ten thousand hides. 
My price lists are issued regularly throughout the 
Season. WRITE for one and kei^p iiosted on inai ket 
cundit.lons. It is free for the asking. 6 PER CENT 
EXTRA PAIDOS SHIPMENTS AMOUNTING TO f46.00 
AND OVER, 1 pay all transportation charges. 
If you prefer, you can put your own valuation on 
your furs and If I cannot pay as much or more, 1 
will return your furs to you at my expense. If you 
will be reasonable, we will l>e able to trade very 
nicely and l>e of Ix'neflt to each other. Try me—It 
will mean extra money for you. Get in touch with 
me at once. DO IT NOW, 
HARRY LEVY 
134-136 West 2Sth St„ New York City 
Member of the Raw Fur Merchauls’ Association of 
the City of New York. 
RAW FURS 
Our prices are always the highest the mar¬ 
ket arfords. Liberal grading and prompt 
remittance guaranteed on ail shipments. 
Send for Pur Price List 
David Blustein & Bro. 
uav 
tm 
West 27*Ji St .New York 
RAPPERS 
T 
If .loseph E. Sulliv.an got moi-e for his furs 
than you did. there must be a roa.son. 11 e t icil 
a little red tag on his shipment and he knew 
from past experience that if he wasn't satis 
lied with the offer submitted, he could get his 
FURS back with all charges prepaid. Some 
FUR Houses claim to do a great deal more but do fhoy 7 
Write for free price list and ship your next lot to JAS. P. ELLlS, 
34 & 36 Mill Street, MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. Established in ISSS. 
Cash for Raw Furs 
If you don’t send for our price list we are both 
losers because we pay highest market prices 
and want your shipments. Send for Price list D. 
L, BRIEFNER & SONS, (Est. 1861) 
148 West 25th Street, New York City 
SKUNK 
We pay top prices for Skunk. Mink, 
Muskrat, and all raw Furs. Price list 
free. M, J, JEWETT & SONS, 
UEDWOOD, N. Y. DEPT. 29 
Sabo Sure Catch Trap. Dc- 
eigned to be plaot-d in the ani¬ 
mals burrow. Your hardware 
dealer has them. Write for 
booklet. Agents Wanted. 
SABO TRAP MFC. CO. 
No. 3118 W. 25 St., Cleveland, O. 
Do you want a farm where largest profits art* 
made? The South’s great variet.v of crops 
and wonderfully productive climate make it the 
most profitable farm section of America. It is 
the place for the lowest cost meat production 
and dairy farming. It grows the largest variety 
of forage crops. Good lands, in good localities, 
as low as $15 to ?25 an acre. Let us show you 
locations that will give the highest profits. M. 
V. RICHARDS, Commissioner, Room 87, South¬ 
ern Railway System, Washington, D. C. 
E have books on 
all subjects of 
farming by rec¬ 
ognized authorities. 
Write us and we will 
quote you prices 
THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
West SOtb Street, New YorU 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Thoroughbred and Purebred 
One thing that I would like to know is 
the use of the word “thoroughbred” in 
connection with the different breeds of 
cattle and horses. I am specially inter¬ 
ested in animal husbandry and I know 
that a “Thoroughbred” is a particular 
breed of horses, and since that is the case 
I cannot see why it is n.sed in connection 
with other hrei'ds. Why not use “pure¬ 
bred” or “fnllblooded?” w. v. 
Alfred, N. Y. 
The word “thoroughbred” is wrongly 
used when applied to any live stock ex¬ 
cept a breed of English race horses. It 
has become a popular habit to use this 
word when referring to fine stock of any 
kind. We have heard human beings 
called “thoroughbreds” when a high com¬ 
pliment was intended. It is not unlike 
the term “soda” or “soda water” given to 
soft drinks. There is no soda in such 
waters—the “fizz” being produced by 
carbonic acid. The origuial fizz drink 
seems to have been produced by bicarbon¬ 
ate of Soda and cream of tartar*—like a 
baking powder— and the name “soda” 
cha.sod .sf«me Alfalfa hay, which I placed 
before my hogs in racks*. They will not, 
however, touch it, or some common horse 
hay that I gave them. Can you tell me 
if there is any way in which I can get 
them to eat it, as they will not eat any¬ 
thing but grain? V. T. B. 
North Marshfield, Mass. 
Alfalfa hay is especially relished by 
pigs that have Tcached more or less ma- 
turit.v, although often times it requires 
a little time and patience to fully accus¬ 
tom them to the bulky ration. If V. T. B. 
will take some of the Alfalfa leaves and 
mix with them a small amount of grain 
that he has been accustomed to feeding 
the pigs, gradnall.v increasing the amount 
of Alfalfa leaves and adding sjjine of the 
coarser portions of the hay from time to 
time, it will not he very long before the 
pigs will ndible away at it when it is 
placed in .slat racks before them. It is 
doubtful if pigs weighing less than 100 
pound.s will make much use of the Al¬ 
falfa hay, for .voung animals require con¬ 
centrated feed in order to grow regularly 
and efficiently. We found Alfalfa hay 
The Head of a Duroc Jersey Herd. Fig. 598 
has hung on. A purebred animal is one 
with both parents recorded or eligible 
to reeord in the legal herd book of the 
I»art'.I'ular breed. A cow cannot be a 
fliorouglihred any more than a .Tersey 
can he a Holstein, for all three names 
stand for three definite and particular 
breeds. “Th(U'oughbred” is often used, 
imt the word does not mean what the 
users intend. 
Waste in Milk Ceins 
III the ])i'eseiit milk controver.sy, is it 
not iM'i'tinent to examine into certain wan¬ 
ton and wholly unnecessary items of loss 
to the large.milk dealers? 
Near every receiving station are cans 
of the various companies that have been 
bought nil or otherwise absorbed by the 
Borden’s Co., the number of Avhich will 
run into the thousands, and most of them 
are good, hut are, of course, stamped 
with the name or initials of the original 
company. These cans are piled up in the 
oiien like cordwood, and %vill eventually 
become scrap iron. I tried to hu.v some 
of them hut was refused. Many farmer.^ 
would buy second-hand cans, to he used 
for various purposes on the farm, even 
to deliver milk to the shipping stations 
or cheese factories, while the poorer ones 
could h(.‘ used to bring hack whey, skim- 
milk, water or other swill or slop for 
pigs and calves. 
There can he uo doubt that the lo.«s to 
the Borden’s of the value of the.se cans is 
charged to their account of cxpense.s of 
distribution, as is breakage of bottles, 
etc,, and ultimately either the producer 
or consumer, or both, pays the bill. This 
item of loss will run well up into the 
thousands of dtdlars. and is not properly 
a loi*s, but is wanton and wilful wa.ste. 
The refusal to .sell such cans to anyone 
wishing to buy is simply playing the di>g 
in the manger. n. c. collins. 
Lewis Co., N. Y, 
R. N.-Y.—Tlmt loss will he saddled 
upon the producer and coiisuiner—which¬ 
ever will stand for it with least com¬ 
plaint. TiOt us have the facts about tliis. 
Feeding Alfalfa to Hogs 
One freiiueiiily s(*es in various papers 
! how mueli swim* relish Alfalfa hay and 
, other roughagi’. Several days ago T pur- 
esjiecially useful for broud sows, and used 
only Alfalfa hay, shelled corn and a small 
amount of digester tankage to supply 
nounshment during the Winter mouths. 
It is requisite, however, that the Alfalfa 
hay he bright and abundantly leaved and 
that it he placed in racks protected from 
rain and snow. If there is any difficulty 
in getting mature jiigs to eat this Alfalfa 
it may he obviated by keeping all grain 
away from them, making it ueccssar.v for 
tlu’m to eat it or go hungry. They will 
not tolerate this hungry feeling wry long, 
and the amount of Alfalfa hay they will 
consume will no doubt surprise the cor- 
I'espomleut. !'• t'. M. 
Dairying or Beef 
I expect to nuive on a lIO-aciT farm. 
I am expected to kei'p about IH to 18 
cow.s. r have six now. At present I 
make butter, selling at HO cents, and feed 
milk to pigs and raise three calves. Milk 
sells at 24c to 2Gc per gal. My experi¬ 
ence is not so broad, yet I am led to be¬ 
lieve that if one keeps a good be(^ type 
of COW.S and lets the calves run with the 
cows till they are ready to pass as beeves, 
there is practically as much profit in 
cows as if one kept the average dairy 
cow; and much less labor and care. I 
should he pleased to hear of some who 
reallv are following this idea and what 
their re.sults are. I .should also like any 
information concerning dairying with 
present high feed pric-es and high-priced 
labor. A. .r. K. 
Emails, I’a. 
With labor and feed so high, one must 
substitute machinery for human labor in 
si) far as possible, and raise most of the 
feed on the farm. In the dairy this means 
using a milking machine if hand milkers 
cannot he obtained- Bleuty of good Al¬ 
falfa or clover bay and corn or corn and 
Soy bean silage, and jiossihly some corn 
and cob meal raised at home will keep 
the iiurchase of liigh-prieed concentrates 
down to a minimum. It is doubtful if it 
is advisable to feed grain as heavily as 
usual except to high producers. 
Much deiiends upon the location and 
lyjie of farm and a knowledge of the beef 
business on the part of the owner as to 
whether the beef proposition will pay bet¬ 
ter than dairying. Unless you have a 
market that will i>ay first-class prices for 
good beef, a modification of beef-raising 
which some New England tarmer.s are 
ciinyiiig out might work. That is. get¬ 
November 10, 1917 
ting hold of some young grade Holstein 
heifers or steer.s, and carrying them 
through the Winter on little or no grain, 
and then putting them on good pasture 
and finish them up a little in the Fall. 
These animals grow rapidly and sell read- 
il.v in these parts. 
Wlure the demand for dairy prodnehs 
is strong, it would be difficult to make 
beef-raising pay. Proper location, crop¬ 
ping systems, and investment in buildings 
are three necessary essentials. It takes 
good pasture, silage and legume hay to 
make beef profitably, and expensive build¬ 
ings are not required. Before making a 
complete change to beef raising, it would 
probably be a good idea for you to consult 
the animal husbandman tt your State 
College, State College P. O.. Pa. ii. f. j. 
A Fine Duroc Jersey 
Fig 508 shows the picture of a iirst- 
class I)uroc -Ter.^ey hoar. This hog is at 
the head of the herd .at Sweet Briar 
Farms, Somerville, N. .T. He is a good 
specimen of the breed. The reds are be¬ 
coming very popular through the Eastern 
States and have many admirers. Some 
of our correspondents have been telling 
us of their good qualities. Such a boar 
as this in any neighborhood would within 
a few years make a great difference in the 
V|uality of the pig stock. In the.se days no 
one has any right to feed high-priced 
grain to scrub stock. All improved breeds 
have their advocates and dofender.s. ami 
\vhen the smoke clears away from the 
discussion it is nsimlly found that the 
favorite hog is the one which worked best 
into the conditions made on each farm 
by the personality of the farmer, the feed, 
and the general reasons for keeping a 
hog. 
Cow-testing Associations 
One of the bright spots in the dairy 
industry is the work of the cow-testing 
associations. More such associations 
should be organized in the State. One 
way to help this movement is to give pub- 
llcit.v to those already in operation. It is 
the best means for the average farmer to 
put his dairy on a business basis, carry 
him out of darkuess into the sun, throw 
limelight on his star hoarder, bring to 
him the host practi.ses and help him in 
many other ways. It is good work and 
why not help liy giving part of your pa¬ 
per to reports of the as.s6ciations in the 
Empire 8tate? Below is the average pro¬ 
duction of all cows on test for one year 
ij the Blooming Grove Cow Testing As¬ 
sociation. This association ha.s been go¬ 
ing for three years and the iire.sent aver¬ 
age has lieeu raised through selection. 
’I'he record .speaks for itself. 
.\vcrages for all cows in the association 
for the year lOlG-1017: 
ivrilk, G32G.0. Fat, 250.4. 
Value of products.$148.0] 
Co.st of feed. .5.T.5G 
Returns above feed. 78.47 
Cost of feed to produce 100 Ihs. of 
milk . 1.08 
Return for .$1 expended in feed... 2.10 
I’lip October report shows tlmt out of 
278 cows on test, i{2 produced ov’er 40 
Ihs. of butter fat in the month, the high¬ 
est cow producing 51.2 lbs. of fat, 1280.^? 
lbs. of milk testing 4 per cent. 
Orange Co., N. Y. hamukl sarkl. 
The registered .Tersey cattle at the 
Frank Cummings’ dispersal sale, held at 
Gainesville, N. Y., Oct. 17, sold at satis¬ 
factory prices. Some choicely bred ani¬ 
mals, tracing to the Hood Farm blood 
lines, as well as the best Island strains, 
brought correspondingly high prices. 
Buyers were present from far and near. 
The bidding wa.s spirited. The day was 
ideal; the arrangement of the ring, box 
and the decorations were jiroper and at¬ 
tractive ; and the auctioneers, W. A. Camp¬ 
bell, Pavilion, N. \'., and J. B. Imw- 
rence, liCRoy, N, Y., did creditable work, 
conducting the sale in their usual busi¬ 
nesslike manner. 
Milk, $.8.28 for 2.7 per cent per lOG 
lbs.: butter, 50e per Ih.; cheese. .“Oc; 
egg.s. 47e; jiotatoes. $1.15 per bu.; apiiles, 
$1 per hu.; oats, 75c per bu. Hogs, t5c 
per lb.; veal, 14c ; cows, $GG to $100 for 
grades. Hay, $10 per ton in barn. 
I’ottor Co., Pa. c. C. it. 
Apples, $1.25 per hu., picked; 75c to 
$1, windfall; potatoes, $1 per hu.; eggs, 
40e; butter, 40c: milk, 10c (it. Hogs, 
almost any price asked, in some instances 
as high as 22c per lb., live weight. Cattle, 
7%c to 10c; cows, .$50 to $ltM). (’orn. 
old. $2.50; wheat at mills. $2.40. We 
have had good wheat, corn and oats, as 
well as good jiotato crop. Few appU's, 
and not choice at that. Retail prices; 
milk. 12c qt.: potatoes, .$1..50; apples. 
$1..50 to .$2; ('ggs, 55c; butter. 50('. 
Fayette Co., Pa. t. s. k. 
