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Cy>c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 20, I'JIS 
'T'HINK of it! For only S2 down you can now 
* get any size of the New Butterfly Cream 
Separator direct from our factory on a plan 
whereby it will earn its own cost and more be¬ 
fore you pay. You won’t foel the cost. For only $29 
I ^^^^you can buy the No. 2 Junior—a light run- 
S^wJjninK.easy cloaning.close skimminE.durable, 
[ gu.aranteed separator. Skims 95 jiuarts per 
hour. We also make five other sizes of the 
up to our big 800 pound capacity machine shown here—all sold 
at similar low prices and on our liber,.! term tofonly $2 down 
and a year to pay. Every machine guaranteed a lifetime 
against defects in material and workmanship. 
0 * 1 ? B8F 5 Q You can have 30 days’ FREE trial and see 
I Balnea ■ for yourself how easily one of these splen- 
k Bear- in M did m.nchines will earn its own cost and 
V io?* Oil M more before you pay. Try it alongside of 
^ any separator you wish. Keep it if pleased. 
'W tf not you can return it at our expense and 
^0 ^jlf refund your $2 deposit and pay the 
freight charges lioth ways. You won’t be 
out one penny. You take no risk. Postal brings Free Catalog Folder 
and direct-from-factory offer. Buy direct and save money. Write lodij. 
Ovar ■ 
W 125.000 ^ 
r new Buttar* 
'fly Saparatora 
now in uaa. 
ALBAUGH-DOHER COMPANY. 2171 Marshall Blvd., Chicago, III, 
E^sif To Clean 
Eas^ToTuvn 
in a great healing ointment that should find a place in every 
dairy. It assists the normal, easy milk yield by keeping the udder 
healthy and free from sores, cuts, chaps, bruises, cracks, bunches and 
Inflammation. Caked Bag resijonds quickly to the ixjuetrating, healing 
j>owcrs of Bag Balm. Cow Pox, foyer spots and any exterior sore are 
promptly removed. Have Bag Bairn ou band to keep little hurts from 
getUug big. 
Sold In generous 60c packages by feed dealers and druggists. Write 
for free booklet, "Ilairy Wrinkles.” 
DAIRY ASSOCIATION CO.. 
LYNDONVILLE, VT. 
OfTheColts 
It’s cheaper to 7-atse colts than to 
buy horses. But it’s costly if you lose 
the colts. Keep a bottle of Kendall’s 
Spavin Treatment handy. For forty 
years has proved it the safe, reliable 
remedy for spavin, splint, curb, ring¬ 
bone, bony growths and lameness 
from other causes. jq 
is used and recom- 
niendedby farmers, 
horsemen and vet-, 
erinarians. Soldi 
by druggists ev-i 
erywhere, $1.10 ai 
bottle,6 for $5.50. 
Get a copy of "Al 
Treatise on the! 
Horse,” at your) 
druggists, or write! 
Dr. B. J. Kendall Co.' 
Euosburg Falls, Vt, 
SAVE 
COW PROFITS 
An ailing cow doesn’t always sliow it. 
With digestive organs out of tune she 
wastes most of what she eats. 
Give her the tonic she gets from the green 
grass—in nature’s way. Keep her at the 
highest producing point and she’ll show a 
profit. The way to weed out poor cows is to 
improve their producing power. 
k , CARPENTER’S 
Nutrioton© 
is a natural tonic made from nature’s herbs. 
Concentrated and economical. A pinch in 
the regular feeds keeps cows well 
and tones up the poor ones. In 
use for over 40 years. Econom¬ 
ical because concentrated—not 
loaded with salt. 
Our FREE Trial Offer 
has no strings attached. Bend for it. 
Try NUTHIOTONE. : Write today. 
W. D. CARPENTER CO. 
Box 50 Syracuse, N. Y. 
fii ^ 
ABSORBINE 
*“^TRADE MARK REG.U.S.PAT.OFF.^ 
Reduces Strained, Puffy Ankles, 
Lymphangitis, Poll Evil, Fistula, 
Boils, Swellings; Stops Lameness 
and allays pain. Heals Sores, Cuts, 
Bruises, Boot Chafes. It is a 
SAFE ANTISEPTIC AND GERMICIDE 
Does not blister or remove the 
hair and horse can be worked. Pleasant to use. 
$2.00 a bottle, delivered. Describe your case 
for special instructions and Book 5 M free. 
ABSORBINE, JR,, antiseptic liniment for mankind, re¬ 
duces Strains. Painful. Knotted, Swollen Veins. Concen¬ 
trated—only a few drops required at an application. Price 
SI per bottle at dealers or delivered. 
W. F. YOUNG, P.D.F., 88 Temple St., Springfield, Mass. 
J With this wonderful new Llb- 
Fbey Automatic Water Bowl. 
f Each bowl controls own water 
supply. Animal moves lever. 
Fopening water valve, when it 
I starts to drink. Lever 
I swings back closing valve 
when animal stops drinking 
'Nofloattank rrauired. Bowu 
may bo put at different heights I 
’or in any stall or pen. Cannot! 
overflow: cannot get out of order; 
almost no water left in bowl. Most 
sanitary bowl ever sold. Prevents spread of con¬ 
tagious diseases. Increased milk yield quickly 
pays back cost. Saves labor; saves 
feed. Write today. If interested in 
Stanchions, Stalls, Carriers, etc.,, 
ask for General Catalog. Sent free. 
C. A. LOBBEY COMPANY 
230 Marion St. Oshkosh, WIs. 
MINERAL'"o'il«r 
HEAVE^V?ars 
.COMPOUND 
Jhneidca/iX 
CREAM 
SEPARATOR 
Booklet 
Free 
NEGLECT 
Will Ruin 
Your Horse 
Sold on 
Its Merits 
BEND TODAY 
AGENTS 
WANTED 
Upward 
On Trial. Easy running, easily 
cleaned. Skims warm or cold 
milk. Whether dairy is large or 
_ small, get handsome catalogue 
and easy monthly payment offer. Address 
AMERICAN SEPARATOR CO., Box 5075 Bambridge, N.Y. 
9 CORDS IN to HOURS 
$3 Package 
guaranteed to givo 
saflelacllon or 
I 'if money refunded 
[f[$l Package sufficient 
[ for ordinary cases. 
^'4 j| Postpaid on receipt of price 
Write for descriptive booklets 
m 
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only 45 
lbs. 
y £^1 
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MINERAL HEAVE REMEDY CO., 461 fourth Ave., Pittsburg, POr 
BY ONB MIN. It’s BING OF THE WOODS. Saves money and 
backache. Send for KIIEE catalog No. B63 Showing low price 
and latest improvements. First order gets agency. 
Folding Sawine Machiao Co.. 161 West Harrison St., Chicago. III. 
A Dairy Day in Latitude 47 Degrees 
[In reading the following we must re¬ 
member that Mr. Macdonalrl lives^ on 
I’rinoe Edward I.«land. north of Nova 
Scotia. The days are shorter and the 
f<dd more intense than in Tioga Co.. N. 
Y.—the scene of the other dairy day.] 
“A Day on a Dairy Farm.” page 14.^8, 
is lu-etty dreary, if not heartrending 
reading, and many farm papers would re¬ 
fuse to iniiit this dreary and very dark 
side of farm life, which is all too com¬ 
mon ; but The K. N.-Y., honest and fear¬ 
less, gives both sides of every question, as 
all good pa Iters slntuld. Idoyd Ceorge 
was. however, nearly deposed from the 
prc’iniership by his I’aris speech in which 
he laid bare the blmiders and mistakes of 
those resitonsible for military mishaps 
and Itlnnders. and the political papers al- 
w.’iys refuse to print anything that will 
tend to give a bad impression of the do¬ 
ings and action of the opposing party. 
Yes, this stoi-y of a day on a dairy farm 
looks horrible in print, and yet 75 per 
cent of our farmers work in about the 
same way as Mr. and Mrs. Itockwell. 
Xo wonder ^Ir. Itockwell has to do all 
tlial work himself and make a pure sl.-ive 
of his wife, for no lahoi’ing man would 
ov(‘r ccustMit to worl< in a place lilu' tluit. 
Blucher, “ Mother’s Horse ” 
with working hours from li\e o'clock in 
tile inoniiiig (two hours before daylight) 
until eight o’clock at night. The story 
will have one bad elTect, in that it will 
give farniliands an excuse for refusing to 
go to work on a farm. Like Mr. Itock¬ 
well, I, myself, cannot get a man to work 
for me; that is. to stay with ino at night, 
for. like Mr. Itockwell, I am up at five 
in tJie morning, two hours before day¬ 
light at the.se times, and when the help I 
have comes to the house at eight, I have 
a half-day’s work accomplished. 
One cannot now.'id.’iys get a i^ciisihle 
mail to work for you from u A. M. to S 
I’. M. If one does get anyone to do this 
there is usually a screw loose in him 
somewliei’e. In the city he would not be 
called upon to get to work before seven 
or eight, nsimlly the latter hour at this 
time of year, and if a tradesman it would 
never be before eight in the morning. lie 
knocks off Avork for the day at five. If 
he in the city were asked to work till 
eight he would demand, and get, time and 
a half. Ih'ohably if I or Mr. Rockwell 
would offer time and a half for all 
hours worked before seven in the morning 
and after six in the evening we would be 
able to get etheieut hell). -Vnd that is 
but the just thing to do. I or Mr. Rock¬ 
well, starting work at five, would have 
to pay time and a half for the two. hours 
before .seven, and why shouldn’t we? 
They do it in the big city, and why not 
on tlie farm? 
Rut the woman? I feel for Mrs. Rock¬ 
well. Though I am up and at work at 
five, oiir women are not up and around 
until about eight, in these .short days 
now. I quit butter-making on the farm 
a few years ago just ou account of this 
thing, having to get our women folk out 
at between live and six to help milk and 
to care for the milk after milking; that 
is, before I had a separator. The wom¬ 
en’s health broke down about the first of 
February that Winter, and I foi’thwith 
dried up the cows and quit butter-mak¬ 
ing and the fine trade I had. as I put up 
my butter in parchment pound blocks. 
printed ‘TIermanville Farm Dairy,” and 
it was good butter, too, and I was re¬ 
ceiving full creamery prices. I am now 
running a small dairy, keeping only as 
many cows as I can milk myself in the 
early morning, and allowing onr women 
folk to sleep. 
This is my schedule: Alarm strikes at 
shai’i) five; up and make kitchen fire, boil 
kettle; make tea. also make porridge, take 
a Clip of good strong tea with plenty of 
sugar in it and cream. Take a cup up¬ 
stairs to the woman before going out: 
start my hotwater boiler. With the hot 
water I make the hot feed for the young 
pigs, with plenty of drink in the feed 
(early Fall pigs), and for the milch euws 
a warm mash of mill feed, oats and hot 
water. All these buckets I carry to pigs 
and cows (warm, mushy feed is grand in 
cold weather, if it does take time and 
some trouble). I milk while the cows 
are eating their warm mush. I feel sure 
my cows would not give as much milk if 
they did not receive and be eating (and 
enjoying) the palatable warm mush. 
Anyway. T am getting a lot of milk in 
this cold weather. After milking I fe<‘d 
the cows and horses, and sheep, too. .straw 
or oat hay (I use oat hay largely), and 
take the milk to the house to be .sep.-i- 
ratod. I strain the milk at once into the 
sejiarator, and start' the machine by hand. 
1 put the crojim away in the cream croek. 
stir up the fire in the kitchen stove and 
stir up the porridge pot (1 make the por- 
ridg(> before I go out). I reserve some 
sweet cream for my iiorridge. and with 
lots of sugar on it I eat my porridge—my 
breakfast. I i-at no bread witli the por¬ 
ridge, for I had taken a piece of toast 
witli my ejirly morning tea. Now I have 
finished my I'arly morning woric :ind it 
is now eight o’clock. Now I go :uid lie 
down for a while and have a good .smoke 
—a well-earned rest, as it •were. Onr 
women folk begin to get up and clean up 
the kitelien. for. Avith my separating and 
what not. the kitclnm badly needs I'lean- 
ing lip. I rest in bed for an hour or tivo. 
11:.’!() to 10, when I g)“t up and priqiart* 
to water all the stock. I water at the 
well both hors»'s and cows, except horses 
that may have gone to work. In fim* 
days the cows arc allowed out perhaiis an 
hour; cold days they go in at once. I 
feed all alike after water by giving a feed 
of whole oats, cows and horses : yi's. and 
pigs. While animals are out drinking I 
clean out st.-ihles. both horse and cow. 
I am through about dinner time, or 
twelve, noon. I have little to do in tin* 
stal)l(>s in the afternoon, no more tliaii 
milk and feed in the evening. I milk’ be¬ 
fore diii’k. I do not. as Mi-. Rockwell 
and other do. wait for a certain hour 
twelve hours from the time of milking in 
the morning. I get through my work at 
the stable, milking, feeding and cleaning, 
by du.sk, and use no lantern. I, howevi'r. 
only got about half the quantity of milk 
in the evening that I get in the morning, 
as there is only aliont nine hours between 
morning and evening milking, and 15 
hours between evening and morning milk¬ 
ing. Rut experiments at the Central 
Farm, Ottawa, go to show that there is no 
material loss in milking this way. The 
evening milk I do not .separate, leaving if 
over until morning. 
It will thus he seen that I am no slave 
to the farm work; neither are onr wom¬ 
en folk. What hauling and jaunting and 
business into town is to be done is not 
done by me, but by the man who comes 
to work in the morning, usually coming 
about eight o’clock at these times. How¬ 
ever, I have all the afternoon for myself, 
except about a good hour's work in the 
evening; I do some jaunting, hauling and 
driving with my horses, for I take some 
pride in my three fine horses. I send a 
picture of Blucher. which is ‘‘mother's 
horse,” having purchased him herself 
when I was away, and .she looks to him 
quite a bit, too. J. A. jiacpoxai.o. 
“You have no children?” said the draff 
examiner. “No. sir.” “Can’t yonr wife 
support herself?” “I think she could sir. 
but that’s what she picked me out to do.” 
—Detroit Free Press. 
