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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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creased milk production and healthy cows. It is a money-rnaker 
because it takes the place of high priced, home grown grains 
saves time and labor of mixing‘“provides a better ration than any 
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Krause Dairy Feed is made under a 
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gluten feed, cotton seed meal, wheat 
bran, malt sprouts, wheat middlings, 
brewers’ grains, hominy feed, linseed 
meal and a fraction of 1'^ of salt. 
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Each of the ingredients in Krause 
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—will keep your cows in perfect con¬ 
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without forcing. Your herd will 
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Feed “Krause” this Winter 
Sell your high priced grains and make 
Krause Dairy Feed your standby for 
fall and winter feeding. Fed alone 
or with any home grown stuff that 
does not bring a high market price, 
it is always a money maker. Com¬ 
pare the cost and results with any 
lower grade mixture and you will find 
you are saving money and making 
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CHAS. A. KRAUSE MILLING CO. 
3702 Burnhun Street Milwaukee, Wi.. 
Cream - Saving 
Machines 
I F you are still setting 
your milk and skim¬ 
ming by hand, you are los- ' 
ing anywhere from one- 
fourth to one-third of your 
cream. If you are using af, 
separator, and it is not one 
of the best, you are still 
losing an amount of cream 
that would surprise you if 
you knew it. Every farm 
loss or leak that can be stopped this 5^ear should be 
stopped. Bu 3’ a Lily or Primrose cream separator 
and stop the cream loss. 
Don’t imagine that cream left in the skim 
milk will fatten pigs and calves faster. It has been 
proved scores of times that stock thrives as fast on 
warm separator skim milk, when a little meal or 
flax replaces the fat. Cream in the skim milk is 
dead-loss cream! 
Uly and Primrose separators get that cream. 
We can prove to 3’ou that the3' get it all, except 
about one drop in each gallon. 
Besides that, the3’ are well-known as simple, 
eas3’-running, easily-cleaned machines that last and 
do the same good work 3'’ear after year. Buy a 
Lily or Primrose — it will pay back its cost in 
pream 3’ou may now be losing. See the local dealers 
ho handle these separators, or, write us for 
logues. 
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trj mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
le deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Good Words for the Goat 
I wish to take exeeptioii to some of the 
statements made by M. I*. I), in reference 
to the goat on page 55. It is true the 
goat has been well and favorably known 
in nearly all countries, both ancient and 
modern. Abraham had his goats, as well 
as sheep and cattle. Surely there was 
abundance then and if the cow and sheep 
displace the goat, why did he and all the 
rest of the stockmen whom w'c read about 
in the Old 'restament, keep them? I 
shouldn’t wonder if the clothes the chil¬ 
dren of Israel wore in the wilderness for 
40 years were made of goat skins. 
There are two reasons, in my opinion, 
why the goat is .so little known in Amer¬ 
ica. One is that every jokesmith has used 
the mother-in-law and the goat when he 
couldn’t think of anything else, until it 
became so that if either word was used in 
a conversation the listener would smile. 
'I'lie other is that until a very few years 
ago there were no goats in America that 
were worth keei)ing. 
Goat’s milk is superior to cow’s milk in 
every way and for every use with the ex- 
cei)tion of butter. The cream cannot he 
sepai'ated well becatise the fat globules 
ai-e very minute, but that is the very 
reason the milk can be taken by infants 
! and inviili<ls with the weakest stoni.ach. 
Blitter can he made from the milk, but it 
is difficult to get all the cream. The but¬ 
ter is equal in taste to the finest creamery 
butter, but lighter in color, (’heese from 
goat’s milk is of the finest, and was worth, 
before this reign of high prices, about 50 
cents per pound. Gompare that with 
cow’s milk cheese, which was worth, a 
' year ago. I think, around ‘JO I'cnts. whole¬ 
sale. 
Herds of 100 goats or more are not 
uncommon in California, where they are 
ke|it for cheese or evaporated milk. There 
is no odor to the milk unless it is from 
some scrub and that kept in a filthy sta¬ 
ble. We all know a cow’s milk will smell, 
too, if drawn from a dirty cow in a dirty 
pen. The difference is, a cow does not 
appear to care if her surroundings are 
i.ot clean, while a goat will not step in 
filth or lie down where it is not clean if 
it can possilily be avoided. 
A goat can be ki'pt for about one-sixth 
of the amount a cow can in Winter, and 
one-tenth in Suninnu'. if they are both fed 
gi-ain. The late Fred C. Lounsbury esti¬ 
mated it cost about •$! per month to keep 
one; but as lie kept around .50 in the city 
of I’lainfield and had to buy everything at 
the retail price, the estimate, which was 
made three years ago, will probably hold 
good today for the average kei'per. 
’J'he herd kept at the N. Y. Experiment 
Station, averaging in a three-year te.st. if 
I remember rightly, .5.S2 per cent fat. 
were Swiss and grade goats, but the 
Anglo-Xubiuii milk will test from (i to 1> 
per cent. A t/ood milch goat, .should give 
four quarts per day for at l^ast three 
months after freshening, and some will 
milk as much as seven quarts per day. 
The Toggenburg doe. Faniielte, owned by 
Mr. Howland, Redlands, Cal., is re- 
jiorted as giving 2,0S0 jxmnds of milk in 
12 months. For several years I have kept 
from 10 to .‘>0 goats (including boarders), 
and have had only one goat that did not 
give more than one (piart of milk jier day. 
AVhen wet beer grains were $7..50 per 
ton and mixed feed about I sold milk 
for three years at four cents in Autumn 
and 43 ^ cents in Winter and I kept good 
cows; hut any little doe I have will show 
a larger net iirofit per year than any of 
those cows. 
The demand for goats is growing faster 
than they can be supplied, as well it 
might, with cows’ milk retailing at 15 
cents. And anyone with room for one or 
more cannot do better than start now 
with a goat. Fast year scrub buck kids 
at six wei'ks of age were worth at Fa.ster 
.‘>.5 cents per iioiind. alive. ’I’liis year any¬ 
one who has them at Faster time can 
easily obtain 50 cents. Of course, a buck 
kid of any breeding is too valuable to sell 
for meat, even at that price. However, 
if your horses throw up their heads and 
fly hack to the end of their halter rope 
when you pass close in front of them, or 
your dog disappears when he sees you 
with a stick in your hand, and the cat 
who is watchman for your granary hunts 
a place of safety when he secs you com¬ 
February 0, 1918 
ing, you don’t Avant a goat. They AA'on’t 
do well with you. minabd g. smith. 
New Jersey. 
Mr. Smith makes a good case for the 
goat, and that animal certainly deserves 
far better treatment than she has or¬ 
dinarily had. I cannot agree Avith him 
that goat milk is superior to that from 
cows in every way, for I believe that it is 
inferior to it in that the cream cannot 
be separated by any practicable method 
for table use or for making butter. Think, 
too, of the consternation of our city milk 
distributors if aa’c should send them milk 
that they couldn’t skim. I huA'e no doubt 
that a good milch goat should give four 
quarts of milk per day, just as I knoAV 
that a good coav .should give 10,0(K) pounds 
of milk per year. But I know that the 
vast majority of cows don’t giA'e that 
amount and I have an almost overwhelm¬ 
ing susiiiciou that there are A'cry few 
milch goats that give four quarts daily. I 
am aAA'are, also, that Abraham had his 
goats, and set great store by them. He 
lived so long ago, however, that I am not 
goiuf to subpoena him in this case. I 
remember, too, that one of his grandsons 
got into serious trouble tlirough tamper¬ 
ing with a kid from the flock. Seriously, 
however, there is no doubt that the mihdi 
goat has not been utilized in this coun¬ 
try as she might be and as she very pos¬ 
sibly will be some time. Af. B. n. 
Agricultural Fairs at Rural Schools 
Fast Fall a sclnxd fair was liehl at 
AsLville in Chautauqua County, N. Y. 
Cp in that section man.v of the rural 
schools are teaching agriculture. There 
are school g.-irdens and. in some casi-s, a 
flock of poultry will be kept at tlx; school. 
A Farm Girl and Her Prize Calf 
.\t th(‘ .\shville fair the exhibits Avere all 
A(‘ry g<)0d, and much interest was shoAvn 
in the outcome of tlie various contests. 
A registeii'd purebred Ibd.stcin bull calf 
was donated for the winner of tlie jxitato 
contest by Benj. Pringle, A. I.. Gleason, 
J. 1). Wilson and (bar. Cowles, four iq)- 
to-date Holstein breeders. The rules of 
the contia^t Avere that each contestant had 
to do all the work except iireitaring the 
ground, keep a. complete and accurate 
record of the AA’ork, and pr<‘sent it with 
his exhibit on prize day; .al.so, a brief 
story, telling how the croji Avas grown, 
giving det.ails of the Avork connected 
Avith it. and describing any particular 
features that AA'cre noticed by the con¬ 
testant. A half bushel of lAitatoes Avere 
sideeted, from the croji raiseil from the 
saru(‘ amount of seed, and the tubers 
judged for yield, unifoniiity of size and 
eating (nialities. 
Although intended for the boys, girls 
Avere alloAved to enter the contest, and 
the winner was Gertrude Armslow, a IJ- 
year-old i)ui»il of the “Checkered School,’’ 
which Avas pictured in Tuk R. N.-\'. 
some months ago. The picture sIioaa's 
Miss Armslow and the calf .she won Avith 
her potatoes. The calf is a grand.son 
of King Segis Pontiac Hero, a full 
brother of King Segis Pontiac Count, 
the Minnesota bull which won the most 
Association prize money last year. The 
calf’s mother is Fanny Pontiac Queen, 
Hero’s daughter. In these times when 
women are “doing their bit’’ on the farm 
as Avell as elsewhere, the girls can help 
and do help as well as the boys in car¬ 
ing for and raising stock, and Miss 
Armslow has a A-^ery good foundation for 
a choice herd of dairy cattle. E. M. vt. 
