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■She RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February IG, 191S 
Three Important Reasons 
For Buying a 
CREAM SEPARATOR 
At Once 
T here are three very strong reasons for the immediate purchase 
of an up-to-date I)e Laval Cream Separator. 
In the first place, a new l)e Laval machine will now save its 
cost in a few months—in more and Ixdter cream and butter and in time 
saving—at the present very high butter prices and great need of every 
minute of time. 
In the second j)lace, the patriotic duty rests upon every producer 
of butter-fat to save every ounce of it, and nothing is of greater food 
value to a nation at war. All European countries are encouraging the 
sale of the best cream separators in every way possible. 
In the third place, railway delays arc such that you can’t depend 
upon quick delivery, and if you don’t order your De Laval now there is 
no telling when you can get it. Moreover, the supply of labor and 
material is uncertain and all last year De Laval deliveries were nearly 
two months behind. 
Again, De Laval prices have advanced very little thus far. but 
must go higher if present industrial conditions continue, let alone become 
more difficult. Present prices hold good until Mai-ch 1st only. 
There was never a time when the immediate purchase of a latest 
improved De Laval Cream Separator was more important to everyone 
separating cream, or when it could less wisely 
be delayed. 
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to try a New De Laval machine for your own sat¬ 
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simply address the nearest General Office- 
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Live Stock Notes 
The Purebred Red Baby 
The .voung woman in the picture who 
is fondling her pet pig. ‘’Jennie.” has 
found here little red protegfe to be not 
I only a most interesting and intelligent 
i plaything but a profitable one as well. 
Airs. Koon's husband is employed on a 
ranch where the breeding of purebred 
Dnroc swine is carried on e.\tensively. 
'Last March Mr. I.arsou, the einjiloyer. 
gave Agnes a plump little red baby pig 
jto care for iind to keej). Now Agnes has 
I the mother instinct well developed in her, 
I aving four sturdy youngsters of her own 
jtbe youngest three years old. and she 
took this little piggie in hand with 
motherly care and attention, witli the re¬ 
sult that ‘‘.Tennie,” as she was named, 
I soon became the sturdy youngster the 
I picture shows her to he. 
While a pig nniy be considerf d by some 
to he an nnnsual pet. this red-haired 
The Duroc Baby 
young lady proved to he a most affec¬ 
tionate and pleasing pet who would re¬ 
spond quickly to her mistress’s call. One 
can see that she is very happy and con- 
ti'uted while held in the fond embrace of 
her foster mother. The larger pig iu the 
other picture is Jennie and shows what 
a fine young lady she had grown to be 
in five months. 
Of coni'se Agnes couldn't think of eat¬ 
ing her pet or of having anyone else eat 
her. either, so she put her in with other 
bine bloods of her family at one of Mr. 
Larson’s stock sales, last Fall, when she 
sold for $75. Mr. Larson is a breeder of 
fine stock and is widely known, his sales 
being attended by breeders from far and 
near, hut for some reason this sale was 
Jennie Grows Up 
not so successful as usual :uul Mr. Lar¬ 
son was disapi)ointed that Jennie did not 
bring $100, as he says she rightly should 
have. He often g< ts $500 for individuals 
of these pnrehreds. No doubt Jennie 
will soon be doing her “hit” toward win¬ 
ning the war by raising up families of 
porkers to feed onr soldiers. 
Incidentally it may he of interest to 
know that this energetic young Iowa 
woman who is so handy at raising pigs 
is also handy at ‘‘shucking” corn to feed 
them. Driving the t(‘am and wagon to 
the field herself and ‘‘shucking” all alone, 
she gathered many loads of corn for her 
employer, earning $72 of “pin money” iu 
this manner. 
first saw the matter stated in the “Lit¬ 
erary Dipst” and that he had practiced 
it ever since with entire satisfaction. I 
would like to get what information The 
K. N.-Y. or any of its readers have upon 
the subject. a. r. d. 
The object in bleeding hogs at the time 
of slaughter is to hasten the cooling pro¬ 
cess and to allow more perfect preserva¬ 
tion of the meat. The carcass from an 
nnbled hog would not cool out as quickly 
or as thoronghl}' as that from a hog that 
has been properly bled. Then, also, the 
various cuts of meat, as well as the car¬ 
cass, would spoil much more quickly if 
held in a fresh C('udition for any length 
of time than would those from a properly 
bled hog. Killing the animal without 
bleeding adds notliing to the sweetness or 
flavor of the meat. k. j. s. 
The Friend of a Goat 
On page 55 “Suburbanite” asks “Shall 
I keep a goat?” The information yon 
give him is rather misleading. In re¬ 
gard to the quantity of milk your figures 
are j bout right. Goat’s milk can he used 
as a substitute for cow’s milk for all 
purposes, and I don’t see any reason why 
buttin’ cannot be made from it. although 
we have never tried that. Yon say that 
the goat cannot render any service to 
man that a cow cannot do better. I 
take it “Suburbanite” has a small place, 
and there is hardly any suburban home 
where, if the lawn clippings are saved, 
weeds, cornstalks, beau vines, etc., from 
the garden and peelings from the house 
that will not furnish the roughage for 
one or two goats. In regard to cream, 
will say you can set it in a fiau same as 
cow's milk, and cream will rise. Greater 
care does not have to he taken of a goat 
in order to have milk palatable. Goat’s 
milk does not have an odor, nor does it 
taste of the animal, neither does the goat 
itself have a strong odor, as most peojile 
have an idea they do. I did myself until 
we kept them. 
A goat is much cleaner th.an a cow can 
('ver he. Most cows have a disagreeable 
odor, and so does their milk when it is 
first drawn. I have nothing to sell, al¬ 
though I have both cows and goats; I 
am induced to write this hopiuig that it 
will he of use to “Suburbanite” and 
others who haven't the space for a cow 
and need milk. A. j. DEVEREAtrx. 
Pennsylvania. 
Itching Skin; Lice 
1. I have a horse whose hind leg is 
swollen from fetlock to a little above gam¬ 
brel joint, very sore under fetlock. He 
is constantly scratching until he has worn 
.the hair off in numerous places, and these 
jilaces are becoming sore on account of 
his constant scratching. Other limbs are 
all right. Has he impure blood, scratches 
or what? He is fed on hay, straw, oats 
iind corn. 'U’hat do you think is the 
trouble with him. and what remedy would 
yon suggest? 2. I have another horse 
troubled with lice. What would yon sug¬ 
gest as a remedy for this? w. w. A. 
Michigan. 
1. Clip away the long hair and then 
poultice tlie sore part with warm flaxseed 
meal foi’ two or three days. Mix some 
bran in the poultice to keep it from stick¬ 
ing to the skin. Wash the leg once and 
then dry it perfectly after discontiuniug 
the poultices. Afterward do not repeat 
the wiishing, as it aggravates “scratches,” 
jirohably present in this case. Three 
times a day apply freely to the affected 
skin an ointment composed of two parts 
of flowers of sulphur, one -^art each of 
spirits of camphor and compound tincture 
of benzoin, and eight parts of fresh lard. 
Fe-.'d lightly ; keep the bowels active and 
make the horse work or take active exer¬ 
cise every day. 2. Lice may he destroyed 
by a solution of coal tar dip made and 
used according to directions printed upon 
the label of the original container. Also 
cleanse, disinfect, whitewash, light and 
ventilate the stable. a. s. a. 
Should Pork be Bled ? 
When killing hogs for meat, should they 
be bled or not? I had a preacher stop¬ 
ping with me a few days ago. and discuss¬ 
ing the question he '’aid that he never bled 
a hog when be killed it. that to just knock 
it in the head and clean it without bleed¬ 
ing would make sweeter meat and save 
better than to bleed it. He stated that he 
A CHAKIT.\BLE lad.v was reading the Old 
Testament to an aged woman, who lived 
at a home for old people, and chanced 
upon the passage concerning Solomon’s 
household. “Had Solomon really 700 
wives?” inquired the old woman, after 
I’eflection. “Oh. yes, Mary! It is so 
stated in the Bible.” “Lor’, mum,” was 
the comment, “what privileges them early 
Chiistians had!”—Melbourne I.eader. 
