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Wte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 9, 1918 
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iron} save hundreds of steps, provide water all over house. —Operating cost.low. 
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VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., BELLOWS FALLS, VT. 
< hlcauo, 111. I'ortloiKl, Ore. Salt Lake Olty, I tuli Oakland, CeL 
-Spreade 
Spreads all kinds of barn" manure, fertili¬ 
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The only Spreader that has the special 
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N. J. KEMP CO., 36 Swan SL, 
Batavia, N. Y. 
With this Simplex Dllohei^Terpacer 
Works in any soil, clay or gumbo. Digs Wshap^ 
diteb down to 4 ft. Practically all steel. Reversi¬ 
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Sent on 
10 Days' 
Trial 
Ditches, Terraces, 
Builds Levees. 
Levels Bumps. Fills 
Gullies. Grades 
Roads, Back FUlS, 
Cleans out old 
ditches at low cost. 
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Co., Inc., Box CS 
Ovontboro. Ky 
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WERTHAN BAG COMPANY 
66 Dock Street Ste Louis, Mo* 
MUSKRATS 
1 pay you following prices 
I n in IV Kits 
BLACK RATS, $1.30 1.00 .80 .60 .20 
BROWN RATS, 1.00 .80 .60 .40 .10 
Ginseng. Wild, $12.00 per lb. 
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346 Seventh Avenue New York 
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DUANE H. NASH Inc. 
141 Dm St-a Millington. N. J. 
Feeding Fresh Cow 
Will you give me a ration for a cow 
that freshened two weeks ago, giving 11 
quarts of milk at present? I have on 
hand bran, gluten, barley .screenings, oil 
meal, mangels, good hay and corn-stalks. 
New York. J. 6. 
Give cow two feeds of ha 5 ’ and a fee<l 
of cornstalks daily, all she will clean up. 
Feed 15 to 20 lbs, of chopped mangels 
night and morning. This, however, should 
be varied according to amount of mangels 
on hand- If you have only a few it would 
be better to feed them once a day and 
make them last the Winter out than to 
feed them all up in a month. Make the 
grain ration two parts gluten, one part oil 
meal, one part barley screenings, two 
parts bran and 1 per cent salt. Feed the 
grain at rate of a pound to 3 to 4 lbs. 
milk produced daily, depending on how 
the cow responds. H. F. J. 
very center, whetluT iu.side or out. Would 
you advise me to put silos in the barn ? 
I shall have to do something different, or 
stop raising the crop. L. E. K. 
Bangor, Me. 
This has, of course, been an excep¬ 
tionally hard Winter on silage, and frozen 
silage is rather risky material to feed in 
very large amounts. In your latitude the 
only practical thing to do is to put the 
silo in the barn. A round silo may be 
put up in one of the middle bents in the 
barn, or a square silo with boards acro^ 
corners may be built in the barn. It is 
better to put it in a middle bent, rather 
than on a comer; then only one side is 
exposed to out of doors. n. F. j. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
Ration for Dry Cow 
Do you think two quarts of bran and 
a handful of oil meal twice a day is the 
proper feed for a dry cow, so as to have 
her in good condition when she calves in 
about six weeks? Will you also give me 
a good feeding ration for a light herd of 
.Terseys? I have the following grains on 
hand: Wheat bran, ground oats, corn- 
meal, oil meal, and salt, also Alfalfa hay. 
New York. G. T. T. 
Y’our dry-cow ration would be improved 
as a conditioner if you make it equal 
parts cornmeal or hominy, oil meal and 
bran. Make grain ration for milking 
Jerseys 15 to 18 pounds of Alfalfa hay 
daily, and grain at rate of a pound to 
about three pounds of milk, made up of 
the following: Two parts bran, one part 
ground o.sts. two parts cornmeal, one part 
oil meal and 1 per cent salt. H. F. J. 
Feeding Thin Cow 
I have a grade cow of good type, 
half .Jersey, half Holstein, fresh seven 
weeks, making about a pound of butter 
per day. She is rather thin on account 
of former owner feeding nothing hut corn¬ 
stalks during Fall and early Winter. I 
have been feeding and will for some time, 
cut cornstalks in morning, apple pomace 
at noon and second cutting clover and 
Timothy hay at night, good quality. How 
much and what kind of grain feed shall 
I feed her to gain flesh? The cow is 
seven years old, eats fine and probably 
w’eighs 800 lbs. A. J. K. 
New York. 
To balance the roughage you have on 
hand the grain ration must contain con¬ 
siderable protein. Make it two parts 
cottonseed meal, one part gluten feed, 
three parts bran, and one part hominy 
or cornmeal. Add one per cent salt in 
making up mixture. Feed grain at rate 
of a pound to three to 3% pounds of milk 
produced daily. T. J. 
Cheapening a Horse Ration 
Oats are 90c per bu., middlings^ .$2.75 
E er ewt., bran and middlings $2.30. I 
ave 200 bu. corn, some not very good and 
some good. Hay is $25 per ton. How 
can I feed my four horses cheapest and 
best from the above outlook? ' F. E. B. 
Michigan. 
Horses will eat in neighborhood of a 
pound of hay daily for each 100 lbs. live 
weight. Make grain ration two parts 
whole corn, one part oats and one part 
bran and middlings at ,$2.30. Y^ary 
amount with work done, as you are doubt¬ 
less accustomed to doing. H. F. J. 
Dairy Ration with Cornstalks 
Will you figure for me a balanced ra¬ 
tion for cows fed on cut cornstalks as the 
only roughage? The following grains are 
available: Gluten, cottonseed, brewers' 
grains, linseed meal, cob meal, and beet 
pulp if necessary. Also a ration for the 
cows, without cottousecKl, as it is scarce. 
New Jersey, T. w. D, 
Feed all cut cornstalks cows will clean 
up and make grain ration one part gluten 
feed, two parts cottonseed meal, two parts 
brewers’ grains, one part linseed meal, 
one part cob meal and one part beet pulp. 
The cornstalks are so low in protein that 
it is difficult to balance a proper ration 
without use of cottonseed. If you wished, 
you could cut cottonseed to one part and 
use parts linseed meal. In this ca^ 
the ration would be nearer balanced, if 
the cob meal could he left out. H, F. J. 
Preventing Silage from Freezing 
Can vou give me any light as to bow 
to keep silage from freezing? We have 
two silos at this place, round, made of 
2-in. plank, with good roof; silos out of 
doors. The contents have been frozen 
for two months, so much so that it is no 
good for feeding until it thaws in^the 
Spring. If I build another wall of 2-in. 
plank on the outside of these, allowing 
from six inches to one foot space, do you 
think it would remedy the freezing? 
Every silo in these parts is frozen to the 
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congestion has prevented its free move¬ 
ment East. The free use of mutton and 
lamb is permitted now in several of the 
Western States. The meatless days in 
so far as they apply to beef and pork will 
be continued in force as at pre.seut. The 
restrictions may be lifted, the administra¬ 
tors were notified, until April 15, when 
the marketing season virtually is over. 
A general order restricting the creation 
of new official positions by railroads or 
the raising of officers’ salaries was issued 
Feb. 23 by Director-General McAdoo. 
As a means of stimulating the move¬ 
ment of farm products to the consumer, 
Postmaster-General Burleson increased 
Feb. 2G the allowable weights of parcel 
post packages, effective March 15. Pack¬ 
ages when mailed in the first or second 
zones for delivery in the first, second or 
third zones may heieafter he as heavy as 
seventy pounds. The weight limit for 
all other zones was increased from twenty 
to fifry pounds. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The annual 
meeting of the Illinois State I'iorists’ As- 
.sociation was held in the floricultural 
building, adjoining the gi-eenhouses at the 
T^nivei*sity of Illinois, T^rbaim, March 5-0. 
A. H. Smith, regional director of East¬ 
ern railroacls, has issued a memorandum 
to presidents of railroads in official classi¬ 
fication territory exempting certain im¬ 
portant commodities- from embargoes then 
in force. Tlie list (>f tlie eommodities ex- 
eniptod include.s, among others, field and 
garden seeds, seed potatoes, nursery stock, 
insecticides and spraying materials, agri¬ 
cultural implements required for Spring 
planting, fertilizers, and feed for animal 
or poultry consumption. 
At its annual meeting, Harrisburg, Pa., 
the Pennsylvania State Nurserymen’s As¬ 
sociation elected officers as follows: 
Adolph Mueller, Norristown, president; 
J. H. Humphreys, Chestnut Hill, vice- 
president; Henry T. Moore, Morrisville, 
secretary; Thomas Rakestraw, Kennett 
Square, treasurer. 
On motion of Representative Young of 
North Dakota, the House of Repre^uta- 
tives included in the agricultural hill an 
appropriation for eradication of the bar¬ 
berry bush, said to he the distributor of 
black rust, which in 1910 destroyed 180,- 
000,000 bushels of wheat in the Dalcotas 
and Minnesota. Nation-wide destruction 
of the barberry hush will be planned un¬ 
der the appropriation. 
Government control of the fertilizer in- 
dustrv was ordered by President Wilson 
Feb. 26 in a proclamation requiring man¬ 
ufacturers and distributors to obtain 
licenses from the Secretary of Agriculture 
on or before March 20. Authority for the 
act is contained in the food control law. 
Licenses must be obtained not only by 
makers, importers, etorers and sellers of 
fertilizer itself, but of its ingredients. 
Numerous complaints having reached 
the State Federal Food Administrators 
and the United States Food Administra¬ 
tion in Washington that extortionate 
prices were being charged for mill feeds 
in certain Western States, Alfred Bran- 
deis, brother of Associate Justice Bran- 
deis, of the United States Supreme Court, 
who has recently joined the Pood Admin¬ 
istration, has left Washington to co¬ 
operate with the State Federal Food Ad¬ 
ministrators and the inspectors in the em¬ 
ploy of the milling committees, to ex- 
haustivelv investigate the entire matter. 
The initial inquiry will be opened in 
Oklahoma. 
The United States Food Admiui^ration 
announces the per.sounel of the Federal 
Milk Commission appointed for Ohio as 
follows: Elbert H. Baker, Cleveland; 
Miss M. Edith Campbell. Cincinnati; 
T .T. Donelly, Columbus; C. M. Bicken- 
herry, Hamilton; James W. Faulkner, Co¬ 
lumbus ; Samuel A. Zo.skius, Colum- 
hns ■ Irving E. Macomher, Toledo; 
Homer C, Price, Newai^; W. W. Thorn¬ 
ton. Akron; and Fred C. Croxton, ^*9^* 
ficio Federal food administrator for Ohio. 
Mr. R. E. Miller, director. Institution of 
Public Efficiency at Columbus, will act as 
secretary of the commission. This com¬ 
mission is empowered to determine _ after 
hearing the reasonable prices of milk to 
be paid by purchasei-s to producers and 
by consumers to distributors, such prices 
to he based upon the cost of production 
and distribution, with a reasonable profit 
added. 
