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B'/>c HiJRAL. NEW-YORKER 
March IG, 1918 
Keeps Cows Healthier and 
Increases the Milk Flow 
Diagrams Explain Sharpies Supremacy 
ATNIOSP^ 
tCj, p^e 5SJJ3 e 
atmospheric pressure 
ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE 
NO 
squeeze 
SUCTIOM 
UPWARD 
SQUEEZE 
UPWARD 
SQUEEZE 
COMPRESSED 
AIR 
suction 
(1) SUCTION draws 
the milk from the ud¬ 
der of the cow. This 
principle is employed 
by every mechanical 
milker on the market 
as well as by the calf 
when sucking from its 
mother. 
(2) Suction is shut off. 
Atmospheric pressure 
inside and outside 
teat, consequently NO 
SQUEEZE or massage 
can result. This is as 
far as other milkers go, 
because Sharpies basic 
patents control use of 
compressed air. 
(3) COMPRESSED 
AIR gives the 
“Upward Squeeze” 
which massages the 
teats and thus keeps 
them in perfect health. 
This action also insures 
faster milking and thus 
increases the milk flow. 
Found a N Im r in the 
Sharpies Milker. 
Experience has shown that a milker cannot be truly 
efficient without the compressed air line—an exclusive, 
patented Sharpies feature. This scientific principle is 
responsible for the great success of the 
SHARPIES 
M lUK 
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THE ONLY MILKER WITH POSITIVE SQUEEZE 
You can readily understand that drawing the milk 
from the udder down thru the teat also draws blood 
from the veins of the udder down into the smaller 
veins of the teat. To keep the teats in a natural, 
healthy condition, and to avoid congestion, this blood 
must be continually massaged back from the teat. 
That is the important function of the Sharpies “Up¬ 
ward Squeeze.** 
As a direct result of using compressed air, Sharpies is 
the world’s fastest milker. Official tests prove this; 
ask for Bulletin. Fast milking increases the milk flow. 
That is why the Sharpies Milker, with its healthful 
massage and faster milking, makes every cow more 
valuable. With a 3-unit Sharpies outfit one man can 
easily milk 30 cows an hour, get more milk and in one- 
fifth to one-half less time than with any other machine. 
In daily use on half a million cows. 
Write for catalog today; addressing Dept. 12, nearest 
branch office—Or call and see the Sharpies dealer near you. 
The Sharpies Separator Company 
WEST CHESTER, PA. 
Sharpies Separators—Over a million users! 
The ONLY separator that skims clean at any speed. 
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Live Stock Notes 
The Vagrant Dog—an Enemy Spy 
The vagrant dog is of groat and grow¬ 
ing iinjiortunce. We Lave at Land a 
great .source of wealtL for tLe farmer 
and of cLeap meat and wool for tLe 
nation. TLe Lillside.s of New York and 
New England could be stocked with 
sheep if we would but permit it. Tliis 
cannot be done, however, while we permit 
the vagrant dog. We do not a.sk that 
dogs should he destroyed. Governor 
Holcomb of C.onnecticut is rejiorted to 
have .said that if three-rinarters of the 
dogs in the tstate were killed the sheep 
industry would revive, to the great ad¬ 
vantage of the State. It should he pos- 
silile to kill wandei’ing homeless curs, 
but we do not a.sk even that. AVe ask 
tliat dogs should not he permitted to run 
at large either by night or liy d.iy. ^'ho.se 
who want dogs .sliuiild keep tliera under 
their control. If piii'ioned meat were dis¬ 
tributed i'll sln'ep ])astnres it ivonld soon 
be di.stovered what dogs were sheep- 
killers. Tliere is no other protection for 
sheep. The expense of a shepherd in 
this country is prohiliitive, and dogproof 
fences are impossible. The one possible 
protection ff»r sheep is prohibited by 
statute in Massachusetts and is contrary 
to law doubtless in other States. These 
laws should be repealed. 
At a time when the world is sliort of 
food and when we have not had a sup¬ 
ply of wool for our mills, is it too much 
to ask that the lovers of d<>gs should 
keep their pets at homeV We have laws 
by which dogs are taxed tind licen.sed, 
as though taxes and licenses iirotected 
sheef). Some States have laws which 
]irovide that dogs shall not be allowed to 
run at large during the night—as though 
it made any difference to sheep or sheep- 
owner.s whether the killing was done by 
night or by day. All the States seem to 
have agreed in whatever law.s they make 
to give nothing to the sheep-raiser that 
could he avoided and t(» leave to the 
dog the widest possible liberty. 
I tliink the time i.s coming when 
neither Sir Walter Scott’s poetry nor 
Senator Vest’s eulogy will per.snade peo¬ 
ple to'go without mutton and wool. If 
your paper can helji bring that day 
nearer yon will perform a great ]iublie 
service. We need a dog law tb.'it will 
not stop short of the point which will 
make sliRep-raising pos'sihle, and that 
means absolute prohibition of the vagriuit 
dog. y- f. 
('-onnecticut. 
Milk Product from Feed 
On page 120 you a.sk whether a pound 
of feed will make 4 lbs. of milk. Our 
experience is it will not, bnt we are 
feeding .Terseys that are making 6% milk, 
and that will account for some of the 
loss. We are feeding seven Jerseys in 
all periods of lactation. They get silage, 
Alfalfa hay, and for grain 5 lbs. per day 
(in two feeds) of a mixture of 85 lbs. 
bran, 00 lbs. oil meal, and 75 lbs. barley 
and rye ground together. They are aver¬ 
aging 87 lbs. of milk a day. This gives 
ns 21/^2 lbs. of milk for a pound of feed. 
Milk is made into butter on the farm, 
and sold in Rochester, N. Y., to jirivate 
customers. MORius }5Kos. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. 
Sheep are Paying 
I'lie best paying live stock I have <>ii 
the farm is the sheep. Aliont 10 years 
ago I procured four sheep to put in a 
four-acre wood lot which had been re¬ 
cently cut over. Tn thi.s wood lot is a 
good spring. I wanted to have it cleaned 
up. and for that I bought the sheep. 
They did splendid work, too. They did 
not cost me a cent from Spring till snow 
covered the ground in the late Fall or 
early Winter. That tim .sheep did not 
liay as well as now, hut still they paid 
well. I think I rais-ed as high os seven 
lambs from four ewe.s. They are very 
prolific. At side of this wood lot is a four- 
acre plot which is partly in Alfalfa, and 
some I usually put in Dwarf Essex rape, 
whicli is excellent for sheep. Sheep 
should not be left on Alfalfa when pas¬ 
ture gets scarce, as they eat off the crown 
of tlie Alfalfa jdaiit. which kills it All 
they need during the Snmmer is salt and 
water and pasture, of which they are not 
very particular. They eut nearly all 
kinds of weeds. They eat off the weeds 
and thorns when they are young and 
tender. They are very good at clearing 
land. I make an exceptionally good 
profit on iny lamb.s, as I attend the 
I.ehaiion market ever.v Saturday. I 
lintcher .a lamb every week and retail 
all the meat, for which I get a good 
price. For a pelt or sheep.skin I get 
.'?4 this Winter, when I h;ive them tanned, 
which only costs me about a quarter, so 
I realize about -820 per lamb. 
Berks Co., Pa. o. K. uashork. 
Curing Hams 
How long should hams and bacon lie 
smoked for Summer keeping? Can time 
of smoking be .shoi'tencd by wrapping 
tliem in wax paper and sewing them in 
clo*^h bags after they are cured? Wliat 
is the cause of some of my baeou having 
light red .spots on the skin? p. 
Now .Jersey. 
Hams require lour to six weeks’ smok¬ 
ing to cure them jiroperly. This does not 
mean, however, that they must be smoked 
continuously during that time, but that 
thev slionld be smoked for a period c>f 
two or three hours each day during that 
time. A new smudge will have to he 
started ever.v day. and allowed to die out 
before night. When the hams are taken 
out of tlie brine or salt they should be 
wiped clean and allowed to lie a couple 
of days before smoking is commenced. Tf 
they are well dusted with fre.shly ground 
black pepper, especially ab-mt the liock 
and hone, before smoking, insects are not 
so likely to bother during the Summer. 
After the smoking is completed it is a 
good plan to wrap the hams in thin hut 
tough wraiiping paper and tie or seal the 
paper tight so that flies, their larv.-e, nor 
weevil, can get through to the ham. Red 
spots are quite common on the skins of 
somehreods and are natural to them. 
Just Avhy thi.s is so I cannot tell. k. 
Weight of Silage 
Will you give me approximate weight 
of .silage for different depths in 12x.30-foot 
.silo? This particular silo i.s in the barn, 
so that it can be heaped higher than most. 
a.s the roof i.s not in the way. e. b. 
Caueadea, N. Y. 
According to Wisconsin Bulletin No. 
2.3. the following is the weight of a cubic 
foot of silage at different depths: 
Weight at Mean weight 
given depth for whole depth 
De|)th - pounds —pounds 
t foot. 38.7 1S.7 
10 feet. 33.1 20.1 
20 feet. 40.2 33.,3 
30 feet. 66.4 30.0 
.36 feet. 61.0 42.8 
tT.P. .T. 
Goats for Cheese-making 
One point in your milch goat discussion 
seems to have been overlooked. The 
great difficulty in many places lies in get¬ 
ting the goats bred. Of course, the male 
is too smelly for close quarters at cer¬ 
tain season.s. The man with one or two 
milking goats has to ship the animals 
away for breeding, which is both expen¬ 
sive and lx)ther.some. Yet goats are being 
kept in increasing numbers here. A 
Greek in New ITampshii'e has a farm t>n 
which he has several hundred milkers, 
lie makes both butter and cheese from 
the milk. Indeed, he began keeping the 
goats in order to make Greek cheese, im¬ 
portations h’om across the water having 
been cut off. E. i. F. 
Massachusetts. 
Itching Skin 
My cows seem to have an itch. I have 
examined them several times, but cannot 
find any lice on them. I am feeding a 
mixed hay and a little grain, which is 
corn, oats and buckwheat ground, .t. ti. 
Pennsylvania. 
If the hair comes off and the bare 
spots are covered with wart-like scales 
or crusts the disea.se is ringworin. in 
which case scrub the spots^ on the body 
clean and then wet them with a solution 
of two ounces of sulphate of copper and 
one pint, of hot v/ater, repeating the ap¬ 
plication as often as seems to be neces¬ 
sary. To spots on face apply tincture of 
iodine twice daily and rub iodoform 
powder upon spots on the upper eyelids. 
If no spots are found groom the cows 
well once a day and lessen the ground 
buckwheat if it has been liberally fed. 
A. 3. A. 
