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JShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 30, 1918 
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'N nature the cows 
teats are milked al¬ 
ternately—just as they are 
milked with a Universal Milker. 
In nature the suction is intermittent and always from 
the bottom upward. So it is with a Universal Milker. 
The alternate action, milking only ^wo teats at 
a time —a feature possessed by no other milker— 
soothes and rests the cow, gently massages and 
relieves the teats and stimulates the milk flow. It is one of the big 
reasons why the greatest success in the mechanical milker field is the 
Milker 
ss Another of the superior features of the Univer- 
^5 sal Milking Machine is the Universal Teat Cup. 
SSS It will fit any cow and the flexible rubber lining 
^5 gives axactlv the same gentle massage and suction as 
sag the calf 9 tongue. Easily taken apart and cleaned, and 
absolutely sanitary—no crevices, seams or dirt pockets. 
- W'ith a UNIVERSAL, Milker outfit one man can do 
sag the work of three hand milkers—and do it better. 
It solves the labor question and will last a lifetime. 
For simplicity, dependability and perfect milking 
SSg the UNIVERSAL Milking Machine unquestion- 
SST ably leads in the field. 
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Are stamped with any name or address with serial 
numbers. They are simple, practical and a distinct 
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Self Starter 
THE HANDLE’S OWN WEIGHT, 
as. it comes gradually down to 
“A,” puts the Bowl into rapid 
motion. It requires but slight 
ADDITIONAL POWER to bring bowl 
to full speed. 
Easiest Running 
Requires but 42 turns of crank per minute 
Saves your streagth to extent of from 600 to 1000 
turns a day. 
The only Separator that starts the easy way—by “pump¬ 
ing”—which means pressing downward on crank for a 
quarter turn, then bringing crank back to starting point, 
repeating seveial times, before making full turns. In 
f etting up momentum DOWNWARD PRESSURE IS 
ASIER THAN UPWARD LIFT. 
Daylight all time in home. Will wash, 
churn, fan, toast, supply electric flat iron, 
save hundreds of steps, provide water all 
over house. Operating cost low. A com¬ 
fort and a joy. 
Greatest thing out for the farm Send for full particulars 
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Sweet Cream Butter 
I woukl liko to know something more 
in regard to swi'et cream butter. When 
I have churned sweet cream tliere seems 
to be ji largo percentage of the cream 
that does not churn. M. n. 
It is difficult to churn unpasteurized 
sweet cream and not have the buttermilk 
test high. A lower temperature must be 
used than for cliurning rijm cream. Bet¬ 
ter resnlt.s arc obtained by first heating 
the cream to 142 to 145 degrees and 
holding it tlnu-e for .‘10 minutes, then cool¬ 
ing to churning temperature and holding 
over night and churning without ripening. 
This cream will churn easier. Tlie pas¬ 
teurizing may be done by setting the 
cream pail in another larger pail of hot 
water on the stove. it. f. .t. 
Future of Eastern Swine Growing 
Wliat is the present status of pork pro¬ 
duction in the Bast? 4\'hat, in your opin¬ 
ion. is it going to be in the futiire, prin¬ 
cipally as rcg.irds the States of New York 
and New .Ter.sey? There is one thing I 
don’t nnderstitnd very Avell. Why is the 
feeding of coi-n in raising hogs looked 
upon as an unprofitable practice in the 
llast? T’he following is an excerpt from a 
i-ecent agricultural bulletin : 
“The New York farmer should not aim 
to compete with the Iowa or Illinois 
farmer in producing pork.” One of the 
reasons advanced is that it takes 10 bush¬ 
els of corn to pi-odnce 100 pounds of pork. 
Figuring at that rate, it is cheaper to 
ship the fini.shed hog from Chicago to 
Ni'w York Ilian to .ship tlie corn here to 
grow him.” That is plain enough, but Avhy 
slioiiid one buy corn from the West when 
lie can grow it here? j. ji. 
It is my .judgment tliat there never was 
!i time in the hi.story of agriculture in this 
countr.v when opportiinit.v for profit in 
pork production was greater. This not 
only applie.s to the corn-belt farmer, who 
has always relied upon tlie hog as the 
chief agency for his profits in live stock 
farming, but it applies equally as attrac¬ 
tively to tlie New York or New .Tcrsey 
farmer wlio wants to solve in a measure 
his labor jiroldem, and produce more of 
the products tliat he uses in his own 
home and his own comunity, on his own 
farm. 
1 do not share the belief that the groAV- 
iiig of corn .successfully is limited to the 
corn licit. The best corn that I have ever 
seen wa.s produced in a section of New 
.Tcrsey not especially notable for its corn 
croj). There are thousands of acres in 
the Ea.stern States that will raise more 
bushels of corn per acre than obtains in 
the corn belt, and I am firm in in.v con¬ 
viction that you would be fully justified 
in selecting a productive area in your 
own ]oealit.v and growing coni to fc'od 
hogs that are to be placed on the Fasteru 
m.arkets, and am satisfied that you would 
iu return receive a substantial profit. 
However, I feel that the time is raji- 
idl.v passing when corn is going to be the 
limiting factor in ]iork production. The 
Wi'stern farmers have always used the 
corncril) cross in their .swine-feeding oper¬ 
ations. Tlie.v are beginning to realize 
now, however, that forage crops and a 
larger percentage of rougli. ratlier titan 
concentrated, feeds are fundamentally es¬ 
sential. Brood sows for the most part 
must be wintered on Alfalfa hay, oat and 
pea hay, with certain refuse grain pro¬ 
ducts, but sui ely not on corn and tankage 
alone. Brood sows nursing pigs must of 
necessity be fed genm-ously on mill feeds, 
including corn and tankage, but when the 
l*igs reach a weight of 75 pounds, they 
should promptly bo encouraged to <'ulti- 
vate the habit of living on forage <Tops, 
and the next 75 or 100 pounds should be 
made largely on these forage crops that 
have not, up to this time, been appre¬ 
ciated to their full value. 
The Eastern farmers should be eager 
to grasp this vision and should be the 
first to start and follow this practice of a 
forage crop as a substitute to the corn- 
crib cross. It will, of course, take a lit¬ 
tle longer to develop the animal, but if 
economy will result from this practice, it 
will justify its existence in splendid form. 
If J. M. will communicate Avith the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture at Trenton and 
request a copy of Bulletin No. 1, entitled 
“The Swine Industry in New Jersey,” it 
will be possible for him to obtain the nec¬ 
essary iuformatioo relative to the coa* 
struction and use of the self-feeder, and 
he will also find concise information sug¬ 
gesting suitable forage crop mixtures for 
swine. fkkdkrick c. minklek. 
Silage and Labor 
Japanese Barnyard Millet in Place of Corn 
Corn is king for silage as well as grain. 
Does it deserve this distinction on all 
farms under present conditions? A .se¬ 
rious objection to corn for silage is the 
labor required for cultivation. The time 
at which this labor must be done often is 
as important as the time it takes. Frob- 
ably tlie cultivation of corn prevents early 
cutting of hay more than any other one 
thing, and since hay is the cheapest dairy 
feed that can be grown, early cutting of 
hay is worth consideration. Dairymen 
who are buying cottonseed meal and other 
protein feeds should remember that early- 
cut hay contains about one-half more di¬ 
gestible protein than late-cut bay. Also, 
it is more palatable and digestible. With 
these facts in. mind, the (inestion may well 
be asked, is (rorn the only crop worth 
growing for .silage? 
.Tapanese barnyard millet offers a 
chance on some farms to grow good silage 
with le.ss labor. It makes excellent silage 
for cows if properly cut and stored; no 
cultivation is required. It grows quickly, 
and, oil the right lields, yields well. Fur¬ 
thermore, (liinada jieas can ho sown with 
millet to increase the feeding value. .Jap¬ 
anese millet thrives best on rich, rather 
moist loams. It can he .sown iu June and 
is ready to cut by the last of August. 
This gives ample time to seetl with grass 
and clover, or with Winter grain iu the 
Fall. The late sowing period of millet 
helps relieve the rush of Spring planting, 
and gives time to kill out many Spring 
weeds before sowing. 
A fact unknown to most dairymen is 
that millet .silage contains iu each ton 
more digestible food than com .silage. 
This difference amounts to 20 pounds 
more total digestible food. Also the nu¬ 
tritive ratio is 1 to 10.7, while with ma¬ 
ture corn silage it is 1 to 15.1. Planting 
.should be done from May 20 to June 15. 
using from 30 to 40 pounds of setsl per 
acre when sown broadcast. 4Mth a grain 
drill, half this amount of seed is enough. 
The usual yield averages 10 to 15 tons 
green material, but on rich moist fields 
20 tons can he grown. Cutting should he 
done when the .heads are about half out. 
Avoid cutting too late, to prevent the 
crop bcL-oining woody and tough. 
The success of one pro.sperous Connecti¬ 
cut dairyman with millet is of particular 
interest. In 1017 this farmer planUsl 
corn for silage, hut lieeause of the wet 
late Spring the corn looked like a failure. 
Early iu .Tune he disked up all but one 
cornfield, and seeded .Japanese barnyard 
millet. The fields were fertile loam, iu 
good condition and retentive of moisture. 
As a.result, liis average yield was about 
20 tons of green millet jier acre. Cutting 
was done iu August, and with a scythe, 
iu order to avoid extra labor iu rakiug 
and loailing. No difficulty wa.s encouu- 
tered in running the millet through the 
cutter, and the filling was done slowly to 
allow as much settling as po.s.sihle. Tills 
dairyman has two silos, and a.s the larger 
millet field had ('anada peas with it, he 
filled one .silo from that area. In the other 
silo he had straight millet silage at the 
bottom and put what corn he grew on top. 
As a result the corn .silage was fed first, 
but when he changed to millet .silage Iii.s 
milk production did not drop. He .states 
tliat the milk flow increased somewhat, 
which he partly attributes to the millet. 
About March 1 lie opened the second silo, 
also filled with millet and peas, and ex¬ 
pects another slight increase in milk. 
Reasoning from his success this season, 
he plans iu 1918 to grow only millet 
silage. He is well convinced that for the 
labor required no silage crop gives better 
returns. True it is, this man’s fields are 
well suited to good yields of millet, but 
with labor almost impossible to secure, 
could not every dairyman well afford to 
consider millet as a silage crop this year, 
and at least try it on a small area? 
Storrs, CoBu. bbnj, g, souiuwick. 
