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‘Che RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 4, 1918 
Bulletin No. 7 Guides You 
to World’s Fastest Milker 
Convincing, indeed, is the result of the in¬ 
vestigation conducted in Jefferson County, 
N. Y., by F. E. Robertson, agricultural agent of 
the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, and published at 
Watertown, N. Y. During actual operation of 108 
milking machines, the Sharpies averaged 23% to 
58% faster than all the others. Ask us for a copy 
of this bulletin. 
SNARPLES MILKElt 
The Sharpies is the otdy milker with a squeeze or 
massage action on the teats. This permits faster 
milking and keeps the teats in a soft, pliable 
condition—free from congestion. By installing a 
Sharpies, many dairies have increased output from 
250 quarts to 270 or 280. A Sharpies often pays 
for itself in 4 to 6 months. 
“By the increase in milk and saving of hired help, our 
Sharpies Milker has more than twice over paid for itself 
in less than two years.” 
Graham Bros., Belmont, N. Y. 
Used on more than 500,000 cows twice daily. Write nearest 
office for catalog, addressing dept. 12. 
The Sharpies Separator Co., West Chester, Pa. 
Sharpies Suction-feed Separators—Skim Clean At Any Speed 
BRANCHES; Chicago San Francisco Toronto 
DC.45 
IVorm Destroyer ^Livestock Conditioner 
—the old reliable worm destroyer and con¬ 
ditioner. Proven best by years of test. Why 
take chances?—feed SAL VET and be sure. 
For Hogs, Sheep, Horses, Cattle. No 
trouble to teed; animals doctor themselyes. 
Will Keep Your Livestock 
FREE FROM WORMS 
and save its cost several times over by en¬ 
abling your stock to get more benefit from 
their feed. They will thriye better and 
fatten faster. SAL-VET is the best known 
and most widely used stock conditioner on 
the market. Sold by reliable dealers and 
guaranteed. Your money back if it fails. 
The Foil Mfg. Co. ii?‘ Cleveland, 0. 
SICK STOCK 
BOOK on treatment of Horses, Cows, 
Sheep, Dogs and other animals, sent 
free. Humphreys’ Homeopathic Vet¬ 
erinary Medicines, 156 William St., N. Y» 
Our Country Needs 
Livestock and Poultry 
Kreso Dip No. 1 
for 
FARM SANITATION 
will keep Livestock and 
Poultry healthy. 
KRESO DIP NO. 1 
EASY TO USE. 
EFFICIENT. ECONOMICAL. 
Kills Sheep Ticks, Lice and Mites; 
Helps Heal Cuts, Scratches and 
Common Skin Diseases. 
PREVENTS HOG CHOLERA. 
WRITE FOR FREE BOOKLETS 
ON POULTRY AND LIVESTOCK. 
Animal Industry Department of 
PARKE, DAVIS & CO. 
DETROIT, MICH. 
and Protein 
and Bone 
Phosphate 
For quick growth at least cost, pigs must be fed Protein as a muscle 
maker and Bone Phosphate as a bone builder. Any ration lacking either 
of these will give unsatisfactory results. 
REICHARD’S 40% DIGESTER TANKAGE 
is rich in both Protein and Bone Phosphate In available form. An exceptionally 
good grade of Tankage selling at a medium price which leaves a large profit for 
die hog grower. Specify this brand when buying Tankage for growing pigs. 
Write for samples, prices and interesting booklet — FREE. 
ROBERT A. REICHARD, 
Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Boarding a Heifer 
I own a heifer 'now about 2% years 
old, not yet bred, which, as I am tem¬ 
porarily not on a farm, I am boarding 
with a friend. As neither of us had any 
idea what this matter is worth, we have 
agreed to abide by your figure. To make 
it plainer, what should I pay per month 
to board her (on a farm of 20 acres) 
where there is the usual pasture? H. T. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 
The season and feed used determine the 
price of the heifer's board, and although 
prices hare advanced all around the labor 
saving of pasture-fed cattle makes that 
very reasonable and good pasture can be 
secured for $2.50 a month. The high 
price of feed aud labor has more than 
doubled the price of Winter board, and 
one of our best feeders says it costs Mm 
$10 a month to board a two-year-old 
heifer, giving but a little grain, and a 
heifer costs over $100 to raise until she 
is two years old. F. Q. w. 
Slicing Down a Hay Stack 
A Chicago suburbanite builds in his 
stable yard a haystack like nature builds 
an apple, with the stem sticking out of 
the top. When he has occasion to feed 
his animal ho shaves a ration off the side 
II ow the I fay stack is Carved 
of the stack just as you would cut a 
slice off the .Tonatlian you are muiichiug. 
This man sets up a tall scantling in the 
center of the stack i)lot. and then builds 
aud binds the hay around it, and he keeps 
cutting to the wood as you would keep 
slicing to the core. 'J'liis inau is oue of 
a large colony of sin.all'Tioinc-owners, who 
manages to keep a cow and is independ¬ 
ent of the fights between the milk pro¬ 
ducers and the distributors. The hay is 
cut from vacant prairie tracts in the 
outer district. .T. L. gkaff. 
Pasture for the Pigs 
I am planning on raising 25 or 20 pigs 
from weanling to porker stage this year 
aud would like information on various 
points. I have a clover patch of oue aud 
one-half acres in a strip of land next to a 
one-half acre piece of rye in part of young 
orchard. The one aud one-half acres will 
be put to oats and field peas. Next to 
these is a two-acre piece on which could 
be put rape aud sweet corn, to be pas¬ 
tured before regular field corn of two 
acres. Will this be sufficient, and is plan 
all riglit? I wish to find out about self- 
feeders to be used in conjunction with 
forages; how made or where to buy them. 
Will beef scrap take place of tankage or 
cornmeal in self-feeder? With self-feeder, 
how is one to prevent wasting of feed? 
Does .self-feeder do away with feeding of 
grain in kitchen slop? F. ir. B., JR. 
Columbia, Co., N. Y. 
Oue acre of forage (clover, oats and 
peas or rape) will supply an abundance 
of succuleuce for 20 pigs weighing 100 
pounds each, or their e(piivalent. The pigs 
should be turned into the forage crop area 
when the plants are about eight inches 
high. If is esseutial that the forage 
plants be j establish them¬ 
selves firmly'^ before the pigs are released. 
F. II. R. .should be pasturing the rye 
now; it can be utilized very early iu the 
Spring. :is soon as the ground is dry 
enough to permit foraging without cutting 
into the ground. Under ordinary soil fer¬ 
tility conditions rye will pasture more 
hogs per acre than clover or oats and 
peas, yet only for a short time, probably 
40 days, before getting hard and woody 
and thus unpalatable. . 
The rape and sweet corn will yield well, 
and, best of all, will supply delicious feed 
very early. The choice ears may be 
picked and used or sold; the pigs will 
harvest the remainder, including stalks, 
with a good deal of relish. At Froh 
Ileim Farms last Fall I used probably 50 
tons of sweet corn stalks and small ears 
in feeding the entire herd, and with splen¬ 
did results. It must be remembered that 
the yield per acre, howeVer, does not 
compare favorably with that obtained 
from flint or dent varieties. The advan¬ 
tage is in the early season which it is 
available and the further fact that pigs 
eat the most of the stalk and all of the 
blades. The rape will justify its use 
anywhere it is planted. It is one of the 
best forage crops we have. 
As for the self-feeder, write the New 
Jersey Experiment Station at New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. ,7., for especially prepared blue¬ 
prints and directions for constructing a 
home or local shop made feeder. It is 
clearly more advantageous than those 
offered commercially. It will cost about 
$10 and more than pay its way. The self- 
feeder serves its most useful purpose in 
supplying brood sows nursing pigs and in 
feeding market hogs on forage or pasture. 
The yigs will not waste any feed provided 
the feeder is well built. Do not let gilts 
or boars intended for breeding purposes 
have access to the self-feeder. They will 
eat extravagantly, get too fat and lazy 
and disappoint their owner when their 
breeding functions are desired. Old sows 
or boars should also be denied the free 
choice system. 
Beef scrap is not as desirable as tank¬ 
age for feeding hogs. It will not supply 
protein as economically, neither is it as 
appetizing or as palatable. Tankage is 
by all odds too high in cost in proportion 
to prices paid for butcher stock, yet about 
the only thing the hog feeder can do is to 
shut his eyes and keep on buying at the 
price asked. It is well nigh essential in 
a ration for pigs containing rye or corn 
unless skim-milk or buttermilk is avail¬ 
able. 
When the self-feeder is operated it is 
not necessary to feed any slop at all. Give 
the pigs access to fresh water in abund¬ 
ance ; also access to a useful mineral mix¬ 
ture; (hey will do the rest. Keep dry 
feed in the feeder in separate compart¬ 
ments. Do not mix the corn and tankage. 
Feed skim-milk if it is available. It will 
improve every ration one can devise. 
However, limit the amount of milk to five 
pounds for each pound of grain consumed. 
Hominy is cheaper than corn at the mo¬ 
ment aud may be included in fattening 
rations. Even though a pig’s time is not 
worth much, nevertheless keep him gain¬ 
ing aud growing every day of his meat- 
making life. It is the only way to make 
a new dollar ,in the pig business. Since 
we prefer pigs to Prussians, it is up to 
the live stock farmer to produce pork, and 
still more pork. F. c. M. 
Sharp Teeth in Pigs 
Ou page 532 I saw advice about sharp 
teeth iu pigs. I just want to tell you 
my experience I had with a sow. The 
sow had nine pigs, all very lively. The 
fourth day I counted them again and 
there were only eight young ones. I first 
thought one got out somewhere, but there 
was no place for any of them to get out, 
so I Avatched the sow nutil she laid dow'u 
to nurse. Then I noticed the little fel¬ 
lows were fighting for the teats, and one 
teat was bleeding. All of a sudden the 
mother jumped up aud snapped for oue. 
Then I knew she had eaten one, so I 
clipped off those four wolf teeth ou each 
side with a pair of nail clippers. After 
I had every one’s teeth clipped off I put 
them all back with the mother, and no 
more trouble. Those teeth are very 
sharp. I would advise every hogman to 
do this, and do it the second day after 
they are born. Some people up my way 
give the sow a piece of salt pork in sucli 
case, but that is nonsense. I had another 
sow fuiTow and I have done the same 
thing; clipped the teeth off the second 
day; had no trouble with her at all. It 
happens more with large litters. 
New York. Herman osmers. 
Tankage for Swine 
How should I feed tankage to pigs? 
Also brood sows, before aud after far¬ 
rowing? W. E. 
New .Jersey.. 
Tankage would best be fed at rate of 
10 parts of the ration, both for brood 
sows and growing pigs. If a self-made 
feeder is used, put tankage in one com¬ 
partment alongside other feeds. It may 
also be mixed and fed with the other 
grains in the slop. H. F. J. 
