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Write todays 
Hood Farm Auction Sate 
^ pr REGISTERED ^ v 
85 JERSEYS 85 
Saturday, June 1,1918 
This is a SPECIAL OFFERING of the 
Progeny of The “ Wonder Cow ” 
Sophie 19th of Hood Farm, 189748 
World’s Champion Jersey Cow 
17,557.7lbs. Milk; 1,246lbs. Butter. World’s 
Champion Long Distance DAIRY COW. 
Seven years authenticated tests. 91,868 lbs. 
Milk; 6600.8 lbs. Butter. 
The sale includes a son of this "Wonder 
Cow,” also grandsons and granddaughters, 
including the “World’s Champion Jersey 
Junior, Four-year-old;” Sophie’s Adora, 
15,852 lbs. Milk, 1,110 lbs. Butter, and other 
cows of this family with large yearly 
authenticated records. 
It is a BREEDERS SALE, offering the 
tops in cows, bred heifers, heifer calves, 
bulls and bull calves, carrying the blood 
close up of the 
World’s Champion 
Sophie 19th of Hood Farm 
HOOD FARM POGIS 9th, sire of more 
Register of Merit cows than any bull of the 
breed. HOOD FARM TORONO, sire of 
73 R. O. M. daughters, 6 over 1,000 lbs.; 16 
over 800 lbs. Champion sire of large yearly 
producers. 
««p^gis 99th ol Hood Farm ” 
at 8 years of age, sire of 37 and 3 producing 
sons, the youngest bull to sire, three 1,000 
lbs. daughters. The Catalogue gives the 
details, sent only on request to 
HOOD FARM, LOWELL, MASS. 
LEANDER F. HERRICK, Sale Manager 
Fosterlield’s Herd Reg. Jerseys 
FOR SALE 
Cows, Heifers and Calves, both sexes. Address 
Charles G.Foster, P.O.Box 173, Morristown. Morris Co., N. J 
For Sale-Jersey Bull Calves 
Bred Right. Prices Right. For fullparticuliirs write 
Leon O. Van Noy, Bono Farms. Troy, Pa. 
Reg. JERSEY COWS 
bred 6qr production and net Tprofit at the pail or 
eliuni. Jones Jersey Farm, Sauquoit, N. Y. 
FOR SALE 
Two ^Tred”" Jersey Bull Calves and One HeiferCalf 
from 4 to 8 mos. old. GEO. L. FERRIS & SON, Atwalers.N.Y. 
T] MISCELLANEOUS 
HEREFORDS 
By Champion Prince Real and 
from Prince Rupert 8th, cows 
STOCK ALL AGES 
If you want the best, write 
ALEX MORRISON, 
Capt. J. Watson WEBB, Owner 
WALGROVE HERD 
MRKIIVG SHORTHORNS 
The greatest all-around provider of milk and 
beef. Over fifty head in herd. All registered 
stock. A few bull calves for sale. :: :: 
WALNUT GROVE FARM, Washingtonville, N. Y. 
AkAvfInAM Tho beef breed for profit. Reduce cost 
HRCIUCCfl for labor and equipment. Easy feedei-s. 
Ama>ii» Circular free with pictures and particu- 
RIlXUS lars. C. W. ECK.iKnT, 31 Nassau St.. New York 
Taking a Chance on Pigs 
What would the eliaiice bo of making 
anj' money this year by buying some 
Spring pigs and letting them run in a 
field containing a young orehai’d, and 
seeded to clover and Timothy? All other 
feed would have to he bought. I have not 
had much experience with Iwtgs, hut un- 
rlerstand the Food Administration in¬ 
tends to hold the price of pork to corre- 
sjiond to jirice of corn for coming sea¬ 
son. I presume this would ajiply to the 
West at present; corn in this part of the 
country is pretty expensive. w. J. P. 
Tliere is a good chance to make such a 
plan pay, hut the man who does it mn.st 
know his business or take .some risks. 
Tlie great trouble we have noticed is thiit 
most beginners think the growing pigs can 
get all the food they need from the grtiss 
or waste in the orchard. The result is 
the pasture is overstocked, and not 
enough grain is f<‘d. The pigs do not 
have food enough and arc stunted. They 
do not make growth enough, and do not 
pay. If you try this plan it will be safe 
to figure that the pigs will only get about 
enough to sustain life from the pasture. 
About all the gain they make must c*omc 
from feeding grain. We think it will 
pay to have them treated for cholera, and 
of course they must have full supplies of 
ashes and charcoal and be kejit free from 
no trouble in suiting him. hut then I 
began to inn against snag.s. The man 
said nothing about having them te.sted. 
hut the expres-^mau said that tuborculiu- 
te.st certificates must accompany the 
cahos. When I found a qualified veter¬ 
inarian to make the te.st he kindly con¬ 
sented to come, when he had nothing else 
to do, and make the test for This 
was .iust 30 per cent of what I got for 
the calves. It took le.ss than 24 hours 
of the man’vS time, and consisted of taking 
the calves’ temperature three times, and 
then injecting tuberculin under the skin. 
Then the next morning, the temperatures 
were taken again at intervals of two 
hours, until the veterinarian was .satis¬ 
fied that the calves were free from the dis¬ 
ease. Not a thing about the whole oper¬ 
ation hut what any eighth grade school¬ 
boy could have done ju.st as well. 
Then tlie expre.ssman finds that he must 
get n special permit from somebody to 
ship the calves, because they crate at 
over ."idO pounds each. If he succeeds in 
getting this permit, and no one else can 
think of any other camouflage to throw 
around the iirocccdiiig, the Alabama man 
may get hi< heifers bcfure they freshen 
as cows. 
I attended tlie “F;irmcis’ Week” at our 
A hnnch of Ohio shofes fed fovr months, makinff rjain cnoiif/h, to pay for 
fn>ioc the feed consumed 
lice. I’ork is likely to hriug high prices 
ns long as the war lasts at least, and 
with good judgment there ought to be a 
fair iirofit in the plan. 
Selling Cattle 
These arc also rather grievous days 
for the breeder of imrehred cattle. The 
man who keejis grades is better off, for 
he can sell the calves for veals at good 
prices. Hut the owuer of the purebred calf 
cannot sell it for veal. Too much money 
is tied up in the dam and the sire of the 
calf for that. So we must raise them, 
and our barns are getting full of them. 
This young stuff must have grain if they 
are going to be worth anything when they 
grow up. We read every few days that 
the Government has fixed the price of 
cattle foods; one day that the price of 
bran has been greatly reduced. We start 
joyously for the feed store—and are.told 
that there is no bran. That is, only just 
a few hags that they will let us have as 
a special favor because we are among 
their best customers, at a price higher 
than ever. 
Next we see that the cottonseed grind¬ 
ers of Texas, Alabama, Ijouisiana, etc., 
have consented to a reduction in price of 
from to .$7 per ton. But we again 
find at the feed store that we must take 
an inferior grade of cottonseed meal—at 
an advance in price over what good meal 
cost before. 
Then comes a glowing report of how 
the Government has ordered a great lot' 
of linseed oil meal, that was intended for 
export, to be sold in the East to relieve 
the feed shortage. This is also to he 
sold at a low price. But the local dealer 
charges per ton more for this lot 
than he did for the last one. 
A short time ago I thought there was 
going to be a little rift in the clouds. 
Last Spring I sold two baby bulls to a 
man in Alabama, and he wrote me that 
he wanted a pair of heifers now. I had 
State Agricultural Scliool and listened for 
several days to learned men from all over 
the Unite<l States who told ns that we 
must raise things. Not only vegetable 
thing.s, but animal tilings, colts, calve.<, 
liigs and sheep. If I could have got up 
before that meeting, I would have said 
something like this: If you will give us 
your army of lecturers, commissioners, 
division heads and subdivision heads, 
clerks and ,sul)-clerk.s, to work for us, we 
will raise all the colts, calves, pigs and 
lamb.s that you will qiay u decent price 
for. J. CKAXT MOltSE. 
License for Selling Milk 
1 have been uotificKl by the board of 
health that I have to get a license to sell 
milk. I have one cow and sell from three 
to five (juarts of milk a day to neighbors 
who come to the house and get it. They 
informed me the license would be .$10. 
Is that right? I do not see Avhy u ])crsou 
having one cow should pay the same as 
one having 1.5 to 20 cows. j. ii. 
New York. 
The license fee of $10 must be imposed 
by some local ordinance, as the health 
officer of your community must inspect 
your stable and grant you a permit to 
sell milk, if you meet the sanitary re¬ 
quirements, without charge. It is one 
of the defects of the State Sanitary Code 
that a permit to .sell milk is required of 
the owner of a family cow who sells only 
a few quarts to ueighhors. The law, at 
first apidyiiig only to retail milk dealers, 
was finally extended to include the man 
who sold only the surplus from one cow 
to ^a neighbor—simi>ly an instance of 
carrying a good law to a point of ab¬ 
surdity. A iiermit may be obtained by 
anyone, however, who makes application 
to the health officer for it, on the blank 
provided for that juirpose, and it is the 
bu.siness of the health officer, or his rep- 
re.sontative. to insiiect and score the 
jiremises where the milk is produced and 
to is.sue a permit for its sale, unless, of 
May 11, 191,- 
course, sanitary conditions are such as to 
make the i.ssuance of a permit improper. 
Any fee for a license must be imposed by 
local authorities, with whom the matter 
should bo taken up. It is. of course, an 
outrage that a man producing milk for 
sale in his community .should have to pay 
a special license fee for the privilege. 
There is no excuse for such special taxa¬ 
tion and a little concerted action on the 
part of the milk producei's of a com¬ 
munity .should make the authorities see it. 
United action in refusing to .sell milk at 
retail until the objectionable ordinance 
was repealed would probably be effectual. 
M. B. D. 
A Work Horse Relief Association 
Boston ha.s such an as.sociation. and 
among its activities is a plan for securing 
city work horses for farmers. The presi¬ 
dent of the a.^sociation. Mr. Henry C. 
Merwin, gives ns the following statement 
of what they attempt to do: 
M e have an agreement with several 
dealers in Boston, including the principal 
dealer, by which they agree to give a good 
bargain to any per.son sent to them by n.s, 
and also to abide by our decision in the 
case of any di.spute ari.siug from the sale. 
To anybody who comes to our office ami 
registers his name and address we give a 
letter to these dealers. We make no 
charge for this service, and, I need not 
.sa.v, we receive no commission from the 
dealers. This is purely a charitable or¬ 
ganization. This system has been in op¬ 
eration for .several years and lias worked 
very well. Gur object was chiefly to pre¬ 
vent out-of-town customers from being 
swindled by dealer.s in horses whose whole 
bnsine.ss is fraudulent, and who adver¬ 
tise extensively not only in Boston iiapers 
but also ill country papers. AVe are per¬ 
mitted to refer to the mayor of the city 
aud the secretary of the $tate Board of 
.Agriculture. We cannot afford to udver- 
tise our offer much, but I think that the 
.system is caitable of iudefniite expansion, 
and it might he put in operation any¬ 
where. ifKXKY c. :merivix. 
Trouble with Pigs 
I should like to know what is the mat¬ 
ter with my pigs. They are very lame,, 
particularly in their hiud parts. They 
staud with their hind feet close together, 
then fall down. Sometimes they can 
scarcely get iqi at all. I believe it ia 
something contagious, as they seem to 
take the disease one after the other, the 
third one to take it dying a few hours 
later. Will you advise me as to tlie na¬ 
ture of the disease, also the remedy? The 
pigs do not seem to be sick, as they are 
always ready to eat. They are iu that 
condition about 10 days. J. i*. T. 
Missouri. 
Lack of exercise aud overfeeding, or 
improper feeding is the cau.se, with con¬ 
stipation and rickets commonly pre.sent. 
Worms may he a contributive cause. Pre¬ 
vention is mo.st important. Always make 
pigs take active exercise every day, and 
feed in such a way that the bowels will 
be kept active. To induce exercise when 
snow is deep scatter grain on a big barn 
floor or clean-swept ground and cover 
deeply with litter. Booting for .such 
grain gives .suflicient exerei.se for pigs or 
sows in pig. I’hysic each pig; then 
enforce exerci.se aud keep the bowels opeu 
with laxative feed. A. s. A. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
May 14, lo—llolsteiiis. Second Fa.st- 
ern Breeders’ sale, Syracuse, N. Y., by 
Liverpool Live .Stock «& Pedigree Co., 
Liverpool. N. Y. 
May IG, 17—Ilolsteins. Binghamton, 
N. Y., by Liverpool Li\e Stock & I’edi- 
gree Co.. Liverpool, N. Y. 
May 18—Ilolsteins. Sydney, N. Y'., by 
the Tri-Co. Holstein Breeders’ Assu., I'l. 
F. Bi.sley, secretary. 
May 22—‘Ilolsteins. Carlisle, Pa., by 
(.lumberlaud Co. Breeders. 
^lay 28—Jerseys. Brattleboro, IT., by 
Pure Bred liive Stock Sales Co., Brat¬ 
tleboro, Vt. 
May 28. 2!l, ,”0—Ilolsteins. Piue Grove 
Farms, Fima Center, N. Y. 
May .‘JO—.Ter.seys. Linden Grove, 
Coopersburg. Pa. 
May oO, 31—Ilolsteins. Hudson Val¬ 
ley Sales Co., Mechanicsville. N. Y. 
June 1—Jer.seys. Hood Farm. Lowell, 
Mass. 
.Tune 4, .5—Ilolsteins. Brattleboro, Vt., 
by Purebred Live Stock Sales Co., Brat¬ 
tleboro, Vt. 
.Tune 11. 12—Ayrshires. New England 
Ayrshire Club, Charter Oak Park, Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 
June 13. 14—Ilolsteins. Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y., by J. B. Sis.son’s Sous. 
.June 27—Ilolsteins. Greenfield, O., by 
A. W. Green. 
