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'Ghe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Mny 11, mis 
Eight Good Reasons 
Why You Should Buy a 
CREAM SEPARATOR 
GREATER CAPACITY; New capacities have been increased 10%, 
without increase ol speed or effort required in operation. 
SKIMS CLOSER: The improved bowl design, together with the 
patented milk distributor, gives greater skimming eflic:i>:icy. 
EASIER TO WASH: Simpler bowl construction and discs caulked 
only on the upper side make the bowl easier to wash. 
ElASIER TO TURN: The low speed of the De Laval bowl, the 
short crank, its unusually large capacity for the size and weight of 
the bowl, and its automatic oiling throughout, make it the easiest to 
turn and least tiring to the operator. 
THE MAJORITY CHOICE: More De Lavals are sold every year 
than all other makes of separators combined. More than 2,325,000 
are in daily use—thousands of them for 15 or 20 years. 
TIME TEISTED: The De Laval was the first cream separator. It 
has stood the test of time and maintained its original success and lead* 
crship for 40 years the world over. 
EQUIPPED WITH SPEED INDICATOR: Every New 
De Laval is equipped with a Bell Speed-Indicator, the “Warning 
Signal” which insures proper speed, full capacity, thorough separation 
and uniform cream at all times. 
SERVICE WHEN YOU NEED IT; Ue world-wide De Laval 
organization, with agents and representatives ready to serve users in 
almost every locality where cows are milked, insures the buyer of a 
De Laval quick and efficient service whenever he needs it. 
Order your De Level now end let it begin aeving creem for you right 
ewey. Remember thet e De I^vel mey be bought for cesh or on euch 
liberal terms aa to save its own cost. See the local De Laval agent, or, 
if you don’t know him, write to the nearest De Level office as below. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR COMPANY 
165 Broadway, New York 29 E. Madison Street, Chicago 
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For Calf Scours 
B.R treatment is saving many calves. Scouring calves indicate a germ infectioo that is likely 
to run tlvough your entire herd with serious losses. 
The loss of one calf is bad enou^, but nothing compared to your loss when the infection 
spreads—as it will unless checked. Then your year’s work in building up your herd is wasted— 
your profits lost. 
Leading breeders testify that B-K stops scours. It is powerful in killing germs. When used In- 
ternally B-K kills the germs in the mouth, throat and digestive tract, beila ioflamed toembranesi 
relieves irritation. B-K may be given freely in drinking water. 
If your dealer does not have B-K, send us hia name. 
FREE BULLETINS: Send for complete information—“Spo* 
oiol trial offer” and our calf bulletin No. 136. 
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Milk and Butter 
What the Dairy Cow Did 
Several of the Gulf States, and notably 
Mis.si.s-sippi are coming rapidly to the 
front in dairy and meat production. 
Around Starkville there has been for 
nearly 40 years a good deal of interest 
in u tiry matters. Tlie agricultural col¬ 
lege of the State is located there, and 
years ago several breeders started herds 
of very good .Tersey cattle. As years 
went by the Jersey blood appeared all 
through that section, and it became noted 
as headquarters for high-class dairy an¬ 
imals. Other pnrt.s of the State, and ee- 
l)eciully the southern section, remained 
very largely cotton producers, and as 
yojirs went by and the cotton crop failed 
many of the planters ran badly in debt, 
'riio boll weevil reached that section in 
its march from Texas about 10 years ago, 
and the yield of cotton rapidly fell off. 
In four years from the time this insect 
appeared barely oiie-tenth of the cotton 
formerly produced in Southern Missis¬ 
sippi was grown. The cotton farmers 
found their finances going from had to 
worse. When cotton grew well, these 
men were able to borrow money on the 
cotton crop. The failure of cotton, how¬ 
ever, destroyed that credit, and they 
could only borrow on their farms, and the 
land taken out of cotton culture had very 
I little value. Whenever the farming in a 
rural section runs down the towns and 
cities go down with it. Some forms of 
manufacturing where raw materials are 
all hi’onght from the outside maj’ prosper 
independently of the rural districts, hut 
such prosperity is really a blight upon the 
country. In this cotton section the towns 
and cities all declined when the crop 
failed, and business generally fell away. 
T.eft to itself, with such farming as had 
been common to that section, the country 
would Imve gone through failure after 
failure until it was practically abandoned, 
hut it has been saved very largely 
through the dairy cow. Everyone, busi¬ 
ness men and farmers alike, became con¬ 
vinced that the only way to avoid finan¬ 
cial ruin was to find other crops in the 
place of cotton. Thus crops like melons, 
.sweet potatoes and grain were attempted, 
hut the soil was so thin and poor that 
it would not produce well without nia- 
nme and fertilizer, and cotton was the 
only cash crop which made it possible to 
buy fertility. Then the dairy cow wa.s 
introduced as a last re.sort. With clover, 
cow peas and other forage crops neces¬ 
sary to produce hay and fodder, the cow 
provided a cash crop more reliable and 
more in demand than cotton, and the 
legnines which were grown in order to 
feed the cow Iniilt up the soil and changed 
the whole character of the section. This 
has been going on now for several yoar.s, 
and the results are evident. The section 
; is prospering, land is growing richer and 
increasing iu value, the cows are bringing 
more money than the cotton ever did, 
and the towns are developing more and 
more business. 
This is one of the ino.st striking evi- 
denees of what dairying, properly con¬ 
ducted, will do for a worn-out section 
that we have over seen . When the 'boll 
weevil ai)peared it was looked upon as a 
great calamity, for it destroyed an indus¬ 
try which had grown up iu the country 
until it seemed that nothing el.se would 
provide for the people. Since the intro¬ 
duction of the cows and the success of 
dairying, those i)eople now see that the 
Colton insect was a blessing in disguise, 
q'liis insect not only destroyed the cot¬ 
ton, but it broke through old-time habit 
and i)rejudice, brought iu new methods 
and new idea.s, and gave the country a 
new start. There is no question hut that 
certain parts of the Gulf .States are de.s- 
tioned to become very suoces.sful live stock 
centers. The South has the climate 
needed to keep the cattle comfortable 
through the Winter, and also to produce 
many crops of legumes which cannot be 
safely grown at the North. The pasture 
season is several months longer than the 
similar season in Wisconsin or Northern 
Iowa, and the saving in cost of shelter 
ami care will be considerable. It is not 
at all unlikely that 2.’') years from now 
the Gulf States will provide a very large 
share of the meat ami dairy products 
needed by this coimtry. 
There arc many sections in which the 
condition of agriculture is low, largely 
because old croi)S and old methods are no 
longer profitable. Yet these same sections 
may be specially adapted to some new 
crop which has now come to be a natiomil 
need, and which can he produced to 
great advantage in that soctioii. When 
these crops are worked out and adapted 
that section will flourish just as is the 
case in this part of Southern Mi.ssissippi. 
Legumes for Milk 
No farm question is of greater im¬ 
portance than the one, “IIow can we 
economize on the cost of milk pro tac¬ 
tion?” The growing of legumes is ti 
great step in this direction, hut the prac¬ 
tical application of the advice to grow 
these crops is not without difficulty. The 
desirability of Alfalfa is heyond (pies- 
tion, but most farm land in the East re¬ 
quires considerable preparation and ex¬ 
pense, and in this emergency the tem¬ 
porary leguminous crops are the ones to 
which we must look to provide a liome- 
growii source of protein. 
The clovers are well recognized, and are 
grown succe.ssfiilly where lime is used; 
but clover, like Alfalfa, i.s best used as 
hay and as such is of immense value. 
The question arises, however, as to how 
we can produce a silage of greater pro¬ 
tein content. It is right here that Soy 
beans and cow peas find their place. 
Cow peas require the warmth of the days 
and nights farther south, but whore tlvey 
will grow well their value is inestimable. 
They are splendid when sown in with 
corn grown for fodder, and fed with the 
corn when pasture is short. T.ast August, 
on a farm just south of Washington, a 
herd of .W cows was fed a small quantity 
of cow pens and corn every night; they 
came up on their milk 20 gallons a day 
after three days and stayed at an in¬ 
crease of from 20 to 20 gallons a day all 
through August. In September, when 
fresh coni silage was fed, which contained 
no legume, they dropped hack .at once to 
their .Tuly yield. In New York Soy 
beans grown amongst the fodder corn 
would have much the same effect, and 
most certainly should he tried. 
'File difficulty with Soy beans grown 
with .silage corn is that :i good deal of 
damage is done to the beans wImmi culti¬ 
vating, and when silo filling time comes 
there is never enough time or help in the 
field to take sufiicieut ]>ains to gather all 
the beams with the corn. Grown in a 
separate patch it means tliat the beans 
go into the silo iu streaks, and are not 
properly blended with the corn, and the 
patch must be grown close to tlw» silage 
corn or delay will be caused in running 
back and forth for an oeca.sional load. 
One thing is certain; the silage of the 
future will not be considered good silage 
unless it contains a gowl proportion of 
some kind of legume. This year every 
farmer should try this out. 
On no account should n short growing 
variety of Soy .beau be used. IMedium 
Green is about the best. Should a sep¬ 
arate patch be sown, make it of .sufficient 
area to enable you to cut some to feed 
green and some also to make into hay, 
then watch results iu the milk pail. Sum¬ 
marizing the advantages of legumes, they 
are: 1. Silage and hay rich in protein. 
2. Milk flow increased cheaply. ,2. Loss 
(luantity of high-priced concentrates re- 
(piin'd. 4. Soil improvomejit h.v the fixa¬ 
tion of nitrogen. Any scheme of i»cr- 
maneut agriculture requires the use of 
ns large an area aa possible for the 
growth of legumes; do not fail to make 
a place for them in your cropping s.vstem 
this year. k. d. scott. 
Prices of feeds at nearest mill arc i)er 
cwt.: Cornmeal, $.2.80; cracked corn, $4 ; 
wheat middlings, $.2.80; bran, .$2.80; oil 
meal, .$3.80; cottonseed meal, $3.25; corn, 
$2.15; oats, $1.15 per bn.; liay, ,$1.75 
cwt. At local stores above prices are in¬ 
creased about 20 per cent. Potatoes, 
$1.12 per bu.; yellow turnip.s, $1; onion.s, 
fJe per lb.; eggs, 40c; butter, 50 to OOc 
per lb. Young ))igs ver.v scarce, w<n-th 
$G to $8 each. No cattle being sold. 
, Cameron Co., Pa. a. u. J. 
