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Oie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May IS, IDIS 
Empire Milking Macliinet 
in use oo the farm of 
Mr. J. J. Scheffner, 
Freeport, Illinois 
Makes Milking a Pleasure 
N early every dairyman hates milk¬ 
ing. lie hates to sit beside a warm 
cow in hot summer weather, perspiring 
to beat the dickens and the cow’s tail 
continually switching his face. It’s no 
fun—it’s drudgery. 
And then, too, it takes so much time—time that 
should be spent in the fields, especially now 
when labor is so scarce. And yet, tiie task o£ 
milking can be made the easiest, most enjoy¬ 
able job on tlio place with an Empire—the 
recognized standard among milking machines. 
It enables a boy or girl—your son or daughter— 
to do all the milking alone wliile you and your 
help spend those additional hours in the field. 
Furthermore, the Empire Super-Simple Piston¬ 
less Pulsator, used on all Empire. Milking Ma- 
EMPIRE CREAM SEPARATOR COMPANY, Bloomfield, New Jersey 
chines, causes such regular and uniform action 
in teat cups tliat its soothing and calming effect 
on the cow u.sually results in a very appreciable 
increase in milk flow. 
Other milking machines, having the piston typo 
pulsator, leak vacuum as the piston wears. 
This causes an irregular toatcup action, result¬ 
ing in an irritated, nervous cow. with the attend¬ 
ant reduction in milk yield. 
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Hansen’s Rennet Tablets for 
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Box 17 Little Ealls. N. V. 
BUY THE GENUINE CHAMPION 
MILK COOLER AERATOR 
Af'ratos an well <u cools milk 
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CHAMPION MIU COOLER CO., Dept. K, Cortiend. N. Y 
books on ail subjects of farming by leading 
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Yorker, 333 West Thirtieth Street, New York 
KEEP LIVESTOCK HEALTHY 
BY USING 
Kreso Dip No. 1 
(STANDARDIZED) 
Easy to use; efheient: economical; kills 
parasites; prevents disease. 
Write for free booklets on the Care of 
Livestock and Poultry. 
ANIMAL INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT OF 
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DETROIT. MICH. 
Cement 
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Permanence 
Use improved tile iiiiule of cement. Ago lucrnitses 
strength, not deterioration. 'Write for iMirticular.s. 
MARTIN BROTHERS. YARDVILLE. N. J. 
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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 cither 
of these will give unsatisfactory results. 
REICHARD’S 40^ DIGESTER TANKAGE 
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ROBERT A. REICHARD, 'S"' 
Notes About Farm Help 
To win the war wo inii.st liave food. 
To rai.se the food we must have help. No 
one will question those statements, and I 
think that most jieople will eoneede that 
there is not enough lielj) available to meet 
the demands of the situation. This being 
the ease, every availalile man ought to lie 
given a chanee to do his best. Tlie men 
available this year for farm helj) are not 
the best men in the oountrj-. Most of 
those are lierded in the training camps, or 
are .ilready on the other side showing 
‘Kaisfr Bill" what .\mcrican.s are made 
of. We should aceept the situation ])hilo- 
KOphically, like the man who ran the coal 
yard. Ibu-o js the story: 
Smith bought a now hou.se. It was a 
fine oru'. ami it stood on a splendid lawn. 
Naturally Smith was jiroud of the plaee. 
One day he stopped at the office of his 
friend .Tones, the coal man, and ordered 
a load of eoiil. When the man drove up 
with tlie eojil, he carelessly drove on the 
lawn and rutted it .shamefully. MTiilo he 
was unloading, the horse ate up two or 
three feet of the railing on the back 
porch. When Smith came liome his 'wife 
callial his attention to the wreck. Smith 
was mad. And while still mad. he rushed 
down to the coal office and spoke bis 
pieei? to .Tones, and ended u|) by shouting: 
“Why. that follow you sent up there was 
a fool! .Tu.st a plain darned fool I" .Tones 
was a complaisant fellow (as most coal 
doiilers <•.111 alTord to he), so hi* replied: 
“Of course, he was ,a fool. If he hadn’t 
been, he wouldn’t be drawing coal. You 
didn't e.xpect that I was going to send 
the president of the bank up to your 
homse with that coal, did you?’’ 
The young man Avho has escaped the 
draft, and ha.s ability to stand (or sit) 
before a machine and feed little chunks of 
steel into it, is generally earning big pa.v 
in a shop. If he ha.s not that al)ility, or 
cannot keep sober long enough to hold 
the job, 'we may get him to work on the 
farm. There are exceptions to this, of 
course. ^There are a few hig-hearted. 
clean-minded young fellows who simply 
cannot stand the strain of standing be¬ 
fore a machine all day to be merely part 
of the machine. And there are a few 
others so lu'oad-mindi'd and pati'iotic that 
tliey recognize the neci'ssity of thi-ir help 
on the farms, and will stay there even 
though they receive lower wages and work 
harder. 
It seems to me that the government 
might salvage a lot of human wreckage 
if it would remove the ability of the 
boozer to get (Ij’uiik. 'T'liere are a lot of 
men in e\ery <“ommunit.v wlio would do a 
whole lot toward winning the war—if 
the.v ■would only keep so'bor. Here is just 
one specific ease, typical of many others 
that might be mentioned. 
A young man hinsl out to work on a 
farm for a year. He had the unfortunate 
appetite for alcohol, had tried to break 
ofl', took the gold cure after his first cliild 
was born, and had in fact gone through 
tin* whole usual programme. He got thi.s 
job in a dry territory, dry by local op¬ 
tion. He made good for six weeks. Then, 
one rainy day, he went to town for some 
groeeri<'s. The store was right near the 
depot, and the cars would take him in 30 
minutes to his beloved alcohol. The temp¬ 
tation was too great, and he hoarded the 
train. When the train came hack at night 
he had to be helped into the station, but 
he clung to a suspicious looking bundle. 
It is a crime to bring booze into a dry ter¬ 
ritory, but nobody cared to butt in and 
open the bundle. The young man was 
drunk for two days, and,, just as he was 
in the right stage of genei-al desiiondency 
and recklessness, Hindenburg got in his 
work. It appears that a man had been 
trying to poison the mind of this hired 
man against his employer ever .since he 
had taken the position, and when he 
caught him in just the right mood he 
completed his work. f>o another farmer 
is .shy a hand, and the good resolutions 
to reform, so often made before, are again 
shattered. 
Of cour.se Federal prohibition will come, 
but will it come quick enough? Perhaps 
also that the government will finally see 
that the fellow who disorganizes labor is 
an enemy to the country, and will give 
him a chance to cool his heels in jail until 
he learns to mind his own bu.siiies.s. 
.r. GR.VNT MOUSE. 
The Dairy and National Greatness 
On .Viiril 1.3 Hr. E. V. McCollum of 
.Toliii.s Hopkin.s Biiiver.sity, addre.s.sed the 
National Dairy Conference. He delivered 
a mo-st remarkable and impressive address. 
The following extract from it will bring 
a new thought to most of our readers : 
There are two cla.s.ses of human beings 
in the world. You classify them upon 
the liasis of diet. One of them is trying, 
and has been from time immemorial, to 
make a diet wliich is sati.sfactory out of 
leaves, .seeds, fruits, tubers, rotits and 
meats, ’khe (’hineso, .Taiianeso, Filipinos 
—many of the tropical and sub-tropical 
peoples—have been trying to do that thing 
from time immemorial. The .Japanese 
and Chine.se eat four or five times as much 
of the leafy jiortion of the plants as we 
do over here. 'VVe have practically gotten 
out of the habit of eating le.-ives in an.v 
ajipreeiahle amount. They are not very 
good. W(' do not like them in any apjire- 
ciahle quantity. They are too bulky for 
us to consume, and there is good reason 
why we should not attemiit to plan our 
diet .so as to make such a liberal use of 
the leaves of the plants as will make the 
leaf our protective food. 
(kuisidei- what thost* people are who 
have tried to make their diet through cen¬ 
turies on leaves and seeds and fruits and 
tubers and roots and meats. Not a single 
nation that has restricted itstdf to such 
a diet lias ever come to the front in a 
matter of luimaii achievement in any field 
of activity. 3Tioy all stand—the .Tap- 
aneos are the best, but what are they? A 
distinctively undi'rsized peojile, a short¬ 
lived peojile—a .lapanese man of <50 year.s 
is as old as a well-preserved man of DO in 
this country. Their infant mortality is 
distressingly high as compared with what 
you find in the worst distriets in the 
whole Enited States. They are a people 
who have failed to achieve anything like 
what they could have achieved if they 
had a better diet. You can go all over 
that iiortion of the world where .such 
dietary habits prevail and you will find 
peojiles will) are the subjeeLs or vassals ; 
they are the peoples who multiply in con¬ 
siderable numbers, but whose life is 
short, who are inefficient, of low mentality, 
■w’arped by peculiar religious prejudices 
which ruined them, even if they had the 
strength to do .something. They are a 
failure from the standpoint of living a 
normal human life. 
MTio are the jieople who have achieved, 
who liavp become large, strong, vigorous 
[leople, who have reduced their infant 
mortalit.v lower than the jieople who have 
used the type of diet fir.st described, who 
have the best tradi'.s in the world, who 
have an apjireciation for art and litera¬ 
ture and music, who are progre.ssive in 
science and every activity of the human 
intellect? They are the peoples who have 
patronized the dair.v industry. 
The statistics can show—the.v are not 
very accurate, but they mean something 
very definite—that we have been taking 
for many years in thi.s country, I don’t 
know how long, about .eighteen per cent 
of our total food supidy in products of 
the dairy, as milk, as butter, a.s <‘hee.se, 
and as cream. That particular dietary 
habit ha.s made us what we are. That is 
the protective food whiidi ha.s made good 
the deficiencies of whatever else we chose 
to eat, and it did not make so very much 
difference as long a.s we picked out .1 
variety of the other things and continually 
used the products of the dairy.' It ha.s 
increased our n^sistance to di.sea.se: it ha.s 
done everything else for us that diet can 
do in great measure. That there is room 
for improvement in the diet of individuals 
I am well aware; that definite and spe¬ 
cific advice will iu the near future he 
given to the individual a.s to the selection 
of his food, the jiroportions in which to 
mix them to obtain the bi'st results, there 
can he 110 doubt. 'I’he time is not yet 
here when that can be done, but this is 
known, that the dairy industry has made 
us what we are. Let us preserve it if we 
are to maintain the progre.ss which we 
have attained. There is no other wav 
that we may remain vigorous, healthful 
and progressive people th.ui by the con¬ 
tinued liberal patronage of the dairy. 
We sell our milk at the Dublin Dairy¬ 
ing A.ssociation. We get for hutterfat 
70c a lb.; egg.s. 35c; hay in barn. .$20 a 
ton; potatoe.s, SO to D0<‘ a bu.; .straw, 
baled. .$15: wheat, $1.13 bu.; rye, $1.10 
bu.; corn. $4(S ton; oats, $1.20 bu. ; veal, 
live. 15c pound ; pork, dressed, 21 to 22c 
pound. (?ows are very high, from $75 to 
$150 for good ones. Farm lior.s«‘s. from 
.$75 up. We have to iiay for millfeed—' 
wheat, bran. .$2.00 hundred: midds. $2.S0; 
gluten feed. .$2.00; cornmeal. .$3.70; 
cracked corn. .$3.S0; these are the lead¬ 
ing feeds. In regard to farm conditions, 
the oats are all sown, and we are plowing 
for corn ; expect to plant about May 15. 
Wheat looks very poor; a few fields look 
fairly well. Rye and gra.ss look.s well. 
Rig farms are not selling so readil.v, al¬ 
though a few sold this Siiring around $80 
an acre. Farm labor scarce and high. 
Rucks Co., Pa. t. s. d. 
