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Oie RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Juue 8, 191S 
Waste Nothing 
This is no time for “cream slacker** separators or 
wasteful methods of skimming milk. 
With butter-fat at present prices and the Food 
Administration begging every one to stop waste, “cream 
slacker ** methods of skimming milk must go. 
Whether you are trying to get along without any 
cream separator or using an inferior or pzully worn-out 
machine, you are wasting butter-fat and losing money. 
Get a De Laval and 
save ALL your cream 
Viewed from every standpoint—clean skimming, 
ample capacity, ease of operation, freedom from repairs, 
durability—there is no other cream separator that can 
compare with the De Laval. 
Order your De Laval now and let it begin saving cream for you right 
away. Remember that a De Laval may be bought for cash or on such 
liberal terms as to save its own cost. See the local De Laval agent, or, 
if you don't know him, write to the nearest De Laval office as below. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR COMPANY 
16S Broadway, New York 29 E. Madison St., Chicago 
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MILK — COOLER—AERATOR 
Aerates as well as cools milk. Recouinieuded by 
leading creameries and producers. 
If your dealer cannot supply you, write for spe¬ 
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Buy the Genuine Champion 
Some territory open for good agents. 
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KEEP LIVESTOCK HEALTHY 
BY USING 
Kreso Dip No. 1 
(STANDARDIZED) 
Easy to use; efficient; economical; kills 
parasites; prevents disease. 
Write for free booklets on the Care of 
Livestock and Poultry. 
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PARKE, DAVIS & CO. 
DETROIT, MICH. 
The Modem 
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Its construction, 
utility, opera¬ 
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traction engineering ]iractice is fully covered. 
The above book will be sent postpaid for Two 
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FARMERS “not a POISON' 
POWERFUL DISINFECTANT 
FOR CALF SCOURS T 
Breeders testify that B. K stops scouts. 
It is powerful in killing germs, yet mild and 
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Easy, simple and cheap treatmenL 
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on nnvci cncc vmni Earns its own cost and 
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Live Stoclc arid 
The Future of the Dairy Business 
fThi.s is No. 2 of the series of articles 
by farmers and country people about 
what is coming to ns in the future.] 
As to what changes this war will make 
in the dairy business here in Orange 
County, N. Y.. my opinion must be per¬ 
sonal, and perhaps I do not view matters 
as others do. Then, again, I am naturally 
embittered by my loss, both through the 
McDermott failure and the subsequent 
wretched treatment accorded us, and the 
slow pay of the Country Milk Co., to 
whom we delegated the sale of our milk 
after purchasing the McDermott plant 
here. A bright ray of sunshine pene¬ 
trated the gloom two days since, .when I 
received an order written on the station¬ 
ery of a farmers’ co-operative creamery. 
A farmers’ organization which has pro¬ 
gressed so far as to get out stationery is 
to be commended. We have never had 
money enough in the treasury here as yet 
to do so, but perhaps things will brighten 
up. 
I'ersoually, I have felt for several 
years, even previous to the opening of the 
present war, that things must change in 
I the dairy business; it is an absolute nec¬ 
essity. We as producers expect to shoul¬ 
der the risk iu stock keeping, the long 
j hours and indifference of help, and the 
I many little details that go with the pro¬ 
duction of a clean and palatable milk, 
the same as ever, but it does seem the 
producer’s share should be at least equal 
to that of the distributer. I am even 
willing to concede the right and fairness 
of a commission to make the price of milk 
for the producer and consumer, but such 
a commissiou iu fairness must be com¬ 
posed of two producers, tv'o cousumers 
aud a distributer. You ask why one dis¬ 
tributer? I will tell you a little story. 
My grocer is a nice fellow; he buys every- 
thiug I have to sell at his own price, and 
I pay my grocery bill also at his price. 
One year it was sweet corn. For my 90 
days of planting, weeding, cultivating, 
pulling aud delivering. I received exactly 
the same amount he did for 80 minutes’ 
work selling it. In the evolutions and 
changes that will take jilace in produc¬ 
tion, milk will be affected as much as 
anything coming from the farm. It is a 
poor rule to put all the eggs iu oue bas¬ 
ket, and the producer who subserves 
everything to the one idea of making milk 
will be rare indeed. 
The fanns of Orange County, made up 
of grain laud aud enjoying enough help 
to cultivate them, will, I think, be once 
more put under the plow, and the grain 
grown on the farm, eveu if the size of the 
herd is reduced to conform with the sup¬ 
ply of feed aud forage grown on the 
farm, not at the expense of the income at 
the end of the year, but the feed dealer, 
cattle dealer and all who look for a slice 
of the farmer’s milk check ou the loth 
of the month. Few will care to depend 
ou milk alone. Hogs, sheep, hens, fruit 
aud garden products; some oue cau find 
a place ou every dairy farm. Were it 
pot for such thiugs and au iudulgeut feed 
mau, most of us who went through the 
Mutual-McDermott failure would be iu 
the poorhouse by this time. 
AVith a silo filled with matured corn, 
aud barns packed with legumiiuiiis hay 
when Winter commences, mill waste at 
$00 a ton will have little attraction fm- 
such a farmer. 
A Avord here about Alfalfa. Perh.ips 
we shall succeed in this section aud per¬ 
haps we shall not. The Winter of 1917 
finished most of the old seeding, and the 
drought of last Fall made new seeding a 
failure. After seeing the various clovers 
creeping in where I have limed for Al¬ 
falfa. I feel that perhaps our future lies 
more with the clover thau x41falfa. I am 
told by experts that Timothy hay is no 
better than rye straw to feed cattle. Both 
cut at the right time make fair forage. A 
variety of gras.ses that will yield two cut¬ 
tings a season is what is wanted on a 
milk-making farm. 
JIany a producer spends from $1.0t)0 to 
$2,000 a year for cows that should be 
kept ou the farm ; have a good herd sire 
and raise enough of his calves each year 
to replace the unproductive aud defective 
one. and work on the policy that 10 
lO.OOO-ponnds-a-year producers are a bet¬ 
ter proposition than 80 giving 8.000 
pounds a year, eveu if they do not need 
as much stable room or eat as much hay. 
The milk farmer ha.s been accused, and 
I suppose with reason, of not taking the 
pride in his product he should. They 
say he sometimes substitutes oleo for real 
butter ; that he will sell a new-born calf 
before it is dry to avoid feeding if milk, 
and that milk is not exploited ou his own 
table as it should be. The cow of the 
future will give a fluid testing around 
four per cent butter fat. and a cau of 
four per cent milk will make 4^ pounds 
of butter. Skim-milk now sells at oO 
cents a can for feeding purposes. Where 
calves are being fed it can take the place 
of whole milk for an occasional feed. It 
makes excellent cottage cheese, relishi'd 
by almost every family, and buttermilk is 
a universal drink. Why a producer of 
milk should lower his self-respect aud 
compel his family to use oleo rather than 
churn occasionally is something I can¬ 
not understand. Milk should be in liberal 
supply on every farmer’s table. There 
are qualities in milk for which nature 
has not furnished a substitute. The very 
young aud very old demand it, aud every 
member of the family can use it freely 
with credit to themselves and as a stimu¬ 
lant to the industry which they depend 
largely upon to furnish their living. 
Y'ou ask me what the future holds for 
the milk producer, and I answer, if he 
will follow closely the teachings of The 
R. N.-Y. and our other dairy papers, if 
he will insist ou doing his business ;is a 
business man, if he will keep his methods 
up to date and be ever in the line of 
progress, he must succeed. 
New York. george e. iiowell. 
Breeding Crate for Hogs 
We have had several requests for the 
plan of a breeding crate for bogs. The 
picture shows plans for such a crate 
printed in Farmers’ Bulletin No. 960 
from the Department of Agriculture at 
Washington. The following bill of ma¬ 
terials is printed iu the bulletin: 
Dressed or pndressed lumber may be 
used in the construction of a breeding 
crate. The material required will total 
about 140 board feet of lumber of the fol- 
Iwoiiig dimensions: 
5 pieces, 2 by 4 inches by 16 feet long, 
for upright and .‘ddes. 
14 jiiecos, 1 by 0 inches by 12 feet long, 
for sides and flooring. 
Hardware, Etc.—2 pieces, %-inch iron 
rods 80 inches long, with 2 wing nuts, as 
shown in illustration, for sliding partition. 
1 piece. 1-inch pipe 2 feet 10 inches iu 
length, with handle and ratchet, for wind¬ 
lass. • 
12 feet sash cord, for windlass. 
1 pair hinges. 
4 angle irons, %-inch thick bv IH 
inches iu width, and made 2 by 3 inches, 
as_sho\vn on the sliding partition. 
5 pounds 10-peiiuy wire nails. 
2 pounds 20-penny nails. 
It is not absolutely necessary to con¬ 
struct the crate as shown. Dtiier meth¬ 
ods of making a wiudla.ss that will answer 
the desired purpose may suggest them- 
selve.s. For instance, instead of being 
made of iron it could be made of wood in 
much the same manner as the old wooden 
windlass used over wells. 
