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Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 1018 
Measure yo.ur milk. Then feed your cows on a ration of International 
Special Dairy Feed. After a while, measure again. Compare the records! 
The difference is in the feed. One is inefficient. The other is efficient. 
Wise dairymen, who believe in efficiency, feed— 
International Special Dairy Feed 
Gives More Milk 
Per Cow 
It's the 100% dairy feed. It’s 
efficient and economical be¬ 
cause it’s balanced. 
It’s palatable, nutritious and 
easil • digested. Cows like it 
and thrive on it. 
International Special Dairy 
Feed is guaranteed to increase 
the milk flow of any cow from 
one to two quarts daily. 
Better and Cheaper than 
Home Grown Grains 
You can mix International 
Special with grains. Use a lot 
less grain and get an improved 
ration. The grain you save you 
can sell. There’s more profit 
for you in the price it brings. 
And yet you get more milk 
than if you fed all grain. 
Go to your dealer today and 
order a supply. Act while the 
price is low. 
INTERNATIONAL SUGAR FEED CO. 
Minneapolis, Minn* Mills at Minneapolis and Memphis 
Also Tnaket's of International Ready Ration—the feed that needs no mixing. 
Unicorn Dairy Ration 
A quality feed at the right price 
It is a combination of the best feeds money can 
buy. Very high in digestible protein. The only 
prepared feed that contains Ajax Flakes. The 
highest quality^nd purest ration made. So pro¬ 
portioned that there is no waste. If it is results 
you are looking for in dairy feed, then you want 
to learn more about Unicorn. It brings results. 
Write us for free copy of Cow Testers’ Manual. 
Chapin & Co., 
Dept. R Chicago, Ill. 
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. 
ANIMAL INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT OF 
PARKE, DAVIS & CO. 
DETROIT, MICH. 
W rite for evidence 
from users and our 
Trial Offer. Ask 
your dealer for 
our Free Cow 
Book, "Bulletin 
52." 
GENERAL 
LABORATORIES 
Quiet, Contented 
Cows Give More Milk! 
And if you protect them from fly-time 
worries, you’ll keep them contented. 
Saves the ■■ ■ 
Fly Worry NO-rlY 
Problem ■ ■ F 
for man and beast. Sprayed once or 
twice a day, it is guaranteed to keep 
flies off and will not taint milk, gum 
hair or blister skin. 
Ask your dealer and insist on No-Fly. 
If he hasn’t it, accept none other, but 
send his name and $1.75 for full gallon 
can, sprayer and money-back guarantee. 
Sprayer free with 5-galIon can {$5.00 
prepaid.) /Xgents wanted. 
W. D. CARPENTER CO. 
Box SO Syracuse, N. Y. 
MINERAL’ 
over 
HEAVE5?a« 
MPOUND 
Booklet 
Free 
13 Package guaranteed to give sutistaction or moue, 
i)ack. SI Package sufficient for ordinary cases. 
MINERAL HEAVE REMEDY CO., 461 Fourth Ave.. Pittsburg. Pa 
F/STULA 
REE”197pa9e' 
^terinani Book) 
FLEMING'S VEST-POCKET _ 
VETERINARY ADVISER describes symptoms 
and treatment for nearly 200 veterinary ail- I 
ments. including fistula and poll evil in horses I 
and "lump jaw" in cattle. 67 illustratioDS. f 
197 paces, durably bound. Write today. A I 
postal brings it by return mai), /res of charge. 
FLEMING BROS., Chemists 
300 Union Yards, CHICAGO. ILL I 
A Profitable Grade Cow 
We are glad to print on this page the 
picture of a good grade cow, entitled to he 
honorably mentioned for dairy perform¬ 
ance, oven though she has no tabulated 
pedigree showing who her ancestors werh 
or what they did. She has certainly in¬ 
herited good dairy foi’m and the ability to 
turn pasture and forage into milk, as her 
owner, Mr. .T. W. Mock, of Lehigh Coun¬ 
ty, I’a., says that she has given 78 pounds 
of milk in one day. An animal of this 
type makes an excellent family cow, and 
is a decidedly profitable partner for the 
owner of a small place, as well as one of 
the workers in a large dairy herd. 
Rape for Swine Pasture 
Attached is a clipping concerning rape, 
cut from t^iiccessfnl Furmina. What is 
your opinion of statements made? I have 
sown a field for my hogs, but will feel 
uneasy about turning them onto it if there 
is a chance of loss. Following is the clip¬ 
ping: “In the April number of S. F. on 
jiage 47, I find this caption, ‘Rape For 
Ilogs.’ Like all the articles on rape in 
farm journals as a forage crop it fails to 
tell us that rape is poison to hogs, and 
not to turn onto it when dew is on or 
when rains have made it wet, leaving the 
farmer to find this out by experience, and 
a dear experience it lias been to many hog 
raisers. After a stockman loses a number 
passes its whole life on the body of the 
sheep. Like all other animal life, it has 
one or more stages of growth in its life 
cycle. Fnllj- mature females often mea¬ 
sure one-quartor in. in length. The life 
of the sheep-tick may be divided into four 
natural divisions or stages, commencing 
with the egg. which is not laid, but is re¬ 
tained in the female’s body, developing 
into a larva usually in about seven days. 
This larva or young tick is covered with 
a soft white membrane which turns brown 
and hardens into a shell in about 12 
hours. It is this stage which is com¬ 
monly known as the “egg” stage, but 
scientifically called the pupa. The pupa 
i.s attached to the wool fibres by a glue¬ 
like substance ea.sily dissolved in water. 
The young tick within the puparium, or 
brown shell, develops and hatches into a 
full-fledged tick in abotit three weeks from 
the time it was discharged from the fe¬ 
male. The time necessary for the pupa 
to hatch varies, depending upon the tem¬ 
perature, hatching in less time in warm 
and taking longer in cold Aveather. 
At the time the tick is hatched, it is 
almost as large as a full.v-matured tick. 
In three or four days the tick has become 
sexiially mature. Within 10 days of 
mating the female deposits her first “egg” 
pupa, which will in turn in about three 
weeks again hatch a tick. 
The two important stages in the life 
cycle with whicli we are concerned in dip¬ 
ping are the pupa and adult tick stages. 
Dipping properly done will kill all ticks, 
but will destroy only a part of the i)iipa'. 
Those that are not destroyed will hatch 
out in the course of about three vveek.s 
A First-Class 
of hogs, spends time and money for spray¬ 
ing and material to save what hogs are 
left, he thinks of rape as they say about 
the Kaiser to- l. s. g. 
The above clipping is misleading and 
the statements are not snpi)ortod by facts. 
Dwarf Essex Rape is not poisonous. In 
a few instances I have known white thin- 
skinned hogs to blister or scald if turned 
on the rape when the plants were wet, 
and the sun i)romptIy holpiivg along the 
blister. However, this ox])erience is rare 
and in no wise discouraging. Sweet oil 
promptly reduced any skin eruptions. To 
say that rape is not palatable or that the 
pigs must be .starved to eat it is as un¬ 
warranted as it is untrue. There are a 
great many areas devoted to pastures for 
swine where Alfalfa or clover would not 
do at all, and again the cost of seeding 
Alfalfa is often prohibitive as compared 
with the cost of establishing rape. At 
the New .Jersey Station I found rape and 
Sweet clover well suited for swine forage. 
We never had a blistered hog. and never 
ex])erienced any trouble whatsoever in 
utilizing vast areas of the crop. L. S. G. 
need not hesitate turning his pigs on the 
rape field, and if some corn or hominy is 
fed supplementing the forage the pigs will 
go on and thrive. Rape in rows is clearly 
one of the best forage crops one can pro¬ 
duce, and experienced growers are be¬ 
ginning to appreciate its feeding value, 
F. C. MIXKLEB. 
Why Dip Sheep ? 
The inexperienced sheep man often asks 
why is it necessary to dip sheei), why go 
to this seemingly needless expense? These 
questions can be best answered by first 
describing the habits and life of the sheep- 
tick. and then mentioning the other good 
results accomplished by dipping. 
The sheep-tick is not a true tick like 
the common wood-tick of New England. 
It has no wings, and has only six legs 
instead of eight, as does the wood-tick. It 
and a new brood of ticks will infest your 
Faniily Con' 
sheep. Therefore, a second dipping is 
necessary if wc would be absolutely free 
from ticks. This sec<md dipping should 
not be given sooner than 24 days after 
the first. Any pupm that may be de¬ 
posited by the tieks hatched from the 
pu])a' missed in the first dipping wilt he 
destroyed, as it has been found that a 
large percentage of pupae under four days 
old are killed by the dip. 
Each mature female deposits during the 
course of her life from 12 to 1.5 piiUa*. or 
one about every sc'ven or eight days. 
These are attached to the wool usually 
one-half to one inch from the body, con¬ 
sequently shearing will remove a large 
percentage of any one brood. Those left 
hatch out and at once commence feeding 
on the blood of the sheep. They do this 
by attaching themselves to the skin by 
their sucking tubes. When feeding, they 
suck blood and lymph from the animal’s 
system. When not feeding, they travel 
about through the wool, coming to the 
surface on warm days and burying them¬ 
selves near the skin on cold ones. The 
favorite places of the tick are the neck, 
bi-east, shoulders, belly and thighs. 
Mature ticks cannot live longer than 
four days when separated from the sheei). 
They do not live on any other animal, 
except the goat. They can. however, he 
spread by the hatching of the pupae 
whch are attached to the stray locks of 
wool left about buildings or caught on 
brush. They are also spread by the 
shearers who having just shorn a ticky 
flock goes to his next job carrying ticks 
on his clothes. Radiy infested premi.se,s 
cannot be considered safe until after a 
period of two months after removing the 
sheep. In the meantime, all sheds should 
be thoroughly disinfected with double 
strength disinfectant dip. 
It has been estimated that a fully ma¬ 
tured tick will, in the course of it's life, 
consume ten ounces of the blood of a 
sheep. A sheep having 25 to 50 ticks, is, 
unfortunately, not considered as infested. 
It is easy to figure out how much blood 
they consume. Then stop to consider how 
much is consumed by badly-infested ani¬ 
mals having hundreds of ticks on them. 
Also, consider the irritation of the skin 
every time the skin is punctured. Even 
with only a few ticks sheep cannot do 
well. They fret, are restless and cannot 
make the best use of the feed they get. In 
the Spring and Summer these conditions 
are at their height. The young lambs, 
being nice, tender feeding for the ticks, 
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