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B>ic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 17, 1918 
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Nothing else on the farm 
is such a deadly menace 
to the health of family and 
livestock as the out-house. 
It is a prolific breeding 
place for disease germs, 
flies and insects. 
Yet its objectionable fea¬ 
tures can be easily removed 
by the use of Acme Chlo¬ 
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it kills offensive odors and 
prevents the breeding of 
insect and germ life. 
Use also in stalls, tie-ups, on 
manure piles, etc. Does not 
injure manure for fertilizing. 
Chlorinated Lime is endorsed by 
physicians. Health Boards and 
other authorities on hygiene. 
Ask your dealer for Acme 
Chlorinated Lime. Refuse sub¬ 
stitutes which may be stale and 
worthless. 
Send for booklet divin/i many 
other valuable uses of Acme 
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Those 
Flies 
It isn’t the cow's 
fault—she can’t 
speak. Think 
what she’d say if 
she could. 
There’s one way to save fly-time wor¬ 
ries and get 10 to 20 per cent more mHk. 
Spray daily with 
It’s absolutely sure. 
G u a r a nteed to keep 
flies off. It is absolutely 
harmless. Flies don’t 
like it. Cows do, and so will you. 
Your dealer should have it. If oot, his 
name and $1.75 brings full gallon can, 
sprayer, and alisolute guaran¬ 
tee. Sprayer Free with 5-gal¬ 
lon can ($5.00 prepaid). 
Agents IVan led 
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When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you’ll fjet 
a i/uick reply and a "square deal.” See 
(iuarantee editorial page. 
Quadruplet Lambs 
On this page is a picture of a ewe and 
her four lambs, horn last Winter. Trij)- 
lets are not so rare. Have you heard of 
many instai)oe.s of quadruplets? Tlie 
poor mother had a hernia, and has been 
disposed of, but all the lambs are doing 
well. They were bottle-fed for more than 
a month. n. ii. alukutson. 
New Jersey. 
Feeding Velvet Bean Meal 
The R. N.-Y. has been trying to in¬ 
terest readers in velvet bean meal a.s feed 
for live stock. Tliis Southern product is, 
we believe, sure to prove a rival of cot¬ 
tonseed meal in making up our stock ra¬ 
tions. As is always the case witli new 
•feeds, farmers move slowly—and properly 
so. A few have tried the beans and 
give good reports. Mr. .T. O. I’rescott of 
Connecticut u.ses the following dry mash 
for poultry : 
Five liuiidi'ed pounds bran. .‘100 lbs. 
standard middlings, 200 lbs. gluten. 200 
ibs. red dog flour, or velvet bean meal. 
—wlien the ground is not wet or sticky, 
and, provided tlie pigs have rings in 
their noses and in addition are supplied 
with a mixture of wood ashes, ground 
limestone or slack coal and salt they 
will not root up the ground. The worst 
that could haiipen would be paths 
tlirough the area, but if they are well 
fed with .some grain, say a three per cent 
ration of homin.v, corn or barley, they 
will not roam ver.v much. 
I'he pigs should not he permitted to 
croi) the gra.ss or clover short. It should 
go into Winter quarters with .some 
growtli to iiold the snow and protect the 
phiiits. ‘Phe voidings of the pigs will im¬ 
prove tlie soil and tiie clover will give 
the pigs a good stai't to niiiturit.v and 
c.'irly luiirket. Should there he evidence 
of rooting take the pigs out of the area 
following a rainy spoil. Rooting is quite 
as much ji haliit as a vice and can he 
quite easily controlled. Ity a three per 
cent ration I nu'an three i)onnd.s of graiii 
diiil.v tier pig for ejich 100 pounds live 
weiglit. I am assuming tlie pigs are 
The Quadruplet Lauibs and 'Their Mother 
100 Ihs. Alfjilfa meal. dOO Ihs. hominy, 
200 lbs. cornmcal, dOO Ihs. ground oats, 
HO Ihs. clnu-coal, .HOO Ihs. beef scraps, two 
lbs. powdered sulphni', five Ibs. mustard 
I bran. In the h’all when the birds are 
I moulting, we substitute one hag of Soy 
! bean meal for one hag of gluten. 
It has entirely replaced red dog flour, 
whicii has hitherto been regiirded a.s an 
essential in our mash. Hefore feeding 
the velvet bean meal extensively I cliecked 
rc.sults on two groups of layers, omitting 
red dog flour entindy from the i-ation of 
))oth grojijis, and substituting velvet bean 
meal in its phu-e in one group only. Tlie 
substitution made no difference in the 
laying of this group, hut the group with¬ 
out tlie red dog or velvet boiiu meiil 
dropped about 20 per cent. In .small 
flocks this loss is not appreciable, hut 20 
])or cent droj) in a daily production of 
six to eight hundred-eggs is worth think¬ 
ing about. Velvet bean meal is dO i)cr 
cent cheaper than red dog. ^ 
TiiK R. N.-V. stays right on I'ecord sis 
saying that meal made by grinding tliese 
velvet lioans will come into use as a part 
of dairy and poultry feed. We think it 
a fair criticism of the managers of the 
Dairymen’s laaigne that no apparent ef¬ 
forts are made for experimenting with 
tliese new feed products, or in developing 
new markets for milk. Some Northern 
fe^eders reiiort that stock <io not eat the 
bean meal readily, yet at the South 
feeders make combination of feeds which 
seem to please the cattle. 
Pasturing Hogs 
We have a field of perhaps thi-ee acres, 
whieh is coming on quite 'heavily to a 
second growth of Red clover, Alsike, and 
.some Alfalfa. Having Iiceu seeded last 
year witli oats, with a mixture of grasses 
and clovers, there should he an increas¬ 
ing growth of Timothy and Red-top com¬ 
ing on for next season.- We have avail¬ 
able a hunch of shotes Avhrch will weigh 
about no pounds each early in August, 
and would like to know whether if we 
ring these .Photos properly, it would he 
safe to turn them in on this piece to 
jmstnre olf the rowen. taking tliem off 
hefore they crop it too closely. AVe would 
not suppose that there would he aii.v 
special risk at this seiison, and on tliis 
l)icce, of ininching the soil up badly ; hut 
would the jiasturing of tliese iiigs work 
again.st the prospect of a good croii of 
mixed Imy next year? We have never 
tried this out, and do not know. 
( Jreene Co., N. Y. K. w. R. 
l>.v all meiins utilize this second growth 
Red clover and Alsike as a forage for your 
shotes. Select u dry day for the turn-in 
market rather tlmn breeding stuck. If 
tliey are breeders a one and one-half per 
cent grain ration will .serve. F. c. m. 
Trouble With Churning 
How long should it fake to elmrn but¬ 
ter now? We clnirn about 40 quarts of 
cream twice ii week and at each churning 
it takes two houi's or two and one-half 
hours liefore tlie butter comes. The I'ows 
are all fresh, and have .salt hefore. them 
all the time, so this cannot be caused by 
lack of .salt. Someone told us to put .salt 
ill the cream. We tried this and found 
we could get the butter in 15 or 20 
minutes less time. ,r. r. n. 
New York. 
I should judge you were trying to 
churn a raw sweet cream at too low a 
temperature. This is slow work indeed. 
Riiw sweet cream always churns with 
difficulty and the buttermilk tests high. 
If you wish to make a sweet cream Initter 
.vou should jiasteurize the cream by heat¬ 
ing it to 145 degrees F. and hold it there 
for 25 to .‘50 minutes. This heating 
would better be aceomidished by setting 
the vessel containing the cream in an¬ 
other vessel of water. After heating, 
cool the cream to 45 to 50 degrees F., hold 
over niglit and at this season of the year 
churn at about ,50 degrees. This make.s 
an e.xcellent butter of good keeping quali¬ 
ties and tlie buttermilk will test as low. 
if not lower tlian when a ripened cream 
is cliiiriicd. Pasteurizing so changes the 
make-up of the cream a.s to make it churn 
mure easil.v. The Navy Department is 
now having millions of pounds of butter 
made as above described. 
Should you wish to make a higher fla¬ 
vored blitter for immediate consumption, 
allow your cream to ripen naturally at 
room temiiorature for 12 to 15 hours he¬ 
fore cooling for chiiriiing or the cream 
may he riiiened using 10 to 20 per cent 
starter. A starter is a clean Iiatch of 
.sour skim-milk. I judge a sweet butter 
is what you wiuit and I am sure you will 
find the first mentioned metlkid one that 
will suit your needs. There are many 
other reasons for difficult cliuniiug, hut 
I hardly think they fit your case. 
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Tourist; “To what do you attribute 
your great age?’’ Oldi^st inhabitant: “I 
can’t say yet, sir. There are several o’ 
them jiatent modiciae companies a-dick- 
erin’ with me.’’—Boston Transcript. 
