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U/te RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 7, lyiK 
Are The Winter Quarters Ready? 
N early everyone realizes that poultry and livestock will not thrive or produce their 
best when confined in dirty, dark and gloomy living quarters. In winter eggs and 
dairy products bring their highest price, and poultry and livestock spend most of the 
time indoors—without the benefit of sunshine and fresh air. Therefore it is most important 
that buildings be kept bright, cheerful and sanitary, as a help to better production and also 
as insurance against the introduction and spread of contagious disease, which if once started 
is apt to spread rapidly and cause the loss of tlie entire season’s profits. 
The time and trouble it takes to mix whitewash and the double work of again going over 
the same surface with a disinfectant keeps many men from giving this sanitary work the 
attention they know it deserves. This disagreeable task can be turned into an easy, rainy, 
day-job if you will use 
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it kilisliee, mites, fly-eggs, etc., and is as clYectivc as anything on the market in keeping the 
germs of contagious diseases that affect poultry and livestock from spreading through your 
flock or herd. 
Carbola is ready to use as soon as mixed with cold water—no straining or waiting—and 
can be applied to wood, brick, stone or cement surfaces or over whitewash, with a brush 
or spray pump. One gallpn covers about 200 square feet. 
It will not blister, flake or peel off, has no disagreeable odor 
to taint milk or other food products, docs not spoil by standing 
so can be kept on hand ready to use when wanted. The dry 
Carbola is unexcelled as a lice ijowder. 
Use It Instead Of Whitewash 
Carbola will increase the li>'ht in your poultry houses, stables, pi^ pens, ccl» 
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Live Stock and Dairy 
Planning a Cow Barn 
I am working in tlie village and trying 
to handle a little seven-acre country home 
at the .same time. I have a barn with a 
ground floor space of 180 .square feet, 
same being 15 by 12 feet. There are no 
posts or partitions anywhere. I would 
like your advice as to the best way to 
[stable two cows with the least possible 
I floor space, and at the same time the 
most convenience for feeding. Please state 
the exact width and length of stable. I 
propose to have a barnyard to the east of 
the barn, us orcliard is on south and 
west, and home at north. I intended to 
cut door to yard at northeast corner of 
barn on east side and face animals to 
south window at east side, leaving myself 
room to pass in front to feed. That would 
give me work room at side for fodder 
I with feed box. and also the use of one 
window. T would like your idea of same, 
and suggestions will he thankfully re- 
ceivc'd. ^ K. V. Ti. 
Adams P.asin, N. Y. 
T think that I should ])lace these two 
.stalls in the southeast enrner of tills 
barn, the cows facing the north. 'I’liey 
will need a standing platform from four 
to live feet in length, depending upon size 
of cows, and each cow should have at 
' least four feet of space on the platform. 
The gutter to the rear of the iflatform 
should he about 15 inches in width and 
eight inches deep. Hack of that should 
he a walk about throe fi'Ct in width. 
'I'liese dimensions could he cut down a 
little for .Jerseys or other .small Cows, 
'riiis arrangement seems to me as con¬ 
venient as any that can he devised and as 
economical of space. The <liagram ex¬ 
plains the plan. Ai. n. i). 
SHALE S 
SICK STOCK 
BOOK on treatment of Horses, Cows, 
Sheep, Dogs and other animals, sent 
free. Humphreys’ Homeopathic Vet¬ 
erinary Medicines, 156 William St., N. Y. 
Shearing and Dipping Lambs 
Should lambs horn in March and April 
he sheared in August and dipped at that 
time'f o. A. w. 
Penn.sylvania. 
J^sually it is advisable to diii the flock 
twice a year, lambs as well as the breed¬ 
ing .stock; the first dipping immediately 
after shearing, or just before turning on 
to Hummer pasture; the second one in the 
I'^all, Sin-ing lambs should not be shorn 
in the Fall or any time during the first 
year, unless they are intended for imme¬ 
diate market. It is very doubtful if'it is 
practical to shear lambs prior to .selling. 
This, however, is largely a question witli 
the market. Most large markets make 
j.siiffieient bonus for wooled lambs to justify 
I selling without first shearing. Local mar- 
I kets sometimes do not apiireciatc the 
! value of the wool and a greater return is 
.secured by shearing the lamb and selling 
the wool separately. J. w. ii. 
BOOKS on all subjects of farming by leading 
authorities are for sale by The Rural New- 
Yorker, 333 West Thirtieth Street, Nev/ York 
Moneji rtfiinderl if not satisf actor y 
THE MOORE BROS. OF ALBARV 
NEW YORK I S3 Hudson A 
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 and 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, III. 
in lime. These sheep sold at the worth 
of good ones, and now it behooves the 
prospective buyer to study on the shape, 
quality and worth of sheep in general be¬ 
fore “meeting up” with the many .so-called 
textile associations who will invade the 
East with animals wanted nowhere else. 
The best place to buy stieep, anyway, is 
near home, and as an evidence of the 
truth of this we ask that some of the in¬ 
vestors in foreign sheep last Fall tell ns 
of the size of their elips and quality of tli 
.sheep now. woot.(:uow!:i<. 
Profit in Butter-Making 
We have six cows and get about 4(1 
quarts of milk daily. Up to the present 
time we have always taken the milk to 
the dairy. I.ast month they paid us only 
41 X, cents per quart. This liardly pays at 
the high prices <if feed. We have been 
planning lately to make butter and n.se 
the .skim-milk for raising pigs and young 
.stock. Do yon consider this as profitable, 
and do you know of any farmer who has 
done so snecessfully? What would I have 
to get besides a cream separator? Does 
the (tovernment is.sne any bulletins on 
butter-making? j. I,. 
New Jersey. 
Assuming that your milk tests 4 per 
eent butter fat a 40-quart can of it, 
weigliing 80 pounds, would make about 
four pounds of butter. You ought to get 
a market that would pay at least 50 cents 
a iionnd for it at present jirices. This 
would bring ,8‘J for the 40 (piarts of milk 
or five cents jier quart. To he conserva¬ 
tive you certainly would get at least 414 
cents a quart for the butter alone. The 
skim-milk and buttermilk are left for 
stock feeding and will more than pay you 
for your trouble in m.aking the butter, 
fl’licre are hundreds of people that are 
doing this very thing successfully. The 
.secret of the sueecss of the enterprise is 
in making a uniformly good piece of but¬ 
ter each time and in having a market 
tlmt appreciates good butter and is will¬ 
ing to pay for it. 
If you expect to have no more or Imt 
little more milk than you are now having 
a 4(H)-poiind per hour .separator will he 
large enough. In addition to this you 
will need a <‘r(*am cooling and storage 
can. a barrel cluirn of 15 gallons ca< 
paeity (figuring churning twice a week), 
a table butter worker, theianometer, pails, 
wooden paddles, and a pound printer. A 
most excellent bulletin on farm hiitter- 
making is Farmers’ I’.ulletin 870. Yon 
can obtain a copy of this h.v writing Div. 
of I’nhiications. Dept, of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. u. F. ,T. 
Live Stock Sales 
Hept. 0—Ilolsteims. Backus Bros, 
signmont sale, at Watertown, N. Y. 
Sept. 11—Ilolsteins. UonsignimMit 
at (’nha Fair, (’ulia, N. Y. 
Sept. 12-—Ayrsliires. Cimsignmenl 
at Cuba Fair, Unha. N. Y. 
Dct. 18-10—1 lolsteins, X.-itional D 
men’s sale. Colnmhiis, (>. 
eon- 
sal<‘, 
sale, 
airy- 
Shall I Buy Ewes 
I have had several iminiries from pros- 
pi'Ctive hegiunei-s about the wisdom of 
buying ewes this Fall. At the price of 
feed, unless the government allows au ad¬ 
vance iu wool, tlu’i'C can he little profit 
in tin* near future, hut everyone with au 
inclination .should get iu anyhow. Tens 
of thousands .should grab a few ewes for 
a start, as the .sheep Industry will he 
profitable as any other Ix'fore many year.s. 
Wo(d growers have learned a lesson that 
will he turned to account by uniting and 
comstraining fair treatment to sheep men, 
land the demand across the water will 
[(“inphasize it. Yes, good ewes are pros¬ 
pectively a good investment, hut men of 
the knowledge or want of knowledge of 
my inquirers need he careful. 
Tens of thousands of “hats” of every 
kind of poor quality, so-called sheep car¬ 
rying uo wool oil legs, hellie.s and necks, 
from Mexico and eierywhere, were sold 
to meu who did uot know sheep last Fall. 
They have the ones that lived and should 
' make the best of them by the use of pure- 
ibred rams, and they will come out whole 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Michigan .Slate Fair, Detroit. Mich., 
Ang .‘>()-Hept. 8. 
Nebra.ska State Fair, Lincoln, Sei»t. l-li. 
Connecticut State Fair, Hartford, Sept. 
2 - 0 . 
Imliaua Slate Fair, Tndianapoli.s, Sept. 
2-7. 
Minnesot.i .Slate Fair, St. I’anl, Sept. 
2-V. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, Sept. 
0-14. 
National As.'^ociation of Hardeners, an¬ 
nual convmition, Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 
21 - 20 . 
’I renton Fair. Trenton, N. .1.. .Sept. .‘>0- 
Oe(. 1-4. 
Tractor demonstration. State Experi¬ 
ment Station, New Brunswick, N. .L, 
(let S. 
International iMilk Dealers’ convention, 
Columbus. Ohio, Oct. 14-1,5. 
National Ice Cream Manufacturers’ 
convention, Columbus, Oliio, Oet. 17-l.S. 
The National Dairy show at Coliimhiis, 
O., Oct. 10-10, will have a great variety 
of educational exhibits, interesting to both 
producers and consumers of dairy prod¬ 
ucts. 
A GAj.r.ANT sergeant was walking down 
the street the other day when a reernit 
.-ipproaclied him from the opposite direc¬ 
tion, and, as he got to witliin three paces 
of the brave three-striper, he gave a most 
regimental salute. Sargent: “Why did 
.von .salute me? I’m not an officer!” Ke- 
cruit: “No, I know you’re not, hut any- 
tliiug will do to practice on.”—The 
Direct Hit, 
