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C»c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 2, 10IB 
Univerxal 
tic^turcil milKer 
Alternates, Like Milking With Hands 
Milk Two Teats At A Time 
Two Times 
Every farmer knows why he needs 
the time-saving, profit-increasing ad¬ 
vantages of a milking machine, espe¬ 
cially now with help so scarce. 
But do you know ivhy you need this 
milker? Do not confuse the Universal 
with any other. It has exclu.sive ad¬ 
vantages—farmers everywhere testify 
to its superiority. 
The Universal alternates, like milk¬ 
ing with hands. While two teats are 
Every Day 
being milked, two other teats are 
being massaged, thus the action is 
stimulating, comforting and relax¬ 
ing. 
The cow benefits from the use of the 
Universal, and frequently gives more 
milk. 
Experience of farmers completely 
establishes the unquestioned supe¬ 
riority of the Universal. Write for 
catalog. 
The Universal Milking Machine Company 
604 Mound Street, Columbus, Ohio 
LET US TAN 
YOUR HIDE. 
Horse or Cow hide, Calf or other skins 
with hair or fur on, and make thorn 
Into coats (for men and women), robes, 
rups or cloves wlien so ordered. Your 
fur goods will cost you less than to buy 
them and be wortli more. 
Our Illustrated catalog pi^es a lot of 
Information. It tells how to take off 
and care for hides; how and when wo 
pay the freipht both ways; about our 
sate dyoing process on cow and horse 
hide, calf and other skins; about the 
fur poods and p^ame trophies we sell, 
taxidermy, etc. 
Then wo have recently pot out an- 
bther we call our Fashion book, wholly 
devoted to fashion plates of muffs, 
neckwear and other fine fur parments, 
With prices ; also fur garments remod¬ 
eled and repaired. 
You can have either book by sendinpj 
Jrour correct address naminp-which, or 
both books if you need botli. Address 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
671 Lyell Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 
With this wonderful new Llb- 
bey Automatic Water Bowl. 
Each bowl controls own water 
supply. Animal moves lever, 
openinp water valve, when it 
starts to drink. Lever 
swings back closing valve 
when animal stops drinking. 
r Nofloattank required. Bowls 
may be put at different heights 
or in any stall or pen. Cannot 
overflow; cannet get out of order; 
almost no water left in bowl. Most 
sanitary bowl ever sold. Prevents spread of con¬ 
tagious diseases. Increased milk yield quickly 
pays back cost. Saves labor; 6 ave 3 />tr 
feed. Write today. If interested in 
Stanchions, Stalls, Carriers, etc., 
ask for General Catalog. Sent free. 
C. A. LIBBEY COMPANY 
280 Marion St. Oshkosh, WIs. 
DOGS and FERRETS 
Fall Pigs and Pedigreed Airedales cliofc"! 
individuals for sale at reasonable prices. Registered 
Ciliester White l)oai's. six wks. old, $10; sows, s.ame 
ape, $15. Airedale pups range from $30 to $45; tlie 
best voucan buy. Pedigrees furnished with all stock. 
BRANDRETH LAKE FARM, Brandreth, Herkimer Co.. N. Y. 
Airedales and Collies o^^a?* 
pups, grown dog.s, and brood matrons. Large in¬ 
structive list. iie. W. R. WATSON, Box 1745, Oakland, Iowa 
WALGROVE HERD 
MILKING SHORTHORNS 
OVER 50 HEAD IN HERD 
Many imported. All registered. Tul)erculin tested. 
Milk records kept. Write for price and particulars 
on Herd Headino Bulls. Walnut Grove Farm, WashIngtonville.N.Y 
Aberdeen-Angus Bull Calves 
Two Blaokbirds, oiU5 Pride, and one of the Queen Mother 
Tribe. These bulls are priced at a figure consistent for 
deiMJiidable breeding bulls. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY DE¬ 
PARTMENT, Delaware College, Newark, Delaware 
Mr.GeneralFarmer!0airyShorthorn8‘'*i;®r,\’jf™;jte 
breed for you. Try them. We offer a trio for foun¬ 
dation. 2 heifer calves and a bull, unrelated, Choice¬ 
ly bred. First draft or clieck for $425 takes them. 
A few otliers. EDWIN EASTERBROOK, Interlaken, N. Y. 
SALE Three Horn DurhamBulls 
10-13-16-1008. old. Ued, white and roan. T. N. Boyd Herd. 
CLARK T- ROGERS, Manager, Andover, N, Y. 
Aberdeen 
Angus 
The beef breed for profit. 
“ Beef Production in the East." 
New booklet: free on request. 
C.W. ECKAROT, 31 Nassau St., NewYork 
Pure Bred Shropshire Ram Lambs K‘o'’o"kf* 
Cockerels and Pulleis; few yearling Hens. Want to sell 
in trios. Bronze Toms. M. N„ ADAMS, LrvOKIA, N. Y. 
Swiss Goats $40 
A.,few di'y does. No milkei^ to sell. Only letters enclos¬ 
ing staiup answered. S. 4. SilAUPLES^R.O. ^^orl‘tstow■,PB• 
SHEEP 
HAMPSHIRE RAMS For Sale 
An extm good two-year-old at a barg.ain. Some great 
liimbs. A fewcwelambs. IIASLETTBKOTIlkllS, Seneea, N.T. 
Reg. Hampshire Ram teEWAM^'^s” 
C. P. & M. W. BIGHAM, Gettysburg, Fa. 
Shropshire Ram 
Wardewell's Satelite." KEIKOUT FARMS, Nassau. N.Y. 
Southdown Rams for Sale 
from the celelirated fiock of Wni, Rockefeller, Address 
B. M. lIAWKSy - TurrytoTvii, NewYork 
CHEVIOTS 
A SPECIALTY. 
G. W. LOUGH 
Hartwick, N.Y. 
For Sale-Thirty Full BloodSouthdown YoungEwes 
Not bred. A. L. KITCll, Westmoreland, N. Y, 
ForSale 
Exterminate your rats and save your grain. Price list free. 
Illustrated booklet ^Oo. C. II. KKEVEU A 00.^ Oreenwich, Ohio 
HORSES 
^ - — - 
SHETLAND PONIES 
We sell on the INSTALLMENT plan. 200 head to 
select from. Herd established 1891. .Semi lOe 
for contract and price list. Addre.ss Dept. L 
THE 8HADY8IDE FARM8, North Benton, 0. 
15Reg.YearlingShrop8hireRatn8H^B”c?vER^TtJi.H.T. 
For Sale-Three Shropshire Ewe Lambs ranfia.^b® 
EtilVI RIDGE FARM, Box 373, Scarsdale, N. Y. 
REGISTERED 
SHROPSHIRE 
yporlinir Rams ^ sale. 
I Bdl ling ndins sTEVENS BROS., WiUon, H. T, 
ForSale-45 Head of Good Young Breeding Ewes 
half l)loods. Kelley liros., East Chatham, N.Y, 
Shetland Ponies Sefaring, Ohio. Oldest ForSale-Reg.ShropshireYearlingandLambRams 
herd in biggest Shetland Producing County ia U, S J Purebred. Theodore Reed, Caledonia, N.Y, 
Composite Milk Test of Dairy Herd 
I wish a composite test of the milk of 
my dairy cows. I suggested to the tester 
at the milk station that I bring a bottle 
and have a sample given me every time 
they took one for testing. He says that 
cannot be done. The only way I can do 
is to take their sample when they have 
finished with it and send that, which does 
not appear at all fair to me. Will you 
tell me exactly what and how to do? 
New' York. L. M. c. 
A true composite sample must be a pro¬ 
portionate sample of the entire herd. 
There are a number of w'ays of getting 
this sample. I judge you may wish to 
get a sample the same as the one taken 
at the station to send away as sort of a 
check sample. If this is the case and 
te.ster will not furnish a duplicate, you 
should note how the tester takes sample 
and take one the same w’ay from the 
same milk before delivery to the station. 
A practical method of finding out your 
herd test on a certain day would be to 
mix the milk from all your cows in your 
mixing can in the morning and take out a 
half pint sample. The milk_ should he 
weighed or measured. At _ night repeat 
the operation, and if the night’s milk is 
a little more or less than the morning’s 
take a little more or less than a half- 
pint sample and mix it with, the sample 
taken in the morning. This is accurate 
for all practical purposes. Of cour.se, the 
real accurate way would be to weigh the 
milk of each cow and by the use of a 
graduated pipette take a c. c. for each 
pound of milk giveu by each cow' morning 
and ev'ening, or else put the milk of each 
cow in a straight-sided can and use a 
hollow sampling tube (milk thief) and 
take one dip for each cow and mix it in 
a jar for night and morning milkings. 
This information will doubtless enable 
yon to get a fair sample. Under no con¬ 
ditions take the same amount from each 
cow and mix. This is not accurate, since 
cows vary in the amount of milk they 
give and also in test. 
When you get the sample taken see to 
it. that, it is thoroughly mixed and then 
bottle up a four-ounce bottle full, filling, 
the bottle to the stopper to avoid churn¬ 
ing. Add three or four drops of formalin 
secured at the drug store to the milk. 
Carefully wrap the package and mail it 
to the New York Experiment Station at 
Geneva, or to the Dairy Department, Cor¬ 
nell University, Ithaca. Write them a 
letter telling what you want and tell them 
how the sample was taken. ii. f. j. 
To Feed Grain Blindly is Waste 
By feeding grain blindly is meant dis¬ 
regarding the nature of the ^ available 
cind the no^ds of the individufll 
cow. Many requests come in for balanced 
grain rations, and the nature of the 
roughage is not stated. This is like writ¬ 
ing to a doctor that you are sick and 
asking him to prescribe without telling 
him any of the symptoms. The roughage 
ooiTimonly grown on the farm may be 
classified' into a low and a high protein 
group. In the low proteiii group come 
corn silage, Timothy hay, mixed hay. corn 
stover, corn fodder, millet and the straws. 
In the high protein group we have Alfalfa, 
clover and Soy bean hay. It may be re¬ 
gretted that the majority of our dairy 
farmers gi'ow only that roughage that 
falls in the first mentioned group. Be 
that as it may, it will be readily under¬ 
stood that the W’ord “balance” in this con¬ 
nection means supplying that which is 
missing which in the case of the first 
mentioned group means protein and in the 
second group carbohydrate material. 
While two protein feeds, namely, dis¬ 
tillers’ and brewers’ grains, are practi¬ 
cally off the market, we still have a good 
list to choose from, particularly if we can 
buy in wholesale lots. The list includes 
cottonseed meal, oil meal, velvet bean 
me.Tl, cocoanut meal and gluten feed. For 
low and medium protein feeds there are 
bran, middlings, oats, barley and corn. 
To feed a cow receiving silage ffnd 
Timothy hay on a ration made up princi¬ 
pally or cornmeal, barley, oats and bran 
ia feeding blindly. While the cow nat¬ 
urally responds to a certain extent she 
does not do her best because the great 
milk-making constituent, protein, is lack¬ 
ing. On the other hand it would be just 
as absurd to give a cow receiving Alfalfa 
hay as the sole roughage a grain ration 
r>f cottonseed meal, cocoanut meal and oil 
meal. 
As prices of feeds keep on soaring, the 
man who gi'ows some of both kinds of 
roughage ou his farm is the man who 
makes a real .success of the feeding propo¬ 
sition. This means some clover or Alfalfa 
hay and some mature corn silage. The 
man with this kind of roughage does not 
have to worry about 'a balanced ration. 
,Tust give the cow 30 to 40 lbs. of silage 
a day and put the Iniy in front of her and 
she will balance her oWn ration. What 
a relief! No grain to haul, no feed bill, 
and no grain to shovel over. This is the 
^oal to which we must strive and the only 
way to get the«e is to keep everlastingly 
at it. Thus it can be seen that the kind 
of roughage not only determines the kind 
of grain but also the amount that is 
necessary, - and to feed a, cow getting 
Alfalfa bay and silage as much grain as 
the one getting Timothy and corn stover 
is folly. 
The amount of milk that a cow gives, 
while having little if any influence on the 
kind of ration so long as it is balanced, 
does not have a marked effect on the grain 
required. The feeder must have a milk 
record sheet to refer to or watch the pro¬ 
duction very closely. There can be no 
(juestion but that a cow needs about so 
many food- nutrients daily to produce a 
certain amount of milk. Giving every 
cow in the herd about the same amount 
of grain when their production is most 
sure to be different is feeding blindlv and 
mnke.s dairying as unprofitable as not 
feeding the profitable cow as much as she 
ought to have. 
Surely the fading of both man and 
beiist in the.se times ;s the great problem 
and requires all the skill we posse.ss. 
ir. F. JUDKINS. 
Sheep Fence Law 
V article was pub- 
regard to fenc¬ 
ing against sheep. The New York State 
Department of Agriculture is trying to 
^courage .sheep raising in this State. 
1 he first step was to enact a dog law, a 
great feature, and I am glad they did. 
1 signal the petition myself to get the 
law. t\4iy cannot they take one more 
step and have a sheep-fence law which Is 
just as essential as the dog law, and per¬ 
haps more, for we can shoot a dog. but 
you ^cannot do that to a man because he 
won t build fence. The article I refer to 
IS on page 870. If you will advise me 
how to go at this thing and have a fence 
law I will do my part cheerfully. s 
Otsego Co., N. Y. 
State dog law is not 
Wnat it shoula be in many ways. It must 
he revised and made stronger in some re- 
spects. A law compelling farmers to 
builol sheep-tight fences w'ould be op- 
p()sed by most farmers—practically nil 
^ ® keep sheep. Such fences 
would in some cases cost more than the 
land IS worth. The way to get a law 
passed by the Legislature is to get public 
sentiment back of it. No la\s^ are en¬ 
acted except through the influence of 
money, pri^vate interest or popular opin- 
lon. No legislature will pass laws out 
of pure benevolence or patriotism. If 
you want a fence law get out among your 
neighbors and the farmers in your county 
and get them interested. Then go to the 
member of the Legislature from your 
county and ask him to introduce a bill 
providing for such a fence. Naturally he 
will want to know who is hack of the 
demand, and you will have to show him 
that farmers generally want such a law. 
He will do it if you can prove that any 
large number^ of farmers want such a 
fence. That in a small way is what we 
call popular opinion, and it is the only 
way in which such legislation can be put 
through. 
Grain With Silage 
What grain, and in what proport^j, is 
it best to feed cows, with silage Which 
consists of more corn than leaves, Jap- 
ane.se millet, Timothy hay, wheat, oat 
and rye straw ; also, what time of the day 
IS best to feed the silage? j. s. P. 
New York. 
The silage would best be fed 30 to 40 
pounds daily, given in two feeds, morning 
and night, just after milking. A small 
feeding, t. e., what the cows will clean up, 
of millet and Timothy, could he given iu 
early forenoon, and another aJt night after 
the siliige and grain are fed. Thi.s gives 
them a chance to eat what they will of 
the various straws at midday. .Since all 
this roughage, silage included, is low in 
protein, the grain mixture should supply 
it. A ration of three parts wheat bran, 
one part cotton.seed meal, one part oil- 
meal. one part gluten feed and one per 
cent salt would be good. If your silage 
has a lot of corn on it you will probably 
not have to grain heavier than a pound 
for each four to four and one-half pounds 
of milk produced daily. It would not re¬ 
quire this much if you only had some 
legume hay. n. f. j. 
Covering Silos 
We have had many suggestions for cov¬ 
ering the top of the silo so as to prevent 
loss from decay. Some use thick paper 
or boards covered with sawdust, sod, cut 
straw or hay. The Connecticut Agricul¬ 
tural College suggests the following: 
“For the top layer of the silo it is good 
practice to use heavy green stalks from 
which the cars have been removeil. This 
forms a heavy layer that packs well and 
at the same time contains a smaller 
amount of food material, .so that the mini¬ 
mum loss is sustained if it spoils. Various 
methods and materials have been used for 
covering the top of the silage to prevent 
its spoiling. None has given complete 
satisfaction, but the oue mentioned above 
has given as good results as any, espe¬ 
cially when the top layer was thoroughly 
wet down and packed firmly by tramping. 
The best practice is to commence feeding 
as soon as the silo is filled, in which case 
there will be no loss of silage through 
decay.” 
