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ITAe RURAL NEW.YORKER 
Buy Milking MacMnes As You*d Buy Stock 
X/^hen you buy a pure-bred cow 
* you are interested as much in her 
pedigree as in her butter-fat record. 
Scrub cows sometimes establish a highly 
productive record for a limited time. 
But when you buy a pure-bred cow, her 
pedigree is your guarantee of uniform, 
heavy production 
year in, year out. 
You know you are 
taking no chances. 
Buy milking ma¬ 
chines the same way. 
Investigate their past 
records. Find out 
what machines are 
standing up best un¬ 
der years of service. Inquire into their 
effect on the herd—milk-production, 
lessened udder and teat trouble, effect 
on lactation period, etc. Also find out 
what machines the big milk producers 
and breeders use. 
When measured by these standards, 
you’ll be surprised at the overwhelming 
Empire^ leadership. You’ll find them 
milking the foremost herds in the 
country, and you’ll find them on the 
small dairy farms of 10 cows or more. 
They’re everywhere. Why? 
Because the Empire works in harmony 
with the cow. The Empire Super-Simple 
Pulsator—the pulsator 
without a piston — 
causes a uniform ac¬ 
tion on teat cups. 
Pistons wear and leak 
vacuum, resulting in 
uneven teat cup action, 
nervous, irritated cow 
and reduced milk flow. 
The Empire Pistonless 
Pulsator cannot leak vacuum. The ac¬ 
tion is always regular and positive. 
Cows like it. It soothes them and they let down 
their milk in increased quantities. Lactation 
period is increased. Teat and udder troubles 
diminish and the health of the herd is improved. 
Investisrate the Einpire. Look into its “pedigree”— 
past performance. Get our J918 Catalog No. 23 . Let 
U3 have our dealer give you a demonatratlon. No 
obligation, o£ course. 
EMPIRE CREAM SEPARATOR COMPANY, Bloomfield, N. J. 
Chicago, III. Denver, Colo. Montreal Toronto Winnipeg 
Also manufacturer* of Empire Cream Separators, CasolineEngine* and Farm Electric Plant* 
MIL.KINO MACHINE 
49% SAVED IN COST 
St OF FEEDING. HOGS 
An all-grain ration is expensive as well as unsatisfactory. It 
needs animal protein, the muscle-maker, and bone phosphate of 
lime, the bone-builder, to balance it up. These vital elements 
are best supplied by 
Reichard’s Digester Tankage 
The United States Department of Agriculture, in Farmers’ Bulletin No. 411, 
shows that in certain experiments tlie addition of Diecster Tankage to the 
train ration saved 49% in the feed cost of producing pork. Take advantaec 
of this fact and thereby save yourself a lot of money. 
Rcichard’s Dieester Tankage is the best on the market. It is made from 
selected materials, is uniformly sweet, brings results. 
Demand It from your dealer by name—refuse substitutes. Write us today 
for free Hog Booklet, samples and prices of tankage. 
ROBERT A. REICHARD 
1S W. Lawrence St. Allentown. Pa. 
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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, Ill. 
A Yankee in Iowa 
Notes on Live Stock Farming 
Part II. 
Grain and Other Crops. —The great 
grain crops of Iowa are oats, corn and 
barley. Wheat, once a great Iowa crop, 
ks thi.s year coming into ita own again. 
Potatoes this year are very common, and 
nearly every farmer has potatoes enough 
planted for his own use. The hay crops 
are clover and Timothy. The majority of 
the farmers practice a four-year rotation 
of corn, oats or barley, clover and Timo¬ 
thy. On some of the most fertile farms 
corn is planted two or more years in sne- 
cessioh, or corn and oats are rotated. 
Most of the sod land for corn is plowed 
in the Fall and prepared for seeding in 
the Spring. The check-row system is 
u.sed, so that all cultivating can be done 
with the horse hoe. A mixture of clover 
with a little Timothy and Red-top is 
sown with the oats, and good stands are 
secured this way. The farmer usually has 
enough clover for his young stock, and 
some for the cows, but there seem to be 
more fields of Timothy than of clover. 
The horses get the Timothy. Very few 
tractors are used, and every farmer has a 
number of hor.se8 to do the farm work. 
Tractors could be u.sed for plowing and 
harvesting, but not for cultivating the 
corn. The fact that horses must be used 
for this work keeps the tractor from com¬ 
ing into more general use. The corn and 
small grain fields are large compared to 
our Eastern fields. They range from 10 
to 40 acres in size. A New England corn¬ 
field would be termed a patch in this 
country. Wheat raising in Iowa was 
practically abandoned a number of years 
ago on account of the ravages of the 
chinch bug and the rust. To meet war 
needs there are many acres of Spring 
wheat sown this year. Practically no 
Winter wheat is grown. The potato acre¬ 
age has been increased. Many of the 
farmers got caught, having to p?^ $3 per 
hu.shel for potatoes last year, and propo.se 
not to get caught that way this year, so 
on nearly every farm the family potato 
patch is seen. The writer has been sur¬ 
prised to find no Alfalfa fields in Eastern 
Iowa. The farmers claim that it winter- 
kills badly, and are content to grow clover. 
It would seem that Alfalfa should grow 
well here, judging from the way Sweet 
clover is found along the roadside. 
Lm Stock Industbt. —^It is natural 
that this fertile country be well stocked. 
Beef cattle, dairy cattle and hogs are 
everywhere. Only an occasional flock of 
sheep is seen. The beef industry is car¬ 
ried on along two lines. Some farmers 
keep the dual-purpose grade Shorthorn 
cow and rai.se fill the calves, selling the 
steers and perpetuating their herds with 
the heifers, while others make a specialty 
of the feeding game, buying their young 
steers from the stock yards and fattening 
them. This latter class arc in the minor¬ 
ity. Of course some of the farmers raise 
only a part of the steers they wish to 
fatten and buy in some others. Practical¬ 
ly all the beef cattle are grade or pure¬ 
bred Shorthorns. This breed is kept prin¬ 
cipally because the cows are such good 
milkers. The milk from these red cows 
tests about 3.5 per cent at this season.^ 
The man in the'feeding game often buys 
Angus cattle, and occasionally a herd of 
Ilerefords is seen grazing. The steers arc 
marketed at age.s ranging from baby 
beeves to three-year-olds. The excellent 
pastures fiiruish an abundance of feed 
In the Winter the cattle live on the straw 
stack, corn silage and some hay. 
II. F. JUDKINS. 
Ropy Cream 
I am h.'uung trouble with cream turn¬ 
ing ropy after standing over night. Will 
you advise what to do, and the cau.se? 
New York. e. j. g. 
The condition in your cream is in 
all probability caused by bacterial con¬ 
tamination from the separator or some 
other utensil that milk or cream comes in 
contact with. You will have to experi¬ 
ment a little to find out the exact source. 
To make sure that it is not the cows you 
could set some milk from each cow in a 
carefully scalded vessel after having 
drawm it from the cow into a sterilized 
pail. The chances are this will show the 
separator or pails to be at fault. If 
■washing and a thorough scalding does not 
remedy the trouble make use of a chlo¬ 
ride of lime solution made up by dis¬ 
solving a 12-ounce can of chloride of lime 
in a gallon jug of -wmter. Fill the jug 
half full of water, add the can of lime, 
and shake vigorously, then fill the jug 
with water and shake again. After stand¬ 
ing awhile a sediment will collect on the 
bottom of the jug. Use an ounce of the 
clear top liquid to three gallons of water. 
Run a couple of quarts or so of this solu¬ 
tion through the separator just-before you 
separate. It will kill bacterial growth, 
and is perfectly harmless. If need be, 
rinse out the milk pails and cream cans 
with this .solution. ii. F. J. 
Farm Labor in 1828 
The following labor contract was found 
in looking over some old account books of 
an Orange County, New York, farmer. 
■^Tiat would the modern hired man have 
to say to this? 
“P. Rum.sy began work on the 18th of 
April. 1828 If he works six months he 
is to have 54 Dollars. If he quits before 
Harvest and haying he is to have seven 
dollars a month for what time he works. 
A. Vail. .Tr.” 
November 2, lOlir 
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Wasting Cream Profits. 
^INE out of ten dairy farmers are actually 
■‘■^throwing away $20.00 per cow peryei^ 
They are doing It by using wasteful, inferior 
cream separators—or, even worse, by cling¬ 
ing to the old-fashioned gravity, shallow-pan 
method of separation. Stop this cream 
waste at once-on your farm. 
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