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November 30, 1918. 
^fte RURAL NEW.YORKER 
WHERE SHALL 
I SHIP MY FURS? 
Important Problem 
Every Fur Shipper Musi Solve 
to be Successful 
You are receiving price lists and other literature from many different Pur Houses_ 
all claiming to pay the highest prices, etc., etc. This makes it difficult for you to 
choose your Fur House and a wrong guess may mean dollars out of your pocket. You 
must exercise great care and caution in choosing the Fur House to whom you are going 
r to entrust your catch of Fur-bearers. You can solve this important problem by making 
“Shuberf* a trial shipment. ^ 
For more than thirty-five year3**Shubert** has been payingFurshippers "more money’* 
for their Furs—always giving an honest and liberal assortment—paying the highest market 
Ijncea—sending returns out promptly, in otherwords,rendering‘‘better service’’—“quicker." 
Shuberl” offers you the SERVICE of an honest—^reliable—responsible—safe Fur House 
—where you take no risk. "The Shubert Guarantee" protects you absolutely. 
A trial will convince you. Get a shipment off—TODAY. 
Write for "SllfP &ljnbfrt a complete Fur Market Report 
and Price List Issued at every change in the Fur Market. t | 
It’s FREE-Write for It—NOW. ^ 
SHIP YOUR FURS DIRECT TO 
AB.SHUBERT/;.c 
The Largest House In the World 
Dealing Exclusively in 
AMERICAN RAW FURS 
25-17 W. Austin Ave.Dept. S4 Chicago.USA- 
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ents—of high 
He’s the man who helped make New York the world's Premier Fur Market—lewler of liberal assorts 
prices — Instant settle- . . . . 
ments—the square deal. 
None too large. His money aw£ 
M. Pfaelzcr & Co. Members Raw Fur Merchants* Ass’n 
V/Va 11S-1X9 WEST 29TH STREET (Desk 17), NEW YORK 
nE MONEY FOR RAW 
Once anS&B shipper alw^s an S&B $hipper because the 
5&B policy ^uaranfetes :highest prices; lilseral assortmfents, 
immediate, returns. Send* to-day for price list and shioXto 
!fc*ywia^ST Struck g^ Bossak Inc ^ 
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WAR IS OVER 
^ Peace brings big h'lir oiders from Europe. We 
must liave Skunk, Muskrat and Jlink at once to 
fill treiiiendoiis demand. Unheard of jirices for 
immediate shipments. 
GET BIG PEACE PROFITS 
by shipping to a big fur house in the world’s 
biggest market. No deductions, no commis¬ 
sions, no quibbling. .Tust big, quick returns for 
quick shipments. 
Send today for price list D 
RAW FURS 
WANTED 
21 Years’ experience S'i'l’p.iciS.S’ 
assortment and quick returns. Send for Price List. 
FRANK J. MULLER & CO. 
151 W. 25th SL - NEW YORK 
TRAPPERS 
Along in Nov. 
when furs get 
I prime, Jim Ellis 
will issue aprice 
list that any fur 
shipper can understand. There won’t be anything 
fiashy or sensational about it but the prices quoted 
and the prices paid will be the same and that’s all 
any fair minded man expects. 
JAMES P. ELLIS, Exporter Raw Furs 
34-36 EMIll Street MIDDLETOWN, N. Y 
Established 1899. Price list free. 
PfSiits buy 
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Ship to us this season 
and buy a fine sun 
with the Bxtta profits 
you get for your 
RAW FURS 
Our promise to pay shippers the high 
prices of the market pays you in extra profits 
and us in permanent shippers. Ship todayV 
and he convinced ! We pay all express and 
postal charges. 
Quotations on request. 
GunRsBunr&ii 
CHAS. S. President and 
123 West 27th St., New Yo?k Cit®*"®*^ 
RAW FURS 
Uncle bam 
Wants Your Furs \ 
He needs them to keep the boys warm S 
Our prices are sky high. 
Will pay 5 per cent, extra on single 
shipments amountin ’ 
to $50 or over. Ship us 
now. Write for price ii.st. 
Free on request. 
HARRY LEVY 
X33W. 2SthSt. New Vats 
A. SliSKIND & CO. 
154-56 W.27Te: 
i CO. ». RAW FURS 
HANDSOME SOUVENIR GIVEN ON RECEIPT OF FIRST SHIPMENT 
GET YOURS EARLY. WRITE FOR OUR PRICE LIST N 
fnie Meiraafioi^ 
Market 
[Trappers’ Guide 
^ Free on Request 
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inand for fure was never so great as right now. Your pelts are bound to come here 
eventually because they will be dressed, dyed, manufactured and sold here. Ship them 
direct to the market that srives you the big, quick money and a square doaU Wo co-oporaie with yoa. 
Address the Secretary, THE RAW FUR MERCHANTS’' ASSOCIATION* 46 Wcst24tb St., New YotIl ^ 
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Questions in Swine Breeding 
(Coutiimed from page 1.338) 
As to the use of the self-feeder, it.s use¬ 
fulness has been demonstrated as far as 
market pigs are concerned, and especially 
f()r late Summer or early farrowed Fail 
pigs. With Spring pigs that may have 
access to pasture or forage, the use of the 
self-feeder limits the amount of forage 
that they will harvest, and it is believed 
that hand feeding is undoubtedly moi-e 
economical under these conditions. With 
the late pigs, however, that do not have 
access to forage, the self-feeder stands out 
conspicuously as the most satisfactoi-y 
method, for it insures a full feed, and its 
consequent results are rapid and econom¬ 
ical gains. 
I would suggest that the brood sow. 
that is to farrow within the next two 
week.s, be given the following ration r 2()() 
pounds of ^ground oats, 100 pounds of 
oornmeal, oO pounds of wheat bran, and 
15 pounds of digester tankage, the ingre¬ 
dients being mixed and fed in the form of 
a thick slop in a quantity approximating 
a pound and a half of .the mixture for 
each 100 pounds live weight of the animal. 
In other words, if the brood sow weighed 
400 pounds, i?fhe should be fed daily six 
pounds of the mixture. If you have some 
Alfalfa or clover hay, this can be fed in 
slat rackS; probably in quantities approx¬ 
imately two ponncls per animal per day. 
If the hay is,available and palatable, two 
pounds of this roughage will replace two 
pounds of the grain. 
M HIGHEST PRICES 
~ FOR YOUR FURS ■ 
Edibility of Horse Cbesliiiif 
Are horso-chostnnts lit to eat or notV 
Some claim that when dried and roasted 
they are as good as any other che.sti'iit. 
Ohio. p. p. 
Horse-chestnuts are not palatable and 
cannot be used in the same way as obtains 
with the Tegular chestnut used by the 
street vender. As far as I know they do 
not have any, value or market whatsover. 
and only satisfy a rather curious belief 
some people retain that they have some 
miraculous quality of competing w’ith cer¬ 
tain muscular disorders in the human 
system when they are carried in an insidi* 
Iiocket. As foolish as this belief is never¬ 
theless, it has its folloAvers, but surely 
their ideas are false. 
Stall-Fed Cattle 
I have a farm of 48% acres, about 30 
under cultivation. I wish to keep about 
20 head of cattle, but am short on pasture. 
Would it be wise to plow pasture, plant 
to silo corn, and feed silage and grain 
Winter and Summer, keeping cattle in 
barn year, around?. Can you give ex¬ 
perience with stall feeding, how it is done, 
also results obtained ? c. E. b. 
, The suggestion concerning the use of 
silage the year around, is a practical one, 
yet it has a number of discouraging fea¬ 
tures. If the farm in question will yield 
as much as 15 tons of silage per acre, it 
is, clearly evident that more actual food 
Avill be produced by instituting this rota¬ 
tion than would obtain in case a portion 
of the farm w'as devoted to pasture. Un¬ 
der average conditions, a thousand-pound 
dairy cow will comsume 35 iiouuds of 
silage per day, or approximately one thou¬ 
sand pounds a month, and she would re¬ 
quire on this basis six tons of silage per 
year. If an acre of corn will yield 10 
or 15 tons of silage per acre, it will pro¬ 
vide succulence sufficient for two matui’e 
animals throughout the year, while under 
average pasture conditions, it is generally 
estimated that it retiuires two acres to 
pasture a mature animal during the five 
or six months of the growing season. Of 
course, the cost of cultivation and of 
growing and harvesting the corn is con¬ 
siderable, and the silage will not main¬ 
tain the milk flow alone, while pasture 
grass in abundance is considered a well- 
balanced ration. 
The question, however, of even greater 
importance, involves the health and vigor 
of the animal. It is almost impossible to 
rear healthy, vigorous animals in close 
confinement; especially it is true with 
young animals that are being developed 
for breeding purposes. Exercise is funda¬ 
mental to normal growth and develop¬ 
ment, and confinement invariably dwarf.s 
their growth, decreases their ability and 
willingness to consume food, and evolves 
a machine whose efficiency is very low, 
and whose period of usefulness is rela¬ 
tively brief. A number of diseases, espe¬ 
cially tuberculosis and contagious abor¬ 
tion invariably jiarallel a stable of cows 
that do not have the freedom that a 
pasture affords, and if it is at all possible 
to utilize a portion of the farm for graz¬ 
ing purposes, I am convinced that this 
scheme would he more practical. 
A few years ago the soiling system was 
generally very popular among dairymen 
who were operating on small areas. They 
shared the belief that they were intensify¬ 
ing opei’ations without increasing labor 
costs. They abandoned a mimber of soil¬ 
ing crops owing to the extravagant cost 
of labor and equipment, and confined their 
sncculence to silage alone. A combination 
of silage and pasture forage is by all odds 
the most desirable on a small faiTti, ami 
I would certainly reserve at least suffi¬ 
cient pasture area for the young stock 
and breeders in the herd. 
If C. E. B. will request the New Jersey 
Experiment Station at New Brunswick. 
N. J., to forwai’d their bulletins on soil¬ 
ing crops and silage feeding to his address, 
he will note some figures that are ex¬ 
tremely interesting. 
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If you want to get the very most 
CASH money for your furs—get in 
touch with U3 at once. You will find 
that BECKER BROS. & CO. pay the 
highest prices every time. We are 
one of the largest and most reliable 
fur houses in the country. Our 32 
years’ square dealing assures you 
satisfaction on every shipment. 
Charge No Commission 
you are paid for FULL VALUE of your 
furs—notonccentdeductedtci commission 
—no otner deductions made. You get lib¬ 
eral grading—top market price and sour 
money ts sent same day shipment amves. 
We Pay Shipping Charges | 
BECKER BROS. & CO. pay all express 
and parcel post charges—this means extra 
money in your iiocket. 
FDFF Get Btarteii right—save time— 
P ntt write our nearest house for our 
MM i iii-x reliable price list, shipping tags 
and ma'-ket reoort-all absolutely FREE. 
Use coupon or a postal will do. 
BECKER BROSc & CO. 
Chicago Dept. 23 416 N. Dearborn St. 
New Y ork Dept. 23 129 West 29th St. 
New Orleans DepL 23 200 Decatur St. 
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TAKE NO RISK-USE COUPON 
Becker Bros. Sc Co. 
Send me your reliable Price List, Sbipt-ng 
Tags and Market Report, Exp'xun how you. 
ca n prove you pay higher pricee without risk 
on my part. 
Name___ 
Address_ 
IRAW FURS 
WANTED 
W E pay express charges and 
guaranteesailsfactory ana, 
prompt returns. Send us trial 
shipment. Will bold shipm ents 
separate 11 requested 
Milton Schrelber & Co; 
RAW FURS 
138-140 VOHK: 
CITY.- 
29* SI. 
Send for our price list today. 
Let ns prove to you that wo pay 
HIGHESTPRICES. We pay exactly 
, what we quote and know you will be 
’pleased with our LIBERAL GRADING. 
WULFSOHN 
I A house you can depend upon. 
I We make no deductions of any kind, , 
[•very shipment individual consideration 
regardless of how small or large. On 
, account of our unusual outlet for 
furs, wo can actually pay you 
I more money. Write for price list, 
Im WulIsohn&Co. 
205 Weet 27tk Street , 
New li'ork City 
give 
GET THE MOST MONEY 
FOR YOUR 
RAW FURS 
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Adilitional on all Flipimeiits ovor $50. I 
iTeed all your fiira to lill waitiug orders and 
will pay the )iii;heiit piloea to ?et them. 
Cooii; akuiiky fox, ojipossimi, mink, inu«k< 
rat, wolf and all others. Send shipments at 
ouce. CheeV. sant same day stiipin’l arrives. 
BEN CORN, 
HIGHEST PRICES 
,PaidforallkindsoflvaWrUrS 
1 need large quantities of all 
kinds of furs, and it will jiay 
you to get my price list. 
I especially solicit furs from 
all northern and central 
sections. Write for iny price 
list and Bhippiner tags today to 
O. L. SLENKER 
P.O.Box M-2, East Liberty, O. 
iniirrtno. pmg pays. Newillus. 
tells how to trap fox, muskrat, 
■^^^•skunk, wolf, mink, etc.; water den, 
snow, log, blind sets, etc., how to fiislan 
traps, stretch fin-8, make deadfalls, snares. Fur News, 
big illus. magazine, tells about fur markets, trapping, 
minting, woodcraft, fl.shing, fur farming, roots, herbs: 
lots of good stoi'io.s. Send 10c coin for copy of book and 
of magazine^ FUR NEWS. 71W. 23d St., New York, Room 405 
