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Grain Ration; Education for Farm Boys 
Would you give mo a grain ration for 
Guernsey-Holeteiu cows, the oldest six 
years? We have good Learning silage, 
well-eared and mixed clover, Alfalfa and 
Timothy hay. I have been feeding half 
distillers’ grains and Buffalo gluten and 
made butter, but now have to send the 
milk to the factory. My two sons, high 
school boys, care for stock very regularly ; 
they are natural farmers, but not natural 
students; still they are anxious to get an 
education and graduate from high school. 
What do you consider to be the best plan 
for such boys; sending them off to some 
agricultural school or lettiug them work 
with some good practical farmer who is a 
man of good principle? They are both 
strong boys, one la years, six feet tall, 
and the other 17 years, 5 feet 10 inches. 
The youngest is in his second year at high 
school; the other in his third. The oldest 
one has had a very hard time with the 
"flu" and is quite behind in his school 
work; thinks he cannot make good at 
regents’ examinations. Would you advise 
his entering another school this Winter? 
If so. what course would be the most 
practical for a boy with limited means? 
New York. e. r. t. 
Feed the cows .",0 to 40 lbs. of silage 
per bead per day and all the hay they 
will clean up. Dried distillers’ grains are 
line to use in the ration, but probably you 
will not be able to get them much longer. 
If they are available, make up a grain 
mixture of 200 lbs. dried distillers’ grains, 
200 lbs. of liomiuy feed or cornmeal, or 
300 lbs. of hominy. 100 lbs. of wheat mid¬ 
dlings, and 100 lbs. of gluten feed. If 
distillers’ grains go off the market, make 
it 200 lbs. of wheat bran or ground oats 
or ground barley. 100 lbs. of hominy feed, 
100 lbs. of gluten feed and 100 lbs. of cot¬ 
tonseed or linseed oilmeal. In either case 
add a pound of coarse fine salt to each 100 
lbs. of feed. These feeds are mixed by 
simply dumping them in a pile, lightest 
feeds at the bottom, on the floor and 
shoveling them over a couple of times and 
then into the feed bin. 
It would certainly seem advisable for 
the younger boy to remain in high school 
and pass up his year's work, lie can 
most likely decide on his future career 
much better after he has finished high 
school. If the older boy is settled on 
running the farm and must lose out this 
year iu high school anyway, it would be 
best for you to write the Register of Cor¬ 
nell University at Ithaca and find out 
what kind of an agricultural* course he 
can enter with his limited amount of high 
school work. Most of our State institu¬ 
tions have very practical two-year courses 
in agriculture that with some practical 
experience on an up-to-date farm admir¬ 
ably fit a young man to take up the man¬ 
agement of a farm of his own. H. F. j. 
“Hie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Hard Churning 
I have two cows. I feed them corn 
fodder, hay. meal, bran and mangel beets. 
One gives more milk than the other, but 
it takes me from two to three hours to 
churn, and one batch of cream did not 
come to butter then. I would like to 
know why. Everything gets the same 
care. H. E. R. 
Vermont. 
At this time of year we get hundreds of 
letters from people having trouble in get¬ 
ting butter to come. The main reasons 
are the fact that the cow or cows have 
been milking for some time, a thin cream 
is separated, cream ripened but little, 
churning temperature too low and feed is 
not of succulent or juicy nature. Cream 
from cows far advauced in lactation, par¬ 
ticularly if they be Ilolsteins, churns with 
great difficulty. If this cream contains 
less than 25 per cent fat. and is not rip¬ 
ened so it begins to taste sour, churning is 
all the more difficult. The thermometer, 
if one ie used, may be inaccurate. A few 
degrees make a big dffereuee. A thin 
cream may have to be churned as high as 
65° F. at this time of year, aud the butter 
firmed slightly by using colder wash wa¬ 
ter. The beets you are feeding should 
help on the feeding part of it. Another 
factor that may enter in is having the 
churn too full or not full enough. One- 
fourth to one-third full is best. 
If ripening the cream a little more and 
using a higher churning temperature does 
not bring the butter, pasteurize the cream 
the day before churning by setting pail of 
cream in vessel of hot water and heating 
it to 145 degrees and holding it there 30 
minutes. Then cool to churning tempera¬ 
ture. hold over night aud churn. Keep 
cream stirred during heating and cooling 
process. Cream thus pasteurized churns 
much easier than unpasteurized sweet 
cream. If you happen to be using a sep¬ 
arator be sure to see to it that you skim 
about a 30 per cent cream. n. F. j. 
Ration for Holsteins 
Will you give me a good balanced 
grain ration to feed three grade llolsteiu 
cows? I have only corn fodder for rough- 
age. F. L. C. 
Connecticut. 
It cannot be done with corn fodder as 
the sole roughage. This feed is low in 
protein and requires that high protein 
feeds be used with it. To make an exact 
balance would require the sole use of a 
feed even richer iu protein than cotton¬ 
seed meal. I should make the ration as 
near balanced as possible by using three 
parts cottonseed meal, two parts wheat 
bran, one part linseed oilmeal and one 
part gluten feed. h. f. j. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New Jersey State Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion,jinnual meeting, Trenton, N. J., Jan. 
14-17. 
Trenton, N. J.—Poultry Show'. .Tan. 
13- 3 7. 
Boston, Mass.—Poultry Show*. Jan. 
14- 18. 
, Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety and New York State Fruit Growers’ 
Association, joint meeting, Rochester. N. 
Y.. Jan. 15-17. 
Third Annual New Jersey Agricultural 
Convention, Trenton, Jan. 13-17. 
New Jersey State Poultry Association, 
annual meeting and exhibition, the Arm¬ 
ory. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 13-17. 
National Western Stock Show. Denver, 
Colo., Jan. 17-26. 
Farmers’ Week, Hartford, Conn., Jan. 
20-24. 
Madison Square Garden, New York— 
Poultry Show, Jan. 21-25. 
Connecticut Dairymen’s Association, 
Connecticut Sheep Breeders’ Association, 
Connecticut Poultrymen’s Association, 
Hartford. Conn., Jan. 21-22. 
New York State Breeders ’Association, 
Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 29-31. H. B. Har¬ 
pending, president, Dundee, N. Y. 
Connecticut Pomological Society. Con¬ 
necticut Vegetable Growers’ Association, 
Hartford, Conn., Jan. 23-24. 
Ohio State Corn and Grain Show, Co¬ 
lumbus, Jan. 27-31. 
Second Annual Ohio Farmers’ Tractor 
Demonstrations. Columbus. Jan. 27-31. 
Ohio Farm Bureau Association, Colum¬ 
bus. Jan. 27-28. 
Ohio Sheep and Wool Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Columbus, Jan. 27. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, Co¬ 
lumbus, .Tan. 28-29. 
Ohio State Vegetable Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, Columbus, Jan. 2S-30. 
State Farmers’ Institute, Columbus, 
Ohio. Jan. 28. 
Ohio Beekeepers’ Association, Colum¬ 
bus. Jan. 28-29. 
Ohio Rural Life Association, Colum¬ 
bus, Jan. 29-31. 
Reunion of Washington Corn Tourists, 
Columbus, Ohio, .Tan. 29. 
Ohio Pert-heron Breeders’ Association, 
Columbus. Jan. 29. 
Conference of Boys’ and Girls’ Club 
Workers. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 30-31. 
Ohio State Dairymen’s Association, Co¬ 
lumbus, Jan. 29-31. 
Ohio Jersey Cattle Club, Columbus, 
Jan. 29. 
Ohio Guernsey Breeders’ Association, 
Columbus, Jan. 30. 
Ohio Creamery Owners’ and Managers’ 
Association. Columbus. Jan. 30. 
Ohio Milk Distributors’ Association, 
Columbus, Jan. 30. 
Ohio Milk Producers’ Association. Co¬ 
lumbus. Jan. 30-31. 
TIolstein-Friesian Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion. Columbus. Ohio, Jan. 31. 
Ohio Swiss Cheese Association, Colum¬ 
bus, Jan. 31. 
American Carnation Society. Cleveland, 
Ohio. Jan. 29-30. 
Massachusetts Dairymen’s Association, 
annual meeting. Horticultural Hall, Bos¬ 
ton. week of Feb. 10. 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, annual meeting, Horticultural Hall, 
Boston. Feb. 11-12. 
Union meeting, agricultural organiza- 
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of Massachusetts, Horticultural 
Hall. Boston. Feb. 11-14. 
California International Live Stock 
Show. San Francisco. Cal., Feb. 8-15. 
Omaha Inter-State Land Show, Munici¬ 
pal Auditorium. Omaha. Neb., Feb. 12-22. 
Meeting of the Massachusetts State 
\ egetable Growers’ Association, to be 
held in Horticultural Hall, Boston. 
Feb. 12. 
Farmers’ Week. New York Agricultural 
College, Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 10-15. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
Jan. 30—Purebred Holsteins dispersal 
sale; Albert Braymer, Granville, N. Y. 
Feb. 4-5—Ilolsteins, Purebred Live 
Stock Sales Co.. Brattleboro, Vt. 
April 1-2— Holsteins, Purebred Live 
Stock Sales Co.. Brattleboro, Vt. 
Jan. 8-10—Ohio Shorthorn Breeders’ 
Association, Shorthorns, Columbus, Ohio; 
I . (u. Ross, sales manager. 
Feb. 18-21—Shorthorn Congress Show 
and Sale, Chicago, Ill.; F. W. Harding 
manager. 
March 7—W. C. McGavock, Duroc- 
Jerseys, Mt. Pulaski, Ill. 
A group of old ladies were talking 
knitt'ag on a veranda. The conversation 
got around to how much each weighed at 
birth. One old lady said: "Well I 
weighed just three and a half pounds." 
The others gasped and one of them asked : 
“And did you live?’’ "They say I did." 
answered the other woman, “and done 
well.”—Boston Transcript. 
The Essex—$1395 
Light Weight, Durable, Rich in Appointments, Low 
in Cost, Economical and a Tremendous Performer 
Is Now Ready 
You are to advertise the Essex. 
Instead of our praising it, we wish you to 
do that. And what you will say is what 
we want everyone else to think. 
Every praise that can be suggested has 
already been applied to some other car 
and, as you know, all cars do not come 
up to the claims made for them. 
So the Essex must speak for itself. 
It is endorsed and will be sold by the lead¬ 
ing automobile dealers in every section of 
the world. 
Dealers of their type do not take on cars 
about which they have the least doubt. 
They do not make selling contracts with 
new and untried organizations. 
The Essex Will Endure 
A real car must have stability. It must 
remain rigid and free from squeaks and 
rattles. 
You will see why this is so with 
the Essex. Hard service cannot 
loosen the body Joints nor twist 
the radiator. 
Be sure this is emphasized by 
driving over cobblestone pave¬ 
ments or rough roads. Take any 
speed you like. You will find it a 
comfortable ride and will marvel 
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that over such a road and at such a speed 
you are not pitched or bounced about. 
Has Economy of the Light Car, 
Comfort and Endurance 
of the Costliest 
The Essex’s motor would inspire a whole 
season’s advertising campaign. A slogan 
might be written about its beauty. 
Its economy of fuel, lubrication and tires 
appeals to others. 
It awakens the pride of ownership. It has 
dignity that comes from power and poise. 
It will retain its smoothness and flexibility 
and quietness throughout long hard service. 
The Essex is light in weight and cost. It 
is rich in detail and refinement. 
Everyone says nice things about the Essex. 
We Are Not Asking You To Buy 
Now, Just Ride in the Essex 
Only a few cars are available for 
each territory. The first ones are 
being distributed so as to reveal 
their qualities to the greatest 
number of people. When you see 
by the newspaper that your dealer 
is ready with his Essex, go look at 
it and tell your impressions to 
friends. 
