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Ike RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
March 22. into 
Which Separator did^ 
John Brown Buy ? 
Suppose you were Farmer John Brown 
and you wanted to buy a separator. You 
asked several separator manufacturers to 
send you a ten-word telegram, stating in the most 
convincing way, why their separator was the one 
you should buy. Sharpies would only need five 
words: “Skims clean at any speed,” and you 
would not have to ask for anything further. 
SHARPLES 
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Cream separator 
No other separator manufacturer could put into 
five words or fifty words, as convincing an 
argument as “Skims clean 
at any speed.” They would 
tell you about the durability 
of their separator, that it was 
well-known, that it cost less 
and everything else but the 
one big reason why you need 
a separator—to get all the 
butterfat out of your milk. 
Sharpies also has the exclu¬ 
sive advantage of no discs in 
the bowl; knee-low tank; 
once a month oiling system; 
durable construction and, 
besides, it is the pioneer 
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Balanced Ration for Cow all the bay the cow will clean up three 
Would you give me the proper balanced times a day, and make up a grain ration 
ration for milking cows, using ground of 100 lbs. ground barley, 1,000 lbs. man, 
oats, corn, oilmeal, millet and corn fod- 100 lbs. corn and cob meal and oats, 200 
der? ' J - p - 
New Jersey. 
It is impossible to make tip a practical, 
exactly balanced ration using only the 
feeds you mention, since with the excep¬ 
tion of oilmeal the feeds are all low in 
lbs. cottonseed meal and 100 lbs. of lin¬ 
seed oil meal. H. F. J. 
Another Dairy Ration 
I would like a dairy feed ration. 1 
__ _ have grade Jerseys and a few Holsteins 
nrotein About as near as you can come Have mixed hay, and the following feeds : 
to it is to feed millet forenoon and after 
noon and corn fodder at noon and after 
supper. Give small feeds, what cows will 
clean up. Make grain mixture two parts 
Ground oats, gluten feed, cottonseed 
meal, hominy and molasses feed, and 
could perhaps get cornmeal. z. s. H. 
New York. 
Feed all the mixed hay the cows will 
bv weight ground oats, one part cornmeal clean up at least three times a day. Mako 
r1 twn nnrtci nilmpnl n. F. J. up a grain mixture of two parts ground 
and two paits oi e. . oa ts, one part molasses feed, one part 
-- _ hominy, two parts gluten feed and two 
Proportion of Butter to Milk parts cottonseed meal. Add one pound 
t-t Tip salt to each 100 pounds of feed. Feed a 
How; many pounds of buttei could be ^ of in t0 encll three to 
made from 100 pounds of three pei cent * d mi !k produced daily. h. f. J. 
milk? J. B. h. * j_ 
New Brunswick, N. J. 
Improving Dairy Ration 
I have a herd of 30 or more cows. 2b 
giving milk, but not as much as I think 
they should. My herd is mixed, Hoi 
One hundred pounds of three per cent 
milk contains three pounds of butterfat. 
Butter contains an average of S2 per .. 
cent fat. Three pounds of fat would gtein. Jersey and Guernsey. I am feed- 
therefore make as manv pounds of butter ing the following ration: 200 lbs. bran 
00 , . • , three or middlings. 200 lbs. oats and corn ground 
as S2 per cent is contained in thiee, oi togethep * pound for pound< 100 lbs. cot 
3.05 pounds of butter. The losses m tonseed, 100 lbs. gluten. 50 lbs. oil meal 
skimming and churning would amount to one per cent salt, home mixed: feeding 
a very little, so one could figure 3.5 eight pounds to a cow regardless of milk 
, . • ,. . 1AA given; two feedings of Timothy hay and 
pounds of butter from 100 l all the oat fodder they can clean up at 
three per cent milk. H. F. J. night. The water is running in front of 
_them all the time. The herd gives 160 
. quarts a day. We want good quality as 
Improving Milk Flow well as quantity, as ours is retail trade. 
I have a good-sized cow (Guernsey), 13 What change should I make iu tlm 
vears old, giving about S 1 /^ qts. of milk a ration ? s. L. M. 
•- — - ’ t o i —i ^^4- Maine. 
There is of course no question thai 
your cows would do better if you had 
better hay and some succulence, such as 
silage or’ roots. Timothy hay and oat 
fodder are about the poorest possible 
roughage for a dairy cow. A few niiuot 
changes in your grain ration will prob¬ 
ably help out some. Cut the middlings 
down to 100 lbs. and raise the cottonseed 
to 200 pounds and the oilmeal to 150 lbs. 
If you could get some dried beet pulp it 
would be a fine thing to put in 200 lbs. 
into the mixture. One other thing that 
should help some is to watch your milk 
sheet closely and feed according to milk 
dav She freshened on July 24 and is not 
in‘calf. I give her 6 qts. of ground oats 
and 5 qts. of brewers’ grains in the morn¬ 
ing; also 1 qt. of cow feed. At noon. 4 
qts. of ground oats; the same in the even- 
in She has good hay to eat. T walk her 
about one-half hour daily. My man has 
the fashion of stripping. Would that have 
a tendency to dry her up ■ _ M hat can 1 
do to make her give more milk 1 B. J. C. 
New Jersey. 
I consider your cow giving'a very fair 
amount of milk, considering that she 
freshened last July. You should get the 
cow with calf as soon as possible. Mix . - . . . 
• 4.* ,, nna v> v weight production, giving a pound of grain for 
up a grain ration of one part, by weignt, v pounds of milk produced daily 
ground oats, two parts dried brewers h. F. J. 
grains, two parts cornmeal, one part cot- --• 
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Three or four quarts of this mixtuie each i j iave a three-acre field I would 
night and morning should bring as good like to sow to millet or something for 
or better results than vou are now get- rough feed for milch cows, and perhaps 
tin- although when a cow has been milk- * horse. Some say millet is a poor feed 
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her increase her flow by feeding. The make it grow the most it possibly can 
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tendency to dry up the cow. Cows nat* millet. Sow two bushels of oats and one 
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as strippers by being milked by poor 
milker. H 
Milk Fever 
My best Jersey cow, age 10 years, has 
had a bad attack of milk fever each time 
she freshened for the last two years, but 
yielded to tbe oxygen treatment by the 
veterinary. Tbe last siege was worse 
than the first. Previously a neighbor 
owned her, and I do not think he had 
this trouble. I feed grain freely, and he 
did not. I thought of giving her a 
two months’ rest this time and giving her 
only hay and possibly bran and carrots. 
Would this rationing and rest be likely 
to help matters? Will you give a proper 
ration for a fresh Jersey cow at this 
season? I have corn and cob meal and 
oats ground together, ground barley, 
wheat bran and cottonseed meal; can get 
linseed meal. I have no more cornstalks, 
just a good quality of Timothy and Red- 
top, cut when green and juicy, aud this 
hay has about 10 per cent of Alfalfa. 
Connecticut. A. J. P. 
It seems that cows that are in ® very 
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meal, wheat middlings and dried blood 
Gradually replace the skim-milk with 
water and start by giving four ounces 
of the grain mixture in eight to 30 pounds 
of skim-milk and water, and at the end 
of a month or six weeks you will have 
the calf on the water and meal entirely, 
giving a pound of the meal iu eight to 
10 pounds of water daily. The calf 
should be eating some hay by this time 
H. F. .T. 
Feeding Silage to Horse 
On page 234 I see Prof. Minkler says, 
“I would not under any circumstances 
feed silage to horses.” I hope you will 
pardon me, but I shall have to disagree 
with the professor. I have fed silage t< 
horses for more than 15 years with the 
best of results, as follows; To a horse 
weighing about 1.000 lbs. a half-bushel 
basket every morning with a ground feed 
on top, no hay. At noon, light feed of 
hay with grain, and at night grain and 
what hay a horse will eat up clean. Some 
horses do not like it at first, and one 
should start with a small quantity of 
nice clean silage. I have never had a 
horse that would not eat it. and gain in 
condition and weight. The first Winter 
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and ration of hay, bran and carrots, othprg ranging from 000 to 1.000 lbs. 
would make the cow less liable to have These horses shed their hair in the Spring 
the trouble when she freshens. I would long before any in the section, although 
lilt uuuitit ^ were not blanketed in the stall, and 
say make the ration two parts by weight f] , om 100 to lr - ( ) lbs. heavier. They 
of bran, one part of cornmeal or gluten. were W orked hard every day in all kinds 
an d half part linseed oil meal. This with of weather, and the meat business is not 
th- ranote will keep thy « ; W, bowels ia S toU will' 
good open condition, which is very de- eflt t y s up n jg 0 (| ie s l 0 ok and healthy 
si ruble. Feed enough grain so cow keeps condition of them iu every particular, 
in good condition, but not too fat. Feed Vermont, h. i\ clark. 
