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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
March 29, 1919 
T HE best time to buy a De Laval is when you 
need it most. 
With cows freshened, or freshening soon, you 
will have more milk to handle. 
And with butter-fat at present prices you can’t 
afford to lose any of it. 
If you are still skimming by the “gravity” 
method or if you are trying to get along with an 
nferior or “half-worn-out” separator, you certainly 
are losing a lot of valuable butter-fat. 
So you see that the combination of larger milk 
supply and a high price for butter-fat can mean only 
one thing—you need the best separator to be had 
Right Now 
The best cream separator you can get is the 
only machine you can afford to use these days, and 
creamerymen, dairy authorities and the 2,325,000 
De Laval users all agree that the De Laval is the 
world’s greatest cream saver. They know from 
experience that the De Laval is the most econom¬ 
ical machine for them to use. 
If you buy a De Laval you will get a machine 
that is tried and tested and true—a machine that 
will give you genuine service—and you will get the 
cleanest skimming, easiest turning, longest wearing 
cream separator that money can buy. 
Order your De Laval now and let it begin saving cream for you right 
away. Remember that a De Laval may be bought for cash or on such 
liberal terms as to save its own cost. See the local De Laval agent, or. 
if you don’t know him, write to the nearest De Laval office as below. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR COMPANY 
165 Broadway, New York 29 E. Madison St., Chicago 
The Best Time to Buy a 
CREAM SEPARATOR 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered By Prof, i. C. Minkler 
Livestock Partnership 
How are the profits divided and how 
are thing* figured it' A and It own pure¬ 
bred Holstein cows as half partners? A 
owns the farm that the silage and hay 
are grown on. Cows are in A’s barn, 
and also pasture on A’s farm. It milks 
and does all chores around the cows; lie 
also helps A produce all the roughage. 
Each pay half of the grain hills. Is B 
entitled to one-half of the profits, or what 
part is he entitled: to? The only differ¬ 
ence between the two is that A owns the 
, farm, for which he pays taxes, mortgage 
and fire insurance. The manure goes 
back to the farm. M. S. 
New York. 
If A owns the farm and A and B to¬ 
gether own the livestock, and provided 
both turn in and work the field to plant 
and harvest the crops, and share equally 
in the cost of concentrated grains, it is 
doubtful if B would he entitled to one- 
half the proceeds. A’s investment would 
he a great deal more than B’s. for he 
owns the lard, half the cattle and does. 
Timothy and clover hay that she would 
clean up with relish. It might he pos¬ 
sible for you to got along without, the 
liominy, especially if your cows are in 
good flesh. I would surely add the eot- 
touseed meal, however, as this will add 
very materially to the feeding value of 
your buckwheat and oats. It is not pos¬ 
sible to modify the percentage of butter 
fat that a cow. would yield by making 
changes in the ration,"and this same ra¬ 
tion would apply whether you were mak¬ 
ing market milk or producing cream or 
butter. 
Yeast Grains; Stale Bread 
1. For the past Winter I have been 
feeding a ration for my Holstein cows, 
suggested by you. with excellent results. 
Now I am offered a by-product from a 
yeast factory, resembling brewers’ grains 
(wet). The cost of this is $11 a ton. 
Could you give me some information as to 
the merits of this product as a unit for a 
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I judge, half the work on the farm. 
Usually the tenant supplies all the labor 
and equipment necessary for the operation 
of the farm, and places such labor and 
equipment against B's livestock, and 
and permanent equipment. I should say 
that in this instance A should be entitled 
to two-thirds of the revenue derived from 
the sale of milk, and B should be entitled 
to the other third; but to offset that B 
should furnish one-third of the concen¬ 
trates that would of necessity be pur¬ 
chased for feeding the animals. If it is 
desired to place it on a 50-50 basis, then 
A should put his land, buildings and 
equipment against B’s live stock, and 
labor and movable equipment. They 
should share equally in the cost of the 
purchased feed stuffs, and likewise share 
equally in the distribution of the proceeds 
resulting from the sale of the products 
or livestock. 
Feeding for Butter Making 
Will you advise a balanced ration for 
cows? I have a quantity of buckwheat 
and oats, already ground and mixed, half 
and half, by measure. What should I buy 
to add to this mixture, in order to make a 
balanced ration, where butter is the chief 
object? In answering, please state if 
weight or measure is meant; also tell 
about how much should be fed to each 
cow at a feed. For roughage I have only 
mixed Timothy and clover hay, with con¬ 
siderably more Timothy than clover. I 
have plenty of oats and buckwheat of my 
own, hut will have to buy the extra feed. 
Trumbull Co., O. H. c. J. 
. Buckwheat middlings and ground oats 
together will make an excellent base for 
a ration for dairy cows. In itself, how¬ 
ever. it would not he a balanced ration, 
and I would suggest the following mix¬ 
ture: 400 lbs. ground buckwheat and 
oats. 200 lbs. hominy. 200 lbs. cottonseed 
meal. I would feed 1 lb. of this grain 
mixture for each 4 lbs. of milk produced 
per cow. per day; in other words, a cow 
giving 40 lbs. of milk would ho entitled to 
10 lbs. of the grain mixture per day. and, 
iu addition, should be given all of the 
dairy ration? What substance is taken 
from the grain when yeast is manufac¬ 
tured? What substance is taken when 
beer or liquor is manufactured? 2. Be¬ 
ing situated near cities, our neighbors buy 
stale bread at $25 per ton. This contains 
rye and wheat bread, and also cake. In 
addition to grain, they soak this bread in 
water and feed to their cows. What is 
the value of this? b. f. 
New York. 
1. The hv-product from yeast factories, 
resembling wet brewery grains, would 
make a very useful base for a ration in¬ 
tended for feeding dairy cows. It would 
supply succulence, a considerable amount 
of protein, would add palatability to the 
ration, and. if it were supplemented with 
corn or hominy meal and cottonseed meal, 
it would make a very useful mixture. At 
$11 a ton, provided the cost of hauling 
from the station was not too great, it 
would be a relatively cheap feed, although 
you could not well afford to pay very 
much more than this figure for the pro¬ 
duct, inasmuch as it contains such a high 
percentage of moisture. Wet brewery 
grains and eornmeal have proved to be a 
very excellent feed for dairy cows. The 
addition of cottonseed meal, particularly 
for milking cows, increases the protein 
and prevents certain laxativeness which 
often obtains when cows are fed extrava¬ 
gant amounts of wet feed of this sort. A 
cow yielding 40 lbs. of milk a day. sup¬ 
plied with a reasonable amount of the 
wet grains, say 20 or 30 lbs., and. in ad¬ 
dition. 4 lbs. of corn or hominy meal and 
2 lbs. of cottonseed meal, would yield 
milk abundantly and economically. Usu¬ 
ally grains of this sort contain about 75 
per cent of water, and have slightly over 
one-fourth the feeding value of an equal 
weight of the dry brewery grains. The 
difficulty that often prevails is the fact 
that the brewery grains, or by-products, 
are relatively so cheap that there is a 
great temptation to feed the cows ex¬ 
clusively on this material, and. as a re¬ 
sult, it is very washy and often depletes 
the system. Timothy hay or mixed hay 
would serve a useful purpose iu supply- 
