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Tie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 20. 1910 
Equipment 
Making Good Cows 
More Profitable 
The extra quarts in the milk pail 
are the cow’s response to STAR 
Equipment. 
The arched STAR Stall, the STAR Align¬ 
ment Device, the open STAR Water Bowl 
with the slanting valve lever, and other 
STAR features make good cows more 
profitable and give you equipment that 
is stronger in construction, better look¬ 
ing and easier to install. 
Write for tie New STAR Barn Book 
Ask for Free STAR Barn Plans 
STAR Equipment includes Bam Equip¬ 
ment, Litter Carriers, “Harvester” Hay 
Tools, Door Hangers, Garage Equipment 
Coaster Wagons, Tank Heaters and other 
farm specialties. Everything needed 
from floor to roof. Tell us how many 
cows you keep and we shall mail you 
onr new STAB Barn Book Free. Catalos T3. 
HUNT, HELM, FERRIS & CO. 
Complete Barn Outfitters 
Harvard, Ill. Albany. N. Y. 
| MISCELLANEOUS | 
For Sale: 3 REGISTERED 
Yearling ANGUS BULLS 
I Queen Mother, 1 Blackbird, 1 Blackcap. These 
Bulls are the profitable kind and PRICEO RIGHT. 
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY DEPT. 
DELAWARE COLLEGE NEWARK, DELAWARE 
Walgrove Herd Shorthorns 
OVER 50 HEAD IN HERD 
At the recent Breeders’ Sale, Erie, Pa., March 21st, 
of over 100 head, we sold the top priced bull, a ten- 
nios.-old calf. Herd heading bulls our specialty. 
WALNUT GROVE FARM, Washingtonville. N. Y. 
50 Head Shetland 
new price list. THE SHENANG0 POUT FARMS, Depl. 0, Espyvifle. P». 
Want Pure Toggenburg Doe 
Hornless. Heavy milk strain. Full particulars. 
Dr. Gordon, - Cranbury. N. J. 
ANGORA and MILK GOATS 
and PEAFOWLS FOR SALE. 
PINE DELL PLANTATION. Williamsburg. Virginia 
DOGS 
AiredaleT err iers 
WANTED 
Young, grown or whole litter. Must be thorough¬ 
bred. healthy, reasonable. Send full particulars 
with price to C. D.,'Somerville, N. J. 
Airedales and Collies ®7 a “f* 
pups, grown dogs, and brood matrons. Large in¬ 
structive list, fie. W. R. WATSON, Box 1745, Oakland. Iowa 
Airedale IPups For Sale 
two months old; thoroughbred. Also registered inn le. ten 
mos. old; female, six 1110 s. FRANK I*. Ml.AI). Anu-niu. .\. I. 
COLLIE and SHEPHERD Puppies 
Males, females, and spayed females. Write for catalog. 
Mv prices are reasonable. EDW IN A. SOUDKII. Telford, I’-. 
Foxhound Pups. Walker Strain. Field, Somers. Conn. 
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Two Excellent Vegetable Books 
By R. L Waffs 
Vegetable Gardening.$1.75 
Vegetable Forcing ....... 2.00 
For sale by 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 W. 30th St., New York 
SHEEP 
A. H. S. A. 16643 
FOR SALE 
Registered Hampshire Sheep 
Rams and Ewes 
APPLY 
Ophir Farm - - Purchase, N. Y. 
SWINE 
F S—Reo Berkshires and Chester White and Berkshire 
cross. 8>10 to 8>15 each. Longfellow strain. 
Some very line breeding. Circular free. Ready for 
delivery first week in April. Satisfaction or money 
refunded. R W. WAGNER. Box 222N, East Nortliport.L. I. 
Registered Poland Chinas HaffTon 
boars from dams tlmr weigh to 800. Pigs, Sows and Boars 
for Service. K. K O W E X, I,, Jit., Scottsburg, Virginia 
Reg. Duroc-dersey and Hampshire IPigs 
Mar. farrowed, S15 each. One yearling Dutch Belt¬ 
ed Hull, Reg., S125. J. G. SCHILLING. Stockbridoe. Mass. 
CHESHIRES ? i,e Quaiitjr pic 
for the Eastern 
trade. The ideal type from the MorningSrde herd. 
Figs that will please. MORNINGSIDE FARM, Sylvania, Pa 
O.I.C. 
8-10 wks. pigs. Schoolmaster and Trade, 
winner breeding. Send for sale list 
SPRING VALLEY FARM, Slemplils, N. Y; 
Reg. O. I. C. PIGS Good S b?eed^ 
Prices right. C. I. B W AT Z E, K ml low vlllc, N.\ . 
For Sale—Reg. Big Type Poland China Pigs 
Best Western blood. Shipped anywhere by Express. 
Write for prices and let uie tell you about my pigs. 
G. S. HALL, - Farmdale, Ohio 
LargeTypeO.I.C.Male Pigs 
8 weeks old. sired l>y Master Iv. No. 73190. They are a fine 
lot. $16 with pedigree. VERNON It. I.AFEEK, Middlesex, N.Y. 
TAMWORTlfJHAMPSHIRE SWINE 
write or visit REYNOLDS LYIIROOK FARMS COMPANY 
Successor to Westvlow Stock Parrs 
K. 1 Wlnatoii-Snlcni, N. C. 
Hampshire* of Quality Jikee^jing 
Eight weeks old pigs now' ready. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed or money back. M. 0 PHILLIPS North East, Pa. 
ForSale-Reg. HAMPSHIRE PIGS 
Large type, good belts. Most profitable hog on earth. Cir¬ 
cular. ELITE STOCK FARM, It. 1, Oneida, N. Y . 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
A New Mexico Jersey 
The picture shows Roehette’s Princess, 
imported, an eight-year-old cow. with rec¬ 
ord of 17,891 lbs. milk and 933 lbs. butter- 
fat iu ope year. 
- Roehette’s Priucess made a strong race 
for a new Jersey record for butterfat. In 
one month she produced 308 lbs. fat. 
Even though she did not equal the present 
record of 1,000 lbs. fat, her record is a 
remarkable one, when it is considered that 
at no time during her test was her owner 
able to provide all the necessary feeds, 
and that for five months she was without 
I silage. Her latest record makes her fourth 
in milk production and tenth in fat pro¬ 
I would not use iron siding sheets in 
preference to boards on the outside of the 
studding. In fact, I would not use the 
studding at all, but would rather use the 
matched spruce as prepared especially for 
the silo. It is almost impossible to make 
the inside surface of a silo, built as you 
have suggested, smooth and free from 
edges that would hinder the natural set¬ 
tling of the silage. If nails are used 
they are very apt to rust and project in 
such a manner as to catch the silage, 
which eventually will spoil. 
Feeding Brood Sow 
Will you advise me as to the proper 
ration to feed a brood sow due to farrow 
early in May? I would also like to know 
the ration to feed after farrowing and for 
maintenance the remainder of the time. 
Pochette's Princess Imported, a Jersey with a Fine Producing Record 
duction among the leading cows of the 
Jersey breed. She is owned by Mcldrum 
Gray of New Mexico. 
Silo Construction 
Will you criticize the following plans 
for a silo, and suggest any improvements 
which you can? I am planning a silo 12 
ft. in diameter, 4 ft. below ground, 1 ft. 
cement above ground, with 30 ft. wood¬ 
work on top. How thick should the cement 
wall be. and what does it need for rein¬ 
forcement? Broken stone is not avail¬ 
able. but can get gravel which is mixed 
with varying amounts of rounded “cob¬ 
bles” of all sizes. What per cent of ce¬ 
ment should be mixed with this? What 
means should be provided for anchoring 
the woodwork to the cement? I am plan¬ 
ning to make the sill of two thicknesses 
of 2x4 in 2-ft. lengths and laid in a circle, 
a 2x4 stud every 12 in. on this and lined 
with two layers of %x(i-in.xl2-ft. spruce 
with paper between, one layer of the same 
with the edges lapped on the outside. 
Would it be feasible to use painted iron 
siding sheets instead of the boarding on 
the outside of the studding? Will there 
be any serious difficulty in bending spruce 
strips to a 12-ft. circle? I would very 
much like, if possible, to have a continu¬ 
ous door opening. If the door posts are 
4x5. 2 ft. apart, with a tie-rod through 
them every 30 ius. ; how large would 
these rods need to be. and would there be 
any danger of. the spring of the. boards 
throwing it “out of round” ? I could run 
one strip of the outside sheathing across 
the opening iu front, of each tie-rod. but 
it would be very much, more convenient 
to have the opening entirely clear of 
boarding. If common eightpenny nails 
are used for the lining will there be any 
danger of their rusting off? R. E. c. 
The^e, is very little to criticize about 
your plan of a silo. There are advantages 
in extending a silo 4 ft. under ground, 
viz., it is not necessary to put in a drain 
and the liquid residue will be confined in 
this basin and will not percolate out 
through the lower doors, as prevails where 
there is no underground work planned. 
It is difficult, however, to get silage out 
of the bottom of such a silo, as it will 
have to be handled twice; that is. thrown 
on the.floor level first and then handled 
into a truck. 
I rather favor a silo that is built flush 
with the ground and where the foundation 
extends a foot or 18 in. above the floor 
surface. The foundation walls would 
best be 0 or S iu. thick and had best be 
reinforced. The woodwork should be 
anchored to the cement by means of half- 
inch bolts that would set down into the 
cement and should be. anchored with the 
large washers or convenient braces. They 
should be provided with taps so they can 
be bolted down tight to the wall. These 
should be placed at. intervals of 24 ins. 
We have skim-milk, bran, gluten feed, 
ground oats, oilmeal and corn, ground or 
ou the ear. Cannot get clover or Alfalfa 
bay and will not have skim-milk in the 
Winter. After June will have rape and 
clover hay. Should the feed be given as 
slop or a self-feeder? What is the proper 
mineral mixture to feed? What do you 
consider the best form of house or pen 
to keep a sow in for Winter? j. o. E. 
Massacb usetts. 
A brood sow, due to farrow iu May, if 
she has had access to a forage crop which 
is supplemented with clover hay. would 
do well if she were fed two pounds of 
grain per day for each 100 pounds of 
live weight of the following mixture : 
Ten pounds of eornmeal or hominy meal, 
four pounds of ground oats, two pounds 
of middlings and one pound of digester 
tankage. If you do not have the tankage, 
oilmeal can be substituted, although 
neither tankage nor oilmeal is necessary 
where skim-milk is available. Comment 
could replace the hominy meal or, if you 
have it on the ear, it is not necessary 
that it be ground for use in feeding 
mature animals. Let her have access to 
a limited amount of this grain mixture 
until the pigs are three or four weeks 
old. when her ration should bo increased 
to all she will clean up with relish until 
the pigs are done with nursing. I would 
not do away with the self-feeder until 
the nursing pigs are three weeks old. yet 
from this date until the pigs are weaned, 
from eight, to 10 weeks old, the self- 
feeder could be used to great advantage. 
The feeds for the self-feeder should not 
bo mixed, but the cornmeal should be 
placed in one hopper, the ground oats in 
another, and the tankage or oilmeal iu 
another division, aud the sow should be 
given as much skim-milk as she would 
drink with relish twice daily, Usually 
five pounds of skim-milk for each pound 
of grain consumed is a fair basis to de¬ 
termine. The advantage in using the self- 
feeder follows from the fact that the 
young pigs will readily become accus¬ 
tomed to its use, the brood sow can make 
milk quite <as economically as with any 
other agency during her nursing period, 
and the pigs will be kept growing and 
gaining from the very moment they are 
born . As for the mineral mixture, equal 
parts of salt, sulphur, bouemeal. char¬ 
coal and air-slaked lime will suffice. 
I prefer the tepee colony house, which 
is 8x8 on the ground and six feet high, 
for use as Winter quarters for a brood 
sow. The house can be partially covered 
with cornstalks or straw, or some refuse 
material, which would eliminate drafts 
and, if it is located at some distance 
from the feeding troughs, it will make 
the sow take regular exercise. Where 
brood sows are confined in small pens 
they are apt to be unsanitary and un¬ 
clean. and for this reason the best re¬ 
sults follow when the colony house sys¬ 
tem is adopted. 
