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Wit RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
April 2G, 1919 
How Much Milk Are 
You Realty Getting ? 
Weigh each cow’s milk every day. Put it right on the 
scales—don’t just make a guess at it. Know exactly how 
much milk you are getting from each cow in your herd. 
Keep a written record of their production and weed out 
the “boarders” that are a drag on your profits. 
Seals* Will Tell 
The scales will also tell you which 
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the most milk. They will prove to 
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milk flow of the herds of thou¬ 
sands of dairymen and it will in¬ 
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Larro-Feed users. All we ask is 
that you give Larro-Feed, itself, 
a chance to prove its merit. 
Larro-Feed is the best feed I have 
ever used to make cows awe milk . / 
have one old cou) u)ith not many 
teeth aiding SO lbs. a day. 
John N. McClare, 
i" Quarryville. Pa. 
/ consider Larro-Feed indispensa¬ 
ble. Cows’ appetite for it is as keen 
when they are being tested and 
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, --— Pulaski, N. Y. 
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In every wool-growing country large num¬ 
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ROBERT A. REICHARD ^ 
15 W. Lawrence St. Allentown. Pa.o 
Milk and Live Stock 
Lengthening the Pasture Season 
I wish you would let me know your 
opinion of a certain idea I have had for a 
number of years, but never have acted 
upon. My style of farming is to milk half 
a dozen cows, sell the cream, raise as 
many calves as I can on the skim-milk, 
mainly to sell for beef, and raise most of 
the feed for the stock. No cash crops ex¬ 
cept the surplus from the family garden. 
Of course, in this climate the greatest 
profit on this is the pasture in Summer. 
In the Fall I turn ofl - all head of stock 
of seven months or more, lla.v has been 
$35 a ton here this Winter, so you can 
see it pays better to sell than to feed. 
The idea I mentioned is whether in such' 
States as Maryland and Virginia the pas¬ 
ture season would not be sufficiently long¬ 
er to make this kind of farming about 
twice as profitable as it s here. In.Mich¬ 
igan we put our stock on pasture any¬ 
where between April 15 and May 1, but 
they generally need supplementary feed 
until the middle of May. I -should think 
that in Virginia the pasture season would 
start two months earlier and last until 
December, or about nine or 10 months in 
a year, as against five or six mouths 
here. M. J. w. 
Michigan. 
The length of the pasture season in 
Virginia and Maryland depends some¬ 
what on the character of the seasou. and 
also very largely on the part of the State. 
In the best grazing section of Virginia, 
the southwestern -counties bordering on 
North Carolina, where the lands run from 
1,000 to 2,200 feet above the sea, the pas¬ 
ture season will he a little earlier than 
in Michigan, while in the southeast sec¬ 
tion. in tidewater, there will be more or 
less pasture the greater part of the Win¬ 
ter if such grasses as Orchard grass pre¬ 
dominate. But that section is little de¬ 
voted to stock. The Shenandoah Valley 
will usually have pasturage by the last of 
March and up to near Christmas. The 
same differences are found in Maryland. 
a herd of mostly Holstein cows, and hav¬ 
ing need for much beef, we fatten and 
butcher all our steers from our dairy 
herd. We have found that they have been 
very satisfactory used in that way, but 
do not believe that they would do very 
well if put on the general market, as the 
Holstein steer is an ugly brute even when 
in good flesh. We find that they will 
butcher out far ahead of the Jersey steers, 
however, and that they are if any differ¬ 
ence a little better beef. Our experience 
has been that it has never paid to let 
them get more than two years old. Older 
than that they do not gain fast enough 
to justify keeping them. We have tried 
•some crossing with the Polled Angus, and 
like the calves we get from this cross 
very much. They are well-made animals, 
good-looking, and although not- quite as 
large, will attain their growth sooner and 
butcher out more than the full bloods. 
But when crossing we are out if we get 
a heifer calf, for she has to go to the 
butcher too. I do not. believe that for 
the open market- they will amount to 
much but where sold locally to the butch¬ 
ers they are very satisfactory. 
West Virginia. l. g. zixn. 
Saratoga County, N. Y„ Guersey Breed¬ 
ers' Association 
A County Guernsey Breeders' Associa¬ 
tion has been organized with 20 members 
and expectations of rapid increase. The 
following officers were elected : President, 
Frank Gick. Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; 
secretary-treasurer, Truman Middlebrook, 
Greenfield Center; vice-presidents, George 
G. Hopkins. Ballstop Lake; Frank L 
Smith, Charlton: Melvin Thomas, Sara¬ 
toga : John Graham. Malta; George B. 
DeWitt, Milton: Delbert A. Taylor, 
Moreau ; John Gick, Wilton. There is a 
good demand for registered Guernsey cat¬ 
tle, and an association can be of great 
benefit to promote the interests of the 
breed. One of the features of the organi¬ 
zation is an annual field day and basket 
picnic, with a prominent Guernsey 
speaker. The first meeting will be held 
at the farm of the president at South 
Greenfield during the latter part of the 
Summer. 
The high plateau region of Garrett and 
Allegany counties is as late as Michi¬ 
gan. The best grazing counties are those 
running along the Pennsylvania border. 
Southern Maryland on the Potomac and 
Ratuxeut would be good grazing sections 
if there was more attention given to 
stock farming. The upper counties on the 
Eastern shore have earlier pasture than 
those in same latitude on the western 
side of the bay, and are rapidly getting 
into the milk business. The lower coun¬ 
ties are not stock regions, hut devoted to 
small fruits and truck crops. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Minnesota Sheep Questions 
Can you give me the usual number of 
ewes to mate with one ram? Can you 
give me the amount in pounds of wild or 
tame hay that a sheep requires for win¬ 
tering in this Northern country? Corn 
cannot bo grown here; therefore roots and 
oats would have to form the balance of the 
ration. Would you give me about how 
much would be required for each sheep? 
Duluth, Minn. F. c. n. 
As a rule, breeders figure on one ram 
to 40 or 50 ewes, but I have known a 
penurious man to turn one with 100 and 
have fair success, except the lambing 
strung over two months. That gives a lot 
of late, little fellows, that bring up the 
rear and do not get strong early, and 
some succumb to ailments later. Our 
plan is one ram to 30 ewes in the start, 
and in a few weeks to sell the ones long 
enough on the place, or the least desirable 
ones, and make fewer bunches of ewes. 
We begin with five rams and keep out 
two or three over Winter. There are no 
worse mistakes a breeder can make than 
being too saving about, the number of 
rams, or paying for their quality. 
The stock of hay should be at least 
two pounds per day, for six months in 
the North. There would he a surplus for 
a careful feeder after a \V inter as mild 
as last. One pound of oats, and the same 
weight of beets should keep sheep in niee 
thriftv condition, but for fattening, corn 
dr some fat producer would he needed, 
especially during the latter part of the 
period. It is impossible to lay down an\ 
rule for Winter feeding, because weather 
determines the measure of a sheep s call 
for food, and no man can foretell it. so the 
only safe plan is to be well fixed. De¬ 
duced feed in the mows, cribs and Inns 
towards the close of Vinter brings legiet 
to the heart of the sheep man. while any 
surplus is like money in the bank. 
1 W. W. R. 
Holstein Steers for Beef 
I notice that a Pennsylvania farmer 
vants to know whether Holstein steers 
vill make good beef animals or not. i 
mve had a little experience along that 
ine and will pass it along. At the West 
Virginia Bovs’ Industrial School we have 
Brices to (farmed past week were: 
Beef, dressed. l(i to 20c; pork, 22 to 23c; 
veals, live, 10c: sheep, live. 8 to 10c; 
fowls, live, 20 to 32c; hides, lb., 10 to 
12c; ducks, dressed. 20 to 30c. Potatoes, 
SOc per bu.; eggs. 38c; butter. 45 to 50c. 
Apples, 05 to 75c bu.; wheat, $2.20 to 
$2.25; rye, 00 lbs.. $1.25; buckwheat, $2 
per 100 lbs. Hay. $22 to $20 per ton ; 
oats, 05c bu. ; beans, yellow eye, medium 
and pea, $5.50 per 100 lbs. ; medium, 
$7.50: red kidney, $8. Cows very high. 
$100 to $130 each. Coal. $0 to $10 per 
ton; corn, $3.25 to $3.50 per 100 lbs.; 
bran, $2.40; middlings, $2.75; chop. 
$3.75; dairy ration, $3.25 to $3.50: glu¬ 
ten, $3.50; oilmeal, $3.50 to $3.85; ground 
barley. $3; feed meal. $3.50; wheat feeds, 
$2.75; hominy. $3.50. Flour, $12.50 to 
$14 per bhl. The leading products here 
are mixed farming; fruits, berries, grapes, 
apples, plums, pears and peaches. Grain 
includes wheat, ifye, buckwheat, oats, some 
corn and a little barley. Beans have been 
grown extensively, but the past three 
years have not paid as well as formerly, 
owing to wet weather, pests and blights. 
Truck acreage this year will be compara¬ 
tively small. The black raspberry busi¬ 
ness may come back again, although near¬ 
ly extinct now. Formerly many farms 
were paid for in the berry business, but 
low prices, blights and scarcity of help 
made it advisable for many to cease and 
go into some other line, but with prices 
again around 50 to 75c per lb. for evap¬ 
orated berries it is liable to stimulate the 
production again. The cow is commenc¬ 
ing to play her part in the farm drama, 
and trust 'it may be one of the best things 
that could happen, as it will have a ten¬ 
dency to bring back productiveness to 
many of the farms that have nearly been 
ruined by robbing the soil, producing hay 
year after year, and only using acid fer¬ 
tilizer to stimulate the soil for other 
growths. The mild Winter has made the 
outlook very good for the coming crops. 
Wheat sown last Fall looks very good, 
and many acres of Spring wheat are al¬ 
ready sown in some sections; Clovej - seed 
is very high, around $30 per bu.. but it is 
hopeful many will not forget the land’s 
need of it. The outlook is a banner year 
for the cow. hog and hen to do their part, 
as many are headed in the right direction 
again. c. k. 
Yates Co., N. Y. 
I 
This is a dairying county and the milk 
goes to the Borden’s condensery at League 
prices. I ship m.v cream to Fairmont 
Oreamerv. Buffalo; am getting 05c per 
lb. for butter-fat. Butter, 60o lb.; eggs. 
40c. Potatoes, 75c per bu. Apples, $1.50; 
maple sugar. 20c per lb.: maple syrup, 
$1.50 per gal. Hay. $20 per ton. Cheese, 
35c lb. Not much grain raised; only 
what is fed on the farms. Farm help is 
hard to get at any price, that is, any 
good ; there is a iot of men in the cities 
who want to work on farms, but most of 
them are not worth their board, to say 
nothing about the high wages they are 
looking for. 'V. w. s. 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. 
