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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 10, 1010 
Full Sacks— 
Empty Stacks 
You worked hard foryour grain 
crop. Don’t let the thresher* 
man waste it. You can’t afford 
to let a single bushet of it be lost 
to the straw stack. 
You insure your grain crop 
when you hire the man with the 
Red River 
Special 
He has the thresher with the famous 
“Man Behind the Gun” that beats the 
grain out of the straw. Doesn’t wait 
for it to drop out as in other threshers 
hut goes after every kernel and saves it 
for you. That's why the Red River 
Special saves the farmer’s thresh bill. 
O. J. Kindig and three others of 
Roanoke, Ill., write Nov. 25th: 
"In 1916 we purchased one of your 
30x46 Red River Specials and it has 
done more and better work than we 
expected. We threshed as high as 
3,500 bushels of oats in one day and 
it saved all the grain. It beats 
them all." 
Saving grain costs less than growing 
it. Look for the man with the Red 
River Special. It will pay you. 
Write for Circulars 
Nichols & Shepard Co* 
In Continuous Business Since 1848 
Builders exclusively of Red River Spe¬ 
cial Threshers, Wind Stackers, Feeders, 
Steam and Oil-Gas Traction Engines 
Battle Creek Michigan 
3D 
HOLSTEINS 
Faster Shearing 
Shear with a machine—save time and money. 
You can shear at least one-half faster. Get 15% 
more of longer, better wool and not scar the 
sheep. Get a Stewart No. 0 Ball Bearing Shear¬ 
ing Machine. Fine for flocks up to 300 head. 
Price 914. Send 92—pay balance on arrival. 
Write for catalog. 
CHICAGO FLEXIBLE SHAFT COMPANY 
Dept. B 141, 12th St. & Central Ave., Chicago, Ill. 
SWINE 
TAM WORTH*J HAMPSHIRE SWINE 
write or visit REYNOLDS-LYBROOK FARMS COMPANY 
Successor to Westviow Stock Karra 
|{. 1 ' Winston-Salem, N. C. 
Genuine O; I. C. PIGS 
Females, $15; Males, $12. Pedigree certificate free. 
B. A. Corkkan, Midlothian, Virginia 
PureBreedO.I.C.Pigs Registry. 
Shipped at six wks. old. Price. $10, or $U with the papers. 
A lot of Nice Boars. ARTHUR FREEMAN, Pulaski, N. Y. 
O — 8-10 wks. pigs. Schoolmaster and Trade- 
I ■ winner 1,reeding. Send for sale list. 
• *• SPUING VALLEY FARM. Memphis. X. Y. 
Registered O. I. C. PIGS jur?£ 
Prices right. C* I. 6 W ATZE) Ludlow ville, N.Y« 
Registered Poland Chinas HaffTon 
boars from dams that weigh to 800. Pigs, Sows and Boars 
for Service. E. ROWELL, Jib, SoortSBUltG, Virginia 
100 Reg. CHESTER WHITE PIGS 100 
6 and 8 weeks-old I’IGS, $15 each; $-# pair; $40 trio. Can 
furnish pail's or trios not akin. A. A. SCH0FELI, Heuvelton, N.Y. 
For Sale-50 Choice Chester White P igs seven 
weeks old. Price, $8 each. Immediate delivery. BALD¬ 
WIN HILL FARM, Frink Fraehan, Sup!., R. F. 0. I,Grail Barrington, Mats. 
Reg.O.I.G.&G.W. Pigs Ss't^tta^on^ 
safe delivery guaranteed. JOHN L.VAN HORN, Troy, Brad. Co.. Pa 
Reg 0.1. C. and Chester White Pigs 
n_830 pr. Ped. free; reoorded, 6»o. extra each 
Uurocrlgs pig. SERENO WEEKS. De Graflf, Ohio 
SI -VNY8IDE lloroca. Servico boars from our April litters. A 
few gilts and boars from our Fall litters. Booking orders 
from this Spring's litters. J. E. van ALSTTNE, Kinderbook, N.T. 
•: Practical •: 
Live Stock Books 8 
* FOR SALE BY RURAL NEW-YORKER « 
FEEDS AND FEEDING—Henry . $2.50 
MANUAL OF MILK PRODUCTS- 
Stocking .2.00 
DISEASES OF ANIMALS—Mayo . 1.75 
PRODUCTIVE SWINE HUSBANDRY 
Day .1.75 
BREEDING OF FARM ANIMALS— 
Harper . 1.50 
. 1.75 
. .60 
MILK TESTING— Publow and Troy .60 
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% CHEESE MAKING-Van Slyke 
,* BUTTER MAKING—Publotu 
Dangers of Co-operative Association 
As I am not a dairyman I will not try 
to give advice on the structure of a com¬ 
pany to control the sale of milk. But I 
wish to say a word which may prevent 
future failure. All these co-operative 
companies derive their strength from the 
voluntary push of the individuals (plural) 
who make Tip the association. Most of 
those members under ordinary systems of 
election vote for the party in power, be¬ 
cause, as they say, they must keep har¬ 
monious. In the end this temporary har¬ 
mony is obtained at the eost of lack of 
control, by the members, of the heads of 
the company. This ends in the withdraw¬ 
al of the stronger element who always are 
in a minority, and who are less under 
the necessity of being co-operators, as 
their superior insight and brains enable 
them to stand competition better. 
To retain these men the officers of the 
company must be elected by popular vot¬ 
ing. To make sure all shades of opinion 
are represented, one of the varieties of 
proportional representation must he the 
method of conducting such voting. If all 
opinions are not represented, the head 
meu find a policy of secrecy, concerning 
mistakes, pays them lunch better than 
arrangement to carry them all up so. The 
flues should be made very tight and warm 
above the roof, as the warm air contained 
in them is the principal motive power of 
the system, and must be kept warm to the 
tcp. It it cools there will also be con¬ 
densation and drip back into the stable. 
Eight square feet of flue opening should 
ventilate this stable, but as this is divided 
up into four flues its efficiency will be 
lowered somewhat and we will increase it 
33 per cent, making each flue 1(5x24 in. 
in size, or a square flue with the same 
area. Registers should be provided in the 
flue at the ceiling to open in warm weath¬ 
er and hasten ventilation, the lower open 
end of the flue being about 18 in. from 
the floor. 
Fresh air intakes should he well dis¬ 
tributed and small in size and their com¬ 
bined area should be slightly more than 
the total area of out-take flue openings, in 
this ease 10-/< sq. ft. They should be 
placed low on the outside, screened to 
prevent the entrance of vermin, and pass¬ 
ing up through the wall, should open on 
the inside near the ceiling.. If these 
openings are made 8x10 in. in size and 
are spaced one at each end and 17 along 
the side between the windows, the rela¬ 
tion to the area of the outlets will be all 
right. These intakes should be insulated 
on the inside next to the stable wall, 
otherwise the warm stable air will con¬ 
dense its moisture against their cold sur¬ 
face and make the wall wet. 
It is customary to arrange for four 
square feet of lighting surface for each 
animal. As each animal requires a floor 
KING SYSTEM APPLIED TO LEAN-TO 
S'above 
/ ricl^e 
° pea f paCe Ot 
1 b I to permit P4-I 
free air 
movement 
o 
20 • o 
--Hi remoter 
I L.l* flues reach to about //e of floor 
g,a"fn □ 0 0, d a 0 0 p □ 
sgsprb" f 7'fe'Y 7 , _ /e w/ndows eoua/fy spaced a 0 □ □ o c 
Plan for Lighting and Ventilating a Stable 
confession, and when the members are 
ignorant of the mistakes made by the 
officials, then the members have no means 
of learning the relative efticiency of such 
officials. 
In most companies in a short time the 
control gets into the hands of a ring 
composed of men who can talk smoothly 
and who can “dress the window” to the 
best advantage. They “bust up” iu the 
end, but. usually take the cash with them. 
Rings of delegates who elect officials—I 
don’t care under what kind of method of 
voting—are a favorite way of cheating 
the control out of the hands of the mem¬ 
bers, into the hands of a coterie. 
If you will not bother to see that the 
minority is represented you will save 
some present labor; but don’t think you 
will escape from the consequences of your 
foolish lack of fairness. 
Nova Scotia. joiin buchaxax. 
space of from 54 to 63 sq. ft., it means 
an approximate average relation of 1:15 
between the floor space and the lighting 
area. Figuring it out on this basis gives 
us 144 sq. ft., or 18 windows 2x4 ft. in 
size. These can be placed one at each end 
and the remaining 16 equally spaced along 
the side. The nearest stock size to this 
dimension is a four-light 14x20 in., which 
makes a window about 2 ft. 0 iu. by 3 ft. 
11 iu. Some other size might be found 
that would suit you better, using a win¬ 
dow of this general shape, with the long 
dimension lip and down, as it admits more 
light. The pictures will help to explain 
the points brought up and make them 
clear. The various barn equipment com¬ 
panies advertising in the. farm press have 
some very good material on ventilation 
for distribution, and they will be glad to 
forward it to you for the asking. 
r. ri. s. 
Lighting and Ventilation of Stables 
Will you advise me the best plan of 
I ventilation for the barn of which L eu- 
close a rough sketch? I am anxious to 
I get it well ventilated, and also well light- 
| ed. How much window space will be need- 
I ed to have it well lighted? The new part, 
as shown in the- diagram, is for dairy 
cows exclusively, the ceiling to be about 
8 ft. high and will all be ceiled inside. 
The cows are to face in toward the old 
barn. How many and where best locate 
the intakes and out-takes, and will it be 
necessary, to have the outlets go up to 
the peak of the old barn to insure good 
draft? a. R. l. 
New York. 
This lean-to. with the closest possible 
spacing, will stable about 40 cows, but 
should not be crowded to that extent- 
However, I will figure for a ventilating 
system of that capacity. The King sys¬ 
tem calls for approximately one square 
foot of flue opening for each five cows, 
and usually one out-take will care for 20 
head. In the ease of your stable and its 
extreme length I would recommend four 
ventilating shafts, placed one at a distance 
of 15 ft. from each end. as shown in 
sketch, and the other two placed at inter¬ 
vals of 30 ft. between them, each fliie 
caring for a section of the stable 30 ft. in 
length. I would place these flues on the 
side of the lean-to next to the old barn 
and either extend them up straight to a 
point above the ridge, (about two feet) 
of the old barn or run them up inside the 
roof of the old barn, letting them come out 
at the ridge. Judging from your sketch 
this would leave about two flues to run 
up straight, making it perhaps a better 
Raising Calves Without Milk 
Could you give me any information on 
raising calves on calf meal? I am speak¬ 
ing of calves three days old. and not hav¬ 
ing any milk; nothing hut the meal. Can 
calves be raised on this, and would it be 
expensive? H. w. H. 
New York. 
It is possible to raise calves from three 
days of age on calf meals. It would 
hardly be satisfactory to raise a great 
many this way, for the reason that it is 
more expensive than milk and skim-milk 
feeding, the calves will not develop as 
fast, and there is greater chance of gen¬ 
eral “bad luck” than when milk and skim- 
milk can be given for a longer period of 
time. You can purchase any one of the 
prepared calf meals and follow directions, 
or make up a calf meal at home and try it. 
Use equal parts, by weight, of linseed oil- 
meal. hominy feed, reddog flour and dried 
blood. Mix this meal at the rate of 1 lb. 
in 1 gal. of (100° F.) water. Never 
feed over a gallon of gruel a day up to 
one month of age unless the calf is ex¬ 
ceptionally large. After the first month 
gradually increase the amount to a gallon 
and a half a day at five months of age. 
H. F. J. 
Preventing Onion Flavor in Milk 
I read on page 701 that the “Pastoral 
Parson” expects trouble from the wild 
onions in his pasture. If he will bring his 
cows in from pasture about two hours be¬ 
fore milking, aud give them some dry feed, 
clover hay or cobmeal (I think cobmeal is 
best, as it will balance the ration better) 
the onion flavor will hardly be noticed iu 
the milk or butter. Keep the cows off the 
grass nights until the onions are eaten 
down. This worked well for me, and may 
help the “Parson.” S. T. s. 
Califon. N. J. 
400—Cortland Co. Cows For Sale-400 
110 Fresh cows. Try a load ot' these if you 
want milk. 
150 Cows due to calve this month and next. 
Good size, the best dairy typo you 
ever saw. 
70 Registered cows, fresh and duo to calve 
soon. 
10 Registered Bulla, with a lot of eood 
breeding. 
60 Heifers. They are extra high grades 
Mostly due to calve this spring. 
Cortland Holstein Farms, 4ank mug , 2 co'rti°nd, av N n V. 
HOLSTEINS 
’4 Holstein heifer calves, $20 
to $2.T eacli.express paid in lots 
of 5. 20 fresh and close spring 
or grade cows. 20 clue in fall 
40—l and 2-year-olds. 50 regis¬ 
tered heifers, % ot them bred 
to freshen in fall. 15 registered 
heirer - •> ' v e s. 35 registered 
fresli. springers and full cow* 
and b u 11 s of all ages from 
dams with records up to 42 
lbs. of butter in 7 days. 
JOHN C. REACAN, Tully, N Y. 
Registered Holstein 
$75-Heifer Calves $75 
850,000 15 R E E I> 1 N G. Fine individuals and guar¬ 
anteed to please. Reg. Holstein Male Calves at prices 
too low to print. 122-acre alfalfa farm for sale. Write 
ELITE STOCK FARM 
F. II. IUYE.MIL K0II, Prop. K. 1, Oneida, N. Y. 
For Sale-Pure Bred Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves 
one month old, from A. R. O. dams, out of a good 
grandson of King of the Pontiacs. Good Individu¬ 
als, large, vigorous and of popular color. Low 
prices. Registered papers guaranteed. • 
R. PRICE EVANS, . CASSVILLE, NEW YORK 
For Sale-Six Holstein HEIFERS 
three yoars old. Some are in and others about to 
come in. Good stock. Apply JOHNF.WII-KENS, 
Peekskill, New York. Telephone, Peeks kill 21-F-4. 
PUREBRED REG. HOLSTEINS 
All ages, either sex. Also High Grade Holstein Cnlves, 
either sex. $20 to $25 each. K. II. WOOD, Cortland, Now York 
High Grade Holstein Calves “(JSS 
for prices. Satisfaction and safe delivery guar¬ 
anteed. FRANK GAMEL PINE GROVE FARM, Locke, N. V 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves V \q R ite S ?of 
special offer. GATES HOMESTEAD FARM. Chittenanoo. N.T 
UinharHIoeo For $- 00 * * Holstein bull calf, av. 30 lbs 
nignoruiass for dam and sire’s dam. Breed them bet 
ter. Write for pedigree. I'LOVEBDALE FAim, Charlotte, N. Y. 
30 Head Pure Bred Holstein Heifers 
Harry Vail, Now Milford, Orange Co., N. Y. 
MISCELLANEOUS * | 
NLP 
Purebred Holstein 
& r a nd 
■ Guernsey Bull Calves 
From high producing tuberculin tested dairy cows 
will satisfy your requirements at a moderate price. 
Send for sales list—TODAY. 
MARKHAM & PUFFER, Avon, N. Y. 
For Sale: 3 REGISTERED 
Yearling ANGUS BULLS 
1 Queen Mother, 1 Blackbird, 1 Blackcap. These 
Bulls are the profitable kind and PRICED RIGHT. 
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY DEPT. 
DELAWARE COLLEGE NEWARK, DELAWARE 
M i I king 
Shorthorns 
Walgrove Herd 
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- 
1110 s.-old calf. Herd heading bulls our specialty. 
WALNUT GROVE FARM. Washingtonville. N. Y. 
rn Uoofl Cliallond ANI> LARGER PONIES all 
UU ncdU ullclIdllU ages and colors. Send stamp for 
new price lijjt. THE SHENANGO PONT FARMS, Dept. D, Espyvtlle, P*. 
c 
SHEEP 
A. H. S. A. 16643 
FOR SALE 
Registered Hampshire Sheep 
Rams and Ewes 
APPLY 
Ophir Farm - - Purchase, N. Y. 
JOIt SALE—SIX REG. SHROPSHIRE EWES with 
their lambs. STEVENS BROS.,Wilson, New York 
INTERESTING GARDEN BOOKS 
A Woman’s Hardy Garden— By Mrs, 
H. R. Ely .$1.75 
Old Time Garden*— By A. M. Earle 2.50 
Flowers and Fern* in Their Haunt*— 
By M. O. IVright .... 2.00 
Plant Physiology— By Duggan . . 1.60 
For sale by Rural New-Yorker, 343 W. 30th St.. N. Y. 
