1248 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 23, 1919 
Yi OFF SILOS 
I now have my third con¬ 
signment of silos, the last 
for this season, which I 
will sell by mail at my 
usual low prices. High- 
grade silos of well-known 
make, best material, and 
strictly first-class in every 
way. Order before this 
lot is exhausted and save 
precisely one-half. 
M. L. SMITH, Manufacturer’s Agent 
113 Flood Building 
Meadville Pennsylvania 
U. S. Army Raincoats 
Finished too late to go to France 
While they last-For Civilians. 
U. S. Government Specification Rubberizing 
Made under Supervision of Govt. Inspectors 
Highest Possible Waterproof Quality. 
Released and Offered Direct to Civilians 
Delivered Free to Your Door on Receipt of 
$7.80--Postpaid and Insured 
Sent C. O. D. on Receipt of 12c Stamps 
Tail Fast Color Rubberized Material 
Made complete in our factory from the raw cloth 
Hermetically Cemented Waterprool Seams 
Also Civilian design and modified Army Coats 
made same material $ 7 . 80 . 
Officer’s Belted Goafs $14.50 
ILLUSTRATIONS ON REQUEST 
Money Refunded if not satisfied 
State Chest Measurement and Height 
Cambridge Rubber Co. 
Dept. 10 Cambridge, Mass. 
! iS ' 
& Tractor For 
the Small Farm' 
■\7t5U Mr. Farmer, with 160 acres or less, here 1 
Ytr actor service for your farm that will save , 
you S500 to S700. Plow—cultivate—disc— do 
the work of four horses with 
GOULDaoTRACTORI 
Readily attaches to Ford car. Uso it as recommended and you 
get exactly the tractor’s ser¬ 
vice your farm requires. Sa¬ 
tisfaction Guaranteed. 
FREE BOOK to Small Farm 
Owners. Specifications and 
table showing draw bar pull 
for two bottom plows, 
all kinds of soil. Ask , ^*^^*-*-0* .u 
your banker or 
this pa i» e r f> 
about us. X 
Gould Balance! 
Valve Company' 
22 Depot S*.[i 
Kellogg, Iowa 
Ditch Before 
Winter Rains 
• . 
Protect your soil > 
and your next 
a year crop profits 
against injury ' 
by excessive water 
standing on land all 
winter. Can work land c 
lier in Spring. Add 2 to 3 weeks to grow¬ 
ing season. Do farm terracing now. 
Farm 
Ditcher, 
tear* 
Mode! 20 
Get 
TerracerA 
w 1 Road Grader 
adjustable, reversible; no wheels, levers or cogs to 
get out of fix. Cuts new farm ditches or cleans old 
ones to 4 feet deep; builds farm terraces, dykes and 
levees; grades roads. Does the work of 100 men. 
Every farm needs one. Send your name for 
Free Book and Special Introductory Offer, 
Owensboro Ditcher & 
Grader Company, Inc. 
Box 534 Owensboro, Ky. 
10 Days’ Free Trial. 
jiiiiniiiinimmrtiitiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirniinimiiiiimMiiiiiiiiMimmniiiiiiiiiiiimM 
I DIGESTER TANKAGE j 
FOR HOGS 
| Write for prices, feed- 
| ing directions, etc. 
j IDEAL RENDERING CO. 
NORTH WALES, PA. TRjkM 
•uiuiiuuiuiuiiiiiiiMiiitiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiit 
> Practical 
Live Stock Books 
FOR SALE BY RURAL NEW-YORKER gg 
FEEDS AND FEEDING—Henry . $2.50 
MANUAL OF MILK PRODUCTS- 
Stocking ...... 2.00 
DISEASES OF ANIMALS—Mayo . 1.75 
PRODUCTIVE SWINE HUSBANDRY 
Day ....... L75 
BREEDING OF FARM ANIMALS— 
Harper .1.50 
CHEESE MAKING-Van Slyke . 1.75 
BUTTER MAKING— Publow . . .60 
MILK TESTING— Publow and Troy .60 
1 
8 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Unsuitable Pig Feed 
I am sending yon a tag from a bag of 
feed sold here for hog feed. Is it a good 
feed for pigs three months old? We wean 
our pigs here at four weeks old. and I 
have been feeding them about three quarts 
of skim-milk per day and about a pound 
of middlings a day. They weigh from 
50 to 00 lbs. at 12 weeks. Middlings are 
$2.75; eornmeal. $4.25. I can get this 
feed at $2.25. This is my first venture 
with pigs, being a sheep man, and I may 
make some mistakes. They have clover 
pasture. What would you add to this if 
they did not have milk? G. T. s. 
New York. 
The mixed feed identified by the tag 
inclosed would not be at all suited for 
pigs. According to the manufacturer’s 
statement the feed contains middlings, 
reground cottonseed hulls and palm oil. 
While the material carries 12 per cent 
protein, the carbohydrate content is not 
indicated. Cottonseed meal, or any of its 
by-products, is not at all suited for feed¬ 
ing pigs. The material will contain cer¬ 
tain toxic properties that will derange the 
circulation of the blood, and you would do 
well to eliminate all of this material from 
your ration. 
At $2.25 a sack, which is $43 a ton, 
this feed would be far more expensive 
than eornmeal or middlings at the prices 
you have indicated. None of the mixed 
feeds on the market at the present time, is 
suited for feeding pigs. In many in¬ 
stances they contain mill sweepings that 
are in themselves of little value, and gen¬ 
erally they are supplemented by certain 
of the protein carrying feeds such as cot¬ 
tonseed meal, gluten meal, cottonseed 
hulls or peanut meal, which are not suited 
to pigs. The best use of such material is 
for dairy cows, since the digestive system 
of the cow is more complete than that of a 
pig. If your pigs have access to clover 
pasture then you will do well to limit 
them in their daily ration to corn, rye 
and tankage, utilizing 45 lbs. of corn. 45 
lbs. of rye and 10 lhs. of digester tank¬ 
age. I would not feed any other mill- 
feeds unless I could secure middlings at 
less than $50 a ton. If it is impossible 
for you to secure digester tankage you 
may substitute oilmeal. remembering that 
it will require 5 lbs. of oilmeal to replace 
3 lbs. of tankage. 
Feeding Treated Oats; Calf Rations 
1. I have some seed oats that have been 
treated with formalin for smut. Is it 
safe to feed these to horses or hens? 2. 
What is a good grain ration for n young 
calf up until 1 % or two years old? I 
have no silage. 3. I>o you know of any 
wav to kill out thistles? R. S. M. 
Maine. 
1. If your oats have been exposed to 
the air since their treatment with for¬ 
malin the material will have evaporated 
sufficiently, and there will be no danger 
from feeding oats treated in this way to 
either horses or chickens. They should he 
spread out. however, so that all of the 
oats would be exposed to the air. 
2. A useful ration for a calf approxi¬ 
mately a year and a half old would be a 
mixture consisting of equal parts of 
ground oats, hominy and wheat bran, to 
which 10 per cent of oilmeal is added. 
The calf should be given a small amount 
of this mixture as soon as he will nibble 
away at the material, and the amount 
should be increased as his appetite in¬ 
creases until the calf would he eating 4 
or 5 lbs. a day when a year and a half or 
two years old. It is not necessary to give 
calves at this age any succulent material. 
It is important that they have access to 
Alfalfa hay. The legumes particularly 
are rich in ash and hone making material, 
likewise they contain protein in generous 
quantities, all of which is necessary for 
animal growth and development. 
3. It is difficult to destroy what we 
have come to know as the “Canada this¬ 
tle.” Good results have been reported 
where the area so infested was planted 
two or three years in succession with 
corn, extra care ‘being exercised to keep 
this corn clean and free from weeds. If 
the planting includes oats the thistles are 
very apt to get the start, making both 
oats and hay very difficult to handle. Re¬ 
peated cuttings apparently do not in¬ 
jure or halt its growth. 
Feeding Oat Straw; Improving Pasture 
1. I have not much hay. Would oat 
straw with feeding molasses on it take the 
place of hav for horses, yearlings and dry 
cows? 2. Would it help a pasture that is 
too rough to plow to sow grass seed on 
top of the ground? If so, when and what 
is best to sow ? a. b. t. 
New York. 
I. Blackstrap molasses at its present 
valuation is not an economical source of 
food for horses. It is not an easy matter 
to mix molasses with straw unless the 
straw is cut, and then the molasses must 
he diluted with warm water in order to 
distribute the material. Any way, mo¬ 
lasses is not well suited for feeding idle 
horses. It serves u useful purpose in fin¬ 
ishing horses for the market, adding a 
sleek coat; but as steady diet for idle 
horses it should be avoided. Corn or oats 
at the present prices are more economical 
than molasses and are much easier fed. 
If it is not too late I would suggest cut¬ 
ting your oats rather green and making 
hay out of them, and feeding the oats in 
the sheaf to your horses during the Win¬ 
ter months. There is nothing any better 
for idle horses than oats fed in this way ; 
they will supply both bulk and concen¬ 
trates. Straw in itself can replace bay 
for idle horses, but it is necessary to feed 
some grain in addition. It depends entire¬ 
ly upon the amount of work that the 
horses are doing as to the grain that is 
necessary to supplement this roughage. 
Usually corn and bran are to be recom¬ 
mended. 
2. As to whether there is anything to 
be gained by scattering some seed on 
rough land too stony to plow, our experi¬ 
ence is favorable. A useful mixture of 
grass seed would be 20 lbs. of Red clover, 
30 lbs. of Alsike clover, 5 lbs. of White 
clover. 20 lbs. of Timothy, 10 lbs. of Red- 
top, 5 lbs. of Blue grass, and 5 lbs. of 
meadow fescue. Mix these materials to¬ 
gether. in any quantity desired, and dis¬ 
tribute them during the latter part of 
August or early in September. If at all 
possible, go over the ground with a spring- 
tooth and scratch up some of the old soil 
to cover the seeds, and, if possible, make 
this application when the ground contains 
considerable moisture, to get prompt ger¬ 
mination. The top-dressing of this area a 
little later in the Fall would enable the 
plants to obtain a good start. If the top- 
dressing were postponed until Spring and 
a dressing of either commercial fertilizer 
or barnyard manure applied, much would 
be gained. Very often we make the mis¬ 
take of applying all our barnyard manure 
to our cultivated areas. It is my judg¬ 
ment that the best results would follow 
when the manure is distributed on mead¬ 
ow land or pasture land. I believe that 
this is the most practicable way to make 
application of manure on the farm. 
Cheese from Buttermilk 
The work of recovering food value from 
former waste products goes on, as we 
see from the following note sent out by 
the Ohio Experiment Station : 
“Tests in the recovery of cottage cheese 
from buttermilk confirm the centrifugal 
method that is now in use in some of the 
Ohio creameries. The tests have been 
made at the Ohio Experiment Station. 
It is pointed out by specialists that here¬ 
tofore large quantities of buttermilk have 
been poured into sewers or fed to live¬ 
stock. whereas much of the material 
might have been used for human con¬ 
sumption since meats are so high in price, 
and also because cottage cheese forms a 
particularly nutritious article of diet. 
“Under the present system of recovery 
the buttermilk is placed in a huge howl 
that is driven at a high rate of speed : the 
curd in the buttermilk is driven out at 
the top of the bowl and drawn off in a 
manner similar to that by which cream 
is separated from milk by a cream sep¬ 
arator. 
“It has been found that the installation 
of a cheese machine is cheap enough to 
make it possible for many small dairies 
to produce cottage cheese on a commercial 
scale.” 
Holstein Prices 
On page 1164 some Holstein prices are 
given by O. A. Logan. While these are 
correct they are out of date. Within the 
last six months Rag Apple The Great 
has sold for $125,000; King Pontiac 
Hengerveld Fayne for $100,000; Sir 
Pietertje Ormsbv Mercedes 41st for $65,- 
000; a half interest in Rag Apple Ivorn- 
dyke 8th for $50,000. In cows the record 
is held f by Regis Hengerveld Fayne Jo¬ 
hanna, at $40,000, with Fairview Korn- 
dyke Mata a close second at $35,000. 
West Cornwall. Conn, T. S. G. 
Guernsey Cattle Sale 
The New York State Guernsey Breed¬ 
ers’ Association will hold a sale about Oc¬ 
tober 13, 1019, on the farm of Henry 
Sage, near Albany. N. Y.; 60 head of 
females and six bulls, all owned by mem¬ 
bers of the New York State Guernsey 
Breeders’ Association, will be sold to the 
highest bidder. These animals will only 
be accepted after examination by the 
sales committee, which insures that no 
animals of inferior quality or breeding 
will be sold. The six bulls accepted have 
to have the unanimous approval of the 
committee. The same rules will govern 
the sale that have governed the American 
Guernsey Cattle Club’s annual consign¬ 
ment sales. The committee in charge of 
the sale are C. L. A. Whitney, chairman, 
Albany: Gage E. Tarbell. Smithville 
Flats; F. G. Renharn. Canandaigua, and 
George M. White, Freehold. New York 
State Guernsey cattle breeders are to be 
congratulated for their progressiveness in 
arranging for an auction sale of their 
popular breed, at which the best of the 
breed will be offered and at which the 
interests of the breeders will be fully pro¬ 
tected. 
BERKSHIRES 
Prolific 
Berkshires 
Only a few of those boar and sow pigs loft, sired hy 
a son of the great Lonefellow’s Double, Rival Long¬ 
fellow 20th, No. 238095, and his son, Karha’s Duke 
Longfellow 3rd, No. 267474, and out of our large pro¬ 
lific Sows; they are the kind that feed right, breed 
right, are right. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
KARHA FARM 
CEO. L. BARKER, Supt. 
Parksville, Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES 
AT HIGHWOOD: 
SIZE. CONSTITUTION, PROLIFICACY Our First Consideration 
That this policy is in accord with popular demand 
is indicated by the fact that during the past twenty 
years we have sold more registered Berkshires than 
any other three breeders in the United States. 
Special offering of boars and boar pigs. 
H, C. & H. B. HARPENDING. Box 15, Dundee, N. Y. 
Choice Berkshires ^ 
We have some extra nice young 
boars, sows and gilts of Masterpiece 
and Double Champion 33rd breed¬ 
ing at prices that are right. 
Webb Farms Clinton Corners, N. Y. 
Big Type BERKSHIRES 
See my herd at the Conn., New York, East¬ 
ern Exposition and Trenton Inter-State Fairs. 
Public Sale, Oct. 25, 1919—30 boars, 30 gilts 
Entire offering cholera immune. 
C. H. CARTER, Whltguem Farm, West Chester. Pa. 
Anedjo Berkshires 
J 
Are bred for size and quality combined 
The big, mellow, easy feeding type, with neat heads, 
broad bucks and E X T It A II E AV Y 11 A M 8. 
Foundation herds, service boars, brood sowsand pigs 
H. M. TERWILLIGER, Mgr. Anedjo Farm,Webster, Mass. 
REGISTERED 
! BERKSHIRES ! 
■ ■ 
5 Epochal Strain. Aug. and Sept. pigs. Selected ■ 
S stock tor breeders for shipment when 8 wits. * 
• old. Boars, @15; Sows, @20. Service Boars. ■ 
\ MIDDLEBROOK FARM, Allenhurst, N. J. : 
a ■ 
a-a 
Champion Berkshires 
We breed the large size prolific Berkshire tho kind 
with big bone, broad, thick backs, long deep thick 
bams. Write for circular showing photographs of 
our prize-winning boars, sows and harrows. We of¬ 
fer fall ami summer pigs bothsexes. boars ready for 
service and sow b bred to our Grand Champion sires. 
HOOI) FARM - Lowell, Mass. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES 
I offer February and March farrowed Boar Pigs, 
nearly ready for service, weighing 100 IDs.. of the 
big type, with quality; By Symboleer’s Superb 
and Duke’s Champion 22nd; registered and 
crated. They are not fat but healthy. Address 
J. E. WATSON - Marbledale, Conn. 
REGISTERED 
Berkshires 
15 Bred sows and gilts. Spring Boars and fall pigs. 
H. GIUMSHAW - North East, Pa. 
BIG TYPE BERKSHIRES 
One customer writes: Received boar pig in fine con 
ditiou. He is tiie best of 13 pigs bought this spring 
We have 20 more pigs of this quality, 6 to 13 weeks 
old, SSI7 and #20 each. 
ENTERPRISE STOCK FARM ARIEL, PA. 
Large Type Reg. Berkshires 
of all ages. Also rogisteied Jersey male calves. Select 
you a breeder from a 14-pig litter. Pay no casli until 
you get the stock. DAVID WIANT. Huntington Mills, Pa. 
nCDIZCIIID r C Special offer for the next 
DL AVAAtJAll. IVl_i75 thirty days. Pours and Sows 
4 mos. old. 920 and 825 each. Bred sows forOct. Farrow, 
SI OO: tiilts, 890. Rest of breeding. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. SHADY SIDE BERKSHIRE. Madison, N.Y 
Pad RarLchirac two and three mos. old. Mas- 
•>Cgs OBI IVallll BO terpioeo and Premier-Long- 
fellow breeding, SI0 to S15. Berkshire sows, bred or 
opon, $50 each. Mrs. C. It. FINCH, Vienna, Va. 
Registered BERKSHIRES 
Pigs Botli Sexes—High Quality. Reasonable Prices. 
POWELL CREEK FARMS, Muys Landing. N. J. 
Reg. Berkshires 
I 
Two Excellent Vegetable Books 
By R. L Wafts 
Vegetable Gardening.$1.75 
Vegetable Forcing ....... 2.00 
For sale by 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 W. 30th St„ New York 
1 
