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Wit RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 30, 1919 
A Rainy Day Job 
if it prevents the start of contagious disease among your flock or herd, would 
be the most profitable day’s work of the year. You never can tell when an 
epidemic may reach your neighborhood. If it isn t disease, the presence of 
lice, mites and similar parasites will reduce the health of your stock and 
through the smaller production that follows take part of your profit. 
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ItBOlaA- 
1V\e ^'\s\rdecV\r»s 'NKrtePavrA 
does the work of whitewash and a disinfectant at one operation. It costs 
little in time, labor and money, but brings big returns in the protection it 
affords. It is on the job day and night—guarding your stock and protect¬ 
ing your profits. It may save your whole herd or flock. It at least means 
healthier stock and therefore greater production and larger profits. 
Use It Instead of Whitewash and Disinfectants 
Carbola is a snow white paint in powder form combined with a disinfectant many times 
stronger than Carbolic Acid. It is neither poisonous nor caustic. Harmless to the smahest 
chick or stock that licks a painted surface. It is ready to apply with brush or spray pump 
as soon as mixed with water. It does not blister, flake or peel off. It costs no more than a 
disinfectant alone. One gallon—ten cents’worth of powder— covers 200 square feet. It is 
Used and endorsed by leading poultry, dairy and breeding farms and agncul’ural colleges. 
The dry powder is unexcelled as a lice powder. 
Your hardware, seed, paint or drug dealer has Carbola or can get it. If not, order 
direct—shipment by parcel post or express the day order is received. Order today so you 
will have it on hand when you want it. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
10 lb*. (10 gals.) $1. and postage. 20 lbs. (20 gals.) $2. del’d. 50 lbs. (50 gals.) $4. del d. 
Add 25% for points west of the Rockies 
For the convenience of large farms. Carbola is also 
packed in barrel* that hold about 350 lb*, each. 
CARBOLA CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., Dept. R 7 E. 42nd St., N. Y. City 
BERKSHIRES 
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, Whitguern Farm, West Chester. Pa. 
Anedjo Berkshires 
Are bred for size and quality combined 
The big, mellow, easy feeding type, with neat heads, 
broad backs and E X T It A II E AY V II A SI 8. 
Foundation herds, service boars, brood sowsaud pigs. 
li. M. TERWILLIGER.Mgr. Anedjo Farm,Webster, Mass. 
REGISTERED 
BERKSHIRES j 
Epochal Strain. Aug. and Sept. pigs. Selected ; 
stock for bleeders For shipment when 8wks. j 
old. Boars, 815; Sows, S?30. Service Boars. ; 
M1DDLEBR00K FARM, Allenhurst, N. J. : 
REGISTERED 
Berkshires 
15 Bred sows and gilts. Spring Boars and fall pigs. 
H. GIHMSHAW - North l ast, Pa. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES 
I offer February and March farrowed Boar Pigs, 
nearly ready for service, weighing 100 lbs., 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. 
BIG TYPE BERKSHIRES 
One customer writes: Received boar pig in fine eon 
dition. He is the best of 13 pigs bought this spring 
We have 20 more pigs of this quality. 6 to 13 weeks 
old. SS17 and 8CiO each. 
ENTERPRISE STOCK FARM ARIEL, PA. 
sale; 75 Berkshire & Chester White Pigs 
From four to six weeks old. Price, $5 to $6 each. 
Part ready for shipment,. 
Leo Rouse & t o. New Albany, Pa. 
PI * a • r) d* Thorough bred but not 
Berkshire JtSoar rigs iu*utpr«><i. $io.«*rh 
GEO. E. DIETZ - - Zelienople, Pa. 
pai) CAI 17 BERKSHIRE BOAR 
r Ui\ OALX 23 months old. Excellent service boar. 
E. F. DARMSTADT - Lynbrook, N. Y. 
FOR SALE-Reg. Berkshire Boar 
Farrowed April 4. 1919 Fine individual, weight 
about one hundred pounds. Excellent breeding 
II, A. ItKCKKIt - - East Hampton, Conn. 
JUDGING FARM ANIMALS, by C. S. 
Plumb; $2.25. A Practical Manual on this 
subject. For sale by Rural New-Yorker 
BERKSHIRES 
Flintstone BERKSHIRES 
Flintstone Columbia 8tli 
Size-Prolificacy-Type. See our entry 
at Eastern Berkshire Show and Sale, 
Springfield, Mass., Sept. 15-20. Open 
and bred gilts, bred sows for sale at all 
times. All stock registered, immunized. 
Satisfaction Guaranteed 
Flintstone Farm, Dalton, Mass. 
Prolific 
Berkshires 
Only a few of these boar and sow pigs left, sired by 
a son of the great Longfellow's Double, Rival Long¬ 
fellow 20th. No. 238095. and his son, Karha's Duke 
I .ongfellow 3rd,No. 267474, ami out of our large pro¬ 
lific Sows: they are the kind that feed right, breed 
right, are right. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
K A RH A FARM 
CEO. L. BARKER, Supt- 
Parkaville, 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 L nited 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. 
Registered Berkshires 
of Best Breeding, a few high quality young boars 
RICH.\RD E. WAIS LEBANON, N. J, 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Problems in Feeding 
Which is the better for feeding sheep 
and horses, oat or wheat straw? Can I 
expect to keep my sheep in good shape 
this Winter on straw in the morning, 
a very few cornstalks at noon, and first- 
cut Alfalfa at night, or can you give me 
a better feed from what 1 will have? _ I 
also expect to have some second-cut A 1-ike 
clover and Alfalfa, but I want to.sell my 
second-cut Alfalfa. Is second-cut Alsike 
as good for cows as first-cut Alfalfa, with 
practically no grain? IIow does spelt 
compare with barley for pigs? My cows 
will take nearly all my cornstalks. What 
is the outlook for better price on first- 
cut hay here. $*20 per ton straight No. 2? 
New York. _ a. d. a. 
I should prefer oat straw to wheat 
straw in feeding either sheep or horses. 
In the first place, it is more palatable: 
it is more easily digested, although there 
is very little difference so far as actual 
analysis is concerned. I take it that you 
refer to a flock of breeding ewes when 
you suggest that you propose to feed them 
straw in the morning, some corn fodder at 
noon, and some first cutting Alfalfa at 
night. This ration would be improved if 
you would include once a day a feeding 
of grain, consisting of equal parts of 
oats and barley, dr equal parts of oats 
and corn. While the Alfalfa will supply 
the necessary protein it is essential to 
keep the ewes in fairly good condition 
and flesh if it is desired to have them 
produce strong healthy lambs, and follow 
along the season with an abundant milk 
supply. If you have plenty of cornstalks 
it is not necessary to feed the oat straw, 
and you will find t-hat the fleece will come 
off cleaner in the Spring if the chaff i- 
not permitted to work into the wool. 
Second-cutting Alfalfa would be prefer¬ 
able to first-cutting Alfalfa for feeding 
dairy cows. It contains a little higher 
percentage of protein, is more palatable, 
and contains less fibre. Either of the 
products, however, would be very satisfa'c- 
try for feeding dairy animals. 
Spelt is about equal to barley in feed¬ 
ing value for pigs, although it is not as 
palatable and carries more fibre. The 
yield per acre does not compare with that 
produced from either oats or barley. 
As to the probable prices for straight 
Timothy hay. the price of No. 2 grade 
hay will remain at its high level : $20 a 
ton, of course, is not the prevailing mar¬ 
ket price on this product, for we recently 
sold some No. 3 Timothy hay in the New 
York market for $44 a ton. which netted 
us about $37 a ton at our station. It 
seems to me that you would better be 
looking up a market that would pay you 
the prevailing prices. 
Salvage Wheat for Poultry 
I enclose sample of salvage wheat. 
What is your opiniou of same for poultry 
feed at $2.(50 per 100 lb-. V A good scratch 
feed costs $4.10 at present. We are get¬ 
ting 50c per dozen-for eggs. 35c per lb. 
live for broilers. Not much money in 
the poultry business at these figures. 
Pennsylvania. C. A. 
If the bulk of the wheat is similar to 
the sample that you submitted I would 
say that it would he very well suited for 
use as poultry feed and would be well 
worth $2.(50 per 100 fits. It would make 
a particularly good scratch feed, and 
there is no reason why it should not be 
purchased. It would clearly be more 
economical than the mixed scratch feed 
that you could secure at $4.10 per 100 lbs. 
It is true that there is scarcely a new 
dollar for an old one in the poultry busi¬ 
ness when eggs are worth but 50c a dozen 
and feeds continue to increase in price. 
Kale for Forage 
Have any readers of The It. X.-Y. ever 
used kale for Fall and Winter hog pasture 
in the place <>,' rape? I have a two-acre 
hog lot that the hogs have just cleaned the 
rye off. and I want to plow it in a few 
days and sow it in a crop of some kind 
to pasture hogs ou. I Slave plenty of 
kale seed of my own growing^ the rape 
seed I would have to buy. Kale grow- 
very rank here and Avill stand the Winter 
well. The main question is. will the hogs 
eat it. and will it do them as much good 
as rape? w. s. it. 
Maryland. 
Kale is very coarse, but is well -aired 
for feeding sheep or swine. It is relative¬ 
ly coarser than Dwarf Essex rape, and 
that is why rape is chosen from the mus¬ 
tard family as being best suited in feeding 
pig>. I doubt very much whether kale 
vs ill prove as palatable as rape, although 
it is believed that for late Summer plant¬ 
ing kale will be quite as well suited as 
rape. On tbe Pacific coast kale is ex¬ 
tensively grown, and a variety known as 
“Thousand Headed kale*’ is proved to be 
the best for soiling crops, and for use on 
areas intended to be pastured. If you 
have your own seed there is no reason 
why it should not be used, as you have 
suggested. Frozen kale should be thawed 
before being fed and.’if this precaution is 
taken, I have known of no bad results 
from feeding material of this sort, that 
may have been stored for Winter use. 
Ration for Heifer: Storing Cut Straw and 
Fodder 
Will you give me a grain ration for a 
heifer due to f’-eshen the first of October 
at the age of _’L_. years? She will have 
plenty of gras- of rather poor quality. 
She has a good deep barrel, but is not 
very large, and I wish to hustle her along 
a little. Can you tell me if it will be 
practical to cut oat straw and corn fodder, 
after it i- cured, into short pieces and 
place them in layers in a bay or bin? I 
have great difficulty in keeping corn- 
fodder into the Winter, and it' l can use 
the oat straw in this way it would help 
out on the hay. 1 thought the straw 
would absorb moisture from the corn, 
(Ims making the straw more palatable 
and keep the corn from spoiling. Would 
it be better to feed this to milch cows or 
to young stock? c. E. b. 
Massachusetts. 
If the heifer in question has been well 
grown and i- now carrying considerable 
fiesh it would be well to feed her gener¬ 
ously of a mixture consisting of equal 
parts of.ground hominy, ground oats, and 
gluten meal. If she weighs as much as 
l.OUO llis. she should be fed as much as 
six or eight pouuds of this mixture daily. 
It is advisable to decrease the grain 
ration just prev ious to freshening. There 
i- everything to be gained by having milch 
cows iq a high -rate of flesh previous to 
their fre-heniug in order that they may 
be in good physical condition to with¬ 
stand the drain- on the system that will 
follow it they prove to be persistent 
milkers. 
.Y- to the advisability of cutting the 
oat straw and putting this in the mow 
with the corn fodder, I would sat that 
thi- wouldjmnke considerable extra labor, 
but it might, as you suggest, save the 
corn fodder from spoiling. I can sec no 
advantage in cutting the straw, for it is 
not easy to induce animals to eat cut 
straw unless it i.- mixed with some good 
hay or grain. If the cornstalks are left 
in the shock until they are well cured, 
and then put into the rick or into the 
mow they will not spoil. The danger 
comes, a- you have suggested, in attempt¬ 
ing to store away the green fodder be¬ 
fore it i- properly cured. Oat straw is 
very low in digestible nutrients, though 
it serves a useful purpose in .supplement¬ 
ing roughage in mature animals. Young 
animals do not do well on straw, for it 
is too coarse and indigestible, and does 
not contain -uffirient nutriment to justify 
its use. Possibly the straw would absorb 
some of the moisture from the corn, but 
not enough to increase the palatability 
of the straw. I have never known milch 
cows to do very well on oat straw unless 
it i- cut green and fairly well cured and 
stored in the mow, and then used only iu 
conjunction with other feeds, including 
concentrates. It has been used success¬ 
fully iu conjunction with Alfalfa hay, iu 
order to do away with the natural •laxa¬ 
tive condition that prevails when the 
second or third cutting is fed. It will, 
no doubt, supplement your hay, but it 
should not be fed by itself, and I very 
much doubt the wisdom of cutting the 
straw under the conditions that you have 
suggested. 
I think a great many feeders of live 
stock have under-estimated the value <>f 
oats in their rations. While it is true 
that a great many of the so-called ground 
feeds contain reground oats consisting 
mainly of the hull, 1 am frank in ad¬ 
mitting that the best results, in the feed¬ 
ing experiments that I have conducted, 
followed where a generous amount of 
ground or crushed oats was included, par¬ 
ticularly with young animals. The only 
thing to guard against is the condition 
that often prevails at many of the mills, 
where all refuse material is collected, re- 
ground. and placed upon the market as 
ground oats. It i- undoubtedly true that 
a great deal <>f this material is worked 
off as hog feed, it being argued that since 
the pig?- will eat this material it must 
have some value as feed. Euless, there¬ 
fore. there is a great deal of foreign mat¬ 
ter. and a large percentage of oils in this 
material, it might profitably be used at 
the price today. 
Farmers of this community sold their 
wool, merino and grades, at 75c per lb. 
Those who sell whole milk are now get* 
ring 35c per gallon, less transportation 
charges. Country butter about 50c per 
lb.: egg- about 50c per doz. Peaches have 
been selling at $3 per bu. The yield of 
wheat, where thrashed, runs from 15 to 30 
bu. per acre. No oats thrashed yet. Corn 
looks well; with seasonable weather 
should make a good crop. Oak timber, 
uncut, sells at from $10 to $15 per 1,000 
ft., estimated : same at mill. $40 per 1,000 
ft., approved, according t<> grade. The 
Pittsburgh vein of coal, bituminous, 
changed hands at prices ranging from 
$100 per acre upward, according to lo¬ 
cation. There are many mines in this 
county in operation. J. N. w. 
Washington Co., Pa. 
The profiteers should take to heart the 
political speaker's warning when he said. 
“If you don’t stop shearing the wool off 
the sheep that lays the golden eggs, you’ll 
pump it dry.”—Boston Transcript. 
