1892 
December 27, 1919 
The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
“li^Owna 
.&f Selected” Farm 
\\C JP'f in Western Canada 
ssa j[S'4 Make Bigger Profits! 
W VJH»• 
T HE most wonderful opportunity in the world for 
Business Farmers is in the “SELECTED” FARMS 
which can be bought for $15 to $40 an acre along the lines 1 
of the Canadian National Railways in Western Canada. 
“Selected” Farms Big Profits in Wheat 
These “SELECTED” Farms are care- and Dairying 
fully chosen from the cream of the rich- Western Canada is famous for its big 
est wheat and cattle country in America, wheat yields> “SELECTED” FARMS 
to meet your special needs, on the advice along the lines of the Canadian National 
of experts representing 14,000 miles of Railways average more than 20 bushels 
railway, whose assistance, though free to of wheat to the acre. Under specially 
home seekers, is of great practical value. favorable conditions a yield of 50 to 60 
A Cordial Welcome bushels per acre is not uncommon 
........ Dairying is exceptionally profitable. 
Western Canada extends a helpful hand That soil and climate are well adapted 
to home seekers. Friendly neighbors, to it is shown in greatly increased pro- 
With the same customs and language— duction and high quality maintained. A world- 
splendid schools, churches and social .wide market awaits all that Western Canada can 
life—every benefit that you formerly P r °£ uce - 
enjoyed and many advantages that you Fortunes from Beef and 
could not get from higher priced land Dairv Cattl#* 
elsewhere—warm, sunny, growing sum- __ T i^airy v^aiue 
mers and dry, cold, healthy winters— WesternCanada,theCattleMansPara- 
await you in this wonderfully prosper- dise! Beef and dairy cattle yield great 
ous “LAST WEST.” profits. Stock thrive on the prairie 
it grasses, which in many cases cure stand- 
1 axes Are Low mg an d make fine hay. Cattle and horses re- 
_ T . „ , , quire only natural shelter most of the weather. 
Western Canada taxes fall lightly on and bring high prices without grain feeding, 
the farmer. A small tax on land, but p ■p 
buildings, improvements, animals, ma- tasy 1 erms 
chinery and personal property are all Terms on “SELECTED” Farms: About 10 per 
. ovomnf cent cash down, balance m equal payments over 
tax exempt. a term of years; interest usually 6 per cent. 
Special Rates to Home Seekers /dewItt"oster! 
Special railway rates wil 1 be made for home seekers and 
their effects to encourage personal inspection of the Dept.jso, Marqu*tt«Building! 
Farms along the lines of the Canadian National Rail- S CHICAGO 
ways. Rates and full information will be sent free S uStSS to“ ra“ e compte?o EltttTon 
on request. Write or mail coupon TODAY! j* , on the items concerning Western Canada 
r S checked below: 
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Canadian National Railways ftkLUuiLil _ 
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THE MOORE BROS. ALBANY 
NEW YORK 153 Hudson A 
MOTORISTS 
SEND FOR THIS 
FREE REPAIR BOOK 
Booklet “R" tells liow to make 
hundreds of household a n <1 
motor repairs permanently, 
quickly, and Is as easily applied as putty. 
SMOOTH-ON IRON CEMENT No. 1 
will save you dollars. 6 oz. 
cans, 25c; 1 lb. cans. 50c. At 
hardware and general stores. By 
mail add 5c for postage. 
SMOOTH-ON MFC. CO. 
Jersey City, N. J. U. S. A. 
IRON CEMENT 
A Real, Big, Paying 
Farm Business 
Twenty years ago this farm began 
producing better milk. Today the 
farm and its owner are known nation¬ 
ally for a particular brand of clean 
milk—with an assured market for 
3,000 quarts daily ; the yearly busi¬ 
ness is in excess of $00,000—with a 
substantial profit. 
Buildings and equipment are the 
finest, yet practical and sensible 
throughout. The owner’s residence 
is unusually comfortable without be¬ 
ing ostentatious. The land is highly 
developed. Five good dwellings for 
the help simplify the labor problem. 
The owner desires to sell to a capa¬ 
ble young man. No agents or brokers. 
T. E. Milliman 
Suffern, New York 
^ ■j&l’Bb 
Stormproof — # 
anchored solid 
as an oak. 
Cows are like humans 
Says Silas Low 
Feed them wrong and you don’t get 
much out of them. Feed them right and 
theydo their best. With cows that means 
green feed and green feed in wintertime 
More milk and 
better milk all 
winter and smal¬ 
ler feed bills. 
means a 
Harder Silo 
“I tell you folks, that’s the best Silo made. 
It’s sound, sturdy, air-tight and the continuous 
doorway makes feeding almost fun. 
“By all means have a HARDER. Have 
several of them. They’ll keep good fodder 
from going to waste in the fall. HARDER SlLOS 
mean A-j milk for you all winter." 
Write for booklet on the HARDER, 
the Silo that Uncle Sam uses—also 
the story of Silas Low. BOTH FREE. 
HARDER MFG. CORP. 
Box 1 1 
C0BLESKILL. N.Y. 
Grade Heifer Calves. —Since writing 
the note about our surplus grade Guern¬ 
sey and Holstein heifer calves, a large 
number of inquiries have come to the 
farm about these calves. We had no 
idea that there was such interest in grade 
calves. As some inquiries wanted to know 
the price, we have had to do some figuring 
on the proposition, and after a rather 
careful consideration of the value of the 
hides and the meat for chickens, we be¬ 
lieve that $12 to $15 would represent a 
fair price for a day-old grade heifer calf, 
crated and on board cars. The difference 
in price is dependent on whether material 
for the crate has to be purchased and 
extra labor hired for making it. From 
the inquiries it is very evident that there 
is enough interest to make quite a busi¬ 
ness out of grade heifer calf sales. It 
is also evident that at the low price stated 
above a man could not take the time to 
do much letter-writing or to go to any 
expense advertising. This makes it 
necessary to work out some sort of a sys¬ 
tem whereby buyer and seller can be put 
in touch with each other at a minimum 
of expense. Practically every county 
now has a farm bureau, and many have 
breeders’ associations. These are organi¬ 
zations that exist for service. Would it 
not he possible for the secretary of a local 
milking animal, giving hundreds of 
pounds of milk each year. He is not 
to be blamed for this conception. Dairy¬ 
men have been negligent in not realizing 
it themselves and introducing the public 
to some of the overhead costs of milk 
production. 
Wintering Yottng Stock. —Last Win¬ 
ter, which was so mild that the experience 
could hardly be taken as typical, we win¬ 
tered a bunch of calves by allowing them 
to run in and out of an old barn at will. 
These calves looked rough all Winter, but 
grew very well, and it has been our ob¬ 
servation this Summer that they did much 
bettor on pasture than one or two ani¬ 
mals which wore wintered in a warm 
stable. This Winter we shall keep all of 
our stock in a warm basement barn, most 
of it being in stanchions, the younger ani¬ 
mals running in box stalls. We are won¬ 
dering now how this system will compare 
with our system of last Winter. Our 
present guess is that it. will take less feed, 
but that the heifers will not grow any 
better, and we just have a sort of notion 
that when next Summer comes they are 
not going to do as well on pasture as our 
heifers have done this year. The ques¬ 
tion of where to draw the line between 
proper housing and care of dairy stot*’ 
and coddling is a perplexing one. 
Lenetta, a 21-year-old Ayrshire ioith an Advanced Registry Record 
breeders’ association, or the stenographer 
in a Farm Bureau office, to have on file 
a list of dairymen in the county who 
could be relied upon to furnish surplus 
calves from time to time? This bureau, 
or breeders’ ssociation, could then adver¬ 
tise the fact and the price, and when in¬ 
quiries were received, connect up by tele¬ 
phone with some man who had a calf on 
hand. In case this were done, the cost 
of the collective advertising and the neces¬ 
sary telephoning could be divided up at 
the end of the year on the basis of calves 
sold. Perhaps such a plan would be im¬ 
practical. mainly because of the fact that 
grade calves that are not raised are sel¬ 
dom kept on hand over a day or two. It 
therefore would be difficult to locate them. 
This could be at least partially overcome 
by the dairyman sending in word that he 
had a heifer calf on hand to the Farm 
Bureau or breeders’ association office. 
Then, too, such a plan might he menaced 
by unscrupulous men that would ship 
any sort of a calf from any sort of a 
cow. This is something that could he 
guarded against by having only the best 
men on the list 
An Overhead Expense.—H ow 
Stable Floors. —We are having ex¬ 
perience this Winter with two types of 
stable floors, or rather floors for the plat¬ 
forms on which the cows stand. One of 
these is made of planks; the other con¬ 
crete. Unfortunately, the cows cannot 
give us their personal opinions of the rel¬ 
ative merits of these two floors ; but from 
observation we see little to recommend 
the plank platform over the cement plat¬ 
form, and are forced to the conclusion 
that a cement floor for driveway, gutter, 
platform, manger and feed alley is by far 
ihe best thing in stable construction. 
This, of course, presupposes that the plat¬ 
form floor will be insulated by building 
paper about two inches from the surface. 
DAIRYMAN. 
dairymen, since they 
ter quarters, have 
count up carefully 
a piece of 
ing cows 
something. 
paper 
that 
aud 
(1) 
are 
( 2 ) 
many 
have gone into Win- 
taken the pains to 
and write down on 
tin* number of milk- 
nctually producing 
the number of dry 
cows, yearlings, bulls, calves, and perhaps 
a steer or two. that are contained in the 
herd? If such a count wore made fre- 
quently and the figures set down each 
time, the man who has not thought about 
it will bo astonished at the number of 
non-producing animals that are carried on 
the average dairy farm compared with 
the milking herd. Probably there 
way to get around this condition, 
tainly. however, it is something that 
explaining to a great many people, 
average city man has the conception 
every animal on 
haps some tiny 
is no 
Cer- 
needs 
The 
that 
a dairy farm, except per¬ 
ceives, is a full-grown 
A Record Ayrshire Cow 
. Fenetta, a 21-year-old Ayrshire, has 
just completed an advanced registry rec¬ 
ord amounting to 11.128 lbs. milk. 374.73 
lbs. fat. In the face of present-day world 
records. 11,138 lbs. milk, 374.73 ‘lbs. fat 
would be considered just an ordinary pro¬ 
duction, but nevertheless it is a world 
record over nil breeds, for no cow of any 
breed has ever equaled that record offi¬ 
cially at the age of 21 years. Lenetta il- 
lustrates Ayrshire persistency and the 
breed’s ability to produce and reproduce. 
She was born August 16, ISOS, uml was 
bred by A. A. Ilunnewdl of Cumberland 
< o„ Me., and is owned and was tested by 
I>r. John A. Ness of Androscoggin Co., 
ft 14-year-old she officially tested 
13,248 lbs. milk, 465.74 lbs. fat. She now 
has five A. It. records to b“r credit, aver¬ 
aging 11.472 lbs. milk. 307.36 lbs. fat. all 
of the five records being made after 14 
years of age. She has been a uniform 
producer, her average of 11.472 lbs. milk 
comparing well with last year’s record of 
U.loO lbs. milk and this year’s record of 
11.ids lbs. Lenetta is a strong, vigorous 
cow. in spite of her years, and looks capa¬ 
ble of continuing the good work for quite 
a few years yet. She has been a regular 
breeder. j. o. WATSON. 
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association. 
“Do you believe in the wisdom of the 
plain people?” “Sometimes,” replied 
Senator Sorghum ; “when they happen to 
entertain the same opinion that I do”—■ 
Washington Star. 
