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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 17, 1920 
D E LAVAL 
the world’s cream saver 
Scrub Sires. — I read that in some 
counties organized campaigns are being 
carried out for purebred breeders to ex¬ 
change bull calves for scrub bulls, the pur¬ 
pose being twofold: (1) to replace the 
scrub bull, (2) to furnish a market for 
the purebred. The plan is a good one if 
it is not abused. Its success all depends 
upon how the purebred breeder handles 
it. If he exchanges purebred bulls from 
scrub purebred cows, he really doesn’t 
help the situation much. 
Purchasing Food Co-operatively.— 
Spasmodically we make efforts to buy our 
feed together in this community. Pretty 
generally we have been successful in ef¬ 
fecting a saving. The plan falls down, 
however, because even after a carload has 
been brought in at a saving there is no 
one on the job who is particularly anxious 
to make arrangements to get the next one 
in. Now we have a co-operative store, 
started up near the farm. This store is 
attempting to operate along the same 
lines as the ordinary feed store. In ad¬ 
dition to handling feed, it handles farm 
seeds and machinery. We have been 
thinking the matter over and have come 
to the conclusion that such a method of 
operation is wrong. It would be better, 
in our judgment, for the manager of the 
store to get 75 or 100 of us to agree to 
buy all our feed through it; then get a 
getting typewritten letters from what ap¬ 
pear to be just ordinary farmers. This is 
a good sign. Typewritten letters are 
much more business-like and certainly 
easier to read than letters in longhand. 
Of course, the matter of someone to op¬ 
erate the machines is a serious question 
on many farms. Fortunately, however, 
there are still some children left in the 
country, and it is really surprising to see 
how soon a little miss or a lad of 10 or 12 
will pick up the ability to run a type¬ 
writer, and in a year or two. provided 
they are given some good form of letters 
to copy, they will be surprisingly pro¬ 
ficient. It seems that a good outlet for 
second-hand typewriters might be on the 
farms of the country. 
Tricks of tiie Trade. —A very suc¬ 
cessful showman of Holstein cattle once 
told 11 s how he always reared his show 
calves in a box stall with tight sides at 
least breast high. He said that this got 
the calf early into the habit of looking 
up at a man when he came to the stall, 
and that the calf never got over this little 
trick of raising its head and appearing 
alert when a man approached it. Also, 
that the constant looking up helped to 
grow a straight top-line. If there is any¬ 
thing to his suggestion, we might remark 
that we have seen some cattle in the show 
ring that should have been raised in box 
The older people know 
from experience that the 
“He wanted De La U' ski ,™ S c ' eaner - 
to see them runs easier and lasts longer. 
start right” They also remember the 
service they have always 
received from the De Laval 
Company and its agents. 
The superiority of the 
De Laval and the uninter¬ 
rupted service back of it are responsible for the fact that there 
are more De Lavals in use than of all other makes combined. 
Any time is a good time to buy a De Laval Cream Separator— 
to start saving cream, as well as time and energy. 
If you want to “ start right,” see nearest De Laval agent. If 
you do not know his name, write to nearest De Laval office. 
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165 Broadway 29 East Madison Street 61 Beale Street 
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by her sister cows. What can be done? 
Try out CE-RE-A-LIA SWEETS, the 
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Fed with roughage, CE-RE-A-LIA SWEETS is 
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Thousands of De 
Laval Cream Separa¬ 
tors have been sold 
to young people just 
beginning to run a 
farm, because a father 
or friend wanted to 
see them start right. 
The THRESHING PROBLEM 
Threshes cowpeas aud soybeans 
Mll.V Ml from the mown vines, wheat, 
oats, rye and barley. A perfect 
combination machine. Nothing like it. “The 
machine 1 have been looking for for 20 
rears ” W. F. Massey. “It will meet every 
"demand,” H. A. Morgan, Director Teun. Exp. 
Station. Booklet 30 free. 
Kogcr Pea & Bean Thresher Co.,Morristown ,Tenn. 
The Oicls Golden Queen 275736 
A Jersey cow owned by E. L. Brewer, of Washington. This cow has a record of 14220.8 lbs of 
milk and 018.41 lbs. of fat 
list of the approximate amounts of the 
different kinds of feed we would like, and 
spend his entire time purchasing and dis¬ 
tributing that feed to the best possible 
advantage as our employee. The same 
type of service is needed for our farm 
seeds and our machinery. 
Saving Time fot the Farmer. —It is 
all very well for the college professors 
and the Farm Bureau managers to preach 
about home testing of seed corn. Per¬ 
sonally, we never had much success with 
the proposition. We either get the corn 
too wet, so that it molds, or so dry it 
won’t grow ; or one of the children tips 
the box over, or something. It is a detail 
we would much rather have attended to 
by someone who can devote his attention 
to it. Then there is the question ct ma¬ 
chinery. Co-operative companies should 
not take up proprietary lines and push 
them, regardless of merits, but instead 
should collect the orders for cultivators, 
and mowing machines, etc., and then buy 
the best kind of that machine that there 
is available and stock with the necessary 
repair parts. We want a new manure 
spreader, but we haven’t time to study 
the merits of the different makes. It 
would he much more satisfactory all 
around if we could say to the manager of 
this co-operative store, ‘‘Buy us the best 
machine on the market at the best price 
you can get and let 11 s know when it ar¬ 
rives”; or. “Buy us a hundred bushels of 
oats and get them ground so we can get 
some ground oats that are not all shucks.” 
Typewriters on that Farm. —In our 
correspondence with breeders we get all 
sorts of letters. More and more we arc 
stalls with the partitions so arranged 
tliat they would have to look out under 
them and straighten out their sagging 
backs. Seriously, there is a pretty close 
relationship between the correct position 
for a show animal’s head and its top-line. 
DAIRYMAN. 
Utilizing Frozen Cabbage 
Is there anything that can he done with 
frozen cabbage? 1 have about three tons 
that I have stored, but it got frozen dur¬ 
ing the severe weather of December. Sev¬ 
eral people have told me that it did not 
hurt it to freeze if it were kept frozen. I 
had about 10 tons stored and one corner 
of tin- bin has frozen hard, although why 
it should have done so and the rest be all 
right is a mystery. A. L. 8. 
Ilimrod, N. Y. 
Frozen cabbage can be fed to stock and 
chickens by thawing out just enough each 
day to feed. A good way to thaw is by 
placing the heads in tubs of cold water. 
The cabbage can be sold as “frozen cab¬ 
bage” on a local market. We have often 
bought and used frozen cabbage at home, 
simply placing the-heads in cold water 
over night to draw out the frost. This 
cabbage can be used for cooking purposes, 
hut is not good for salads. After the 
frost is drawn out the cabbage should not 
he left for any length of time before using, 
as it begins to deteriorate almost imme¬ 
diately. As you did not state anything 
about the surroundings of your bins. I 
cannot give the reason for freezing. Frost 
always hits dry. still places first: also 
low places, as cold settles. Light frosts 
can be kept away by placing tubs of water 
in the storeroom, the water taking up the 
frost. T. u. T. 
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