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Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January ill, 1020 
Good farmers and good corn. Yield of silage 34.4 tons per acre 
on A. A. C. Fertilizer. 
How Some Farmers 
Miss the Profit 
Higher wages for farm labor and higher cost 
of seed, equipment and supplies make it necessary 
to secure a higher return on the money invested 
in producing crops. 
But here is one source of profit that some farmers miss. 
In choosing fertilizer, remember that the form of the plant 
food is just as important as the analysis, for the materials used 
should vary according to the needs of the crop, the character of 
the soil and the climate. Two fertilizers alike in analysis but 
made of different materials often produce widely different re¬ 
sults. Secure the best results and get the greatest profit by using 
A A C* Fertilizers 
They are made of materials that have given the best results 
in actual crop tests,—conducted on many farms in many states, 
under different soil and climatic conditions. A gain of thirty to 
forty bushels of potatoes per acre by using fertilizer best suited 
to the crop is not unusual. Equally good gains have been found 
with other crops. Our Agricultural Service Bureau is in charge 
of Dr. H. J. Wheeler, formerly Director of the Rhode Island 
Agricultural Experiment Station. It has helped many farmers 
to determine the best fertilizer for their needs. It is ready to 
help you. Write today for information — the service is free. 
How to Make Money with Fertilizers 
,!TOHTTOMAKl 
MONEriY/j 
FERT/LL 
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is a valuable book of 56 pages—full of practical infor¬ 
mation on fertilizers, crops and soils. There are 46 
illustrations. It tells you how to select fertilizer for 
most profitable results—what errors to avoid in buying 
and using fertilizer. It is a complete fertilizer manual. 
Every farmer needs it. Our nearest office will be glad 
to send it free, if you will mention this paper when 
writing for it. 
If there is an agent near you ask him for our 
crop books. If there is no agent in your town, write us for the 
name of our nearest agent, or ask for an agency yourself. 
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Fertilizer is highly concentrated. It is many times 
richer than manure. It must be applied properly. 
When planting by hand, the fertilizer should be 
well covered by the soil or thoroughly mixed with 
it, before the seed is dropped. 
If applied by machine select one that mixes the 
fertilizer with the soil thoroughly. Some corn 
planters have a special attachment for mixing the 
fertilizer with the soil. If you have one, be sure 
to attach it. e 
If fertilizer is applied broadcast, sow it evenly. 
Fertilizer should not be applied to grass or grain 
that is moist. Apply around, and not on, other 
plants. • 
The Cow and Her Care 
Difficult Churning 
I have three cows, and on account of get¬ 
ting very little cream at present we do 
not use our separator, but hand-skim the 
cream. We cannot seem to get the cream 
to churn: had no trouble until a few 
months ago. We have the cream as we 
get it day from day in the kitchen. The 
cream has a bitter taste. It seems to 
ripen all right. I am feeding good hay, 
cornstalks and corn and middlings. 1 am 
intending to sell two of these grade cows 
and wish to put in about five registered 
heifers or cows. Our intentions are to 
make poultry (eggs) our main issue, raise 
all our feed and have enough skim-milk 
for chickens to supplant the beef scrap. 
I am feeding corn and skim-milk with oats 
or. straw in litter now. and pullets are 
doing well. What breed of cattle would 
you advise? I am partial to Jerseys, but 
friends advise Ilolsteins on account of 
big quantity of skim-milk. We sell our 
butter to the store when we have the 
cows fresh. I can breed handily to a reg¬ 
istered Jersey bull: all other breeds are 
scrub in this community. w. M. 
Connecticut. 
The main reason why you are having 
difficulty in getting the butter to come is 
the fact that your cows are nearly dry. 
At this time the fat globules in the cream 
are very small and come together with 
difficulty. The fact that you have no 
feeds such as silage or roots or linseed oil- 
meal that tend to make butter fat in milk 
soft is another reason, and then hand- 
skimmed cream is thin and does not churn 
as easily as richer separator cream. The 
bitterness you note in the cream is also 
due largely to the fact that cows arc ad¬ 
vanced in lactation. Their milk is very 
liable to become abnormal and one ab¬ 
normality that develops is bitterness. The 
fact that you keep creapi warm in the 
kitchen after skimming is also conducive 
to the development of this bitter flavor. 
Try the following plau: Put cream 
soou as skimmed in a cool place and keep 
it there until the night before churning. 
Then set cream pail in a larger vessel of 
hot water over the fire and heat the cream 
to 140 degrees F., and hold it there for 
20 minutes. Then cool the cream and 
hold it over night and churn it next day 
at about 05 degrees F. Stir the cream 
during the heating an,d cooling processes. 
Your plan of cow and poultry combina¬ 
tion is excellent and is sure to meet with 
success. Knowing about how many hens 
you are to keep and hence their approxi¬ 
mate skim-milk requirement you can fig¬ 
ure closely the number of cows required. 
Even though it might take a couple more 
Jersey cows than Ilolsteins, the number 
would not be more than you could readily 
keep, and since you are partial to Jerseys, 
are near a purebred Jersey bull and since 
the Jersey produces a pound of butter fat 
most economically, you have three very 
good reasons for choosing that breed. 
Your cow grain ration lacks protein. If 
you have only hay and cornstalks, you had 
better make grain ration 100 lbs. corn- 
meal, 100 lbs. middlings, 150 lbs. linseed 
oilmeal, 100 lbs. cottonseed meal and 200 
lbs. wliellt bran. Add 1 lb. of salt to each 
100 lbs. of feed when mixing up. ii. F. j. 
Ration for Holstein Cows 
Will you give me a balanced ration for 
Holstein cows? I have good mixed hay, 
dry fodder and silage from sugar corn 
stalks (ears were sold), also plenty of 
corn tm cob. What feed should I buy to 
make the right ration? F. S. A. 
New Jersey. 
Feed two feeds of silage, two of hay 
and one of dry fodder daily if you have 
enough of each so they can be so dis¬ 
tributed. Make up a grain ration of two 
parts, by weight, of bran, two parts corn 
and cobmeal. 2 parts cottonseed meal and 
one part linseed oilmeal or gluten feed. 
Add a pound of salt to each 100 lbs. of 
feed when mixing it up. H. F. J. 
Grain Ration with Alfalfa 
Will you give me a good grain ration 
for milk and butter and the amount to he 
fed each cow with Alfalfa as roughage? 
New Jersey. L. w. G. 
Feed all Alfalfa cows will clean up 
three times a day. Make up grain ration 
of three parts, by weight, of bran, two 
parts cornmeal and one part gluten feed. 
Add a pound of salt to each 100 lbs. of 
feed. Feed each cow a quart of this mix¬ 
ture to ly* to 2 qts. milk produeed daily. 
H. F. J. 
Ration Without Succulence 
I have plenty of Alfalfa, corn stover, 
and corn and oats to grind. What would 
you use with that grain for milch cows? 
I have no silo nor mangels. j. w. T. 
New York. 
Give at least two feeds of Alfalfa a day 
if you have enough, and then give what 
stover they will clean up. Make grain 
ration two parts, by weight, ground oats, 
two parts cornmeal, one part bran and 
one and one-half parts cottonseed meal. 
Add 1 lb. of salt to each 100 lbs. of feed 
and feed 1 lb. of grain to each 3% to 4 
lbs .of milk produced daily. H. F. J. 
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