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The Green 
Mountain silo 
with the new hip 
roof does credit to 
any group of 
farm buildings, no 
matter how pre¬ 
tentious. With its 
nut-brown creosoted 
staves and bright 
red cedar shingled 
roof, it is a beauty. 
'MM Just as good as it is good 
looking, too. Each part that 
has to stand a strain and in a 
silo that means al- f rvZ-s iV 
most every part—is 
built extra staunch 
and heavy. 
Green Mountain 
staves are of extra¬ 
heavy, clean, well- 
fitted lumber—creo¬ 
soted to weather- 
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Note the 
Safe-like 
Ooors 
proof and preserve the wood. 
The hoops are of extra-heavy 
steel with easy-fit¬ 
ting, rolled (not cut) 
threads. 
The safe-like Green 
Mountain door is a pa¬ 
tented feature that in- 
Bures Street silage. 
The Green Mountain 
anchorage system pre¬ 
vents warping and blow¬ 
ing over and holds rigid 
against unusual strains. 
No iron parts on the 
Green Mountain ladder to frost your 
hands or pull off your mittens in winter. 
There’s a real reason for every 
Green Mountain feature. Write for 
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story. Special discounts on early 
orders. 
CREAMERY PACKAGE MFG., CO. 
338 W«»t St. Rutland, Vt. 
Hoops end Lu^s Heovy 
Wooden 
Ladder 
No Frosting 
Increases Yield—Lowers Labor Cost 
Pays for itself many times over. One man and team 
opens furrow, drops seed any distance or depth, drops 
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band planting. Furrow opens and seed drops in plain 
sight. Does not injure seed. Has long life, needs few 
repairs. Sizes for 1 or 2 rows. Protect* you against 
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Eureka 
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Box 840 
Luca, N.Y 
No. 22 will plant 
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to 5 acres of pota- 
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is very simple 
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also help you 
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CHAMPION POTATO MACHINERY CO., 
151 Chicago Ave. Hammond, Ind. 
The O-H Line 
The old reliable O-H Cow’s 
Relief has stood tho test siuco 
1800. with a record of over 99 per 
cent satisfied users, ou eases of 
Caked Bag, Spider in Teat, Heit¬ 
ors with first calf, Frost Bites; 
Chapped, Cracked, Sore or In¬ 
jured Teats. 
Wo guarantee it, and will re¬ 
fund your money if it does not 
satisfy you. Large size can, $1.75 
small can, $ 1.00 prepaid. 
Swart Mercantile Co. 
Margaretville, N. Y. 
OLD P. D. BECKWITH 
Castiron GRAIN DRILLS 
Will pay good prices for these F O. B., your 
station. Do not need to be in running order. 
Write A. M. TODD COMPANY, Mentha, Michigan 
Mending Old Silo and Building New 
I want to build a silo and repair a 
stave silo. Which kind of a silo would 
be the besti and cheapest? I have in 
mind a silo that I think "would be very 
cheap and easy for any farmer to build, as 
I have plenty of such lumber of my own, 
and have a sawmill, so can saw it into 
any shape I wish. The stave silo which 
I wish to repair has been built a number 
of years, and, of course, there are spots 
in it which are rotting, but not enough 
to hurt it'. The way intended to repair 
this silo is to take half-inch elm, say 12 
ft. long, and rip that into lath of a certain 
width and bevel it. putting the bevel on 
the back, next to the stave, commencing 
and lathing the silo right around on the 
inside and plastering it with cement. Do 
you think this would be advisable? The 
new silo which I wish to build is as fol¬ 
lows : Take elm 5 in. wide, %-in. thick 
to make the hoops. Make the form the 
right size, bending the hoops around, mak¬ 
ing the hoops five thicknesses of %xo-in., 
being when made 2%x5-in. Then board¬ 
ing it up and down with inch lumber in¬ 
side of the hoops. Which would you ad¬ 
vise for this, elm or poplar? Lath it 
around with lath beveled ou the hack and 
plaster with cement. On the outside 
coiled up and down for the finish outside 
the hoops. I never have seen one of these 
slios, hut have always had an idea that 
this would make a good silo. The ma¬ 
terial that is in this silo would be very 
reasonable, as I have it on my farm and 
could cut it. I can buy spruce staves for 
a silo ready to put up for .$80 per thou¬ 
sand. w. A. s. 
Brasher Falls, N. r. 
If some of the staves in your silo are 
decayed, it would he better to remove 
them and put in new ones. I hardly 
think it would pay you to lath and plaster 
it on the inside. There would soon be 
weakness in the rotten spots, particularly 
after the weight of the cement plaster 
was added on the inside, and this would 
tend to cracking of the plaster. 
Concerning the new silo, the hoops 
could be made out of elm, as you suggest 1 , 
but elm would be likely to warp out of 
shape too badly to use it for staves. Cy¬ 
press, cedar or white piue would be better. 
I think you would get better satisfaction 
using 2x6-in. staves and no lathing and 
plaster than you would using lx6-in. 
staves. The combination of moisture and 
temperature would be hard on a cement 
plaster stuck on to wood in that way. 
There is a most excellent, pamphlet on 
homemade silos called Farmers’ Bulletin 
855. You can get a copy of this by writ¬ 
ing to the Chief of the Division of Pub¬ 
lications, Washington, D. C. The plans 
for the construction of a wooden hoop 
silo are given in every detail in this bul¬ 
letin. and there are good cuts showing 
the silo in various stages of construction. 
H. F. J. 
Milk Price for Cheese-making 
We have a cheese factory here. We 
pay for milk on butterfat basis. The 
stockholders supply most of the milk. 
Each patron has his share of whey to 
take home. Does the Holstein herd sup¬ 
ply solids which are not fat, but help 
make cheese in excess to what a Jersey or 
Guernsey herd would? w. p. v. 
Pennsylvania. 
According to “The Science and Prac¬ 
tice of Cheese Making.” by Van Slyke, 
when cheese contains 37 per cent water, 
about the average, the yields will be as 
follows: 
Lbs. cheese 
Lbs. cheese for each 
made from lb. of fat 
100 lbs. milk, in milk. 
Per 
cent fat 
in milk. 
3.00 
3.25 
3.50 
3.75 
4.00 
4.25 
4.50 
4.75 
5.00 
Per cent 
casein 
in milk. 
2.10 
2.20 
2.30 
2.40 
2.50 
2.00 
2.70 
2. SO 
2.00 
8.30 
8.SS 
9.45 
10.03 
10.00 
11.17 
11.74 
12.31 
12.90 
2.77 
2.73 
2.70 
2.67 
2.05 
2.03 
2.01 
2.59 
2.58 
It can he seen from the above that 100 
lbs. of 3.5 per cent milk make 9.45 lbs. 
cheese, while 100 lbs. of 5 per cent milk 
make 12.9 lbs., a difference of 2.45 lbs. 
While the Holstein man would have 2.45 
lbs. more whey to take home with him, 
this in no way affects the extra value of 
the Jersey milk. Some method of pay¬ 
ment should he used whereby the Jersey 
man got pay for this 2.45 lbs. cheese. If 
cheese sold for 30c lb., then the 5 per 
cent milk should bring 2.45 x 30=$.735 
more per cent than 3.5 milk. 
The simplest and fairest method for a 
co-operative cheese factory to buy milk 
is on the butterfat basis.; that is, instead 
of dividing the money available to its 
patrons by the pounds milk delivered, and 
| paying so much - per cwt., divide the 
pounds of butterfat iuto the receipts and 
j pay so much per pound of butterfat. The 
per cent, of fat jn the various patrons’ 
milk is commonly determined by taking 
samples two or three days in the month, 
averaging the tests and calculating the 
butterfat by multiplying this average test 
by the pounds of milk delivered. A more 
satisfactory method, however, is to carry 
composite samples and test them every 
, two weeks. u. F. j. 
Lady (at a bird fancier’s) : “And you 
guarantee this parrot can talk?” Fan¬ 
cier: “Talk! Well, madam, I bought him 
from a ladies’ club because all the mem¬ 
bers were jealous of him.”—Credit Lost. 
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