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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March t>, lmio 
Live Stock Matters 
By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Let the Women Buy the Separator— 
They Have to Clean it and in 
Many Cases Turn it Twice a Day 
W omen on many farms, operate and clean the 
cream separator, and the farm women will 
appreciate the many advantages in the Sharpies 
Suction-feed that are most important to her. 
The simple one-piece bowl is much easier to clean 
than 20 to 40 “discs,” found in fixed-feed separators. 
(All other separators are fixed-feed.) 
A woman can operate the Sharpies Suction-feed 
slowly and still get all the butterfat. Sharpies skims 
clean at any speed. No other separator does. 
Sharpies has an automatic oiling system. The 
Sharpies knee-low supply tank eliminates lifting heavy 
milk cans. The Sharpies Suction-feed saves the valu¬ 
able butterfat that fixed-feed separators lose. Profits 
with Sharpies, therefore, are larger than with any 
other cream separator. 
Proof: There are more Sharpies Separators in use 
today than any other make, American or foreign. 
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the advantages of the Sharpies Suction - 
Feed. Address nearest office, Dept. 12. 
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West Chester, Pa. 
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Improving Milk Flow 
How can I get more milk? I have 
three good Guernsey cows. One fresh¬ 
ened last August, giving about 1(1 quarts 
a day, on good pasture, and fed plenty 
of cornstalks. She is now down to about 
seven quarts. She is now fed good hay. 
principally Timothy, Red-top and grain, 
one pound of grain to three quarts of 
milk, mixed up in bulk as follows: 200 
lbs. bran. '*>20 lbs. ground oats, 100 lbs. 
white middlings, 100 lbs. eornmeal. A 
pinch of salt is always mixed in at feed¬ 
ing time. This grain is fed in the same 
ration the year around. (>ne cow is dry¬ 
ing now. due to freshen next month. The 
other cow calved this week. The milk 
always shows a good per cent of lmtter- 
fat. but I think it lacks in quantity. The 
other two cows before going dry did not 
give a great quantity. Those that I hap¬ 
pened to speak to ou the subject agreed 
with me as to their poor supply. e. e. 
Connecticut. 
The ration that you are feeding is 
faulty, inasmuch as it lacks protein, and 
you are not providing your animals with 
any succulence. Timothy hay and Red- 
top are not suited for the production of 
milk, as they are not easily digested and 
only contribute bulk to the ration. All 
of the feeds that you hare identified, bran, 
oats, middlings and corumeal, are carbo¬ 
hydrate carriers. It is essential, there¬ 
fore, that you should add some oilmeal or 
cottonseed meal to this combination. If 
is suggested that you add 250 lbs, of oil- 
meal or cottonseed meal to the mixture 
that you are now feeding. 
For the dry cows I would use equal 
Ipnrts of eornmeal, ground oats, wheat 
bran and oilmeal. There is little to be 
gained by including both bran and mid¬ 
dlings in the same ration for milch cows 
and I should prefer using 250 lbs. of coru¬ 
meal. rather thau 100 lbs. of middlings 
and 100 lbs. of eornmeal. Your ration 
tlieu for the cows in milk would be 20u 
lbs. of bran. 200 lbs. of ground oats. 200 
lbs. of eornmeal. 250 lbs. of oilmeal. Cows 
yielding as much as 17 quarts of milk a 
day should be provided with some form 
of succulence. Since you do not have 
silage, beet pulp would serve your pur¬ 
pose to the best advantage. For the two 
cows in milk I would saturate 10 lbs. of 
dried beet pulp with water, and would 
feed this moistened material to two equal 
feedings morning and night. If you could! 
secure some Alfalfa or clover hay you 
would find it would make a great deal of 
difference in your milk supply. Of course 
if you have only a small quantity there 
might he some question about selling tin 
Timothy and buying clover, as the oilmeal 
suggested will supplement the protein in 
fairly economical form. 
As to quality of milk, let me say that 
it is scarcely possible to modify the but¬ 
terfat content of milk by altering the 
grain ration. There is a difference be¬ 
tween butterfat and the soluble fats con¬ 
tributed by a ration carrying even ex¬ 
cessive amounts of fat. Quality produc¬ 
tion is inherited and not modified to anv 
appreciable extent by the rations fed. Of 
Course cows in high flesh will yield milk 
testing a higher percentage of butterfat 
thau those that come to their milk iu a 
thin or emaciated condition ; and this is 
why some of the butterfat records made 
at calving time from individuals that 
have beeu fed excessively on such mate¬ 
rials as flaxseed, eornmeal or peanut meal, 
known to be rich in fat and protein, are 
unusual. Beets would supply succulence, 
and it would be well to feed as much as 15 
to 20 lbs. of them per day per cow. They 
should be cut up aud mixed with the 
gram ration aud fed after milking. 
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Makes it easier for the horse and 
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Eureka Harness Oil prevents cracking and 
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Feeding Fresh Cows 
Please send me balanced rations for 
feeding fresh Holstein cows. I am feeding 
mixed hay and corn silage, not much grain 
in silage. Would like to use my own oats 
aud corn. Can get oilmeal and cottonseed 
meal, but no gluten feed. n. L. c. 
New York. 
Feed your Ilolsteiu cows all of the 
silage that they will consume twice daily, 
ami feed one pound of the following grain 
ration for each 1 lbs. of milk produced 
per day. 300 lbs, of oats. 300 lbs. of corn, 
300 lbs. of oilmeal. 200 lbs. of cottonseed, 
100 lbs. of bran. If they are thin in flesh 
it might be well to increase the amount of 
corn; otherwise, stick to the ration sug- 
jgested. You would get better results in 
case you could use Alfalfa or clover hay 
[in preference to Timothy. 
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Improves Milk Quality 
Tliis milk cooler halts bacteria! growth, 
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Saves its cost in one week. Recommended 
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