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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
March 13, 1920 
Unadilla Silo Co 
Box C. 
Unadilla, N. Y., or 
Des Moines, la. 
EASY TO 
ADJUST HOOPS 
Unadilla Silos 
T HE Unadilla Silo is the most con¬ 
venient silo, recognized as such by 
experienced dairymen and stockmen. 
Twice a day for 6 or 7 months you or your man 
climbs the silo. Twice a day for the same period 
silage must be forked out, 30 to 60 pounds per 
head. Tons of silage must be handled by hand. 
The Unadilla Silo is the only silo that pro¬ 
vides ifor your convenience perfectly—clay in and 
day out. 
A patented door fastener ladder, rungs wide 
enough, only 15 inches apart, providing a reliable 
tread, staunch and ever-ready, makes goingupor 
coming down easy for man, boy or woman. It 
makes tightening of hoops at the door front a few 
minutes’ easy, one-man job—that cannot 
easily be neglected. 
Air-tight doors push in and slide up or down— 
easily and always. They can't stick or freeze in. 
This makes entrance into the silo safe and easy. 
It makes silage forking simply silage dumping 
at a door level. No back-breaking forking, 
waist high, or overhead. 
These are advantages you must notoverlook when 
purchasing a silo that will last a generation and 
be'in use 300 to 500 times a year. 
The UNADILLA has many other exclusive fea¬ 
tures. Many years of specializing in one product 
produced them for you. 
A big, well-illustrated, facts-full catalog, with 
early-order discount offer, come* free on request. 
Send today. 
Good agents can have a tew open territories. 
Convenient and 
Easy to Feed From 
Makes Full Width furrows 
All The Time 
T HE patented auto foot frame shift on the John Deere 
Syracuse Two-Way Plow enables you to regulate 
furrow width accurately under all conditions by slight 
pressure on foot levers. 
JOEH MEffiS: 
SYRACUSE T ^l°o£ AY 
BUILT IN THE EA 
is the ideal plow for plowing 
on hillsides, around stones or 
other obstructions, up close to 
fences, or in the nooks and 
corners of irregular fields. A full 
width furrow can be maintained 
all the time and dead furrows and 
back ridges can be done away with 
where these are not desirable. 
ST FOR THE EAS 
The plow has Automatic Clevis 
Shift and Horse Lift — labor- 
saving features you will appre¬ 
ciate. Wheels are set wide 
apart—no tipping over on hill¬ 
sides. Built strong and durable 
throughout. Equipped with fa¬ 
mous Syracuse Chilled Bottoms. 
Write Today for a folder describing this plow. Address 
John Deere, Moline, Illinois. Ask for booklet ST-140. 
, JOHN- DEERE 
THE TRADE MARK OF QUALITY MADE FAMOUS BY GOOD IMPLEMENTS 
Selling Dairy Butter 
Your referendum is the best way to get 
the sentiment of farmers on the impor¬ 
tant farm questions of the State. With 
this system of vote, farmers can get a 
square deal if they stand up for it. 
We are raising purebred ITolsteins and 
have been separating milk for the calves 
for about three years and making butter. 
I have demanded the best creamery price 
for our butter from our customers, and 8c 
less cash from the stores for our surplus. 
They refused to pay the price at the 
stores for a time, until now they offer at 
the store 2c better than the highest 
creamery print price quoted in the Buf¬ 
falo Ex-press for all the butter we will 
make, and pay the cash for all of it if we 
will let them have our butter so they can 
advertise. We stamp our name and ad- 
ctyess on each pound, so have made a de¬ 
mand for it. e. jr. p. 
New York. 
Dairy butter well made is worth much 
more than creamery butter, and goes far¬ 
ther. The reason is that the dairy butter 
does not carry so much water and other 
impurities. It stands up under heat. It 
would not be hard now to find a market 
at premium for a good brand of butter. 
City subscribers tell us that they often 
write for the things advertised in “Sub¬ 
scribers’ Exchange.” but the goods are 
sold. The demand is large and there are 
not enough goods of any kind offered. 
This is the time to build up a personal 
trn de. 
Little Helps in a Small Dairy 
Feeling that some of my experiences in 
getting by on a farm without much help 
or capital might be of help to some other 
man in like circumstances, I write to tell 
a few things I have tried out with satis¬ 
factory results. I do general farming. I 
keep a small dairy (Jersey and Guernsey 
grades), sell cream wholesale, keep poul¬ 
try, a few sheep, raise a few calves, fat¬ 
ten a few hogs, and raise and sell fruits 
and vegetables. While I do not receive 
quite as much for the cream as I could 
get for whole milk. I believe the value of 
the skim-milk for feeding pigs, calves and 
poultry, together with the fertilizing ele¬ 
ments saved and the extra produced 
through increase of stock, more than 
makes up the loss. Most of my work I 
do much the same as my neighbors, but 
in connection with the production of food 
for cows and in the manner of preparing 
some of it. I have done a little differ¬ 
ently. from necessity rather than for any 
other reason. 
Not having an abundance of pasture. T 
have found it necessary to grow green 
feed early in the season. This I have 
accomplished by sowing Bed clover early 
in July in strips in young orchards where 
I did not care to keep all of the ground 
under continued cultivation, and in small 
plots of corn at the last cultivation 
(usually sweet corn grown for fodder), 
having kept the plot well tilled and level. 
I find that in this climate clover should 
be sown before the middle of July to in¬ 
sure it from winter-killing. I often sow 
a little extra seed on these plots about 
the first of April on a light snow. This 
practice insures a crop, even though 
Spring freezing and thawing injures the 
previous seeding, and ft also serves to 
carry clover over for another year’s crop. 
I often sow clover in this way in rye with 
good results-. Permanent seeding can be 
made by adding Timothy and a little Bed- 
i top. I will say here that most of my 
permanent seeding I now do in July, in 
the standing corn, having kept it under 
level tillage. The corn upon maturing is 
cut low, the loose stones are picked up 
ami the cornfield becomes a meadow. 
This may not. be the best method, but 
it eaves labor when help is hard to get. 
I realize that the most successful dairy¬ 
men have silos, and it is not my purpose 
to belittle their value, but I imagine there 
are other small farmers like myself who 
do not find it convenient to have them. 
One of the several reasons why I have 
gotten along without a *ilo is that I de¬ 
sire to raise yellow flint corn, having lmd 
a fair market for it as seed corn, and an 
abundant use for it to feed to poultry. 
I used to store the stalks and feed them 
dry without cutting. This proved so 
wasteful that I purchased a small gaso¬ 
line engine, a corn cutter, a large gal¬ 
vanized iron tank (about 9 ft. long, 2]/> 
ft. high and 2 ft. wide) and a large bar¬ 
rel of molasses of an inferior grade used 
for feeding stock. The stalks had to be 
stored as before, either in the barn or in 
stacks, and eut as needed. Enough can 
be cut at one time to feed for a week or 
two. If too many are cut they will beat 
and spoil. I out up my stalks into inch 
or half-inch lengths and put a heaped 
bushel into the tank for each cow. I 
then took from a half pint to a pint of 
molasses for each cow, added hot water 
iu the proportion of three or four quarts 
for each bushel of stalks, stirred thor¬ 
oughly and poured same over stalks. I 
then sprinkled on the grain I wished to 
feed and with a shovel mixed the contents 
of the tank thoroughly. This I practiced 
once each day. The results proved so 
satisfactory that I have kept up the prac¬ 
tice. and no longer feel a silo to be a 
necessity. The molasses serves not only 
as a relish, but also as u food and a bowel 
regulator, and eaves wastage of stalks. 
Bethany, Conn. t. d. d. 
MOUNTAIN 
5-1 LOS 
farm buildings, no 
matter how pre¬ 
tentious. With its 
-brown creosoted 
es and bright 
red cedar shingled 
roof, it is a beauty. 
Just as good as it is good 
looking, too. Each part that 
has to stand a strain and in a 
silo that means al¬ 
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 
Doors 
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¬ 
sures sweet silage. 
The Green Mountain 
anchorage system pre¬ 
vents warping and blow¬ 
ing over and holds rigid 
against unusual strains. 
No iron parts on the 
Wooden 
Ladder 
No Frost.nq 
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 
free 1920 literature and get the whole 
story. Special discounts on early 
orders. 
CREAMERY PACKAGE MFG., CO. 
338 West St. Rutland, Vt, 
Hoops ond Luq£ Extra Hqo> 
Produce 
More Food 
I NCREASE your produc¬ 
tion of beef and dairy 
products with a 
Preston 
i Vitrified Tile Silo 
— the silo that last9 indefinitely 
without upkeep expense. Never 
needs painting—never affected by 
weather aonditions. Built with 
patented "ship-lap” blocks, rein¬ 
forced with twisted steel. Steel 
hip roof—steel chute—fireproof. 
Get your silo now—beautify your 
farm —and be ready for your 
silage crop. Write for catalog. 
J. M. PRESTON CO. 
Oept. 329 Lansing, Mich. 
Factories: . 
Ft. Dodge. la.; Uhriehsville, Ohio 
and Brazil, Ind. 
MORE SILO LESS MONEY 
GRIFFIN SILOS 
DIRECT TO YOU, 
NO agents to pay 
Wo give you factory price on 
this silo. Continuous open door 
front, permanent steel ladder and 
other Griffin features. 
Ask for our new free catalogue, 
"Thofcitory of the GriffinSilo.” It 
is a story you can't afford to miss 
reading. Prices on application. 
GRIFFIN LUMBER CO. 
Box 11 Hudson Falls, N. Y. 
FAMOUS. GRIFFIN FRONT 
ECONOMY SILOS 
A PERMANENT SILO 
Every Economy Silo is equipped with the 4 
Storm Proof anchoring system that makes • 
it absolutely permanent. Ensilage is al¬ 
ways fresh and sweet—it can't spoil in an 
Economy Silo. Perfect fitting doors make 
the Silo perfectly air-tight. Hoops form 
easy ladder. Built of long leal Yellow 
Pine or Oregon Fir. Headquarters for 
all sizes of water tanks. Our motto is / 
quality through and through. Facto- ! 
ries at Frederick, Md., and Roanoke, Va. 1 
Wrl te f or catalog. j 
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