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Vhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 13 , 1920 
Have "Market Toppers” and Prize Winners—Save Feed, 
and shorten the feeding period. Prove at our risk that you 
can make from $3.00 to $10.00 more per hog and practically eliminate dis¬ 
ease'by feeding Milkoline at a cost of 2c a gallon or less. 
30 Day Guaranteed Trial: 
You don’t have to take 
our word or that of anyone 
else — you can see for yourself on your own farm that MILKOLINE is a big’ money maker for 
anyone raising hogs and poultry. The deal isn’t closed until you are satisfied. We take the 
risk because we know what MILKOLINE will do. Order any amount of MILKOLINE you 
want from prices given—use one-half for 30 
days — then if not satisfied ship back the 
unused part and every cent you send us will be 
returned by first mail. Your money is simply 
on deposit till you have tried MILKOLINE 
thoroughly to your own satisfaction. Big 
Kansas City Banks substantiate this offer- 
ask any of them about us or look us up in 
Dun or Bradstreet. 
Only 2c a Gallon: 
MILKOLINE comes in condensed form. It 
is simply modified buttermilk made better 
for feeding. There is no sulphuric acid or 
any other injurious substance in it. It is 
guaranteed to last indefinitely in any climate 
and not to spoil, sour or rot under any cir¬ 
cumstances. Flies do not come near it. Full 
feeding directions with every package. When 
fed as directed (one part MILKOLINE 
to 60 parts of water or swill) MILKOLINE 
costs but 2c a gallon or less. 
Great Feed Saver: 
MILKOLINE aids digestion and promotes 
assimilation so that feed wastage is reduced. 
It helps tone up hogs and poultry, and users 
say that it saves easily one-third feed. 
Tested By University: 
Prof. W. B. Combs, Ass’t Prof, of Dairy Hus¬ 
bandry, of Missouri University, in a recent 
test found that Milkoline-fcd hogs gained F 
nearly one-half pound more per day than others 
and that the lot fed on ^ 
MILKOLINE cost consid¬ 
erably less in spite of a 
heavier gain. The test 
showed a profit of 82.57% 
extra on Milkoline - fed 
hogs over others in a 30-day 
test. Copy of report mailed 
free on request. We re¬ 
ceive testimonials from the 
biggest and most success¬ 
ful feeders in every state. 
For instance Lee Jackson, 
Wappingers Falls, N. Y., 
says “Milkoline fixed up a 
bunch of shoats that had 
lost their appetites, and produced great results 
with pure bred Duroc Sows.” 
Try milkoline at Our Risk 
Order a barrel or any amount you want from 
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PRICES 
Thcso prices are F.O.B. 
Kansas City or the ad¬ 
dress of our nearest deal¬ 
er. Dealers in all parts 
of tho United States. 
5 Gal. Keg - $7.50 
10 Gal. Keg - 12.50 
15 Gal. Keg - 16.50 
32 Gal. Barrel 32.00 
55 Gal. Barrel 49.50 
Prices on smaller paek- 
ases Riven in booklet. 
Buy in barrel lota —it 
saves you money. 
Send This Coupon! 
THE MILKOLINE MFG. CO. 
647 Creamery Bldg.. Kansas City, Mo. 
In accordance with your guaranteed offer, please ship me • •-—* —5 
_ .Gallon® MILKOLINE for which enclosed find $. . 1 b°°k and copy of report from Mis- 
I agree to us< half, but atthe end of 30days, if I am not satisfied, g sour! University Dairy Dept. No 
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above pi-ices—send check or money order—take 
30 days using half of amount or¬ 
dered on your own farm and your 
own hogs—then, if not satisfied, 
ship back unused part at our 
expense and we’ll return every 
penny sent us. What fairer offer 
could you ask? Your name on a 
post card will bring big 42-page 
l will ship back unused portion, if any, at your expense, and you 
are to return my money. 
sour! University Dairy Dept, 
obligation—write today. 
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Agents Wanted. 
The Milkoline 
Mfg. Co. 
SHIPPING POINT. 
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DISTRIBUTED BY 
647 Creamery Bldg. 
Kansas City, Mo. 
Andorson & Scofield. Fishkill, N.Y, Hoffer & Gorman, Harrisburg:, Pa. Deerheart and Pagein, Trenton. IN'. Y. 
W. J. Blanchard, 880 Plymouth St., Abbington, Mass. Frank S. Jones, 305 Lanvale St., Baltimore, Md. 
Fill Your Lumber Needs Now 
at a Guaranteed Saving of 15 °I<> to 50% 
Seneca falls, 
N. Y. 
Gentlemen: - 
Your price was 
$100 better than 
our local dealer. 
Besides, your lum¬ 
ber was worth $50 
to $100 more than 
theirs, which is 
quite a large item 
on $681 worth of 
material. A. J. M. 
Get This FREE New Book 
No matter what you need in lumber, or how much, if you select it 
from this book, you buy it at a genuine saving both in the cost 
and in freignt charges. 
Yet you buy only well seasoned high grade material—Lath, Doors, 
Lumber, Shingles, Windows, Frames, Interior Finish, Paint, Clap¬ 
boards, Wall Board, Roofing. 
It is because our immense stock of lumber and building material 
is located right in the heart of the lumber district and is bought 
in great quantities that we are able to offer it to you in any 
quantities at lower prices than you can secure elsewhere. Better 
write for FREE New Book NOW, and then order SOON, as lumber 
is fast increasing in price. 
RAY H. BENNETT LUMBER CO., Inc. 
“ Price Regulators of Building Materials ” 
512 Main Street No. Tonawanda, N. Y. 
— - 1 ■ . 1 ~ 1 ■ — ■ ’ '-"ll 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you'll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal." See guarantee editorial page. 
Pasture and Bam Notes 
More Silage Experience. —We have 
just had another experience with our 
silage feeding which bears out our experi¬ 
ence so far to date. Readers of these 
notes will recall how we told about filling 
our silos with well-matured Luce’s Fa¬ 
vorite silage corn that carried a good- 
sized ear to practically every stalk, and 
how much we expected from this graiu- 
filled silage. We have also told how, 
figuring on the grain in this silage, we 
eliminated the eornmeal and hominy from 
our dairy ration, and how, with this 
eliminated, our cows disappointed us both 
iu condition and production. Then we 
added 200 lbs. of eornmeal or hominy to 
a 1.000-lb. dairy ration, and had the ex¬ 
perience of seeing our cows show an im¬ 
mediate pick-up in condition and increase 
their production. During all of this time 
each cow was getting a good feed twice 
a day of silage. This last week finished 
the contents of one of the silos and we 
shifted to the other. The top 10 ft. of 
this other silo is filled with silage from 
which the ears were stripped in the field. 
There is not a kernel of corn in it, yet 
with other conditions practically the 
same, the cows, when changed from the 
silage that was full of grain to this, with¬ 
out a speck of grain in it, have not only 
maintained their production, but shown a 
slight gain. All of which proves pretty 
conclusively to us that the place for cars 
of corn is iu the c-orncrib and not iu the 
6ilo. 
Limestone for Calves. —We under¬ 
stand that certain of the agricultural ex- 
breds have been selling, poor ones, around 
$200, and very good ones from $.300 to 
$400. The price of milk is so high that 
cow values are being set almost entirely 
by the prospective production of the ani¬ 
mal. and not by her individuality or 
breeding. There are many reasons why 
the production value is the real one. 
However, if individuality and purebred 
breeding ever come to be overlooked en¬ 
tirely, in favor of production at the milk 
pail, the chances are that much of the 
progress that has been made in improv¬ 
ing our dairy cattle will he lost. 
dairyman. 
Young Turkeys and Oxen 
I feel obliged to take exception to the 
remarks by C. S. P. (page 216) iu regard 
to the age at which it is possible to dis¬ 
tinguish tlie sex of young turkeys. If 
anyone considers it necessary to wait un¬ 
til the turkeys are six months old before 
they can determine sex it must he be¬ 
cause they are both blind and deaf. I 
venture the assertion that anyone familiar 
with turkeys can separate the sexes 75 
per cent correct the day they are hatched. 
But put that aside, as it is neither prac¬ 
tical nor useful. The sex can be distin¬ 
guished with certainty at about two 
months of age, when the poults begin to 
shed the down from their heads, or as it 
is sometimes called, “shoot the red.” The 
wattles or, more correctly, caruncles of 
the males show as little wart-like growths 
even before the down is all off the neck. 
Prize-winning Guernsey Bull Sir Michael of Salem 
perimeut stations have been experiment¬ 
ing with the addition of about 1 per c-cut 
of ground limestone to the grain ration 
of growing animals, with very good re¬ 
sults. We also understand that certain 
feed companies have adopted the practice, 
and are adding 1 per cent of limestone to 
their mixed feed. We can readily under¬ 
stand why the feed companies would do 
this, since there is a good margin be¬ 
tween limestone at $5 and dairy rations 
at $80. As to the value of the practice, 
we are not yet convinced, but have in 
mind trying it out at the first good op¬ 
portunity. Competition is so keen these 
days iu growing purebred live stock that 
the man who succeeds must adopt every 
possible practice that will aid him iu get¬ 
ting the size that is so much desired. 
.Size in Dairy Animals. —This whole 
craze for size in a dairy animal does not 
check entirely with our own farm experi¬ 
ence. Like other dairymen, we have been 
forced to grow our young stock to the 
greatest possible size in order to be able 
to get satisfactory prices for it. Yet we 
must admit that some of these over¬ 
grown animals, while they sell better, do 
not produce any more than animals that 
stand by their size, that are smaller, and 
have grown up more naturally. Out¬ 
guess is that, except for fancy purposes, 
the medium-sized cow iu the long run is 
to be preferred to the overgrown one. 
Dairy Cow Values. —At auctions 
around here, very common grade cows 
have sold above $150, and good ones 
around $200. At the 6ame time, pure- 
At from two to three months of age any 
strange or unusual noise will cause the 
young males to “gobble,” when their heads 
will become red and they can easily be 
distinguished from the females. If not_ 
really scared they will quite often strut' 
with wings and tail spread at one of these 
times when slightly startled. Also at this 
age the young males begin to show larger 
size and coarser beads and legs than the 
females. 
I was much pleased to read the eulogy 
of the ox by Emmet 'S an R. Gardner on 
page 260. The ox is not some prehis¬ 
toric creature, as many think, nor even, as 
Mr. Gardner says, “practically obsolete.” 
Many thousands of pairs are being used 
in New England to-day, while the South 
and other sections of the Atlantic slope 
use large numbers. The ox men have the 
same failing that W. W. Reynolds finds 
with the sheep men : they are too bashful. 
They are afraid of being laughed at if 
they speak of oxen. Most of our farm 
papers give the ox short shrift today, and 
so lie is without honor except in a few 
favored localities. Many a man who 
knows that an ox team would be an eco¬ 
nomical auxiliary team for him to use is 
prevented from using one by the ridicule 
or fear of ridicule from bis neighbors. As 
a matter of fact, many of our Eastern 
farms, iu the roughe • sections at least, 
could use an ox team as a supplementary 
team to good advantage, but they are not 
iu style. 1 use oxen and expect to con¬ 
tinue to. 1 am not an old-timer adhering 
to a forgotten custom, but a < 'back-to-tlie- 
lauder” 12 years on a farm. 
Vermont. n. M. hall. 
Dry Goods Clerk (to lady looking at 
mourning goods) : “That, is an excellent 
piece of goods, madam.” “Will it do 
it up nicely?” Clerk—“Oh. yes. madam, 
I sold some of that crepe to Mrs Smith 
several years ag<>. and today she is wear¬ 
ing it for her third husband.—Melbourne 
Australasian. 
