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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 13, 1920 
OU pay 
absolutely 
nothing until 
you have used 
it for 30 days, 
until you have tried it—tested 
it—made sure it is the Sepa¬ 
rator you want. And then you 
can take a whole year to pay. 
This is the little Separator you 
have been looking lor—the 
Premier No. 2. It is built espe¬ 
cially for the man who has only 
a few cows, or for the woman 
who wants to separate enough 
cream for the family table and for home butter. Every farmer who keeps cows should have a separator. 
Even if you have only two or three cows, the butter fat wasted by the old skimming method would 
more than pay for this machine the first year—for the cost is only about ten cents a day. If you keep 
a large dairy and sell milk, you want cream and butter for your own table, and perhaps to sell. 
This wonderful little machine can be screwed to the kitchen table or set in an out-of-the-way corner. 
30 Days 9 
Free Trial 
Send no money 
A year to pay 
200 pounds per Hour Capacity 
Just right for the Farm with 3 to 5 cows. And a handy size for 
the big Dairy Farm to furnish butter and cream for the home. 
Easy to Clean Capacity 
The Premier bowl is especially sanitary. It is 
easy to take apart and as easy to clean as a tea¬ 
cup. It can be taken apart, washed and put 
together again in a few minutes. A convenient 
rust-proof disc-holder and two cleaning brushes 
are furnished with every machine. 
Although the Premier No. 2 is rated at 200 lbs. 
per hour, it will actually handle fully 300 lbs. and 
in an emergency would care for the milk from a 
large herd. ^ , T i 
Order lo-day 
You Risk No Money 
Gets the Cream 
The Premier bowl has a patented device that 
distributes the milk evenly over the discs, insuring 
a steady, constant flow and preventing any of the 
cream from escaping by mixing with the skim milk. 
Easy to Turn 
The light, strong bowl of the Premier and its simple, 
smooth-running mechanism make it easy to turn 
and almost noiseless. A child can operate it. 
Bell Indicator 
A bell, attached to the handle, indicates to the 
operator when the machine is running too fast 
or too slow. This unique device is very conven¬ 
ient and valuable. 
Automatic Oiling 
The oiling system requires attention only once a 
week. After the oil is placed in the reservoir, 
the machine oils itself. 
We believe so thoroughly in the ability of 
Premier No. 2 to please you, that we. are willing 
to ship it to you without a cent of money in 
advance. You don’t risk a penny, for besides 
our Thirty Days' Free Trial Offer, you have a 
full year to pay and 
Our Binding Guarantee 
that goes with all the machinery and equipment we sell. 
Think of it—30 days’ free trial without paying a 
cent. A year to pay, in twelve monthly payments. 
If, after 30 days you are not fully satisfied that 
it is worth all we ask and mor?, just return it to 
us at our expense. The full price of the Premier 
No. 2 is $27.00, which you pay in twelve 
monthly payments of $2 25 each, starting at the 
end of 30 days’ trial. With a four-legged steel 
Stand, the price is $33.00. If you prefer to pay 
cash in full, there is a discount of five per cent. 
Write to-day. You lose money every day you 
do not have this separator. 
E. I 
“It’s Been June Pasture All Winter” 
Says Silas Low 
‘‘You ought to see my cows, how fat and sleek 
they are. And milk—why no summer milk 
ever had anything on this. And it’s all be¬ 
cause of my 
Harder Silos 
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“I filled ’em up last fall ami all 
through the cold weather my stock had 
the finest food a cow ever munched. 
That’s why every Spring they are In 
such great shape and my bank balance 
is even better.” 
Progressive dairymen everywhere use 
the Harder. For 21 years it has been 
used and endorsed by the U. S. 
Government and leading State In¬ 
stitutions. 
Send for our booklet on siloa 
—also the story of Silaa 
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Box 11 COBLESKILL, NEW YORK 
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Feeding Brood Sows and Pigs 
Will you give a ration for feeding Po¬ 
land China sows before farrowing: also 
after pigs are horn ? Also a ration for 
pigs when weaned, expecting to force 
them for hone and size. No tankage is 
available. n. s. 
Delaware. 
You have failed to give any informa¬ 
tion as to what, feeding stuffs you may 
have at hand, and invariably one should 
build up a ration around tin* products that 
he may have produced on his own farm. 
The Poland Chinas are noted for their 
early maturing qualities, and they re¬ 
spond rapidly to generous feeding. There 
is danger, therefore, of over-feeding brood 
sows of this type. Much would depend 
upon the degree of flesh that they are car¬ 
rying. I would supply Alfalfa or clover 
hay by means of slat racks, -and allow 
them to have all that they would eat of 
this roughage. In addition. 1 would pro¬ 
vide a sufficient amount of ear corn sn as 
to enable the sows to gain about 1 ID. 
a day during their gestation period. Ear 
corn and Alfalfa will provide a balanced 
stuck breeding operations the types 
and breeds of livestock that prevail in 
their district. They prefer to introduce 
some new type or breed of animal, think¬ 
ing perhaps that they can achieve success 
in developing a new breeding enterprise. 
Invariably they fail in their undertaking. 
Wo do not need any more breeds or types 
of livestock in this country. What we 
need is a rigid selection and systematic 
mating of the breeds now that are known 
to lie adapted to our conditions. A recent 
inquiry concerning tin* so-called “Saddle¬ 
back” pigs lias prompted us to publish 
the picture shown. Originally this 
breed of swine was known as ‘•Thin Rind’’ 
in this country, a name indicating that 
the animals, when properly fitted and 
marketed, yielded a relatively high per¬ 
centage of edible meat. More recently 
the name has been changed to Hamp¬ 
shire, aud the breed has been given wide 
publicity by the Hampshire Record As¬ 
sociation. They arc extensively produced 
in sections of Indiana, and arc gaining in 
popularity throughout the corn belt. 
Pig-feeding Questions 
1. Would it pay me to buy a sow next 
Spring and keep lier and tin* pigs, say, 
eight ol* 10. and buy all of the feed except 
A IFcsse® Saddleback Sow 
ration for brood sows that have been well 
grown, provided the feeder exercises av¬ 
erage judgment in insisting that they eat 
their full share of the Alfalfa or clover. 
The addition of oats to the ration would 
improve its usefulness, as farrowing time 
approached, as it would provide additional 
blood and muscle forming materials. It 
is not necessary to include wheat bran in 
a ration for brood sows that relish the 
Alfalfa, for they can obtain a sufficient 
amount of the phosphates from this le¬ 
gume. 
After the brood sows farrow I should 
use a ration consisting of equal parts of 
eorumeal. ground oats, wheat middlings 
to which 15 per cent of oilmeal lias been 
added. Alfalfa should still be acceptable. 
After the pigs are three weeks old 1 
should install a self-feeder, and provide 
shelled corn, ground oats aud tankage, if 
it is possible to obtain these protein-car¬ 
rying concentrates. Brood sows that 
raise a litter of eight or nine pigs are en¬ 
titled to a full ration <>f grain and should 
he fed, all they will clean up with relish. 
Likewise the pigs will begin to eat when 
they are three or four weeks old : another 
reason why the' self-feeder is well suited 
for use at this time. 
The pigs should be weaned when they 
are seven or eight weeks old, at which 
time they could be fed a ration consisting 
of equal parts of ground oats and mid¬ 
dlings. to which lias been added 10 per 
cent of tankage or 15 per cent of oilmeal. 
If they have access to forage crops their 
grain ration should be limited to - 1 '■> lbs. 
for each 100 lbs. of live weight per day. 
This allowance should be continued until 
the pigs weigh Hi.” lbs., when they should 
be gradually plaeed on full feed, fattened 
and marketed as soon as they weigh from 
1*00 to lbs. It is not necessary to feed 
middlings to pigs after they weigh •”><» lbs., 
provided they take kindly to the corn, 
ground oats and tankage. If you desire 
to grow these animals for breeding pur¬ 
poses. or if they are merely intended for 
market, they should have free access to a 
mineral mixture made by mixing salt, 
cbai'coal. bom-meal, ground limestone and 
rock phosphate in equal proportions, aud 
keeping this combination accessible at all 
times. 
The Wessex Saddleback Hog 
It is a curious, fact that there are any 
number of farmers in this country who 
are not content to utilize in their 
and Litter of Jl J‘i>is 
the following: Two acres of rape as pas¬ 
ture and one acre of corn to hog down in 
the Fall and some skim-auilk? 2. How 
long would one acre of corn last for 10 
150-lb. pigs where they hog it down? 3. 
About what would my feed hill be, as a 
1 -oUgli estimate? Feed is $3 per cwt. 4. 
Which is more profitable to raise, popcorn 
or onions, considering labor spent, etc.? 
The land is one-half acre of sandy loam 
and quite free from weeds. E.w. 
New York. 
1. You could make no better use of the 
Dwarf Essex rape or corn that you intend 
to grow, and the skim-milk, than to use 
them as forage and feed for a brood sow 
and litter of pigs. It would not he neces¬ 
sary for you to buy very much feed, pro¬ 
vided you did not have her farrow until 
the rape was large enough to pasture. Of 
course you would have to supply some 
ear corn and Alfalfa hay to the brood sow 
during the Winter, but they would obtain 
a great amount of nourishment from the 
forage crops after they were two or three 
mouths old. Nevertheless, it is well to 
feed 2 x /± lbs. of grain per day for each l<k) 
lbs. of five weight, even though they have 
access to Dwarf Essex rape and skim- 
milk. You could use oats and corn large¬ 
ly to supply these materials, as it would 
not be necessary to purchase any tankage 
where you have plenty of skim-milk. 
2. An acre of corn ought to yield 40 
bushels of shelled corn. A pig weighing 
125 lbs. will eat from •”» to 7 lbs. of corn 
per day. provided he is on full feed and 
lifts access to green corn on the stalk. 
Therefore, one acre of corn intended for 
hogging down would satisfy 10 jugs for a 
little over 30 days. 
3. .Vs a general average, the feeder does 
very well if lie realizes 100 lbs. of gain or 
actual weight from 450 lbs. of feed. If 
you have an acre of corn available aud 
two acres of Dwarf Essex rape, it is as¬ 
sumed that your feed bill ought not to 
exceed $0 per animal during the season. 
4. Comparisons are unfair without facts 
to substantiate them. While I appreciate 
that the production of onions i- a special¬ 
ized line of market gardening, and that it. 
requires special soil and considerable ex¬ 
perience in their production. I have al¬ 
ways been led to believe that they are 
quite as profitable a crop as one could 
grow if the conditions are favorable. I 
should say, that onions ought to be more 
profitable than popcorn. However, this is 
not based upon actual experience. 
