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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 27, 1920 ’ 
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EASY TO 
ADJUST HOOPS 
Unadilla Silos 
Convenient and 
Easy to Feed From 
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 sam<j 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 for^our convenience perfectly—day 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 going up or 
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 door* pu*h in and tlidc up or down— 
easily and always. They can’t stick or freeze in. 
This makes entrance into the silo safe and easy. 
It makes *flage 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 lias many other exclusive fea¬ 
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produced them for you., 
A big, well-illustrated, facts-full catalog,^ with 
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.Box G. 
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Des Moines, la. 
B ETTER silage~at lower cost! That’s what you get with the 
Ross Ensilage Cutter. Clean-cut Milage- -from the first hour’s 
operation right straight through the heaviest silo-filling job, and 
year after year of the same high-class low-cost service. 
Better Silage—at lower coat. Do you want to know why? Walk 
into the store of the dealer who sells 
Ross Ensilage Cutters 
and ask him to show you the special Rosa Ball-Bearing End Thrust 
and Extra Knife Adjustment which forces the knives right up against 
the shear bar and holds them there- -absolutely preventing shredded 
silage or “chewed” silage—and keeping the rich juices in the corn, 
where they belong— by cutting every piece slick and clean. 
Six-Fan Blower—WUh Bone 
Steel Mounting. Babbited, Self- 
Conforming Bearing* on Main 
Shaft. Angle Steel Frame 
Study the Ross carefully. Com¬ 
pare it—part by part—with any 
other cutter on the market, selling 
at any price. Ask about the Ross 
Warranty which guarantees 
absolutely satisfactory service. 
We Match Your Power 
Ross Ensilage Cutters are 
especially designed for use with gaso¬ 
line and kerosene engines. You don’t 
need a special engine. There ia a Rots 
to match your present power ..from 
four horse-power up. 
Rockwood Fibre Pulley 
Note that Ross Flywheel Cut¬ 
ters are equipped with genuine 
Rockwood Drive Pulleys. These 
pulleys grip the belt perfectly and 
absolutely prevent slippage. No 
wasted power and no jerking—no 
matter how heavy the load. 
Low Speed — Light Draft 
The staunch, sturdy Ross is 
built for hard work and lots of it. 
Requires minimum power—and 
hums right through the toughest 
job at a steady, low speed. No 
straining or racking. 
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E. W. ROSS COMPANY, Manufacturers 
528 Warder Street, Springfield, Ohio 
J. B. Norton&Co., Utica,N. Y., Distributors an<l20other leading shipping points inU. S. A. 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Ration for Calf 
Will you give me a good ration for a 
Holstein heifer calf one month old? 
New York. L. d. 
A suitable grain ration for a calf hav¬ 
ing access to either new milk or skim-milk 
Would consist of equal parts of ground 
oats, red dog flour, wheat bran and oil- 
meal. It would be safe to feed as much 
of ibis mixture as it would clean up with 
relish, provided it has access to some 
Alfalfa or clover hay. If new milk has 
j been fed during the first month a change 
{ to skim-milk, if desired, can be made at 
the end of six weeks. Replace one pound 
of the new. milk with one pound of the 
skim-milk each day until the ration is 
exclusively skim-milk, and then be care¬ 
ful not to overfeed the calf by giving too 
much milk. The amount should vary 
from five to eight quarts per day, and 
16 lbs. is believed to be the maximum 
that should be fed a calf that is seven or 
! eight months old. 
Rye for Sheep 
; What is the outside limit as to quantity 
of beans that may be fed daily to a sheep? 
I wish to use in the ration as much of 
unthrashed rye two parts and unthrashed 
oats one part, hay one part as the sheep 
will fairly clean up. These sheep are 
two-year-old Rambouillet, e. a. ir. 
New York. 
I am inclined to doubt the wisdom of 
feeding very much rye, even in the sheaf, 
to breeding ewes. You are aware that it 
is not the practice of livestock men to 
feed very large amounts of rye to breed¬ 
ing animals during their gestation period, 
forasmuch as rye often contains many 
impurities, it is not easy to store in bins 
without heating and is very apt to bring 
about digestive disorders that result in 
abortion. I realize that sheaf rye is less 
objectionable than rve stored in the bin, 
yet I am sure that I should go easy in 
feeding it before the lambs are born. The 
sheaf oats and the mixed hay would do 
very nicely, and I am sure that the ewes 
will relish this roughage and do well on 
it. I take it that you refer to the ordi¬ 
nary field bean, which is used in the 
feeding of sheep rather extensively. Half 
a pound a day would be a generous 
amount when fed with the rye and oats 
as you have suggested; but here again 
I should prefer to use a mixture of beans, 
oats and bran, taking three parts of 
beans, one part of oats and one part of 
bran, and feeding the ewes weighing 150 
lbs. for a half to a pound a day of this 
mixture. If T used the beaus alone I 
would limit the amount as you have sug¬ 
gested to half a pound a day previous to 
i lambing, and bring them up to a pound 
; a day for the ewes nursing lambs. It is 
well known that beans, being rich in pro¬ 
tein. make it possible for the ewes to put 
on firm ffesh, and when they arc accom¬ 
panied by oats and bran they constitute 
an ideal l'ation. 
Milk Refrigerator; Ration for Holsteins 
1. I built a new milk refrigerator last 
Spring to hold 12 cans of milk, 40-qt. 
cans. It is built of concrete in the 
ground, with a lid on hinges that lets 
down on tank. This tank is full of water 
and we put ice in it to keep cold. Over 
the top, just the same size as concrete 
tank, we have a wooden building about 
five feet high, double-lined doors, walls 
and ceiling, almost air-tight, as near as 
possible. We cannot get our water in 
tank in ground underneath below 50 de¬ 
grees. I have tried to get milk to -40 
degrees, and cannot do it. The sun shines 
on building about one hour in morning 
and about two hours in the afternoon. 
Concrete tank comes about six inches 
above ground, and there is a concrete 
stone outside box to stand on while we 
put milk in tank. Can you help me im¬ 
prove this' refrigerator to keep milk 
colder? We do not have over 200 to 300 
ciuarts in tank at once, and we use 100 
lbs. of ice in morning and 100 lbs. nt 
night. Our milk is aerated and stands 
50 degrees when it goes in tank. Doors 
are always closed. The ice does not keep 
10 hours. 2. Is this a good mixture for 
a herd of high-grade Holstein cows? 
Three tons of cottonseed meal, one ton 
of gluten feed, one ton of wheat bran, 
one ton of cornmeal and one-half ton of 
ground oats. We have plenty of good 
silage; our hay is not so good, about half 
Timothy and clover. B. c. 
1. It is a difficult problem to get really 
low temperatures without some agitation 
or circulation. You do not state whether 
the ice is broken or crushed when it is 
put into the cement tank, or whether the 
300 lbs. is put in morning and night in 
a large chunk. Of course, the best re¬ 
sults would follow where the ice was 
crushed or broken and put in in smaller 
pieces. This would take considerably 
more ice. but you are reminded that it is 
the melting process that produces low 
temperatures. Make sure that the milk 
is properly cooled before put. in cans. 
2. The ration that you are feeding 
ought to give you good results, especially 
1 with silage and considerable clover hay. 
You might reduce somewhat the amount 
of grain that you are feeding, especially 
i where you have oats and clover hay. 
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