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Ttx RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 3, 1020 
N apple falling from a tree awoke Sir Isaac Newton 
and supplied to Science the law of gravitation. 
The jumping of a tea kettle lid showed James 
Watt the power in boiling water 
and gave the world the steam engine. 
The intense centrifugal force gener¬ 
ated by a revolving tubular bowl 
was what P, M. Sharpies put into a 
machine for the complete separa¬ 
tion of butterfat from milk. Later 
he made his greatest improvement 
by utilizing the vacuum generated 
by the same centrifugal force to 
lift milk into the bowl in the exact quantities that the 
speed of the bowl will skim absolutely clean. 
The Sharpies Suction-feed Separator, therefore is ^nly 
an adaption of one of Nature’s laws. The intense centri¬ 
fugal force and the suction-feed principle in the Sharpies 
tubular bowl guarantee perfectly clean skimming at any 
speed. 
The Sharpies discovery is protected 
by United States patents. No other 
separator is a suction-feed separa¬ 
tor. No other maker of separators 
can make use of the principle. 
Suction-feed 
makes possi¬ 
ble the knee- 
Milk is vital to the 
welfare of the 
American people. 
Its production 
should be raised 
to the highest 
point of efficiency 
by the use of time 
and labor-saving 
machines. 
(Signed) 
P.M.SHARPLES 
"There are no 
,substitutes for 
y daiiy foods.", 
low supply tank, doing away with 
lifting. The oiling system needs 
little attention. The one piece 
bowl—no discs—is easy to clean, 
Write for illustrated booklet 
that tells why more Sharpies 
Machines are in use today 
than any other make, Ameri~ 
can or foreign. Dept. 12. 
SUCTION "FEED 
SEPARATOR 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO. 
West Chester, Pa. 
Branches: Chicago San Francisco Toronto 
Skims 
clean 
at any 
speed 
oc no 
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Feeds and Feeding now $2.75 
This standard book by Henry & Mor¬ 
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which price we can supply it. 
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Pasture and Barn Notes 
Grade . Dairy Calves.— Recently we 
shipped a couple of grade dairy ealves 
to a man who wrote us after reading our 
note last Fall to the effect that we often 
slaughtered heifer calves from high-pro¬ 
ducing dams because no one wanted to 
raise them in our community. We are in 
receipt of a fine letter in acknowledgement 
of their arrival, written by the man’s son, 
a boy of 15 years. The father gave the 
boy one of the calves to raise for his own. 
The boy has already raised a sow and a 
litter of pigs. In liis letter the boy is 
already planning great things for his calf. 
It worries us just a bit. The dam of the 
calf is one of the best heifers we ever 
owned. She gave between 40 and 50 lbs. 
of milk a day on two milkings with her 
first calf. Yet how well we remember in 
our own boyhood days when father gave 
us a calf from the best cow in the dairy; 
how we nursed and netted her along for 
three years, stealing grain for her from 
the other calves, and giving her the best 
of everything, and how. when she fresh¬ 
ened, despite her good ancestry, she 
turned out to be of absolutely no account. 
Here’s hoping that our experience won’t 
be repeated. The fact remains, however, 
that the business of breeding dairy cattle, 
or any animal, is at the very best an un¬ 
certain proposition, and any man who 
indulges iu it is due for certain disap¬ 
pointments. 
A Difficult Period. — We are just 
entering one of the most difficult periods 
on a dairy farm. The price of grain is 
at its topmost point. Good concentrates 
are scarce and hard to get. The price of 
milk is falling. Production is increasing. 
As the margin between the price of milk 
and the price of feed narrows, there is 
more work to do in the dairy, and Spring 
work will soon be on us. Year after year 
we plan to adjust our dairy so as to avoid 
the Spring flush. The real money for is 
lies in producing milk in the Fall and 
Winter; yet we can’t seem to get, the 
cows, or rather as many as we would 
like to get. to freshen early in the Fall. 
Already this Winter some of the cows we 
expected to freshen next Fall have had 
to he rebred this mouth. All of which is 
not very encouraging; yet we know of 
no way to improve the situation, nor 
have any suggestions to give. The facts 
that we have stated, however, should be 
better understood by those who would try 
to run the milk business by fiat and law. 
Clea.mxg Stahi.es. —Experience with 
both types of barn convinces us that tlie 
most economical way to handle a large 
dairy is to have them stand tails to. with’ 
a driveway through the barn. By this 
arrangement stables can be cleaned in 
the quickest possible manner, the cows 
brought in and led out of the barn more 
quickly, and even time saved in milking. 
All of which greatly overbalances any 
time ’that may be lost in feeding. We 
like this arrangement, too, because it per¬ 
mits throwing sunlight into the mangers. 
Care of Mangers. —The other day we 
stopped into the barn of one of our neigh¬ 
bors, and were present while lie was feed¬ 
ing grain to his dairy. The mangers were 
full of sticks and stems of weeds which 
the cows had sorted out of the hay, and 
two or three cows had not cleaued up 
their silage and grain in the previous 
feeding; yet this man merely scraped the 
worst of it out with a fork aiul went 
ahead and fed his silage and grain on the 
top of the refuse. Iu our experience, he 
made a great mistake. We always sweep 
our mangers out thoroughly after each 
i feeding. The sticks and stems from the 
hay are not so important to remove as 
any grain or silage that isn't eaten, and 
only sweeping will get it clean. 
DAIRYMAN. 
Stringy Milk 
We have a cow which gives a good 
amount of milk, is not very old, but the 
milk is thick and stringy, perhaps once iu 
two or three weeks. Can you tell me 
what to do to bring about a cure?. Other¬ 
wise she seems to be well and healthy. 
Illinois. ti.L. 
Coming in heat possibly may cause this 
condition of the milk, or it may be due to 
sub-acute mammitis (garget), caused by 
chill, bruise, overfeeding, rough, incom¬ 
plete or irregular milking or infection. 
More often, however, stringy or ropy milk 
is due to bacteria iu the milk utensils, 
which should be more carefully cleansed, 
scalded and sun-dried. Attend to these 
matters. At. time of attack, if garget is 
present, stop rich feed, milk every two or 
three hours and give cow a physic. 
a. a. a. 
To prove to you that International 
Calf Meal is all we claim for it —and 
more—we will for a short time only, 
ship prepaid a 100 lb. sack for$5.50to any 
pointeast ofthe Rockies. Send no money 
—pay when feed arrives. Once you try 
INTERNATIONAL 
CALF MEAL 
you will quit trying to raise calves on 
new milk. International Calf Meal wilt 
raise five calves at the cost of raising one 
on new milk—and they wilt thrive better. 
It is a perfect substitute for new milk—a 
scientifically mixed feed that alt calves 
like. One pound is equal to One gallon 
fresh dairy mbk in feeding value. 
Act Today 
This special offer will be withdrawn 
shortly. Act row. You can’t go wrong. 
Inter¬ 
national 
Sugar 
Feed Co. 
Minneapolis 
Mina. 
Makers of 
the Famona 
International 
Special 
Dairy 
Feed 
Live 
Saleimen 
, Wasted 
mi 
Mail This N O W 
International Sugar Feed Co. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
As per your special $5.50 offer you may 
ship me 100 lbs. International Calf Meal 
Prepaid to my station. 
My 
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