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‘Jhc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 10, 1920 
Simply wheel the Moto- 
Milker behind cowi, attach ; 
teat-cups—and let it milk. 
• Ready to use 
when unboxed! 
Indispensable to the Dairy Farm with 8 to 20 cows. 
The Moto-Milker requires no installation of pipe¬ 
lines, has no pulsators, belts, or tanks. Any farm¬ 
lighting plant will furnish the electricity to run it. 
It is the latest Sharpies invention—a milker made 
especially for herds cf 8 to 20 cows. 
The Moto-Milker is so simple that anyone can 
operate it; yet it is the most durable milker 
made. Its simplicity makes it economical in cost of 
operation, as well as in price. 
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HAS FAMOUS 
“COMPRESSED AIR 
SQUEEZE” 
The Moto-Milker uses Com¬ 
pressed air to squeeze and 
massage the teats and keep 
cows healthy. This squeeze 
cannot be used by any other 
milker. Sharpies patents 
prevent. The Sharpies meth¬ 
od is much more calf-like 
than hand milking. 
Sharpies teat cups are today 
milking over one million 
cows. In a majority of cases 
farmers are getting more 
milk per cow with the Sharp¬ 
ies than they were by hand. 
Sharpies makes pipe line milkers 
for large dairies, and Moto- 
Milkers for 8 to 20 cow dairies. 
Both are highly satisfactory. 
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Department A 
SHARPLES MILKER CO. 
West Chester, Pa. 
Chicago Sati Kruacihco 
Toronto ^ 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding for Milk; Undersized Pigs 
3. I have a Jersey cow that had her sec¬ 
ond ealf about five months ago. only giv¬ 
ing eight to nine quarts of milk per day. 
1 give her 12 quarts of grain a day and 
hay twice a day. 1 have not bred her 
since last calf; do not want to breed her 
for two months. Should 1 get. .aore milk, 
and would you give me a good feeding 
ration? 2. I also have two shot.es that 
were farrowed in August and now weigh 
about 80 lbs. each. I am feeding them 
skim-milk and white middlings. Wish to 
breed them in May or June. Would it be 
all right to feed them hominy from now 
on ? B. C. P. 
New York. 
1. Under average conditions the feeding 
of 12 quarts of grain, which would be 
approximately 20 lbs., should result' in 
the production of more than eight or nine 
quarts of milk per day. No doubt you 
would get quite as much rnillc by reduc¬ 
ing the amount, of grain to 30 or 12 lbs. 
and insisting that your mixture meet all 
the requirements of an animal producing 
milk. Since you do not state what ra¬ 
tion you are feeding, we are unable to 
determine just, where the blame lies. The 
following mixture would be well suited 
for feeding your Jersey cow: 100 lbs. 
eornmeal, 100 lbs. ground oats. 100 lbs. 
wheat bran, 100 lbs. oilmen!. 50 lbs. glu¬ 
ten meal. Feed as many pounds of this 
mixture daily as the cow yields pounds of 
hujterfat in a week, or feed 1 lb. of grain 
daily for each 314 lbs. of milk produced 
per day. In addition, give her all of the 
hay that, she will eat twice daily, and let 
her have access to corn fodder or some 
other roughage during the middle of the 
day. 
2. If your brood sows farrowed last 
August only weigh SO lbs. during the fol¬ 
lowing March it is apparent that they 
are not properly grown, that they are 
way under size, and that they should not 
lie used for breeding purposes. A pig 
should weigh 70 lbs. when 70 days old, 
and then the gains from that time on. 
particularly for market' hogs, should be 
in the neighborhood of a pound a day. 
For breeding animals they should be 
grown along and not fattened, but surely 
they should weigh 200 lbs. when seven or 
eight, months old. There is absolutely 
nothing to be gained by breeding imma¬ 
ture or undersized sows, for the practice 
will only result in producing pigs that 
fail to evidence feeding qualities, and 
that will always be making an uphill fight 
iu order to attain, standard size in stand¬ 
ard time. There is no use in feeding mid¬ 
dlings to pigs weighing under 75 lbs. 
Hominy mixed with ground outs and di¬ 
gester tankage in tin* proportion of 0-3-1 
would give you better results, and would 
orovide a less expensive ration. It would 
he tu your advantage to dispose of these 
undersized pigs for market purposes and 
secure a brood sow from some responsible 
grower in your district that' has empha¬ 
sized size aud feeding qualities. , 
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Young Pigs 
1. Could you give me a ration for eight 
grade.Holstein cows? The only thing we 
have in abundance is corn. We have no 
silage, and our hay is very poor, full of 
weeds, etc. Two of these cows tire due 
to calve in about two .weeks. Should they 
he given much feed? We are feeding one 
pound of feed to three quarts of milk, to 
the cows that arc milking, and to the cows 
that are going to calve we are giving 
about two bounds in tin* morning and 
same at night. 2. Also, I should like to 
know what to feed four-months-old pigs. 
They are at present getting middlings in 
a thin slop, hut. we find it rather expen¬ 
sive. A. C. G. 
New Jersey. 
3 . It is necessary to feed dry cows con¬ 
siderable. grain during their dry period if 
it is desired that they reach their maxi¬ 
mum production when they 
you are only feeding your 
om* pound of feed for each 
of milk produced, you are not giving them 
enough grain. The general rule that ap¬ 
plies in feeding dairy cows is to give 
them all of the roughage that they will 
consume, and give one pound of grain 
daily for each three pounds of milk pro¬ 
duced per day. Even though the hay 
that you have is of poor quality, I would 
let them.have all that they would con¬ 
sume twice daily. Since you have an 
abundance of corn, you will find the fol¬ 
lowing combination well suited for the 
cows in milk: 400 lbs. corn-and-oob 
meal, 200 lbs. buckwheat bran. 300 lbs. 
cottonseed meal, 300 IDs. oilmeal. For 
the dry cows I would suggest the follow¬ 
ing grain ration : 200 lbs. corn-aud-cob 
meal, 300 lbs. ground oats. 300 lbs. wheat 
bran, 300 lbs. oilmeal. The amount of 
grain to feed should be determined by the 
condition or degree of flesh that the dry 
cows are carrying. Those that are just 
approaching calving should lie fed rather 
sparingly, especially if they are heavy, 
producers, as they would be less apt to 
invite milk fever. Generally speaking, 
dry cows should be fed from 5 to S lbs. 
of grain per day. 
2. l’igs that are four months old ought 
to weigli in the neighborhood of 100 I!*-. 
This being the case, you could feed con¬ 
siderable corn rather than middlings, and 
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