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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
You don't have to take our word nor that 
of Agricultural Experiment Stations or 
Dairymen, who claim that if a herd of 
cattle are given plenty of fresh — not 
stored or stale—even temperatured water, 
that the increase in milk or weight will 
more than offset the cost of a National 
Fresh Water System. 
You can make this test and absolutely 
convince yourself. Just keep a careful 
record of the feed, the milk yield and 
butter fat for one of your herd for the 
first part of a week. Then fasten a 
pail within easy reach of the cow and 
have your boy or girl fill this pail with 
pure, even temperatured water, “right 
from the depth of the well,’* every 
hour Saturday and Sunday. 
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A small and inexpensive type 
of “National.” Largeenougb 
for small farms. 
Be sure that no stored or stale water is 
left in the pail when filling. Then 
weigh the milk and test the butter fat 
for these days. Even this two-day 
test will show you an increase in quan¬ 
tity of milk and butter fat yield. 
The National Non-Storage Fresh 
Water System often increases milk 
yields from two to ten pounds per cow 
per day. Because of this, it has 
helped many Champions to make 
records. It not only gives you pure, 
fresh, not stored or stale water, for 
the barn, but for the bathroom, the 
kitchen or wherever you wish. Saves 
labor too. 
No pump house, no stored or stale 
water, no freezing. 
Let us send you our catalog telling 
what others say of this water system 
that pays for itself. 
National utilities corporation 
328 Belleview Place Milwaukee, Wis. 
National Fresh Water 
for Prize Jerseys on 
Tucker Farm, Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. 
I am entirely satisfied with 
the fresh water pumping 
system winch you installed 
in my place two or three 
years ago. I find it par¬ 
ticularly good during the 
winter as we do not have to 
worry about the system 
freezing and in summer we 
have good cold water. 
S. W. Tucker, Cleveland,*0. 
I tried another water system 
in my home but it did not 
give satisfaction because of 
the bad water from the stor¬ 
age tank. I replaced it with 
the National and am well 
pleased. Its action is positive 
and water is always available, 
pure and fresh from the well. 
Chas. W. Davis South Euclid, 0. 
I installed a running wrater 
system which proved abso¬ 
lutely useless. I thought all 
running water systems were 
fakes and the salesman had 
difficulty inducing me to 
install the National. It has 
not only proven satisfactory 
but fifteen other farmers in 
my county have thrown out 
their systems and put in the 
National. 
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Light running, easy cleaning,^ 
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FOR YOUR SPARE TIME THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Dept. "M,” 333 West 30th Street, N. y. 
May 1, 1980 
Self-filling of Silo 
For several years I have successfully 
filled a silo 1014x33 ft. with a small 
blower silo filler, run with a 4-horse¬ 
power gasoline engine. It being an un¬ 
derground silo, I only have to blow the 
silage up 20 ft. The filler stands perma¬ 
nently at silo iu a collapsible house. I 
usually have one man to help; when 
he is not obtainable I work alone. I 
drive to field with low-down wagon, cut 
a load directly onto wagon, run it into 
silo, level it off and repeat. I waste no 
time packing silage; if dry. put on plenty 
of water and it packs itself and keeps 
well in my tar-lined concrete silo. 
Allegan Co., Mich. v. p. smith. 
I hire a blower and engine by the day 
and have three teams drawing to keep 
it busy, but being short a man to put iu 
the silo, I did it myself, even though I 
drove a team, fed the cutter or tended 
the engine most of the time besides. I 
made it a point to spend about five min¬ 
utes in the silo every half-hour. Mean¬ 
while the silage piled up and I let it stay 
piled, but I was very particular to stamp 
the silage hard directly next to the staves 
and door. I mixed the leaves and cobs 
some with my feet, drawing the silage 
from the pile to the outside to be stamped 
down. It took 2*4 days to fill the silo 
14x33. However, on the last half-day 
I had an extra man iu the silo to keep 
it level and well tramped. I have filled 
silo with a distributor pipe and with two 
men with forks, but I cannot see that, it 
has ever come out any better than this 
year, and certainly never filled any easier. 
New York. lewis e. post. 
I note on page 673 .T. Grant Morse’s 
reply to query of A. W. Sarty iu regard 
to filing of silo. My silo is 10x24 ft., 
was erected in 1914. I have filled it 
every year since, using a 6-horsepower 
gasoline engine and a cutter with blower. 
We like to have about seven or eight men 
and two teams, which, with a short haul, 
can keep the cutter going. We use two 
men in silo, one to feed cutter, two to 
drive teams and three in the field to cut 
and load. However, if one is short of 
help he can run nicely with three or four 
men and one team, or it could even be 
filled by two men in an emergency. We 
have never had any trouble to speak of. 
Engine has always been run on batteries. 
We use a distributor in the silo, and by 
having our own outfit can continue to put 
in until part settles. We generally start 
and run in a few loads to be sure every¬ 
thing is working right; then have one 
day with our full force of seven or eight 
men. and then, if necessary, finish up as 
we started, leaving the cutter and engine 
stand, and running a few extra loads 
on top as it settles, if we have enough 
corn. I know of another man who for¬ 
merly used a cutter with elevator and a 
5-horsepower gasoline engine, who has 
since changed to a cutter with blower like 
mine, and fills with his own help, he hav¬ 
ing two sons. w. F. KEXXEDY. 
Ohio. 
The New England Ayrshire Club 
A meeting of the New England Ayr¬ 
shire Club was held at the Quincy House, 
Boston. April 6. which was attended by 
55 members of the club. A list of new 
members was presented by the secretary, 
and they were unanimously elected to 
membership. The attention of the mem¬ 
bers was called to the report recently ap¬ 
pearing in the public press that an Ayr¬ 
shire bull had been sold for $15,000. an¬ 
other report making the sale price $25,- 
000. After a thorough discussion of this 
matter it was voted as the sense of the 
meeting that the prices paid for any ani¬ 
mal at private sale should not be pub¬ 
lished unless such sale and price can be 
confirmed and proven bona fide. It was 
decided to hold a Summer meeting and a 
committee consisting of Messrs. A. B. 
Marble. G. F. Church. Jr., and Dr. L. 
NV. Tope was elected to make the neces¬ 
sary arrangements. 
A communication was received from the 
secretary of the National Association, 
James G. Watson, advocating considera¬ 
tion on the part of the New England Ayr¬ 
shire Club of the desirability of drawing 
upon Scotland for a judge to officiate at 
the exhibits of Ayrshire cattle at the im¬ 
portant fairs in this country. The matter 
was fully discussed, and it was well 
known that there was a great diversity 
of opinion in Scotland as to the best type 
of an Ayrshire cow. There had been 
during the past year a strong effort on 
the part of a certain influential faction 
of Scottish breeders to establish a panel 
of judges, made up of selected men from 
whom the various Scottish agricultural 
organizations could draw for judges, it 
was also brought to the attention of the 
club that there was such an opposition to 
this movement in Scotland that the above 
plans were defeated, resulting in two tac¬ 
tions having different types as then* stand¬ 
ard. Consequently, in view of this 'ye*** 
known confusion existing in Scotland, it 
was felt that it would be most unwise to 
import a judge from Scotland, aim it 
was unanimously voted to decline to con¬ 
sider the suggestion. , , 
A committee to revise the by-laws or 
the club was elected, consisting of George 
E. Sticknev. Newburyport. Mass.; A. *>• 
Marble. 131 State St.. Boston. Mass., 
and Dr. L. W. Pope, Jr., Wollaston, Mass. 
