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V* RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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You May Not Wisely Delay 
Ordering Your 1920 
CREAM SEPARATOR 
There are a dozen reasons why this is so. 
For three years it has not been possible to make enough De Laval 
machines to meet the demand. More than ever are being made this 
year, but the demand is still greater. 
Cream Separators have advanced 
less in price than anything else used or 
produced by the farmer during the war 
years. If labor and material costs con¬ 
tinue to advance so must separator prices. 
Such an advance must very soon 
come from increased freight rates, if from 
no other cause. 
Freights are still slow and uncertain. 
There may be unavoidable delay in 
getting a machine when you badly need 
it from this reason. 
The flush of milk and hot weather 
are near at hand, when a De Laval saves 
most and an inferior or half -worn-out 
separator wastes most. 
There are still other reasons, which a De Laval best demonstrates 
for itself. You will have no difficulty in observing them. Every local 
De Laval agent will be glad to afford you the opportunity to do so. 
If you don’t know the nearest agent simply address the nearest main 
office, as below. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
165 Broadway 
NEW YORK 
29 East Madison Street 
CHICAGO 
61 Beale Street 
SAN FRANCISCO 
50,000 Branches and Local Agencies the World Over 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Hatching Ducks; Dairy Ration 
1. I had very poor results last year 
with ducks in incubator on account of the 
little ducks not picking themselves out. 
Would it be all right to sprinkle the eggs 
flic last two weeks with warm water, as 
the shells are tough as leather? IIow 
Inug should chickens and dtteks stay in 
the incubator after hatching? 2. Will 
you give me a balanced ration for my 
four dairy cows? I am at present feed¬ 
ing a mixture of 100 lbs. oilmeal. 150 lbs. 
gluten. 150 lbs. bran. 50 lbs. middlings, 
50 lbs. oats, but get poor results; am 
only getting about 70 lbs. milk from the 
four cows a day. I give them each 10 
llis. graiu a day. also a medium grade of 
clover and Timothy hay, which they get 
three times daily. Other roughage I have 
none. They are llolsteins, and are in 
fail‘d shape. w. e. 
New York. 
1. Many operators of non-moisture ma¬ 
chines sprinkle duck eggs with warm 
water, only using a whisk broom for that* 
purpose, after the second week. This 
may be done once daily, but care should 
he taken that more harm is not done the 
eggs by too prolonged cooling and inter¬ 
ference with temperature regulation than 
good accomplished by the sprinkling. 
Chicks may stay in the nursery compart¬ 
ment of an incubator for any leugth of 
rime up to 48 hours, and they, as well as 
ducklings, should lie permitted to stay at 
least long enough to become thoroughly 
dried off and active. 
2. Holstein cow giving but 17!?. lbs. of 
milk daily upon 10 lbs. of the grain mix¬ 
ture that you are using and good hay can¬ 
not. he considered a credit to her breed, 
assuming, of course, that she is not so 
advanced in lactation as to be shrinking 
in production. Your grain ration is al¬ 
ready unusually high in protein, and I 
know of no change that could add to its 
effectiveness as a milk producer. It would 
he better balanced by increasing the pro¬ 
portion of fat-making elements, in which 
it lacks. As oilmeal is now cheaper than 
gluten. I should reverse the proportion of 
these two ingredients, making it 150 lbs. 
of oilmeal and 100 lbs. of gluten. To 
this may be added 150 lbs. of bran. 100 
lbs. of flour middlings and 250 lbs. of 
corn meal or hominy. In this latter com¬ 
bi nation vou get equal parts of high pro¬ 
tein. medium and low protein foods, the 
first represented by the oilmeal and 
gluten constituents, the second by the 
bran and middlings, and the third by the 
cornmeal or hominy. There is probably 
little question but that your cows need 
a little of one or the other of the two 
last-mentioned feeds. 
Bottling Warm Milk 
Cuts Labor In Half 
You whitewash to get more light and make your buildings look clean 
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tagious diseases that affect poultry and live stock — roup, white diarrhea, 
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f Jse It Instead of Whitewash and Disinfectants 
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The use of Carboia means light, clean-smelling buildings and tl ey mean healthy stock 
and therefore better production and larger profits. It is used an i endorsed by thousands 
in all parts of the country. Get some today and have it ready for a rainy day. Your 
hardware, seed, paint or drug dealer has Carboia orcangotit. If not, order direct — 
prompt shipment by parcel post or express. 
10 lbs.(.10 gals,') $1.25 and postage. 20 lbs. (20 gals,) $2.50 del. SO 
lbs. (50 gals.) $5 del. Add 25'/o for points west of the Rockies 
For the convenience of large farms, Carboia is also packed in barrels that hold 
about 350 lbs. each 
CARB0LA CHEMICAL COMPANY, Inc., Dept. R 7E. 42d St.,N.Y.C. 
1. We are selling our milk to a peddler 
who takes it at the farm at 5 a. in. He 
bottles the milk warm from the cow. with¬ 
out any cooling whatever. Within an 
hour from the time it is milked he is de¬ 
livering it to his customers. Is this prac¬ 
tice safe? Isn’t there trouble ahead for 
someone, most likely the producer, for 
not giving him milk that will keep? 2. 
Will you make me out an economical ra¬ 
tion for milk? No silage: hay not the 
best ; oilmeal, .$4.25 per 100 lbs.; cotton¬ 
seed and gluten, about the same price; 
cornmeal, $3.50; wheat middlings and 
bran about S3: rye middlings, $2.75; dried 
yeast grains. 84 per 125 lbs. As it is al¬ 
most impossible to get the same feeds 
twice in succession, if you could tell us 
what feed it would be best to substitute 
for another it would be a great help. 
New York. l. b. 
1. The practice of bottling milk warm, 
direct from the cows, was advocated by 
certain scientists, who felt that this prac¬ 
tice would reduce the bacterial count and 
produce milk of higher quality. If the 
bottles are cooled down to a low tempera¬ 
ture immediately following filling, but lit¬ 
tle difficulty will bo experienced. Never¬ 
theless. the farmer who undertakes this 
means of distribution is bound to experi¬ 
ence trouble during the Summer months. 
If he bottles the milk-warm and then im¬ 
mediately distributes it to his customers 
he will find that complaints will be fre¬ 
quent and sour milk an everyday occur¬ 
rence. 
2. So far as comparative feeding values 
are concerned, there is little difference in 
the amount of protein contained in cotton¬ 
seed. oil meal and gluten. They rank iu 
the order named as to value. So far as 
other feeds are concerned, cornmeal, rye 
middlings and hominy constitute the avail¬ 
able carbohydrate feeds, and. with the ex¬ 
ception of rye mi<. ’lings, they are about 
equal, pound for poi ml, in feeding value. 
Wheat bran and middlings are in a class 
by themselves, and are ’.icorporated in ra- 
tions for live stock not because they sup¬ 
ply either protein or carbohydrates iu 
economical form, but rathe because they 
are bulky feeds and are rich in phosphates 
and mineral matter, and likewise add 
safety to the ration. With silage and 
some legume hay available, a mixture con¬ 
sisting of equal parts of corn, oats, oil- 
meal and gluten would make a useful com¬ 
bination for dairy cows in the midst of 
their lactation period. Wheat middlings 
and rye middlings are best adapted for 
feeding pigs and should not he incorporat¬ 
ed in mixtures intended for dairy animals. 
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