TV RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Jane 19 , 192a 
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There’s Just One 100% Efficient 
CREAM SEPARATOR 
And That’s The 
For Forty Years 
The World’s Standard 
There may be a half-dozen plows, wagons, tractors, autos 
or other farm equipment to choose between, but no would-be 
imitator or utilizer of expired De Laval patents has yet pro¬ 
duced a cream separator comparable with the De Laval. 
First in the beginning, De Laval machines have led in 
every step of cream separa¬ 
tor improvement and develop¬ 
ment. Every year has pre¬ 
sented some new feature or 
betterment, and the 1920 
machines are still. better than 
they have ever been before. 
If you haven’t seen or 
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machine, any local agent will 
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opportunity to do so. 
If you don’t know the 
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simply address the nearest 
main office, as below. 
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NEW YORK 
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61 Beale Street 
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Corn Won’t Wait 
It must be cut and put in the silo at exactly 
the right time to make the best silage. 
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ar ! easily cleaned 
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A. H. REID CREAMER! 
AND DAIRY SUPPLY C0< 
SdtbSt. and Baverford A*e. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
A Fodder Problem in Maine 
For a few years I have kept more stock 
than I have boon able to feed with hay 
of my own raising, and to have to buy 
hay at the prices prevailing hereabouts 
makes one feel that it might have been 
better to have sold the cows in the Fall. 
I have a silo and feed corn silage until 
time to pasture. The farm is small, and 
all the neighboring fields are cut of hay 
and fed to cows, or sold in the city two 
miles away at $30 to $36 per ton. I 
must raise more hay on my own farm in 
order to keep in the game at a profit. 
My soil is clay loam, and sloping to the 
south. I have about four acres which I 
want to put into some crop which can be 
out and made into bay. In this portion 
of Maine we cannot do much seeding 
before May 20. I have never known any¬ 
one in this locality to cure anything for 
hay except oats and the grasses. Hun¬ 
garian is raised and fed green. Can you 
advise me what to raise that can be cured 
for hay? What of Sudan grass, and can 
Soy beans be sown with it so I can get 
more protein in the hay? I have tried 
Soy beans in a small plot broadcast, and 
they grew three feet high. The green 
variety was used. 
Most dairy farmers in my neighborhood 
sow to clover and Timothy in the Spring, 
with a nurse crop of oats, and feed the 
oats green. If the oats are taken off 
early the clover when grown in rich soil 
in a favorable season will permit of a 
cutting in the early Fall, the crop being 
small. What can be said of sowing Soy 
beans with the silage coni? With bal¬ 
anced ration grain for cows costing over 
$4 per bag I need to raise all the protein 
feed possible. d. b. 
I would increase my acreage in silage 
crops, reduce the acreage in pasture and 
feed from the silo iu Summer as far as 
possible. From my experience in these 
later years it is not so essential that cows 
have a scientifically balanced ration as 
it is that they shall have an abundance, 
a variety and, as far as possible, some 
succulent food. The silo furnishes the 
best possible means for the last requisite. 
Silage should he used in Summer as well 
as iu Winter in all sections where corn 
grows to advantage and land is com¬ 
paratively high iu price. The Summer 
feeding of silage has some difficulties that 
do not exist in Winter. The surface of 
the silage will spoil somewhat quicker in 
warm weather than in cold, but if the 
surface is used over at every feeding, and 
thou left rough and light, it will dry out 
instead of molding. The little that will 
be dried will be readily eaten. 
In regard to_ the four acres that D. R. 
wishes to put into some crop that can be 
u*od for hay this season. I would put half 
of this into oats, to be fed green, and 
half into some medium-growing variety of 
the millets. Avoid the larger growing 
varieties, as they are very hard to cure. 
The oats can be cut early, as soon as 
they are well in the milk. This will 
leave the clover clear to grow a small 
crop for late cutting. The millet should 
not be sown till all danger of Spring 
frosts is over, and should be sown rather 
thinly; if the land is seeded 'to clover, 
not over three pecks to the acre, if the 
land is quite rich. 
Just a word about the curing of these 
j crops. They should be cut when there 
! is uo dew on them, and when the sun is 
warm. Then they may be stirred up with 
a tedder, just before the dew begins to' 
Fall, and next day while the sun is yet 
warm, and well before the dew begins to 
fall, they can be pitched—not rolled—into 
bunches, where they may set and be 
allowed to dry, only pitching them over 
once or twice. In this way much labor 
is saved and the quality of the hay im¬ 
proved. 
The writer, of course, knows that Hun¬ 
garian is but a variety of millet, and the 
variety that is usually raised in Maine 
for hay. Iu composition it will not vary 
particularly from hay of the mixed 
grasses usually grown in Maine: It af¬ 
fords variety, is a rank grower in good 
soil, mid is readily eaten by all stock. It 
is considered somewhat unsafe to feed it 
iu large quantities to horses, particularly 
if it is allowed to stand until quite ripe 
before cutting. 
I should advise against the growing of 
Sudan grass or Soy beans except in ex¬ 
perimental plots. Better stick (o the 
crops that are known to succeed in this 
latitude and on our soil. I would call 
the writer’s attention to my article on 
crops for the silo for possible protein 
sources for silage. And the clovers that 
grow in Maine are unexcelled in their 
class. They should receive more atten¬ 
tion from our farmers. 
And please don’t forget oats for grain. 
Oats, grown on the farm, with an equal 
weight of corn, may lie made to take the 
place of at least one-half of the protein 
grain feed. And if the straw is brighl 
and well-cured it will lie readily eaten by 
cows if fed one feed a day. 
K. WALKER Sl’KEEN. 
Alsike Clover Seeding 
Will you let me know Whether Alsike. 
clover will produce seed after the removal 
of a hay crop, as is the case with Mam¬ 
moth and lied clover. B. 
Alsike clover produces but one crop a 
year. The crop can either be cut for bay 
or seed. The value of Alsike is that it 
will produce a crop of hay where other 
clovers fail. Alsike seed is a good thing to 
have stored up iu the soil iu case of need. 
It will not hinder a second crop of Medi¬ 
um lied clover to have both growing to¬ 
gether. J, B. fc. 
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