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^ RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
July 10, 1920 
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This Seventeen Year Old Girl Milks 
Twenty-seven Holsteins with the Perfection 
'‘JpWENTY-SEVEN cows, especially when some of them give as much as 
100 pounds in a day, is quite a bunch for a girl to milk. When Theodore 
Gillis’ 17 year old daughter can handle them all alone with the Perfection, 
it’s not hard to understand why Mr. ('.illis thinks his milker is a wonderful 
machine. 
Mr. Gillis has labor problems just like every¬ 
body else. And sometimes lie’s right up against 
the wall for hired help. But since he has a Perfec¬ 
tion, his daughter can always help him out. “The 
Perfection Milker was rightly named,” he says, 
“for it is a perfect milker and so easy to operate 
that my daughter, 17 years old, has milked my 
whole herd of 27 Holstein cows every night during 
the summer when we were short of help.” 
Just Ask Your Neighbors 
“We have several other kinds of milking ma¬ 
chines in this neighborhood but everyone seems to 
think the Perfection gives the best results and is 
the most reliable machine.” 
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“The Perfection gets more milk than any hand 
milker can get from my cows. One of my cows, 
5 years old, gave as high as 102 pounds of milk in 
a day. A heifer gave 64 pounds in a day. One of 
my cows, which had been milked nearly two years 
without freshening we could not dry up without 
taking the machine off her.” 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Rye for Sows 
I raised four sows for breeding. They 
were under my care and fed cormneal, 
ground oats, bran, middlings, 100 pounds 
each, and 50 pounds oiliueal with Alfalfa 
bay. and were in fine condition. They 
were sold to another estate, and for about 
six w eeks were fed nothing but rye chop, 
.skim-milk and corn on cob. I went on 
this new estate to take charge of the 
stock, and I went back to my regular 
feed about two weeks before farrowing 
time of one of the sows, She farrowed 
10 pigs; two died at birth, and I noticed 
after the third day her milk was scarce 
and her udder quite hard. I used lard on 
it. and it seems to get right again, but I 
do not think she has the flow of milk she 
should. The little pigs seem lively, but 
have not grown in a week’s time a's they 
should. I)o you think the rye chop had 
anything to do with it? g. n. r. 
The use of rye in rations for brood 
sows is not to be recommended, particu¬ 
larly if it constitutes the bulk of the 
feed fed. As a source of digestible nu¬ 
trients it compares very favorably with 
corn, but it is le,ss palatable, less digesti¬ 
ble and is uot generally recognized as a 
safe feed to use for breeding animals, as 
is corn when properly supplemented with 
some protein-carrying feed, such as tauk- 
age or oilmeal. 
For brood sows farrowing during this 
season much is to he gained by letting 
them have access to a green forage crop 
and rape, clover. Alfalfa or combination 
mixtures of oats and barley are weil 
suited for such use. There is much to be 
gained by using a variety of grains in 
feeding brood sows; however, with prices 
as they prevail today one does not fancy 
the idea of paying about $80 to $90 a 
ton for feed. Corn in itself will serve 
fairly well in providing nourishment for 
brood sows nursing pigs, provided they 
have access to a green forage crop, and 
where the corn was produced on the farm 
itself I should favor its use rather than 
advise the purchase of expensive mixed 
feeds. 
It is possible that the use of rye chop, 
as you have indicated, is responsible for 
the failure on the part of the brood sow 
to produce a normal flow of milk. Eye 
does just this thing. It. has been aban¬ 
doned by poultrymen ou account of it 
being a source of digestive disorders, and 
I should not use it extensively in any 
ration for brood sows before farrowing. 
It can he safely used after farrowing 
when the brood sows are nursing their 
pigs, provided, as I have suggested above, 
some succulent feed be fed in addition, 
and that it be mixed with some such 
feed as cornmoal. oats or tankage iu the 
proper proportion. 
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Feed for Work Horses 
Which do you consider the best food for 
work horses from now on. crushed or 
ground oats, or chop feed, corn and oats? 
The price of the ground oats is $81 per 
ton ; the corn and oats, $(iL\ both at Buf¬ 
falo. N. Y. C’an you recommend a better 
horse feed than either? a. .t. g. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. 
So many of the so-called mixed feeds 
for horses contain residue sweepings and 
screenings saturated with molasses that 
it is quite impossible for one to distin¬ 
guish between the economical ones and 
the absolutely worthless ones. With 
Timothy hay as a roughage. I am sure 
that, a ration for horses consisting of five 
parts of oats, two parts of corn and one 
part of bran, by weight, is more useful 
and certainly quite as economical as any 
mixed feed that can be assembled. I 
surely would not purchase ready-mixed 
feeds for a regular ration intended for 
work horses. 
Cost of Cow 
If it is not out of your line could you 
give me some idea of what a good fresh 
cow would cost and where one could be 
purchased? To be on a place at Fort 
Montgomery, four miles south of West 
Point. w. B. G. 
New York. 
I( is* not easy to establish a price on 
an animal at long range. The value of 
dairy cows depends quite as much upon 
their production as upon their age. health 
and general condition. A cow is in her 
prime from the time sin* is five until nine, 
depending upon her ability to produce 
milk. The price will vary from $75 to 
$150. Our suggestion would be that you 
get in touch with some responsible farmer 
in the neighborhood of West Point, who 
might be able to quote you a price on a 
cow delivered to the station you mention. 
The delivery charges, if it is purchased 
elsewhere, would be considerable, and I 
am inclined to believe that better results 
would follow this procedure than if yo* 
would undertake to purchase the cow 
from a dealer and ship it to this point. 
If there is no other way 1 would com¬ 
municate with the nearest milk station 
in this neighborhood, and obtain a list of 
responsible dairymen from this source. A 
little advertisement in the local paper 
might also bring the desired result. One 
hundred dollars ought to buy a useful 
cow. 
