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Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 14, 1920 
It's in the Bottoms 
B OTTOMS are to a plow what the blade is to a knife or the barrel is to a gun. 
They govern the quality. They determine the investment value when you 
buy. Before you buy a tractor plow, take time to examine the bottoms on 
JOHN DEERE 
TRACTOR PLOWS 
Into everyone of these bottoms goes the 
best of material and workmanship. They scour, 
make thorough seed beds and are long lived. There 
are shapes and styles to suit every requirement. 
Compare them point by point with any 
other bottoms you have seen. Note the shape 
that assures good scouring, pulverizing and light 
draft, the speoial reinforcement at points where 
wear is greatest, the close-fitting of parts, and 
how the extra strong frog gives perfect support 
to the moldboard, share and landside. 
Note the simple, durable, con¬ 
venient device that makes the shares 
quick detachable and keeps them 
close fitting. You can remove a share 
by loosening one nut. Tighten the 
same nut and the share is on tight. 
It stays tight. 
You’ll like the way John Deere 
Tractor Plows are made throughout. 
The beams are guaranteed not to bend 
or break—there is no time limit on this guaran¬ 
tee. The heavy beam braces are long lapped and 
securely joined to beams with heavy bolts and 
lock washers. The simple strong and positive 
power lift raises bottoms high and level. 
The lifting mechanism moves only when 
the plow is being raised or lowered—practically 
no wear. There is great clearance in throat of 
beam—no clogging in trashy soil. The hitch is 
widely adjustable up and down or to 
the side—these plows can be used 
with any standard tractor 
Don’t fail to go to your John 
Deere dealer’s store to see John Deere 
Tractor Plows. You can get the size 
to suit your tractor—two bottom, three 
bottom or four bottom. 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding Registered Jerseys 
Mould you give me a good ration for 
registered Jerseys? I am milking seven 
cows at the present, and receive about SO 
quarts a day. Cows are on fairly good 
pasture and will be fed green feed when 
grass gives out. We can get bran, ground 
oats, cornmeal, gluten feed, oilmeal and 
cottonseed meal. Cows are bred to have 
one fresh every month. j. j. K . 
New York. 
Jersey cows having access to an abund¬ 
ance of pasture grass ought to respond 
generously if fed a ration consisting of 
equal parts of cornmeal, gluten meal and 
ground oats. The amount of this mix¬ 
ture to be fed should be determined by 
the amount of milk yielded per cow per 
day. Generally 1 lb. of grain for each 4 
lbs. of milk produced will be sufficient for 
an average animal in fair condition as a 
supplement with excellent pasture grass. 
Make sure that the cow does obtain some 
nourishment from the pasture, for there 
is nothing to be gained by pasturing ani¬ 
mals on areas that are closely cropped 
and do not yield an abundance of succu¬ 
lence. The soiling crops you speak of 
should be fed in abundance, and usually 
a 1.000-lb. cow will require from 60 to 
75 lbs. of green feed per day. Make sure 
that your cows are maintained in good 
condition, and if they gain in flesh and 
uot in production increase the proportion 
of gluten in your mixture until it ap¬ 
proaches half of the combination. 
Feeding Duroc-Jersey Pigs 
I have 15 Duroc pigs 10 weeks old. I 
would like to make hogs of them by Feb¬ 
ruary 1. TV hat would be the right ration 
to feed them? I have plenty of skim- 
inilk. j. s. T. 
Pennsylvania. 
Your 15 Duroc-Jersey pigs will make 
the most rapid and economical gains if 
your skim-milk is fed in conjunction with 
a ration made up of 200 lbs. of corn, 75 
lbs. of ground oats and 25 lbs. of oilmeal. 
It is not necessary that corn be ground 
or prepared in any way. but if it is very 
dry and hard soaking for 12 hours before 
feeding would make it more palatable and 
more digestible. Shelled corn is quite as 
useful in feeding young pigs as cornmeal 
or chop, and there are many advantages 
in feeding it freshly shelled from the cob. 
In the first place, if it is ground into 
meal it is likely to become rancid, espe¬ 
cially during hot weather, and its keeping 
qualities, particularly if it is immature, 
are none too good. While oats are ex¬ 
pensive, there is nothing that I know of 
that will supply the material for muscle 
and frame quite as satisfactorily as do 
ground oats. 
It is not absolutely essential that the 
oilmeal be given in addition to the skim- 
milk, but in order to make sure that the 
young pigs have a sufficient amount of 
protein it is always safe to include some 
oilmeal or tankage in their grain mix¬ 
ture. When pigs reach 75 lbs. the 
amount of grain can be increased, and 
when they reach 100 lbs. the oats can be 
eliminated and the pigs fattened exclu¬ 
sively on shelled corn and skim-milk. 
They should be given all the corn that 
they will clean up with relish, and you 
will find that they will eat 4 or 5 lbs. of 
milk with each pound of dry feed fed. 
You ought not to be satisfied with a gain 
of less than a pound a day, and if your 
Duroc-Jerseys represent the popular type 
of this breed you could easily expect even 
greater gains. There is nothing to be 
gained by feeding middlings or any of the 
so-called specially prepared pig feeds, for 
the ration suggested is both economical 
and practical. Of course if you have rye 
or other home-grown products they could 
be included in the ration after the pigs 
are fairly well developed. 
Green Rye for Cows 
Last Spring I hud an acre of rye that 
I started to feed to my milk cows wheu 
it was knee high. I first fed it little at 
a time, and increased the amount, hoping 
I could increase the milk flow, io my 
surprise they fell off from an average ot 
-10 lbs. per day for each cow to about -o 
lbs. per cow. Each cow received the 
same amount of grain as before, with the 
clover hay. The only difference in feed- 
ing was the addition of green rye. After 
I discovered the shrinkage in milk, t 
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