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1*t RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
August 28, 1920 
MERIDALE 
JERSEYS 
After thirty-one years of constructive 
breeding, the opportunity is offered to the 
thoughtful breeder to secure, at buyers’ 
prices, representatives of the blood lines 
which have made Meridale famous. 
ANNUAL SALE 
September 17 thy 1920 
The offering includes a Gold Medal 
Daughter of The Imported Jap 75265; 
daughters of all the herd bulls at Meri¬ 
dale Farms; including a choice lot of 
Register of Merit cows, all young; and a 
remarkably fine string of young females 
just imported for this occasion. 
Here is Correct Type, Robust Health, 
Heavy Production—and above all— 
Prepotency! 
For catalogue address 
TOM DEMPSEY, Sale Manager, Westerville, Ohio 
or 
ayer & McKinney 
Merridale Farms Meridale, New York 
JERSEYS 
HAMILTON 
FARM 
Several Grandsons of 
FERN’S OXFORD NOBLE 
P 5012 HC—Out of R. of M. Dams. Priced to 
SELL IMMEDIATELY 
HAMILTON FARM. GLADSTONE. N. J. 
Fosterfield’s Herd Registered JERSEYS 
ALL AGES. Oil account of being unnblu to see to 
iny cattle personally I will make prices that will 
lead to business. CHARLES G. FOSTER, 1\ 
O. IJoxl73, Morristown, Morris Co., N. J. 
For Sale-Registered JERSEYS 
Choice stock ; reasonable prices. KII.HYTII FARM, 
Box 86. Phone S7, Huntington, Huntington, I,. I„ IS'. Y. 
I ^2 ^ ,ll0 * >ure Hi ed Bull. Eleven 
W E am O) Ei ■ W* high grade c otv g, three 
heifers; freshen in early spring. F. A. PARKS. Lawtons, N. r. 
When you write advertisers 
The Rural New-Yorker and 
a quick reply and a “square deal, 
guarantee editorial page. 
FOR SALE: 
1. Young Bull dropped March 9th, 
1917. Perfection, pedigree, con¬ 
formation and service. 
2. Bull calf dropped Dec. 24,1919. 
3. Bull calf dropped Apr. 2, 1920. 
Wonderful specimen that will please 
the most critical buyer. 
All three from R. O. M. Dams 
Priced to sell. For description 
address 
KARHA FARM 
% Geo. L. Barkor, Supt. 
Parksville, Sullivan County, N. Y. 
EASTERN ABERDEEN-ANGUS SALE 
Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, Mass., Sept. 23, 1920 
Show Cattle ^ -- All of the 
Breeding Cattle Choicest Blood- 
Cows with Calves f lines and Popular 
At Foot and \ Families are 
Rebred —^ Represented 
35 Females—40 Head -5 Bulls 
Everything tested and sold subject to a 60-day retest, and 
guaranteed breeders. 
Secretary Charles Gray and Dr. K. J. Seulke, representative 
of the American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Association, will care 
for your mail bids and assist you at the sale. 
For Catalog address:—DR. K. J. SEULKE, ITHACA, N. Y. 
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JERSEYS 
JERSEYS 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Small Milk Flow 
I have a registered Jersey cow, five 
years old. She is a fine looking cow, but 
gives but little milk. The front udder 
seems hard. The man I bought her from 
was very irregular in milking and feed¬ 
ing. She gained some in quantity of milk 
with regular milking and feeding. What 
can I do to make a producer of her when 
she comes fresh again in December? 
Massachusetts. c. w. n. 
It would be quite impossible for you 
materially to increase the milk flow from 
this cow during her present lactation 
period. When once the flow of milk is 
depreciated as the result of irregular feed¬ 
ing and milking it is almost impossible 
to revive the milking instinct. Hence you 
are on the right track in trying to find 
a means of conditioning this cow and 
make it possible to bring her to her full 
flow of milk when next she freshens. To 
this end I would give her a rest period, 
say from eight to 12 weeks. During this 
time I would make sure that she was 
generously fed on a ration composed of 
equal parts of cormneal, ground oats and 
oilmeal. I would feed her from 5 to 7 
lbs. of this mixture per day in addition 
to all the roughage that she would eat in 
Winter, or all the pasture grass that she 
would consume in Summer. I would in¬ 
sist that she gain regularly in flesh and 
that her entire framework be Covered with 
firm flesdi. even though it might be neces¬ 
sary to still further increase the amount 
of grain fed. 
As calving time approaches it would 
be necessary to reduce somewhat the 
amount of grain ; hence I should take the 
corn from the mixture and feed her a 
combination consisting of equal parts of 
ground oats, wheat bran and oilmeal. 
Alfalfa or clover hay would be better 
than any other roughage, and she should 
be fed all of this that she would clean up 
each day. As dhe is due to freshen in 
December, it would be well to provide 
some succulence, such as beet pulp satu¬ 
rated with molasses, to be fed her imme¬ 
diately following calving. If she is 
brought up to this condition and then 
care is exercised in milking her fre¬ 
quently, say the first 10 days after calv¬ 
ing, I am sure that if she possesses 
average ability you will revive the milk¬ 
ing instinct and bring her up to her full 
flow. Of course you realise that there 
are cows that are not inclined toward 
heavy production, and often the best 
looking cows are found to be disappoint 
ing. 
Buckwheat for Hogs 
I have a chance to buy a few hundred 
pounds of buckwheat flour, very nice 
looking and not lumpy. It was bought 
by a large feed concern last Fall, to be 
sold for pancakes, (’an you tell ine bow 
it would be to feed young pigs, some 
about three months old and some January 
pigs? I intend mixing it with ground 
corn and oats. I can buy it for four cents 
a pound, and the second grade wheat mid¬ 
dlings cost 3% cents per pound here. 
New York. F. T. It. 
If the buckwheat flour does not consti¬ 
tute more than 15 or 20 per cent of your 
mixture it can safely be fed to young pigs 
in combination with corn, oats and di¬ 
gester tankage. Make sure, however, 
that the buckwheat flour is not rancid 
and lumpy, but rather is fine and sweet. 
When you feed the buckwheat it would 
be well to reduce the amount of corn; but 
it would not make a satisfactory ration 
unless you add some protein-carrying 
feed, such as oilmeal or tankage or .skim- 
milk. Frequently reports have been made 
suggesting that buckwheat middlings, 
owing to their coarseness, cause an in¬ 
flamed condition of the digestive tract 
when fed to pigs. This condition will not 
obtain if the material is fed in conjunc¬ 
tion with other feeds. Unfortunately, 
however, buckwheat is not especially 
palatable for pigs, and it serves its best 
purpose in a ration for dairy cows. Of 
course the buckwheat is very apt to be¬ 
come weevily or lumpy if held over from 
one season to the next, and this is the 
reason perhaps that the miller is willing 
to dispose of the feed at this reduced 
price. 
Shortly after Dec’s surrender two 
Confederate soldiers were bargaining in 
Confederate money over a very ordinary 
looking horse. “He’ll do for my farm, 
Jim,” said one. “I’ll give you $20,000 
i for him.” “No,” said the other. “Give 
you $50,000.” “No.” “Give you $100.- 
(H)0.” “Not much!” replied the owner. 
I “1 just, paid $120,000 to have him shod.” 
| —Credit Lost. 
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Save Labor 
Whatever the amount of milk or butter- 
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and shelter the necessarily greater num¬ 
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and you save labor, feed, stable-room, 
equipment and risk. They are always 
healthy and ready for work. Choose cows 
according to their capacity for converting 
coarse feed into milk. That is the func¬ 
tion of a dairy cow. and that is whore 
the big Holstein excels. 
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Their sire is by a son of KING SEGIS PON¬ 
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