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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
September 4, 1920 
MERIDALE 
JERSEYS 
ANNUAL SALE 
September 17, 1920 
The sale list includes seventy head —about 
half of which were bred at Meridale Farms; 
the other half were imported. Progeny of 
every one of the famous herd sires at Meri¬ 
dale Farms is listed in the offering. 
Jap blood is strongly represented. One of 
The Japs Gold Medal Daughters will be sold 
—Japs Mertha Lass 329714, with a yearly 
record of 15326 lbs. milk, 945 lbs. butter. A 
son of The Jap is likewise included. 
After thirty-one years of constructive breed¬ 
ing, we feel very confident that the cattle 
thus offered will please the thoughtful 
buyer who demands correct type, robust 
health and heavy production. 
For Catalog Address : 
TOM DEMPSEY, Sale Manager, Westerville, Ohio 
o r 
AYER & MCKINNEY 
Meridale Farms Meridale, New York 
JERSEYS 
HAMILTON irDcrvc 
FARM elUilOl-i I 3 
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. 
JERSEYS 
FOR SALE: 
1. Young Bull dropped March 9th, 
1917. Perfection, pedigree, con¬ 
formation and service. 
MILKING SHORTHORNS 
2. Bull calf dropped Dec. 24,1919. 
3. Bull calf dropped Apr. 2, 1920. 
Milking Shorthorns ££! 
for milk and meat. The Durham row of our forefathers. 
Inquiries invited. WALNUT GROVE FARM, Washinglonville, N. Y. 
Wonderful specimen that will please 
the most critical buyer. 
MILKING SHORTHORNS. Everett Fox, Lowell, Mass 
AYRSHIRES 
SOUTH FARM 
AYRSHIRES, 
We are offering animals of all ages for sale. 
Let us know your wants. Visitors welcome. 
GEORGE A. CROSS. Mgr. - Willoughby. Ohio 
All three from R. O. M. Dams 
Priced to sell. For description 
address 
KARHA FARM 
% Cco. L. Barker, Supt. 
Parksville, Sullivan County, N. Y. 
Feeds and Feeding now $2.75 
This standard book by Henry & Mor¬ 
rison has been advanced to $2.75, at 
which price we can supply it. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street New York 
Fosterfield’s Herd Registered JERSEYS 
ALL AGES. On account of being unable to see to 
my cattle personally I will make prices that will 
lead to business. CHAKLKS G. POSTER, p. 
O. lloxllS, Morristown, Morris Co., N. J. 
■ C! ,Jne Pute Brod Ball. Eleven 
w Co En 1 €5 high grade cows, three 
heifers; freshen in early spring. F. A. PARKS, Lawtons, n. Y. 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Live Stock on 20-Acre Farm 
On a farm of 20 acres I have been try¬ 
ing to raise enough feed for my stock, 
consisting of two cows, two horses, two 
pigs and 50 to 75 hens. I have been using 
a rotation of corn with rye and Alsike 
clover at last cultivation, plowed under 
for oats, then wheat, and after wheat 
Timothy, Red-top and Alsike seeded alone 
in August,, for hay one year, and 
plowed under for corn with the manure 
I have. I only cut one year, thinking 
to get more good from the clover plowed 
under. I have done this only one year, 
and raised 30’ bu. shelled corn, 20 bu. of 
oats. 12 bu. of wheat and a little less 
than one ton of hay per acre. I have 
been thinking of trying Soy beans instead 
of oats for protein for my cows, and also 
because I could let the rye and clover 
grow longer, as the beans would not be 
sown as early. Can I feed the ground 
beans to cows in place of the high-priced 
concentrates, and can I feed them to poul¬ 
try? Or would it be better to feed with¬ 
out thrashing? What do you consider 
the best source of succulence for me to 
raise for Winter? I can raise mangels, 
but they are a great deal of work. Would 
not turnips or rutabagas sown broadcast 
he best, considering the work? Will this 
rotation and the manure from the stock 
keep the soil up in fertility without fer¬ 
tilizer. or will it grow poorer? e. r. s. 
New Jersey. 
While oats make a splendid contribu¬ 
tion to almost any ration for feeding live 
stock; the one objection that can be in¬ 
telligently raised regarding them is the 
fact that their yield per acre in the East 
is relatively low, and that they mature 
during a season of the year when rains 
are frequently destructive, and as a result 
the crop is either lost or damaged about 
three years out of five. However, it is 
necessary to work oats into most crop 
rotations, and I am sure that you would 
have better results if you would use oats 
and Canada field peas rather than oats 
alone. 
Your suggestion that Soy beaus take 
the place of oats is a practical one. Soy 
beau seed, however, is very expensive, and 
the yield per acre of Soy beans is rela¬ 
tively small. However, they will increase 
the fertility of the soil by gathering nitro¬ 
gen from the air, and likewise they will 
add protein to a ration that would sup¬ 
plement the corn and rye and he especially 
useful in feeding dairy cows. Just what 
the results have been from feeding Soy 
beans to poultry I do not know, hut this 
information could he obtained by commu¬ 
nicating with the poultry department at 
the New Jersey Station. I am inclined 
to suggest that where you seed with the 
oats as a nurse crop, the second cutting 
of clover might properly bo made the sec¬ 
ond year without robbing the soil. 
You will find that the oats and Canada 
field peas will make a splendid roughage 
for not only your cows, but for your two 
work horses as well. It would' not be 
necessary to thrash this combination, but 
rather they could bo cut and cured as 
hay, or it would even he possible to let 
them mature and stack them in the barn, 
or put them in a bundle or sheaf and feed 
them in this manner. Alsike clover is 
best suited for low or gravelly soil, and 
you might find a combination of rye and 
vetch superior to rye and clover. 
Concerning the matter of succulence for 
Lise with your two cows during the Win¬ 
ter months, I am sure that you would 
find turnips more economical to produce 
than the mangels. They can ho broad¬ 
cast in July or August. The seed is in¬ 
expensive. and if the turnips are stored in 
a pit and well covered with straw and 
dirt, they will keep for the greater por¬ 
tion of the Winter. Care must be exer¬ 
cised, however, in feeding turnips to 
milk cows, else the milk will be tainted. 
If they are fed after milking, and pro¬ 
vided they are not stored in the barn, the 
difficulty can be overcome. A small 
amount of beet pulp, saturated with mo- 
’asses, might be used as a substitute for 
succulence. With only two cows you 
could not afford to put up a silo, for the 
".vpense of filling would be too great; and. 
furthermore, you could not get a silo 
small enough economically to provide 
silage for two cows. It wVnild spoil in 
the meantime, and you would lose your 
entire crop. It would be necessary for 
you to purchase some acid phosphate to 
keep up the fertility of the soil; but with 
the manure distributed on the land it 
ought to be possible for you to increase 
the production of this small area. 
Purebred Holstein Cattle 
For Profit 
“Both milk and fat are produced at low¬ 
est rate in general by the cows consuming 
the MOST FOOD.” This conclusion 
reached by Prof. II. H. Wing, Professor 
of dairy husbandry at Cornell, after a 
year’s observation of the herd at the Uni¬ 
versity experiment station. Ilolsteins are 
large and healthy, capable of converting 
large quantities of coarse feed into the 
best milk suitable for all purposes, par¬ 
ticularly in demand for infant feeding and 
for cheese making. 
If you are keeping cows for profit, in¬ 
vestigate Holsteins. 
Send for Free Illustrated Booklets. 
They contain valuable information fop 
any Dairyman. 
THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION 
105 Hudson Street 
Brattleboro, Vermont 
HOLSTEIN -FRIESIAN 
CATTLE 
Registered heifer and bull calves of 
excellent breeding at farmers’ prices, 
Also a few choice fresh and springer 
cows. Write your wants. 
R. H. BEARD & SONS, Cortland, N. Y. 
REGISTERED AND 
GRADE HOLSTEINS 
Get busy, you calf club pro- 
I have 50 registered 
calves, 3 to 10 mos. old, 
S1 00 each for the lot; choice, 
81 25. 20 registered and high 
cows, heifers and bulls, car of 
any age that you 'w ant, 
Holstein heifer calves, 820 
each, express paid, in lots of 6. 
JOHN C. REAGAN. Tully, N.Y. 
BLACK and WHITES 
AND 
RED and WHITES 
We buy and soil the very best cows obtainable, and 
solicit trade from buyers who want the best, cows 
weighing from 1000 to 1300 lbs.; some are fresh, bal¬ 
ance from 1 to 10 weeks away. If you want the best 
we want your businoss. And we can please you. We 
buy and soil continually and have 200 to selectfrom, 
F. L. PALMER & SON Moravia, N. Y. 
Two Well Bred Heifers For Sale 
Their sire is by a son of KING SEGIS PON¬ 
TIAC ALCARTRA, the famous fc'ill.OOO bull. 
Their dams are by a son of JOHANNA KING 
SEGIS. the famous 40-lb. grandson of KING 
SEGIS. 
For Pedigrees and Prices write 
G. G. BURLINGAME. R. F. D. 2. CAZENOVIA, N. Y. 
20 High Grade Holsteins fresh 
10 near-by Grade Holstein Cows. 5 Pure bred Hoi- 
steins, 2-yr.-old, bred to a 30-lb. sire. !45 High 
Grade Holstein Cows, due in Oct. and Nov. T. IT. 
Tested. Davis & Hollister, Hallston Spa.,'N.Y. 
Reg. Holstein Bull Calf 
Heifer Calves, $50 upwards. Grade Holstein Heifer 
Calves, $15 to$»5. HENRY K. JARVIS. Pori Byron. N.Y. 
H oNtrin-Krlriian lloifer and Hull Cnlin. Pure bred register¬ 
ed and high grade. Splendid individuals and breeding. 
Keg. Duroc Pigs. BR0WNCR0FI FARMS. McGrow. Cortland Co.. N.Y. 
RABBITS 
It Pays to Raise Hares 
From lull Blooded Sires ADams 
All Specimen. Illustrated Catalogue 10c. 
JOSEPH BLANK, Dept. A 
428 Highland Ave.. MOUNT VERNON, N. Y. 
FLEMISH GIANTS, young and matured, from pedigreed and 
reg. stock. Prices reasonable. H. B TEN EYCK, Somerville, N. J. 
DOGS and FERRETS 
Airedales, Collies, and Old English Shepherd Dogs 
Trained male dogs and brood matrons; pupsall ages. 
FLEMISH GIANT. NEW ZEALAND AND RUFUS RED BELGIAN 
RABBITS. Semi fie. for large instructive list of what 
you want. VV. It. WATSON, Box 1745, Dakland. Iowa 
Collie Puppies reJJA $12 
Also poultry, bares and Holstein rattle. Hatching 
Eggs and Breeding stock forsale. Write your wants. 
Catalog Free H. A. Sootier, Sellersville, Pa. 
Farm Dogs- Collie-AiredaleCross botli pure-bred. 
Very intelligent. Pups ready to he shipped on approv¬ 
al. Males, 88 ; Females, 85. ITM. ". KETCII, t'oliootou, N.Y. 
For Sale Hound—Vfc Terrier oi’d. 
Good hunter. O. I>. 81 5 JACOB LONII, Dayton, Penn. 
FERRETS 
C. IL KEEPER & CO. 
Thousands of them to kill 
millions of rats. Price 
list free. Catalogue 10c. 
Greenwich, Ohio 
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