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( Ibt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 4, 1920 
Spark Plugs and 
Plowing 
W HILE plowing, you don’t want to be held up 
for an hour or more in the field because of a 
poor spark plug in your tractor. Those delays pile 
up costs and cut down yield. 
Guard against such delays by using only Bethlehem 
Spark Plugs—the plugs that have met the severest 
tests of tractor operation. 
Bethlehem plugs “pull you through.” They don’t 
go dead and leave you stranded in the field. The 
International Harvester Company thinks so much of 
Bethlehem plugs that it has adopted them as standard 
equipment for tractors and trucks. 
Bethlehem Automobile and Truck plugs are just 
as trustworthy as the famous Tractor plugs. Stude- 
baker, Marmon and 48 other manufacturers have 
chosen Bethlehems as standard equipment. To help 
you get the right plug for every purpose, we have 
prepared a little booklet, “Hit or Miss?”, which we 
will send you free on request. 
Bethlehem Spark Plug Corporation 
E. H. Schwab, President 
Bethlehem, Pa. 
NION GRAINS was the first ready- 
mixed, balanced dairy Tation ever 
offered—and it’s always been known as the biggest 
producer that ever came out of a feed bag. 
Big Dairies use it. The Hershey Chocolate Company’s big herd of 2,000 
cows have eaten it for years and the Hershey Company urges all the farmers 
whose milk it buys to use it. They want more milk. They want it pro¬ 
duced as cheaply as possible. So they buy an average of four carloads of 
Union Grains every month. And they’re the kind of people who know 
whether it pays or not! 
Seventeen years of experience in mixing dairy feed goes into every bag. It’s a work 
of real experts. You can’t be sure that your own mixtures arc the best you can do 
until you have tried Union Grains. 
Write for a Union Grains Cost Sheet and know what dairy feed actually is costing you. 
We also make Ubiko Stock Feed, Vbiko Pig Meal, Ubiko 
Buttermilk Egg Mash, Growing Mash, and Scratch Feed. 
THE UBIKO MILLING CO. 
Dept.' R 
8 
Cincinnati, Ohio 
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When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
THE HENYARD 
Oilmeal and Tankage for Poultry 
Would it bo safe for mo to uso oilmeal. 
old process, as a part of dry mash for 
chickens from one month old up? I buy 
oilmeal for $3.45 per 100 lbs. Can I use 
it for laying lions? Will good tankage 
take the place of beef scrap? f. c. j. 
Now Hampshire. 
For some reason oilmeal does not seem 
to enjoy the reputation as a poultry food 
that the feeders of other animals give it. 
It has been, and is. used as part of the 
dry mash fed both growing chicks and 
laying hens. It has been particularly 
recommended as part of the ration for 
molting hens. Different formulas pub¬ 
lished. in which oilmeal is used, contain 
from 5 to 10 per cent of this ingredient, 
the smaller amounts being fed growing 
chicks : the larger, laying hens. Most of 
the popular formulas today, however, do 
not contain oilmeal at all. At the Mavic 
experiment station it was formerly fed to 
laying pullets and hens in the proportion 
of 50 lbs. of oilmeal to 000 of other 
ground grains on alternate months during 
the Winter. It has been fed for some 
years in the proportion of one-seventh 
part of the whole mash, hut it was con¬ 
cluded that this mash was too rich for 
best results.' Whether this lack of popu¬ 
larity is duo to greater experience with 
oilmeal or merely to present-day fashion 
in feeding, I cannot say. I think that 
there can be no question but that oilmeal 
in moderate amounts is a suitable food 
for poultry and that it may be used.with, 
or in place of. the other feeds you mention 
in the proportions first suggested above. 
I have never known of scrap being re¬ 
placed by tankage, and do not believe that 
(lie substitution would be found advisable. 
M. B. D. 
Cannibal Chicks 
What is the cause of young chicks 
picking one another’s feet and keeping at 
it until the victim is devoured? They 
had heated brooder house, plenty of feed 
and clean water twice a day, having 
grits, charcoal, fine oyster shell, beef 
scrap and baby chick feed. I never had 
this trouble before. J. W. 
New Jersey. 
The same design that prompts a young 
child to put everything into its mouth is 
probably responsible for this toe pecking 
trait. How does a young chick know 
what those shiny, wriggling things on the 
floor are until it has pecked at them, and 
having pecked at them and seen them 
move quickly, what fun it is to keep at 
it and chase them about the brooder! 
Then a little too vigorous a peck and the 
blood starts, and the taste of blood 
awakens an old instinct lying almost dor¬ 
mant from the time that this chick’s re¬ 
mote ancestors ranged the jungle as 
beasts of prey. Others join the chase, 
which becomes more and more furious 
and cruel until the wounded innocent is 
killed and disemboweled. 
The way to prevent this trouble is to 
forestall it by giving the chicks something 
else to keep them busy. (live them room 
and range enough to get away from each 
other. Let- them out of doors just as 
soon as it is possible. Provide enough 
litter to encourage persistent digging 
while they must be confined. Make meat 
or milk scrap a part of their ration. 
Watch them and remove any wounded 
chick before its mates discover its con¬ 
dition. Do not overcrowd the brooders, 
but, more important than anything else, 
get the chicks out upon the ground with 
ample room to run and chase, with grass 
to pull and visions of large, fat worms 
to stimulate vigorous digging. Remember 
that idleness is detrimental to both man 
and beast. m. b. d. 
Henhouse with Vertical Siding 
PROVE at our risk that you can 
•f easily save one-third on hirrh priced feed. 
Aids Digestion 
cut 10 to 30 days off the feeding; period and 
have healthier hogs by feeding MILKOLINE. 
Milkoiine has a base of 
pasteurized and steril¬ 
ized, modified Buttermilk. It is guaranteed 
not to contain any sulphuric acid or anything 
injurious to hogs or poultry. It helps to:» 
up the system, making hogs less subject to 
disease, practically insuring gains of 2 Ys lbs. a 
head per day. 
University Tested! 
of Dairy Husbandry at Missouri University, 
conducted a scientific test which showed that 
MILKOLINE fed hogs made a profit of 82.57% 
more than those not fed Milkoiine. W. H. 
Graham, Middletown, Mo., said $30 worth of 
Milkoiine made an extra profit of $420 in 60 
days. Lee Jackson, Wappingers Falls, N. Y„ 
says Milkoiine is great for shoats and sows. 
Milkoiine 2c a Gal. 
form, and when fed as directed costs only 2 c a 
gallon. It is guaranteed not to spoil, rot, sour 
or mould. Keeps indefinitely in any climate. 
Flies do not come near it. The prices are as 
follows: 6 gal. $7.50; 10 gal. $12.50; 15 gal. 
$16.50; 32 gal. $32.00; 65 gal. $49.50. 
Q A lAnir Trial Try Milkoiine at our risk 
OV Vaj It »ul f or 30 days—if not satis¬ 
fied that it is the best farm money maker and 
saver you ever saw it costs you nothing. Sim¬ 
ply send check or money order for any amount 
today, feed one-half to poultry and hogs in a 
30 day test; then if not satisfied return unused 
part at our expense*and we’ll immediately re¬ 
fund every cent you paid us. You are the sole 
judge, and have everything to gain and noth¬ 
ing to lose by making this test. Our interest¬ 
ing and valuable booklet, “How To Hustle 
Heavy Hogs To Market’’ will be sent free on 
request—your name on a card will do. 
The prices of Milkoiine are as follows: 2 gal. 
$3.50; 5 gal. $7.50; 10 gal $13.50; 15 gal. 
$10.50; 32 gal. $33; 55 gai. $49.50. 
Simply send name and 
address—a card will do, 
and we'll send an interesting booklet telling 
how Milkoiine will increase your poultry and 
hog profits. Write us or our nearest distrib¬ 
utors today. 
447 Creamery Bldg., 
Kansas City, Missouri 
DISTRIBUTED BY 
Anderson & Scofield, Fishkill, N. Y. 
Gerhart & Panels, Trenton, N. J. 
Joseph Breck & Sons Corp., Boston, 9, Mast. 
BIG BOOK FREE! 
MILKOLINE MFG. CO. 
Eli pigs bring fat profits 
Stop wondering why your pigs 
don’t pick up weight on grain feeds 
alone. Include Dold’s Digester Tank¬ 
age In their feed—a sure fat and bone 
builder—you’ll get them to market 
and bring ready cash Quicker. 
When you feed pigs corn, they 
get less than 10% protoin. Dold’s 
Digester Tankage gives them 60% 
Protein, Dold’s Digeater Meat Meal 
Tankage 46% Protein, the right 
amounts to build bone and flesh. 
Mixed with grain feeds or fed sep¬ 
arately, either in hoppers or slop, 
W rite for quotations and catalog. 
Jacob Doid Pkg Co. 
DEPT. R.H. 
Buffalo, N. Y.l 
I have noticed that at times you advo¬ 
cated the building of some styles of poul¬ 
try houses with the sides running ver¬ 
tically. As I understand it that would 
be without the use of studding on the 
sides, the siding taking the place of the 
2x4s that usually hold the building up. I 
am going to build a poultry house after 
the. plans furnished by the Ottawa Ex¬ 
periment Station, Canada, that call for a 
house 32x16 with a straw loft; gable roof 
10 */> ft. in the peak. Would it. be all 
right to use the lumber vertically in a 
house of that kind and omit the 2x4 up¬ 
rights? F. u. K. 
New Hampshire. 
The object of placing wall boards ver¬ 
tically from sill to plate is to avoid the 
necessity of further studding, and the 
walls will be stiff enough without stud¬ 
ding if %-in. stuff is used. If matched 
stuff is used for the walls, battens or 
other siding will not be needed, and lum¬ 
ber may thus be saved. A straw loft is 
desirable from the standpoint of warmth, 
but undesirable as a breeding place for 
mice. Except in very cold climates it is 
probably best omitted. In the case of 
walls of more than 5 or 0 ft. in height, or 
even in them, a breast girth of 2x4-in. 
stuff should be placed horizontally half 
way between sill and plate. M. b. I). 
“What a cheerful woman Mrs. Smiley 
is.” “Isn’t she? Why, do you know, 
that woman is naturally so cheerful that 
she can have a good time thinking what 
a good time she would have if she wore 
having it.”—Youth’s Companion. 
$A A Bor* i 
Light running, easy cleaning.^ 
close skimming. durable. 
NEW BUTTERFLY „ 
lifetime against defects in material and work 
manahlp. Made also In four larger sizes up to^ 
No. 8 shown here; sold on 
30 DAYS’ TREE TRIAL 
and on a plan whereby they earn their own coat 
and more by what they aave. i’oatal brings r reo I 
Catalog Folder. Buy from the manufacturer I 
and save money. (2D * 
ALBAUCH DOVER CO., 3(7| MtnbtllBI. CblMM 
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