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Vhc RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
October 1G, 1920 
Gentlemen: — Your Suction-feed 
Separator is a wonderful machine. 
It skims clean at any speed, is easy 
to clean, runs smoothly, oils itself 
without mussiness, and delivers 
cream of even density at all speeds. 
It never gets out of balance as the 
disc-bowls do. • 
I cheerfully recommend the 
Sharpies Suction-feed to anyone 
wanting the best cream separator 
on earth . 
Yours very truly, 
C Signed) L. C. SWEET 
Alden, Minn. 
•TN/T R ‘ ^ weet s letter covered Sharpies Suction-feed 
advantages so definitely from the actual user’s 
viewpoint, that a copy was sent to several thousand 
other users of the Sharpies Suction-feed Separator. 
Each user was asked to comment on the letter. The 
response was unanimous:—“We say the same.” 
One type of Sharpies Suction-feed Separator is electrically oper¬ 
ated with current from farm lighting system. 
It is costing you more to be without the Sharpies Suction- 
feed than it would to buy one. Write for catalogue, addressing 
nearest office. Dept. 12 
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SUCTION-FEED 
CREAM' SEPARATOR 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR COMPANY 
West Chester, Pa. 
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Will reduce Inflamed, Strained, 
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ABSORBINE, JR., the antiseptic liniment for 
mankind, reduces Strained, Torn Liga¬ 
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Heals Cuts, Sores, Ulcers. Allays pain. Price 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Fattening Old Cow 
Would you give me ration for fatten¬ 
ing an old farrow cow? She gives only 
six quarts milk per day. Should I dry 
her up before feeding grain or keep on 
milking, and what *>hall I feed in grain? 
I have rye and corn, but want to fatten 
her quickly. Shall I let her run in pas¬ 
ture while feeding grain or put her in a 
stall and keep her there until in good 
condition? .t. k. s. 
New York. 
There would he an advantage in drying 
off your dairy row if it is desired to fat¬ 
ten her for beef. Oftentimes heavy milk¬ 
ers persist in their milk flow, but one 
could not expect them to produce milk 
and at the same time put on the same 
amount of flesh. Deny her all grain for 
several days, allowing her to have some 
poor hay or stalks for roughage, and by 
milking her every other day and later 
every two or three days, the flow of milk 
will soon cease. After the udder is fairly 
free from congestion, gradually introduce 
a grain ration consisting of equal parts 
of corn, rye and beet pulp, to which has 
been added about 10 per cent of oilmen]. 
Start with 4 lbs. a day of this mixture 
and increase the amount a half-pound a 
day until the cow is consuming 10 or 111 
lbs. of grain per day. Hold here at this 
amount for the next week, after which 
the amount might be gradually increased 
at the rate of a quarter of a pound pet- 
day until the cow has been on the grain 
ration for three or four weeks. At the 
end of this time she could be given more 
grain if she would consume it: in fact. 1 
should feed her all of this mixture that 
she would clean up with relish twice 
daily. 
Often some difficulty is experienced in 
fattening old cows, and even though they 
consume a relatively large amount of 
grain and devour a lot <>f roughage, they 
fail to put on fleoh. If this condition 
prevails in the cow you describe, I would 
advise selling her for what you can get 
from the butcher rather than waste a lot 
of time and a lot of high-priced feed in 
trying to fatten a dairy animal. If there 
is good feed in the pasture it would be 
quite as well to let her run out to grass 
during the fattening period, although at 
this season of the year, after the grass 
is frosted, it is likely to be washy and 
very little would be gamed by letting 
her have access to this laxative feed. 
After the middle of October or the first 
of November it would be quite as well to 
confine her in a well-bedded stall and fat¬ 
ten her under these conditions. 1 have 
suggested beet pulp, as it is a succulent 
feed, and is known materially to aid di¬ 
gestion. 
Selling Milk to Calves 
For the past live years we have been 
raising family cows, grade Guernsey and 
Jersey, as a rule, and have made good at 
it. Recently the scarcity of help makes 
it hard to get good, clean milkers, and 
it has been suggested that we fatten veal 
calves for the market on our cows rather 
than have them half milked, as they 
sometimes are. What would be the effect 
of this on our cows? Some tell me it in¬ 
jures a cow greatly to keep a calf on her 
until large enough to veal. I)o you think 
so? Can make a very good profit and 
make it easily, but do not wish to do our 
cows any harm. ii. u. m. 
New York. 
There is an honest difference of opinion 
concerning the fattening of veal calves 
on nurse cows, and using these same cows 
later on. or during a successive lactation 
period as milch cows. It has been ob¬ 
served in many instances that cows will 
go dry at an earlier period when the 
calves are allowed to suck titan when they 
are regularly milked out by hand. This 
is explained by the fact that it is a nat¬ 
ural instinct of the mother to wean her 
calves when they are old enough to look 
Dut for themselves. 
It frequently happens that the teats 
have been injured by the sucking calves, 
either from biting or due to the fact that 
the teats are left moist during cold 
weather, and frequently are frozen if the 
cows are turned out into the open. Rather 
than permit the calves to run with the 
cows, a better practice follows the plan 
of keeping the calv.es confined in well- 
bedded box stalls, and putting the cow 
into these stalls to be nursed out twice 
daily. 
Unadilla 
Convenience 
The Unadilla Silo is not 
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Those who have used Unadillas 
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Send for the big, well illustrat¬ 
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our special discount for early 
orders and open territory where 
good agents are wanted. 
Unadilla Silo Co. 
Box C Unadilla, N. Y. 
Silos At Half Price 
I must clear my present ware¬ 
house before winter. About 200 
silos left, which 1 will-sell at half 
price as long as they last. Silos 
are well-known make, new, built 
of genuine Clear Oregon Fir, and 
absolutely first-class in every way. 
You have as good a chance at 
these as anyone else if you get 
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No partiality shown big buyers. 
Everybody treated fairly. Orders 
filled in order of their receipt. 
M. L. SMITH, Manufacturer's Agent 
113 Flood Building 
Meadville Pennsylvania 
Graylaton farm 
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Absolutely kills the lice on your cattle, 
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BAUSMAN MFG. CO. 
Bauaman (Lancaster Co.). Penn a. 
Light running, easy cleaning 
close skimming. durable. 
NEW BUTTERFLY guaranteed • T _ 
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