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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Renew your old silo and get a 3-wall 
Craine at half the cost of a new silo 
The Craine is the most economical as well as 
the strongest and handsomest silo you can buy 
a 3-wall structure that gives triple strength and 
protection; that keeps silage succulent, unspoiled, 
protected from frost and harmonizes with the 
finest buildings. Inside is the wall of upright 
staves, closely fitted; then a wall of Silafelt to 
keep out water, air and frost; then the spiral 
Cramelox covering of enormous strength, which 
reinforces every square inch against pressure from 
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By using the materials from your old stave silo you can have 
a Craine Triple-wall Silo at about half the cost of a new 
silo. Write us for full particulars; also for agency proposition. 
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When you build with tile, you build but once. 
First cost is the only cost. Looks better, stays 
better and keeps better silage. Write for our 
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Preston 
—the tile silo with the "ship-lap" blocks and 
twisted steel re-enforcing. Extra strong walls. 
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LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Sunflowers and Millet for Silage 
I note your mention of Japan millet 
being good silage. I am wondering why 
a combination of sunflowers and millet 
would not weigh up well iu milk-produc¬ 
ing food, of course under separate culture. 
May this he discussed in The It. N.-Y.. 
with such comments as you may add? 
Fort Ann, X. Y. t:. ii. U. 
Of course, it would not-pay to seed the 
millet and sunflowers together. They 
would not ripen at the same time. They 
would have to be grown in separate fields 
and the seeding timed so as to bring them 
in together. These crops wofild require 
less labor than corn. As for the quality 
of such silage, we have had no experience, 
and must leave that to readers. All 
through the Far West the use of sunflow¬ 
ers for silage i.« growing. The crop 
gives a larger yield than corn, and is of 
high feeding value. Reports from East¬ 
ern sections are mixed. Some favor sun- > 
flowers: others see small value in them. | 
Merits of the Devon Cow 
I have been a breeder of Devon cattle | 
for 35 years. I have also been a dealer 
and shipper of all breeds and classes of 
live stock for 15 years. As a side issue 
T bred Ilolsteins for about 10 years. In 
this section of the country Devons are 
the predominating breed, and have been 
for the last 40 or 50 years. Tears ago 
there were a good many oxen worked in 
this section ; nearly every farmer had one 
or more pairs, but at the present time 
there are very few farmers working oxen. 
The high price of labor and the necessity 
of doing our work more with machinery 
calls for horses rather than oxen. There 
always have been a good many steers 
raised in this section of tlx* country for 
oxen and beef, but there are very few 
handled today; most of them go to mar¬ 
ket when two or three years of age. 
While I ship a good many Shorthorn 
and Hereford steers. I can alwajs top 
the market by a dollar a hundred with a i 
well-bred Devon. They dress a larger 
per cent of meat and the carcass is of 
the quality that attracts the retailer, 
light in bone and well covered, and well 
marbled with white tallow. As dairy 
cattle they will milk from 28 to 50 lbs. 
of milk per day. which which will test 
from 4*4 to (5 per cent of butterfat; he 
average Devon cow will test about •> per 
cent. I have had them test as high as 
7.2 per rent ; have no record of any below 
4 per cent. 
When breeding Ilolsteins I made a 
year’s test of 12 of my heed Devons and 
12 of my best Holsteins. weighing all of 
the milk aud all of the feed. The llol- 
teins gave more milk and consumed more 
feed, hut it cost 10 per cent more to 
prod ce than the milk that I made from 
the 12 Devons. 
As a dealer in live stock. I never tell 
a customer what In* wants, be it Jerseys, 
Guernseys. Holsteins. or any of the other 
breeds. I always try to find them for 
him. T think I can say without prejudice 
that the Devons will adapt themselves to 
as many conditions and thrive in as many 
different localities of the I nited States 
as any of the other breeds, and in most 
cases pay as large if not larger net pro¬ 
fits than most of the dual-purpose breeds, 
and if selected and bred for dairy pur¬ 
poses will compare favorably with the 
so-called special-purpose dairy breeds. 
The mere fact that in England, numeri¬ 
cally. the Devons come next, to tlie 
Shorthorns, being a good deal in excess 
of any of the other purebreds. would tend 
to bear these statements out. 
New Hampshire. w. ii. neai.. 
February 19, 1921 
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I shall be out of silage soon and have 
poor elover hay cut very late. My idea 
its to put molasses ou hay and feed soaked 
beet pulp. If’ this will help give more 
milk after the silage is gone, would you 
suggest a good way to feed it and what 
proportions of each, or about how much 
for each cow of each feed? Cows are 
Holsteins weighing about 1.100 to 1.200. 
giving about 30 lbs. milk a day. I would 
like a good grain mixture to feed them; 
can buy bran and middlings, hominy and 
cornmeal. ground oats, cottonseed meal 
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New York. 
Feed your cows about 1 lb. of mo¬ 
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pul]) should be fed at the rate of about 
3 lbs. per cow daily; when soaked it 
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mixture use 300 lbs. hominy or cornmeal, 
200 lbs. bran. 100 lbs. oats. 100 lbs. cot¬ 
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1 lb. of grain to each 3 lbs. of milk pro¬ 
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