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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 5, 1021 
Wood is Scarce—Coal is High 
Build a WARM House 
W ITH the winter winds howling and the 
cold creeping through the thin weather¬ 
boards, the family in grandfather’s boyhood 
hugged the stove a little tighter, while someone 
fetched another armful of wood. But today, 
firewood is fast disappearing and the cost of coal 
climbs steadily higher. The remedy is a warm 
house—built of 
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The still-air spaces in the walls resist temperature changes 
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Free Catalog In colors explains 
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Live Stock and Dairy 
Cream or Whole Milk 
I am shipping cream at present, and if 
conditions do not change for the better I 
shall purchase a large separator and con¬ 
tinue to ship cream. At the same time I 
would rather work off my milk in the 
fluid state or whole state, and do not feel 
that I ought to invest in a larger machine 
unless I must. l. c. b. 
It looks to me as though the “pooling 
plan” of the Dairymen’s League would go 
through, but that does not mean that all 
the milk controlled by the League will be 
sold in fluid form. There is too little de¬ 
mand for milk for that to be possible. 
Some say there is too much milk, but I 
am not going to admit that. I think the 
League is going right along, and will be 
stronger than ever after the present strug¬ 
gle is over. But the League is not going 
to settle all the troubles of the dairymen. 
Every dairyman is going to have his own 
personal questions to settle, as he always 
has done, and it seems to me that this is 
a« it should be? A man would not be 
worth much if everything were regulated 
for him. and there were no need for him 
| to exert, himself to his utmost to succeed. 
T have believed for a long time that the 
price of butter and cheese must ulti¬ 
mately control the price of fluid milk, 
and I can see nothing in the present situ¬ 
ation to change my mind. There is not 
too much milk produced, but there is not 
enough demand for milk and its products. 
Every dairyman should be a booster for 
milk and its products every day in the 
year. I would use till the cheese and 
butter that I reasonably could in my 
family, and if I ate a meal in a hotel 
where no cheese was served and oleomar¬ 
garine was in place of butter, I would 
register a vigorous kick with the proprie¬ 
tor. I would especially fight oleomar¬ 
garine. Then I would be loyal to the 
League, and help along all League efforts 
to better dairy conditions. 
The League, as an organization, can do 
a lot that we can’t do as individuals, but 
the League, as a body, can’t do very much 
if we as individuals tear down as .fast as 
the organization builds up. After I had 
done these things I would look out for 
number one as well as I could. I would 
keep the best cows that I could find, and 
I would get every pound of milk out of 
them that I could make them economically 
produce. Then I would sell the milk 
through the organization, or would manu¬ 
facture it if 1 could get more out of it 
that way. This is personal competition, 
and, without that, no people or any indus¬ 
try will do its best. J. grant house. 
Comparison of Oat and Wheat 
Middlings 
I enclose tag taken from a bag of oat 
j middlings. It seems to be a little better 
analysis than wheat middlings so far as 
given, but no mention it* made of carbo¬ 
hydrates, which is given on the wheat 
middlings bags. Will you tell me how it 
compares with wheat middlings as a poul¬ 
try food: also is it a good dairy feed? 
'Massachusetts. J- W S. 
Oat middlings fiave about the same 
analysis as wheat middlings as regard to 
carbohydrates. As a feed for poultry and 
cattle, oat middlings are very good and 
can be recommended. They should be fed, 
however, in conjunction with some other 
bulky food. J. W. B. 
Improving Dairy Ration 
Tu reference to feeding five-year-old 
grade Jersey cow, can you advise me 
whether feed made up as per formula 
stated b«dow would have a tendency to 
force milk production to such an extent 
that in a year or two the milk production 
will run out? This feed is given without 
silage and with fair quality timothy hay, 
mixed with some clover, in addition to 
which a few potatoes are added to the 
daily ration. Two parts cornmeal, two 
parts gluten feed, two ports bran, one part 
cottonseed meal, one part middlings, one- 
half to one part oilmeal salt. Would not 
a ration composed of cotton seed and 
bran only, fed with silage and mixed hay. 
have a greater tendency to force a cow? 
Vermont. c. A. w. 
If you are feeding a roughage consist¬ 
ing of Timothy and mixed hay along with 
some potatoes, the formula which you are 
using is not too high in protein. It could 
he improved, however, by the addition of 
3 lbs. of beet pulp per cow daily. Beet 
pulp, however, should be soaked at least 
12 hours before feeding. Cottonseed meal 
and bran would make a very narrow ra¬ 
tion. and should you feed a large amount 
of it you no doubt would have trouble 
in that your cows would sooner or later 
become gargety.______ J - M - B - 
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