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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
BUTTERMILK 
for Hogs and Poultry 
Experienced feeders know that there is 
no better feed for growing hogs and poul¬ 
try than buttermilk. A regular supply, 
however, has been difficult or impossible 
to obtain and feeders have had to do with¬ 
out it. A process has now been worked out 
for putting this valuable feed on the 
market in :i condensed form, called SEMI-SOLID 
BUTTERMILK. By simply addin# water yoti get 
real, genuine buttermilk with all its great feed 
value. 
Semi-Solid Buttermllt, like fresh buttermilk. U an 
appetizer and tonic, as -well as a feed, and 
keeps hot/s in prime condition. 
The liogs consume it eagerly and thrive on it. 
It is a wonderful tonic and conditioner as well as 
a most valuable feed. Headers of Rural New- 
Yorker interested in getting rapid growth and 
good, healthy stock should feed SEMI-SOLID 
BUTTERMILK. Write today for further infor¬ 
mation on Semi-Solid Buttermilk and facts about 
Feeding for Profit. Write I. H. Nestor & Co., 
Dept. 8640, No. 3 Chestnut st., Philadelphia, 
I*a.. or CONSOLIDATED PRODUCTS CO., Dept. 
3f'»40, Lincoln, Neb. 
fat pigs bring fat profits 
Stop wondering why your Digs 
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 briDg ready cash quicker. 
When you feed pigs corn, they 
get less than 10% protein. 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. 
Write for quotations and catalog. 
Jacob Dold Pkg Co. 
DEPT. R. N. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Fistula 
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and 
Poll 
Any perBon, however inexperienced, 
can readily treat either disease with 
Fleming’s Fistoform 
For Fistula and Poll Evil 
Price $#.(>() (war tax paid) 
—even bad old eases that skilled doc¬ 
tors have abandoned. Easy and simple; 
no cutting; just a little attention every fifth 
day—and your money refunded if it 
ever falls. Most cases yield within thirty 
days, leaving the horse sound and smooth. 
All particulars given in 
Fleming’s Vest-Pocket 
Veterinary Adviser 
UoBt veterinary book for farmora. Contains 192 
f intros and 69 illustrations. Durably bound in 
satherette. Write us for a fro® copy. 
FLEMING BROS., 16 U. S. Yards 
Chicago, Illinois 
"25 Years at the Stock Yards’’ 
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ON COWS 
Sore teats mean less milk. Rub 
ointment into teat and wipe 
away all excess with a cloth. 
Teats healed and softened over 
night. Excellentfor 
caked udder, wire 
cuts, cracked hoof, 
etc. Write to The 
Bickmore Co., Box 
186 Old Town, Me. 
THE 
ANIMALS’ 
FRIEND " 
For keeping fliea and many 
other insects off unimals. 
Used and endorsed since 18S5 
by leading dairymen. Cows 
give25# to 85% more milk 
(luring fly season if sprayed 
with ShoVllv. 
$1.50 SS $20 
in milk and flesh on each cow inn single Reason. Excel¬ 
lent for galls. Allays itching. Aids in healing cuts and 
sores. Excel ent for lice and mites in poultry houses. 
Semi SI.50 lor enough Sbeo-Fiy to protect 10 cows 2 wneba, 
■Iso our 3-lube gravity sprayer. Money buck if not ootis- 
factory. Name Express Office. Booklet FREE. 
SHOO-FLY MFG.CO. 1320N. 10thSt.,Phila. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New- Yorker and you ’ll get 
a quick reply and a "square deal.’’ See 
guarantee editorial page. 
Northern Ohio Notes 
Northern Ohio Notes 
Overplus Crops. —The farmers in the 
adjacent section are greatly overstocked 
with a last year’s crop surplus, unable to 
market at any price potatoes, onions, 
wheat and like products. Onions by the 
thousand bushels are being carted afield, 
and the May inilk is only in little better 
demand. Prices are being slashed right 
and left. All dairies are being cut from 
30 to .“,0 per cent surplus, and whole 
milk routes are cut ofT from the market 
entirely in some sections because of this 
excessive surplus, but retail milk prices 
in the city remain the same, owing to the 
limited (?) supply. 
Drought and Frost.— The three weeks 
in May so far have been in the main 
pleasant, but exceedingly cold, and dry¬ 
ness has prevented crop sowing in the 
main. Potatoes planted 20 days ago, as 
well tis garden truck, lias not even shown 
signs of germination. What fruit escaped 
the April 10 freeze was finished up with 
our four hard frosts in succession—May 
13-17—and with it the prospects of a 
light hay crop. Some meadows look as if 
singed with fire. Owing to the cold 
weather (2S this morning) no field corn 
has tis yet been planted. The more hope¬ 
ful arc looking toward June for relief. 
New Enterprises. —With the advent 
of the paved roads one is seeing new 
schemes for old-time methods in handling 
county commissioner of Geauga County, 
and made his impress upon the affairs of 
the county Being interested in educa¬ 
tional problems, he was later on selected 
as one of the commissioners of the (state 
Normal School at Kent, Ohio, with a fine 
record to his credit, and now has been 
called to Indiana to be manager of a 
great breeders’ corporation at a salary of 
.$10,000 a year. A pretty good record for 
a “common farmer.” 
Day-old Chickens. —There seems in 
some way a great revival of the day-old 
chicken industry, and that because of the 
passing of the sitting hen and the uncer¬ 
tainty of her hatch. For a time the 
mails were alive with “little peeps,” one 
postoffice near here receiving over 5.000 
chicks in less than a week at a shipping 
value of from 20 to 30 cents a chick. We 
were once cautioned not to count chick¬ 
ens before they were hatched, but in 
some instances it is better to delay count¬ 
ing shipped peepers until somewhere near 
July. 
The Pastoral Parson. —lie would be 
interested in some of the progressive 
movements going on hereabouts in some 
phases of church movement, notably in 
federation, and some very advanced work 
is being accomplished ia church union. 
There seem to be two systems of plans 
exhibited in this work, one of two or 
more churches agreeing to federate, but 
I isUirni the Pet Lamb in ilic Pasture 
farm produce and the output of the 
cities. One of ouV young lately returned 
sailor-soldier boys concluded that he 
would become an itinerant middleman, 
and procuring a two-ton truck evolved 
this scheme: lie collects in the morning 
till tlu* cans of city milk in his neighbor¬ 
hood, lakes it from the farms, delivers it 
in tlie city at: the dealers’, then loads up 
with ice and delivers to regular custo¬ 
mers ou the way home, this two days in 
the week. The other four afternoons lie 
does expressing from the city for farm 
and village, or special freight consign¬ 
ments, and takes orders for purchase and 
same day delivery. Needless to say that 
with bis business of 25 to 30 cans of milk 
at 30c per can every day he is doing well 
in bis venture. Every day three live 
stock trucks pass my bouse in quest of 
every sort of butchers’ stock, and deliver 
direct to the butcher, cutting out the old- 
time local stock buyer. “No shrinkage 
like driving stock 30 miles or so on a hot 
day is a profit in itself.” said a buyer the 
other day. 
IIow Men Climb to Success. A few 
miles from the writer’s lives now a middle- 
aged man who by diligence in not only 
his own business, but in addition seeking 
outside sources of information, and using 
it. has made a wonderful advance from 
the farm boy of a few years ago. He 
determined to become a good farmer, and 
succeeded. Then he decided he would be¬ 
come a stocK breeder of the best, and 
chose tilt' IJolsteins, and with them won 
early and merited recognition, and soon 
took his place in tin* front rank of breed¬ 
ers of that class. lie had made a study 
of economic problems, and soon became 
not dropping their denomination organi¬ 
zation, but as a society federating in one 
service as a distinct federated society, all 
being members of the last tis to local 
community work. The other plan is for 
all to surrender their previous church 
organism and unite as members in full 
with an agreed-upon church society, and 
so all become either Congregationalists. 
Baptists or Methodists, as the case may 
be, tind so be in touch with a great or¬ 
ganized worldwide church. This latter 
plan, I think, is in slight majority in this 
section, but ou all sides it is admitted 
that there is greater need in close church 
affairs and a more aggressive movement 
for churclnvide influence. 
A ( '(immunity House. —Near here a 
fine church, but abandoned because of 
federation, has been taken possession of 
by the C. E. S. and turned into a com¬ 
munity house wherein is to be centered 
the activities of tlu* young people, and to 
provide for all meetings and social af¬ 
fairs. and give direction to the amuse¬ 
ments of the community to the end that 
they may be of an unobjectionable char¬ 
acter. Local concerts and light; theatri¬ 
cals are contemplated, as well as “re¬ 
freshments” now and (lien. To start tIn* 
tiling the young people inaugurated a 
“drive.” and went, out. and collected $500 
to make it financially 100 per cent at the 
start. 
Our State Legislature, which con¬ 
vened January 1. wilh the sole purpose 
of adjusting the fax laws of Ohio so that 
they would not discriminate so unjustly 
upon the land owner, has now been in 
session some five months, and has brought 
out nothing, only their salary and niile- 
.Tune 4, 1021 
age. One crowd wants the old tax rate 
alike for all property, and the others 
want classified taxation, so that unseen 
and unfound wealth can be taxed, but 
they voted neither and have gone home, 
and till shouting “It was you !’’ j. g. 
Soy Beans and Corn for Silage 
The Pennsylvania State College, after 
considerable experimenting. concludes 
that Soy beans and corn do not make a 
good combination crop to grow together. 
The combination does not give any great 
increase in total yield, and there is no 
great improvement in the quality of the 
silage. It is more economical to grow 
the two crops separately—tlx* Soy beans 
in a field by themselves. If desired, they 
can be harvested separately and cut and 
mixed in the dlo. but most experience 
shows that it is better to put the corn 
alone into the silo and cure the So.v beans 
for hay. 
Millet—the Dairyman’s Friend 
On page 343 A. P.. C. and C. R. ask 
information on millet. It may be best 
to start my suggestions on the seed bed, 
inasmuch as this is the beginning of all 
crops. I would advise Fall plowing, or 
if this is not possible, plow as soon in the 
Spring as you can get on the land. This 
will allow th<‘ furrows to settle and gather 
moisture, a very important item with mil¬ 
let. (Jo over the ground with a harrow 
as soon as plowed, if plowed in the Spring. 
This is for the purpose of forming a 
mulch, which will conserve moisture. 
Keep the harrow going at odd spells or 
regular intervale till time to seed. This 
will keep down weeds and promote a good 
seed bed. As to fertilization. I believe 
that this year’s stable manure, applied at 
the rate of 10 or 15 tons per acre (the 
more the better), on the ground after it is 
plowed, and 400 or 500 lbs. acid phos¬ 
phate, lfi per cent, will be the dairyman’s 
best puess. Manure plowed under does 
not give the results that manure spread 
on top of plowed ground gives, for the 
reason that it is a shallow or surface 
feeder. 
If A. B. C. fills silo with it, I would 
advise sowing half bushel per acre, and 
if he wants it for hay a little heavier 
would give a finer grade of hay. As to 
running it in the silo. I believe he would 
get better results to run his silo half or 
two-thirds full of millet and then run 
corn in on top. This will pack the millet 
down, excluding air. thereby lessening 
danger of spoilage. If A. B. C. wants a 
dirty mess to clean out of his silo, he 
should run bis millet in without cutting. 
B. speaks of using it to plow under. 
T should think that rye and vetch or rye 
and Crimson clover, or any clover would 
be belter, as the clover would give you 
nitrogen as well as humus. 
In regard to seeding down with millet, 
it. uses up large amounts of moisture and 
shades the ground too much to make a 
successful nurse crop. Of course, this is 
only my opinion, based on my observa¬ 
tions of 1 ho crop. T should think that 
oats would make a better nurse crop, and 
a dairyman always lias use for oats. Of 
course, there is no question but what 
millet is a great crop for the dairyman. 
I have known people to grow four or five 
tons of hay per acre, and others who have 
grown 18 to 20 ton« of silage per acre. 
But. to do that you must not lose sight of 
the faet. that it is a gross feeder, requires 
large amounts of moisture, early plowing 
and a very fine seed bed. I might add 
that, going over the land with the roller 
after seeding will go a long way toward 
helping the crop to start. 
New York. .toil N it. EVANS. 
Eared Corn for Silo 
We raise mostly Luce’s Favorite corn 
for silo, but wish to try Eureka. There 
is ;i question with us which is better. 
Wo never see much good from ears in silo, 
though il is advised to raise a kind that 
grows ears. s. s. 
There is a great unsatisfied discus¬ 
sion over this. Of course, the silage con¬ 
taining the 1 corn ears is of higher quality, 
since the grain helps it out. On the 
other hand, the larger corn, like Eureka, 
makes a larger growth and produces far 
more silage. This is usually without 
many ears, and the stalks are coarse and 
watery. Where a farmer has a good 
supply of clover or Alfalfa hay to feed 
with this silage, lie gets good results from 
feeding. In many cases this bulky silage 
is fed with cottonseed meal, and is satis¬ 
factory. It requires just as much labor 
up to handling the crop to grow an acre 
of ear corn as it does to grow an acre 
of the big fodder corn, while the latter 
will usually average 25 per cent more 
weight of silage. 
Direct Milk Sales in North Carolina 
In reading the article which you lately 
published, I notice that you overlooked 
one point in it. Many, if not most of our 
Carolina dairymen deliver their milk di¬ 
rectly to the consumer, paying no middle¬ 
men’s profits at all. The producer gets 
all of the selling price. Our cities are too 
small to provide for such expensive dis¬ 
tributing agencies as you have in New 
York. Hay, grain and potatoes (white) 
are usually sold directly to the consumer 
or to tin* retailer. If a section were to 
raise surplus, of course this would not 
hold true, but that is not likely to occur 
soon east of tJie Blue Ilidge. F. A. b. 
North Carolina. 
