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Doylestown Agricultural Co., Doylestown, Pa. 
SILO FOR $135.00 
I am selling out at cost my stock of 180 
genuine Clear Oregon Fir silos. Prices 
lower than in 1917. Silos are of well- 
known make and absolutely first-class in 
every way. Write me size you desire and 
I will give you rock-bottom price. I 
must sell this stock. 
M.LSMITH 
113 Flood Building 
Meadville, Pennsylvania 
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Is there a single book in the public 
library in your town which gives an ac¬ 
curate picture of farm life or an interest¬ 
ing story of real farm people? 
Many city people form their opinion of 
farmers and farm life from the books they 
read. Therefore, there ought to be at 
least one good book picturing real farm 
life, with its mixture of bright and d'ark 
sides, in every town or grange library. 
“Hope Farm Notes” is a well-printed 
224-page book, containing 25 interesting 
stories of farm life and country people. 
Many consider it the best book of country 
life which has ever been published. 
Ask for this book at your library, and 
if it isn’t there tell them they ought to 
have it. You will enjoy the book your¬ 
self, and it. will give those not familiar 
with farm life a better understanding of 
real country people. 
Many people are making a present of 
th is book to city friends or to their town, 
grange or school library, and it is always 
considered a welcome gift. 
The price is only $1.50, postpaid. Just 
fill out the coupon below and mail with 
a check or money order. 
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333 West 30th St.. New York. 
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When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get 
a quick reply and a “square deal.” See 
guarantee editorial page. : 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Candy for Hog Feeding 
The Week is the name of a little paper 
published 'by the McDonough School in 
Maryland. In a recent issue this little 
paper tells of a curious feeding experi¬ 
ment tried out in that State by Mr. Chase, 
a fanner keeping a large herd of hogs. 
It seems that a candy factory in Balti¬ 
more went into bankruptcy, and among 
its assets were some 50 tons of what are 
known as “chocolate bon bons.” The 
centers of this candy are made from a 
mixture of 70 lbs. sugar, 80 lbs. glucose, 
50 lbs. of grated cocoanut, and 5 lbs. of 
cornmeal. These centers are dipped in 
cornstarch and coated with pure sugar. 
This candy was kept so long that the 
cocoanut became a little rancid and the 
Baltimore Board of Health prohibited 
their sale for human consumption. Mr. 
Chase, therefore, bought them for $20 a 
ton and began feeding them out to his 
hogs. They gave good satisfaction as a 
fattening food. A couple of pounds a 
day in connection with other feed proved 
a good allowance, while one pound a day 
for growing pigs with other grains proved 
satisfactory. It, was considered a good 
substitute for cornmeal or red dog Hour. 
figured at 40 cents a gallon. This case 
came into court and was tried before a 
group of four justices of the peace. The 
truck farmer was able to’ prove that the 
cows came on his land without permis¬ 
sion, trampled over a field, ate a lot of 
his crops and chewed off the branches of 
his trees. There could be no denying 
these facts. The other man undertook to 
prove that the cows were not milked for 
80 hours, and he introduced dairymen and 
experts to prove that when a cow passed 
that time without milking she was badly 
injured for future production. After the 
testimony was in the judges took the case 
under consideration and finally gave ver¬ 
dict to the truck farmer for $11.50. This 
disallowed the claim made by the dairy¬ 
man that his cows were injured. Both 
parties employed lawyers and spent con¬ 
siderable money in trying to fight this 
case, which might all have been avoided 
in the first place if the line fence had only 
been kept up as it should have been. Day 
after day we receive letters from angry 
men or women who are fighting over the 
question of keeping up a line fence . The 
simple rule is that the owner of the ad¬ 
8. R. Witherell of Addison County, Vermont, sends this picture of a Shropshire ewe 
with her four lambs. Mr. Witherell says that his seven registered Shropshires had, 
1G lambs. Surely a prolific bunch 
and as compared with cornmeal at $84 a 
ton this candy at $20 was considered a 
very good bargain. So far as we know 
this is the only case on record where 
candy in large quantities has been fed to 
hogs, although in the South large quan¬ 
tities of spoiled syrup or inferior sugar 
are fed in that way. It would probably 
surprise our readers if they could know 
how many of these waste products are 
now being taken by farmers who live 
near the large cities. All sorts of waste 
products are now offered for sale, and 
the farmers who will study out proper 
conditions or plans for feeding them can 
often obtain a great bargain. 
A Case of Cow Damage 
The larger proportion of farm troubles 
which come to us refer to fence difficulties 
and trespassing. These things seem to 
cause more trouble among neighbors than 
anything else on record. We have just 
received a story of a remarkable law case 
which was tried in the Shenandoah Valley 
of Virginia. Five cows belonging to one 
farmer broke down the line fence and 
entered upon a truck or garden farm. 
There they did the most natural thing in 
a cow’s life; that is, they proceeded to 
eat whatever they could find. The owner 
of the truck farm caught these cows in 
his field and drove them into the barn¬ 
yard, where they were kept about 86 
hours without being milked. Naturally 
trouble arose between the two men over 
this trespass. They were unable to settle 
their differences out of court, and finally 
the owner of the garden farm sued the 
owner of the cows for $40 damage to his 
trees and crops. Not to be outdone on 
this game, the owner of the cows sued the 
other for $499.10, which he claimed was 
fair damage for the injury done to the 
cows by not milking them. He had it 
closely figured out that as a cause of this 
failure to milk the cows they would shrink 
in their milk before they were fresh again, 
a total of 85 gallons of milk, which was 
joining property is expected to maintain 
one-half of this fence. The wisest plan 
in case of a dispute is to call in the 
fence viewers of the town, who are 
really the governing board of the town. 
Lot them come and look the case over, 
and let them decide which part of the 
fence each neighbor must do, and that is 
the wiset plan to follow. 
Tuberculous Cattle in Public Pasture 
I am devoting a part °f my farm to 
public pasture. Some cows wore placed 
in the pasture by one of my customers, 
and later I discovered that there was. a 
brpnd “T” on the cheek of several. I 
have notified parties not to bring any 
more stock bearing that brand and that 
I hoped they would be able to remove 
those that are here soon. Parties are 
buyers and will probably bring in plenty 
of stock for pasture, and I do not want 
to be unfair with them. Will you tell 
me what the law is governing the slaugh¬ 
ter of reacting cattle, and how soon must 
they be slaughtered after inspection? I 
feei that I cannot afford to gain the repu¬ 
tation of carrying reactors in my pasture. 
New York. n.l.r. 
We should by all means try to keep 
these branded cattle out of the pasture. 
There may be no danger, yet you may get 
■a bad reputation among stockmen by ad¬ 
mitting these cows. The agricultural law 
in regard to the slaughter of diseased ani- 
mays Was amended by the last Legislature 
in several respects. There has been a 
strike in the State printing establishment 
in Albany, sio that we have been unable 
thus far to obtain a full report of the 
amended law. The Federal regulations 
governing the testing of cattle under the 
accredited herd plan require the slaughter 
of reactors within 80 days from date of 
appraisal. Reacting cattP resulting from 
other tests, by that we mean tests made 
by veterinarians in private capacity, may 
be retained by the owner under State 
regulations if the cattle do not show phy¬ 
sical evidence of disease. 
A Tribute to a Good Horse 
In speaking of the years that one can 
expect from horse service, Mr. Weed 
places the average at 10. If he is talking 
about the Western, prairie-bred animals 
perhaps he is not far from right, for as 
a rule after 10 or 12 years of hard ser¬ 
vice the average Western horse is very 
apt to be more or less ankle-cocked, knee- 
sprung or something of that sort. But if 
he is writing about the animals bred in 
New England, the Middle States or some 
of our limestone sections, he is decidedly 
wrong. Of a considerable number of 
native horses we have owned, 21 years 
was the shortest time of service. One 
horse in particular was most noteworthy 
—‘.‘Old Don.”__He was a 15%-hand horse, 
weighing 1.075. bred in Kentucky, and 
said to lie eligible to registry as an Amer¬ 
ican saddle horse,; but his extreme length 
of neck seemed too rich an. infusion of 
Thoroughbred blood for that. “Old Don” 
trotted over 200.000 miles over country 
roads, serving a country doctor for 17 
years, 865 days in a year, for in all his 
long life I never knew him to be sick or 
lame. Then for 12 years he did most 
effective service on the farm. At the end 
of that time he was 83 years old. and 
apparently not. a pimple on him. Some 
one offered me $60 for him. but I noticed 
that upon exertion his breathing was 
more rapid than normal, and upon ex¬ 
amination found that while his exterior 
was youthful appearing his great heart 
was showing the ravages of time, and I 
had the veterinary mercifully give him his 
well-earned rest. And this to my mind is 
the humane thihg to do. To have kept 
him a year or two longer on roughage, in 
the way in which such horses are usually 
kept, and then in the end probably killed 
as the great majority are, when they can 
no longer get up, to me seems to serve no 
sensible purpose whatsoever. 
I have known “Old Don.” with a mate 
not much heavier, to carry a 6,600-lb. 
thrashing outfit up a stoop hill, over an 
8-in. rise (as there was no bridge) onto 
a slippery thrashing floor, and it never 
“phnzed” him. All his lines showed 
blood, but he was as unruffled in disposi¬ 
tion as the coldest bred animal. Don 
could run like the wind, but his best gait 
in harness was a fox-trot, which by dint 
of shouting and plying the whip could he 
modified into a mile in four minutes’ pace. 
So we boys said Don was slow, and pre¬ 
ferred other horses for driving. But one 
Winter night. I was at a “party” three 
miles from home, and when I came to go 
homo, very late, the thermometer had 
dropped away below zero. I had diffi¬ 
culty to hold the old hoy until I could 
get into the buggy, and then I had the 
surprise of my life. The old fellow (for 
he was then nearly 30) hit. a pace that 
would have made Dan Patch hustle to 
keep up with, and in 10 minutes I was 
at home and in the house. That old fox 
must have made those three miles at the 
rate of 2 :50 or better. I think it was the 
fastest ride of my life. And that old 
rascal kept it up his sleeve all those years 
while we were boys 
I bought a farm that for 18 years had 
not been worked on account of certain 
litigation ; a forest of locusts had grown 
up—thousands upon thousands of them— 
some large enough to split four posts. 
They advised me to get a yoke of oxen 
and hitch a chain well up in the tree and 
have them pull, and then with an ax cut 
the superficial roots whose position would 
be indicated when the cattle pulled. I 
did so, but I soon found that Old Dou 
alone could pull out 10 where the oxen 
would one. After a day or two he needed 
no driver or leader, for he would make 
four pulls at right angles, and then with 
a mighty bound out would come even the 
biggest locusts, for practically not one 
ever had a tap-root. Possibly 60.000 or 
70,000 trees were pulled out in this way 
h.v this faithful old horse. But late in 
the afternoon, if “Old Don” got hungry 
for his supper, and the locust was not too 
large, when he made the spring that tore 
it loose, he didn’t stop, but went on a 
keen run for the barn, and only the tree 
getting crossways at the doors prevented 
him reaching his stall. 
The tractor is bound to reduce the 
number of horses on the farm—even our 
hilly farms of the East—but we can never 
get along without some of these faithful 
and intelligent animals, who more than 
any other one thing in the world have 
been the means of man’s attaining what 
he has in the way of civilization and 
progress. nARVEY losee. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
Leaking Teats 
Can you give me any suggestion for 
curing leaking teat on a cow? She is a 
Jersey-Guernsey, calved about three 
months ago. Two of her teats run, one 
more than the other. Is there any rem¬ 
edy? We bought her cheap on that ac¬ 
count. and she has all signs of making a 
good cow. F. B. 
New Jersey. 
The leaking may be stopped, temporar¬ 
ily at least, by applying melted wax or 
paraffin to the- tips of the teats after each 
milking. Also milk three times daily. 
Flexible collodion may be applied, if the 
other preparations do not suffice, but will 
have to be discontinued 1 for some time 
when the teats become irritated. If the 
cow is retained the openings of the teats 
should be slightly cauterized when she 
is dry. That sometimes prevents leaking 
when the cow again yields milk. 
