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each with a quart of milk daily for 10 
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to the farm business to register $10,000 
in the cash sale of her products either 
way you figure it—milk or butter, and 
she has also contributed several times 
this amount in the value of her progeny.” 
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Creamery Company, one to Thayer Es¬ 
tate, South Lancaster, Mass., one to Dr. 
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la. This hull was first prize yearling at 
New England Fair this year. 
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ment of Agriculture Farm, Beltsville, 
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Tormentor, a silver medal bull, and sire 
of Hood’s 'Sophie Tormentor, who has 
just qualified for a silver medal as a 
five-year-old. 
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ferent States. Among the important sales 
made were: C. W. Eckardt, Armonk, N. 
Y„ the heifer Blackbird of Maxwnlton 
337338, for $575; Carpenter & Ross, 
Mansfield, O., paid $253 for the cow 
Erica of Ardson 319051; Jefferson 
I arms, Jefferson, Me.. Imp. Eva of Inch- 
gower 3d and her heifer calf for $550; A. 
Y\ . Reynolds, Newton, Conn., Blackcap 
of Maxwalton 207030 for $475. 
As to use of word “thorougbbed,” on 
page 1220, horses are classed as “pure¬ 
bred,” “standard bred,” “thoroughbred” 
and “grades”; “purebred.” as the Clyde, 
Percheron. Belgian. Arabian, etc.; “stand¬ 
ard bred,” trotter and pacer; “thorough¬ 
bred,” the runner and saddle horse. Race 
horses are not purebred. Cattle, sheep 
and hogs are purebred and grades. E. A. 
The Holstein cow, Marion Clover Blos¬ 
som 3rd, of Summit Farms, Davidson, 
Me., has made another high record. In 
305 days she made ia35.76 butter, 
21,750.2 milk, calving at the age of five 
years, 10 months and two days. She is 
due to freshen again December 1, just 
under 7 years of age, when she will be 
carried on another long-time test. Her 
records to date are: 
Age 
Length Test 
Days 
Butter 
Milk 
2- 1-26 
7 
22 26 
470.3 
3- 4-27 
• 7 
33 43 
620 4 
4- 3-20 
30 
137.96 
2498.6 
7 
37.32 
641.2 
5-10- 2 
30 
151.96 
2623.1 
7 
31.61 
569.4 
30 
129.63 
2328.8 
305 
1035.76 
21750.2 
Summit 
Farms now has 32 
cows on 
UUU W HI 
particular stress on the long-time work 
in the future. 
September 16 a sale of 46 Guernseys 
was held at Shagbark Farm, Saugerties, 
N. Y., under supervision of Leander F. 
Herrick. The highest average of the year 
was obtained, $904.11. The peak price, 
$7,500, was paid for Florliam Laddie. 
Tiie high price for a cow was paid for 
Guernest Ruth, $5,750, with a record of 
14,357.20 lbs. milk and 742.SS lbs. fat. 
Lakeside Herd of Holsteins, Syracuse, 
N. Y., won 10 prizes at the last State 
Fair, including the grand sweepstakes 
prize over all exhibits of the breed, which 
prize it has been awarded for four years 
and never has been defeated. In year¬ 
ling bulls it was awarded the first, third, 
fourth and fifth prizes in very large 
classes. The first prize was won by Ex¬ 
celsior .Toh. He was also a member of 
the grand sweepstakes herd, a member of 
the Farm Bureau herd, which won the 
first, won the second prize in a class of 
30 in 1920, and was one of the winning 
Farm Bureau herd in 1920. In his com¬ 
plete pedigree are 28 dams which average 
almost 30 lbs. for the whole number. 
enough as far as it goes, but how about 
the buildings already erected, and in 
which the rats have obtained a good foot¬ 
hold? And more than this, the scheme 
can result in nothing more than to drive 
the rats to the premises of some neighbor 
whose place is not equipped with such 
buildings. The rats thrive just as well, 
only m some other place. The best way 
is to kill them, and thus put an end to 
tmnr depredations. 
The rat is a cunning fellow, but he is 
not as difficult to entrap as is popularly 
supposed, and no one has a right to har¬ 
bor a single one upon his premises. One 
ot the best methods of entrapping him is 
essentially as follows: A barrel is filled 
nearly full of chaff, or chopped straw, or 
•?i D ’n or some other light material that 
will float readily upon water. Then it is 
set in some rather dark corner. Then a 
Pi! ec ? of ranci( ? suet > which makes one of 
the best of baits, is suspended inside the 
barrel, and some 6 or 8 in. above the 
chaff, hut in such a manner that a rat 
must jump upon the chaff in order to 
reach the suet. It is well, also, to pour 
a little melted tallow over the chaff. 
Then a narrow board is put in place for 
a bridge, or runway, to enable the rats 
to reach the top^ of the barrel with but lit- 
tie trouble. This is smeared pretty liber¬ 
ally with suet or tallow, and the rats are 
encouraged by every possible means to 
jump upon the chaff, in the endeavor to 
reach the suspended suet, which is re¬ 
placed whenever necessarv. Finally, 
when the rats are entering the barrel in 
considerable numbers, the chaff is re¬ 
moved and water is substituted, with a 
couple of inches of chaff on the top. Then, 
when a rat jumps upon the chaff he will 
sink through into the water and drown. 
In a single trial of this method I once 
caught more rats in the space of 24 hours 
than could he carried away at one trip 
with a bushel basket. 
The skin of the rat has some economic, 
though no commercial value. If rightly 
fanned 'by the sumac and oil process, it 
makes a leather which, though a trifle 
coarser grained, makes a very fair substi¬ 
tute for kid. Briefly the process is 
as follows: If dry the skins are soaked 
n\ water until they are as soft and flexi¬ 
ble ns when fresh. Then they are folded 
around hardwood ashes until the hair is 
loosened. The hair is then removed and 
they are scraped until every particle of 
fleshy integument is removed. Next they 
are placed in a strong decoction of sumac 
leaves, in which they remain for six 
weeks or more, but being taken out sev¬ 
eral times and pulled and stretched. At 
the end of this time, if the decoction is of 
proper strength, they should he well and 
evenly tanned. If so, they are taken from 
the decoction, stretched smoothly, hung 
upon lines and dried in a darkened room, 
and under a moderate temperature. When 
dry they are immersed in neat’s-foot oil 
and, at the end of every 24 hours they 
are taken out, pulled, stretched, twisted, 
wrung and worked in every way, and then 
they are returned to the oil bath. This 
process is repeated until they are as soft 
and as flexible as it is possible to make 
them by any repetition of the process. 
Then as much as possible of the oil is 
scraped off and they are rubbed with 
wheat bran and buried in bran until the 
remainder has been absorbed and they are 
clean and dry. 
There is a sort of a psychological an¬ 
tipathy which prevails against the rat, 
and which will forever prevent the use of 
rat meat as an article of food. Neverthe¬ 
less this repugnance may be overcome. 
Indians make considerable use of it and, 
when associated with the Indians, many 
years ago, I ate of it several times, and I 
have eaten it several times since, as a 
sort of experiment. When properly 
dressed, and parboiled in soda and water 
before being cooked (the Indians, by the 
way, use ashes and. water), it cannot be 
distinguished from squirrel meat. 
0. O. ORMSBEE. 
Cleaning Out the Rats 
On page 1082 is a repetition of the 
time-honored suggestion regarding the 
elimination of the rat nuisance by the 
erection of rat-proof buildings. Good 
Poultry Ration 
Would you give me a formula for a 
good hen and chicken feed? R. c. 8. 
Garrison, N. Y. 
Gorn, oats and wheat contain all the 
food elements needed in poultry food, so 
far as the grains are concerned, but other 
grains are used also, because of avail¬ 
ability, and at times economy. Buckwheat, 
barley and a limited amount of rye may 
well be used as part of the whole grain 
ration when it is economy to do so. The 
milling by-products of wheat, middlings 
and bran constitute the basis of poultry 
mashes, and cornmeal, ground oats, glu¬ 
ten feed and ground barley may, one or 
all, be added. A good mash mixture much 
used may be made from equal parts by 
weight of wheat bran, middlings, ground 
oats, cornmeal and beef scrap. Many 
like to add another part of gluten feed. 
Either corn or wheat, or both, should 
constitute the greater part of the whole 
grain food, and of the two corn is most 
useful. If wheat is not to be had at a 
reasonable price, corn alone may make up 
the whole grain part of the ration and 
the bran and middlings in the mash be 
depended upon to furnish the needed food 
elements that are found in wheat. 
M. B. i>. 
