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‘Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Less nre Hazard 
Curlis Pumps never leak 
oil through the breather 
port. Controlled splash 
system permanently reg¬ 
ulates amount of o'il dis¬ 
tributed to cylinder. 
Curtis pumps run 10 to 
14 time s as long on the 
same amount of lubri¬ 
cating oil as competing 
makes. Require much 
less attention, much less 
lubricating oil—increase 
sanitation and greatly 
reduce fire hazard. 
Hay seed, clover seed, 
etc., cannot get into the 
crank case and cut-out 
bearings — chances for 
breakdown reduced to 
minimum. 
Mechanical Milkers Save 
2 / 3 of Your Milkingjiitie. 
With a milker a boy can milk more cows in 20 min¬ 
utes than the average man can milk in an hour by 
hand—it saves much time, useless work and wages, 
and soon pays for itself. Improves the health and 
comfort of the cows and increases the milk yield— 
but for best results a milker should be equipped 
with a 
CURTIS Vacuum Pump 
Ma kes the Milker Milk' 
A mil* er Will give better results with a good vacuum pump, 
• " e . ^ urt * s * s the development of more than 67 years’ experience 
m the manufacture of pneumatic machinery, to which vacuum 
pumps are kindred. The present model was adopted only after 
numerous held tests, made with various designs,.proved it the 
very best obtainable. 
Insist tfiat the milker you buy is equipped with a Curtis Vacuum 
Pump. Read the details in the panel—you will then see why 
the Curtis provides greater safety, satisfaction and economy. 
Curtis Pneumatic Machinery Co. 
1658 Kienlen Avenue ST. LOUIS, MO. 
Branch Office: 536-E Hudson Terminal, New York City 
Established 1854 
Copyright 1921, 
C. P. M. Co. 
J Worlds Largest 
Fur House" 
Our $2,500,000.00 capital and our 
branches in every large city of 
the globe enable us to pay you 
MORE MONEY for your Furs. 
BETTER Si 
We pay all express and parcel post 
charges and do not deduct any 
commission. 
Our Reference; Your own Bank or Banker. 
Guaranteed price list, ship¬ 
ping tags and complete 
market News. Don’t send 
-a single skin anywhere until 
you get our important information. 
A postcard will do. WRITE TODAY. 
ERS 
ism i n 
I MteimiMSa NEW YORK NY 
LARGEST FUR MARKET IN THE WORLD 
When you write advertisers mention 
'The Rural New - Yorker and you’ll get 
a quick reply and a "square deal. " See 
guarantee editorial page. i 
Pays 
NEW YORK PRIdS. 
TURS! 
Trappers and 
Got lectors 
—this season you 
cannot afford to 
take chances. Be 
careful where you 
ship. Don’t be 
satisfied with low prices—get more money 
by shipping to BLUSTEIN in New York 
—the gateway to the fur markets of the 
world. Send us a trial shipment and you 
will be so pleased that you will never ship 
elsewhere. 
Why We Can Pay 
More Than Others 
We pay more for furs than others because 
we have the best foreign market. We 
charge no commission, that’s another 5 % 
you save. If requested at time of ship¬ 
ment we hold furs separate and advise our 
best price—if not satisfactory, we return 
furs at our expense. Write at once for 
our latest Price List and Shipping Tags. 
We will place your name on our mailing 
list so you can keep posted on the New 
York fur market. Write us at once. Our 
prices will surprise you. 
David Blustein & Bro. 
i 76 w. 27th St. New York City 
RAW FURS of all Kinds Wanted 
All who are interested in the above subject write' 
me in October or November. I will forward a reli¬ 
able price list of all raw furs I handle. Personal 
handling of all shipments. Nearly forty years’ ex-1 
perienee. All goods held separate and returned! 
prepaid if so requested. 
LFMUEI, BLACK Look Box 350 Hightstown, N. 
Guarantee 
I 
We guarantee you will be 
Satisfied with our check, 
or we will ship back your 
furs. 
Eyery trapper knows that the place to f 
get highest prices is where they have L-— -—— 
experts assorting and grading. The fact that I grade every ski 
personally assures you of getting every cent your catch 
worth. Don’t take my word for it, but ship a small lot at first an 
be convinced. You take no risk, for my iron clad guarante 
protects you. 
FRFF new Puce l'»t contains up-to-fiie-minute quotations. 
1 ULL a copy now, before you forget. A postal card will do. 
Send for 
Sol >Varenoff &.Co Inc. 
11 55 ' W ^5 TH St" 
I NEW YORK CITY 
The Milking Machine a Practical Asset 
Is the milking machine a luxury or a 
necessity, an added expense or a money 
saver? This is what the man with 10, 
20 or 30 cows, the dairyman who lives on 
the products of his farm, wants to know. 
For the farms where dairies are operated 
for the pleasure of the owners who breed 
fancy stock, and tho cost of operation 
need not be counted, there are high-priced 
milkers made with many highly finished 
parts of expensive brass, copper, etc., 
which while execeedingly efficient are also 
costly. These machines we need not con¬ 
sider, as economy in cost, and especially 
first cost, is what we need to study. 
There are, however, milking machines 
which while perfectly practical, simple 
in construction and satisfactory in their 
results, are not too high in price for the 
man who must cut corners in his finan¬ 
cial venturing, and which prove real time, 
labor and money savers, and help to take 
the “grind" out of the work in dairying. 
Because one article is lower in price than 
another is not a good reason tc assume 
that it must be inferior in quality or 
inadequate in service. Simplicity in con¬ 
struction. fewer parts, less expensive 
manufacturing plants, all tend to lower 
the cost of manufacturing any piece of 
machinery without necessary loss of 
quality. This is the case with the milk¬ 
ing machines. High-priced milking ma¬ 
chines are good, but there are low-priced 
machines which are just as good as far 
as service is concerned, and among the 
low-priced milkers the farmer of moderate 
means may find one to suit his purse. 
Let us take first the question of saving 
time. An extra good man can milk 10 
cows an hour by hand if he has the in¬ 
clination to work steadily and conscien¬ 
tiously, but a fair average iV eight-. With 
a two-unit milking machine one man can 
milk 20 cows an hour with no rushing or 
, hurrying, stripping included. Here we 
have at each milking an hour and a half 
saved, as it would take the eight-cow man 
2% hours to milk the 20 cows by hand. 
Counting 300 days as a year by way of 
allowance for dry cows, illness or change 
in the number of the herd due to sales or 
death, we have with 000 milkings a sav¬ 
ing of 000 hours in the year, which means 
00 10-hour days or 73 12-hour days. 
This saving of time is real, not a manu¬ 
facturer’s statement, for on our farm we 
have a two-unit milker with which one 
person easily milks 20 cows in an hour, 
and then washes all the dairy utensils, 
because the milkings are so quickly done 
that he has plenty of time to do what 
would require the time of another man if 
the cows were hand-milked. 
To the inexperienced person hand-milk¬ 
ing seems easy, but it is not. It is hard 
work, muscle-tiring, back-straining, fin¬ 
ger-cramping work to sit on a milking 
stool in a necessarily unnatural position 
for one or two hours twice every day in 
the year. The mechanical milker taking 
the place of the man is a labor saver for 
the individual as well as the whole dairy, 
because it does away with this tiresome 
drudgery. To attach the teat cups to the 
udder of each cow and start the machine 
is a moment's work, the transfer from 
cow to cow is simple, and the changing of 
the pails as emptied entails no more work 
than changing pails in hand milking. The 
cleansing of the few portions of the milk¬ 
er which the milk comes in contact with is 
not difficult, and if it is always done as 
soon as possible after each milking there 
will be no trouble. 
The milking machine is a great saving 
of udders. Many hired milkers are care¬ 
less about stripping or clean milking of 
the cows, and a little milk left in the 
udder day tifter day often causes a lost 
quarter, or even the ruin of the whole 
udder, especially if dealing with heavy 
milk producers during the first months of 
lactation. As the udder is the business 
end of the cow, a spoiled quarter or half 
or whole udder means the loss of a cow as 
far as milk production is concerned, and 
good dairy cows cost a good deal of hon¬ 
est money at present. When milk is left 
in the udder it remains there till the 
next milking time. Cows that are milked 
clean give milk for a longer time than 
those that are not milked thoroughly at 
each milking. Failure to obtain the strip¬ 
pings means the loss of the very best part 
of the milk, for the last milk is richer 
fan any of the rest, and often tests as 
high as 12 to 16 per cent in butterfat. 
The milking machine is a very clean milk¬ 
er. It always cleans the udder out better 
than hand milking. Then, too, machine- 
drawn milk is cleaner than hand-drawn 
milk, because at no time is the flow in 
contact with the stable air, coming as it 
does through the teat cups, which are 
held to the udder, through the tubing, and 
so on down into the covered pail. 
Is a milking machine hard to take care 
of and to keep in good running order? 
decidedly not. No piece of machinery 
used on the whole farm will run properly 
and give good service unless it has a 
reasonable amount of care, but the me¬ 
chanical milker needs no expert to keep it 
going. Keep it clean, see that the mov¬ 
ing parts are oiled, handle it as you 
should any part of your dairy equipment, 
and it will he a good servant. Plows, 
harrows, cultivators, wagons, cream sepa¬ 
rators—all these require a certain amount 
of attention, and the milking machine is 
no exception. The one thing to be espe¬ 
cially careful about is the cleansing of 
the rubber tubing, the teat cups and con¬ 
nections. If they are neglected for days 
at a time it will be a difficult matter to 
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Special menage to 
Raw Fur Shippers- 
DIS1NG prices should feature 
this season’s market. Get 
every S. & B. price list, to be sura 
of each advance promptly. 
S. & B. headquarters are in the 
heart of the great demand for furs 
—the reason S. & B. prices are 
always the top prices. 
Get on the S. & B. mailing list. It 
costs you nothing but your name 
and address. Send them today ! 
STRUCK & B0SSAK, Inc. 
151 West 28th St. 
New York 
TRAPPERS 
We want your RAW Furs 
We will pay highest prices. 
Write for our Price List 
ROSENSTIEL FUR CO. 
Maurice Rosenstiel, Proprietor 
107 YV. 26th St., New York 
FRANK J. MULLER CO. 
have had 24 years’ experience hand¬ 
ling direct shipments of 
RAW FURS 
That is why you will get more money 
for your Furs 
" Write for Price List now ” 
ISO West 25th St., New York, N. Y. 
1 
Wanted: 
Raw Fur Buyer 
We want a country raw fur buyer 
in every county of your state, to 
represent us this season. A big op¬ 
portunity for those accepted. 
Write at once for our proposition. 
Charles S. Porter, Inc. 
126 W. 27th Street, New York City 
TDADPPRC I New Ulus, book 
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fox,mink, skunk, wolf, muskrat, 
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tog and blind sets ; how to fasten 
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l’UIt NEWS AND OUTDOOR WORLD 
big Ulus, monthly magazine, tells about fur markets and 
prices, trapping, hunting, fishing,woodcraft, fur farming. 
Killed with good stories of outdoor life, written by expe¬ 
rienced men. You will get pleasure and profit from reod- 
ing this magazine. SPECIAL OFFER. Send 10c coin 
and we will send you copy of book and copy of magazine. 
FUR NEWS AND OUTDOOR W0RLD.370 7lhAv.,New York. Room 331 
We pay highest cash prices for 
all s t a p 1 • furs—Skunk, Mink, 
Muskrat, Raccoon, Red Fox, 
Fancy furs a speoialty, includ¬ 
ing Silver and Cross Foi, 
Fisher, Marten, etc. Est. 1870. 
Our continued prompt returns and liberal policy are 
now bringing us shipments from all North America, 
Alaska to Mexico. Send for free Price List. Address 
M. J. JEWETT & SONS, REDWOOD, N. Y. Dept. 92 
The Farmer His 
Own Builder 
By H. Armstrong Roberts 
A practical anti 
handy book of all 
kinds of building 
information from 
concrete to carpen¬ 
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For sale by 
THE 
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