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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 5, 1924 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
SPEE 
AGON 
Durability and Stamina for a 
Quarter Million Miles and More! 
When roads are bad and the weather’s 
worse,— 
And city markets must be reached be¬ 
fore the top-price buyers leave,— 
And the nearest garage or service station 
is miles away:— 
Then does Speed Wagon’s inbuilt stur¬ 
diness compel whole-hearted apprecia¬ 
tion! And then is most keenly realized 
the value of those endurance qualities 
that keep Speed Wagons good for a 
quarter million miles and more. 
—Super-powered engine 
—Double-framed chassis 
—Spiral bevel gear axle 
—Rational road balance 
—Pneumatic cord tires 
■—Complete electrical equipment 
—Oversized brakes 
•—500 to 2500 pounds capacity 
-—Designed and manufactured in the 
big Reo shops,—not assembled. 
—Chassis, $1185 at Lansing, add tax. 
Write for special literature about Speed Wagons 
in the business of farming. 
REO MOTOR, CAR COMPANY; Lansing. Michigan 
This One Engine' 
Does Every 
Farm Job 
! * I set out to build a farm engine 
that would have every feature 
the farmer wanted and none he 
didn’t want. It has now been 
on the market six years. Thou¬ 
sands of satisfied users tell me 
I’ve succeeded. I’m proud to 
have this engine bear my name.” 
—A. Y. Edwards 
EDWARDS 
FARM 
ENGINE 
rkable Engine 
There is no other farm engine 
like it. Simple in construction 
and easy to operate. It is only 
one engine, yet it takes the 
place of six engines. It will give 
from to 6 H. P., yet it is so 
light that two men can carry it 
easily. Set it anywhere and 
put it to work. 
Change Power 
as Needed 
It is a 6 H. P. when you need 
6, or IK H. P. when you need 
only IK. or any power in be¬ 
tween. Fuel consumption in 
proportion to power used and 
remarkably low at all times. 
Adjustment from one power to 
another is instantaneous. 
Burns Kerosene 
Operates with kerosene or gaso¬ 
line. Easy starting, no crank¬ 
ing. The greatest gas engine 
value on the market. And you 
can prove all of these statements 
to your own satisfaction. 
What Users Say 
Ivan L. Blake, of Hannibal, 
New York, says: “Only engine 
economical for all jobs. I run a 
28-inch cord wood saw, a 24- 
inch rip saw, a washer, a pump, 
and a grinder, and it sure runs 
them fine. It has perfect run¬ 
ning balance, and it sets quiet 
anywhere.” 
Clarence Rutledge, of Mani- 
toulan Island, Ontario, says: 
“Have given my Edwards four 
years' steady > work andJike it 
fine. It uses very little fuel. I 
run a 28-inch cord wood saw, 
also a rip saw, 8-inch grinder, 
ensilage cutter, line shaft for 
shop, churn, washer, separator 
p.nd pump. Have had ten other 
engines and the Edwards beats 
them all.” 
Frank Foell, of Cologne, New 
Jersey, says: “ It's a great pleas¬ 
ure to own an Edwards engine. 
I run a wood saw, cement mixer. 
I 
threshing machine, etc. Do 
work for my neighbors. Easy 
to move around and easy to run. 
I would not have any other.;} 
Free Trial Offer 
Now— I want to prove my 
claims to you. I want to send 
you an Edwards Engine for ab¬ 
solutely free trial. Just write 
your name and address on cou¬ 
pon and mail. I will send at 
once complete details about my 
farm engine and about my free 
trial offer. No cost or obliga¬ 
tion. Mail coupon now. 
Simple Tests for Oieo 
Will you tell me how to detect melted 
beef suet in butter? E. M. H. 
Valencia, Pa. 
In the manufacture of oleomargarine, 
a mixture of beef fat, lard and cotton¬ 
seed oil is employed. The soft part of 
beef tallow furnishes the beef fat. This 
mixture is churned with a fine-flavored 
sour skim-milk. From this sour milk it 
takes on a butter flavor to some degree. 
This emulsion is carefully worked and 
poured over cracked ice or into ice water 
until it assumes a physical consistency 
like that of butter. The excess sour milk 
is removed by working, and salt is added. 
It may or may not be artificially col¬ 
ored. For the better grades, some' best 
quality creamery butter is mixed with it. 
The resulting product is hardly disting¬ 
uished from real butter. 
Various brands of nut margarines are 
made in a similar way. Cocoa butter is 
a prominent brand made from cocoanut 
oil. 
The use of chemical tests will readily 
detect margarine products from genuine 
butter, but such tests cannot be run by 
the housewife or general public. Two 
simple household tests, however, may be 
employed with good results. The simplest 
is called the “spoon test” and will dis¬ 
tinguish the most common brands of oleo 
from butter. A comparison or check test 
is advised at first. Using cheap table¬ 
spoons, melt a sample of butter in one 
over an ordinary low kitchen flame. Hold 
it over the flame until foam appears on 
the melted butter-and the moisture begins 
to be driven off. In the case of butter a 
pronounced foaming occurs, with an ab¬ 
sence of sputtering and flying of melted 
contents from the spoon. In comparison, 
oleo will sputter and fly profusely with 
little foam formation. This test is sim¬ 
ple and the differences between butter 
and oleo are pronounced. 
The second test is used where the oleo 
sample contains real butter as well as 
other oils and fats. A sample about the 
size of a walnut may be placed in a tin 
cup which contains skim-milk or water 
The contents of the cup are then heated 
until the sample is melted. The cup is 
then set into a dish of snow or cracked 
ice and the contents stirred with a wood¬ 
en splinter about the thickness, of a 
match. As the melted fat cools it will 
collect into large lumps. True butterfat 
under these conditions will gather in 
lumps which are quite soft. They will 
not stick readily to the splinter, but tend 
to float in the cold skim-milk or water. 
A sample which contains animal or veg¬ 
etable fats will form a hard lump and 
will stick to the splinter in one large 
mass as it gets cold. The oleo fats are 
much harder than the butter fats, hence 
the reason for the results of this test. 
This test, easily made, is also used to 
distinguish oleo from renovated butter, as 
the latter fat behaves the same as cream¬ 
ery butterfat under these conditions. 
J. W. D. 
TRAPPERS 
FUR BUYERS 
Handy Method of Butchering 
As I am always interested in ideas 
that will be of use to the farmer when 
he is short of help, I am going to tell you 
how 1 can scald, dress and hang up a 
250-lb. hog all alone. 
A few months ago I ordered an exten¬ 
sion ladder of two 18-ft. sections with 
pulley rope, and crank on lower section. 
When I butcher I set the ladder against 
a building or tree limb directly over the 
scalding barrel which sets on end filled 
about half full of scalding water. Then 
I attach the rope to the hog hook which 
is hooked in the jaw and by turning the 
crank on the ladder round, the hog is 
Handling Hog With Extension Ladder 
easily drawn up and dipped in the bar¬ 
rel and when properly scalded it is 
drawn out and dropped on a sled or 
platform so that end can be scraped 
and the rope attached to a hind leg and 
the other end dipped in. Then after it 
is all scraped and ready to hang up for 
the final dressing it is easily drawn up 
in the same manner and when the barrel 
is rolled away the hog will swing clear 
at any height or position desired. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. R. J. HOAG. 
I Name. 
Molly is a practical-minded little maid 
with an affection for animals. The other 
day she heard her parents telling about 
a relative who had to have his arm cut 
off in consequence of a tiger’s bite. She 
only said : “What a pity ! The poor old 
tiger might just as well have had it!”— 
The Dominion. 
Get New York Price List 
Then you will know where to ship for 
world’s highest fur prices. The Fox — 
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shipping guide for wise trappers and fur 
buyers all over U. S. and Canada. 
Ship to FOX—New York 
World’s Largest Fur Market 
We pay more because New York City is 
the world’s greatest fur market—where 
American and foreign fur makers buy di¬ 
rect from FOX at top prices. N o middle¬ 
men make a profit on your furs here. 
Mr. Fox grades allBhipmentB him¬ 
self and pays all he can to. make 
friends and boosters. That is why 
“A Fox Shipper Never Changes”. 
Write now for market reports. 
New York Price List and shipping 
tags—all FREE. 
GEO. I, FOX, Inc. 
Raw Fur Merchant* 
190 West 25th St. New York City 
FENCE 
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Feed Grinder 
Cuts 
Grinds 
Mixes 
Anything 
Crown 
Th« Letz Dixie is guaranteed to increase pro¬ 
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to 50%. Send for valuable feeding booklet. 
LETZ 
1S3 East Road, Crown Point, Indiajia 
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CREAM 
SEPARATOR 
A SOLID PROPOSITION 
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Skims warm or cold milk. Makes 
heavy or light cream. Different 
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