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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 10, 192* 
Craine Silo erected 18 years ago for 
Mr. Grant Lowe, New Berlin, N. Y., 
in perfect condition today. 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
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Health Insurance For Your Stock 
Bright, clean, sanitary living 
quarters are the best insurance 
you can provide for the winter 
health of your live stock. 
Paint and Disinfect 
with Carbola 
Go over your poultry houses, cow 
barns, horse stables and hog pens 
with Carbola, the Disinfecting 
White Paint. Brush it or spray 
it on every surface where disease 
germs and parasites may hide. 
Carbola is a white paint and 
a powerful disinfectant com¬ 
bined in powder form. Simply 
mix Carbola with water and in 
a minute or two it is ready to 
apply with spray pump or brush 
to wood, stone, cement, brick or 
over whitewash. No waiting, no 
straining, no bother of any kind. 
A pound of Carbola makes 
enough disinfectant paint to 
cover 100 square feet. 
Because it does two jobs in 
one—because it paints and dis¬ 
infects in one easy operation, 
Carbola will save you time, labor 
and money. It will give you a 
better and more permanent re¬ 
sult. Carbola dries white and it 
does not flake or peel off as 
whitewash does. It does not 
spoil even after it is mixed with 
water. 
An Excellent Louse Powder 
Carbola in its dry form has no 
superior as a dusting powder 
to fight lice on poultry, cattle, 
horses and dogs. 
Grain With Poor Roughage 
I am cutting in a feed cutter cow-pea 
and millet hay in half inch lengths, feed¬ 
ing about a grain shovel per cow with a 
pint of molasses and about 2 quarts of 
corn and cob meal per cow. My cows 
have failed to increase any in their milk 
flow. w. L. M. 
Delaware. 
The reason why your cows have failed 
to give the desired amount of milk is 
because the ration fed consists largely of 
carbohydrate or energy-building materials 
and does not contain enough protein to 
supply the constituents requisite for milk 
production. The mixing of a pound of 
molasses with the roughage would have 
about the same effect as sprinkling a 
pound of cornmeal on the same material. 
The molasses, of course, would prompt 
the cows to eat more of the roughage, but 
there is less actual feeding value in a 
pound of molasses than there is in a 
pound of cornmeal. A great many farm¬ 
ers overestimate the importance of sprin¬ 
kling poor roughage with some such ma¬ 
terial as molasses. Unless the rough- 
age is sufficiently attractive to interest 
the cow, very little is gained by feeding 
her the material even though it is dis¬ 
guised with sweets. 
What you need in your grain mixture 
is some protein carrier such as linseed 
meal or cottonseed meal. It may be per¬ 
missible to sprinkle the molasses over the 
cow-pea and millet hay, but this practice 
cannot substitute for your protein de¬ 
ficiency. Try the fallowing combination: 
350 lbs. corn and cob meal, 200 lbs. cot¬ 
tonseed meal, 200 lbs. bran, 150 lbs. lin¬ 
seed meal. Feed one pound of this grain 
ration for each three and a half pounds 
of milk produced per cow per day. In 
addition, feed the same amount of rough- 
age, plus the molasses that you are now 
giving. It makes very little difference 
how the roughages are cut; in fact, I 
doubt very much whether this practice 
improves their feeding value enough to 
justify the cost of labor. 
Cows require a certain amount of 
roughage and, since your ration has been 
so deficient in protein, I am inclined to 
think that correcting this fault will 
largely solve your difficulty. 
Improving Dairy Feed 
I have for the last few years been feed¬ 
ing a well-known ready-mixed dairy feed 
but at the present time I don’t seem to 
obtain good results from that feed. The 
quality does not seem to be the same. 
Therefore I intend to mix my own feeds 
which I have never done, and I seek your 
advice. I can obtain any kind of feed on 
the market. The feed I have used con¬ 
tained 20 per cent protein fed with mixed 
hay that I cut on my own place and al¬ 
ways have enough through the winter. 
New Jersey. A. D. 
You do not say whether you have silage 
for Winter feeding. Soiling crops, that 
is, rye, corn, wheat, oats and peas. Al¬ 
falfa and early corn, make it possible to 
stabilize production during the Summer 
months but. after all. the greatest stabil¬ 
izer is green corn silage. For a winter 
ration, one that will yield 24 per cent 
protein, I should combine ingredients as 
follows: Hominy, 300 lbs.; bran, 200 
lbs.; oilmeal, 150 lbs.; cottonseed meal, 
150 lbs.; gluten feed, 200 lbs. 
Even though the cottonseed meal car¬ 
ries 43 per cent of protein and the lin¬ 
seed meal 35 per cent, this mixture will 
yield a little less than 24 per cent pro¬ 
tein, but it will be near enough to meet 
the conditions imposed. Some legume 
hay, such as clover or Alfalfa, would 
supply the additional protein necessary 
to economical production. Ordinarily, 
nothing is !o be gained by purchasing 
a mixed feed that carries 20 per cent 
protein; it is much better to buy a 24 
per cent protein feed and reduce it with 
corn and oats. Where you have soiling 
crops such as you mention, the grain 
ration can be greatly simplified and might 
consist entirely of hominy, bran, and cot¬ 
tonseed meal, mixed in the proportion of 
6, 5. 2 and 3. The amount per cow can 
be regulated according to the daily pro¬ 
duction of milk. 
It is safe to feed as much cottonseed 
meal as suggested, only where the cows 
Try Carbola. Convince yourself. Your hardware, feed, seed, 
poultry supply or drug dealer has Carbola or can get it. If 
not, order direct. Your money back if you’re not satisfied. 
5 lbs. 75c and 10c postage 10 lbs. $1.25 and 15c postage 20 lbs. $2.50 delivered 
50 lbs. $5.00 delivered 200 lbs. $18.00 delivered 
CARBOLA CHEMICAL CO., Inc., 323 Ely Ave., Long Island City, N. Y. 
ASK THE ONE-PIECE MONUMENT CO. 
313 Arcade Bldg., Utica, N. Y. 
how to purchase an enduring granite monument, large or small, 
from either the Rock of Ages Barre granite quarry or the 
Celebrated Railway Quincy granite quarry. Delivered at your 
home town for less than any local dealer can furnish. All 
work guaranteed. Size 3-2 wide, 1-6 thick, 4-6 high. 
Real Silo Economy 
Longer Life—Less Repairs 
Better-Kept Silage 
T HAT’S just the kind of economy the Craine Silo is giving each man who 
owns one today. That’s the economy it can and will give you. 
Each year we rebuild many old, dilapidated iron-hooped stave silos. 
Why? Because their owners don’t want to stand the expense of too fre¬ 
quent repairs, replacement, and danger of valuable silage loss by freezing 
or spoiling. They know a Craine Silo cuts down those expenses and losses. 
And in addition they have no more bothersome hoops to tighten. 
There’s a good sound reason why the Craine lasts longer, needs less 
repairs and keeps silage better. It’s the scientific Craine 3-wall construc¬ 
tion. First, the inside wall of upright staves. Over [this goes frost-stop- 
ping, waterproof Silafelt. Then, outside, the continuous Crainelox Spiral 
Hooping that binds and cross-supports every square 
inch of silo. That’s what gives your Craine Silo its / .. \ 
unusual, giant strength and durability. 
Our Catalog, fall of silo facts, is valuable to you. 
Get this catalog. Write now. Early orders carry 
special discounts. Time payments if desired. 
CRAINE SILO COMPANY 
I Box 110 Norwich, N.Y. 
' REBUILD 
old,collapsed stave 
silo the durable 
Craine way. Get 
the economies of 
Craine longer life 
and better-kept 
silage. Cost is us¬ 
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silo. Write for full 
information. 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
What Better Proof 
Do You Want? 
A. Strainer Funnel. 
B. Sterilized cotton through which 
milk MUST go. 
C. Coarse wire screen ring for clamp¬ 
ing cotton pan to bottom of 
funnel. 
D. Wire Clamp. 
THAT’S ALU 
You’ll admit that our Dr. Clark Purity Milk 
Strainer must be A-l in every respect to 
have such big people use it as Borden, 
Van Camp, Sheffield Farms Co., Carnation 
Milk Co., Mohawk Milk Co. 
More than ten million quarts of milk are 
strained daily through the Dr. Clark, be¬ 
cause it will remove every last bit of sedi¬ 
ment from milk—and no other strainer will. 
We guarantee it—on your herd or any other. 
Insures absolutely clean milk at about one 
cent a day—milk that brings the top market 
price. 10-qt. and 18-qt. sizes. Lasts a life¬ 
time. If your dealer can’t supply you, write 
PURITY STAMPING CO., 
Dept.'A 243 Champion St., 
Battle Creck, Mich. 
f Want to Send 
a Big 
Can of 
CORONA 
By Mail- 
Postpaid— 
Oft 
20 Days* 
Free Trial 
I want to prove to 
you at my risk that 
CORONA, is the greatest healing ointment 
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wounds, sores, etc. on man or beast. 
Just Send Your 
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and I’ll send you this big can, 
postpaid. Use it for Chapped 
Hands, Ulcers, Cuts, Wounds, 
Bruises, Piles, Boils, Eczema, 
etc.—nothing like it forkeeping 
the hands from chafing during 
winter season. Use it on your 
animals for BarbWire Cuts,Col¬ 
lar Boils,Cracked Hoofs,Grease 
Heel, Sore Teats, Caked Udders, 
etc., then if after 20 days' free 
trial you are convinced it is the 
best healing preparation you 
ever used—then send me 65c 
in full payment. If you are 
not satisfied after giving it a 
trial — don’t pay me a cent. 
I let you be the judge. Send 
name and address today for 
this big 20-DAY FREE TRIAL 
CAN. 
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THE CORONA MFG. CO. 
lO Corona Block, KENTON, O. 
Notb—I f you have used Corona and 
druggist cannot supply you and 
you prefsr larger can, order direct 
from ad. 20 oz. can postpaid $1.25. 
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