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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 22, 102-1 
Increase Your Eamin&s 
T IME was when a farmer could make 
money by doing fair work with any 
kind of power and machinery. 
Today—your earnings and profits are 
very largely governed by the quality 
and timeliness of your work. Therefore, 
highly efficient power and machin¬ 
ery are essential to success. 
Through larger yields at lower cost, increased 
crop acreage or profitable custom work you 
can increase your earnings by the use of Case 
machinery. This is the invariable experience of 
Case tractor owners, because: 
With plenty of power in one compact unit, well 
adapted to both traction and belt work, they save 
labor, speed up all the work and improve its 
quality and timeliness. 
The unfailing dependability and durability of 
Case tractors enable them to do more and better 
work season after season for many years. 
These are sure ways to increase farm 
earnings. A new book, “Modern 
Tractor Farming tells how farming 
can be and is being made more profitable. 
Write for it TO-DAY. 
T. I. Case Threshing Machine Company 
Established 1842 
Dept. Q2t Racine Wisconsin 
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NOTE: Our plows and harrows are NOT the Case plows 
and harrows made by the J. I. Case Plow Works Co. 
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V ALUABLE farm 
machinery must be 
cleaned frequently of oil, grease 
and accumulated dirt of all 
kinds. Red Seal Lye is the most 
effective and cheapest cleanser 
for this purpose. A can of Red 
Seal Lye goes much further 
than ordinary low-test lye. 
Be Sure and Buy ( 
only the genuine 
Red Seal Lye 
Write for 
FREE booklet, 
“Home Helps” 
P. QTomson &. Co. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
FACTS FOR FARMERS 
Things Our Readers Want to Know 
Farm machinery, drains, floors, milk 
cans, refrigerators, sinks and scores of 
other things on the farm are made spot¬ 
less and sanitary by the use of Red Seal 
■Ly®* * * * 
Red Seal Lye is a powerful disinfect¬ 
ant. It quickly destroys unwelcome 
visitors in the home and barn, such as 
rats and other rodents. 
In the dairy, Red Seal Lye is a real 
necessity. Cleans separator bowls and 
makes them odorless and sanitary. 
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Red Seal Lye is the best thing known 
to clean floors, walls, steps, and to make 
cellars sweet and sanitary. 
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Red Seal Lye is a very effective odor- 
destroyer and a powerful disinfectant. 
A Change from Cows to Sheep 
There seems to be a good deal of con¬ 
cern with a few owners of cows in chang¬ 
ing over to sheep, and it is risky to ad¬ 
vise unless one knows the man and his 
place. This much is easy; every farm 
should have a few ewes. Here is a let¬ 
ter from a Pennsylvania widow who opens 
her heart. She has been left with 16 
cows, a little life insurance, and is half¬ 
way deep in debt. She wants to know’ 
about changing right over to sheep. This 
would be disaster, so we advise that she 
sell some of the poorer cows, buy a few 
ewes, apply the extra money on her debt; 
then as her flock grows to repeat the op¬ 
eration. It will be tough on folks after 
getting regular pay checks to wait on a 
payment for wool, and one for lambs. 
■Few can jump into a new line of work, 
while many others may meet discourage¬ 
ment and disaster. Right here I remark 
that conditions already conspired to make 
35-cent dollars may take another w’hack 
at them. Further decomposition may re¬ 
sult from those politicians at. Washington 
who have invited the wolves to mangle 
the people. Investigations may take mil¬ 
lions. and will surely bring more demor¬ 
alization, so the “shoemaker had better 
stick to his last.’ 
Where one has cows and barn equip¬ 
ment it will be wise to invest in a few 
ewes. They will pick up a fraction of 
their keep without cost, and bring some 
revenue. As they increase, if the owner 
chooses he can add to them, and later 
change over in safety. In the past five 
years many have started on the way, 
even boys and girls, and they write as if 
all the returns were clear gain. These 
few sheep are like a few hens, or a pig, 
about the place, living partly on what is 
worth nothing to other animals. It will 
pay well to have a few sheep about any 
farm. 
Then for the man who understands and 
likes sheep let us take 100 acres of good 
land, or 200 of poor. See what a wealth 
of vegetation is on the bushes of parts of 
the mountain districts, often all lost, 
where mutton and wool would grow dur¬ 
ing five months of the year. Then think 
how the “hoof’’ would enrich that surface 
so it would be springing natural grass as 
the brush faded. Nature is working at it 
with leaves and twigs, but sheep would 
do in 20 years as much as nature in 100. 
It would not be necessary to hammer and 
scatter the “cow chips” as John Bur¬ 
roughs did at Roxbury when a boy. 
If it was devoted to sheep, with the ex 
ception of a team of good mares, a couple 
of cows and one brood sow, it should safe¬ 
ly carry 100 ewes if the lambs were sold 
fat at weaning. With a little homegrown 
grain before and after that time, they 
should lamb three times every two years. 
Then the reader can do his own figuring. 
To keep them and the other stock, about 
one-half the farm should grow hay and 
grain, and no feed need be bought unless 
bran or meal for the lamb “creep.” There 
will not be as much money coming iu as 
with cows, but the saving on purchased 
feed will even up returns, and the owner 
will not be tied down. 
The function of a place is to grow 
things, but too many Eastern owners are 
working to pour more wealth into that 
big maw that belongs to the owners of 
mills, banks and railroads, by buying and 
shipping grain refuse; also more fertil¬ 
izers than if they had sheep. After that 
the condensed wool and meat would save 
freight, and by selling direct, as we do 
with wool, would eliminate middlemen. 
The thought of these ewes wearing out 
comes in here. If properly kept they 
would grow lambs up to eight or more 
years, and could then be fattened and 
sold with the lambs, and their places 
filled from the best ones. If a man has 
pureblood, and uses rams with an object 
for sturdier bodies and more wool, and 
likes the work, he will have a profitable 
and easy time. Then, it will be more en¬ 
joyable. Since Feb. 14 to this March 1, 
121 lambs have come to our ewe barn. 
We lost one, and if there is any nicer 
sight than to see this ten dozen little 
idiots play, it is not for w. W. REYNOLDS. 
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extremely well pleased with Dick’s Blizzard. 
For example, they say: “Can run Blizzard to ca¬ 
pacity with throttle half open,” “Filled our silo 12 
feet x 36 feet in 7 hours,” “Handled corn excep¬ 
tionally well even when we lapped bundles.” 
“Can handle 12 tons per hour,”^‘Sixteen silos 
filled without expense other than oil and fuel.” 
The Free Book cites dozens of users’ experiences. 
Describes fully the models particularly suited for 
use with light tractors. The R-211 and R-133 Bliz¬ 
zards, with Paddle Roll Self Feed, are wonderful 
values. The S-22 Blizzard, with Dick’s Patented 
Double Feed gives enormous capacity. Also de¬ 
scribes the four other Blizzard models, ranging from 
the small L-18 that runs on 3>4 h.p., to the giant 
S-91 .which cuts 35 tons per hr.on 9-16 In. cut. 
WRITE FOR BOOK TODAY. Find out why Bliz¬ 
zards “Do most work per h.p.” “Are lightest 
running,” “Elevate highest,” “Longest lasting,” 
“Safest to operate.” “Do finest work.” Also de¬ 
scribes Famous Feed Cutters, for hand and power 
operation. On market over half a century. 
The Jos. Dick Mfg. Co., Box 502, Canton, O. 
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A Well-built Stave Silo 
at a Low Price 
If you want a good, substan¬ 
tial, single wall silo, get our 
new lo v prices. 
Built of selected tongue and 
grooved stock and bound with steel 
rods. Doors close tight, open easily. 
Convenient door-front ladder. 
The result of many years of silo 
making experience. 
Built by the makers 
of the famous Craine 
Triple Wall Silos. 
Write rtovr 
for literature 
CRAINE SILO 
COMPANY, INC. 
Boxl60, Norwich. N.Y. 
CRASC0 
STEEL RODDED 
SILOS 
DIRECT FROM FACTORY 
ALL FREIGHT PAID 
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SHINGLES - SPOUTING - GUTTER 
PITTSBURGH ROOF & FENCE CO. 
Box 1231 —PITTSBURGH. PA. 
WORLDS BEST IRON AND STEEL MARKET 
WITTIT LOG « 
fril M. Mlt tree 
Cuts down trees and saws them up F AST—one man 
does the work of 10—saws 10 to 25 cords a day. 
MakeB ties. A one-man outfit. Easy to run and trouble- 
proof. Thousands in use. Powerful engine runs all 
other farm machinery. Uses all low priced fuels. 
Easv Pay on,y * 
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Payments down and 
take a year for balance of low 
price. Make your own terms. 
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rifCC full details, pictures 
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by writing. WITTE ENGINE WORKS 
6897 Witte Building. Kansas City. Mo. 
6897 Empire Building. Pittsburgh. Pa. 
USEFUL FARM BOOKS 
Fertilizers aud Crop. Van Slyke... .$3.25 
Intensive Strawb’ry Culture, Graton. 1.00 
Milk Testing, Publow.90 
Butter Making, Publow.90 
Manual of Milk Products, Stocking. 2.75 
Book of Cheese, Thom and Fisk.... 2.40 
Successful Fruit Culture, Maynard. 1.75 
Pruning Manual Bailey. 2.50 
American Apple Orchard. Waugh.. 1.75 
American Peach Orchard, Waugh.. 1.75 
Vegetable Garden, Watts. 2.50 
Vegetable Forcing, W’atts. 2.50 
Edmonds’ Poultry Account Book... 1.00 
Turkey Book. Lamon. 1*75 
Commercial Poultry. Roberts.3.00 
For sale by 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 W. 30th St. New York City 
