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Toe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
April 12, 1924 
“ What I thought was just sales talk 
about the De Laval Milker is 
the Absolute Truth” 
writes W. A. Shoemake, a De Laval Milker user of Dayton, Ohio. 
He says: 
** Having been termed the hardest and most contrary man to sell, I 
am sending you unsolicited a brief outline of my experience with a 
De Laval Milker. What was considered by me as sales talk, 1 find is 
the absolute truth. 
“ First, it increases production, as you may see by copy of enclosed 
chart of my cattle for the past year, under very adverse conditions. 
(An increase of about 18% for the entire herd.) 
“ Second, labor saving. It formerly took three to milk my herd; 
now one does it, and the actual saving for the year, after deducting 
the original cost of the machine plus the power and upkeep, is 
indeed very gratifying. 
“ Third, the satisfaction of owning such a perfect milker as the 
De Laval, and the good results obtained therefrom; the absence of 
any mechanical trouble in a year’s trial. My cattle are now free 
from udder trouble. I had three that were frequently affected with 
it when I was milking by hand. 
“ That a De Laval Milking Machine will pay for itself, as claimed by 
your Company, has been positively proven to me.” 
Let a De Laval pay for itself just as 
it did for these people 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
*‘I have used a De Laval Milker for 
nearly two years and it has paid for itself 
already, and is good for ten years yet. 
—Ralph Steffes, Minnesota. 
“ I have used a De Laval Milker for a 
year and cannot praise it too highly, and 
feel that it has paid for itself already.” 
—H. A. Laube, Washington. 
“ 1 think every dairyman who milks 15 
or more cows by hand pays for a 
De Laval Milker each year in loss of 
time and milk."—R.E. Findling./ndiana. 
“ If I couldn’t get another De Laval 
Milker I wouldn’t take double what my 
outfit cost me.”—Donald L. Bryson, 
Illinois. 
“It took some time to convince me 
that a De Laval Milker would pay on a 
15-cow dairy, but after using one I have 
decided it was not ‘ hot air.’ 1 certainly 
couldn’t afford to milk by hand again.” 
—H. H. Coston, Maine. 
“I have had experience with every 
make of milker, and the De Laval is 
absolutely the best, and in the long run 
the cheapest, just because it is prac¬ 
tical.”—C. W. McFerron, Veterinarian, 
Kentucky. 
Thousands of other De Laval users 
are just as well satisfied as these, and 
you will be, too. Why not save time, 
money, and eliminate the drudgery of 
milking by installing a De Laval ? 
You can get a De Laval Milker on such 
easy terms that it will pay for itself while 
you are using it. Many De Laval owners 
are paying for their milker in this way. 
Often they find that the saving in money 
for extra help is more than enough to 
meet the monthly installments. 
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Feeding Wheat Products 
Is the feeding value of wheat flour 
worth more than white middlings? Would 
you recommend it for growing shotes or 
for balanced ration for cow? I have a 
chance to buy a large quantity at $2 per 
cwt. which has been damaged by rats. If 
you recommend this for feeding to cow, I 
wish you would give me a good balanced 
ration. I have my own oats and barley 
and wheat flour, and the rest of the mix¬ 
ture I would have to buy. e. l. k. 
Vermont. 
Wheat flour would be worth less than 
white middlings if incorporated in a ra¬ 
tion for dairy cows. Middlings and bran 
carry more mineral matter and more pro¬ 
tein than the patent flours, although the 
latter are considerably higher in carbo¬ 
hydrate and total energy. For use in 
feeding pigs, however, the flour would be 
better than the middlings, for pigs re¬ 
quire the concentrated feed and do well 
when fed this class of wheat products. 
The middlings, however, cannot be fed to 
pigs without being mixed with some corn- 
meal and some tankage, for they are like¬ 
ly to be constipating when they constitute 
the entire ration. 
As a matter of comparison it will be 
observed that the patent wheat flour car¬ 
ries about 11 per cent of protein, while 
the flour middlings, white, carry nearly 
IS per cent of protein, and the standard 
middlings, shorts, about lT 1 /^ per cent 
protein. When it comes, however, to the 
amount of carbohydrates, the wheat flour 
will carry about 75 per cent of nitrogen- 
free extract, while the middlings and 
standard shorts carry about 58 per cent. 
Now if we compare these two products 
from a standpoint of their total digestible 
nutrients it will be observed that the 
wheat flour will carry about SO lbs. of di¬ 
gestible nutrients in 100 lbs., while the 
middlings and shorts carry about 65 or 
70 lbs. 
A price of $2 per cwt for wheat flour 
which had been damaged by rats would 
not prove specially profitable if it were 
desired to utilize this feed in a ration for 
dairy cows. They would sense its off 
flavor, but this condition would not be 
recognized by the pigs. The reason why 
wheat bran and wheat middlings are used 
in rations intended for dairy cows is that 
they are rich in mineral matter and pro¬ 
tein and appear to be more easily digest¬ 
ed. Appreciating the fact that you are 
located in a territory where it is not easy 
to secure meal products at attractive 
prices I realize that the wheat flour at 
this price should provide at least a por¬ 
tion of your ration ; hence the following 
ration is suggested: Corn, oats and bar¬ 
ley, 400 lbs. ; patent wheat flour, 200 lbs., 
damaged; linseed meal, 150 lbs.; gluten 
meal, 150 lbs.; cottonseed meal, 50 lbs.; 
cornmeal, 50 lbs. 
If it is desired to provide a ration for 
feeding growing pigs, a mixture consisting 
of six parts of cornmeal or corn, barley 
and oats, three parts of the damaged flour 
and one part of digester tankage or fish¬ 
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Improving Ration for Test 
Will you make up a ration for testing 
cows from the following: Oilmeal, cotton¬ 
seed, corn gluten, cornmeal, bran, ground 
oats? h.r. 
By combining the ingredients mentioned 
in the proportions given below you will 
have a ration carrying approximately 22 
per cent protein. If the corn gluten re¬ 
ferred to is gluten meal rather than 
gluten feed it will increase the protein to 
approximately 24 per cent, which would 
be well suited for feeding test cows. The 
mixture would be as follows: Oilmeal, 
200 lbs.; cottonseed meal, 150 lbs.; corn 
gluten meal. 100 lbs.; cornmeal. 200 lbs.; 
coarse bran, 150 lbs.; ground oats, 200 
lbs. 
This combination has variety and 
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