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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 23, 19.24 
This is a good time to seed Alfalfa. It pays to get 
the best seed to be had —our “Northwest” brand. 
Genuine American Northern Seed, grown where only 
hardy plants can live. Surest to catch 
and hold. Sold on a Money-back 
Guarantee. Good Alfalfa Seed is 
Bcarce this Fall—better make sure of 
yours now. 
Also double cleaned Seed Wheat, pure 
and true to name-6 varieties. Timothy and 
Rosen Rye. Write today for Catalog: and 
Samples--both free. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, INC. 
Box 15, Landisville, Lancaster Co. v Pa. 
As Low as $10 
Buy your saw direct at lowest factory prices. 
Guaranteed staunch, durable and depend¬ 
able. Cost as little as $10. 
Hertzler & Zook 
Portable Wood 
SAW 
Saws firewood, lumber, lath, posts, 
.. ' 1 ed. ' 
etc. 
Ripping table "can be "attached. Lowest 
priced practical saw made. Other styles 
and sizes at money-saving prices. Made of 
, , best materials. $10,000.00 
IGaaranteed bond backs our guar¬ 
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FREE CATALOG showing 
all kinds saws, engines, 
feed mills, concrete mixer 
and fence, Ford & Fordson 
Attachments, etc. Full of 
surprising bargains. 
HERTZLER & ZOOK CO. 
Box 3 Belleville, Pa. 
KEEP LIVESTOCK HEALTHY 
BY USING 
Kreso Dip No. 1 
(STANDARDIZED) 
Easy to use; efficient; economical; kills 
parasites: prevents disease. 
Write for free booklets on the Care of 
Livestock and Poultry. 
ANIMAL INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT OF 
PARKE, DAVIS & CO. 
DETROIT, MICH. 
FARMS Sunny Southern Jersey 
Many bargains. Catalog JUST OUT. COPY 
FREE. Stocked and equipped. Some require 
only $500 cash. Income producing homes. 
D. M. JOSEPH 549, 18- Landis Ave. Vineland. N. J. 
FREE—INSIDE FACTS About WELLS 
and the BEST WAY for Cleaning Them 
THE BESTWAY MFC. CO. Aberdeen. Maryland 
POf flCORN HARVESTER worth its weight 
mO(f _ II - in gold to every 
mrr farmer raisins: corn, cane ana kaffir in powb. 
Onlj *26 with bundle tying: attachment. Testimonials from 
pleased customers in every state. FREE catalog showing 
pictures of Harvester. PROCESS MFG. CORP., SALINA, KAN. 
Useful and Interesting 
Intensive Strawberry Culture, by 
Louis Graton .$1.00 
Poultry Account Book, by D. J. 
Edmonds . 1.00 
Home Painter, by Kelly . 1.25 
Farmer His Own Builder, by H. A. 
Roberts . 1.50 
Feeds and Feeding, by Henry and 
Morrison, complete . 4.50 
Soils, by E. W. Hilgard. 5.00 
Organized Co-operation, by John J. 
Dillon . 1.00 
Commercial Poultry Culture, by 
Roberts . 3.00 
Adventures in Silence, by H. W. 
Collingwood . 1.00 
For sale by 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St., New York City 
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Perfect 
Baking 
Perfect baking is assured with the 
Syphon Summit Flue attached to any 
Summit coal burning range—because 
it gives you more heat evenly dis¬ 
tributed to every part of the oven. 
The Syphon Flue is attached as illus¬ 
trated above, and draws more heat 
into the oven. Even with a low fire 
your oven is always ready and it is 
never necessary to force the fire for 
good results. 
Svphon Summit 
Ranges 
Syphon Summit Ranges, equipped 
with the patented Syphon Flue, are 
made exclusively by us. Our dealers 
will show you the various styles in 
plain iron, or in Pearl Gray, Turquois 
Blue, Brown and White Porcelain 
enamel. Write for particulars and 
name of nearest dealer. 
Summit Foundri# Co 
Gcncvo, N.V 
Jhis 
Summit Syphon 
Flue 
Insures Even Circulation 
of Ouen Heat-That means 
Perfect Baking 
Pipeless 
Furnace 
VVe beat them all on many points 
—quality and satisfaction 
Guaranteed 
Lowest prices—warranted efficiency 
Freight prepaid to your R. R. Depot 
Hold your order until you get our free cat¬ 
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Smyth-Despard Co. 
S07 915 Broad St. Utica, N.Y. 
CORN HARVESTER 
built. One and two row 
models. One Horse. Carries 
to shock. Big labor saver. 
Pays for itself in one sea¬ 
son. Worked by 1, 2 or 3 
men. No twine. No danger. 
Great for silage cutting. 
Free trial. Agents Wanted. 
Write for free catalog. 
BENNETT MFG. CO.. Box 304, Westerville, Ohio 
We sell DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY. 
Keep the salesman’s salary in your own pocket. 
Prices range from $144.00 up, depending on 
size and kind of wood. Special prices made if 
several in neighborhood order together. Our Silos 
have been giving the best of satisfaction for the past 
23 years. Shipped subject to your inspection at Station. 
“The Silo With The Automatic Take-Up Hoop.” 
International Silo Co., Dept. 13, Meadville, Pa. 
The American 
Double Cylinder 
Bean and Pea Threshers 
The Dean anti Pea Farmer’s Friend 
Built in three sizes—14 x 14 inch, 20 x 20 inch and 
26 x 26 inch cylinders, to meet the demands of all. 
Threshes and cleans all varieties of beans and peas, 
and shreds their vines, as they come direct from the' 
field, in one operation. Capacity and perfect sepa¬ 
ration guaranteed. 
□ DinC When you learn the price of these thresh- 
rnlUL ers you will be surprised. Write today for 
catalog, full particulars and prices. 
Just drop us a card. 
AMERICAN GRAIN SEPARATOR CO. 
1033 Essex St., S. E. Minneapolis, Minn. 
‘THE BEAN and PEA FARMER’S FRIEND - 
Does the Work of a Crew of Men” 
Live Stock and Dairy 
What Grass for Pasture? 
Please let me know what kind of grass 
is best for pasture for cows. It is low 
land, sandy loam, with kardpan eight 
inches below the surface. In wet seasons 
like this it holds water. Alsike clover 
will grow on it. I don’t know what kind 
of grass is best. Some say Kentucky 
bine grass. It is in Red-top grass now, 
and my cows do not like Red-top. We 
have heavy dew mornings, and the story 
here is that cows will bloat on wet clover. 
Is that true? C. w. H. 
New Jersey. 
Red-top is the best grass for low, wet 
land, but if the cows do not like that we 
suggest a mixture of Blue grass, Tim¬ 
othy, Alsike clover and a little Red-top. 
That mixture ought to satisfy the cows. 
Wet clover will sometimes cause bloat in 
cattle, especially when they are first 
turned on it. After they have become 
used to the clover there is seldom any 
trouble. 
Feeding and Fat 
Percentages 
Will feeding change the percentage of 
butterfat in cows’ milk? Will proper 
feeding increase it? Will lack of feed 
decrease the percentage of butterfat, or 
just the amount of milk? This is a 
point we are trying to settle. S. R. 
New Jersey. 
Change of feeding will have very little 
if any effect upon the percentage of but- 
14-29, 16-30y 2 , 18-32, 20-3344, 22-34%, 
24-36. 26-3744, 28-381/3. 30-39%, 
32-40%, 34-41%, 36-42%. 38-44, 40-45, 
42-46, 44-47. 46-48. 50-50. 60-54. 
Ilf a 12x40-ft. silo contained 36 ft. of 
silage after being allowed to settle, and 
the exact number of tons left in the silo is 
wanted, the area would first be figured by 
multiplying half the diameter multiplied 
by itself times 3.1416. So 6x6x3.1416 
equals 113.1 sq. ft. The total amount of 
silage was 113.3x36, or 4,071.6 cu. ft. 
The amount fed off was 113.1 X 16, or 
1,908.6 cu. ft. 
From the table, the average of 36 ft. 
of silage is 42% lbs. for each cubic foot, 
or a total of 4.071.6x42%, or 174,000 
lbs. The amount fed off, however, aver¬ 
aged only 30% lbs. to a cubic foot, as the 
table shows. In other words, 1.809.6 X 
30% equals 53.175 lbs. fed out. The dif- 
fernice is 118.825 lbs. remaining, or ap¬ 
proximately 59 tons. 
Steel Collars for Horses 
We have noticed on several occasions 
that a good many of the express horses in 
this city are wearing steel collars in 
place of the leather or padded collars. 
These steel collars are of course solid 
and fixed. They are supposed to fit 
close to the shoulders of the horse, no 
pads are used and they are connected at 
top and bottom with steel clasps. One 
would think that on a very hot day such 
collars would be very uncomfortable for 
horses, and at first thought one would 
think it a rather cruel plan to put these 
One boy can lead a bossy to the brink. But 20,000 cannot make liim drink ! 
terfat in milk. There may be at times 
some little change, depending on the gen¬ 
eral condition of the cow, but no great 
change is possible in this way. If such 
things could be done the milk of Hol¬ 
stein cows would be greatly enriched by 
feeding, but all know this has not been 
done, though 'the eexperiment has been 
often tried out. 
Figuring Contents of a Silo 
We are constantly being asked how to 
figure the weight of the contents of a silo 
by measurement, or the cubic contents of 
a ton of hay. Of course the only accu¬ 
rate answers to such questions are ob¬ 
tained by weighing, but a fair estimate 
may be made by measurement. A ton of 
hay will run all the way from 4S0 to 520 
cubic feet, depending on the kind of hay. 
the amount of water in it and the way it 
is packed down. A fair average will be 
500 ft. As for estimating the contents of 
a silo, Cornell University sends out the 
hard unyielding pieces of steel close up 
against the fiesli of the horse where all 
of the weight of the load would fall up¬ 
on them. Still we find the city express 
horses wearing these collars; more and 
more of them seem to be coming into 
use and we have interviewed the men 
having charge of this work to see just 
how these collars are appreciated. The 
following note is from Dr. Kingston, the 
horseman of the American Railway Ex¬ 
press Company, in this city : 
“As you know, a considerable number 
of these collars were purchased for use 
in the New York City department and 
they are in daily service. In the ma¬ 
jority of cases we find these collars very 
satisfactory. Within the last two years 
changes have been made in the collars 
so that they can be adjusted and fitted 
much better than was formerly the case. 
They are guaranteed for 20 years, are 
really not expensive, and in many cases 
horses that we could not keep working 
on account of sore necks with the ordi¬ 
nary collars work with these collars, 
and we have no further trouble with 
the horses.” 
following: 
A simple table, worked out at the Iowa 
Agricultural College, is endorsed as prac¬ 
tical and good by the animal husbandry 
workers at the New York State College 
at Ithaca. They point out that tables 
would hardly be needed if silos contained 
nothing hut air, or water, or rocks, or 
sand. But silage packs down, so that 
the higher the silo the greater the pres¬ 
sure on the bottom layers, which means 
more pounds to the square foot at the 
bottom of the silo. Other factors, such 
as time of filling and condition of corn, 
also cause a variation in weight. 
The following table shows the average 
weight at various depths of a cubic foot 
of silage, the first figure indicating feet 
and the second pounds: 10-26, 12-2742* 
We shall follow this matter up to see 
if these steel collars continue to give sat¬ 
isfaction. for it seems remarkable that 
they should prevent cases of sore shoul¬ 
ders. 
The doctor rushed out of his study in a 
state of great excitement. “Get my bag 
at once!” he shouted. “Why, what is the 
matter?” inquired his wife. “Some fel¬ 
low has jus*t telephoned he can’t live 
without me.” gasped the medical man as 
he reached for his hat. His wife gave a 
sigh of relief. “Just a moment,” she said 
gently. “I think that call was for our 
daughter, dear.”—Medical Review. 
