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7ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 6, 1924 
Four Reasons 
Why You Should Buy a Burrell 
In choosing a milking machine, 
set your standards high. Demand 
that it milk your cows clean, that 
it develop the milk-giving ability 
of your cows and that it draw the 
milk in a sanitary way. These are 
the prime requisites of correct 
milking — all other features are 
either incorporated in them or 
are secondary to them. 
“But”, you ask,“are all of these de¬ 
mands obtainable?” They are— 
in the Burrell Milker. And the 
four mechanical features which 
make them obtainable constitute 
four reasons why you should buy a 
BurrelL They are: (1) The Bur¬ 
rell Positive Relief Pulsator which 
produces sharp, definite periods 
of relief and suction on the teats; 
(2) The Burrell Automatic Con¬ 
troller which regulates the suction 
to the requirements of the in¬ 
dividual cow or to the need of any 
cow at any particular point in the 
milking; (3) The Burrell Air- 
Cushion Teat Cup which, by 
means of the cushion of air, com¬ 
presses and supports the teat so as 
to avoid inflaming the tissues; (4) 
The Burrell Moisture Trap which 
makes it impossible for moisture 
to travel back from the vacuum 
line into the milker pail. 
If you will maintain your demands 
for the utmost obtainable in a milk¬ 
ing machine, you will buy a Bur¬ 
rell. It is backed by more years of 
experience than any other power 
milker on the market, and stands 
today as the most perfect. And 
an installation will cost you less 
than you probably think. More¬ 
over, the Burrell Milker will prove 
profitable on a fewer number of 
co ws than you may think. Besides, 
the Burrell way is the perfect 
way to milk. Let us talk it over. 
We Want 
To Tell You About 
This Separator 
This machine represents the 
last word in cream separa¬ 
tors. First, it is a remarkable 
skimmer. Then it is light¬ 
running and extremely sim¬ 
ple. The quality through¬ 
out is what you would 
expect in a Burrell product. 
"A StimsituTMkaun n 
Equipped 
with the 
Burrell-Simplex 
Link Blades 
Made in 
350 
500 
750 
1000 
Lb. 
Sizes 
Hand 
or 
Electric 
Motor 
Drive 
Send today for the Burrell Milker Catalog. 
Address Dep’t 20. 
D.H.BUrrell & Co. Inc. Little Falls,New York 
Cream 
Regulator 
Gives Thin 
or Thick 
Cream While 
Running 
Be Sure 
To Send 
for 
Catalog 
Today 
mixing 
'pc't pow-^H 
feeders or 
spreading^ 
of sticky 
[ pastes— 
“RAT 
BIS-KIT 
W is ready to use. Sure death 
■ to rats and mice. Quickest, j 
cleanest, easiest way. New J 
tin packagecontainsl8‘‘Bis-^ 
Kits.” always fresh, 35c at A 
all drug and general stores, 
,a».. Guarantee coupon 
tSSin every package, 
' The Rat Biscuit Co. 
Springfield 
m Uitcher-T«rrac«r - Grader 
All steel,»d;ust»ble, reversible. Cuts V 
shaped ditch to 4 ft . Open, tillnr or Irrl 
Ration Cleans old ditches: bunds neli 
terraces. Does work of 100 men. Operate 
horsfis or tractor. 1 O DAYS FREE 
horses or tractor. 1 O D AYS FREE 
TRIAL. Satisfaction or no sale. Sena 
for free book and special low prico. 
Owensboro Ditcher&GraderCo^*^■ 
Inc. - Box 1034 
Owensboro* 1 
Ky. J| I 
Mixer 
It pays to put down concrete r 
fioocs,sidewalks,foundations,etc., 
with a Kwik-Mix. Turns out a 
wheelbarrowful a minute. Try 
a Kwik-Mix Mixer on jo days' 
trial. Price reduced. j 
Write for FREE CATALOG. 
BADGER KWIK-MIX CO., 
lOlOCleveiand Ave., Milwaukee. Wia 
Y OU can rely on 
Hercules Dynamite. 
The reputation it has 
achieved in blasting 
stumps is proof of its 
excellence. 
HERCULES POWDER CO» 
904 Market Street 
Wilmington Delaware 
HERCULES 
DYNAMITE 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Dairying in South Dakota 
Dairying is decidedly on the increase, 
though perhaps it is not so noticeable 
here as in the straight grain districts. 
This is an irrigated district, and there 
has always been considerable dairying 
here. However, I believe there are at 
least five times as many cows milked 
here now as there were six or eight 
years ago. Alfalfa has been the prin¬ 
cipal crop here, with wheat a close sec¬ 
ond up to 1918 or 1919. Now corn has 
almost entirely replaced wheat. I own 
a share in a co-operative thrashing outfit, 
and last Fall not over 1 per cent of our 
work was wheat where it used to be 60 
per cent or more. 
The dairy farmers are prosperous only 
in comparison with those who are still 
selling everything they raise. We are 
not equipped for dairying, haven't the 
right stock nor markets, and have not 
money enough to get what we lack ex¬ 
cept very slowly. 
Our cows are mainly beef stock. Short¬ 
horn predominating. There is one herd 
each of registered Ayrshires and IIoI- 
steins on this property and quite a few 
registered bulls. Guernseys and Jerseys 
are represented by grades, with a very 
few registered sires. There are about 
70,000 acres irrigable on this project 
with about 550 farmers here. Many 
farms are vacant. The live stock inven¬ 
tory for 1923 gives about 3.500 beef cat¬ 
tle, 4,200 milk cows, 5.500 sheep, and 
16,000 hogs on the project. From the 
four stations on the project there was 
shipped out in 1923: Cattle, 616 cars; 
hogs, 200 cars; sheep, 510 cars; horses. 
65 cars; hay, 256 cars; Alfalfa seed, 2 
cars; Alfalfa meal, 19 cars; wool, 79 
cars (222,356 lbs.) ; sugar beets, 313 
cars; cream. 15,056 10-gallon cans, 
average test 35 to 40 per cent butterfat. 
Of the cattle, sheep, horses and wool, 
part came off the range, but much of the 
range stock, particularly sheep is win¬ 
tered on project Alfalfa. 
There is one creamery on the project. 
Outside of that and the local town con¬ 
sumption of whole milk all cream is 
shipped. There are five cream stations 
in Newell where the cream is tested and 
paid for. but direct shipping by farmers 
is on the increase, and nets 5 to 10 cents 
per pound of butterfat more than local 
station prices. Present local station price 
is 32 cents per pound (butterfat). Low¬ 
est price this year to date was 30 cents, 
highest price, 48 cents. 
There are not more than a dozen silos 
and very few farmers feed any grain. 
Alfalfa and cornstalks being almost the 
only feed. Pastures are mostly wild 
grasses, wheat grass, buffalo and grama, 
with volunteer Sweet clover which over¬ 
runs everything. Bluegrass is driving 
out the native grass in some places and 
makes a better pasture. All kinds of 
hay and clover yield heavily, as do cane, 
Sudan, millet, etc., but Alfalfa is. on the 
whole the. cheapest and most convenient 
feed. Irrigated and put up at the proper 
time. Alfalfa will yield as high as five 
tons and has yielded seven tons dry hay 
per acre annually but help is scarce; 
most farmers are trying to cover too 
much ground, so two or three tons is 
nearer the average crop. Many graze 
off the third cutting instead of putting 
it up as hay. 
I have seen silage corn 14)4 feet high 
the first of September, with the ears in 
the blister stage. Our first damaging 
frost usually comes October 5 to 15. 
More local cheese or butter factories 
would help to boost dairying, while bet¬ 
ter prices for other farm products would 
set it back some, but I believe it has 
come to stay, and in the course of years, 
will gradually increase. 
We used to ship a great deal of hay 
at prices which netted $8 to $15 per ton 
on the farm, and at present sugar beets 
are profitable. We are not, on the whole, 
a “dairy-minded” people and would wel¬ 
come prosperity in some other form than 
the dairy cow, but the young people are 
growing up with the cows, and an oc¬ 
cassional dairy farmer moves in look¬ 
ing for cheap rich land, so I look for 
dairying to beepme our principal farm 
activity in the course of time. 
Butte Co., S. D. geo. h. day. 
Building With Silo Staves 
Do you know whether anyone of The 
R. N.-Y. readers ever told of using a 
former stave silo for a rectangular build¬ 
ing. say for orchard shed or storage for 
orchard materials? I have a chance to 
get staves from a 14-ft. silo; staves 10 
to 16 ft. long, for half price, $100, and 
save long haul. Y r ellow pine, inch or 
thicker. I wondered if you knew of such 
an orchard shed made from such grooved 
boards for round silo. I never heard of 
staves in new use like this. j. r. b. 
Lenoir, Pa, 
“Well, Sandy,” said the laird, “you 
are getting very bent. Why don’t you 
stand ui) straight like me, man?” “Eh. 
man. do you see that field of wheat over 
there?” “I do,” returned the laird. “Ah, 
well, you’ll notice that the full heads 
hang down, an’ the empty ones stand 
up.”—Everybody’s Magazine. 
