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Jht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 11, 1924 
1 
T HAT’S the expression that you inva¬ 
riably hear from dairymen after they 
begin feeding their herd Sugared Schumacher 
Feed and Boss Dairy Ration. 
Here’s a letter from W. S. Kerr, of Oaks Farm, 
Cohasset, Mass., that is typical of the opinions 
of dairymen after giving these feeds a trial: 
"We have been feeding Sugared Schumacher 
Feed now for nearly three months as the base 
of our ration and regular visitors have re¬ 
marked about the improvement in the general 
conditions of our large herd of pure bred 
Guernseys, that it has shown in the past 
month or so. In addition to the general im¬ 
provement in conditions, will say they have 
also shown a large increase in milk flow.” 
W. S. KERR. 
SUGARED 
Schumacher Feed 
and 
Boss Dairy Ration 
Sugared Schumacher Feed—the“01d Reliable” 
Carbohydrate ration supplies the energy — 
staying power and ideal phys¬ 
ical fitness which is so es¬ 
sential to long time milk 
production, while Boss Dairy 
Ration with its 24% Protein 
furnishes the choicest pro¬ 
tein concentrates that make 
large milk yields. The two 
feeds represent true feeding 
economy—give them a trial. 
Your dealer can supply you. 
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Organized Co-operation 
By JOHN J. DILLON 
A NEW BOOK 
This book is written in three 
parts. 
PART ONE.—The Develop¬ 
ment of the Agricultural Indus¬ 
try. In five chapters. 
PART TWO. — Fundamental 
Principles and Adaptable Forms 
of Co-operative Organization. In 
ten chapters. 
PART THREE. — Application 
of Co-operation to Efficient and 
Economic Distribution of Farm 
Products. In seven chapters. 
This is a new treatment of the 
co-operative subject. Here*ofore 
writers of bcoks have contented 
themselves with accounts of co¬ 
operative work where established. 
It has been mostly propaganda 
and exhortation. This was all 
good in its time. But we have 
grown beyond it. Farmers are 
now committed to co-operation. 
Once shy of it, they are at last a 
unit for it. What they want now 
is principles and definite policies 
that have Droved successful. This 
book is the first real attempt to 
supply this want. Other, and it 
is to be hop.d better, books will 
follow on this line; but for the 
present there is no other book 
seriously treating the subject of 
organized co-operation. 
Bound i n Cloth _Price $1.00 
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When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Danish Plan of Pasturing 
I send a picture of my younger boy 
and my seven cows. This, I think, is a 
very unusual sight here in the United 
States, but a very usual sight in Den¬ 
mark where I was born, where nearly 
all the cows are tethered. In that way 
we can pasture our second cutting Al¬ 
falfa in one shape, as our pasture is too 
dry for the cows pasturing, when we ex¬ 
pect to make milk. The cows are regis¬ 
tered Holsteins. M. M. R. 
New York. 
As we understand it this picture shows 
low Danish cows are fastened together 
so that they graze over a field of grass 
without tramping it dow r n. We have 
tried this on a small scale with two cows, 
and estimate that at least half the pas¬ 
ture grass was saved, over the usual plan 
of letting the cattle wander about and 
trample the grass at will. A cow soon 
becomes accustomed to this plan, and 
will bite off the grass evenly and cleanly. 
Dairy and Cow Notes 
Farming is pretty poor for a poor 
man; only those with money can farm 
around here and live. There will be fully 
as many cows kept as ever. There is 
plenty of hay and corn. We have 21 
cows, expect to Winter all We harvest 
at least 100 tons of hay. Good cows 
acres. Buckwheat is a very fair crop, 
also potatoes, but some fields are blight¬ 
ing. The worse trouble with dairymen is 
the cost of production and the price re¬ 
ceived. Many are complaining about the 
low test they are getting. w. A. w. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
The hay crop is more than average. 
Corn is late but looks good. There has 
not been any frost here yet (September 
22). We are all waiting for it to ear. 
Cows are bringing a good price, those 
fresh this Fall from $50 to $75. Potatoes 
nothing extra and rotting some. I think 
there will be nearly as much stock win¬ 
tered here as ever. The fruit crop will 
be light. The blackberry crop is good ; 
they are just in their best now. F. D. M. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
Good cows sell around $75. Quite a 
few have made application to have cows 
tested, and sell some of the less profit¬ 
able ones. Hay is very good, so is grain. 
Corn for silage is very good in spite of a 
cold, wet Summer. The outlook seems 
to be more cheerful than it was in Spring 
and early Summer. T. G. I. 
Madison Co., N. Y. 
There will be just as many cows kept 
as usual here. Corn on an average is a 
light crop but many farmers are sowing 
millet in the place of corn for silage. The 
hay crop was good so that the farmers 
have the usual amount of fodder. I do 
not think cows are high, good ones bring¬ 
ing around $100. A dealer sold nearly 
Pasturing Cattle in Denmark Fashion 
bring from $75 to $100 apiece. The out¬ 
look for farmers seems small to me unless 
taxes go down. Only those, as I said, 
with money can farm. I have farmed 
for myself 11 years and for the last five 
years could make nothing. When 100 
lbs. of milk will not buy 100 lbs of feed 
for a cow, she is feeding herself and 
that is all. D. b. r. 
Tioga Co., N. Y. 
There are not so many cows in our 
locality as in former years. A lot of 
cows are being sold this Fall, as milk 
does not pay enough money so a farmer 
can afford to keep them. Cows are sell¬ 
ing for from $25 to $40 apiece; that is 
if they are coming in soon. If not they 
cannot be sold at all. There will not be so 
many cows kept as there were in former 
years. There is plenty of corn and hay 
around this part, also plenty of grain; 
more than there was last year; that is 
if we do not get a frost too early as 
buckwheat is just in the milk. a. J. 
Tioga Co., N. Y. 
I think there are just as many cows 
milked in this part of the country as 
ever. There are no farmers selling off 
their herds. Good cows are in demand, 
and go well at sales; bring a fair price, 
from $75 to $100. I think the dairy 
business has a great future if we farmers 
will only stick together more; that’s what 
is needed. There is an abundance of hay, 
every one seems to have plenty this year. 
Corn is a good crop only late. Oats are 
good, run from 40 to 45 bu. an acre, a 
lot to be thrashed yet. Season is late; 
plenty of rain, but is cold ; we are look¬ 
ing for frost soon. C.W. R. 
Cortland Co., N. Y. 
There will be fewer cows kept this 
Winter than last in this section unless 
brighter prospects are in evidence soon, 
in line of better prices for milk, feed 
lower and farm help more plentiful, or 
dairying -will not be carried on so _ ex¬ 
tensively. The farmers are getting tired 
of working for practically nothing. It 
seems to me that there must soon be a 
radical change or dairying on a large 
scale will be a thing of the past. T. P. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
A few farmers are reducing their dairy 
cows, but not from lack of fodder. The 
hay crop was large and corn has gained 
wonderfully within a short time. Crops 
are usually good. A neighbor offered 10 
or 12 Fall cows for $100 and could get 
only $75 offered. He concluded to milk 
them this Winter. Strippers are selling 
at from $40 to $60 as to quality. Buyers 
want Fall cows but want them to sell at 
a profit. Oats are a good crop. We had 
13% acres and have thrashed over 600 
bushels, and have at least 100 more to 
thrash. One reports 263 bu. from 314 
100 cows a week ago that averaged $110. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. w. T. G. 
Administration of Tuber¬ 
culin Test 
1. Will you give me your opinion of 
the value of the tuberculin test as at 
present applied? 2. Where a dairyman 
has neighbors on three sides of him who 
refuse to test, will not the forcing of tu¬ 
berculin test upon that one dairyman 
prove an unnecessary hardship? 3. Can 
a village board pass a local ordinance 
compelling every producer of milk or 
cream in that village to submit their cat¬ 
tle to the tuberculin test, even though the 
milk is pasteurized? w. d. h. 
New York. 
1. The opinion of a layman upon the 
scientific accuracy of the tuberculin test 
cannot be very valuable; he is obliged 
to reply upon the opinion of competent 
investigators who have made a study of 
it. The consensus of opinion among such 
investigators is that t_he tuberculin test 
is accurate, though not infallible, and 
that the percentage of error is small 
enough to be negligible. I see nothing 
for the rest of us do but to accept this 
opinion as correct, until, and when, the 
march of science proves it otherwise. If 
proven incorrect at some time in the fu¬ 
ture, we shall then know that the march 
of science had not reached a permanent 
encampment in our day. 
2. Whether necessary or not will de¬ 
pend largely upon the disposition made 
of the milk of that one dairyman. If 
milk from tested and untested cows is 
mixed before being consumed, there can 
certainly be no object in testing one herd 
only, if the milk from one herd is han¬ 
dled by itself, from cow to consumer, the 
necessities of the case will depend upon 
the disposition of it. It would, of course, 
be unjust to require of one dairyman 
what is not required of others under the 
same circumstances. 
3. A village may pass any health ordi¬ 
nance not inconsistent with the general 
health laws of the State. It cannot re¬ 
voke general laws but may add to them, 
being given, in health matters, very w’ide 
latitude. It would not have jurisdiction, 
I am sure, over producers of dairy prod¬ 
ucts. unless these were sold within the 
municipality. It could pass an ordi¬ 
nance forbidding the sale within it of 
dairy products from untested cows. 
M. B. D. 
The Girl : “Oh, don’t some people get 
offensive when they own a car?” The 
Man: “Well, some certainly do get a 
habit of running other people dow’n.”— 
Sydney Bulletin. 
