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American Agriculturist, Mai’ch 24,1923 
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Strength 
When you build a 
new silo or rebuild 
your old one, make it 
a Craine—the strongest 
as well as handsomest silo made. 
Its three wall construction gives per¬ 
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wall of upright staves is an air-tight, 
water-proof, frost-defying inner wall 
of Silafelt. Outside of both is the 
spiral Crainelox covering, of giant 
strength no hoops, lugs, weak spots, 
repairs, but permanent protection for 
every inch of wall. 
You can rebuild an old stave silo into 
a Craine, at half the cost of a new silo. 
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A PERMANENT SILO 
Kvery Kcoiiomy Silo is equipped nitb the 
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When I Buy Cows 
How To Ship Cattle by Express 
A lmost unbearably By H. E. BABCOCK 
slow after the swift 
rush of the motor car we jerked along 
in a swell-bodied cutter on a track level 
with the fence tops on either side. 
We come to a white farm house backed 
by long, low, wood-colored buildings. 
We turn in between shoulder-high snow 
drifts. The owner greets us, and we 
stiffly stump our way to the cow stable. 
A pleasant odor, the peculiarly sweet 
smell of the well-kept winter dairy 
greets us. My glasses steam up. I 
stand confused, uncertain, and grad¬ 
ually, as though a fog were lifting, two 
long rows of dairy cows appear on 
either side of us. 
A big gray roan attracts my atten¬ 
tion. She looks large in comparison. 
I "vyant big cows. In fair condition, 
springing eight or nine years old, with 
every evidence of being a good pro¬ 
ducer. Her price is $60. I pass her 
up; she is too old—her color is against 
her. 
A nice black-and-white five-year-old 
next attracts me. I am told she was 
fresh last fall. She will weigh perhaps 
1,000 pounds. Her udder is nicely bal¬ 
anced, but small, witif a milk vein run¬ 
ning straight along the belly to- enter 
through a milkwell little larger than a 
small pencil. Her owner thinks she is 
The first gi’oup, de¬ 
spite the abundance of 
them for sale, are too high. A man 
cannot afford to own them. If our T. B. 
officials don’t watch pretty carefully 
there will be a lot of them T. B.-tested 
this summer. 
The others seemed cheap, but who 
can tell? A good, fat, young springer 
that will give 50 to 60 pounds of milk 
this spring and early summer months 
ought to be worth $100, even if the 
milk market, as seems likely, does go all 
to pieces. She can be kept over and 
with more stable conditions ought to 
pay for herself. But again, who can 
tell? These are indeed uncertain times. 
Appearances Play Big Part in Sale 
Value of the Herd 
No little part of the sale value of a 
herd depends upon the first impression 
it makes oh a buyer when he steps 
into the barn. Placing a good cow on 
the end of the string next the door, 
therefore, becomes simply a matter of 
good business. 
Next in importance comes the mat¬ 
ter of arrangement in the line-up. 
When a big raw-boned cow stands next 
to a little chunky animal, the unde¬ 
sirable characteristics of both are ac- 
Ready to Travel from Ithaca to Bermuda 
bred. Forty dollars for her. I pass 
her up—too small, too little evidence of 
production—too uncertain about her 
Deing a fall cow. 
As I go from cow to cow, I begin to 
get my ideas of size adjusted. The big 
roan cow merely looked big in com¬ 
parison. She will weigh perhaps 1,200 
pounds. I like the 1,400 and 1,500-pound 
kind. I am looking for them and will¬ 
ing to pay for them. 
Then, everything is too thin. With 
feed at $50 a ton, it pays to buy as 
much feed as possible in a springer. No 
thin cow can do herself justice. So we 
pass on. 
All day long we repeat the expe¬ 
rience. We see perhaps 300 head of 
cattle. Every man we visit is ready to 
sell. But cattle generally are small; 
they are too thin; many of them show 
evidence of unwise feeding. 
Finally, just at night, I find what I 
want—a herd of big, straight, well- 
marked, good-uddered, young cows. I 
pick to my heart’s content. I turn 
them out, to be sure of my idea of size. 
I cheerfully pay the price. I am 
richer or poorer, as the case may be, 
by 45 cows. 
This, in substance, summarized my 
experience buying cows. I know of no 
job I enjoy more, nor one that demands 
more skill. 
The Range of Prices 
I found cows were plentiful, the 
range of prices for springers to be 
from $60 to $100, for fall cows to be 
from $40 to $90. Generally, the cows 
in the herds I visited were clean. Most 
all of them, however, were thin, and in 
many herds I was really surprised at 
the lack of evidence of production. 
These small, thin cows that lack any 
evidence of breeding can be bought 
below $50. The others, those with some 
size, condition and breeding, range up 
to $100. 
centuated. A bad sloper should not 
stand opposite a bright window. Buyers 
are looking for type these days. 
If cows always stand in the same 
places they may be lined up so as to 
appear almost uniform in size. Such 
a line-up adds materially to the ap¬ 
pearance of the herd as a whole. 
Clippers run over the udder and 
along the milk veins on a fresh cow 
bring out that milky appearance buyers 
always look for. Tails should be 
clipped, of course, but we do not like 
to bob off the- brushes. There is noth¬ 
ing, after all, that quite so much adds 
to the “dress-up” of a cow as to have 
her switch washed and brushed out. 
I know one man who runs a most prac¬ 
tical dairy farm but who sells a feAV 
cows every week, who always washes 
out his cows tails. He tells me that 
two men can clean up sixty cows in 
about half an hour and that he can 
cash in on the time so spent on every 
sale. 
His method is to rinse the switch 
out in a pail of warm water, give it a 
twist to dry it, and then to follow along 
and give it a vigorous shake or two 
and a few passes with a big coarse 
brush. 
SHIPPING BY EXPRESS 
Prom time to time we ship animals 
away by express. We also occasionally 
have them shipped to us. Our expe¬ 
rience both in shipping and receiving 
leads me to set down here our conclu¬ 
sions for what they are worth in re¬ 
gard to the proper kind of a crate in 
which to handle an animal. 
To begin with, cattle crates should 
always be built on bed-pieces running 
lengthwise of the crate. This makes it 
possible to put rollers under them and 
so roll th^m easily in and out of a car 
and on an express truck. We have re¬ 
ceived crates built with three cross 
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The cost of any silo should include 
the cost of erection. No extra, ex¬ 
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boy or woman helper 
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A few simple parts fit 
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Every day other con¬ 
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