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American Agriculturist, April 7,1923 
“As a mortgage lifter the hog 
has nothing on a De Laval 
Cream Separator” 
“My work as field man for the 
Wisconsin State Dairymen's Asso¬ 
ciation,” says Herman Marx, in a 
recent letter, “brings me into con¬ 
tact with a great many farmers 
and a great many separators. Of 
all the farmers who own separa¬ 
tors, I find about 80% of them 
own a De Laval, 
“For close skimming, low up¬ 
keep, easy running and long life 
it is hard to beat a De Laval. I 
have adjusted a good many sepa¬ 
rators and I find that the easiest 
one to adjust is a De Laval. 
“A hog has always been called 
a mortgage lifter, but he has noth¬ 
ing on a De Laval Separator. I 
have known several instances 
where the buying of a De Laval 
in place of some other they were 
using saved enough money to pay 
the interest on a fair sized loan.” 
—A remarkable tribute to the 
De Laval Separator, not only be¬ 
cause it shows that the majority 
of experienced farmers in the great 
dairy state of Wisconsin use and 
appreciate the De Laval, but be¬ 
cause it proves that it makes them 
money as well. 
The present De Laval is the best 
De Laval Separator ever made. It 
skims cleaner, lasts longer and is 
easier to clean and operate than 
any other. It will pay for itself 
in a year’s time, and is sold on 
such easy terms that you can use 
it while it is doing so. See your 
local De Laval Agent or write us 
for complete information. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
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Soon er or later you will use a 
De Laval 
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Don’t give up the abortive cow as lost 
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“Early in the spring I had a cow that 
was affected with Abortion which had taken 
a bad start, so I sent for a veterinary but the 
cow kept getting worse and did not eat 
hardly anything for two weeks and 
the doctor said slie would die as she was 
so weak she could not stand up any more 
and he could do nothing for her so I went 
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according to directions and in three days 
she was on her feet and eating real good. 
Today she is as good a cow as you can find. 
So i must say that Kow-Kare saved her and 
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Not all abortion is curable, but usually it 
is the result of a badly run down condition 
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Are Box Stalls Essential? 
A Practical Suggestion for the Man Who Sells Cows 
I T IS not uncommon to By H. E. 
see advertisements of 
animals "with A. R. records bearing the 
notice that the record -was made ii;i 
stanchions, the implication being that 
had the cows enjoyed the luxury of box- 
stalls, the records would have been 
higher. 
This universal belief so impressed 
us that when we started A. R. testing 
A>ur pure-bred Guernseys this fall, we 
tried to plan it out so as to give our best 
cows box-stalls. However, Inlet Valley 
Farms are operated for profit, not for 
fun, and as the fall and winter calf 
crop came on we soon faced a shortage 
of stalls. We had either to build a 
calf barn or take our test cows out of 
box-stalls. 
When the day came that a move had 
to be made we all felt somewhat de¬ 
pressed because the cows had been 
running along very nicely in the stalls, 
and it seemed a shame to riin the risk 
of lowering their production by shift¬ 
ing them back to the stanchion rows. 
Lady Rilma at that time had been on 
for five months. She was just at the 
point, therefore, when she would be 
particularly susceptible to changes. 
However, the change was made, and 
this is what the figures shov’: 
BOX-STALL PKODUCTION 
February 1 .... 59.0 pounds 
2_ 58.6 
3_ 59.3 
26_ 58.7 
27_ 55.3 
28_ 57.9 
STANCHION PRODUCTION 
March 2. 58.2 pounds 
3. 57.8 
4.67.6 
22. 58.3 
23. 60.0 “ 
24. 60.3 “ 
It will be noted that contrary to ex¬ 
pectations, three weeks after she was 
shifted from the box-stall to the stanch¬ 
ion and six months after being fresh, 
she was giving more milk than when in 
the box-stall. 
More Contented in the Stanchions * 
Those of us who have watched her be¬ 
lieve that she seems more contented 
and happy, and feeds better standing- 
in the row with the other cows than 
when she was alone in the box-stall. 
This observation is also borne out in 
the case of another cow which is still in 
a box-stall, but which to my certain 
knowledge stands in exactly the same 
spot in the stall day after day, not mov¬ 
ing as much as she would were she in a 
swing stanchion. 
Of course, there is no comparison 
between the amount of labor required 
to take care of a cow in a stanchion 
and in a box-stall. In our experience, 
at least with cows which have been 
raised and developed under practical 
farm conditions, box-stalls for ad¬ 
vanced registry work are not essential. 
In fact, it is doubtful if one can afford 
to use them. 
I realize that this might not be true 
in the case of those herds which have 
been pampered and where young ani¬ 
mals have been accustomed to indi¬ 
vidual box-stall conditions instead of 
herd care. 
A LESSON FOR DAIRYMEN FROM 
HORSE DEALERS 
I remember one time when I was in 
Buffalo on a visit to the stockyards I 
came upon one of the big horse sales 
stables which are run in connection 
with the stockyards, and here I saw 
dozens of horses, some of them quite 
inferior specimens, being fed and 
groomed for the farmer trade in New 
York State. 
Recently I have been trying to pick 
up quite a number of dairy cows. I 
have found plenty of cows for sale, but 
I have found very few animals which 
it would pay a man with high-priced 
land and high-priced labor to buy. 
Most of the cows I have seen have been 
altogether too thin to be good buys. 
The comparison between what I saw 
in Buffalo and Vhat I have seen in the 
barns of the farmers who have cows 
to sell leads me to wonder why more 
men do not make a specialty of rais- 
BABCOCK ing good grade cattle 
to sell. It would seem 
that here is an opportunity for the 
farmer who lives back on the hills, or a 
good distance from a milk station. Most 
farmers so located turn off several ani¬ 
mals a year, and the sale of this sur¬ 
plus dairy stock constitutes a good 
share of their farm income. It would 
seem that since they have the system 
already established it would pay them 
to study a little more closely market 
requirements and to have their animals 
in condition to meet them. 
Most men who go out to buy cows 
these days, unless they are doing it for 
purely speculative purposes, want ani¬ 
mals that show unmistakable evidences 
of freshening soon; they want cows of 
good size, and they want cows with 
good, square udders and fair-sized, 
well-placed teats. 
In addition, if they are buying ani¬ 
mals for immediate dairy purposes, 
they must have condition. A thin cow 
cannot milk well, no matter how good 
her intentions may be. Farmers, it 
would seem to me from what practical 
experience I have had, who desire to, 
sell off cows as a regular crop, should 
do what the horse dealers do, and what 
I am told the Middle West farmers who 
raise horses for sale do. They should 
grow up large animals; they should use 
bulls which will give them the type 
that the market requires, and, above 
all things, they should have their ani¬ 
mals in condition. 
DAIRY SUBSTITUTES ON THE 
WANE 
H. H. LYON 
Long have many of us desired to see 
substitutes that masquerade under 
false colors put in the discard. There 
are many of them but my interest just 
now is in the substitutes for our dairy 
products. Prominent among these are 
of course oleo and filled m'lk. Our 
dairy organizations have done much to 
challenge the right of way tor both of 
these and public sentiment has under¬ 
gone a great change in respeet to their 
use. Oleo is now omitted from the 
shelves of a considerable number of 
grocers in country towms. In some 
cases an entire village has gone on 
record as having none of it. In most 
of these cases it has been done by the 
local farmers who brought some pres¬ 
sure to bear on the dealers. Frequently 
a dealer has been glad of an excuse 
not to handle the substitute. There are 
those who contend that oleo will be 
entirely banished, but I do not expect 
to see that day. Certainly it is no 
longer quite so popular to sell or to 
use butter substitutes in most of our 
moderate sized towns and public senti¬ 
ment is a most powerful factor. 
As for filled milk, it seems to be going 
the same way. Laws have been passed 
against it and a great many more such 
laws are sure to be enacted. We have 
what seems to be authentic statements 
that several manufacturers have de¬ 
cided that sentiment is such that they 
cannot afford to longer continue in the 
business and that they will turn to the 
legitimate product. I realize that it is 
sometimes one thing to get such a 
statement from a manufacturer when 
he is being prosecuted for some viola¬ 
tion of the law and another to secure 
his loyalty to his promise. However 
there are certain cases where this talk 
seems to be sincere. I look for public 
sentiment to drive many of the imita¬ 
tions out of the markets. We need not 
think that such sentiment will take care 
of the job entirely, for it will not. We 
must keep continually at the business, 
go after legislation to control oleo and 
other substitutes and place them where 
they will do the least harm. 
Treating Animal Lice—If the weath¬ 
er is too cold to sprav horses or cattle 
for lice they can be treated by dusting 
with a powder made up of one part of 
sodium fioride and five parts of wheat 
middlings or other inert powder. Care 
should be taken not to get the powder 
into the eyes or on mucous membranes 
and not to get too much on any one ani¬ 
mal, one pound being sufficient for five 
animals. 
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