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American Agriculturist, March 1 , 1924 
Keep Your Cows on the Farm 
Whenever a cow produces more milk than she gets 
feed she takes it out of herself and you have just 
so much less cow left. Don’t haul away your herd 
piecemeal to the shipping stations this spring. 
M ilk Prices Will Be Better 
Any sort of a dairyman can get milk in the spring, 
regardless of how he feeds, because it is the cow’s 
nature to produce then. It takes a real dairyman, 
however, to make milk in the late summer and fall 
months when prices are usually highest. Then he 
is up against all the forces of nature—hot weather, 
dried up pastures, flies, the natural tendency of 
the cow herself to dry off. 
Feed Now for Next Summer and Fall 
Don’t run your cows down this spring with high 
protein, low-digestible feeds. Build for the future. 
Feed them highly digestible feeds made up of a 
wide range of ingredients; feeds that contain the 
required minerals; feeds of known quality. 
Buy on the Basis of Digestibility 
The only feed which counts is the feed which a 
cow digests. The digestibility of each ingredient 
which goes into GLF dairy feeds is a matter of 
scientific record. Because the formulas are public, 
because the feeds themselves are mixed in your 
own mill or under inspection in leased mills, you can 
know what proportion of each ton of GLF feed 
your cows will use. No other ready mixed feed can 
be bought on the basis of digestibility 
—no home mixture can contain the 
desirable wide list of ingredients. 
See your local QLF 
agent or write 
THE CO-OPERATl'VE 
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EXCHANGE INC., FEED DEPT. 
Chamber of Commerce Building, Buffalo, N. Y. 
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A penetrating, healing ointment for 
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CAKED BAG, COW POX, SPIDER- 
IN-TEAT, cracked, chapped, sore 
or injured teats in any form. 
No cow can do her best with sore or painful teats or with caked or inflamed 
bag. Rub O-H Cows’ Relief in thoroughly and massage the affected part and 
soreness disappears in 2 to 4 applications. Excellent for heifers with first calf. 
Used before and after calving it keeps them from becoming hard milkers, and 
helps expand the bag, making it soft and flexible. Large size $1.00; small size 
50c. Sold under our absolute guarantee—your money back if not satisfied. 
If your dealer can not supply you send direct to us. 
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What Does It Cost to Bring 
an Orchard Into Bearing ? 
Sylvanus VanAken 
F EW people will dispute that an orchard 
is a paying proposition but there are 
few people who know what an orchard 
costs to get it into bearing age and condi¬ 
tion. There is one grower in my section, 
that lias determined the cost and still 
believes that when an orchard of 1,000 
trees becomes ten years old, it will yield 
$2,100 for that year and increase as it 
grows older. 
The figures herewith are those of the 
owner of the orchard. He states that in 
getting land for an orchard, he chose 
rocky soil and the cost of plowing such 
land cost him seven dollars per acre. He 
valued the land at sixty dollars per acre 
and it took 25 acres for 1,000 trees, 
setting 40 trees to an acre. He plowed 
his land six inches deep and the amount 
of harrowing done which on ordinary 
orchard ground would need four times 
cost $110.00, this requiring two horses. 
The cost of getting the rocks from the 
land before plowing, costs $6 per acre and 
picking the smaller rocks after plowing 
cost the same. 
Getting Land Ready 
One must consider as in other branches 
of farming that half the battle is in getting 
the land ready for the seed. As we might 
put it, the biggest part after all of shaving 
a man’s face is in lathering well. This 
man has set in his orchard these trees 
of the Gano, Stark and McIntosh variety 
cost delivered to the field an average of 
50c a piece and the cost of planting about 
8 c per tree. Then there was used 1,300 
pounds of Bone-Meal to the acre which 
cost at the ratfhof, at that time, some 
ten dollars per ton and $2 to put it on. 
One must realize that setting out the 
orchard does not complete the work for 
the first year there is something else to 
do. My friend, in the first year, early in 
the spring plowed up the ground again 
between the ' trees and planted various 
kinds of crop including corn, wheat, 
potatoes, etc., and he used about one ton 
of fertilizer to the acre and the expense 
that year was small as the profits from 
the crop offset the expense. The expense 
to the orchard during the first year is the 
pruning, wiring the trees or using some 
form of protection from mice. 
Now some may not realize the advan¬ 
tage the planting between the trees is to 
an orchard. This man has proved that it 
increases the growth a third. As an 
experiment one year when the trees were 
two years old, he left a row without being 
cultivated around the trees and in the fall, 
these trees showed that they had gained 
about six inches, where those that had the 
cultivation had grown 17 and 18 inches. 
Grafting a Ben Davis 
I have a Ben Davis orchard which is about 10 or 12 
years old. _ It has always had the best of care and the 
trees are nice and thrifty. The soil is a clay loam which 
I understand is not the soil for Ben Davis. The fruit has 
not been at all desirable on the Ben Davis trees, while the 
fruit on our Rome Beauties and Starks, in the same or¬ 
chard, is perfect. Would it be wise to graft the Ben 
Davis?—G. C. G., New York. 
W ITH good treatment these trees 
should surely have been in full 
production by now. It is probably the 
unsuitable clay loam soil. If the trees 
were ours we should top graft them next 
April, probably taking two years to 
completely renew the tops, first grafting 
the center scaffold branches—three or 
more—cutting them squarely off not 
more than twenty inches from the 
crotches, and two years later completing 
the job. 
Be sure to get a competent workman, 
better take only one recommended by 
your county agent. Be sure to get known 
scions from bearing trees, of well-matured 
last year’s growth only (from branch tips, 
never suckers). Get any time now when 
the wood is not frozen, and keep perfectly 
dormant in a cool, most place. The opera¬ 
tion should be almost 100 per cent, suc¬ 
cessful and your worthless trees made 
worth $15 apiece thereby.—D. S. K. 
Massachusetts 
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