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stable is not on the south side of the barn. You should have as much light as possible in order to keep the barn sweet and clean. Could it not be pos sible to make a dairy barn out of the wagon ihed which is on the south side of the barn, aud put the wagon shed on the north. Provide for a coutin uous row oi windows on the south side, allowing at least four square feet per cow. If it is impossible to make the change, you should have larger windows, and more of them than would be necessary on the south side, especially on the ends. Should you wish further informa tion concerning the feeding of the cows, or detailed construction of the barn, I should be pleased to have you write me further. HOW CAN 1 DRY*UP MV COW? ABORTION. Question: What is the best way to dry np a, persistent milker? She is giving about one and cne-half gallons of milk, and will be fresh about the 10th of May, Are cows who have their calves one or two weeks before the 283 days are up classed as aborters —that is, if they are well fed and in a healthy condition? If this hap pens, is their any treatment? C. H., Enumqlaw, Wash. Answer: The best way to dry up a persistent milker is to milk her but once a day at first, then once every two days, then once every three days, and so on. You will find that the udder will fill up between each milk ing, but in most cases when the cows are six or seven months along in their pregnancy they will not produce enough milk to injure the udder be cause of the pressure. In the case of some cows, however, this point must be watched very closely, and if the udder becomes distended to such a degree as to make it extremely pain ful to the cow it will be necessary to milk more often than indicated above. Technically, abortion is the term used for the expulsion of the offspring before it can live out of the womb. Its expulsion after it is capable of independent existence is premature birth. Some dairymen, however, use the term "abortion" fortbe expulsion of the foetus at any time before the completion of the full period of the normal pregnancy. In your case it would seem that it should be classed under premature birth rather than abortion, and would, therefore, re quire no special treatment As a precautionary measure it would be well to disinfect the premises and the hind parts of the cow with a weak solution of creoline or some other good disinfectant. BREAKS FOUR YEAR RECORD After making three oat of seven world's yearly records during the past few years, Lilly of Willowmoor, of the Willowmoor herd of Ayrshires at Redmond, Wash., owned by J. W. Clise, of Seattle, has made a four year record that brings this herd into greater prominence as large pro ducers. Lilly of Willowmoor. who made a world's record of 22,106 pounds of milk find 888.7 pounds butterfat last year, completed on May 9th a four year teat with 62,274 pounds of milk and 2,411.71 pounds butterfat. Her record for the four years fol lows : Milk Butterfat Ist year 9,211 349.02 2d year 12,730 479.56 3rd year 22,106 888.70 4th year 18,227 694.43 Total 62,274 2,411.71 Lilly of Willowmoor is the third world's champion cow owned by Willowmoor Farms. All the offspring of these cows are still on the farm and are adding to the high produc tion of the herd as a whole. Mr. Clise has kept the idea of pro duction as the dominant feature in building up his herd, and has full confidence that the Pacific Northwest can produce dairy stock that will lead the world. This faith is found ed on the fact that climatic condi tions here are similar to those in the great dairy countries of the old world. "Our climate," said Mr. Clise in an interview with Tne Kanch, "is very much like that of the countries that have developed the Ayrshire, the Hereford, the Jersey and Guernsey. 1 want to demonstrate that we can, without importation, develop stock here tbat will lead in production." CHAMPION FOUR YEAR RECORD AYRSHIRE COW OF THE WORLD THE RANCH Dl tAYAb as superior to other separators as other separators are to gravity creaming WHY STOP HALF WAY IN BUYING A CREAM SEPARATOR? THE ABOVE HEADING SUMS UP and last from ten to twenty years, the cream separator case, as it or on an average five times as concerns every prospective buyer long as other separators, of a separator and every user of an DE LAVAL SEPARATORS COST A inferior separator, in as few words little more than other separators, as it could well be put. but very little, and they soon save OTHER SEPARATORS SKIM that small difference and go on cleaner than is possible on the saving it every few months ;as average with gravity creaming, other separators would go on wast and De Laval Cream Separators ing it, for all the years they last, skim as much closer still than other WHY THEN BUT HALF SOLVE separators, particularly under the the problem of best results and harder conditions of cool milk, greatest economy in dairying by running heavy cream or separat- the purchase of an inferior separa ing the milk of stripper cows. tor or go on dairying with this im- OTHER SEPARATORS PRODUCE portant problem but half solved if a cream superior to gravity cream- you are already using an inferior ing and De Laval cream is separator that you might so easily smoother, less frothy and so much replace with a De LavaK better than the cream of other THE SEASON OF GREATEST PRO separators that De Laval made duction is now at hand when all butter always scores highest in these differences count for most every important contest. with every user who should have a OTHER SEPARATORS SAVE TIME separator and is trying to get along and labor over gravity setting or without one. No other dairy ques creaming of milk, and De Laval tion is of anywhere near as great Separators by reason of their dollars-and-cents importance, easier turning, greater capacity, WHY NOT SOLVE IT NOW IN THE easier cleaning and easier hand- only sure and safe way possible? ling save a great deal of time and if you haven't a separator, buy a labor over other separators. De Laval. If you have a poor sep- OTHER SEPARATORS SAVE arator, replace it with aDe Laval their cost every year, as a rule, If it is not convenient to pay cash over gravity creaming, and De . you may buy aDe Laval on such Laval Separators save their cost liberal terms that it will actually every year over other separators save and pay for itself. Every De Laval local agent is glad of the opportunity to prove every claim here made. It will cost you noth ing and may save you much to give him the oppor tunity. If you don't know the nearest De Laval agent simply address the nearest main office, as below. De Laval Dairy Supply Company 165 BROADWAY ,01 DRUMM STREET 1016 WESTERN AVENUE NEW YORK 3AM FRANCISCO SEATTLE MIMMAM THE UNIVERSAL MILKER I J^^\ $ ■''' £k \-"" "-^-A-ft. .#B H « itiii ' t>-' ■ . '■#(! /M PS 'i* atf^&^il ■v ■ . *-'S»- *:■-y 3». /ra Mli t>' ; ' "x'i— ?V' H Here's a Milker that is Always "On the Job" One of the most serious problems before the dairyman is securing reliable and compe tent milkers. You have often had no end of trouble when a milker suddenly quit, or when you found he was incompetent, haven't you? You can avoid all these troubles by installing a Hinman Milker I want to tell you more about this machine aud show-It to you in operation. It will Rave money for you and at the price it sells for you cannot afford to be without It The Free Booklet will tell you more about it. Semi f»r it today. EC Dl IDNIQ Distributor for . L.. DUKIND, Washington. MOUNT VERNON, WASH. SILVER BIRCH FARM JERSEYS BRED HEIFERS AND BULL CALVES FOR SALE. Write for illustrated pamphlet today. CHAS. M, TALMADGE. R. I. Box R. Newport, Wash. II