The Question Box. 255 



Does it pay to veal heifer calves on a small farm? 



Mr. Harding. — I buy young calves from milkmen, feed them 

 milk from my herd till tliey are four or five weeks old, then sell 

 them for veals, because I can get good pay for my surplus milk. 

 Have got more money from my cows, through veals than I could 

 from butter, unless I got a very fancy price for it. If, however, 

 I had a good heifer calf from a good mother, I would raise it. 



Can young calves be raised on separator milk alone, and how should it 

 be fed? 



Mr. Dawley. — I wish that every calf could have all the sweet 

 skim-milk with some fine wheat middlings, oat flakes and a little 

 oil meal it wants, the last named to replace, in part, the butter fat 

 taken out of the milk. There will be no trouble experienced in 

 raising a calf on good sweet, separator skimmed milk, with flax- 

 seed jelly added in small quantities. 



THE ORCHARD. 



Which is the most profitable commercial pear? 



Mr. Wood. — To-day Kieffer is my most profitable pear, with 

 Bartlett next. 



Mr. Hooker. — Dutchess has brought, all things considered, the 

 highest prices so far as I am informed, when it was put in cold 

 storage, held till late, then shipped to Europe, if well assorted 

 and packed. It returned last season to some shippers as much as 

 fl3 a barrel. I believe it the most profitable pear to-day, when 

 well grown and well packed and shipped. 



Mr. Willard favored Kieffer and said there is no variety so good 

 for canning to-day as a well-grown, matured New-York Kieffer. 

 The Kieffers grown in the south and southwest are not fully de- 

 veloped. Their flavor is not developed in the can as is that from 

 the New-York grown Kieffer. 



What is the most valuable Japan plum from a commercial standpoint? 



Mr. Smith of Geneva. — Our best Japans for commercial pur- 

 poses are Wickson and Burbank. In our orchards on Seneca 

 lake, Wickson is doing well. Although we have been fruiting 

 it but three years, we have learned that it pays to thin the fruit 

 very much, as it inclines to overproduce. We sold them for as 



