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Live  Stock  Matters 
FORKFULS  OF  FACTS. 
Don’t  forget  to  plant  pumpkins  or 
squashes  for  the  stock.  Many  corn 
growers  put  a  quart  of  pumpkin  seed  in 
the  hopper  of  the  corn  planter  and  go 
ahead.  The  pumpkins  are  thus  dis¬ 
tributed  all  over  the  field  and  grow  well 
with  the  corn. 
Stick  cabbage  plants  in  wherever  you 
can.  When  the  Scotchman  had  nothing 
else  to  do  he  went  out  and  planted  a 
tree.  Let  the  dairyman  plant  cabbage 
instead. 
Thk  “  Annual  ”  of  the  Dorset  Horned 
Breeders  of  America  is  sent  by  the  secre¬ 
tary,  M.  A.  Cooper,  Washington,  Pa. 
One  reported  objection  to  sugar  beets 
for  stock  is  that  they  form  many  small, 
fibrous  roots  which  pull  up  too  much  soil 
and  make  a  dirty  mess. 
A  writer  in  the  Breeder’s  Gazette  says 
he  will  sow  nothing  but  Stowell’s  Ever¬ 
green  Sweet  Corn  for  ensilage  this  year. 
1 1  is  stock  liked  the  sweet-corn  ensilage 
better  than  that  made  from  B.  &  W.  Corn, 
and  he  is  trying  to  please  the  stock ! 
What  do  our  readers  think  of  sweet  corn 
for  the  silo  ? 
It  is  mighty  poor  business  to  water 
hogs  on  thin  swill.  The  hog  needs  pure 
water,  and  will  make  as  good  returns 
from  it  as  will  a  human  being. 
Thk  Jersey  breeders  will  spend  $15,000, 
if  need  be,  in  finding  proper  specimens 
of  their  breed  to  compete  at  the  World’s 
Fair. 
There  is  little  or  nothing  in  the  wool 
situation  to  warrant  a  prediction  of 
higher  prices.  As  wool  will  not  rise,  it 
must  be  produced  for  less  per  pound. 
We  need  better  care,  better  feed  and  bet¬ 
ter  sheep.  Good  rams  were  never  cheaper 
and  more  necessary  than  to-day. 
We  hope  that  many  readers  of  The 
R.  N.-Y.  will  try  a  small  patch  of  rape 
for  the  sheep  this  year.  This  crop  is  an 
experimental  one  with  most  American 
farmers.  Go  slow  with  it  at  first.  It  will 
not  do  for  cows  in  milk.  I  t  is  sheep  food. 
We  are  glad  to  see  the  Virginia  Station 
Bulletin  12  commend  iodoform  for 
healing  wounds  on  animals.  We  have 
tried  this  substance  with  good  results. 
The  last  instance  was  on  a  horse  with  a 
very  sore  back.  The  wound  was  washed 
in  warm  water  and  thoroughly  dried, 
after  which  the  iodoform  was  well  dusted 
over  it.  The  wound  at  once  healed  and 
has  given  no  more  trouble. 
Patent  Cattle  Focus. — The  country 
is  flooded  with  circulars  and  posters  de¬ 
scribing  wonderful  “condensed  foods” 
for  stock.  The  New  Hampshire  Station 
has  examined  three  of  these  foods.  One 
of  them,  “  Pratt’s  Food,”  costs  $(5  per  100 
pounds — $120  per  ton.  It  is  nothing  but 
wheat  middlings  with  salt  and  fenugreek 
added.  “Weston’s  Condition  Powder” 
costs  50  cents  for  three  pounds,  and  is 
nothing  but  a  mixture  of  corn  meal  and 
cotton-seed  meal  with  the  usual  salt  and 
fenugreek.  “  Climax  Food,”  price  $8  per 
100  pounds,  is  a  mixture  of  wheat  mid¬ 
dlings  and  wheat  screenings,  with  a  little 
caraway  or  fennel  seeds  and  “  small  bits 
of  a  substance  like  butternut  or  elm 
bark.”  Of  course  there  was  the  usual 
salt  and  fenugreek  !  A  pretty  business 
to  pay  $150  a  ton  for  grain,  salt,  sulphur 
and  fenugreek ! 
Selling  Old  Cows. — There  is  a  way  to 
dispose  of  superfluous  milking  stock  with¬ 
out  loss.  This  is  to  buy  only  the  best, 
and  feed  them  in  the  best  manner,  so  as 
to  keep  them  always  in  condition  for 
fairly  good  second-class  beef.  Thus  fed 
they  will  pay  for  their  feed  much  better 
than  others  only  half  fed,  which  are 
worthless  for  slaughter,  as  they  cost  more 
than  they  can  bring  for  the  feeding  to  fit 
them  for  the  shambles.  This  is  appli¬ 
cable  only  to  milk  dairies.  For  a  butter 
dairy  a  suitable  cow  is  one  that  will  never 
pay  for  killing  for  meat,  not  even  for 
making  ordinary  sausage  that  is  eaten 
raw  and  smoked,  by  persons  who  don’t 
regard  their  stomachs.  h.  s. 
The  R.  N.-Y.  has  been  trying  for  sev¬ 
eral  weeks  to  sell  a  big  cow — in  good  con¬ 
dition  for  beef.  Not  a  buteher  for  miles 
around  cares  to  buy  and  kill  her,  because 
the  Chicago  beef  is  handier  and  cheaper. 
Questions  for  Crosby. — I  wish  Brother 
A.  L.  Crosby  would  tell  us  how  he  can 
get  as  much  profit  from  butter-making 
without  feeding  roots  or  ensilage  as  he 
can  by  feeding  them.  Was  it  not  a  slip 
of  the  pen  that  made  him  say  that  corn 
stands  preeminent  as  a  “  hell-filler  ?  ” 
Did  he  not  mean  silo-filler  ?  Will  he 
kindly  explain  the  connection  between 
the  devil  and  a  dished  face  in  a  Jersey 
bull?  I  would  regard  a  devilish  bull  as 
a  devilish  poor  piece  of  furniture  even  for 
a  bull  pen.  If  evil  communications  cor¬ 
rupt  good  m-morals,  we  had  better  try 
to  breed  good-natured  stock,  p.  u.  m. 
Careful  investigations  made  in  Eng¬ 
land  with  several  thousand  cows,  of  dif¬ 
ferent  breeds,  show  that  the  average 
yearly  yield  per  cow  was  1,715  quarts,  of 
which  an  average  of  372  quarts  was  fed 
to  the  calf,  leaving  1,343  quarts  salable 
products  from  the  cow.  This  may  look 
small  to  the  man  who  has  never  measured 
the  milk  from  a  cow,  but  we  know  there 
are  thousands  of  American  cows  that  do 
no  better,  if  not  worse  than  this.  How 
much  per  quart  must  a  milkman  get  to 
make  “day  wages”  out  of  such  a  cow  ? 
The  Missing  Link  in  Inten¬ 
sive  Dairying. 
IS  IT  PRICKLY  COMFREY  ? 
Given  70  acres  of  rather  light  soil ;  can 
this  become  more  fertile  itself,  and  also 
go  far  toward  supplying  the  great 
amount  of  manure  required  by  an  ad¬ 
joining  orchard  of  1)0  acres,  none  of 
which  is  cropped  or  pastured  ? 
This  is  the  writer’s  problem,  and  his 
solution  is  to  combine  ensilage  and  soil¬ 
ing  crops  in  maintaining  intensive  dairy¬ 
ing.  All  grain  fed  is  usually  purchased, 
and  the  farm  is  so  stocked  as  to  consume 
all  the  hay,  fodder  and  soiling  crops 
grown.  From  the  last  of  .July  until  the 
last  of  May  Indian  corn  furnishes  the 
great  bulk  of  food  required,  green  or  as 
ensilage,  demanding  a  small  area  but 
much  fertility  for  its  growth.  Except  a 
little  early  flint  corn  for  the  first  cut¬ 
tings,  Learning  Corn  has  proved  the 
richest  and  best  for  soiling  and  ensilage. 
The  hay  crop  for  home  use  is  cut  as 
early  as  possible  and  the  aftermath  pas¬ 
tured.  The  greater  the  area  reserved 
from  pasture  for  mowing,  tin*  more  hay 
will  be  produced  and  the  more  stock 
kept. 
The  area  required  for  June  pasture 
had  been  the  weak  point  in  intensive 
dairying  with  me,  but  by  the  adoption 
of  prickly  comfrey  so  as  to  bridge  over 
the  time  from  the  usual  turning  out  to 
grass  up  to  haying,  a  great  and  sure 
supply  of  the  best  fodder  is  obtained, 
and  a  small  run  at  pasture  for  air  and 
exercise  only  is  required.  Planted  in 
rows  three  feet  apart,  1(5  inches  apart  in 
the  rows,  top-dressed  liberally  and  well 
cultivated  in  the  spring,  prickly  comfrey 
by  the  last  of  May,  will  grow  waist-high 
and  too  thick  to  allow  one  to  pass 
through  it  readily.  In  a  moist  season 
several  cuttings  may  be  made.  With  a 
scythe  and  fork  one  may  cut  and  heap  it 
more  rapidly  than  any  other  early  soil¬ 
ing  crop,  and  a  mowing  machine  is 
scarcely  needed,  so  small  is  the  area  re¬ 
quired  at  each  feeding.  It  is  eaten  by 
my  cows  with  the  greatest  avidity,  and 
is  fed  as  an  alterative  to  the  working 
cattle  and  horses,  which,  being  stabled 
the  entire  year,  are  much  benefited  by 
it,  especially  as  it  it  not  so  laxative  as 
green  rye  or  clover. 
Prickly  comfrey  is  an  enormous 
yielder;  it  will  produce  more  nutriment, 
perhaps  more  weight,  from  a  given  area 
than  Indian  corn,  provided  moisture 
enough  be  present.  It  shows  a  nutritive 
analysis  closely  approaching  that  qi 
clover;  it  produces  cream  of  the  finest* 
flavor;  it  is  almost  medicinal  in  its  whole¬ 
someness;  once  established  it  is  the  most 
easily  grown  crop  on  the  farm.  Why, 
then,  has  it  been  tried  and  condemned  so 
generally?  Simply  because  the  taste 
for  it  is  one  acquired  against  the  will  of 
the  animal.  A  cow  will  starve  rather 
than  eat  freshly  cut  comfrey  leaves. 
Run  them  through  a  cutter  and  mix  them 
with  an  equal  portion  of  corn  meal  and 
bran,  and  the  cow  in  trying  to  get  at  the 
meal  will  soon  acquire  for  the  comfrey  a 
taste  never  afterwards  to  be  forgotten. 
I  have  now  to  educate  the  young  stock 
only.  I  am  surprised  that  this  little 
matter  of  education  should  have  stood  so 
long'  in  the  way  of  adopting  a  forage 
plant  of  great  merit. 
The  permanent  comfrey  plot  should  be 
close  to  the  stables  for  convenience,  and 
requires  little  room,  so  that  more  pastur¬ 
age  is  thus  saved  near  the  stables  than 
when  rye,  clover,  oats  and  peas  are  used. 
The  labor  is  less  than  with  crops  which, 
grown  in  rotation,  must  often  be  at  a  dis¬ 
tance.  As  apple  growing  is  my  specialty, 
and  it  demands  much  attention,  the  dairy 
is  managed  with  the  least  labor  consist¬ 
ent  with  good  results. 
The  cream  is  taken  from  the  door  on 
the  cooperative  system,  the  manure  is 
all  saved  and  most  easily  cared  for  by 
using  self-cleaning  platforms;  and  by 
growing  intensive  crops  the  entire  area 
required  lies  close  to  the  buildings. 
Thirty-five  head  of  cattle  and  horses 
are  now  kept  on  the  70  acres,  here  in 
Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.  It  would  be  quite 
as  easy  to  double  the  stock,  but  whether 
the  profit  would  be  doubled  would  be 
doubtful.  It  would  seem  that  partial 
soiling  may  lessen  the  cost  of  stock- 
keeping,  since  the  same  expense  in  taxes 
and  interest  on  land  answers  fora  larger 
amount  of  stock,  and  drives  to  pasture 
are  shortened;  but  the  high  cost  of  labor 
may  make  complete  soiling  too  costly  as 
yet  for  general  adoption,  m.  h.  ii.vrt. 
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