1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
Live  Stock  Matters  I  did  so  last  year  and  my  ensilage  was 
nice.  Our  pastures  are  short,  as  we  have 
not  had  enough  rain.  It  looks  a  little 
discouraging  for  us  dairymen  with  the 
price  of  feed  so  high.  Our  dealers  charge 
higher  prices  than  those  quoted  in  The 
Rural.  geo.  m.  orris. 
FORKFULS  OF  FACTS. 
Kill  the  culls. 
The  fat  is  in  the  feed. 
A  hex  cannot  get  fat  on  oats. 
Those  pullets  must  go  under  cover 
now. 
Oi  course  you  have  some  rye  sown  for 
next  spring’s  pasture  ! 
Shoot  that  scrub  bull  and  you  will  hit 
the  bull's  eye  in  more  ways  than  one. 
A  mare  is  a  colt  maker.  A  gelding  is 
a  manure  maker  only  for  at  least  three 
months. 
He  who  eats  a  fat  Bantam  well  cooked 
has  a  finer  dish  than  any  “quail  on  toast” 
that  was  ever  served. 
Western  stockmen  are  again  discuss¬ 
ing  the  plan  of  using  blinders  over  the 
bull’s  eyes.  It  makes  him  easier  to  handle, 
but  suppose  the  blinds  should  fall  off !  * 
A  Prolific  Cow.— In  a  late  Rural  I 
saw  mention  of  a  cow  that  had  three 
calves  at  one  birth.  I  have  one  that  at 
the  full  time  had  four  last  fall,  two  of 
which  lived  and  the  other  two  might 
also,  had  anj’  one  been  present,  as  they 
were  suffocated  by  the  membranes. 
This  cow  on  previous  occasions  had  four 
calves  in  one  year— twice  twins.  In  all 
she  has  had  10  calves,  all  males.  She  is 
a  grade  Short-horn.  Wm.  m. 
Burton  Creek,  Va. 
Clean  Poultry  House.— M.  K.  Boyer, 
in  the  Poultry  Monthly,  tells  how  the 
poultry  houses  at  Atlee  Burpee’s  farm 
are  kept  clean  : 
The  droppings  are  cleaned  up  daily, 
and  the  whitewash  brush  is  in  constant 
operation  ;  even  the  dropping  boards  are 
whitewashed.  The  yards  are  as  clean  as 
any  city  yard  could  be  ;  not  a  speck  of 
filth  can  be  found  anywhere.  A  boy  is 
constantly  employed  in  keeping  things 
clean.  The  management  thought  it 
paid,  as  by  this  method  they  kept  down 
the  depredations  of  lice  and  warded  off 
duease.  I  have  never  seen  a  healthier 
lot  of  fowls  in  my  life. 
Here  is  the  Jersey  Bulletin’s  opinion 
about  dairies  and  creameries  : 
1.  Where  one  owns  a  herd  of  20  Jersey 
cows  it  will  pay  him  better  to  buy  a  hand 
separator,  fit  up  a  dairy  house,  and  hire 
a  good  butter  maker  to  run  his  dairy, 
than  it  will  to  send  his  milk  to  a  creamery 
unless  he  gets  cash  for  it.  2.  If  a  man 
owns  10  good  Jersey  cows,  and  is  a  good 
butter  maker  himself,  or  has  a  good  but¬ 
ter  maker,  it  will  pay  him  better  to  make 
his  own  butter  than  to  join  a  cooperative 
creamery.  If,  in  addition,  he  is  a  good 
feeder  and  has  business  tact  enough  to 
make  a  market  for  his  butter,  it  will  pay 
him  to  buy  a  separator  for  his  10  cows, 
and  fit  up  his  dairy  with  a  first-class 
churn  and  butter  press. 
Another  Prickly  Comfrey  Man. _ I 
think  a  great  deal  of  Prickly  Comfrey  as 
a  soiling  crop.  No  crop  equals  it  in 
quantity  if  grown  on  well  prepared,  rich 
soil  and  well  cultivated.  One  acre  will 
feed  10  cows  with  a  little  mill  feed  added. 
I  have  had  no  trouble  in  getting  my  cows 
to  eat  it  by  sprinkling  on  it  some  ground 
feed.  The  best  way  to  feed  it  is  in  the 
mangers  when  the  cows  are  in  the  stable. 
I  have  a  stone  boat  with  a  rack  on  it  and 
on  this  I  haul  the  crop  from  the  patch  to 
the  barn  at  every  feeding.  It  can  be  cut 
once  a  month  when  the  weather  is  favor- 
able-  A.  H.  D. 
Smut  on  Stalks. — I  have  never  seen 
any  bad  effect  from  feeding  corn  fodder 
with  smutty  ears.  I  am  usually  very 
careful  to  throw  all  so  affected  away. 
I  have  always  thought  such  feed  one  of 
the  causes  of  abortion,  but  this  may  be  a 
mere  notion. 
How  About  Cow  Food  ?— We  had  a 
flood  in  this  part  of  the  State  last  spring  ; 
the  water  was  over  my  meadows  three 
days  and  killed  the  oats  completely,  and 
hurt  the  hay.  It  left  only  one-third  of  a 
crop,  so  I  put  in  some  millet  to  help  me 
out.  It  was  so  late  before  I  could  get  it 
in  that  there  is  only  a  fair  crop.  We  are 
in  hopes  of  some  more  good  weather  to 
mature  the  ensilage  corn  ;  some  ears  are 
filling  now,  but  it  is  too  green.  I  shall 
cut  and  let  it  wilt  a  week  in  large  shocks. 
A  Shropshire  Sale.— These  facts  are 
sent  us  about  the  recent  public  sale  of 
G.  E.  Breck,  Paw  Paw,  Mich. 
A  reserve  of  $30  was  put  upon  each 
imported  sheep,  and  the  crowd  evidently 
soon  became  satisfied  with  the  fairness 
of  the  sale,  and  after  a  few  good  sheep 
were  sold  at  bargains,  competition  soon 
became  stronger,  and  by  the  time  those 
in  the  pens  were  half  gone  the  bidding 
became  very  active,  and  as  the  end  drew 
near  it  was  as  lively  as  the  most  nervous 
auctioneer  could  wish.  The  imported 
ewes  averaged  $42.25  and  the  home-bred 
and  two  and  three-year-old  ewes  aver¬ 
aged  $41.76.  The  highest  price  paid  for 
a  ram  lamb  was  $75.  The  Bowen-Jones 
rams  were  especially  active,  and  the 
average  on  all  the  rams  offered  was 
$•>7.77,  and  every  sheep  advertised  was 
sold,  and  at  the  close  of  the  auction  Mr. 
Breck  had  nothing  left  but  four  lambs, 
73  of  his  private  breeding  ewes  and  three 
stock  rams.  Some  good  bargains  went 
at  first  before  the  buyers  seemed  to 
realize  it.  The  sheep  sold  went  to  seven 
States  and  only  one-fourth  stayed  in 
Michigan.  The  buyers  were  largely  old 
and  successful  breeders.  Mr.  Breck  feels 
that  he  has  proved  that  an  auction  sale 
pioperly  conducted  can  be  made  suc¬ 
cessful. 
Dry  Stalks  in  the  Silo.— I  see  by  The 
R.  N.-Y.  for  October  1  that  Vice-Presi¬ 
dent  Morton  intends  to  build  another 
silo  and  to  fill  it  with  corn  stalks.  now 
can  a  silo  be  filled  with  dry  corn  stalks 
to  make  good  ensilage  ?  I  have  a  silo 
and  would  like  to  cut  my  stalks  and  put 
them  in  it,  providing  they  will  not  mould. 
Sodus,  N.  Y.  c  A  w 
R.  N.-Y.— The  corn  on  Mr.  Morton’s 
farm  is  cut  into  the  silom  the  usual  way. 
See  the  article  elsewhere  in  this  issue.  It 
is  possible,  however,  to  keep  dry  stalks 
in  the  silo.  Mr.  Henry  Talcott  of  Ohio, 
cuts  and  shocks  his  corn  in  the  usual 
way.  The  ears  are  husked  off  and  late 
in  the  season,  often  when  snow  covers 
the  stalks,  the  latter  are  hauled  to  the 
barn  and  run  through  the  cutter  into  the 
silo  like  ordinary  ensilage.  This  dry 
stuff  is  tramped  and  for  every  four  feet 
or  so  a  barrel  of  water  is  poured  over  it 
until  the  mass  is  thoroughly  wet.  It  is 
covered  in  the  usual  way  and  fed  out  like 
ordinary  ensilage.  This  makes  excellent 
use  of  the  dry  stalks  and  leaves  the  grain 
for  special  feeding. 
Bran  or  Middlings. — Some  one  asks 
Prof.  1.  VVr.  Woll  of  the  Wisconsin  Sta¬ 
tion,  which  would  be  cheaper,  to  buy 
bran  at  $13.50  per  ton  or  middlings  at 
$15  in  carload  lots.  He  proposes  to  use 
this  feed  for  milch  cows  with  ensilage 
and  chopped  oat  straw.  Prof.  Woll  says 
in  Hoard’s  Dairyman  : 
At  the  prices  mentioned  it  will  doubt- 
less  pay  to  buy  bran  in  preference  to 
muldhngs.  The  chemical  composition 
of  the  two  feeds  does  not  differ  greatly  : 
bran  is  somewhat  richer  in  protein  and 
in  fat  than  are  middlings,  but  on  the 
other  hand  it  is  also  richer  in  crude  fiber 
and  lower  in  starch,  sugar  and  related 
compounds  than  middlings;  and  its  nu¬ 
tritive  ratio  is  consequently  narrower. 
According  to  average  Wisconsin  market 
prices  for  concentrated  cattle  foods,  bran 
is  worth  $13.42  and  middlings  $13.70,  and 
I  doubt  that  their  feeding  value  differs 
very  much  more  than  these  figures;  at 
any  rate,  it  may  not  prove  advantage¬ 
ous  to  buy  middlings  when  the  cost  is 
more  than  50  cents  per  ton  above  that  of 
wheat  bran. 
He  is  also  asked  if  rye  is  not  a  richer 
food  than  corn.  He  says  “yes,  because 
it  contains  more  protein.”  but  at  ordin¬ 
ary  prices  for  rye  or  corn  with  us,  it 
would  be  poor  policy  to  buy  rye  and 
feed  it  to  cattle,  in  preference  to 
corn;  rye  is  usually  worth  nearly  twice 
as  much  per  ton  as  corn,  its  price  being 
determined  by  the  demand  for  it  for  other 
purposes  than  stock  feeding,  and  it  is 
doubtful  if  it  would  prove  much  superior 
to  corn  as  a  cattle  food. 
Merino  ram  on  grade  ewes  or  the  use  of 
a  grade  ram  on  the  same.  I  believe  this 
is  poor  advice  for  the  average  farmer  in 
this  section,  Schuyler  County,  N.  Y.  The 
result  has  been  with  me  and  others  near 
here  who  have  used  a  Merino  ram  on 
grade  ewes,  a  lot  of  uneven  lambs,  some 
large,  others  small,  and  the  wool  was 
not  alike  on  all,  some  having  wool  like 
that  of  the  mothers  and  some  like  the 
sire’s.  The  ram  was  a  large  Merino 
weighing  175  pounds  and  the  ewes  were 
half  Shropshire  and  half  Merino.  The 
loss  on  those  lambs  was  enough  to 
more  than  buy  a  thoroughbred  of  the 
mutton  type.  As  for  breeding  a  grade 
lam  for  any  purpose,  it  has  always 
been  done  here  at  a  loss.  That  a  farmer 
with  plenty  of  means  at  his  disposal 
might  be  able  to  breed  up  a  flock  of  sheep 
in  this  manner  I  admit,  but  the  average 
farmer  who  makes  a  business  of  selling 
all  or  part  of  his  lambs  had  better  breed 
from  a  purebred  sire  of  a  mutton  type 
and  sell  his  grade  ram  lambs  for  mutton. 
It  is  not  necessary  to  confine  the  cross  to 
the  Shropshires  or  Hampshires.  Some 
of  the  best  lambs  in  this  section  have 
been  Cotswold  grades.  I  would  indorse 
the  practice  of  keeping  the  best  ewe 
lambs  for  breeding  purposes.  It  is 
through  judicious  selection  and  breeding 
of  this  kind  that  I  look  for  an  increase 
of  wool  and  carcass.  In  my  opinion  the 
nearer  on  both  sides  we  approach  the 
thoroughbred  in  breeding  the  more  pro¬ 
fitable  the  flock.  CIIAS.  CHAPMAN. 
Successfuli  “Lakeside”  cattle. 
At  tbo  last  New  York  State  Fair,  held  In  this  city 
(Syracuse)  during  the  past  month,  where  were  ex¬ 
hibited  a  large  and  very  fine  lot  of  cattle,  repre¬ 
sent  tlves  of  the  Lakeside  herd  were,  ns  usual,  suc¬ 
cessful,  and  took  by  far  the  greater  number  of  the 
prizes  awarded.  There  v,  ere  37  awards  made  to  IIol- 
steln-Frleslans  In  the  different  classes,  and  out  of 
this  number  2t  were  given  to  animals  either  directly 
or  Indirectly  from  our  establishment,  which  certainly 
Is  a  very  tine  showing  for  the  Lakeside  herd,  and 
shows  where  the  prize  winners  are  to  be  found. 
The  success  of  our  animals  at  the  above-named 
fair  is  no  exception  to  the  rule,  for  at  all  the  leading 
exhibitions  throughout  the  country,  wherever  they 
are  shown,  the  beautiful  “  Netherlands  ”  and  »  Clo- 
tlilldes ”  have  met  with  the  highest  success.  No 
other  two  families  have  produced  such  a  large  num¬ 
ber  of  cows  with  enormous  milk  and  butter  records, 
while  In  their  make-up  they  combine  large  size  with 
beauty  of  form  and  high  finish.  It  Is  therefore  not 
to  be  wondered  at  that  all  excepting  one  of  the 
prizes  referred  to  above,  were  awarded  to  repre¬ 
sentatives  of  these  two  families,  while  of  the  13 
animals  which  did  not  come  from  our  herd,  several 
contained  a  large  per  cent  of  the  same  blood. 
In  the  horse  department  we  were  equally  success¬ 
ful.  On  French  Coachers  we  were  awarded  the  gold 
medal,  as  well  as  two  first  and  two  third  prizes;  on 
standard-bred  trotters  we  secured  four  first,  one 
second  and  two  third;  in  the  class  of  roadsters,  three 
first,  one  second  and  one  third;  In  Clydesdales,  seven 
first;  In  Percherons,  one  first  and  one  second— on  the 
only  animals  of  the  breed  which  were  exhibited;  In 
the  class  of  Coacbeqi,  three  first  and  one  second;  In 
the  general-purpose  class,  driving  coach  and  cou’pd 
two  first  and  three  second,  and  In  the  class  of  mules.’ 
one  first,  making  a  total  In  this  department  of  36 
prizes,  which  certainly  Is  an  admirable  showing. 
It  also  affords  us  pleasure  to  state  that  we  have  on 
hand  an  elegant  lot  of  young  stock,  both  horses  and 
cattle,  all  of  choice  breeding  and  fine  quality,  while 
our  herd  and  stud,  taken  as  a  whole,  never  looked 
better  than  at  present.  smiths  &  powells. 
679 
LINSEED  OIL  MEAL 
Please  do  not  forget  that  our  OIL  MEAL  la 
THE  BEST  FEED 
obtainable  for 
COWS,  BEEF  CATTLE,  HOGS  and  HOUSES. 
Market  price  must  soon  advanoe,  and  wo  advise 
your  taking  In  your  winter's  supply  now. 
Please  write  us  for  quotations  and  other  particulars 
DETROIT  LINSEED  OIL  WORKS, 
DETROIT.  MICHIGAN. 
LEVI  F.  MORTON’S 
ELLERSLIE  GUERNSEYS 
Largest  Guernsey  Herd  in  the  World. 
Cows  give 
0.000  to  11,000 
pounds  milk 
per  year  wlth- 
out  forcing. 
Milk  from 
fresh  cows,  4^ 
to  7  per  cent 
fat. 
BULLS  ONLY 
FOR  SALK. 
H.  M.  COTTRELL,  Supt..  Khlneclilt',  N.  Y. 
CT  E-I  I  1  7  D  Cotswolds,  5outhdowns, 
I  I  CCr  Oxford  Down  and  Shrop- 
shire  Sheep  and  Lambs  of 
superior  breeding.  We  are  booking  orders  now  for 
lambs  of  the  above  breeds,  We  also  have  a  choice 
lot  of  yearlings  and  two-year-olds  to  offer.  Write 
o»ce  for  prices  and  particulars. 
W.  ATLEE  BURPEE  &  CO.,  PHI  LA.,  PA. 
HIGH-CLASS  SHROPSHIRES! 
Fifty  Bowen-Jones  yearling  rams  from  1892  lmpor- 
tatlons  are  se  ling  t°  our  oldest  and  best  breeders. 
Send  for  catalogue. 
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WATERING-  DEVICE 
8T««K  1"  STABLES.  Send  forcirct  - 
market  the  °nly  practlcaI  and  economical  one  in  'he 
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$20  INVINCIBLE  HATCHER.  M*KE  your  poultry  pay 
IVI ORE  than  your  wheat. 
111 ONEY  refunded,  if  this 
Incubator  does  not  hatch  as 
well  as  any  one  made.  Send 
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SHROPSHIRE  SHEEP. 
the  sire  of  the  sensational  shearlings  of  181)1,  and  out 
of  Ewes  by  Bonnie  Beau,  sire  of  the  English  chnm- 
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Address  RICHARD  GIBSON, 
Delaware,  Ont.,  Canada 
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Holstein  Cattle,  fhoiwutkkrad 
Sheep.  Fancy  Poultry.  Hondo* 
and  Hooaa  Do*«.  Catalajne. 
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HORSES  -  -  -  CATTLE. 
Breed  For  Pure  Blood  Flocks. — In 
a  late  Rural  a  writer  under  “Cross-bred 
Lambs  for  Market,”  advises  the  use  of  a 
SMITHS  &  POWELL,  Syracuse, 
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DRIVING  and  MATCHED  COACH  HORSES  (many  of  the  Prize  winners)  ai 
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