1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
359 
Live Stock Matters 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Roup. —My young son had several 
fowls affected with roup. They were 
separated from the rest, put in dry, 
warmer quarters, and given daily in 
their water arsenicum as prepared for 
homeopathic use. They got well in good 
time. e. r. 
Another Kick Remedy. —If C. W. R., 
of Dresden, N. Y., in The R. N.-Y. of 
April 29, 1893, will tie tightly enough a 
small, stout rope around his kicking 
cow’s body just in front of the hips and 
under, it will prevent- her from kick¬ 
ing. It should only be left on while 
milking. This idea is simple but I never 
knew it to fail. e. j. w. 
What to Do With Oats and Peas. — 
For the first time I have put in a crop of 
oats and peas this year for fodder, 
though I shall not need to use it until 
next winter, as I have plenty of pasture. 
Which would be the safer and better 
way—to put it into my silo green when 
fit to cut, or to cure it ? Would not the 
curing be a slow and laborious process ? 
Attleboro, Mass. s. p. l. 
Ans. —We want advice on this point 
from all who can give it. Most of the 
pea growers cure their fodder about as 
described by Mr. Baker on page 228. 
The Minnesota Experiment Station has 
had excellent results with pea ensilage 
and the crop can certainly be kept in 
the silo. If the crop were ours we should 
make it into ensilage. 
Cows Need Beets.— My experience is 
that more cows die for the want of beets 
than are ever killed by the feeding of 
them. I have had some experience in 
feeding beets to cattle, and find that 
cows improve in milking very much if 
they get a good feed of mangolds every 
day, and will improve in their general 
appearance by the regular use of them, 
and my experience is that the parts of 
the beets that grow above ground are 
just as good food as those that grow in 
the soil. I should think that dry corn¬ 
stalks have much more woody fiber in 
them than the upper ends of good beets. 
Beets beat corn-stalks, turnips, ensilage, 
and almost anything else in keeping cows 
in good condition in winter, but should 
not be fed frozen or on very cold days. 
Sonoma, N. C. w. s. t. 
Beets and Cows.—For years I have fed 
beets and carrots to cows, and never no¬ 
ticed any bad results. I am not a cow 
man, but aim to keep one good one, and 
being a berry grower, I find roots my 
cheapest feed. One year I fed about 80 
bushels of Yellow Globes. During 
the winter of 1891-’92 I fed about 80 
bushels of beets and 60 of carrots to one 
cow, and my butter record shows that 
my feeding was a success. List winter 
I fed about 140 bushels of carrots and 
beets, half and half, and the cow still 
lives and thrives. I doubted the pro¬ 
priety of feeding so many roots, but I feel 
perfectly free now to feed a bushel per 
day. I feed, besides this, all the hay the 
cow will eat, which is not very much. 
Michigan. j. h. vandervort. 
Loss From Hired Feeding.—H aving 
seen in a recent issue of The Rural an 
account of an experiment to find how 
much milk was lost by the inefficiency 
of the hired man in milking, I herewith 
copy from my “butter book” two items : 
Amount of butter churned during .Jan¬ 
uary. 1892, from 11 cows, a hired man 
feeding.92^ pounds. 
Amount of butter churned during Jan¬ 
uary, 1893, from eight cows, myself 
feeding.198 pounds. 
Or, in other words, with three cows 
less than the hired man had charge of, I 
made 105% pounds of butter more than 
he. The only thing in my favor was that 
five of the cows were young heifers, in 
milk for the first time during 1892. As 
to the hired man: he was a neighbor 
who agreed to milk, feed and take care 
of the stables for $10 per month, his job 
taking about 1% hour mornings and 
nights. As to the farmer: it was his 
first experience in feeding cows. Sev¬ 
eral times they were oil their feed; once, 
however, and during a cold snap at that, 
he got them up to 50 pounds in one week. 
As to the feed: it was corn fodder and 
hay, and for grain, bran, linseed and 
cotton-seed meal mixed, one part linseed 
or cotton-seed to four parts bran, and of 
this mixture one cow used to consume 
30 quarts a day. feeder. 
Is it a “Big Story?” —Following 
this is an account of the doings of 30 
hens. cora morse. 
Vermont. 
1892 
March.—43 dozen eggs. $5.68 
Feed. . 3.08 
Proflt. $2.60 
April.—44 dozen eggs. $5.75 
Feed. 2.75 
Front. $3.to 
May.—40 dozen eggs. $5.90 
Feed. 1.37 
Proflt. $4.53 
June.—34 dozen eggs. $5.70 
Feed. 2.00 
Proflt. $3.70 
July.—33 dozen eggs and chickens.$9.08 
Feed. . 2.70 
Proflt. $7.38 
August.-35 dozen eggs and chickens_$11.22 
Feed. 2.20 
and is there any objection to their use? 
Mt. Riga, N. Y. k. h. b. 
Ans. —The above analyses are about 
right so far as comparative values go. 
The economy of feeding the dried grains 
will, of course, depend upon their price 
as compared with other foods. Dried 
grains are as safe to feed as oats; in fact, 
for working horses they have been sub¬ 
stituted for equal weights of oats with 
excellent results. As compared with 
wheat bran for milk production, some 
cows do not eat them readily at first and 
we should experiment carefully to prove 
their value as against wheat bran. Prof. 
Voorhees of the New Jersey Station gives 
this table : 
Selling Price Valuation 
per ton. per ton. 
Dried brewers’ grains.$19.48 $25.00 
Wheat bran . 21.06 22.(9) 
Corn meal . 25.88 23.00 
The selling price is the average of sev¬ 
eral different retail prices. The “valua¬ 
tion” is figured on the basis of figuring 
values of fertilizers by allowing a fair 
price for protein, fat and carbohydrates. 
The dried grains are well worth testing 
by any milkman. That is the only way 
for him to know their value. 
Ellerslie Guernseys. 
LARGEST GUERNSEY HERD IN 
THE WORLD. 
Choice Animals of both sexes for sale. 
LEVI P. MOBTON, Proprietor. 
H. M. COTTRELL, Supt., RHINECLIFF, N. Y. 
GUERNSEYS! 
The GRANDEST of DAIRY Breeds. 
Combining the richness of the Jersey with the size 
approximate to the Holstein or Short-horn, but 
standing alonk and UNBQt7AL®i> in producing the 
richest colored butter In mid-winter on dry feed. 
Gentle as pets, persistent milkers and' hardy in con¬ 
stitution, they combine more qualifications for the 
dairy or family cow than any other breed. In the 
“ Old Brick Guernsey Herd” 
are daughters and granddaughters of the renowned 
Squire Kent, 1504 A. G. C. 0. and pf the finest strains 
o» Guernsey or la America—Coi&us, son of Squire 
Kent and StatelJlte, son of Kohlm head the herd. All 
particulars in regard to Breed and Herd cheerfully 
given. S. P. TABER WILLETTS, 
“ The Old Brick,” Roslys, L. I., N. Y. 
n A || A |J Registered Hull calves 
rOllSU UUlliamSi forBalebyLEANDKK 
CAY WOOD, Fredencktown, O., on B. & O. lly. 
High-Glass Shropshires 
We now offer 10 Imported two-year-old rams from 
the flocks of Bowen-Jones and Minton, that will 
weigh 300 pounds and shear 16 pounds or more. Also, 
40 home-bred yearling rams from Imported stock. 
Our flrst ’93 Importation will arrive In July. 
THE WILLOWS, Paw Paw, Mich. 
Proflt. $9.02 
Total Proflt.$30.23 
R. N.-Y.—Is this an improbable record? 
Let’s see. Thirty hens laid in 184 days 
2,748 eggs, or an average of 91 each— 
not quite one egg for every two days. 
In the other six months of the year we 
doubt if they will average 20 eggs each. 
The cost of feeding each hen six months 
was about 47 cents. The other six 
months of winter and fall will cost more, 
so that the total cost will be about $1 per 
head. If every hen were killed and sold 
in September the result would be a good 
profit, but the cost of carrying them 
through the winter wijl cut the given 
profit almost in two. Notice that the 
largest profit on eggs was made in May 
and June, when prices are lowest. That’s 
because the eggs cost less per dozen. 
Poultby IN THE Gakden.— The very 
pretty theory of letting poultry run in 
the garden to grow fat and big on a diet 
of potato bugs and other hated insects 
comes up every year. A lady in Insect 
Life gives this bit of experience : 
I have given up raising ducks unless I can have a 
good-sized fenced pasture for them near water. 
When the potato beetles flrst appeared, my husband 
scattered buckwheat between the rows and called 
the chickens after him as he shook down the beetles 
and tiny larva; among the buckwheat on the ground, 
soon the fowls would pick off the Insects for them¬ 
selves. 
As to chickens, one year we put our Early Rose po¬ 
tatoes near the barn. For fear of hurting the 
chickens, we did not use Paris-green as usual. My 
husband soon discovered that our chickens kept the 
beetles in check. I did not believe this, so I 
made a careful examination of the plot (an acre 
in extent;) I did not And a hundred beetles and very 
few larva;, but did seo the hens and chickens; the 
rooster, a line Langshan, at their head, ate the tiny 
larva;. To be sure, they did eat some potatoes, but 
who would mind such a trifle ? Next season we put 
In a large patch of potatoes near the henhouse, ad¬ 
joining a large cabbage patch. Now, early cabbages 
bring here live or six cents per pound. I had in¬ 
tended making my fortune that year on “Early Jer¬ 
sey Wakeflelds.” They had begun to bead very 
nicely. I noticed the rooster and his numerous 
family walking up and down the rows; my husDand 
suggested that they were worming the eabbage. I 
investigated; they had not touched the potato 
beetles apparently, but had eaten the hearts out of 
over 100 of my cabbages. I sold the fowls the 
next day, all but the roosters, which I took real sat¬ 
isfaction In consigning to the pot. I was damaged to 
the tune of $25. 
I have decided that turkeys and Guinea fowls 
aro the only fowls that can be trusted In a gar¬ 
den. Turkeys sometimes damage grain, but can 
be watched; they destroy Innumerable grasshop¬ 
pers. But toads are the birds, as our Irish neigh¬ 
bor says: 1 even think It would pay to put a 12-inch 
board around market and flower gardens and Intro¬ 
duce toads; they make nice pets (we have a big black 
one that has lived under the porch for years) and 
destroy immense numbers of injurious insects 
Bbewers’ Gkains fob Milk — I have 
the following analyses of corn meal, 
wheat bran and dried brewers’ grains. 
Please tell me whether they are correct: 
Carbo- 
Protein. Fat. hydrates. 
Corn meal. 10 4 67 
Wheat bran. 16 4 54 
Dried brewers’grains. 23 5 50 
Fiber. Water. Ash. 
Corn meal. 2 15 2 
Wheat bran..10 10 6 
Dried brewers’grains. 8 10 4 
Are dried brewers’ grains more econom¬ 
ical for milk producers than wheat bran, 
bilious Disorders, Liver Complaints, Cos- 
tlveness, Dyspepsia, etc., aro speedily removed by 
Dr. Jayne’s Sanative l’llls. Thirty years use has 
proved them superior to all other remedies for the 
cure of the various diseases for which they are 
recommended. In their action they are mild and 
certain, and may be taken at any time without risk 
from exposure.— Adv. 
BORSiT HORN SHEEP 
D0M-PR00F. 
I oger for sale an exceptionally flue lot of Bam and 
Ewe Lambs, sired by Imported lloya) Windsor No. 
232, First Prize Wlmner Royal Show at Windsor, Eng¬ 
land, 1889, Imported Model Prince. 603, and Linden 
Prince, 1026, and all out of choice imported ewes. 
Those that wish to raise many aad early lambs (as a 
lamb of 40 pounds at Christmas will bring more than 
Hve of same weight will bring In June) give the 
Dorsets a trial, and they will soon be convinced of 
their superiority over all other breeds. All sheep 
delivered free of expressage to the buyer. Address 
T. S. COOPER, Ctopersburg, Penn. 
P. S.—Also for sale a few very choice Jersey Bull 
calves, sired by the grand old bull Pedro, 3187, now 16 
years old, and still In active service; he Is considered 
the best son of the famous Eurotas.—T. S. C. 
SOUTH DOWN SHEEP. 
CASSIUS MARCHLLUS CLAY, White Hall, Ky. 
KILLS AND PREVENTS INSECTS AND DISEASE. 
$2 packet makes 100 Gallons. 
R. FKANCKLYN & CO., 3 Hanover St., New York. 
FEEDING ANIMALS. 
This is a practical work of 660 pages, by Professor 
K. W. STEWART, upon the science of feeding In all 
its details, giving practical rations for all farm ani¬ 
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sheep to buy and study it carefully. Price, H2.00. 
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