1893 
663 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Rape for Shkep.— I grow rape after 
rye and barley, harrowing the ground 
well fo as to retain moisture Sow any 
time in July or August. I can advise 
sheepmen to grow rape whenever they 
need something to tide over from the first 
frosts to snow and they have moisture 
enough to gro^v turnips. It will be found 
invaluable. I think. w. w. kelly. 
Minnesota. 
r Sheep and Tobacco.— The Michigan 
Farmer snys that “sheep will eat tobacco 
very readily ; not a great deal, but suffi¬ 
cient to act as a vermifuge. We have 
seen stock rams come up to their owners 
aLd w»it for a ‘ chew ’ of fine-cut. It is 
asserted by many breeders that tobacco 
given in this way is a sure cure or pre¬ 
ventive for worms. The manufactured 
tobacco has a certain amount of salt, mo¬ 
lasses or licorice in Us make-up, and this 
induces sheep to eat it.” 
Pa stured in Bran. —Can a cow be kept 
healthy and contented when stabled dur¬ 
ing the summer as well as in winter, 
and what would be the best kind of food 
for her ? H. d. s. 
R N -Y—Yes, a cow can be kept in 
this wav because it has been done re¬ 
pea ted’y. Of the dairy breeds we should 
prefer a Guernsey for such a purpose. 
It is better to give the cow a box stall 
large enough for her to move about in it. 
The feed should be as close as possible to 
what she would get at pasture. Green 
grass or grain cut and brought to the 
stall with corn stalks, tops of bepts and 
turnips, cabbage and other garden refuse 
should be givpn every day, if possible, 
with a good allowance of grain—say corn 
meal and bran mixed. 
relished.” We see no reason why this 
plan would not answer in this country 
wherever roots are to be fed 
A SILO SUBSTITUTE. 
It, is pprhaps about thr»e or four months 
since T rpad in The Rural an article en¬ 
titled “ A Substitute f r the Silo.” It de¬ 
scribed a box with three compartments 
in which the cows’ feed was soaked sev¬ 
eral days before feeding. Although I 
have most of the coDies, I am unable to 
find this article When was it? . 1 . b.,,tr. 
Nape’ville, Ill 
R. N. Y.—The article appeared on page 
411 (June 17.) It was a description, by a 
German farmer, of a method of feeding 
turnips or mangolds. To repeat his 
words: “A box, shown at Fig. 216. is 
built out of pine scantlings and 1% inch 
boards, with the top and front oppn. the 
whole divided into three equal compart¬ 
ments, each to hold an entire day’s feed 
for all animals space being calculated on 
the basis of two cubic feet for each cow. 
A three-inch layer of chopped hay and 
straw is now spread evenly on the floor 
of the first compartment; then follows a 
thin layer of sliced mangolds which have 
previously been mixed with the daily al- 
—^^ 
Li 
Substitute for a Silo. Fig. 216. 
lowance of oil meal and bran ; then an¬ 
other layer of chopped hay and straw, 
treading down firm as it grows up and 
setting in the front boards as needed. 
When full, a board covering is put on. 
On the second day the next compartment 
is similarly filled, and on the third day 
the last one. On the third day we com¬ 
mence to feed from the fir^t compart¬ 
ment ; this has now become thoroughly 
heated and has entered into a sweet fer¬ 
mentation, giving an agreeable odor to 
the whole mixture, and the avidity with 
which it is consumed proves that it is 
CHEMISTRY OF THE HEN. 
Mr. R. Warrington, a noted English 
chemist, has recently printed some fig¬ 
ures about hen chemistry that ought to 
make every member of the poultry tribe 
—except the surplus rooster—proud of 
herself. A good hen will furnish at 
least five or six times hjr weight of eggs 
in the course of a year. The average 
weight of an egg is two ounces. About 
12 p^r cent of it is shell. Chemically 
the white and the yolk have these com¬ 
positions : 
White. 
Water.. . 85.4 
Nitrogenous substance. 12 9 
Eat . 0.3 
Other non-nttrogenous matters. 0 8 
Ash. . 0.6 
100.0 
Yolk. 
50.6 
1 « 1 
314 
0.5 
14 
100.0 
Whtte. Yolk. 
. 31.4 
9 3 
, 31 6 
5.9 
. 2.8 
13.0 
. 2.8 
2.1 
.6 
1.7 
. 4 4 
65.6 
. 2.1 
_ 
1.1 
.9 
. 28.8 
1.6 
in 
alkalies, 
The yolk is thus much drier than the 
white, and is especially characterized by 
containing a verv large amount of fatty 
matter. The ashes of the white and yolk 
show these analyses : 
Pot»sh. 3 L 4 
Soda. 31 fi 
Lime . 2.8 
Magnesia. 2.8 
Oxide of iron. .6 
Phosoborlc acid. 4 4 
Sulphuric acid. 2.1 
Silica. 1.1 
Chlorine. 28^8 
The white is thus rich 
potash and soda, a part of the latter 
being apparently present as common 
salt. The yolk is extraordinarily rich 
in phosphoric acid; it contains also 
much more lime than the white. It is, 
in fact, the part of the egg which con¬ 
tributes most to the formation of bone. 
Chemists have often figured out the 
amount of fertility taken away from the 
soil in different crops. Viewed in this 
way, 1.000 pounds, or 666 dozen, of hens’ 
eggs, shells included, contain, of the 
most important constituents, the follow¬ 
ing quantities : 
„.. Pounds. 
Nitrogen ... 20 00 
Potash . i .75 
Lime.... ..... 60 82 
Phosphoric acid.4.22 
In other words, 8,000 eggs, worth at 
least $160. take on’y about $3 56 worth of 
fertilitv from the farm. To see what an 
exhaustless crop eggs are, study the fol¬ 
lowing table: 
VALUE OF THE FERTILITY SOLD IN $160 WORTH. 
Hs'es . tH. e a 
^heat.42^28 
Cheese . 1 ! 04 
m! ve Si tfc V?. 18.88 
These are but illustrations of many 
crops that take the life of the soil away. 
Butter is the only crop that takes less 
than eggs, dollar for dollar. Think of 
selling $160 worth of wheat in the form 
of grain ! With it goes $42 28 worth of 
your farm. Feed that wheat to hens and 
sell the same amount and the farm loses 
$3 56 worth of its fertility. Can’t you 
see when you sell the egg you sell water, 
a substance that does not weaken your 
soil a particle ? You can also go a step 
further and sell blood when you manage 
your flock of hens with such skill and 
care that a continuation of their record 
is wo r thy of going down the ages, you 
can get blood prices for your eggs. 
As to the feeding lessons learned from 
the analysis of an egg, Mr. Warrington 
says: 
“ A good cow may produce in a year 
six times her weight of milk, with a calf 
in addition. If we take the cow as weigh¬ 
ing 1,000 pounds, we have in the salable 
products about 800 pounds of dry matter, 
containing 36 8 pounds of nitrogen. Hens 
of good laying breeds, weighing 1.000 
pounds, will yield in the same time 6 000 
pounds of eggs the contents of which 
will include 1,404 pounds of dry matter, 
containing 120 pounds of nitrogen. It 
has been often pointed out that since 
cows’ milk is much richer in nitrogen 
than the carcass of an animal, so the 
food supplied to cows in full milk should 
be of a specially nitrogenous character. 
The argument has still greater weight in 
the case of the hen, as we have just seen 
that her produce, in the same time, from- 
the same bodv weight, contai s 3K times 
as much nitrogen as that of the cow 
The albuminoid ratio of eggs is, indeed, 
as high as 1 : 1 82. 
Under natunl con ditions, a fowl’s diet 
is in summer time of a decidedly nitro¬ 
genous character, the food consisting 
largely of insects, worms, etc. The ad¬ 
vantage of giving hens a good ‘run’ is 
well known ; this is partly due to the 
active exercise obtained, which is essen¬ 
tial for a continuance of the egg-laying 
condition, but is also in part owing to 
the supply of insect food which the hens 
then obtain.” 
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use of Dr. D Jayne’s Expectorant, an old remedy for 
Sore Lungs and Throats, and a certain curative for 
Colds.— Adv. 
A Stable 
shelf ought to have on 
it a bottle of Phenol 
Sodiq ue for bruises, 
cuts, sore spots, &c. 
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or longer, and will travel 
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Maine. 
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