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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 14 
fARMmS’CLUP 
DISCUSSIONS 
Raise More and Buy Less. 
J. H., Mercer County, W. Va.—I am 
here temporarily from a Northern State. 
The ways of some agriculturists exceed 
anything I have run across yet. It is 
no marvel that times are “panicky ” in 
this State, and assignments the order of 
the day. Why under the canopy of 
heaven don’t the farmers distant from 
railroad and city, whose time is not very 
valuable, raise more and buy less f They 
buy meat, soap, brooms, tobacco, mo¬ 
lasses, and some buy coal, truly, for no 
reason that a man can discern unless 
that it would take too much time from 
their days off, the loafing days, to pre¬ 
pare wood. It looks as if some would 
like to buy water! One may pass through 
the nearest town any day and see a group 
of three or four farmers standing about 
swapping filthy anecdotes. But I find 
the wives and daughters of these men 
live lives of hard and continuous labor. 
They have no time for rest or self-im¬ 
provement, It came to pass that I was 
at the home of one of these farmers who 
buy commercial fertilizers and throw 
their own out of a hole in the barn and 
shovel it up after many days. There was 
an air of poverty and scrimpiness about 
his home. He himself was riding and 
plowing, however. His daughter was at 
the dairy exhausting her strength for 
that day on an old dash churn. His wife, 
the mother of his six lusty boys, had a 
hopeless, listless look, as if it had been 
five years since there had been any “ let 
up ” of the strain and grind under which 
she lives as chief cook, nurse, house¬ 
keeper, and dairy woman. Why don’t 
these men save and work, and study the 
best ways of managing ? There is mis¬ 
sionary work for The R. N.-Y. right 
here, and if it keeps driving away at 
them, it may be that all the good it does 
will not be interred with its bones. 
A Silo for Six Cows. 
H. O. M., Lunenbubgh, Mass. —Brevi¬ 
ties, page 8, says : “ Given, a man with 
six cows, too few for a silo, what is the 
best way to utilize corn stalks ?” When 
has it been demonstrated that a silo is 
not profitable for six cows ? Living in 
a New England town where a large pro¬ 
portion of the farmers are engaged in 
mixed farming with an average of less 
than six cows per farm, I doubt if one 
can find more silos in proportion to the 
number of cows than here. Within a 
distance of less than two miles on the 
road passing my farm, are six silos. 
Every one had ensilage this year and 
last. May 1, the owners were taxed for 
35 cows, two two-year-olds, four year¬ 
lings (heifers), two oxen, one bull. 
Two-year-olds, if giving milk or soon to 
do so, are classed as cows. There is no 
doubt about the correctness of this list, 
as we publish a list including all taxable 
property, and every taxpayer has one. 
We have little, if any, cheating in tax 
matters. There are, of course, many 
more silos in town. My own has cement 
(concrete) walls ; height of cellar, eight 
feet, then double-boarded, inside with 
matched and planed pine boards, and 
best builders sheathing between. I pre¬ 
fer the boards as they are cheaper, and 
they do not stain the ensilage at all; it 
is as bright against the sides as anywhere 
else in the silo, while the cement stains 
the sides for one-quarter inch or so, 
although there is no waste. Where 
cement is not put on smooth, as I have 
seen it, it will not keep ensilage so well 
as boards. From my own and others’ 
experience, I believe it can be demon¬ 
strated that a silo will pay for six cows 
or less. 
I feed my cows twice a day, hay and a 
bushel of ensilage each, night and morn¬ 
ing. An average feed is 60 pounds per 
cow a day. Six cows would require 27 
tons for five months’ feed. I often feed it 
six months. I believe that 20 tons of 
ensilage can be kept in a silo with more 
profit than to dry the same stalks for 
fodder. To do so, it must be cut, not 
over one inch long, which here will not 
ftost over 35 cents per ton including 
putting into the silo with the elevator. 
This price includes two men, one with 
engine, one with cutter. As it would 
cost that or more to carry it in whole, 
every one is in favor of cut ensilage here. 
A silo to hold 30 tons or less should not 
have over 100 feet of floor surface, 10x10 
or 8x12 if possible to give sufficient depth. 
A silo of that size, well made, double 
boarded, all floored, inside, pine, planed 
and matched, with a good quality of 
tarred paper or sheathing between, the 
inside boards not over six inches wide, 
put on up and down, should keep 20 or 
25 tons or more of ensilage with but 
little more loss than in 100 tons if of the 
same depth, in proportion to amount put 
in. A wheelbarrow should carry it all. 
My own way of using has been to keep 
the ensilage covered with boards except 
about three feet, and take it off in sec¬ 
tions of about 15 to 18 inches thick. 
Place the next top boards where the 
last strip was taken off, and always have 
a strip three feet or more wide where I 
am using, uncovered all the time. I have 
been troubled little with heating of the 
ensilage, but from a little experience 
two years ago with a small crack in my 
concrete wall, I think that there will be 
very much more loss from heating where 
air is allowed to enter than when the 
silo is perfectly tight. 
A Fruit Bote. 
W. G. R., Blair County, Pa. —I add a 
note to the good direction given on page 
193 as to pruning curiants. The Fay 
needs to have its shoots shortened in to 
enable them to carry the heavy bunches 
without being weighed down to the 
ground. The shoots are more slender, 
and more pliant and longer than in other 
sorts, and the wood begins to decay 
sooner, needing renewal. Cut out all 
three-year-old wood, unless carrying 
quite thrifty shoots. 
New Way of Clearing Grape Bruih. 
B. J. C., SoDUS, N. Y.—I frequently 
see articles in The R. N.-Y. on fruits 
and methods of cultivation, that are 
valuable ; however, some of them are be¬ 
hind the times. I noticed in a recent 
IN writing to adyertlserf pleaBe always mention 
Thi bubal. 
Shooting Pains 
J All over my body and 
dwelling of my limbs have 
caused me great suffering; 
In the spring I was com¬ 
pletely worn out and ate 
hardly enough to keep mo 
alive. I have been taking 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and 
the swelling has sub¬ 
sided, the shooting pains 
are gone, I have good ap- 
I petite, am better every 
’ way.” mbs. a. G. Oman, 
4 Newman St, S o. Boston. Hood’9 Cures 
Hood’s Pill S cure sick Headache. 25o> 
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number a contrivance for taking the 
refuse grape vines out of a vineyard by 
means of a horse hitched to a pole. We 
think a Planet Jr. cultivator much ahead 
of that scheme. We take off all of the 
teeth and all of the standards but the 
two outside ones, then spread the wings 
as wide as possible. By using a steady 
horse and taking pains to catch two or 
three vines behind the standards when 
first starting between the trellises, it 
will clear a row as clean as necessary. 
1 have the man or boy who is driving the 
horse keep some eight or ten feet behind 
the cultivator and if a few of the vines 
slip out he picks them up and throws 
them on to the pile. We have no diffi¬ 
culty in clearing eight or ten acres per 
day, with one horse and one man, in this 
way. 
R. N.-Y.—Remember that what is a 
very old story to one man may be entirely 
new to another. 
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Free olronlar 
on Rods Fence for 
OU Men Wanted to 
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