THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
739 
Live Stock Matters, 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Milking Machine. —Will any one who has tried 
any of the machines advertised for milkinfj cows 
tell whether they are of any practical value? I 
find it hard on the wrists to milk several cows. 
West Hartford, Conn. j. m. r. 
R. N.-Y.—We have investigated this matter with 
prreat care. There are no milking' machines now- 
made that can be recommended as practical. 
Alfalfa in Montana. —After reading all the ar¬ 
ticles on Alfalfa sow-ing, by the professors and 
others, I will give my ow-n e.xperience. “ Moist, 
rich soil ” w-as essential in their e.xperience with 
it. Now-, moist rich soil w-ill grow- crops of double 
and more value than Alfalfa can give. Sow-ing in 
April and mowing w-hen the plants w-ere six to 
eight inches high, leaving the cut hay on the 
ground, gave me <a stand of Alfalfa on land that 
was too poor to grow- a paying crop of peas or 
beans. With a little irrigation, there are tw-o cut¬ 
tings and pasture, and, w-ith more w-ater, three 
cuttings. On poor land, it takes longer to get a 
paying crop of even Alfalfa than on rich land, but 
the poor land is fully doubled in value. The sub¬ 
soil, however, must be porous or the roots cannot 
penetrate deep enough. j. h. l. 
Stuart, Mon. 
Second Crop Cane.— Some one in Kansas in¬ 
quired recently w-hether the .second croj) of cane 
w-as poisonous to stock. Cane has b ^en raised 
here ever since it was first introduced in this 
jiart of the country, and people have been in the 
habit of turning their stock on the stubble every 
fall. I have never known of any cattle being 
poisoned by eating the second growth. I raised 
cane this season for stock feed; it w-as tall enough 
to mow for the cows when the drought set in, and 
I mowed and fed it to my cow-s. The second crop 
came up, and I picketed a calf on it and changed 
the calf from that to grass and back to the .second 
growth of cane for a month or more. Finally I 
mow-ed w-hat was left of the second crop and cured 
it and fed it to cows and horses w-ith no ill effects; 
but they did not like it as w-ell as they did the first 
crop. .4 friend of mine from Kansas said that 
they raise cane there for fodder, sowing it with 
millet early; thus they get a second crop of both. 
Carbon Cliff, Ill. e. w. c. 
A Maine Dairyman.—I i-ecently spent the night 
w-ith one of our best dairy farmers, and saw him 
milk 41 thoroughbred Jerseys; a finer lot I never 
saw-. He was raising 24 calves, from one day to 
four and five months old, for use in his dairy and 
for sale. He said that he had sold between 40 and 
50 head this season. He had some 25 .sleek look¬ 
ing yearlings in pasture to draw on as his wants 
required. 1 saw him take the milk from the 41 
cows, strain it twice, carry it into a building ad. 
joining the tie-up, put it through the separator 
(w-hich was a novelty to me), in about two houi-s. 
He has tw-o silos in which he puts 200 tons of 
Evergreen sweet corn, cuts about 75 tons of hay, 
had picked 100 barrels of apples, and had many 
more to pick. I noticed one thing that didn’t meet 
my approval: in the barn cellar, the bottom of 
which was a little slanting, the liquid was drain¬ 
ing from the manui-e and running out of the side 
of the building, where it appeared to me that it 
was practically lost. With sawdust, dried muck 
or du.st from the road, he could easily save from 
$50 to $100 per year. t. d. 
Waldo, Me. 
Cattle Ticks Again.— About 18 months ago, I 
w-rote an article on the subject of Texas fever. I 
ridiculed the United States Department of Agru 
culture for the circumlocutory manner in which 
it connected the common cattle tick (Boophilis 
bovis) therewith, and positively asserted and 
aimed to demonstrate, that they w-ere solely and 
directly responsible for this great drawback to 
cattle raising in the South, only to have my claims 
called in (luestion and ijrobably to be privately 
ridiculed by the (un)knowing ones. Bulletin No. 
30 of the Texas experiment Station, just to hand, 
now most emphatically corroborates the asser¬ 
tions I then made, and The R. N.-Y. can probably 
claim that it was the first publication w-hose con¬ 
tributor correctly diagnosed the case. The Kan- 
sas-Texas Exiieriment is so conclusive that there 
can no longer be room for doubt to a mind open 
to conviction. Young ticks placed on a four-year- 
old Jersey, killed her in less than three weeks. 
For the benefit of the imblic, I think attention 
should be called to this subject once more, for only 
after all shall have become thoroughly convinced, 
will there be concert of action in waging war on 
this terrible foe, the cattle tick. j. c. senger. 
Virginia. 
The Smell of a Silo.—Do all silos smell like a 
tanyard? A neighbor has one, and I am glad that 
he lives two miles away. I smelled it a half mile 
off as I was going to his hou.se one day last win¬ 
ter, and w-oudered all the rest of the w-ay what it 
could be. I nearly forgot it after I was once in 
the house, but was reminded of it at tea time w-ith 
a vengeance w-hen the “ gude mon” took his .seat 
opposite me at the w-ell-siiread table. Nothing 
shoi-t of “will,” or, rather, w-on’t-run-aw-ay pow-er, 
kept me in my seat. Actually, each in.spiration only 
extended a short w-ay into the trachea, and never 
touched the lungs until I became used to it. Soon 
he, his good w-ife and his daughters enlightened 
me as to what it was. I was astonished, to put it 
mildly. I had alw-ays supposed a silo to be sweet, 
fresh and nice. The man left his hat, boots, over¬ 
alls and jacket outside, substituting others before 
he came in. Just think of what it w-ould have 
been otherwise ! I have often wondered since if 
all were so, and w-hen I read in The Rural 
awhile ago about a man who was so conscien 
tioua that he would not feed brew-ers’ grains after 
they fermented, I have intended to ask about it. 
By the w-ay, the man w-ith the silo makes butter 
with an excellent flavor, and sells it to customers 
the year ai-ound at an adv.ance on market prices. 
I can’t conceive of any meaner smelling cow- feed, 
go where you w-ill or find it where you may. 
Warren County, Pa. r. e. b. 
R. N.-Y.—What do our silo men have to say 
about that? Is it only a matter of keen nose? 
Value of a Steamer.— Will The R. N.-Y. give a 
report on cooking feed for battening hogs ? L.ast 
fall I saw- the Great Western steamer in The R. 
N.-Y.’s premium list. I could not get up a club to 
get one, so I sent to the manufacturers and pur- 
cha.sed one. I have been grinding and cooking 
my w-he.at, and feeding it to my hogs. I have no 
scales to w-eigh them, to make a test, but think it 
is much better than feeding it raw. a. b. s. 
Garfield, Ind. 
Ans.—S ome years ago, we sent this very ques¬ 
tion to a number of practical farmers w-ho had 
used a steamer. They <all claimed that the steamer 
paid them w-ell. The cooked grain seemed to be 
better relished by hogs, and apparently gave bet¬ 
ter results, though no exact figures w-ere given. 
There w-as no doubt aboutthe value of the steamer 
in feeding potatoes, roots, .stalks or coarse hay. 
By cutting and steaming the hay and stalks, 
there was little or no waste in feeding. The 
steamer w-as also very useful in warming the 
milk and slops for the hogs in winter. 
The Fodder for Cows.— Prof. C. S. Plumb, in the 
Jersey Bulletin, gives the follow-ing account of the 
results obtained at the Indiana Experiment Sta¬ 
tion : 
“ We prefer to feed cut fodder, whether hay or 
corn. Last winter, fodder was scarce in this lo¬ 
cality, and we gathered in everything in sight. The 
most economical and satisfactory ration of rough 
stuff w-e fed, was a mi.xture of practically one part 
each of corn stalks, oat straw and clover hay. 
Everything was eaten rea.sonably clean, and our 
COW'S never w-ent through the winter in better 
shajie. As we could buy oat straw for from $3 to 
$4 per ton, and no corn stalks were in the market, 
and clover and Timothy mixed w'cre away up in 
price, the oat straw brought dow-n the general 
cost and, at the same time, furnished in itself a 
fairly nutritious rough food. We cannot lay too 
much stress on the value we set on corn fodder, 
either dry, green or as ensilage. We keep feeding 
it nearly the whole year ’round. I believe no fod¬ 
der gives better influence on the quality of butter, 
than well-cured corn stover. In the winter we 
feed in the manger, and not, as a rule, in pasture. 
While our fodder corn is run through a cutting 
machine, where w-ell cured, I believe that shredded 
fodder may be fed more economically, as there 
are no hard butt pieces left in the mangers.” 
Some of Our Dairy Rations.— The best ration is 
the one that produces a liberal flow of milk. I 
have not found it practicable to feed a cow giving 
skim-milk, a selected ration, and thus produce 
rich milk. Of course, feeding succulent feed will 
produce an increase in the yield, with a larger in¬ 
crease in the fluid part of the milk than in the fat. 
I have found that the best way to produce fat is 
to get a herd that will give a paying quantity of 
rich milk, and then feed to increase the flow. I 
always u.se the Babcock test, and any cow that 
will not test an average of 4.75 per cent fat and 
average 20 pounds of milk per day for nine months, 
must go to the butcher as a skim-milk cow. 
The following are some of the rations fed, and 
have proved quite satisfactory : 
Forty pounds of ensilage, eight pounds of hay, 
six pounds of bran, three pounds of corn meal. 
The ration consists of about 2^2 pounds of protein 
[muscle-maker], 9*4 of carbohydrates [fat form¬ 
ers] and 0.6 pure fat. 
Another is, 30 pounds of corn fodder, 4 pounds 
of bran, 4 pounds of corn meal, 3 pounds of ground 
oats. 
I tried another of, hay 15 pounds, corn fodder 5 
pounds, with about four quarts of corn meal twice 
a day. Although it w-as quite successful at first, 
it produced too much fat, and was a failure as a 
milk-producing ration. 
A cow fed at her highest capacity will, like any 
other machine, wear out sooner than if run at a 
more moderate rate. I have found that three 
years of high feeding is all that a cow- will stand 
and do her best, while four or five years is not un¬ 
common for a cow to give a good flow under good 
care and sufficient feed. o. w. ii. 
Rough, Wintry, Changeable weather, pro¬ 
duces Catarrhs, Coughs, Disorders of the Lungs, &c., 
which Jayne’s Expectorant promptly cures if faith¬ 
fully administered.—Adu. 
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