1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
45 1 
PRIMER SCIENCE. 
(continued.) 
row. The rows were made shallow with 
a wheel hoe, and the potatoes covered 
with about two inches of soil. Over 
this was spread a coating' of manure, 
and on this a layer of cut straw. The 
ground was moist at the time. The 
potatoes were planted on a tough, wiry 
sod that had not been plowed in nearly 
15 years. No cultivating or hoeing has 
been done, yet comparatively few weeds 
have grown through the mulch, though 
on the unmulched ground alongside, the 
weeds nearly mastered the crops. The 
drought has been severe, yet the soil 
under the mulch is still cool and moist. 
The eight varieties of potatoes in this 
experiment are the finest to be found 
anywhere in the neighborhood. In 
places, the vines are over three feet 
high, and are of a dark, rich green color. 
Old potato growers think the result will 
be “all vines.” We know, however, 
that there are potatoes large enough to 
eat (not to sell) noiv, 55 days from plant¬ 
ing. We shall wait until they are dug, 
however, before talking about yield. 
Thus far, the mulch has proved entirely 
satisfactory, and through this very dry 
season, has apparently given the pota¬ 
toes an ideal place to grow in. After 
the potatoes are dug, we propose to set 
potted strawberry plants on this ground 
on the intensive plan recently suggested 
by Mr. Crawford. 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Castrating Colts. —For the past 12 
years, we have, on an average, castrated 
four colts each year when about three 
months old, always with the best of sat¬ 
isfaction. Among them are some of the 
best horses, shipped to New York City 
and Boston. The operation does not 
stop the growth of the yard in ours; 
not one of them has ever been foul. 
They are not so mischievous in chasing 
young colts, calves, lambs, etc. Allow¬ 
ing them to go entire one, two or three 
years, adds nothing to style, spirit or 
endurance. There is no more reason for 
delaying this operation in colts than 
there is with pigs, calves or lambs. 
Renwick, Iowa. o. k. f. 
Dishorning Again.— On page 387 is an 
article by O. II. Smith. From experience 
in our own herd, I find that a dishorned 
cow never learns to use her head in the 
rough way a mulley does. The younger 
the calf is when the horns are killed or 
removed, the more the mulley nature will 
be developed. But I think it not worth 
while to be bothered with horns on stock 
two years old, as they are often trouble¬ 
some at that age. If dishorned at 12 to 
18 months, one may expect to get a very 
gentle and satisfactory cow. While I do 
not burn any horns out with either caus¬ 
tic or a hot iron, I must agree very 
nearly with Mr. Smith’s views on the 
subject. a. c. B. 
Cochranville, Pa. 
Breeding Sows.—“ Balanced rations” 
are much talked and written about. I 
have raised pigs for several years with 
fair success. I have fed beets, but can 
seldom get my hogs hungry enough to 
eat turnips. We never have sick hogs. 
I keep my breeders in a hoghouse, each 
having a room some 10 feet square, and 
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each has an outside pen 12 or 14 feet 
square. We throw into the pens sea 
weed, leaves, weeds, pea vines, waste 
from cabbage, etc., as convenient. For 
the past year, we have fed the sows 
soaked or boiled corn, and such slops as 
we have from the time the pigs are taken 
off until they have pigs again. After 
the pigs are two or three days old, we 
feed the sows each two quarts shorts, 
one quart flour middlings and three 
quarts boiled corn, three times a day. 
That is, during the day, they get six 
quarts of shorts, three quarts best mid¬ 
dlings, and six to nine quarts boiled 
corn. This is the average, the number 
of pigs to each sow and her appetite 
having something to do with it. I usually 
feed the sows myself, because great care 
is needed to feed enough and not too 
much. I boil the corn but little, putting 
a bushel in the boiler with cold water 
and keep up the fire until it boils. One 
bushel makes about three, so that in 
feeding six quarts of the boiled corn, 
they get the equal of two quarts of dry. 
As my sows do well and I have good pigs, 
why is not the above indicated system a 
good one ? By the way, what is the dif¬ 
ference between shorts and bran ? 
Rochester, Mass. t. w. 
A Good Point.— Mr. A. Baker, in the 
Jersey Bulletin, well says : “ The no¬ 
tion prevails widely among homespun 
farmers, that they cannot afford to keep 
good Jersey cows because they require 
so much care, and eat so much. The 
notion is entirely erroneous. It is only 
rich people who can afford to keep poor 
cows, because it is to them a matter of 
no consequence whether they pay or not. 
And poor cows never do pay. Therefore, 
the poor man who persists in keeping 
poor cows will die a poor man in spite 
of himself. So long as a cow yields a 
good net profit on what she eats, the 
more she eats, the better cow she is.” 
BARREN COWS. 
In response to the questions asked on 
page 418, the following replies have 
come to hand : 
Abortion is more frequently the cause 
of failure to breed, than any other known 
cause. A cow may become too fat to 
breed. In another the trouble may be 
in the individual organism of the animal, 
and frequently is. If the cow do not 
breed regularly, her offspring is not as 
liable to do so. Smut in corn or rye is 
not good for a breeding animal. Rye is 
not a natural food for cows, and should 
not be fed. A little asafetida in salt, is 
good to regulate the system of a breed¬ 
ing animal. If a cow come in heat and 
fail to breed, it would be well to change 
the male. P> Ir 
Flemingsville, N. Y. 
I have had some cases of this kind, and 
so have my neighbors, and in every 
single case that ever came under my 
notice, the pedigree showed inbreeding 
to a close extent, say, sire upon his own 
daughter, a son upon his dam ; the get 
of this mating were the barren ones. 
Ihe finest specimen I ever had was sired 
by her mother’s own son, and after two 
years of vain attempt to breed her, 1 
was obliged to kill her. I never heard 
of rye pasture injuring cattle, and I 
pasture sheep on it freely and know that 
it does not affect them, c j. Norton. 
Morantown, Kan. 
The trouble may be the bull, and if a 
bull is ever with other cows, it is well 
to change if he is unable to get a certain 
cow in calf. Sometimes a young bull 
will get a cow in calf that fails with an 
old one. It may be the cow. Sometimes 
it is difficult to get a cow in calf that is 
fed high and has not been served for 
some time after calving. In such cases, 
a radical change in her care will usually 
accomplish the object—very short feed 
for a few days, then liberal feed, any¬ 
thing to disturb the equilibrium of the 
system. When you menace the life of 
animals or plants, Nature seeks immedi- 
atel.y to save the species and tries to re¬ 
produce. It is difficult to breed after 
abortion, until the reproductive organs 
are thoroughly healed. Long continued 
failure to breed is one of the symptoms 
of tuberculosis in the reproductive or¬ 
gans. I do not think the moderate feed- 
ing of green rye or the grain would 
cause a cow to become barren. It is 
always more difficult to breed high-fed 
stock that ai-e forced for a large produc¬ 
tion of dairy products. The same is true 
in the human family—the poorly fed. 
and the laboring class have more child¬ 
ren than the rich and idle of our com¬ 
munities. c. M. WINSI.OW. 
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