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ROCHESTER. N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JUNE U, 1967. I WHOLE NO. 909 
The advantage# of stable-feeding are, that the 
ESTABLISHED IN 1850 
feeder may give, at all times, an aim ndant diet, 
may increase the quantity of milk, may keep tho 
cow in a condition to be ready for the butcher if 
not a satisfactory milker, may save all the ma¬ 
nure to enrich his acres, may keep her through 
the summer oh one-fourth of the land used for 
pusture, and lastly, may “put money in his 
purse.” e. w. s. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
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BENEFIT OF FORESTS AND GROVES. 
“A stitch in time eaves nine,” is a wise and 
homely old saying. When that stitch depends 
on one person only—a thrifty housewife, for in¬ 
stance — with prudent forethought she takes it, 
sagacious economist as she is, but when the 
stitch —the step, the plan, or work, of whatever 
nature, — needs unity and concert of action 
among many, over wide distances, the prompt¬ 
ness is wanting, and too often the nine alter- 
stitches must he taken to make all whole. 
This is true in the highly important matter of 
It is not yet wholly too 
nicking and reproducing his own best qualities 
in his offspring. So far his colts give every evi¬ 
dence of verifying this conclusion, although none 
of them have as yet made a debut upon the turf. 
In appearance Slusher, as may be seen, is a baud- 
some horse; color bright bay, black mane, tail 
and legs, and stands sixteen bands high. As u 
racer he was a winner at all distances against the 
best horses of the day. He Is a good trotter, 
and might to the superficial observer pass for a 
coach-horse of the highest type.” 
mile victories at Ashland, Petersburg and New 
York, are too recent to require more mention. 
The dam of Slasher, Sarah Washington, has been 
very remarkable for the production of very supe¬ 
rior colts. She brought nothing but celebrated 
racers, with one exception, when the foal was 
injured by a fall while yery young. 
“ Arguing from the facts and principles laid 
down in the foregoing article, we may conclude 
with all safety that Slasher, with such a pedigree, 
must possess in an eminent degree the power of 
Our illustration is a tine portrait of the 
thorough-bred stallion “Slasher,” In an arti¬ 
cle on “Cavalry Horses in America," given in 
the Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, 
1863, the owner thus gives ids pedigree: 
“Slasher is a bay, hands, foaled 1854, by 
Ckilde Harold, by Imported Sovereign by Emil- 
ins, out of Sarah Washington, the celebrated 
dam of Inspector, Sue Washington, Fanny Wash¬ 
ington, Bonita, &e., Ac. Slasher’s numerous 
races, at every distance, but especially his four- 
forests and groves, 
late, and much labor and loss can be saved by 
wise and prompt action. To a pioneer in the 
lorest a tree was an enemy to be smitten down 
and burned on the blazing pile, as a sort of 
guilty usurper who had put knotty roots and 
tough wood where the hue fibers of wheat or 
com roots ought to spread their meshes, and had 
raised a leafy barrier to keep out the fertilizing 
sunlight that so greatly helps corn to grow. So 
the first work was—girdle, cut, root out, born— 
make room for seed and plow and sunshine. All 
right in its time, but we are passing the pioneer 
stage over much of the forest-clad part of this 
country, and thus can look over the broad field 
and see what change in climate and products has 
been wrought by the pioneer’s ax, and even judge 
what limits should be put to its use in the great 
forests that have never yet echoed to its strokes. 
It is beginning to be 6een that a region denud¬ 
ed of its forests and without groves, suffers from 
the sweep of cold winds, freezing out the very 
roots of the tender wheat, and is liable also to 
deluging rains and fatal droughts, by turns,—to 
sharper and more trying changes of climate than 
a more sheltered region. The Western prairies 
are subject to rains and droughts, both so severe 
as to be drawbacks at times on their great fertil¬ 
ity; and they are shelterless, swept by 1 winds 
rushing from the icy poles and the blazing 
tropics, by turns. Awful storms rush over the 
great plains beyond the Mississippi, where the 
wind has nothing to check its mad career. 
New York, Ohio and Michigan are exposed to 
the sweep of lake winds; other regions have 
dangerous exposures, if there be no safeguard 
interposed. Take away Nature’s kindly shield 
ofleaves and limbs and sturdy trunks and there 
is nothing to “ temper the wind to the shorn 
lamb,” or the growing crop, shorn also of its 
full richness. Signs of this are plainly manifest 
now, if we will but be wise in time. An intel¬ 
ligent observer, who has traveled over Michi¬ 
gan in different years, has noted the fact that, in 
the Northern portion of the farming country, in 
the Grand River Valley and vicinity, where there 
is still forest shelter, the wheat is better and 
more abundant than in the southern part, where 
the trees of the “oak openings" have been 
cleaned away. On soils of like native kind and 
fertility, where a belt of timber skirted the north¬ 
west sides the wheat would be green and abun¬ 
dant t while fields, open to the cutting winter’s 
blast, would show but a meager covering, brown 
and sickly. From these extended observations, 
he judges the loss, even now, from want of for¬ 
est shelter to he great. How much greater in u 
stable-feediDg began in 1800 ami ended with 1800. 
From 40 to 70 cows were pastured each year. 
The lowest average per cow is 1,385 quarts in 
in 1855, where 70 cows were kept, and the 
highest 1,941 quarts In 1859, when 10 cowb were 
kept; and tho greatest quantity given by one 
cow during any year was 3,988 quarts. The 
average increased for the last four years from 
1,400 to 1,941 quarts. In tho stable-feeding ex¬ 
periment, from 39 to 88 cows were kept; and the 
lowest, average per cow is 2,980 quarts in 1802, 
where 38 cows were kept, and the highest aver¬ 
age 4,000 quarts in 1806, with thirty-five cows, 
and the highest quantity given by one cow is 
5,110 quarts in 1806. The average, per cow, for 
the whole seven years in pasturing, was 1,583 
quarts, while the average per cow for the whole 
seven years of stabling, was 3,443 quarts. ThlB 
shows a little more than double the product of 
milk from stable-feeding than pasturing. 
This result is very remarkable, and were it not 
supported by such high authority, would bo 
, almost incredible. The explanation is to be 
found, perhaps, In the facts that the owner of 
the stabled herd, Mr. IIekmos, in 1800 began 
to discard the poorest milkers and to sub¬ 
stitute those of the best Dutch breed; that his 
cows were fed, in summer, besides a full supply 
of green clover, vetches, Ac., a small portion of 
oil-cake and rye bran; that they were also fed 
highly in winter with oil-cake, bran nDd some¬ 
times potatoes, in addition to bay. The yield of 
the same cow is compared for different years. 
As a sample, take cow No. 24. She gave in 1860, 
8,293 quarts; in 1803,4,483 quarts; in 1865,4,800 
quarts. And generally, they show a like in¬ 
crease from year to year. Mr. Uzrmox thinks 
he has not yet reached the highest point in feed¬ 
ing, and, of course, not the highest yield of milk. 
This statement is condensed from the Monthly 
Report of the Department, of Agriculture for 
March. This regular increase in milk Indicates 
high feeding, and is most encouraging to the 
dairyman who is ambitious of improving his 
herd. It is most important in another respect; 
it shows that the highest results in dairying are 
probably yet to be attained by ruble-feeding or 
We find the same cow fed in stable 
greatly to the beauty of prairie farms and homes. 
Indeed, were there no other and weightily prac¬ 
tical reasons, the added beauty of trees along 
the road-sides and elsewhere would pay for the 
labor needed in their planting and nurture, in 
auy part of the country,—but beyond these seri¬ 
ous aud calamitous results, great and disastrous 
chaoges in climate are before us soon, unless we 
take timely bold in united action in this impor- 
Unt work. 
few years if this prodigal destruction of trees 
goes on ? And this, of course, is not limited to 
that region, but applies all over the land with 
more or lees force. 
Id Germany, Government takes this matter in 
hand, and officials are chosen to sec that forests 
are preserved and groves planted with a view to 
shelter and amelioration of climate by decreasing 
the excess of drought and tempests of rain. In 
this country Government cannot act thus, save 
in the Territories, aud private sagacity and en¬ 
terprise must do the work. 
Hod. I. Doxellv, M. C. of Iowa, offered a 
valaable report and draft of a bill or resolutions 
on this matter in his place in Congress a year or 
more ago. His proposal was, that Government 
should see to the preservation of forests and the 
planting of large groves on the slopes of land 
best adapted therefor on the great western 
plains, yet unsurveyed and nnsold. His report 
gave facts of great value and Interest to &how 
the need of such a step. Dr. Kedzxe of Eaton 
county, Michigan, made a similar report lrom a 
Committee of the Legislature at Lansing last 
winter, urging like measures in that State, and 
giving sound, practical reasons and facts to justi¬ 
fy and demand such a plan. 
Farmers, think of this matter noon. On every 
farm of a hundred acres five or ten acres of trees, 
in right places to save the rake of cold winds, 
and for shade to retain 6ome moisture in the air, 
would make the farm more valuable and pro¬ 
ductive than if every tree were gone and every 
foot tilled. Neighbors, school districts, towns 
and counties can unite in plans to plant rows 
aud clumps of trees on either Bide of every road, 
and most freely on such spots as would help 
most toward the ends sought. In pasture fields, 
STABLE - FEEDING vs. PASTURING 
A subscriber, Blacksburg, Va., asks for a 
cure for gapes in chickens; also a preventive of 
the disease. Bkment, in his Poultry Manual, 
recommends spirits of turpentine, passed down 
the windpipe by means of the tip of a leather 
or quill, saturated with it. Also boxing up the 
fowls, with a bed of sliavingB sprinkled with the 
turpentine, to rest upon. By being thus con¬ 
fined they will inhale the vapor arising from the 
shavings, by which they are sometimes cured. 
The chances of success, with any kind of treat¬ 
ment, are not generally very flattering. As a 
preventive the following, communicated to the 
Practical Farmer, may prove as good as any¬ 
thing. Thus :—“ I adopted a system several 
years ago that has proved very successful with 
me, and I take great pleasure in giving the ben¬ 
efit of my experience. It is simply thisgive 
the poultry no wet feed, but place clean water 
in a convenient position for use by the fowls. 1 
feed wheat screenings to chickens just from the 
shell; they feed on broken grains until they are 
large enough to swallow whole ones. In the 
absence ol wheat screenings, I presume that 
cracked com, such as is used for hominy, would 
answer as well. Since I adopted this mode of 
feeding I have had no difficulty in raising 
chickens." 
Who does not remember when the grain 
regions were considered the “Eldorados” of 
Agriculture? — when grass lands were tolerated 
only because all could not have grain lands. The 
condition of the ptoor farmer, who could spend 
his time only in keeping cows and sheep and 
raising young cattle, was commiserated, while 
the waving fields of golden grain were the theme 
of exultation. Commercially, dairy products 
made a small figure twenty-five years ago. The 
Census of 1840 gives the value of the whole 
dairy products of New York at 810,496,031, and 
of all the States at $33,787,000. But these poor 
commiserated dairy farmers have become a power 
in commercial affairs. 
The mere butter products of New York were 
over *60,000,000 in 1865. Tb is class of American 
farmers, then,, no longer need sympathy, but 
they will he glad of any information which shall 
enable them to go on enlarging their capacity 
for feeding the world with its beet butter aud 
cheese. 
Land has been so cheap and plenty that little 
effort has been made to economise it, and too 
little attention given to increasing the yield of 
the cow. But these thingB must come in due 
time, and we should avail ourselves of all the 
careful experiments made in Europe. It is only 
there we can expect, as yet, to llnd long contin¬ 
ued or patient experimenting. 
Dr. Rhode-Eldena, of the Royal Academy of 
Agriculture of Prussia, has written an interest¬ 
ing account of experiments on the comparative 
yield of milk from cows by pasturing and stablc- 
feedingor soiling, continued through seven years 
of each system. The pasturing experiment began 
in 1853 and continued to the end of 1859, ami the 
Corn Re-planted.— The Whiteside Sentinel 
(Ill.) of the 25th ult., is of the opinion that 
much of the corn ground will require re-plant¬ 
ing, as in many instances the seed Is found to 
be already rotted. Another poor com season is 
deemed Inevitable. Wheat and grass look prom¬ 
ising, but are nearly four weeks later than they 
were lust year at a corresponding date. 
soiling. 
through seven years, and increasing her product 
from year to year, proving it congenial to her 
health as well as condition. 
