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We are in favor of having cows go dry for 
a sufficient length of time to recuperate or 
regain loss of vitality on account of milking, 
&c M hut from four to five months is a longer 
period than necessary, and of course the 
product of milk under this system must be 
much below that of average dairies in old 
dairy districts like Herkimer and Oneida. 
We should say that from eight to nine weeks 
would he about the proper time for cows on 
an average to go dry, though many by extra 
feeding cut the time down considerably be¬ 
low this. 
Tnere cannot be much doubt but that cut 
and cooked feed on the plan proposed by 
our correspondent would give much better 
the whole being thoroughly masticated and 
properly digested. If hay is high, and grain 
cheap in comparison, a considerable saving 
may often be made by this plan, while the 
yield of milk will generally be satisfactory. 
Another aid in keeping Up a good flow of 
milk, and at the same time in promoting the 
health of dairy stock, after turning from 
grass, is the feeding of roots, and for this 
purpose beets or carrots arc to be recom¬ 
mended. The former are easily grown, and 
with proper cultivation the yield is often 
enormous. We should suggest that our cor¬ 
respondent first tiy cutting his fodder, 
moistening it and mingling with meal, then 
feeding, with an allowance of a ration of 
Boston Cultivator and justly commends the 
Rockport as one of the finest and most valu¬ 
able of all cherries, and pronounces the Black 
Hawk greatly superior, at least for product¬ 
iveness, to the Black Eagle. But we hardly 
understand why heshould suppose the Early 
May of the West is the Flemish, as the latter 
is a lute as well as a peculiar variety ; or why 
he should say that the Black Tartarian is 
omitted by the American Bornological So¬ 
ciety, in whose catalogue it is starred in 
thirteen States. 
The. Clermont Apple is an Ohio produc¬ 
tion, said to have been produced from seed 
on the farm of Col. S. Medaht, Batavia, Cler¬ 
mont Co., (J. The tree resembles the New¬ 
town Pippin somewhat. Mr. A. M. Catch 
asserts, “but is a better grower and more 
productive, the fruit fairer, keeps longer and 
is of more uniform good size unless allowed 
to overbear, which it is apt to do in favorable 
seasons. 
Pears Cracking—(A Subscriber).—A rem¬ 
edy for pears erne king as you describe is un¬ 
known. In some localities certain varieties 
are affected in this manner, and it is at¬ 
tributed to uncongenial climate. Farther 
t han this no man knows. 
The Ernies Pear is pronounced, by D. B. 
W ieb of Illinois, identical with Windsor or 
Belle of Philadelphia. 
BUT TER FACTORIES ON THE “ SHAL 
LOW SETTING ” SYSTEM. 
POULTRY EXPERIENCE 
Thinking that perhaps my experience the 
past Beason might be acceptable as showing 
the value of poultiy under ordinary circum¬ 
stances, 1 will give you a few facts and 
figures. 1 had November 1, 1873, 100 good 
laying hens, 1 anrl 2 years old. 1 had no losses 
by disease, or from any other cause. Now 
for the figures : 
Dr. 
100 fowls..$ 50.00 
Feed from Nov. 1, 1873, to Nov. 1, 1873. .100.10 
Figure 1 
returns in uiilk than to feed simply upon 
hay, as practiced by many; but the impor¬ 
tant question to be eetttled is whether the 
cooking of the food will pay where the milk 
Where 
roots, in the way we have named, and we 
are inclined to believe he will obtain satis¬ 
factory results, both in milk and in the con¬ 
dition of his stock. Tie will find the expense 
and labor less than by the other system, and 
uuless he has large quantities of straw and 
coarse fodder to be utilized, a larger saving 
or profit will result from this system, it is 
believed, than by adopting the plau of cook¬ 
ing the fodder as proposed. 
is to be made into butter and cheese, 
a good quality of early cut gross is used as 
fodder, it is thought by many of our best 
dairymen that the money expended in cook¬ 
ing is for the most part wasted. On the 
other hand, if there is much straw and 
coarse fodder to be used, a considerable sav¬ 
ing may often be made by catting the fod¬ 
der, mixing with bran, shippings, or corn 
and oat meal, and then steaming the mass 
and feeding as proposed. Again, where 
milk is sold for city or village consumption, 
and a good flow is required to keep up the 
quantity, cooked food mu . be advisable be¬ 
cause the profit on the milk sold is generally 
much larger than can bo obtained, by using 
it for butter and cheese. B it in ordinary 
dairying, when hay is mostly used for win¬ 
tering stock, it is a question whether much, 
if anything, will be gained by cooking. 
The expense of fitting up apparatus and 
conveniences for cooking fodder, and the 
cost of fuel and labor required in running 
this department, are verj considerable, and 
we should not advise dairymen to enter 
upon the system without making a very 
thorough investigation of the advantages to 
Cr. 
1.416 dozen eggs, 23 cents per dozen 
100 liens on band Nov. 1. 1873. 
SO chicks... 
Total 
Profit.¥225.08 
I have now on hand 100 old hens and 50 
chicks and 7 cockerels, which I would not 
sell for $175. The grain was principally corn ; 
but some wheat and oats were mixed occa¬ 
sionally. Coarse meal and cracked corn was 
fed to the chicks, which were allowed full 
liberty of the yard. 1 shall try to do better 
this year ; for as last year wus my first I 
think is is only reasonable that I should. 
Alleghany Co., N. Y. John J. Dayton. 
POMOLOGICAL NOTES 
Strawberries in Indiana. — K. Y. Tear 
writes us “ In strawberries, Kentucky has 
done finely; almost equaling Wilson in yield 
per acre and excelling that standard sort in 
beauty and quulity; it also ripens later. The 
plant is hardy and a rigorous grower. Presi¬ 
dent Wilder did well, a good berry but not 
quite so productive as we desire. But of all 
the strawberries we ever saw. Cowing's 
Seedling excels in large size, excellent quali¬ 
ty, productiveness and vigor of plant; in¬ 
deed it seems to be the long-sought beny. 
The name given this variety by the pickers, 
* The Strawberry that Bears Tomatoes, ’ 
does not seem so inappropriate when wo 
view the plants loaded with their enormous 
berries. The fruit readily commands nearly 
double the price paid for any other sort test¬ 
ed beside it.” 
McIntosh lied Apple, 
EGGS HAVE A SEX 
Science and experience have sufficiently 
demonstrated that everything that bears 
must possess both the male and female qual¬ 
ifications ; but perhaps it is not generally 
known that such is the ease with eggs. 1 
have found by experience that it is, and by 
the following rules. I raise as many pullets 
among my chicks as I wish to, while some of 
my neighbors complain that their chicks are 
nearly all roosters and they cannot see why 
there should be a difference. I will tell here 
what I have told them and for the benefit of 
those who do not know That the small, 
round eggs are female eggs and the long, 
slender ones are mules. This rule holds good 
among all kinds of poultry and I (lare say all 
kinds of birds. So if you wish to raise pullets, 
set the small, round eggs; and if you wish to 
raise roosters, set the long, slender ones ; in 
this way you will be enabled to raise which¬ 
ever sex you wish to. Bernice. 
FEEDING COWS FOR MILK 
to feeding cows in winter. We have a very 
good dairy region about here, and our but¬ 
ter brings the highest prices in market; but 
there are few' or no skillful, scientific farmers 
* bout here. My father has a farm on which 
Kv 1 keR P* forty cows, or equivalent in other 
,sti * ck - We have a nice place for our milk; 
ave it in water, and make the best qual- 
Our cows go dry about four 
I have an idea 
G. A. Clough, in 
the Vermont Farmer, speaks in praise of an 
apple he found, under this name, in Matilda, 
Dundas Co., Canada. The parent tree origi¬ 
nated near where it now stands some seventy 
years ago, and has borne every year since 
the oldest inhabitants can remember, and is 
still perfectly hardy, the apple being also 
good in every respect. It has been propn 
gated from and distributed in the neighbor¬ 
hood, and evidence is given “of the most 
positive character as to hardiness, product¬ 
iveness and longevity of the tree and quality, 
size and keeping properties of the apple. 
Also, there is another peculiarity about this 
variety 7 —the limbs seem to be different from 
any other tree I ever saw; they come out 
like pins, and never split down.” 
Apples for Wisconsin .—A correspondent 
of the Western Farmer says that Messrs. 
Phillips of Lake Mills, very successful oreh- 
ardists, find the Fameuse or Suow tbe most 
profitable apple ; and the most profitable five 
sorts to be Fameuse, Westfield, Seek-no- 
further, Northern Spy, Dominie and Duma- 
low ; Sweet Wine next best, which he says is 
the Winter Sweet Paradise. The average 
crop of these orehardists for ten years has 
been :,,eU3 bushels annually ; one year they | 
had 5,000 bushels. 
About Cherries. 
Gentleman, says 
, of butter ^ 
, >r fl' V ’ R months in the year. ] ... 
, hat ,:1 “-y might be* milked ten months 
„ ttli profit if they were “ ‘ 
thi ak of arranging our .< 
for A cooked feed, and 
steau '6 r and machine for cutting fodder. I 
would c a *' tlie hay and other fodder, and 
mix corn °r other meal or bran with it, and 
steam it » at a 
tempera ten e T of ldd Fahrenheit. Now the 
advant ages . vv, 1 ' uId expect to gain would be 
those:-! tt ,nk perhaps this conked and 
moist food wo 1 f produce better butter than 
dry hay, more ♦ » ra f® butter; that cooked 
food would mot '^perfectly, finest than dry 
hay: that wo cou. , ,"! ttke or 430 per cow, 
while we get uc 1 “'IS * lj - v adding meal, 
we could save 20 t 0 K percent, of hay, and 
add cows correspon atu g. I think that with 
sufficient feed the eo "y would keep in good 
flesh if they were mil 
At, rhe present price *> gram is probably as 
cheap or cheaper I ha a hay 1 have read 
much for and against cooking feed, but 
really have not a very do eided opinion. We 
have not money tv ; go min Costly experi¬ 
ments without there us pretty likely to be a 
good return. If you "ikl please give me 
your opinion on this sttVjcct I will feel under 
many obligations to you. 
Smyrna, N. Y. ,Chaxile3 C. Field. 
fed properly. I 
'tables convenient 
getting a 
HOW TO KEEP EGGS FRESH 
In looking over the columns of the Rural 
New-Yorker of March 7th, I notice W. W. 
Fisher asks iiow to keep eggs fresh, &e. My 
plan for the past eight years lias been as 
follows They are gathered every day, and 
kept in my house, in a box of kiln-dried saw 
dust which is about one inch thick. They 
may be kept on the end or flat, and care 
must be taken to turn them over at least 
three times a week. Impregnated eggs will 
hatch well if kept in this way even if they be 
two months old. 1 now have seven chicks 
(from nine eggs) which were kept as above 
ami T am po.- itive they were over five weeks 
oi l when put under the hen. It is neeejssary 
to be careful in turning them over that they 
do not get any sudden jar, as that ofttimes 
prevents their hatching. 8. W. Studley. 
Catskill Station, N. Y. 
Figure 2. 
be gained. If it is advisable to feed bran or 
meal, very excellent results would be ob- 
taiued by cutting the fodder, and then sim¬ 
ply moistening it with water and sprinkling 
the bran or meal upon the mass so that the 
two shall be well mingled together. The 
meal thus adheres to the cut fodder, and is 
consumed by the cows to good advantage, 
-J. J. Thomas, in Country 
F. R. Elliott writes to the 
