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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER- 
March 21 
Live Stockand Dairy 
CLOVER IN THE SILO. 
FATTENING RATION FOR STEERS 
What crops other than corn have you 
tried in the silo? What was the result? 
We have silaged rye with very poor 
results, also clover hay, peas and oats. 
None of them come out of the silo in a 
satisfactory condition. H. B. Cook si¬ 
laged Alfalfa last year and showed a 
sample of it at one of our Winter meet¬ 
ings. It smelled and tasted exactly like 
tobacco after it is cured. Without doubt 
clover and Alfalfa, if mixed with some 
grasses or carbonaceous weeds, might 
keep in a good enough condition for ani¬ 
mals to eat them, but they turn very 
We liave a number of 1,000-pound grace 
Short-horn steers which we wish to fatten 
for market in June or July, and would like 
to know the best method of handling them. 
We have no hay or other forage except 
corn stover and wheat straw. We have 
been feeding about one-half bushel broken 
snapped corn and all the fodder they would 
eat clean, and straw before them constant¬ 
ly. Wheat bran is worth $22 per ton, cot¬ 
ton-seed meal $26.50 per ton, and corn at 
the rate of 45 cents per bushel shelled. We 
have thought to feed the following ration 
per steer: Four pounds cotton-seed meal, 
two pounds wheat bran, 12 pounds broken 
snapped corn, 15 pounds corn stover and 
five pounds wheat straw. Would this ra- 
black, and unless all the conditions are 
ideal the practice is likely to be unsatis¬ 
factory, Now and then the conditions 
are favorable and a fairly decent product 
is secured. i. p- kobbbts. 
Cornell University. 
We have in the past made silage of 
Red clover, of rye, and in the last few 
years, used cow peas and Soy beans for 
the purpose. These have all made good 
silage, though they were not so satis¬ 
factory as corn, because the losses have 
been somewhat greater, and the silage 
has not been as sweet as that from the 
corn. It has been impossible to regulate 
the fermentation in such a way as to 
assist in preventing the peculiar odor, 
which is not pleasant in the barns. Still, 
the animals do well on it, and as far as 
we have carried our experiments, we 
have not noticed any deleterious effect 
upon the milk, either in its keeping qual¬ 
ity or its flavor. e. n. vookhees. 
New Jersey Rxp. Sta. 
We have only tried the Medium Red 
clover, 40 or 50 tons three different 
times, feeding it out before the corn 
crop was fit to cut, except a little that 
was allowed to remain till next season; 
this last was just as good as the first, 
but none of it was quite satisfactory. 
Clover was put in whole, it might be 
better to cut it. I believe clover should 
be tramped in more solid than corn; or 
rather it needs more tramping to get it 
as solid. Still, it does not have the ap¬ 
petizing flavor that belongs to good corn 
silage, and I would recommend curing it 
for hay when that can properly be done. 
Alfalfa might silo better than Red 
clover. It should be run through cutter 
and well tramped. You see we do not 
put in the quantity of these crops that is 
usually done with corn, and so do not 
get the benefit of the settling by Uieir 
own weight. wm. h. voorhbbs. 
Montgomery Co., N. Y. 
From the early days of the silo till 
now, we have filled our three silos in the 
Fall with corn and with corn and cow 
peas for eight months’ feeding, and in 
May have filled the smaller ones with 
whatever green stuff was at hand, main¬ 
ly Winter oats and Crimson clover, 
seeded together for the next four 
months’ feeding, thus feeding from the 
silo all the year I'ound. I have often no¬ 
ticed that some writer or speaker is in¬ 
clined to hint at some such practice, but 
with us it is a long-established and suc¬ 
cessful practice, enabling us to carry 40 
or 50 Jerseys on a place that is primari¬ 
ly a fruit farm, and without which the 
dairy would be simply impossible. Of 
course poultry and truck come in con¬ 
genially. There is no more difficulty 
about this clover. Winter oats and Al¬ 
falfa silage than about the corn and cow 
peas, but we always cut it, having our 
own engine and machinery. It is time 
the doubts as to the feasibility of such 
use of the silo were forever banished. 
Delaware. e. h. Bancroft. 
tion be advisable under the circumstances, 
or would some other be better?, w. m. m. 
Loudoun Co., Va. 
The ration you propose, so far as 
grain is concerned, should give good re¬ 
sults in gain. It is doubtful, however, 
whether it is as economical a ration as 
you can give. If you should reduce the 
cotton-seed meal by a pound or so and 
add to the supply of corn by an equal 
amount, you would save somewhat. It 
is quite likely that but a small amount 
of wheat straw will be eaten, for cattle 
generally do not eat it with relish, ex¬ 
cepting for a short change in Spring. 
The corn with the cotton-seed meal will 
really do you the most good. If you 
are fixed for it, you will find if you 
grind your corn into corn-and-cob meal 
that you can feed this way to best ad¬ 
vantage. Along toward the first of May 
you can cut down to advantage on the 
straw and perhaps reduce the bran and 
cotton-seed meal, rather increasing the 
corn for the finish. c. s. peumb. 
STRANGLES. 
TRANGLES is an acute, 
febrile disease affect¬ 
ing horses. It is most 
common in young ani¬ 
mals and is character 
Ized by swelling and 
abscesses forming be¬ 
tween the bones of the 
lower jaw, sometimes 
at other points. 
Symptoms. — L a n - 
guor, dulness, loss of 
appetite, staring coat and general unthrifti¬ 
ness precedes attacks. The glands between 
the jaws are swollen and extremely sensitive 
to the touch. There is a rise of temperature, 
with Increased pulse rate. Sore throat is 
shown by food and water returning through 
the nose or dropping from the mouth. As 
the disease progresses abscesses in the glands 
point and break. 
Treatment .—Animal should be placed In a 
well lighted, clean box stall where the tem¬ 
perature is fairly even and sufficient clothing 
should be applied to keep the animal com¬ 
fortable. If temperature runs high say 104O 
to 10.5P Fahrenheit and the pulse is strong give 
10 drop doses of aconite with half dram doses 
of fluid extract of belladonna in an ounce of 
sweet spirits of nitre three or four times a day. 
If the throat is much Irritated dram doses 
of chlorate of potash with two drams of pow¬ 
dered golden seal placed on the tongue three 
limes a day after feeding gives good results. 
Like all febrile troubles, strangles reduces 
the vitality. Tonics should not be neglected. 
Administer, as directed, regular doses of Dr. 
Hess’ Stock Food—the most powerful of 
tonics and reconstruct!ves. It is the only 
stock food formulated and manufactured by 
a regular graduate of both medical and vet¬ 
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rapidly improves the whole systemic con 
dltion of the animal. Sold on a written guar 
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In every package of Dr. Hess’ Stock Food a 
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Dr. Hess has also written a book on dis¬ 
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with the exceiUion of August. The last 
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laid 175 eggs apiece, the three laying 525. 
This year they h.nve enmmejieed laying 
('arlier. the lirst eggs being laid February 
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