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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 27 
Live Stock and Dairy 
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SILO QUESTIONS. 
lias anything In the silo line been foniid 
more desirable in any way than a plain 
stave silo with round iron hoops? 
Blossvale, N. Y. c. m. e. 
The concrete silo is more durable, or 
a plank silo lined with brick, and the 
plank silo bound from top to bottom 
with boards as hooping and plastered in¬ 
side with cement may also have some 
exceeding value, but of all the differently 
constructed all-wood silos none pos¬ 
sesses the .merit of the stave silo. I am 
using one of this kind, and experience 
has demonstrated that it is most com¬ 
plete. Those who have inspected rarely 
fail to say: “That is the best silo I have 
seen.” It is made of pine, sawed 2%x6, 
beveled, grooved and tongued, and put 
together with white lead, then hooped 
with one-half-inch steel wire rope, put 
on three feet apart. The foundation 
is a stone wall three feet high, perpen¬ 
dicular inside, with the staves and a ce¬ 
ment bottom, roofed with a neatly fin¬ 
ished conical roof. The doors are con¬ 
tinuous, alternating with two staves be¬ 
tween them; in other words, a door be- 
tw'een each hoop. These doors are bevel¬ 
ed like a cold storage door, and hung 
upon the outside; more convenient, more 
durable, and by all means the place for 
them. The silo is painted, two coats in¬ 
side and one outside, with Carbolineum 
Avenarius. which, from its protection 
against shrinking and swelling, I feel 
satisfied has merit as a wooa preserva¬ 
tive. n. E. c. 
Sowing Corn for Silage. 
How many bushels of white southern 
corn are being sown to the acre, to bring 
the best results for silage fodder? 
New York. c. l. r. 
The amount of seed per acre will de¬ 
pend somewhat upon the requirements 
of the planter and the condition of his 
soil. For a maximum yield of ears eight 
quarts; for a medium yield 10 quarts, 
and for a light yield 12 to 16 quarts per 
acre upon soil sup])lied with available 
plant food. If the soil is poor the seed 
should be increased for the results de¬ 
sired. We plant of Pride of the North 
12 quarts per acre, and this seems to suit 
our conditions. Probably from eight to 
14 quarts w'ould be the extreme mini¬ 
mum and maximum. ii. e. c. 
COMBINING SHEEP AND DAIRY. 
What would be your advice about com¬ 
bining daii’ying with the sheep business? 
In some parts of New York State we 
understand that farmers think they can 
combine sheep with cows, and if it is 
possible to do this advantageously we 
would like to know what breeds are best 
and how the business can best be handled. 
We have been told, however, by some, 
that sheep and cows will not mix well 
together, and that the dairy farm is not 
the place for a flock of sheep. Do you 
think cows and sheep will work well to¬ 
gether, and if so, what breeds would you 
suggest, and how large a flock of sheep 
could be kept on the average dairy farm? 
Sheep with cows in this section do not 
mingle at all. They will not work to¬ 
gether here. I hardly think I know 10 
farmers in this section who would take 
as a gift 20 sheep and put with their 
flock of cows. The bother of them would 
not do at all. Even the young stock is 
taken away to pasture and work horses 
are kept in barn, so all there is are just 
cows in pasture. Everything is milk. 
If you could stand at the Phenix factory 
here at 7 A. M. till 12 M. and see the 
cans of milk that are dumped you would 
readily see that sheep were not in it. I 
have to stop and wonder a good deal, 
too, as I see the quantities of feed that 
are being bought to make the milk, 
where the profit comes in. Farmers in 
this section are producing milk, and it 
is wonderful the quantity that is made 
here in the Unadilla Valley, and in fact 
in all valleys near here. Sheep we hard¬ 
ly see at all, and where there are 
any the flock is small, seven to 20. A 
few years ago L. J. Dupee thought too 
many cows made too nruch work, so put 
in 50 sheep; only kept them three to 
four years, and to-day has no sheep. I 
think he about gave them away to dis¬ 
pose of them. 1 never have kept any 
sheep so cannot say about the profit; my 
mind would be it would be small. The 
Phelps home here has been in the fam¬ 
ily since 1818. Father always kept sheep, 
150 to 200; those days seem to have 
passed. The home has passed into my 
hands, and it still is doing nicely; only 
83 acrev, with 25 of that waste land; 15 
acres beside that have not been plowed 
in 60 years. I keep 20 cows, three 
horses. 10 head of young stock. 1 have 
land that I do not use, so I wouldn’t say 
but what sheep at some time had done 
the old home a good turn. In keeping 
cows, as we do altogether here in this 
section the plow is moving a share of 
the time, and it seems that wire fence 
can be used, say from two to three 
strands with posts 20 feet apart and 
cows will keep away from the crop with¬ 
in, while if sheep were among them 
wire fence would be just nothing at all; 
wire will not keep out sheep as it is 
used in this section. .\. n. pue-lps. 
Otsego Co., N. Y. 
I can well remember back 30 and 40 
years when it was very common for 
farmers to keep cows and sheep; in fact. 
40 years ago very few farmers around 
here kept all the cows their farms would 
keep, but they have been continually 
making a business of the dairy, until to¬ 
day you might ride perhaps miles and 
not see a flock of sheep. What does all 
this change show? It seems to me it 
shows that the cows pay the best, or 
that they do not mix well together. 1 
have one neighbor who has a large farm, 
and a few years ago kept 12 or 15 ewes 
and derived quite an income from wool 
and lambs, and he said he hardly knew' 
they cost him anything for keep, but 
now he does not keep a sheep. You 
must draw your own conclusions. 1 have 
thought that where a farmer has no out¬ 
door help but himself and his farm 
would carry 15 cow's, and 10 cows are all 
he wants to milk himself, if on account 
of the high price of labor he shrinks 
from hiring he might keep 10 cows and 
30 sheep, the sheep needing but little 
care in Summer, but then I should want 
separate pastures. In years past when 
farmers kept a few sheep they kept the 
coarse-wool large sheep on account of 
the size of the lambs for market. 
Cortland Co., N. Y. w. c. lewhs. 
I know but very little about the sheep 
business. 1 live near a factory village, 
w'here there are lots of cur dogs kept, 
and around here dogs and sheep do not 
seem to get along well together. A few 
years ago there were seven flocks of 
sheep in my neighborhood ranging from 
10 to 100 in a flock, and there is not a 
sheep now; dogs seem to be the main 
reason. Some people used to let their 
sheep run w'ith the cows and some did 
not; some had two pastures, one for 
cows and another for the sheep, for they 
said as long as there was any good feed 
the sheep w'ould eat that, and rob the 
COW'S, and would not eat bushes or any 
other trash as long as there w'as any 
good feed. One great trouble is that the 
town will only pay whai (he sheep are 
w'orth for mutton, no matter how much 
pains the farmer has taken to make up 
his flock. One of my neighbors had a 
small flock which he had bred so that 
he was pretty sure of twin lambs every 
time, but the dogs got into them, and 
what they didn’t kill, bit and frightened 
so they were no good, and the town 
w'ould only pay the price of ordinary 
sheep, so he gave up keeping sheep. 
Middlesex Co., Conn. geo. b. hall. 
What Is The Matter With Your 
Sheep ? 
Anybody can tell in a general way 
w'hen sheep or cattle have mange, or scab, 
or itch, or ticks, but the wise grower 
makes it his ol)ject to recognize these 
symptoms as soon as they appear in his 
flock. He does not wait until the whole 
flock is rubbing, biting, scratching and 
leaving wool on fences and weeds. Evei‘3’ 
man who owns sheep, no matter bow 
large or small his flock, should read 
carefully “ The Preventive Treatment of 
Sheep and Cattle Diseases,” a book issued 
by The West Disinfecting Co., Inc. It is 
a guide to wealth for every live stock 
owner because it tells him how scabs, 
ticks, lice and other parasites and pests 
can be stopi^ed. A very large number of 
these books are being sent out just at 
this time of the year, after shearing time, 
when pai-asitic diseases do their worst in 
the flocks. The new edition of the book 
is ready, and will be sent free if a request 
is addressed to The West Disinfecting Co., 
Inc., 4 E. .59th St., New Y’ork, the manu¬ 
facturers of Chloro-Naptholeum Dip. One 
gallon costs $1..50; 5 gallons, ^6.7.5; ]() 
gallons, Si2..50, freight prepaid. Chloro- 
A aptholeixm Dip is a cure for contagious 
abortion. 
They quote all customers of Chloro- 
Naptholeum Dip special rates x)n sheep 
dipping tanks, so low in price that every¬ 
one can aliord to buy them. 
Chloro-Naptholeum 
DEATH TO LICE 
;o. j; 
on HENS and CHICKS 
_ _ _64-page book FREE 
JuAMBEBT, Box 307, Apponang, J3- It 
HOLSTEIN - FRIESIANS. 
Choice young stock of the best breeding for sale. 
Prices reasonable. Every animal registered. 
WOODCBEST FARM. Rifton, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
HOLSTEIN CJITTLE 
Good ones, and all ages. Fine Yearling Bulls 
ready for service. 
RAMBOUILLET SHEEP. 
BERKSHIRE SWINE. 
Write I1EI.T..IIURST FARMS, Mentor, Ohio. 
Registered Jersey Bull Calves 
from Imported Golden Uad at fair prices. 
B. F. SHANNON, 1)07 Liberty tStreet, Pittsburg, Pa, 
r» O A I P Purebred Devon Calves 
I at rcasonabie prices. 
B. J. WIGHTMAN, West Eaton,N. Y. 
McLennan Bros. Stock Farm, 
ISCHUA, CATTARAUGUS CO., N. Y. 
Holstcin-Frlcslan Registered Bulls for sale cheap. 
One bull, two years old. and one yearling; large, 
handsome, perfectly-marked animals. Also a nuuibei 
of choice Bull Calves, from one to six months old. 
Inquire P. B. MCLENNAN, Syracuse, N. V. 
Short-horn Bull For SaleJ^aX ^tesfof’K 
nt,flr8t-ciass individual. Priced to sell. Write for full 
articulars. Chas. Buchan, Stanley, Ontario Co., N. Y 
RorlrehifOO"®®®*' l^ngllsh and American blood. 
DCI Rwllll wO C. M. Arbe, 309 Broadway, New York 
COD CAI Recorded Large SsgUab 
rUlf wllLtB Berkshlr. Boars, ready forseir 
ee. 
Write your wants or come. 
B. H. HALL Stanley. N. T., B. Y. D 1. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES 
hog. Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM, Rochester,Mich 
Reg. P. Chinas, BerKsnires and C. Whites. 
8 wks. to 6 mos.. mated not akin. 
Service Boars, Bred Sows. Write for 
prices and description. Return if not 
satisfactory: we refund the money. 
HAMILTON & CO., Ercildoun, Chester Co., Pa. 
Imifr^ed YORKSHIRES 
Tho small York grown np; the best white hog; easy 
keeping and i)rolilic. Young stock for sale. 
LAKE GROVE FARM, Madison, Lake Co., Ohio. 
Ohio Farm Berkshires 
Boars fit for Service. Young Sows bred, and line 
lot of Spring Pigs. 
M. L. & II. H. BKNHAM, Le Uoy,0. 
HEAVES CAN BE STOPPED 
Does not liurt the horse. S'-nd for 3 packages Gipsy 
Powders. T.le. by mail. Agents wanted. Address 
GEO. W. BICKNKLL CO., Pittsburg, Pa. 
NOTHING SO GOOD 
has ever heen pre¬ 
sented to the p*jI> 
lie and which has 
licen of such won¬ 
drous merit as 
Kendall’s 
Spavin 
Cure. 
It is the old reliable remedy for Spavlos, Klni^bones, Spliatf« 
CnrbR and all forms of LamenoHS* It cures without a blemish 
cause It does not blister. Priee ill. 6 for $5. As a liniment for 
family use it has no equal. Ask your druggist for KKNDALIi*S 
SPAVIN CPHE, also “A Treatise on the Hone,’’the book free, or 
address dR. B. J. KENDALL CO., Enosburg Falls, Vt« 
PRESENT BARGAINS 
and Scotch Collie Pups. Apply jiromptly. 
W W. ClIENKY, Manlius.N. I. 
FOR SALE 
The highly bred Guernsey Bull, “Golden Glow,”4 
years old. Registered No. 6779. Price,SlOO, if sold at 
once. f. o. b. Also, his son, 2 months old, $60. Will 
register before delivering. Sire “ Golden Glow,”6779; 
dam “Zit-ka-la.” 12921; a superior butter cow. Also, 
a fine two months old bull. $25. Sire “Golden Glow.” 
Dam, a 5 per cent butter-fat Jersey cow. 
Address “8. 8.,” Camden, Del. 
H olstein bull calves, scotch coiiies,Spayed 
Females. SILAS DECKER, South Montrose, Pa. 
nVE CHOICE AIMGUS BULLS 
IV. H. RINK, .Jennertowii, .■Somerset Co Pa. 
GUERNSEY DULL CALF FOR SALE 
C. W. BENDER, Elk Lick, Pa. 
Cbropshire Lambs, both sexes. P. China Pigs & Sows 
O bred. Also Scotch Collie Pups. All stock flrst- 
class. Prices right. W. A. LOTHBUS, Lack, Pa. 
HORSE COLIC, 
Distemper, Fou ider, Pneu* 
monla, etc., as well as all 
forms of Lameness, Contract* 
ed Cord, Curb, Splint, etc., 
are instantly relieved, and in¬ 
variably cured by the use of 
Tuttle’s Elixir. 
Satisfaction guaranteed or 
refunded. Used and 
by the Adams Ex* 
press Company. Used by leading breeders and 
turfmen everywhere. Has saved and cured many 
valuable horses. May do likewise for you. 
TUTTLE S FAMILY ELIXIR cures rheumatism, sprain^ 
bruises, etc. Kills pain instantly. Our lOftpage book, 
“Veterinary Experience’’ FRP:U. 
Dr. S. A. TUTTLE, 30 Beverly St., Boston, Mus. 
Beware of so-called Elixirs—none genoine bat Tattle’s. 
Avoid all blisters ^ they offeronly temporary relief if any. 
NKWTON'S lleare, Cenrh^ DIta 
temper and indigestion Cure* 
A veterinary Bpecihe for wind, 
throat aud stomach troubles. 
Strong recoinmendt. fl.UO per 
can. Dealers. Mail or Kx. paid. 
Newton Horse Remedy Co.y 
Toledo, Ohio* 
KATTLE KOMFORT 
The unrivalled insecticide aud disinfectant, protects 
stock from files, thereby increasing profits. Two gal¬ 
lon can and Sprayer, $2. Satisfaction, or^ioney back. 
Agents wanted. KATri.E KomfoktOo., Columbus,N.J 
WHITE LEGHORN EGGS 
□ 700 Big White Beauties, bred to lay Big White Eggs; 
nine years developing the strain. WHI'fE & KICK, 
Box A, Yorktown, N. Y. 
varieties. Any amount Poultry, Eggs, PlgeoM 
and Hares. Guide dose. 60-page book, lOo. 
rj. A. BERGKY, Box 8, Telford: Pa 
SHOO-FLY 
THE 
\NIMALS’ 
FRIEND 
Half cent’s worth saves 3 quarts milk and much flesh. Kills 
every flv it strikes; keeps off the rest. Harmless to man or beast 
NO LtCKiii poultry house or any place itis sprayed. If your 
dealer does not keep it. send 4^1.00 for Improved Three Tube 
Sprayer aud enough ^hoo’Fly to protect200 cows. Cash returned 
if cows are not protected. 
SHOO-FLY MFG. C0..1005 Fairmount Ave.. Phila.,Pa. 
Cure For 
Galls 
While you work 
tlie horse. 
Above t.ra<ie mark on every box. _ 
|t!sBIGKMORE’S 
Dealers selling it everywhere are authorized 
to refund money if it tails to cure all Galls, 
Scratches, Cracks. Wire Cuts. etc. The stai^ 
ard liorse remedy for many years. Sample luc. 
BICKMORE GALL CURE CO., Box 519, Old Town, Me. 
Cattle Comfort 
A RELIABLE ARTICLE. 
Keeps Cows, Horses, etc. Comfort' 
able in fly time. Sold by Seedsmen 
and Merchants. For i)amphlet write 
HAMMOND’S SLUG SHOT WORKS, 
FlBlikUl-on-Hudson, N. S. 
