1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
495 
OREEN CLOVER IN THE SILO. 
On page 462 B. J. C., WillinK N. Y., 
asked about cutting clover into the silo. 
I must take some exceptions to Mr. 
Cook’s answer, from my own experience. 
Mr. Cook says: “You cannot put the 
clover in too green.” That answer is 
very misleadirg: everyone knows that 
green clover, that is, before bloom, 
would make poor silage. He may not 
have meant immature clover, but should 
have so stated, for it is from my own 
experience possible to put in the silo 
clover cut when in bloom, without cut¬ 
ting and without the use of water. Do 
not let it wilt at all, but put direct into 
the silo as fast as cut In the field, and 
the more it is tramped the better. If 
the silo is a small one. say 50 tons, you 
can be a week in filling it if you put in 
some every day and tramp hard. How¬ 
ever, I would rather have it cut fine, es¬ 
pecially if one wants to fill rapidly, and 
for the ease of handling when feeding, 
blit to do it cheaply and without any 
extra help it can be put in whole with¬ 
out any more loss than any other silage 
cinp if the same precautions are taken, 
and any silage crop must be properly 
liandled to have good and wholesome 
feed. Mr. Cook rightly says we should 
keep in mind that silage for Immediate 
use should have the same attention that 
we give for Winter feed. The only poor 
stuff we had was what we let wilt 
through the noon hour and put on top, 
using water with it besides. My rule is 
to cut clover or mixed grass when in 
bloom, follow the mower with the rake: 
follow the rake with the wagon, and 
take direct to the silo, no matter If you 
put it in whole or run it through the 
cutter. I cannot see the use of drying 
out moisture and then again adding it, 
neither would I stop for dew in the 
morning, especially if the clover is quite 
mature. My experience of last year will 
lead me to try it again this year if we 
can get a second cutting, for the first 
cutting must be very light. I shall 
commence cutting the last week of June, 
weather permitting. a. d. b. 
Auburn, N. Y. 
HORSE AND COW QUESTIONS. 
Swelling in Cow's Udder. 
One of my cows (five years old) has a 
bunch In her udder between the two front 
teats. Tt is about the size of a hen’s egg, 
feels gristly or muscular., Tt appeared after 
her last calving three weeks ago. Tt does 
not interfere with the flow of milk and is 
not sore. What can I do for it? c. n. f. 
Marion, N. Y. 
Thg trouble is a fatty tumor in your 
cow’s udder. Let it alone as long as it 
does not trouble the cow. It is not like¬ 
ly to hurt her. 
Cows Falling Off in Milk. 
What Is the cause of cows not milking 
as well on some farms as others? This 
came to my notice a couple of years ago, 
and T want to know the reason of it. The 
cows looked well, were in good condition, 
hut failed to produce as much milk as they 
had on another farm the year before. The 
soil of the farm is of a clayey nature. Can 
anything be done with this farm to make 
It produce more milk per cow? Do you 
think liming the. soil and soiling the cows 
would help matters? t. e. r. 
Clinton, N. Y. 
It is a fact that cows will give more 
milk upon some farms than upon oth¬ 
ers. I wms for many years interested in 
a farm about four miles from where I 
live. The cows were frequently changed 
from home to this place, and returned; 
seldom did they fail to give more milk 
upon the above mentioned farm. Extra 
grain would make up the deficiency. All 
the farms in that immediate vicinity are 
reputed for a large flow of milk. I have 
but one explanation to offer, viz., that 
the grass contains more easily digestible 
food nutrients; perhaps we might say 
the crops were more concentrated, just 
as short, quickly-grown grass is more 
concentrated than full-grown mature 
Plante, June pasture will always pro¬ 
duce more milk than eotllni; upon aay 
mature plant that I ever fed. Yes, extra 
food will assist you, more particularly 
grain food. I would not be understood 
as saying that this was parallel to your 
case. Cows do not always do equally 
well; there are many causes. If the 
case was mine I should first add a grain 
ration. Very many combinations can be 
made. I am now feeding corn meal and 
cotton-seed meal three to one, and the 
flow of milk and condition of the cows 
is satisfactory. The grass keeps the 
bowels in ideal condition, which makes 
the cotton seed a safe feed. I am un¬ 
able to tell you what to do to the soil to 
increase the milk flow, unless, of course, 
it was a case of insufficient food. Maybe 
the farm did not produce enough, and 
the cows were poorly fed. If so put on 
fertilizer, cultivate feed grain, draw ma¬ 
nure direct to the field, and a number 
of such things that you know as well as 
I. If the soil is acid, which you can de¬ 
termine by the use of blue litmus paper, 
then add 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of lime to 
the acre. h. e. c. 
Horse With Cough. 
I have a very valuable horse that has 
had a slight cough for some time, perhaps 
four months. Tt seems to be getting worse. 
Sometimes he wiil cough but once and 
only occasionally again will cough three 
or four times and repeat It after an in¬ 
terval. T can detect no sign of heaves, yet 
fear it might be a symptom. T have had 
considerable experience with heaves, al¬ 
ways feed moistened hay, and am verj' 
careful about watering, etc. The horse is 
eight years old and in the best of health. 
I don’t like that cough and fear it may 
mean something else. h. s. w. 
Tiysander, N. T. 
Your horse has probably some irrita¬ 
tion of the throat. ^Blister his throat 
with equal parts of turpentine, aqua 
ammonia and raw linseed oil. Apply 
this freely to the throat until a good 
blister is formed. Skip a week and ap¬ 
ply again. 
Rack Tai.k Arout Ferret.s.—T must take 
exception to the recent article. “Raising 
Ferrets for Business’’ (page 447). The 
writer is all right in saying that they be¬ 
long to the Weasel family, but when he 
talks of their origin he gets beyond his 
depth. He says “they were originally of 
a whitish color with pink eyes. In an early 
day they were crossed wuth the fltchet 
(which is only another name for the Euro¬ 
pean polecat), which gave them the dark 
color.” Now the reverse is true about the 
ferret, as it is with all other albinos: the 
original type were dark and the white ones 
that are true albinos are sports of the 
original type. Tf that were true, as he 
says, that they were crossed with the pole¬ 
cat, the offspring would be hybrids or 
mules and sterile, without the ability of 
reproducing themselves. Then he says 
“they are very playful and make fine pets” 
Such .statements should not get into The 
R. N.-Y. There is not a more vicious or 
stupid animal on the face of the earth. 
Of course, they can be made tame by fre¬ 
quent handling, but you never can take 
any chances with them, as they possess 
neither local nor per.sonal attachment. Tt 
doe.sn’t make any difference how long you 
may have a ferret or how much you have 
used it; let it get out and away It goes, 
looking for something to kill, and It would 
never think of coming back. If It had 
been handled much anyone could go and 
pick it up, but if not it would bite savagely 
anyone who would put his hand on it. 
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