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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THE TRADE IN SILOS. 
What the Manufacturers Say. 
The silo trade depends largely on the 
corn crop, as corn is what is used most¬ 
ly for silage. The only practical silo is 
the stave silo for the reason that it is 
easily erected, cheapest in the beginning 
and very much cheaper in the end than 
any other kind. g. ki.ias & bro. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
The tendency at the present time 
among the farmers is to buy silos of me¬ 
dium diameter, say 12 to 14 feet, and 
where they have large stocks they erect 
a number of silos instead of one large 
one. To store the same capacity in this 
manner is more expensive, but results 
are much better. The reason for this is 
(hat after the silo is opened the faster it 
is fed out daily the better the condition 
of the silage. As near as we can learn 
(he concrete and cement silos are not 
very satisfactory. We have been in¬ 
formed by parties using them that a 
great deal of the silage exposed to direct 
contact with the walls of these silos 
spoils, and we also know from our own 
experience that a small portion of the 
silage at the bottom which rests on our 
concrete foundation in our wooden silos 
spoils. B. B. STEVEXS & CO. 
Auburn, Me. 
We do not very often hear of stone or 
concrete silos. In a few cases we have 
supplied stave silos to take the place of 
stone silos. The writer has talked with 
several men who had most excellent 
stone silos but stated that every year 
large quantities of silage molded or de¬ 
cayed all around the walls. On the other 
hand, we have known of several cases 
where the owners of stone silos claimed 
to have had as sweet and fresh silage as 
it is possible to produce. Customers in 
this State and New England purchase 
silos with a relatively large diameter 
and low height, while those in Pennsyl¬ 
vania and other Southern States secure 
vessels of a very small diameter and 
great height. We have even sold silos 
seven feet in diameter and 35 feet high. 
Figuring on all the silos we sold last 
year, we find that the average diameter 
was 14 feet four inches and the average 
height 25 feet eight inches, which we 
think is a very excellent average con¬ 
sidering the fact that a low silo with a 
large diameter costs relatively consid¬ 
erably less than one of equal capacity 
but having a smaller diameter and 
greater height. We also find a growing 
tendency to construct two silos, one for 
Summer and one for Winter, rather than 
to take one large silo which will supply 
enough feed for both seasons. We judge 
that the average customer figures on 
about three tons per cow, although this 
estimate is not based on positive knowl¬ 
edge. Of course the round silos are su¬ 
perseding all other kinds, even when 
men build their own vessels. We very 
seldom hear of a square one being built, 
but frequently hear that octagon silos 
are fairly satisfactory. 
Cobleskill, N. Y. harder meg. co. 
The tendency among the farmers in 
regard to silos is to make them deeper 
and deeper each year. Eight years ago 
a 26-foot silo was considered a pretty 
good depth; now they run them up 32 
and even 40 feet right on the level 
giound. It is universally conceded that 
the round silo is the only style to build, 
no matter what material you use. It is 
a well-known fact that you can hold a 
round tank easier than you can hold a 
square one, will get more cubic feet in 
the same wall surface; and In our ex¬ 
perience we have seen some pretty good 
buildings which had square silos in them 
where the people who owned them 
thought they were putting in timber 
enough. It is a difficult matter to prevent 
a square silo from bulging between the 
corners. Southern Michigan and north¬ 
ern Indiana are very close to some large 
manufacturers of cement, and in our ex¬ 
perience we do not know of more than 
half a dozen cement silos being built in 
the two States, but as we have often 
said, we see no reason why cement 
should not make an excellent silo; the 
difficulty is, as near as we can learn, that 
it takes a great deal of time to put them 
up as the brick which go into the silo 
has to be made right on the man’s farm 
and we have been told in a couple of in¬ 
stances where we tried to get at the cost 
of cement silos, that they did not know 
just how much their silo did cost. The 
nearest we ever got to it was from a 
man in Cass County, this State, who 
built an 80-ton silo, going down into the 
giound a little distance, his silo being 
built out of what is termed the hollow 
brick form. This man certainly has a 
fine-looking silo but the nearest you can 
get at the expense from him is that it 
cost a little less than $200, and we un¬ 
derstand that does not include the board 
of the men who did the work, which 
took nearly four weeks to complete. 
Last Summer quite a number of the 
farmers in Michigan saved their clover 
from the wet by putting it into silos, 
and we know of a number of people who 
regularly dump their clover right from 
the machine into their silo and are in 
that way protected against the drought 
which usually comes along in August 
and early September. 
WIDI.IAMS MPG. co. 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 
ABANDONED FARMS IN NEW 
ENGLAND. 
Sad Outlook for a Worthy Section. 
Prof. C. S. Plumb, of Ohio, has written 
an excellent article for the Chicago Live 
Stock World. Prof. Plumb is a native of 
Massachusetts, and owns a large farm in 
an “abandoned” section. He states the 
many natural advantages of the region 
and then says: 
“Yet from the agricultural point of view, 
one finds in this region one of the most 
disheartening tales in American agricul¬ 
ture. If you were to make me a visit in 
the Summer, I could start in a carriage 
with you and could drive into a region 
covering many, many miles that repre¬ 
sents a veritable agricultural graveyard. 
One may drive through a large territory 
of New England, where abandoned farm¬ 
houses are the rule and not the exception. 
Really excellent farmhouses, built to stay, 
after the old, thorough-going New Eng¬ 
land method, on farms that can be bought 
at your own price and on your own terms. 
One sees many tumble-down old houses, 
long unoccupied, but he also sees far too 
many representing recent desertion. Only 
very recently the nearest neighbor to my 
farm has had an auction sale of his stock 
and tools and proposes to move to a fac¬ 
tory town, some 25 or 30 miles away. He 
is a Swiss and, in many respects, a su¬ 
perior farmer. He has a good house and 
barn, grows fine crops, and has prospered. 
Now, no doubt, his place will stand va¬ 
cant. 
“The reader will ask, why is this? 
“A variety of causes are responsible for 
this condition. The land is fertile, and 
one may grow fine fields of grass, rye, 
buckwheat, potatoes and various other 
crops suited to the cooler latitudes. Apple 
orchards also thrive. But the land is 
somewhat stony under the most favorable 
conditions, and very stony under still 
others. In Winter the snow is deep and 
tke wind blows over the Green Mountains, 
then white; and the conditions are rigor¬ 
ous and far more severe than in the Cen¬ 
tral West. The Summers are beautiful, 
but the Winters severe. 
“Years ago young men began to leave 
these New England farms and go out into 
the great West, or to some town or city 
near home that offered more attraction 
than the isolated farm life of the region. 
To-day many of the farmhouses occupied, 
have only the old couple in them, or a class 
of foreign emigrants not at all in sym¬ 
pathy with the native born—Poles, Rus¬ 
sians, Jews, Italians, any many of the 
most undesirable settlers from the old 
world, are settling on the farms closer to 
town. These seriously injure the social 
side of New England farm life. Another 
thing that the New England farmer has 
had serious trouble over in late years has 
been the labor question. Responsibie farm 
labor of a desirable sort is almost impos¬ 
sible to obtain. Still another cause for 
this farm desertion is the lack of sym¬ 
pathy on the part of the New Englander 
with agriculture. Generally speaking, the 
farmer in the East has altogether a differ¬ 
ent social status from the West, whei’e he 
is a powerful factor in the community. In 
New England, excepting in localities, the 
farmer is looked down upon, rather than 
up to. So pronounced is this spirit that 
at what is undoubtedly the leading agri- 
culturai college in that region, for years 
students have been making effort, in the 
most prominent manner endorsed by many 
graduates, to have the official word 
‘Agricultural’ struck from the college 
name. In Maine, what for years was the 
Maine State College, was finally changed 
to the ‘University of Maine,’ a change 
made expressive of the same feeling which 
exists in the other State colleges. 
“These hills grow abundant pasture and 
fine grass. Horses, cattle and sheep will 
prosper here. It has been so in the past, 
it could be so in future, if the people were 
interested, but they are not likely to be. 
The great future, if it be great, of rural 
New England, outside of its more favored 
river valleys where the land is easy of 
tillage, will be embraced in Summer houses 
and forestry—systematic forestry. This 
latter feature is already beginning to at¬ 
tract attention, and it is to be hoped will 
receive the consideration it deserves. In 
the meantime you can buy plenty of land 
in the hill region at your own price. The 
electric railway is now, getting a good foot¬ 
hold in the western part of the State, and 
will penetrate among the hills and bring 
the country much closer to the town, and, 
of course, this will help to make farm life 
more popular in some places where now it 
is far from agreeable, yet there must be 
a change in the spirit of the people, before 
the farmhouses will be occupied by a class 
that will have much influence in uplifting 
rural New England.” 
“Another Pig Heard Prom.”— 
Bought a pig for $2; fed 250 pounds 
wheat middlings, $2.75; and 150 pounds 
ground corn and oats, $2.03, making a 
total cost of $6.78. Dressed weight at 
414 months old, February 28, 109 
pounds at 10 cents, $10.90. I had no 
milk at all, but fed warm water with 
the feed in it. The pig ran outdoors 
until snow came, after which it was 
confined in a very small pen, but not as 
warm as it should have been. Of course 
this does not compete with Billy G., but 
it shows that any hired man can raise 
pork cheaper than he can buy it. 
Stanley, N. Y. o. j. b. 
ihiSHARPLES Separators, 
There are two kinds of cream 
separators and oniy two. I 
OURS and the OTHERS. 
The'i'ubalnr bowl. 
The put ent protected kind. 
I The bowl without compli¬ 
cation, that It easll/ 
cleaned* 
The entlreljclean skimmer 
under all conditions* 
The can’t get oot of order 
kind* 
There is a lot of real dif- 
' ferenco in the two kinds 
and it amounts to big money 
in a year’s time. Investigate. 
Separators are different. 
Free Catalogue No. 153. 
P. M. SHARPLES, 
West Chester, Pa. 
THE 8HARPLES CO., 
Chicago, Ills. 
The bucket bowl. 
The free for all kind* 
The bowl \%’ith dUet, i 
conefl. gratera or con* 
triiptlonii that can't be | 
kept clean* 
The fairly clean aklmmer 
under favorable coudl* 
tlona* 
The bound to give iron-J 
ble kind* 
The EMPIRE 
The Easy Runninir Kind. '' 
Will fdve bettor satisfaction, make you more 
L money and last longer than any ether. Our 
\ book shows why. 8endft/rlt. 
I Empire Cream Separator Co., 
* ^ BLOOMFIELD, N. J. 
DeLaImL 
CreamSemrators 
For twenty years the World’s Standard 
Ti. .. . cataloQue. 
The De Laval Separator Co., 74 Cortlandt St., N.Y, 
THE BOSS CREAM RAISER 
has a place for 
the cream and 
butter as well 
as the milk. It 
will raise all 
of the cream 
in from 3 to 6 
hours without 
mixing It with 
water, leaving 
your sklmmilk 
pure, 8woet 
arid undiluted. 
Write us at 
once for cir¬ 
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JHwffton Cream Separator Co., liluITtou, Ohio 
Hog Pasture.—I prefer Blue grass to 
clover for hog pasture for the reason of 
avoiding gas and not the liability to 
cholera or swine plague. h. Austin. 
At the Canadian Agricultural College the 
following mixture is used on stock to keep 
off the flies: A tablespoonful of carbolic 
acid and one quart of fish oil. This is 
applied once a week and gives good .sat¬ 
isfaction. 
The Springfield Republican contains the 
following: “Charles H. Witt, of North 
Brookfield, had the misfortune to lose two 
cows Saturday because of their eating 
nitrate of soda. Mr. Witt, with a cart¬ 
load of the stuff used for a fertilizer, 
passed through the pasture, where he had 
four cows, and it spilled out on the ground 
somewhat. He tried to get it up, knowing 
it was dangerous for the stock to eat it. 
He thought he had got it all up, but 
enough remained to kill two of the cows 
and make the other two very sick.” 
Money Ahea.d. 
At the end of the first year you can 
count up a good profit 11 you run au 
AMERICAN 
Cream Separator. 
The one that Is sold on test. The 
one that Is sold at a low price. 
One that received Paris Fxp^Itioa 
VV rite for catalogue. It Is free. 
A3IKKUAX SKPAUATOU CO., 
Box lOtIC Baiiibrldtre, N. Y. 
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|U|nS|rVI Cows will give 16 to 20 per 
IIIU11 Eli I more milk if protected 
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from the torture of ^ies with 
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Kills flies and all Insects; protects horses as well 
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Itapidly applied with Child’s Electric Sprayer. 
30 to 50 cows spraytd in a few minutes. A true 
antiseptic; keeps stables, chicken houses, pig 
pens in a perfectly sanitary condition. 
Ask for Child's 80-BOS-SO or semi, $2 for l-gol.can and 
Sprayer complete, Kx. pd. auy point east of the Mississippi. 
CHAS. H. CHILDS & CO.. Sole Manufacturers, 
24 LaFayette Street, Utica, N. Y. 
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FACTS AND TESTS PROVE IT I 
^ , Kmery.Ky., April 9,1903. 
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