1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
591 
cieiit. The new pasture, which is not new 
land hut a hill lot, which had been a 
peach orchard, and w'as regarded as poor 
and full of Quack grass and not very 
profitable for cultivation, is a marvel to 
me. It keeps on improving year by year. 
A thick growth of White and Alsike 
clover mats the ground. My milch cow's 
have had no use for the oats and peas 
which were sown for them, as their pas¬ 
ture keeps sw'eet and fresh and abun¬ 
dant. T have 17 boarders this sea.son, 
with three milch cows, one heifer, two 
.steers and a bull, and I have fenced an¬ 
other field to use after haying if neces¬ 
sary. 
fl'iKKRs A's. HEirERS.—There are two 
steers in my herd, and I do not think it 
likely that I shall ever own another. 
Tommy will be two years old in Decem¬ 
ber. A fairly well-grown animal, though 
not so large as he might have been had 
I raised him from his birth. Dicky was 
a year old in April, and is built on rath¬ 
er too delicate lines to become a large 
beef animal. He is not so large as 
Hazel, my purebred .Jersey heifer, a 
month younger. Were Tommy a heifer 
I should have a salable or a profit-mak¬ 
ing animal in a few months, as it is I 
must keep him at least a year more in 
order to get any profit worth mention¬ 
ing, and it is a question whether there 
would not be a much greater gain for 
the two years’ keeping of the heifer than 
the three or four years of the steer. I 
like to turn money over oftener. 
Swine .xno Pom.Tnv. —Money can be 
turned over much oftener with swine, 
and I am inclined to believe to better 
advantage, excepting in improving the 
fertility of the soil. Hens turn the 
money over often. I sold a small pen 
for $4.50 about the first of .Tune, and 
spent the money for wheat, getting six 
bushels. I.,ong enough before the wheat 
was gone I had sold $10 wmrth of eggs 
for food purposes, not to mention a con¬ 
siderable number for hatching. For the 
past two years eggs have brought a good 
price. Except for a little while In the 
Spring they have retailed at 18 cents a 
dozen throughout the Summer. I sell 
(he greater part of my eggs to private 
customers, as I do all my butter. The 
difference is so marked between whole¬ 
sale and retail prices that a private trade 
pays, A market is found in this way for 
all surplus fruit and vegetables except 
(hose raised in too large quantities to 
make it feasible. The cherries are 
usually shipped to nearby cities, though 
it pays to send the finest grades to New 
York. Summer apples pay for shipping 
over the prices paid by home dealers. 
There is a fair demand for pears at a 
canning factory 15 miles away, reached 
through local dealers nearer home. 
.\T»VEn.sE Conditions. —A good piece 
of corn of more than an acre in area is 
something I nave not seen this year. In¬ 
stead of planting May 10, when the oak 
leaves were “as large as a squirrel’s 
foot,’’ the planting wa/s done when the 
elements permitted. A part of mine was 
put in .July 4. I expect to raise a crop 
of American flags in the low places. 
There will probably be some fodder 
whether there is any corn or not. I 
never saw the apples larger or fairer 
than they are this year, and most of the 
trees are in prime condition. 
SARA A. LITTLE. 
REMOVING WART FROM HEIFER. 
How can I remove a W'art from a yearling 
heifer’s lower eyelid? It seems to be a 
seed wart, and has been there nearly six 
months. When it first came it looked like 
a pea, now it is quite as large as a hickory- 
nut. There are now two more on the 
upper lid coming about the size of a pea 
split in half. The heifer is a very promis- 
!u?i Jersey, otherwise in perfect con- 
mtlon. I have tried nothing on it as yet 
hut pure hog’s lard. a. s. s. 
Maurlcetown, N. J. 
Try tying a silk thread tightly around 
the warts next to the skin and keep 
them at the same time frequently coat¬ 
ed with vaseline. It requires a strong 
active germ or foreign growth that can 
endure long when coated with or stuck 
In TMeline. h. i. o. 
MILLET IN THE SILO. 
Have you ever had any experience with 
the use of millet in the silo? One of our 
readers writes that his corn has proved a 
failure; he has, however, 20 acres of millet, 
and he must use this in the silo or go with¬ 
out silage. What is the result likely to be 
if he cuts this millet into the silo? Would 
you advise him to try it. and at W'hat stage 
of its growth would he better cut it? 
We have not had any experience with 
millet in the silo. I can see no good 
reason, however, why millet would not 
be a success, if cut just as the heads are 
nicely formed, and thoroughly packed as 
is the case with corn, though it will re¬ 
quire a little more careful packing. 
N. J. Exp. Sta. E. B. VOORHEES. 
Y/e have had no experience in making 
silage of millet at the Pennsylvania 
State College. Silage has been made of 
millet, although not of as good quality 
as that made from corn. Millet contains 
in general a smaller amount of mois¬ 
ture, would not pack as readily as corn 
and some other crops, and would there¬ 
fore have a tendency to mold. If millet 
is cut into the silo, it should be tramped 
thoroughly in order to secure as com¬ 
pact a mass as possible. It should be 
cut before the seed forms, in order to 
get best results. About the time of full 
bloom would possibly be the most satis¬ 
factory, as the growth is probably all 
made and the plants have usually not 
begun to die. Almost any of the grains 
and grasses keep well in silo if prop¬ 
erly put up. Rape and some of the 
leguminous crops on the other hand 
have a greater tendency to rot. 
Pa. State College. ttios. i. mairs. 
If the millet was mine I should wait 
until it W'as headed, not long enough for 
it to ripen, and then decide what to do. 
If the weather w'as favorable for drying 
I should by all means make hay of it. 
The expense of handling will be less, 
and from an experience with oats and 
peas I should say the feeding value 
would not be less than if stored in a 
silo. If the weather is rainy or cloudy 
then it might be safer and as cheaply 
done to run through the cutter and fill, 
with possibly a little water added. A 
great drawback in handling any of these 
plants like millet, oats, clover, etc., is, 
first, the inconvenience of forking so 
much water, not easily handled like 
corn, and secondly, the small stalk and 
leaf dries out very quickly if not hauled 
immediately, losing the water so neces¬ 
sary for good keeping. The corn plant 
is very retentive of moisture, and will 
not loise water, often in a couple of days, 
sufficient to interfere with its keeping. 
II. E. COOK. 
Several years ago we put about 10 
tons of millet into the silo with success 
of all degrees from worthless to very 
fine silage. The good millet silage was 
eaten w'ith great relish by the stock. 
That which was picked up immediately 
after cutting and put into the pit at once 
came out all right, but that which had 
wilted had all degrees of mold. It 
should be cut as soon as the heads are 
filling with milk. When filling up the 
silo keep well leveled and tramped 
down. If I had apparatus I would cut 
it in half inch length's, and add some 
water to the mass as it went up the ele¬ 
vator. Where one does not silo millet— 
and about every one does not—curing in 
small stacks is the best and most eco¬ 
nomical way; do not bleach it, and wear 
it out teddering. Cut in the afternoon 
and the next morning rake it up into 
small windrows, and then either “rope” 
the windrows into bunches of about 
1,500 pounds and top them out, and let 
them stand there a month to sweat and 
cure out before getting in, or rake the 
windrow’s to a center from two ways and 
make a very large cock of 500 to 700 
pounds, with a good top, and let these 
stand for two weeks at least. 'The mil¬ 
let will come out of these bunches bright 
and green without loss, and makes (for 
millet) the finest of feed. Millet cut 
when the grain is in the milk, and as 
green as possible, put into little stacks 
to cure out, is far superior to that cured 
in air and sunshine, and is a great sav¬ 
ing of labor besides. john oould. 
Ohio. 
“Dog-Days” and 
Craam Separator Fakirs 
Every “dog-day’’ season one of our old time “tin-can” creamer would- 
be competitors, of late years making a separator of which it is said that 
its only good feature is its sacrilegiously taken name—the “U. S.”—, >s 
seized with a new advertising spasm of some kind and a desire to buy 
newspaper space for use in imaginary self-comparison of itself with the 
DE LAVAL, in which new fake it usually grows worse from week to 
week until the I)P] LAVAL stoops to notice its fairy stories. 
First it was so-called Experiment Station fake “skim-milk records”; 
then a false representation of a Paris Exposition award and a still more 
false one of the I)E LAVAL machines not having received the Grand 
B Prize; then a garbled report of the Buffalo Exposition skim-milk tests 
and much lying about the awards made there. And so it has gone for 
some years. 
Now the latest fit of rabies of iv’hich this disciple of Ananias is the 
victim is brazenly advertising that his machine can’t skim cool milk 
because of quickly clogging up with it, while he pleads that it is wickedly 
cruel of the LE LAVAL agents to remind buyers of separators that 
there are frequent occasions when this is both convenient and 
necessary, and that the practical separator must be capable of it, though 
I only the LE LAVAL is with good results. 
Those Avho may read the advertisements of our envious little 
“teaser” should always keep these fundamental facts in mind: The DE 
LAVAL machines received the only Eegular Award at Chicago, the only 
Grand Prize at Paris, and the only Gold Medal at Buffalo. They have 
done the best work and are held to be the best separators in 
every Experiment Station in Europe and America. They are used by 
98 per cent of the experienced creamery users of separators throughout 
the world—and their sales are ten times all other makes combined, 
while with a 50 per cent greater output every year for twenty 
years there has never been a year yet in which the DE LAVAL manu¬ 
facturers could meet the demands upon them. 
This is a record of stone-wall facts which any of our pigmy would- 
be competitors are perfectly welcome to stand up and measure 
themselves alongside or butt their shortcomings into whenever they 
may be foolish enough to attempt it. 
If any reader may not understand why a DE LAVAL SEPABATOE 
is as much better than the best of its imitators and followers are better 
than gravity systems a DE LAVAL catalogue to be had for the asking 
will make the reasons plain. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
Randolph & Canal Sts., 
CHICAGO. 
1213 Filbert Street, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
9 cSs 11 Drumm St., 
SAN FRANCISCO. 
General Offices: 
74 Cortlandt Street, 
NEW YORK. 
121 Youville Square, 
MONTREAL. 
75 & 77 York Street, 
TORONTO. 
248 McDermot Avenue, 
WINNIPEG. 
The EMPIRE 
The £asy Running Kind. 
Will glT« bettor ledslbotion, meke 700 mere 
money end last longer then nnj ether. Our 
\ book shows why. Send it. 
I Empire Cream Separator Co*, 
' BLOOMFUSLD, *' ’ 
N. J. 
THE LUCKY “4-LEAF CLOVER’ 
Plymouth Cream Extract¬ 
or is the CREAM of them all. 
Inner can quickly remova¬ 
ble: water all around and 
under milk; has far greater 
cooling surface than any 
other. No water required 5 
months In year. Special air 
chaiuher with venttlatoi-. 
New and original faucet, 
Impossible to leak or sour. 
Express charges prepaid. 
Catalogue free. 
Plymouth Cream Separator Company, Plymouth, Ohio. 
narples 
Tubular 
Separators 
differ widely from the complicated 
, ‘ bucket bowl" types. Its bowl has no 
/ complications; all others have. It bas ^ 
I waist hieh milk vat; all others^ 
I are head high. It has bottomP 
\feed, simple, accessible gear-1 
^ ing, stands on its own bottom. I 
No other does. Skims clean,] 
\ turns easy. Ask any user- 
Free Catalogue No. 153 
,P.M.Sharples,West Chester,Pa.l 
Jho SharplM Co.. Chicago. Illg.^ 
