1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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SO Y BEANS FOR THE SILO. 
Experiments With New Fodder Crops. 
A Hajrd Struggle. —Two years ago I 
got a small package of Soy beans from 
Peter Henderson & Co. to try them with 
corn as a ration for milch cows. I 
planted them on one side of a field be¬ 
side a wood, and the rabbits evidently 
knew a good thing when they found it, 
for they ate them off as soon as they 
had made a few leaves. Last year I got 
enough beans to plant three acres and 
planted them in drills with Corn King 
planter. Before the beans got over 
ground a very heavy rain baked the sur¬ 
face of the field, and a great many 
plants broke off short as they pushed 
mcir way through the hard surface. Still 
there was a good stand left. They got 
ordinary field culture with weeder and 
cultivator, and some large weeds in rows 
were pulled by hand. Not having scales, 
I cannot say what weight we got per 
acre, but at a rough guess would say 
six to seven tons heavily podded and 
averaging three beans per pod. 
In the Sllo. —We put two teamloads 
of corn and one teamload of Soy beans, 
thoroughly mixed as we cut them, into 
a silo. We fed some of the mixture 
while filling silo for a few days and 
found a decided increase in flow of milk 
after the third time we fed above mix¬ 
ture. We reduced grain feed one-half, 
and in some cases two-thirds; still milk 
kept up. As soon as we stopped feed¬ 
ing Soy-bean mixture milk began to 
shrink, and fell off all we had gained, 
though we fed cut corn and full grain 
ration. As the Soy-bean mixture was 
about the center of a silo 16 x 26 feet, we 
did not reach it until the first week in 
December. At that time, owing to de¬ 
lay in transportation, our supply of H. O. 
dairy feed gave out, and we expected our 
milk would fall off. Instead of a 
shrinkage we had a slight increase, and 
nearly all our cows had been milking 
for 10 months. We tried one cow, 
which was nearly fresh, on Henderson 
mixture and two pounds of corn-and- 
cob meal and bran and she kept up full 
flow of milk, and the quality and flavor 
were first class. 
I intend to give this mixture a thor¬ 
ough trial this season, and will be glad 
to have any suggestions as to how best 
to find out how near it comes to being 
a complete ration. I ought to say that 
our car of H. O. dairy feed arrived just 
as we finished Henderson’s Soy-bean 
combination, and though we feed 40 
pounds good silage and grain ration, 
our milk fell off 65 to 70 quarts in a 
week. I think the Soy bean and corn 
mixed as above ought to come very near 
solving the problem of how to avoid 
the shrinkage in the Fall when pas¬ 
tures are all dried up. Just now we are 
feeding millet (Japan) which was cut 
and put into the bottom of a silo last 
September. It comes out bright and 
nice and is eaten greedily, and the re¬ 
sults so far as milk is concerned show 
no difference from corn silage. How 
would Japan millet and Soy beans do 
as a soiling crop for early Fall or late 
Summer before corn matures? The rea¬ 
son I put millet in silo last Fall was that 
I wanted the ground where it was grow¬ 
ing; besides it saved a lot of time, in¬ 
stead of cutting a little every day. I 
would like to know whether any of your 
readers have tried the above mixture, 
and with what results. I think there 
is more in it for the dairyman than he 
can get out of the usual crops grown 
for soiling or silage. a. mackellar. 
Rockland Co., N. Y. 
EXPERIENCE WITH EARLY EGGS. 
Whoever tries to raise early chicks 
where the climate is cold and stormy 
often has great difficulty in getting fer¬ 
tile eggs. Later in the season, when the 
weather is pleasant and the birds have 
freedom and green feed, there is little 
trouble; but the eggs laid in February 
and March are likely to be unsatisfac¬ 
tory. Let me relate some of our own 
experience in getting eggs for early 
hatches. We wished to mix the blood of 
some of the finest flocks of S. C. 
White and Brown Leghorns with 
our own, which two breeds are our spe¬ 
cialty and sole dependence among chick¬ 
ens. Living as we do on the Eastern 
Shore of Chesapeake Bay, where the 
Winters are mild and pleasant usually, 
we did not realize the difference between 
northern and southern eggs in point of 
early fertility. 
In February of last year we sent to 
one of the leading breeders of White 
Leghorns in northern New Jersey for 
200 of their highest-priced eggs. In due 
time they came, and, according to con¬ 
tract, doubtless were the best they had. 
We put them in a Prairie State incuba¬ 
tor and with them 100 of our own eggs 
of the same breed. At the fifth-day 
test there were less than 50 per cent of 
the northern eggs fertile and over 90 
per cent of our own. At the twelfth- 
day test nearly half the northern eggs 
then in the incubator had to come out, 
because they were dead, while there 
were but two dead ones among our own. 
At hatching time there were less than 
10 per cent of chicks from the northern 
eggs, and nearly 75 per cent from our 
own. A statement of the above facts 
caused the northern firm at once to re¬ 
fill the order when the second hatch was 
attempted, which was in March. This 
time 50 eggs from one of the most fa¬ 
mous breeders of S. C. Brown Leg¬ 
horns in New York were put in with 
those from New Jersey, the remainder 
needed to fill the incubator being from 
our own hens. There was a little im¬ 
provement in the hatch from the New 
Jersey eggs, but those from New York 
were worst of all. Only five chicks 
came from the 50 eggs, and they were 
so weakly that all finally died but one. 
These facts were also reported, and the 
Brown Leghorn breeder more than re¬ 
placed the eggs, by doubling the order, 
and at his own suggestion, when we 
came to the fourth hatch. The third 
hatch was all from our own eggs and 
gave over 75 per cent of strong, vigor¬ 
ous chicks. 
The 100 Brown Leghorn eggs from 
New York were supplemented from our 
own stock for the fourth setting. The 
result at the tests for fertility and at 
the hatch was almost as before. The 
100 northern eggs gave 24 chicks and our 
own over 75 per cent. In these hatches, 
under absolutely like conditions as to 
treatment of the eggs in the incubator, 
there was a remarkable contrast. What 
was the cause? It was not rough 
handling, chilling or other damage to 
the eggs, for at the same time we were 
shipping eggs to various places, and had 
reports of about the same results as at 
home, except in two cases, so far as 
heard from; and v/e are apt to hear from 
all the bad cases. My opinion is, that it 
was caused by the difference in climate, 
largely or wholly. Where the fowls 
must be confined in houses, the cocks 
given little liberty of action, and where 
there is no green grass and other natur¬ 
al food for them, there is less reason to 
expect fertile eggs than where the re¬ 
verse is true. A sort of early Spring 
weather almost all the Winter makes 
the hens feel good and they are in con¬ 
dition to lay fertile eggs long before 
those which do not have these advan¬ 
tages. Our hens had Crimson clover, 
rye, etc., to pick whenever they wished 
during the whole of last Winter, except 
for about 10 days. This year the weath¬ 
er is still milder. 
Our experience leads us to believe that 
if we were in the North we would send 
south for our earliest eggs for hatch¬ 
ing; and we are fully persuaded to wait 
until the Spring is well advanced in the 
North before sending there for any that 
we may want. The feeding of silage or 
any fresh food that has not lost a part 
of its palatability and digestibility would 
undoubtedly be a great advantage in 
poultry keeping, where strictly green 
food is not obtainable. 
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