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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 7 
COLD COUNTRY STOCK NOTES. 
The following breezy letter Is written 
from Warren County, N. Y. Up In that 
county they have had snow six feet deep 
in the woods. 
It is about 25 rods from my house 
across the meadow (seeded down with¬ 
out ever being plowed, ana mowed now 
about 50 years) to the pasture fence, 
and a few feet beyond the fence a ledge, 
almost perpendicular, and 100 feet in 
height, ana this is a favorite resort for 
sheep. We often see them standing in 
a row upon the very edge of the rocks, 
and looking down upon us, as though 
they really enjoyed the scenery, while 
they chewed the cud of perfect con¬ 
tentment. It is a natural feeding ground 
for sheep, and the flock will improve 
every year. My cows run in the same 
pasture most of the time, feed upon 
grass and tender twigs and leaves of dif¬ 
ferent kinds, drink the pure, cold, spring 
water that bubbles out from among the 
rocks, and produce milk that is fit for the 
young gods. Butter? Think of the deli¬ 
cate odor of attar of roses and of nectar 
a quarter of an inch thick upon a slice 
of bread! We use a channel-can 
creamery, an oak barrel churn and pack 
our butter in new stone jars. We have 
a large dry cellar, with whitewashed 
walls and hardpan floor, that is cool 
and dry and a perfect place to make and 
keep butter. Our cattle are always 
healthy, and I believe that our butter is 
not only good for food, but away ahead 
of all the oils that are sola as a flesh- 
producing meuicine. 
I have about 120 Brown Leghorn hens 
—(I have not counted the roosters late¬ 
ly, but guess there are about six). I keep 
them in two Socks, 60 in each flock. 
They have been laying all Winter. We 
keep an egg record. Just now within a 
few days a few of the biddies have been 
eating eggs. Some say, Cut off the head. 
I hate to lose uie hen, and that lets 
them out too easy. I have treated 
those hens this Winter, like as a father 
would treat an only son, and more so, 
and now all the kindness and all the 
knowledge I have gained from poultry 
books will go for naught, unless there is 
a remedy applied. I fixed one, yester¬ 
day, so that she will not eat eggs to-day. 
I took my knife and cut the upper bill 
off square, and far enough back to bring 
the blood a little. This will stop them, 
but it is hard to find out the guilty 
parties. If you see one in a nest, she 
will hop down, and then she is lost 
among 50 other hens that all look alike. 
I shall leave dry bran by them and that 
is another remedy. 
I am Wintering seven pigs or shotes. 
They sleep in a warm, dry cellar 17x20, 
but I feed them in a trough out doors. 
I shovel out the trough and have the 
snow piled higher than my head. The 
path from the house to the pig yard 
drifts full nearly every day, and it 
must be four feet above ground now. 
First you slip off on one side, and then 
the other, and go away down in the 
snow, but don’t say anything, and spill 
as little slop as possible. I am winter¬ 
ing 26 cattle, 15 sheep, and a pair of 
horses. A load of hay lasts me about 
three days. I have a boiling spring in 
the barnyard, with a hogshead set in it. 
It never freezes. The thermometer has 
been down to 26 or 28 degrees below 
zero this Winter, and on such mornings 
the steam will rise from my spring, and 
I say to myself, “Old man, you don’t 
depend on any old windmill, with frozen 
pipes for water, do you?” 
8. C. ARMSTRONG. 
SILAGE AND HORSES. 
I enclose you an item clipped from our 
local paper: 
“It is said that two valuable horses be¬ 
longing to J. B. Bristol, of Westfield, died 
recently from eating silage. Mr. Bristol 
has a silo which he fills each year with 
green cornstalks which are cut and made 
into silage. Cattle do well on the feed, 
and he fed some to his horses with fatal 
results. One was sick only a few hours; 
the other was sick four days. He valued 
the team at $300.” 
Do you, or any of the readers of your 
paper know for sure that silage will kill 
horses? L - G - 
Pennsylvania. 
We have often heard such reports. 
Of course we all know that people are 
likely to get causes mixed up with ef¬ 
fects. We have consulted a number of 
the State Veterinarians, some of whom 
report as follows: 
I know of two or three instances where 
the horses kept in the same barn with 
the silo, where their stalls were near it, 
had spinal meningitis. It was thought 
that the cause of the disease was pro¬ 
duced by the fermentation of the silage; 
however, on the other hand I have seen 
numerous cases of spinal meningitis in 
horses kept in city stables where there 
were no silos. Austin peters. 
Massachusetts. 
I have never known any injurious ef¬ 
fects to arise from its use as food for 
horses, mules or cattle. It is used uni¬ 
versally in the northern part of our State 
among the dairies, and is conceded by 
every dairyman with whom I have talk¬ 
ed, to be not only the best but the cheap¬ 
est. c. P. LOVEJOY. 
Illinois. .State Veterinarian. 
I know of no positive cases where 
silage has killed horses or mules. Many 
horses and mules have died in my prac¬ 
tice and under my observation as State 
Veterinarian, which we could trace to 
nothing else than the eating of silage 
from improperly-constructed silos, where 
there was a great deal of decomposition. 
There is nothing, however, to be positive 
about this, as the cause is unknown, but 
in some way connected with the feeding. 
Many other cases have occurred where 
they did not feed on silage, in fact, more 
in the latter than in the former. 
A. W. CLEMENT, 
Maryland. State Veterinarian. 
I have never seen any disastrous re¬ 
sults attending the use or presence of 
silage among animals or human beings. 
While I may not have had as much ex¬ 
perience as some in this particular di¬ 
rection, yet I have been somewhat in¬ 
terested in the subject matter for the 
past 15 years, both in this country and 
in Europe, and as a result I can truth¬ 
fully say that personally I am in favor 
of silage used in a judicious manner. Of 
course I believe it is possible to cause 
death in animals by the improper use of 
this food, but tne same may also be said 
of even the best of hay and other food 
Stuffs. R. ALEXANDER ARCHIBALD, V. S. 
California. 
Cow-Pea Silage. 
In your issue of March 3 you ask for 
facts from those who have them con¬ 
cerning Soy bean or cow-pea silage. 
I have kept one cow, a purebred Jersey, 
this Winter, her last calf was dropped 
September 25, 1899, and have fed her 
from the farm silo. I have fed, milked 
and cared for her myself, weighing each 
milking on a milk scale spring balance, 
on which the pounds are divided into 
tenths and twentieths. 
Last year we built a new stave silo, 
and also raised quite a quantity of pea- 
vines for hay. We had one small field 
very near the silo and at my suggestion, 
we experimented with some of them in 
the silo. They were not put in all 
through the silage, but as convenience 
dictated a load would be run in. In get¬ 
ting the silage out, more or less of the 
corn silage was mixed with the cow 
peas. It so happened that we struck the 
various lots of cow-pea silage between 
February 16 and March 16. The cow I 
speak of was giving an average of 18 
pounds of milk when we first fed the 
cow peas. She gradually increased un¬ 
til she gave 22.8 pounds. When the cow 
peas gave out she fell back to 18.8 
pounds. Upon reaching cow peas again 
she increased to 23.5 pounds. After they 
were gone she fell back to 20 pounds. 
Upon reaching the last lot she increased 
to 25 pounds; this was high water 
mark. After being on corn silage three 
days she gave 19.8 pounds. Her other 
feed was six pounds bran, 1% pound 
cotton-seed meal and a very little poor- 
quality hay at night, not over five 
pounds. w. l. b. 
Montclair Farm, Fredericksburg, Va. 
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