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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 28 
Live Stock and Dairy 
SOILING CROPS FOR COWS. 
A Rhode Island reader has three acres of 
old pasture and six head of stock. He has 
two acres of green rye. He will grow an 
acre of sweet corn, and feed the green 
stalks. He has some vegetable peas left 
from last year. What can he sow on the 
three acres that will give most green food 
to be cut and fed? 
Probably a mixture of about three 
bushels of a good strong-growing var¬ 
iety of oats and one bushel of peas per 
acre will give the earliest satisfactory 
green feed that can be |rown from seed 
sown this Spring. Barley will grow 
about one week quicker than oats, and 
perhaps a strip of barley might be sub¬ 
stituted on one side by simply sowing 
barley instead cf oats, and sowing the 
barley seed somewhait thicker than oats, 
as it does not stool as much, although 
I think it holds the pea vines up fully 
as well as oats. I have used both Can¬ 
ada and Marrowfat peas, the last mak¬ 
ing a larger growth of vine, and not 
maturing quite as quickly as the first. 
We have been soiling milch cows for 
over 20 years "id all through the 
earlier years oats and peas were one 
of our surest soiling crops. We usually 
made the first sowing about April 20, 
and followed with two others at inter¬ 
vals of about a week or 10 days. Some¬ 
times the first and second sowings would 
mature at about the same time, owing to 
climatic conditions. About July 1 is as 
early as they can be counted on as suit¬ 
able to feed, as I do not think it pays to 
feed them until fully headed out. Of 
late years owing, I think, perhaps some¬ 
what to the conditions of our soil, the 
oats and peas have not been as satisfac¬ 
tory as formerly. Some years they have 
been nearly ruined by rusts, and the 
peas by mildew. 
For a crop to follow the oats and peas 
1 would recommend Japan millet; there 
are several varieties of this, but the 
kind grown at the Massachusetts Agri¬ 
cultural College and called barnyard 
millet is the best. It has spreading 
heads like common Barn grass, but is 
a giant by our common native weed of 
similar habit of growth. It requires 
about 10 quarts per acre on rather 
moist, rich land. It does not mature 
quite as quickly as Hungarian, which 
sometimes will grow in eight or 10 
weeks, but yields enough to pay for 
waiting a while longer, and also re¬ 
mains longer in condition to feed. An 
important factor in sowing soiling crops, 
especially in hot dry weather, is not to 
allow the soil, when fitting for the seed, 
to become dried, and if possible, to pre¬ 
vent it, as weeks lost in waiting for the 
seed to gather sufficient moisture to 
sprout and grow will make considerable 
difference. Another point in soiling is 
always to figure on more ground than is 
thought necessary, as owing to drought 
and other unfavorable conditions, the 
yield is often less than a full crop. For 
many years we have planned to have a 
crop of clover, Orchard grass, or some 
similar crop to fall back on in case of a 
shortage or failure of different soiling 
crops to mature at the proper time. In 
case there is more than needed to feed 
green, it can be cured for Winter feed¬ 
ing. I would advise beginning to feed 
the Winter rye as soon as it is about a 
foot high, and would cut the last as 
soon as the neads are fully out, as if it 
is allowed to stand until it blossoms it 
will be poor feed, and the cows will 
show it in their appetites and at the 
pail. The first cut, if on rich land, will 
start up, an- by the time the other is 
all cut will do to cut again, and help to 
piece out between the rye and oats and 
peas. Ft A. PUTNAM. 
Massachusetts, 
a SPAVIN 
Ringbone, Rpinit nr Curb will reduce the sell- 
inpr price of any horse 50 per cent. You mij^ht just 
as well get full value for your horse. Cure him with 
While “Rocks” and While “Doites.” 
Can The R. N.-Y. tell me the distin¬ 
guishing points of a White Plymouth Rock 
hen and of a White Wyandotte? We have 
recently purchased two White P. Rocks; 
they have rose combs, and some people 
tell us that they are not White P. Rocks, 
but Wyandottes, because of the rose comb; 
others say that the White Rocks have rose 
combs sometimes. We wish to know 
whether the While P. Rocks do have rose 
combs, and, if so, how they may be dis¬ 
tinguished from the White Wyandotte? 
The rooster that came with them every¬ 
body admits to be a White P. Rock, and, 
if the hens are not the same kind, we wish 
to take steps to secure some. H. i. m. 
Gilboa, N. Y. 
White P. Rocks with rose combs are 
approaching dangerously near to White 
Wyandottes. There are a few breeders 
who breed Plymouth Rocks with pea 
combs, but none with rose combs. In 
fact, to the inexperienced, the comb is 
the principal distinguishing feature be¬ 
tween the two breeds. While there is a 
general difference in the make-up of the 
birds which the experienced breeder will 
readily notice, yet me amateur will 
scarcely notice the difference, especially 
with ordinary specimens, unless they 
were side by side for comparison. The 
Wyandotte is rather shorter in back, 
neck and shanks, with a slightly fuller 
breast; more blocky, or closer built, as 
the horseman would say. J. e. s. 
Broeder Heal, Chicks and Skim-Milk. 
Poultry papers tell me to get my brooder 
heat up to 85 degrees, then put the chicks 
in; the animal heat will raise it to 95 de¬ 
grees, keep it there for four or five days, 
then lower one degree per day until I get 
it down to 75 degrees. When the tem¬ 
perature outside falls 20 degrees during 
the night, the brooder is pretty sure to fall 
with it, even when attended to two or 
three times during the night. How ought 
it to be run? At what age can young 
chicks have skim-milk? E. R. 
Ida Grove, Iowa. 
All brooders should be so construct¬ 
ed that they will be the least sus¬ 
ceptible to outside changes of tempera¬ 
ture that it is possible to get them, and 
my advice to E. It. is, if his brooder will 
not maintain a reasonably even tem¬ 
perature even when attended to two or 
three times during the night, to take an 
old axe and make it into kindling wood, 
or carefully place iit on a brush heap 
that is to be burned. This will be by 
far better than using it to kill little 
chicks with, and at the same time be 
much less work. The temperature of 
the brooder for young chicks should 
vary very little from 90 degrees for the 
first week, after which it may be grad¬ 
ually reduced to 80 degrees at the end 
of three or four weeks. Overheating or 
chilling chicks during the first month 
does more to prevent the markets from 
being overstocked with poultry than all 
other causes combined. If the heat is 
right the chicks will usually get along 
well on almost any kind vJ good sound 
food, but if heat goes far wrong no 
amount of nursing will pull them 
through. Skim-milk may be given 
young chicks from the start. When ob¬ 
tainable I always use stale bread moist¬ 
ened with milk as the principal food for 
the first few days, and think it the best 
food that can be used. j. e. s. 
Bony and nnnatnral enlargement*, also all forma 
of Umrnru yield readily to this remedy. It la cer¬ 
tain and aure in its effects and cures without a 
blemish as it does not blister. 
Opdykc, Ill., Pec. 17. 1*97. 
Dear SiraF.nclo«*d find atamp for your Treatla* on the 
Horae. I can truly recommend your Kendall’a Spavin Cure, 
for I have used It for several years on Hparln., Splints and 
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JAR. C. MOORE. 
It works thousands of cures annually. Endorse¬ 
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Price, $1; all for As a liniment for family use 
it has no equal. Ask your druggist for KENDAM/H 
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Breeders’ Directory. 
Eggs.— 20 for $1. White Wyandotte 
and Huff Leghorn. 
JOHNSON & ORR, Collins Center, N. Y. 
Barred Plymouth Rocks exclusively. 
Incubator Eggs, $11 per 1(K). 
C. A. HALL, Oak Hill, Greene Co., N. V. 
Buff Plymouth Rocks.— Prize win¬ 
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JOHN U. JANNKV, Brighton, Md. 
A 
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prize winning poultry for 1000, Tho finest poultry booV 
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Inoubators from 15.00 up. 
Brooders from 13.80 up 
Catalogue free 
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Thk Nat l Hen Incubator beats old plan 
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Fowls Cheap. —Singly, pairs, pens. 
W. and Barred Bocks; W. and Br. Leghorns; W 
Wyandottes; stamp. Eggs, 26 for fl. 
Mrs. J. P. HELLING8, Dover. Del. 
T horoughbred Bar.. Wh. & Bf. P. Rock, Lt., Dk.& 
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uuuvj lllnl lifilLH Wyandottes, $1.50 per 15. Br. 
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eggs, $2 per 0. WM. McOABE, Kelsey, Ohio. 
QH Varieties Choice Poultry Eggs. All Pigeons and 
U Ger. Hares. All described and prizes in colored 
(XI page book mailed, 10c. J. A. Bergey, Telford, Pa. 
C f* PC -White Leghorn and Barred Plymouth 
kUIXw ltoek eggs, $1 per 100. Also a few Barred 
Plymouth Rock Cockerels at $1 to $1.50 each, Thomp¬ 
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PINK TREE FARM, Box T, James burg, N.J. 
213 EGG-WIIITE Wyandottes, Haw¬ 
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Boston, New York and Washington, 1809, 7 to 7*4-lb. 
pullets mated with 9-lb. fa m-raised cockerels, snow 
i white, yellow legs, bay eyes, 15 brick-colored eggs, 
jl 50 ; $0 per 100. Cockerels and Pullets for sale. 
J. S. GATES, Westboro, Mass. 
nnill TDV A11 thc lua<,1 "F varieties. Fowls 
FUUL Inf and eggs for sale. Illustrated cat. 
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Our Famous White Wyandottes 
are laying so well that we cut the price In one-half 
for eggs that hatch. $1 per 13; $5 per 100. Satisfaction 
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Blanchard’s White Leghorns. 
The Leading Strain of Heavy Layers. Eggs for 
hatching: $2 per 15; $3.50 per30; $5 per 50; $(i per 00; 
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Cows barren 3 years 
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IP LICE KILLER cl!A " S0U,TH!l ' CI 
Sheep Pasture.— I have never tried sor- 
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Blue grass and clover; as the Blue grass 
comes early we pasture it first, and do not 
turn on the clover till tho latter part of 
June. Clover makes better pasture during 
thc diy weather than Blue grass, because 
Ihe roots are longer and go deeper in the 
ground for water. By the time the clover 
is gone, we generally have small showers, 
which start the Blue grass again which 
will make excellent pasture for Fall. 
Loree, Ind. l. f. 
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Hickory Hill Farm 
IS THE nOME OK THE 
“Rissa” Jerseys. 
The “Klssas" combine the show qualities of the 
Island Jerseys and the great buttormaking qualities 
of the St. Lamberts. Must make room for Spring 
calves. J. GRANT MORSE, FoolviUe, N. Y 
ran EGGS 
rUII For Hatching. 
SALE B,KI>S 
w For Breeding. 
GUERNSEY CATTLE, ail ages, both sexes. 
M. SAGER, ORANGEVILLE, PA. 
Knob Mountain Poultry and Stock Farm 
tformoro Tiinonroc Don't go broke. Don't live on 
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QUILLHURST POULTRY FARM, Elyria, Ohio. 
50 Fine Duroc-Jersey Fall Pigs 
at a bargain for the next60 days. 
C. C. BRAYVLEY & CO., New Madison, Ohio. 
IMPROVED CHESTER WHITES 
ot the best oreeding and all ages for sale at reason¬ 
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cockerels $1 apiece. C. K. RECORD, Peterboro, N.Y 
ADItCDC now booked for Purebred Large 
UnUCVfd Strain POLAND-CHINA PIGS, 
this Spring farrow. 
F. U. GATES & SONS, Cbitteuango, N. Y 
iHeg. Ho I and Ch/nas,Berk- 
f shires & Chester Whites. Choice 
) Pigs, 8 weeks old, mated not 
fakln. Bred sows and service 
Boars cheap. Poultry. Write 
for hard times prices and free 
olrcular. Hamilton &Co., Rosenvlck, Chester Co., Pa 
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Rambouillet Sheep; POland-Chlua, Jersey Red and 
Suffolk Pigs. Land and Water Fowls. Hens' 
Eggs, ISOc. per dozen: 10 kinds; standard bred. 
W OOI)LAWN FARM, R. E. Goddard, 
Proprietor, Breeder of Registered Short¬ 
horn Cattle; Standard Trotting and Saddle Horses 
Stock of all ages for sale. Burgin, Ky. 
rno Cll c—TWO GUERNSEY BULLS 11 and 
lUn OALC 12 months old. cho'cely bred, and 
Individually good. A. 8. MEAD. 
Genoa, Cayuga Co., N. 
rnn oil C— Two nice Registered Jersey Bulls, 
rUil wMLE solid color, black points, well bred, 
one two years, tho other four months old. 
ELIZABETH P. ARCHER, New Hope, Pa. 
Some GOOD young 
JERSEY BULL CALVES 
FOR SAUK at fair prices. No PLUGS nor un 
-eglstered for sale at any price. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
DELLHUFtST FARM, 
MENTOR, OHIO, 
has nearly 30 Holstein Bull Calves to select 
from, and offers sons of DeKol's Butter Boy No. 
19210, Koval Paul 22979 and others, having the much- 
talked-of Pauline Paul and DeKol cross. Our Herd 
now numbers 150 head. Stock of all ages and both 
I sexes for sale frpm Advanced Registry cows. 
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