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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
May 26 
Live Stock and Dairy 
SILAGE OR SOILING. 
An Up-fo-Date Question. 
A reader in Indiana asks the following 
questions: 
We have 80 acres of land, all tillable; no 
pasture. Have a milk route in a town 2% 
miles away, where we can sell all the milk 
we can produce at five cents a quart. 
Would It be best for us to sow clover and 
Timothy for pasture, or build silos to hold 
enough feed for the entire year? Land Is 
worth $100 per acre, and none for sale near. 
Si/age Most Profitable. 
I have followed the investigation of 
milk made from silage and dry feed over 
a period of several months, and have 
reached the conclusion that when I want 
to produce the very best quality of milk, 
cream or butter, I want sound silage as 
a coarse fodder. As a business proposi¬ 
tion, no one can afford to pasture land 
that is worth $100 per acre (if it is in 
the corn belt). Intelligently put-up 
corn silage is as much superior to dry 
cured corn as canned fruit is superior 
to dried fruiit. Do not let your readers 
build any more cheap-john silos. My 
silos are now all cemented inside, and 
are all circular in form. I have found 
silage very desirable as a Summer feed. 
The double wooden-walled silo is a de¬ 
lusion, as the moisture gets between, 
and decay commences in a few years. 
Illinois. H. B. GURLER. 
Soiling and Silo. 
I would not pasture suck valuable 
land. It seems to me that it would be 
advisable to soil a part of the land, and 
then grow on the rest some crop for the 
silo. He would get more than twice as 
much feed per acre by soiling as he 
would get by pasturing, and more Win¬ 
ter feed could be saved by growing crops 
suitable for the silo than by saving up 
hay or fodder. I don’t think that it 
would pay him to grow any of his grain 
feed, excepting, perhaps, what he might 
get on his corn grown for the silo, but 
produce all the roughage possible. He 
would not have to make much change in 
his present farm methods to adopt the 
above plan, probably the building of a 
silo. Having a regular manure supply 
from his herd of dairy cattle, he could 
increase the fertility of his land and 
grow some crop, or crops, on same every 
year without resting or much of a rota¬ 
tion. If at any time it was thought ad¬ 
visable to pasture any part of the land, 
allow the cows to run on it only a 
couple of hours each day, or just long 
enough to fill up, as ordinarily pastured 
grass is injured more by the tramping 
of stock than grazing. It is a very dif¬ 
ficult matter to advise a farmer just 
what is best for him to do in any line 
of his business, unless you are perfectly 
familiar with all the conditions that sur¬ 
round him. w. w. STEVENS. 
Indiana. 
The Great Ifalue of Corn. 
One of the things one should hesitate 
to do is to advise a man to the end that 
he change his entire farm methods, and 
not know tne conditions that go to make 
or unmake the venture. In a way we 
would say yes, feed silage the year 
’round, and buy what extra reed you 
want in clover hay and the concen¬ 
trates. In cold figures the matter is 
like this: Clover and Timothy are un¬ 
certain crops with nine farmers out of 
10. Fourteen acres of extra fine last 
year’s seeding on my farm is this Spring 
killed out, and is being plowed up. 
Corn on well-worked ground is never a 
failure. It always makes a crop worth 
me labor and rent, i. e., the crop will 
pay for both, however poor the season, 
Which can be said of few other crops. 
The whole question settles on this. 
Which will produce the most food for 
the dairy, a year’s suppiy being demand¬ 
ed, (the lot in corn, or clover? Will the 
eight acres in clover produce as many 
pounds of food solids, digestible matter, 
as will the eight acres in silage corn? 
It is to be presumed that the produce of 
an acre of clover would be equal to four 
tons of cured clover hay. Will this be 
equal to 16 tons of good silage? This 
last Will be as much as two cows can 
eat in 365 days. Fifteen tons of settled 
silage—an acre—will contain fully 6,300 
pounds of digestible food solids, while 
the four tons of clover hay will have 
somewhat less than 3,600 pounds. True, 
the cropping of the clover may result 
in more feed .nan would the crop if cut, 
and cured, as hay, but this is doubtful, 
if the cows were allowed to run upon 
the lot, and destroy more with their 
teet, than is consumed as food. An¬ 
other fact is .nat the clover is nearer a 
complete iood for the cow than the 
silage, but with clover hay, she, if in 
full flow, will require an additional feed 
of corn meal and some bran, and the 
silage would need six or seven pounds 
of bran daily to supply the lack of pro¬ 
tein. 
A sort of compromise in the matter 
might work satisfactorily. Put five cf 
the acres into silage corn, have three 
acres of clover, soil it, not allowing the 
cows upon it, and feea a smaller silage 
ration, and partially make up with the 
clover, pieced out with bran and gluten, 
to balance up things. We have noticed 
that where men are feeding dairies the 
year round on silage as the roughage 
ration, they are feeding about five 
pounds of either clover or mixed hay per 
day to each of the cows. One of the 
largest feeders of silage in the United 
States tells me that he knows of no plan 
by which he can get so large a return 
from his land as to provide 40 pounds 
of silage a day for the dairy each day 
in the year, and on other acres to raise 
clover, soiling it, never pasturing, and 
buyirg bran and gluten for grain, when¬ 
ever his clover gives out, buying clover 
hay. He has limited acres, puts all the 
stable manure upon his corn land, and 
raises corn after corn, the crops seem¬ 
ingly growing larger year by year. The 
use of silage in place of pasture, and 
even using silage as a soiling crop to 
supplement Summer pasture, is meeting 
with favor wherever tried. No other 
crop is proving as sure as Virginia corn, 
planted on rich sod land and cultivated 
very shallow. If the weather is 
droughty, cultivate as often as once a 
week, and such silage corn will make 
I large growth, even where all catch crops 
succumb to the failure of moisture. 
, There 'is no longer a "V question abcut 
the fine character of well-made silage 
milk, or the healthfulness of silage even 
when fed 12 months m the year. “Can 
I raise as much good food, and as cheap¬ 
ly, in any other crop as I can in good 
corn silage?” Even if concentrates must 
be purchased to balance it, will not the 
Increased valuj of the made lertility re¬ 
imburse one for that outlay, and the 
silage plan of pasture still be far in the 
lead? joun gould. 
Ohio. 
A Fodder Book. —One of the most 
useful and instructive agricultural vol¬ 
umes ever published in this country is 
Forage and Fodders, a report of the 
Kansas State Board of Agriculture. This 
volume of over 300 pages is compiled 
and edited by F. D. Coburn, of Topeka, 
Kan. Mr. Coburn is secretary of the 
Kansas State Board of Agriculture, and 
he was formerly an editor, and his news¬ 
paper training now serves him in good 
stead. He has brought together in this 
volume a remarkable collection of ma¬ 
terial concerning forage and fodders. 
The best reports of the western experi¬ 
ment stations, and the writing of prac¬ 
tical men and farmers, reports of dairy 
and agricultural meetings; in fact, just 
the information that stockmen need and 
call for. Alfalfa, sorghum, Soy bean, 
corn; in fact, all the tested forage plants 
are here described with their good and 
bad qualities fa'irly presented; in fact, 
we do not know of a volume to-day con¬ 
taining more practical information re¬ 
garding forage crops than this excellent 
report. It ought to be in the hands of 
every farmer who raises forage for one 
or more cows. We understand that 'it is 
sent on receipt of 10 cents to cover post¬ 
age, and we advise our readers to write 
without delay to Mr. Coburn and call for 
a copy of it. _ 
Kaffir corn is having a decided boom 
in the papers just now. At the Oklahoma 
Station digestion trials with hens were 
made, and Kaffir corn proved very accept¬ 
able as hen food. It was better for chick¬ 
ens than either corn or corn meal, and the 
small size of the kernels render it excellent 
for little chicks. We think it will pay 
poultry keepers especially to try an ex¬ 
periment. One thing about it is the fact 
that hens can do the husking and shelling. 
Throw the heads right into the yard; the 
hens may be expected to do the rest. 
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Breeders’ Directory. 
Buff Plymouth Rocks. —Prize win¬ 
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JOHN H. JANNKY, Brighton, Md. 
Wyandottes, Golden, Silver and White. 
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Onr Famous White Wyandottes 
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Shetland and Welsh Pony Mares for 
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For Sale.—J ersey Bull, eight months 
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