THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
August 18 
57o 
Live Stockand Dairy 
ROOTS FOR FATTENING SHEEP. 
I have an acre of mangel wurzels that 
will give me a bumper crop. How far can 
they be used instead of clover hay to feed 
sheep and lambs? I have not the abund¬ 
ance of clover hay that I had last year, 
and did not succeed in making it first 
class. Corn and fodder will be plenty. Be¬ 
sides the mangels I will sow soon about 1 % 
acre to turnips. With the roots, can I go 
on feeding with the promise of success 
I should expect if I did not have the roots 
and an abundance of clover hay? 
Mangels and turnips are both most 
excellent foods for fattening sheep. The 
English breeders depend very largely 
upon them for making first-class beef 
and mutton. They may be used, not 
exclusively as a substitute for clover 
hay, but by the judicious use of them 
much clover hay can be saved. It should 
be remembered that in feeding for fat a 
much wider ration is admissible than 
when feeding for milk. The ration may 
be as wide as 1:9 or 1:10 without loss, 
by reason of the predominance of heat 
and energy-producing foods. It should 
be rememberer that it is fat rather 
than flesh that is desired in this case. 
When such a ration is fed to fattening 
animals it is best not to keep them in 
too warm quarters. They should ue 
kept dry to insure the greatest comfort, 
but the temperature of the stables 
should be much cooler than are the 
dairy stables in the Winter, as the re¬ 
sults sought are widely different. Then, 
too, cool quarters keep the appetite at 
its best, and this is always necessary 
where it is desired to put on fat rapidly 
and cheaply. That is to say, the quick¬ 
er, within reasonable limits, the animal 
can be fattened, the cheaper it is fat¬ 
tened, because the machine or animal is 
maintained a less number of days, and 
the maintenance part of the ration is 
always several times larger than that 
part of it which goes towards making 
increase. However, it may be said that 
it would probably be economy to pur¬ 
chase a little concentrated nitrogenous 
food, such as oil or cotton-seed meal. 
The sheep will relish the carbonaceous 
foods better, and their bowels will not 
be so likely to be affected by liberal 
feeding of the roots. Then, too, the ma¬ 
nure would be slightly more valuable if 
the nitrogenous concentrated foods are 
fed to a limited extent, x. p. Roberts. 
Your subscriber can certainly feed 
sheep for fattening purposes, and attain 
good results, without feeding any clover 
hay. This has been demonstrated at 
our experiment stations, and also by 
practical feeders. In cases where lambs 
have been fed, good results have also 
been obtained where either corn fodder, 
or oat straw, were fed in conjunction 
with roots and shelled corn. But I 
would prefer to feed some oil meal or 
other nitrogenous food in addition to 
corn fodder, roots and shelled corn for 
lamb feeding, as they must have a lib¬ 
eral amount of bone and musele-produc- 
ing food, else they may break down in 
their legs before they are ready for the 
market. If your subscriber decides to 
feed sheep, the following should prove 
to give good and economical gains: 
Shelled corn, one pound; shredded or 
cut corn fodder, 1.6 pound, and roots, 
1.2 pound per head, per day, where the 
sheep weight about 100 pounds each. 
Larger or smaller animals should re¬ 
ceive a proportionate amount. If he de¬ 
cides to feed lambs, I would advise the 
addition of from 15 to 20 pounds of oil 
meal to every 100 pounds of corn fed. 
I mention shredded or cut corn fodder, 
because if it is fed in any other form 
there will be a great deal of waste. 
There are certain foods which possess 
greater feeding value than their chem¬ 
ical analysis would indicate. This is 
partially due to their action on the sys¬ 
tem, as they aid in the digestion of other 
foods fed. Roots are very advantageous 
in this respect, thus are an excellent 
food for almost any kind of live stock. 
If your subscriber desires to feed some 
clover hay, he can do so by changing 
the above ration as follows: Shelled 
corn, one pound; shredded or cut corn 
fodder, one pound; clover hay, five 
pounds; roots, 1.2 pound per head, per 
day. I have fed on my father’s farm in 
Ontario, Canada, sheaf oats and roots to 
sheep, and got excellent results. In 
fact, there seems to be no one ration for 
sheep feeding. w. j. Kennedy. 
University of Illinois. 
MILK NOTES ; FODDER. 
Look out, men of the Milk Dealers’ 
Association. Aren’t you sort of playing 
with fire? I know a small company of 
men who make it their business to study 
how to manage and control others, can 
frequently outwit a large company of 
farmers or other people, from the fact 
that the small company is easier 
handled and harmonized, if for no other 
reason. But dairyman are better or¬ 
ganized and more closely united now 
than ever before. Iney see the great 
shrinkage in the quantity of milk pro¬ 
duced, and the consequent advance in 
the price of butter. They notice the .n- 
creased consumption of milk as report¬ 
ed in the cities, and hear the rumors of 
advance in price to the consumer. 
They see in the city dailies the warning 
that if the farmers succeed in getting a 
quarter of a cent more for milk, the 
price will have to be advanced a cent 
a quart (?) to the consumer. What awful 
men these farmers are! They want one- 
fourth of the selling price for producing. 
Looking over the July prices for the 
past four years, and taking the prices of 
milk and butter at tne end of the month, 
so as to give the benefit where the price 
of milk was advanced during the month, 
we find that in 1896 milk was 60 cents 
a can and butter 15 cents a pound. In 
1897 milk brought 54 cents and butter 15 
cents; 1898 milk 54 cents, butter 18% 
cents; 1899 milk 64 cents and butter 18, 
while the present price is 70 cents for 
milk, and butter quoted at 20 cents. 
From this it would seem that the pres¬ 
ent price of mil*, as compared with but¬ 
ter, is lower than at any time for five 
years, except in 1898. Nor is this all. 
They tell us that there must be a 
higher per cent of butter fat in the 
milk, even asking for 4.4 per cent, and 
at the same time farmers believe the 
dealers do not send any milk to the 
city market which tests much above 
three per cent. Verily the cream sep¬ 
arator and the Babcock test are a great 
boon to the milk dealer. 
Oats are a very fair crop this season. 
The dry weather has tended to shorten 
the straw somewhat, but we have little 
reason to complain. Many are, or have 
been, cutting their oats rather green 
and making them into hay. The trou¬ 
ble with oats having so many false 
kernels, that we have noticed for sev¬ 
eral years, the real cause of which we 
are not able to learn, seems to be in¬ 
tensified this year. I do not know how 
to avoid it next year, but we are going 
to try the plan of “selection,” that is, 
go into the field and select perfect heads 
and save them for seed. Of course, we 
cannot easily get enough that way for 
all our seed, but we can get a few and 
sow them, then if the plan seems to be a 
success we can increase the amount the 
year following. I believe we can im¬ 
prove our seed in this way, even if we 
do not succeed in correcting the one fault 
we are trying to correct. There is still 
one chance left, and so far'as I know 
only one, to grow something to help out 
the late Fall feed. Barley and peas may 
yet make a good growth, and they are 
not injured by the frosts. They mature 
for feeding so late that it is very diffi¬ 
cult to cure them, so we shall sow only 
what we can feed green. Last year 
the barley did much better than the 
peas with us, and it seems quite possible 
that the peas were injured by the rust. 
We shall try them again though. Will 
plow a piece where the grass is quite 
run out, put on a light sprinkling of 
manure, say eight loads to the acre, and 
use plenty of seed. h. ii. l. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
Breeders’ Directory. 
ST. LAMBERT and Combination. For sale 5 Cows, 
T Heifers, 16 Bulls. S. E. N1VIN. Landenburg. Pa, 
Some GOOD young 
JERSEY BULL CALVES 
FOR SALK at fair prices. No PLUG8 nor un 
registered for sale at any price. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
JERSEYS iffiBX AYRSHIRES 
EXILE OF ST. LAMBERT, the greatest sire of 
milk and butter the world has ever known. We have 
quite a number of excellent specimens of this great 
family at prices that will be profitable to the pur¬ 
chasers. We will also sell a few young Ayrshire 
Bulls from great cows. MANORF1ELD STOCK 
FARM CO., Manor Station. Pa. 
MORE ABOUT'‘OILY” BUTTER. 
Practical farmers all agree that when 
they feed corn it makes the pork solid, 
the tallow hard (we always heard that 
in tallow-candle times), and the butter 
solid, and they are very sure the dry 
stalks have a similar effect. The silage 
does not have as pronounced an effect 
on account of its succulency, but I have 
seen the butter so hard when corn 
silage and wheat bran were fed, that it 
was not desirable, and it was necessary 
to use quite a little oil meal in the ra¬ 
tion to overcome the trouble. Sugar 
beets appear to have quite the opposite 
effect. G. A. SMITH. 
Certain grain feeds, notably cotton¬ 
seed meal, seem to increase the propor¬ 
tion of the harder fats in the butter, 
while gluten meal seems to increase the 
softer fats and produces a butter which 
does not “stand up” well. An abun¬ 
dance of succulent pasture feed will in¬ 
crease the proportion of the softer fat, 
and hence more trouble is usually ex¬ 
perienced from “oily” butter in June 
than at any other time of the year. The 
use of light grain in Summer will help 
to harden the butter. Usually all trou¬ 
ble of this kind can be avoided by 
churning and working the butter at a 
lower temperature than usual. The use 
of ice or ice water for keeping the tem¬ 
perature down is almost essential for 
making good butter in the Summer sea¬ 
son. c. s. PHELPS. 
I have never pastured sorghum; we sow 
this and Kaffir corn for forage. We have 
raised it for years; it makes excellent 
Winter feed; can raise three to eight tons 
per acre. Our best forage crop in this 
State is Alfalfa; we get two, three, and 
sometimes four cuttings in a season, % to 
116 ton each, owing to the season. Our 
sheep w r ere wintered last Winter wholly 
on Alfalfa hay, and clipped 14 pounds per 
head, demonstrating its value as sheep 
feed. w. g. mcc. 
Kansas. 
NO 
For 
Spavins, 
Ringbone 
Splints, 
Curbs, 
and all forms of 
Lameness, 
bunch s or bony 
enlargements. 
Uvalde, Texas, Nov. 12.1898. 
Gentlemen—Enclosed find a two-cent stamp for which please 
send me your “Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases.” Your 
Spavin Cure is simply wonderful. Resp’y« P. S. GREAVES. 
As a liniment for family use it has no equal. Price $1; 
l x for 65. Ask your druggist for Kendall’s Spavin Cure; 
also “A Treatise on the Horse,” the book free, or address 
DR. B. J. KENDALL CO., ENOSBURG FALLS, VT. 
C HENANGO VALLEY STOCK FARMS, Greene N. 
Y.—Dutch Belted and Jersey Cattle; Dorset and 
Kamboulllet Sheep; Poland-China, Jersey Red and 
Suffolk Pigs. Ijand and Water Fowls. Hens' 
Eggs, 60c. per dozen: 10 kinds; standard bred. 
DELLHURST FARM, 
MENTOR, OHIO, 
has nearly 30 Holstein Bull Calves to select 
from, and offers sons of DeKol's Butter Boy No 
19210, Royal 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 
sexes for sale from Advanced Registry cows. 
FOR SALE 
-A THOROUGH BKEI) HOLSTEIN 
BULL CALF. Well marked and of 
best breeding. Will be sold at farmers’price. Write 
at once. W. W. CHENEY, Manlius. N. Y. 
F OR SALE—Fine-Bred HOLST E IN- 
FRIESIAN Cattle, all ages and both sexes, at 
reasonable prices. Address WM. ROOD, 
Maple Stock Farm, Binghamton, N. Y. 
Chester Whites, Holsteins and Choice Eggs. 
A tine lot of young sows bred for Fall litters. 
Holsteln-Friesian Bull Calves of extra breeding 
Light Brahma and B. Rock Eges; 15 for 75 cents. 
CHAS. K. RECORD. Peterboro, N. Y. 
The best breeding, blood and deve opment in the 
world is to be found in the Continental Club. Mem¬ 
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address of nearest breeder. 
JOSEPH E. WING, Sec'y. Mechanlcsburg, Ohio. 
P f) I AWn PUI W AC—Largo strain, purebred 
i U LHIl U” U ii I IlHu Poland-China Pigs for sale 
$5 each when they are eight to ten weeks old. 
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D. J. LAMBERT, Box 307, Apponaug, R. I. 
D airymen and stockmen 
realize more and more each year the mil¬ 
lions of dollars lost by the shrinking of 
MILK and FLESH in their cattle by the torment of 
flies. Numerous preventives have been tested and 
advertised. Thus far. nothing has been discovered 
to compare with the original “Shoo-Fly,” which has 
been used by the same dairymen since 1885. Experi 
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fifty cows two days ; thousands write each cow 
gained two qts. milk at cost of half-cent. ‘•Slioo- 
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Union, or by sending 25c. to the Shoo-Fly Mfg. Co.. 
1005 Fairmount Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. They will 
refund money if cows are not protected. Get the 
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Is the most humane, Inex¬ 
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Send for illustrated pam¬ 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
n.ll| A PaimIavI Keeps Cattle Com- 
UdftlG uOmtOrf fortable in Fly Time. 
The annoyance from Flies is one of the largest factors in producing serious shrinkage of Summer 
milk. When once a cow has shrunk in her milk flow, no subsequent feeding will restore it. Sold by 
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