778 
November 17 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
FARM STOCK NOTES. 
Plant-Lice on Rape. —The rape that 
I have been so proud of all the Fall, and 
have been feeding to my little herd of 
sheep for several weeks, has suddenly 
given me something new to think about. 
While the Cabbage worms have troubled 
only a little, I noticed a peculiar ap¬ 
pearance in some rows out in the mid¬ 
dle of the lot, and on going there found 
that the plants were fairly alive, or, 
perhaps, more properly, nearly dead, 
from the effects of plant lice. Looking 
closer I discovered that in other rows 
almost all through the field plants were 
being destroyed by the plant lice whicn 
were sucking the juices from them. It 
seemed that the proper and almost the 
only thing for me to do was to look up 
some of the station bulletins and find 
out just how to prepare something for 
them. A number of remedies were rec¬ 
ommended; whale-oil soap. Kerosene 
emulsion, tobacco decoction, bisulphide 
of carbon, etc. The kerosene emulsion 
made by dissolving one-half pound soap 
in one gallon soft water, and heating 
the mixture to boiling, then, after re¬ 
moving from the fire, adding two gallons 
kerosene and thoroughly mixing seemed 
the best thing for me to try. This is to 
be diluted with 10 to 15 parts of water. 
I tried it, and with some success, but the 
lice had such a good start that I couldn’t 
kill them all. Where the rape had been 
cut I succeeded best, but I am afraid I 
may have more trouble with this pest. 
They multiply very rapidly, and if they 
once get a little start, the leaves roll 
around me mass of insects, thus pro¬ 
tecting them. I had almost come to the 
conclusion that rape is a wonderful crop 
to grow, but I feel now like looking out 
and not placing too much reliance up¬ 
on it. 
Calf Dairying. —There is more than 
one profitable way to handle a dairy 
farm. I called upon a friend lately, who 
keeps a small herd of milch cows. In¬ 
stead of milking, cooling the milk and 
delivering it at the creamery, he man¬ 
ages to get young calves which he puts 
on the cows for from four to six weeks, 
when they make fine veals an cL readily 
sell at a nice price for the greater por¬ 
tion of the year. He can usually make 
a cow pay a larger amount in a year 
than by either selling the milk or mak¬ 
ing butter, and he doesn’t have to milk 
the cow or care for the milk; besides 
the fertility to come from the milk is 
quite largely left on the farm. Not so 
much as in making butter to be sure, but 
more than when selling milk. He told 
me that he sold a calf not long ago for 
a little over $12 that was but little over 
five weeks old. The milk of that cow 
brought fully $2 a week for the time, 
which is equivalent to about 25 pounds 
of milk a day for the whole period, to 
say nothing of the extra work and ex¬ 
pense, and loss of fertilizing material 
when selling milk. This is fully one- 
third more than the cow would give. 
Now all this needs to be taken with “a 
grain of salt.” Not everyone can find 
enough calves to keep up the supply, es¬ 
pecially if there are others in the neigh¬ 
borhood who are following out the same 
plan. Then there are occasional losses, 
for some of the calves will not do well; 
some die, but it is a way, and not by any 
means a bad one for those who are 
rightly situated, and have an inclination 
to do the necessary dealing. 
Hen Hospitals. —If one is keeping 
poultry he should have some place where 
he can put hens that are ailing. A 
friend in whose judgment I have much 
confidence, says that if a sick hen does 
not improve in three days it is best to 
kill her and save feed, as well as save 
other fowls from the danger of con¬ 
tagion. But if that sick hen is left in 
a large flock she does not stand much 
of a chance to recover, while if taken 
away and given good care the chances 
are strongly in her favor, usually. At 
this season of the year this is of par¬ 
ticular importance, as the moulting sea¬ 
son is an especially trying one for the 
fowls. And they want a good deal of 
pure, clean water, too. My 250 hens will 
sometimes, when the weather is warm, 
drink 24 to 30 quarts of water in a day, 
if they have it by them all the time. 
H. II. L. 
PORTABLE HOUSES FOR HOGS. 
From the old-time shelter in the fence 
corner, a few rails across the corner 
with a little straw or fodder over it, that 
is most uncomfortable when it rains, to 
the comfortable house of a portable na¬ 
ture, the steps are usually slowly taken. 
The impression holds with so many that 
a hog can be made too warm, and that 
the floor should always be damp to pre¬ 
vent dust. So many feeders think that 
all a hog needs to make him comfort¬ 
able, is a bundle of corn and fodder, in 
the meanest coldest weather. He can 
eat the corn, as he makes his nest out 
of the fodder. It is not thought that he 
needs shelter above him, or a wind¬ 
break to keep the wind from burning up 
corn in his body, in the effort to keep 
warm. To show the advantages of a 
small portable hoghouse, over a large 
stationary one, it may be advantageous 
to speak of the disadvantages of the 
latter. They are costly affairs, and hard 
to arrange to secure cleanliness. While 
the hog is the cleanest animal we have, 
naturally, it is seldom that a house is 
so arranged that he can exercise his 
habits of cleanliness, and as they are 
not, it costs too much to give regular 
cleanings as are given the horse and 
cow stables, to secure perfect cleanli¬ 
ness. The young pig will leave his void- 
ings in one corner of a portable house, 
till he gets large enough to follow his 
dam out over the lot or fields, when he 
soon acquires the cleanly habits of his 
nature, and never soils his nest. 
With the stationary hoghouse in use, 
on the farm during Winter, they are of¬ 
ten confined in the house, and a dry or 
muddy lot at the house, because this is 
the only shelter there is for them. With 
the portable houses, the farmer can keep 
his nogs anywhere ©n the farm where 
h« wishes to feed them corn, or graze 
them. The best place for feeding hogs, 
or brood sows, during Winter, is the 
clover sod that is to be put in corn the 
following season. If the field is rolling 
the houses can be set in line close to¬ 
gether on some elevation, with a V 
trough between each two, to carry the 
water away. The troughs are not neces¬ 
sary for a single house, as a small trench 
can be dug about it to carry the water 
off, and oftentimes this is not necessary, 
as a point can be secured for the house 
where the water will shed all ways from 
it. Where it is hard to secure these de¬ 
sirable elevations it is best to have floors 
for the houses. The cracks in these 
floors should run from front to back, to 
prevent hoe or rake from catching in 
them, when cleaning the house. We 
know one farmer who has level land, 
who hauled coal cinders from town and 
built an elevated way to place his hog- 
houses on. 
During pleasant weather a sow may 
be allowed to choose her nesting place 
for farrowing, and these houses are very 
handy. When it is found that she is 
settled in her choice, a house can be 
turned over on to the fodder sled and 
driven alongside the nest, and turned 
back, right side up, over the sow and 
her nest, if the houses are built of light 
lumber one man can handle them, when 
they are to be moved. When not in 
use, the houses should be raised off the 
ground, by putting blocks or stones un¬ 
der the sills, as this will add very much 
to their desirability. Over 20 years ago 
we built a large shed, costing $200, for 
a hoghouse. We learned in a short time 
that a portable house was much better, 
but not till after the outlay had been 
made. After 25 years’ experience, we 
would advise that where hogs can be 
fed out of doors by all means use a port¬ 
able house for shelter. If he has a wind¬ 
break about his feeding floor, he will 
not care much for cold at feeding time, 
if he has a warm, dry nest. We do not 
care how warm his nest is, if dry, he will 
not rake cold coming out of it to feed. 
Ohio. JOHN M. JAMISON. 
SELLING VALUE OF CORN SILAGE 
I do not know of any case where a silo 
has been sold when it was filled. I 
would be willing to pay $3 a ton. I have 
not had much experience with silage, 
but much would depend on the value of 
the land on which it is grown, also the 
price paid for help and teams, for in 
some sections farm labor is far higher 
than in others. Thus the cash value 
would depend on circumstances. 
Windsor, Conn. M. h. 
We have never known where a farm 
has been sold after the silage had been 
put in, and we have inquired of our 
neighbors and cannot find anyone e'se 
in this vicinity who has heard of such 
a case. Prosperous farmers do not often 
sell their farms; it is only run-out farms 
or in the case of death usually, so that 
in such cases the silo is usually aban¬ 
doned before the sale. We estimate our 
silage costs us about $3 per ton, and 
consider half price of good clover hay is 
a fair value for it. J. h. r. 
Portland, Me. 
A cow, if fed on hay as the only 
roughage, will eat 20 pounds per day. A 
roughage ration of 40 pounds of silage 
plus seven pounds of hay is a common 
feed. With an equal amount of grain 
feed the latter is preferable, both on ac¬ 
count of succulence and also from the 
grain in the silage. This latter item 
enables us to reduce the heat-forming 
part of the grain ration. A fair daily 
value of the two roughage rations could 
be estimated as follows for a herd of 50 
cows: 
1,000 pounds hay @ $15.00. $7.50 
2,000 pounds silage @ 3.00. 3.00 
350 pounds hay @ 15.00 . 2.63 5.63 
1.87 
This is in favor of mixed ration and 
not estimating the bearing of the grain 
in the silage upon the grain ration. 
Cheaper hay very likely would be fed, 
and the margin perhaps narrowed down 
to zero. Still we would have the succu¬ 
lence of the silage to favor the value of 
$3 per ton. Probably not many full 
silos have been sold, and the question of 
buying full silos must be answered more 
by theory than by practice. If one can 
be assured of a good quality of silage 
from an examination of the conditions 
at filling time, why not buy silage as 
safely as hay? e- c. birge. 
Southport, Conn. 
Cured Incipient Consumption. 
Mr. CHARLES A. LAWRENCE, Montevideo, Minn., 
February 13,1900, writes: 
Twenty-tive years ago I contracted a hard cold, 
that resisted all remedies and the skill of our phy¬ 
sicians. My brother, .1. B., had a drug store, and 
seeing that 1 was fast drifting toward the grave in 
the Urst stage of Consumption, he recommended 
Jayne’s Expectorant, with the guarantee that it 
should not cost me anything if I would take It accord¬ 
ing to his Instructions, and it failed to cure me. I 
was alarmed, and took his advice. I FEEL SURE 
THAT JAYNE'S EXPECTORANT SAVED ME 
FROM AN EARLY GRAVE. When opportunity 
are afforded, it is the safe cure that I am always 
ready to recommend. It Is the best —Adv. 
Breeders’ Directory. 
nine Jack and Jennet cheap. Also, 
■lx registered Shetland Ponies. 
L. D. ATWATER, Waverly, N. Y. 
How to Have Healthy Chicks the 
Year Around. Receipt for 10 cents. 
H. F. LINDKRMAN. Haysville. Pa. 
F or Sale—A fine lot of Fall and Winter breeding 
birds. W. & B. Rocks; W. & Br. Leghorns; W 
Wyan. Stamp. Mrs. F. P. Hellings, Dover. Del 
I Choice W. Wyandottes, P. Rocks, 
jUvilDlVLLO Brahmas, Cochins. Leghorrs, from 
prize-winning stock 23 varieties of land and water 
fowls. Satisfaction guaranteed Big Catalogue 
free. PINE TREE FARM, Box T.Jamesburg, N. J. 
Ferrets for Sale 
—Address CHARLES SMITH, 
Mainesburg, Tioga Co., Pa. 
r r D nr TC— First-Class stock. W. J. WOOD, 
• ClillCIv Box 211, New London. Ohio. 
mi I TP PTTDQ— Spayed Females. Circulars. 
jULLIL rUlO gn^s decker. South Montrose, Pa 
jni «\rn rni\ T 4 UfiPC of the most noted fami- 
rULAIjU-bnli'IA nUbO ij es . consisting o- April 
dales ready for service. Gilts bred from Spring 
itters. Also Fall Pigs. Prices low for quality of 
stock. j. R. HAINES, Minerva, Ohio. 
Chester Whites, Holsteins and Choice Eggs. 
A tine lot of young sows bred for Fall litters 
Holstein-Friesian BuP Calves of extra breeding 
Light Brahma and B. Rock Eggs; 15 for 76 cents. 
CHAS. K. RECORD. Peterhoro, N. Y. 
BELVIDERE No. 318 
DUTCH BELTED 
BULL and young 
calves of his get. for sale by 
G. G. 
GIBBS, Vail. N. J. 
3 G. Sons of EXILE OF ST. LAMBERT, sire of 
86 tested cows, from 1 to 5 mos. old. Good and 
cheap. J. A. HERR, Lampeter, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
Some HOOD young 
JERSEY BULL CALVES 
FOB SALE at fair prices. No PLUGS nor un 
registered for sale at any price. 
R F SHANNON 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
150 Delihurst Holsteins 
for sale, Including young Cows, Heifers and a 
great lot of BULL CALVES -several now' ready 
for service—sons of “DeKol’s Butter Boy”, and 
the famous “ Royal Paul ” out of advanced Re¬ 
gistry cows. Catalogue. 
DELLHURST FARM, Mentor, Ohio. 
The best breeding, blood and deve opment in the 
world is to be found in the Continental Club. Mem¬ 
bers in nearly everv state. Write the Secretary tor 
address of nearest breeder. 
JOSEPH E. WING, Sec’y. Mechanicsburg, Ohio. 
THE UHAJJSt LtAAOlNh 
CATTLE STANCHION. 
'he most praotlca: and humane Fastener ever in- 
onted. Gives perfect freedom of the bead. Illus- 
rated Circular and Prioe free on application. 
Manufactured by O. H. ROBERTSON, 
F- »«««-•”. conn. 
SCOTT’S 
Perfect Swinging 
and Self-Closing 
COW STANCHION 
Each cow shuts herself 
in place. Circulars free. 
B. C. SCOTT, 
21U Beach Street, 
Bridgeport. Conn. 
vrrn TUCkl AT IT Hcna must lay all year 
KLLr intm HI II. round to be profitable. 
Feeding plenty of roots and vegetables will do It. Our 
BANNER JUNIOR ROOT AND VEGETABLE CUTTER 
cuts all roots and vegetables fast anti fine. Easily con- 
Fumed by chicks and ducklints. Send for free booklet. 
0. E. THOMPSON & SONS, YPS1I ANTI, MICH. 
MAKE POULTRY PAY 
by feeding green cut bone. The Humphrey 
Green Bone and Vegetable (-utter is guaran¬ 
teed to cut more bone in Jess time with less labor 
than any other cutter made. Send for free book 
containing blanks for one year’s egg record. 
Humphrey & Sons, Box 39 . Joliet, III 
■m iimiubi ■ —wmmm 
Tuttle’s Elixir 
Cures all species of lame¬ 
ness, curbs, splints, con¬ 
tracted cor'd, thrush, etc. 
in horses. Equally good 
for internal use in colic, 
distemper, founder,pneu¬ 
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^guaranteed or money 
’refunded. Used and 
endorsed by Adams Express Company. 
TUTTLE’S FAMILY ELIXIR Cures rheumatism, sprains, 
;bruises, etc. Kills pain instantly. Our 100-page 
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Dr. S. A. TUTTLE. 30 Beverly St., Boston, Mass. 
Beware of eo-ealled Elixirs—none genuine but Tuttle’., 
Avoid all blisters; they offer only temporary relief i f any 
tr>r|| rn ■ ipr on HHN8 and CHICKBNfc 
JCAIll IU LIlfL 64-page book fkbi. 
D. J. LAMBHRT, Box 307. Apponaug. R. 1. 
Death to Heaves, 
Coughs aud Distemper, 
is NEWTON’S CURE 
Best references. $1 V can 
Newton Horse Remedy 
Co. (Y), Toledo, O. 
IEMINGJ 
Trade Mark. 
LUMP JAW ) 
Easily and thoroughly cured. < 
New, common-sense method,, 
not expensive. No cure, "W 
pay. FREE. A practical, ill- - 
ustrated treatise on the abso¬ 
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readersofthispaper. 
Fleming Bros., chemists. 
Union Stock Yard., Chicago, III. 
HEN’S EGGS 
have 
are wortn more than twice as much in 
winter as in summer. You can 
■ « W WlUtei IU ouunuu. 
plenty of eggs all winter if you feed Green Cut 
Bone. To prepare . |* • mm GREEN BONE 
flu Am cutter.i 
cutter made with ball bearing:*. This makes it runt u 
easier than any other. Cuts hard and 8oft bone without choking.* 
Easy to keep clean for it cleans itself. Made for hand and power* 
Send for free catalogue No. 33. W. J. ADAM, Joll©Y, III* 
— Whole Egg 
is contained in green cut bone. Five pounds 
of it increases laying more than a bushel of 
wheat. The only means of producing it ir 
a form not dangerous to chicks is the 
Stearns Bone Gutter. 
Best in all ways. Send for catalogue. 
E. C. STEARNS& CO., Box 20 Syracuse, N. Y. 
A Business Hen 
MUST HAVE A WORKING CAPITAL. 
She can double her production of eggs if assisted 
|,a little. Green Gut Bone aud Mann’s Granite 
Crystal Grit makes the best working capital. 
Mann’s New Bone Gutters 
prepare the bone in the best and most economi¬ 
cal way. Ask anybody for testimony. Cash or 
on Installments. Also manufacture Clover 
Cutters and Feed Trays. Catalogue Fres. 
F. W. MANN CO. Box 15 Milford, Mas*. 
DOUBLE THE PROFI1 
can be secured from hens in winter it —" 
properly fed. Green Cut Hone is the 
best egg producing food winter 
or summer. Nothing equals the 
mm 
DANDY QR cM E 
for preparing bone. Cut pieces so 
that chicks or mature fowls can r 
eat It easily and without digger of 
ehoking. Hand and power ombined,fc_ _ 
or both. Turn easy—cut fast. Catalogue and price* trtO 
Stratton 'Vlfg. Co., Box 18 , Erl©, Penna 
