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December 15 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stockand Dairy 
ROOTS AND HOW TO USE THEM. 
Cooking Food for Hogs. 
My experience in cooking feed for 
stock is rather limited, yet I consider 
that bulky foods, such as potatoes, roots, 
pumpkins, etc., are far more valuable 
for stock, especially for hogs, when 
cooked, than when in their raw state. 
For several years I fed my hogs raw 
feed, and I had moderately good suc¬ 
cess, but during the last year or two 
have been feeding more cooked feed, and 
I see a great improvement in my hogs, 
and at the same time I think there is 
a good saving made by cooking the ma¬ 
jority of their feed. I have tried va¬ 
rious kinds of cooked feed, and I can 
obtain the best results from the follow¬ 
ing combinations: Corn and oats, equal 
parts; corn and pumpkins divided, three 
parts corn and one part pumpkin; corn 
and potatoes, equal parts; corn, oats 
and potatoes, equal parts. I also think 
that corn alone well cooked is good, and 
an occasional feed of all potatoes or all 
pumpkin, will add flesh and strength to 
the hogs, but in feeding cooked feed to 
hogs it is not good policy to give it to 
them too hot; better be entirely cold 
than too warm. After cooking a supply 
of feed it is a very good plan, I think, 
to add about two or four gallons of cold 
water to the barrel of feed, but if it 
can be done, lukewarm feed is preferable 
to either hot or cold. I would also ad¬ 
vise not to cook too much of the feed 
at any one time, as it will soon become 
sour, and I think that feed of any kind, 
when it becomes too sour, is injurious 
to the hogs. I have also noticed 
that in feeding hogs cooked feed 
I am able to market them from two 
to three weeks sooner than I could when 
fed on raw feed; that is, tney will at¬ 
tain the same weight two or three weeks 
earlier by using cooked feed. It would 
be impossible for me to say much in 
regard to cooked feed for any other 
kind of stock, as I deal principally in 
hogs, yet 1 think that cooked feed of 
different kinds is good for any kind of 
stock, and would say that I think it 
would be profitable to anyone who 
raises hogs, either in large or small 
quantity, to use more cooked and less 
raw feed. GEO. OGL.ESBEE. 
Hardin Co., 0. 
Roots in Canadian Cellars. 
'i'here is scarcely a farmer in this part 
of Ontario (this is the celebrated (lore 
District, or Garden of Canada), but has 
a stone basement barn; which furnishes 
stabling for his stock, and accommoda¬ 
tion for his root crop. That part of the 
basement set apart for the root cellar 
is nearly always at the north side. It 
is boarded up tightly, so the heat from 
the stock may be admitted at will 
through a door, according io the sever¬ 
ity of the weather. The roots are put in 
from the driveway above. Generally 
considerable dirt accumulates in the 
roots where they are put in. When 
your hauling is finished these should be 
thrown back to let the dirt go to the 
floor. If this is neglected the roots will 
rot. Root harvest starts here about (he 
third week in September. Mangels and 
sugar beets first; turnips are hardier 
and will stand quite a frost. All roots 
should be in by November 1. By proper 
precaution roots may be kept till the 
end of the following May. Feed roots 
to stock when you like. I feed them to 
our stock in the morning after milking 
and at night before milking. I think 
the trouble of tainted milk is not caused 
from the time roots are fed, before milk¬ 
ing or after milking, but by not prop¬ 
erly and quickly cooling the milk. We 
feed from 3,000 to 4,000 bushels of roots 
each year, and never had a customer 
tell us our milk was root-tainted. I no¬ 
tice Tiie R. N.-Y. states that Canadian 
dairymen use saltpeter for milk taint; 
some may, but it is something I never 
heard of before. Ontario has scarcely a 
country station, especially in these 
parts, but what has one, two and prob¬ 
ably three turnip buyers. These load 
them on the cars and ship to turnip 
dealers in American cities; both east 
and west. Prices paid this Fall were 
nine and 10 cents per bushel. One year 
ago they started at 14 cents, and as the 
season wore on dropped down as low as 
eight cents. Farmers seldom sell for 
less than eight. They hold for a raise, 
and if it does not come, feed them to 
their stock. Potatoes here are general¬ 
ly put in house cellars. I only know of 
two farmers who have barn cellars for 
their potatoes. I dig about October 1 
and haul direct to cellar. e. m’p. 
Dundas, Ontario. 
When to Feed Roots. 
We keep potatoes and roots very well 
here in our basements under the barns. 
The basements or cellars are well ven¬ 
tilated and keep as dry as possible; the 
roots sound and good till as late as May 
and June m our cellars. I prefer feeding 
roots to stock as soon as the cattle are 
kept in the stable, say November, and 
to horses or pigs I would feed roots at 
any time of the year that I have them 
to feed. Cattle receive roots as long as 
they last, even if pasture is good. There 
is no particular market here for roots. 
Of course there are roots sold here ev¬ 
ery season to different parties, as the 
occasion provides. Turnips sell at from 
eight to 12^ cents per bushel, and man¬ 
gels at from 10 to 15 cents per bushel. 
In feeding roots to hogs I prefer to boil 
them well and mix well in a barrel or 
tank with some meal, mixing when 
l oots are steaming hot. To cattle I pre¬ 
fer to pulp them well and mix with cut 
feed and meal. To horses I feed them 
whole every night at bedding time. 
Burlington, Ont. J. 
DAIRYING IN CALIFORNIA. 
A. M. Bemmerly, of Yolo, is milking 24 
cows, which milk he takes to the creamery. 
He recently realized in one month the sum 
of $194 net, the gross receipts being $22S. 
That’s a good showing, his cows averaging 
for him an average of $8.12(4 a month above 
all expenses. At that rate a cow is worth 
something, her annual earnings being $97.50. 
I milk 30 cows and keep my string up 
to that number the year round by add¬ 
ing fresh cows and weeding out the dry 
ones. Most dairymen out here employ 
Swiss milkers, as they are the best. I 
have found that there is as much or 
more in the way a cow is milked as 
there is in the feed. A cow should be 
milked clean and quickly, and at regu¬ 
lar hours, to produce the best flow of 
milk. My cows run on Alfalfa pasture 
and grain stubble a short time in the 
Summer, and the rest of the year on the 
Alfalfa alone. They are milked the year 
round in stanchions in the barn, and 
are fed Alfalfa hay while being milked. 
Stormy nights I turn my cows loose in 
the barn, where they can eat and be 
comfortable. A cow that is exposed to 
cold winds and rain at night is sure to 
fall off in her milk. Every dairyman 
out here dishorns his cows to prevent 
them from injuring each other when in 
close quarters, and they are more friend¬ 
ly when eating together, and do not try 
to fight each other away. I send my 
milk to a creamery, as I think that the 
most profitable way to dispose of it 
counting the time and trouble expended. 
I think the Holsteins are the best milk¬ 
ers. They are extra heavy milkers, and 
the milk is of a good quality and always 
yields a good per cent of butter fat. I 
am breeding purebred registered Hol¬ 
steins for sale, albert m. bemmerly. 
Milk Business in Chicago 
The following figures, showing the ex¬ 
tent of the milk business at Chicago, 
111., have been furnished by the Board 
of Health of that city: 
Firms selling milk. 4,421 
Firms peddling from wagons. 1,576 
Firms selling from stores. 2,239 
Parties selling milk of their own cows.. 596 
Wagons used by milk peddlers. 2,273 
Eight-gallon cans of milk sold daily by 
peddlers . 14,152 
Quarts of bottled milk sold daily.77,148 
Peddlers whose premises were reported 
in good sanitary condition. 699 
Fair sanitary condition. 774 
Pad sanitary condition. 97 
Not reported on. 6 
Milk depots in basements. 359 
Peddlers who sterilize their milk bot¬ 
tles . 19 
Peddlers owning cows and producing 
own milk . 469 
Stores selling milk which were report¬ 
ed in good sanitary condition. 1,100 
In fair sanitary condition. 1,043 
In bad sanitary condition. 64 
Not reported on. 45 
Parties keeping milch cows. 598 
Number of cows. 2,250 
Gallons milk produced daily (approxi¬ 
mately) . 3,567 
Dishorning. —As I have seen much in 
the papers about dishorning calves I 
write you of my experience in that busi¬ 
ness. My advice is to raise polls, but if 
the calf you have has horns take a sharp 
knife and cut off whatever there is above 
the skin on the head (I have cut them 
off when an inch across at the base), 
then take a lump of Babbitt’s potash in 
pinchers and rub the place with it till 
you have seared the veins, and the blood 
has stopped. Then if it is hot, put a rim 
of pine tar on the hair around each horn. 
1 have done that way with many and 
never saw any more of the horn if the 
job was thoroughly done. I once raised 
the smallest cow I ever saw or heard of, 
weighing 370 pounds, calf by her side 60 
pounds; the cow stood 37 inches high. 
Hemlock, N. Y. u. a. t. 
In sudden cases of Croup, and oilier alarming 
affections of the Throat and Lungs. Doctor D. 
Jayne’s Expectorant is invaluable It. often proves 
an elixir of life when death seems very near —Ado. 
Used and 
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Don’t give your horse 
away merely because he 
is lame, has curb, contract¬ 
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Treat the trouble with 
It cures all these and internal diseases, such as 
colic, distemper, founder, pneumonia, etc. A 
cure guaranteed or money refunded. 
TUTTLE'S FAMILY ELIXIR cures rheumatism, sprains, 
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Dr. S. A. TUTTLE, 30 Beverly St., Boston, Mass. 
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Avoid all blisters; they offer only temporary relief if any 
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I#rrn Tltru AT I T Hens must Uy all year 
Rtl InC.ITI Ul II. round to be profitable. 
Feeding plenty of roots and vegetables will do it. Our 
BANNER JUNIOR ROOT ANO VEGETABLE CUTTER 
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With Dumping Caldron. Empties its 
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Breeders’ Directory. 
EEDDETC~ First-ciass stock. W. .1. WOOD 
I Ell VIE Id Box 211, New London. Ohio. 
Afinn FEKRETS ' Elrst-class stock. Some 
£UUU Trained. New price-list free. 
N. A. KNAPP. Rochester. Lorain Co., O. 
Dtd PnorncPlTC -six Cows; two 2-year olds, bred; 
Lug. ulieilldtjo three 13 months’old Heifers; two 
« and 8 months' old Heifers: two Bull Calves 2 and 5 
months. A. .1. SNYDER. Biumsteadvi 1 le. Pa. 
A J. C CLUB young BULLS, CALVES 
• and HEIFERS. Also. DUKOC-JERSEY Pigs 
at low prices. E. L. CLARKSON. Tivoli. N. V . 
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FOR SALE 
THOROUGHBRED HOLSTEIN 
_BULL CALVES. Well marked 
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Write at once. W. W. CHENEY. Manlius, N.\. 
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a Chester White Pig 
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If you do, and want the best breeding at a fair price, 
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Ayrshires, Oxford Sheep and Cheshires. 
One Bull Calf, four weeks; two Heifer Calves, t wo 
weeks; Heifer, two years, in calf. Boars tit for 
service sows; Pigs in pairs not akin. Oxford Ewes 
and Lambs. 
HOMER .1. BROWN. Harford, Cortland Co., N.Y. 
Soma GOOD young 
JERSEY BULL CALVES 
FOB SALE at fair prioes. No PLUG8 nor an 
registered for sale at any prloe. 
K K. SHANNON, 907 Liberty 8t., Pittsburg, Pa. 
150 Dellhurst Holsteins 
for sale, Including young Cows, Heifers and a 
great lot of BULL CALVES—several now ready 
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the famous “ Royal Paul ” out of advanced Re¬ 
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PQ Y-W/VrNTEp -mo 14 hands; 
thoroughly broken: gentle: 
low price 
FALL GREEK STOCK FARM. 
For Sale. 20 Head of Fine Spanish .lacks 
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Terms Cght prices to suit the times. J. B AK ER, Mgr.. 
8 miles N. K. of Indianapolis. Lawrence, Ind 
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