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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 18 
Live Stock and Dairy 
VALUE OF GUERNSEYS; STACK SILAGE 
In my opinion the best plan for the 
man who wishes to raise larger butter 
cows from grade Jerseys is to get a 
“business” Guernsey bull. He will get 
more size than the purebreds of either 
breed. A Guernsey male used on high- 
grade Jersey cows seems to get better 
average results in producers than is ob¬ 
tained with purebreds of either breed. 
This is contrary to the best accepted 
theory I know, and does not apply to 
all cross-'breeding. But the facts of ex¬ 
tended observation and experience with 
both bleeds have changed a strongly 
preconceived bias against mixed breed¬ 
ing with grades. A good Jersey-Guern¬ 
sey grade is to-day the best dairy cow 
for the ordinary farmer, and I believe 
the further crossing will be just as suc¬ 
cessful if continued in one direction, but 
promiscuous mixing is hardly desirable 
With a good registered herd of either 
breed permit no crossing, but with a 
herd of high-grade Jerseys I am sure 
the size and also the dairy qualities can 
be improved by the use of a Guernsey 
bull of high dairy qualities. In your se¬ 
lection beware of beefy tendencies. The 
increased size of the Jersey family men¬ 
tioned by Mr. Cook is more the result of 
high feeding than of 'breeding. Another 
point to be considered is a special de¬ 
mand for Guernsey grades at long prices 
from milk producers whose trade has 
learned the superior color and flavor of 
Guernsey milk, this kind bringing about 
$15 more than Jersey grades. 
A little experience with silaging dry 
corn may help your inquirer in a recent 
number. After filling silos in Septem¬ 
ber we had 3V 2 acres left. This was 
put up in very large shocks—about 75 
bundles—and about December 1, without 
husking, was cut into the silo from 
which we had been feeding, this then 
being about half full. A stream of water 
from city water works was kept run¬ 
ning into the silo. At this date it is 
making very fair silage. ^ My conclu¬ 
sions are that there should be fodder 
enough for at least 20 feet in depth of 
silo; that it should be cut extremely 
fine; that the unhusked corn will keep 
better than the husked, by reason of 
packing more solidly, that a large 
amount of water should be used, and 
that in cold weather it should stand four 
to six weeks before using. G. b. t. 
Perry, N. Y._ 
A RHODE ISLAND HEN RANCH. 
I keep 2,000 hens, and have fed in 
various ways, but never tried any sys¬ 
tematic experiments. My hens are not 
laying as well as usual this 'Winter, al¬ 
though I am doing more than usual for 
them. I think it is an unusually hard 
Winter for producing eggs. I am getting 
an average of a little over 17 dozen eggs 
now, December 29. A year ago to-day I 
got 29 dozen and four eggs from about 
the same number of hens. Two years 
ago I got 30 dozen and two eggs from, 
about 1,600 hens. Three years ago I was 
getting 27 to 30 dozen per day from 
about 1,100 hens, and my hens were 
crowded 75 to 100 in a flock, and in much 
poorer houses than those I have now, 
and very few had scratching sheds, while 
all have them now. At present I am 
feeding a mash, all they will eat up 
clean in the morning; at one o’clock a 
quart of mixed grain in the scratching 
sheds, which are well littered, and at 
night two quarts of whole corn or corn 
and oats. This is for 50 hens. The 
mash is composed of 200 pounds bran 
(or mixed feed as it is called), 200 
pounds Indian meal, 200 pounds ground 
oats, 50 pounds cream gluten, 100 
pounds beef scraps and 25 pounds cot¬ 
ton-seed meal. This is thoroughly mixed 
and shoveled into a bin with chute lead¬ 
ing to a room below, where it is drawn 
into a trough as needed and mixed with 
hot water. Twice a week a bushel of po¬ 
tatoes is boiled and mixed with the 
mash. Once a week about 150 pounds of 
fresh green bones are ground up in a 
Mann bone cutter and given in three 
feeds, skipping every other day. Once 
a week a cabbage is hung in the roost 
and once a week mangels enough to last 
several days are thrown in the coops. 
When the hens have done the best, in 
years back, they were fed only twice a 
day, mash in the morning and mixed 
grain in the straw about three o’clock 
in the afternoon. They had no fresh 
meat or ground bone, a rather small 
quantity of boiled potatoes in their mash 
twice a week, and no cabbage or man¬ 
gels. I do not say that green bones, 
cabbage, mangels and noon scratching 
feeds are bad, but it does seem that they 
won’t always bring the eggs. If I were 
to give a guess as to the reasons for the 
difference between preceding years and 
this I would say that when my hens did 
the best they were raised from small 
chicks and constantly cared for by a 
man who did nothing else, watched them 
closely, and had a knack or peculiar 
faculty acquired by years of close per¬ 
sonal contact with fowls and chickens, 
during which time he made them a 
study, and had nothing else to take up 
his mind, not even the building of coops, 
buying feed or compounding rations, 
just simply feeding and caring for the 
hens and chickens. If you ask him the 
secret of his success he will tell you: 
“Don’t feed them too much, keep them 
a little hungry all the time.” He is now 
in the poultry business for himself in a 
small way, and making a good living, 
and his hens are laying better than any¬ 
body’s that I know of. He feeds a mash 
in the morning, but not all they will 
ea’t, and in the afternoon feeds about 
the same quantity of mixed grain by 
measure as he feeds of mash in the 
morning; takes things easy and doesn’t 
bother. If you should ask him about 
leaving corn by the hens as Mr. Mapes 
does he would say: “You’ll never get 
any eggs that way.” If you want to 
know just how he is feeding and how 
many eggs he is getting I will tell later. 
Summit, R. I. u. j. w. 
R. N.-Y.—Of course we want to know 
how those hens are fed! 
Breed Estimates.— At the Missouri Dairy¬ 
men’s Convention. Prof. Eckles amused his 
hearers by saying that Jersey advocates 
say that the way to tell the milk of a Hol¬ 
stein cow is to drop a dollar in the pail of 
milk. If the dollar can be seen at the bot¬ 
tom. the milk came from a Holstein. On 
the other hand, the Holstein men say that 
if the dollar is not covered by the milk in 
the pail, it is proof that the milk was pro¬ 
duced by a Jersey. 
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You Can’t Afford a Grade Bull 
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