1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
255 
Repairing the Pasture. 
I have a steep side hill I wish to seed 
this Spring- for permanent pasture; what 
seed would you recommend? 
Location and the way the side hill 
slopes have much to do with the kind 
of seed advisable to use. Unless there 
bp some special reason to the contrary, 
if average conditions prevail, a mixture 
of Timothy, Orchard grass, Kentucky 
Blue grass, White clover and Alsike 
makes an excellent compound for pas¬ 
ture seeding. 
What seed would you advise sowing on 
a run-out cow pasture, without plowing, 
the same being rocky and stony? The 
land is natural grazing land. 
The above is an excellent compound 
for that purpose. If, as is likely, there 
are mossy knolls in the pastures, these 
should be fertilized with manure or 
commercial fertilizers, the whole pas¬ 
ture harrowed thoroughly after the seed 
is sown. For this purpose a spike- 
tooth harrow is preferable. In many 
sections where dairies are kept, pas¬ 
tures are maintained in condition by 
scattering a light coating of manure 
over them at frequent intervals. Many 
go over their pastures with manure 
every two or three years. For this pur¬ 
pose the Kemp manure spreader is es¬ 
pecially valuable. One ton spread with 
it is worth two tons spread in the usual 
manner by hand. In all cases the far¬ 
mer should remember that if he care¬ 
fully saves all the liquid manure, he 
trebles the value of the manure used 
on the farm. Stated in different form, 
if he loses the liquid droppings of his 
animals and utilizes only the solid drop- 
A LIVELY WHITE LEGHORN. Fie. 97. 
pings, he loses fully two-thirds of the 
fertilizing value of the droppings of his 
stock. Abstractly speaking, Franklin’s 
maxim, “A penny saved is two pennies 
earned,” is not true, but as applied to 
saving the fertility of the farm it is 
more than true. The farmer who saves 
it all, will have plenty to use on pas¬ 
tures and keep them in condition, after 
putting all needed on his plow land. 
Coudersport, Pa. c. l. p. 
A Prize White Leghorn. 
The White Leghorn pullet shown at 
Fig. 97 has scored 95 and 96 at various 
poultry shows. She is owned by J. W. 
Warrick, Washington, Pa. We print this 
picture as a good likeness of a business 
Leghorn. Mr. Warrick says of the 
breed; “The White Leghorns are one 
of the best of poultry for broilers as 
they grow fast and mature early, and 
have white, tender meat As for eggs, 
they are acknowledged by all to be the 
heaviest layers of any breed of chickens 
known; they lay large white eggs and 
lots of them, and with a little care in 
cold weather can be made to produce a 
large quantity of high-priced eggs.” 
Some Good Winter Hens. 
We do not go by any rule In caring for 
our poultry. Our one henhouse is 9 x 18 
feet. In it we had through the Winter 
five roosters and 54 hens and pullets. In 
the morning we give them mash generally 
composed of meal and bran, with boiled 
potatoes and carrots. Of course we do not 
confine ourselves to this. At noon we 
sometimes throw them some crumbs, and 
sometimes a little hay or one or two cab¬ 
bages, and again we do not give them 
anything. At night we give them a good- 
sized handful of grain for each fowl, chief¬ 
ly corn and oats, and we And that none 
too much. They have plenty of water, 
oyster shells and coal ashes. As tor ex¬ 
ercise we occasionally put a bag of leaves 
on the house floor at night and sprinkle 
some grain in it. Of course, in the morn¬ 
ing they have something to scratch for be¬ 
fore breakfast. They are let into a yard 
48 x 18 feet whenever the weather permits. 
This Winter they have been out nearly 
every day, although at times only a small 
part of the yard was available. The five 
roosters are at variance and they keep 
the hens stirred up by trying to keep out 
of each other's way. Of course we do not 
calculate to keep all these roosters with 
the hens much longer. But with car.ng 
for them in this anyway fashion we have 
as many eggs, on an average, and as 
healthy fowls as any of our neighbors, 
who have moie loom and accommodations, 
and who perhaps follow poultry-keeping 
rules. Some of the fowls were Hatched 
late in the season, and did not begin lay¬ 
ing until January. During the month of 
January we got 14 1-3 dozen eggs; sold 12% 
dozen for $4.94, and with what we had on 
hand, only had to buy one bag of meal and 
shorts, which came to about $2.75. In Feb¬ 
ruary more of the pullets were laying. We 
got 36% dozen, sold 29 dozen, which brought 
$9.87. We bought during the month one 
bag of meal and cracked corn, and 10 
pounds of meat scraps, all for $3.20. We 
could not expect our hens to do better 
under the circumstances. F. l. c. 
Andover, Mass. 
The report of the Crystal Creamery 
Company for February is as follows: Milk 
received, 130,358 pounds; butter made, 7,185 
pounds. The farmers received per 100 
pounds of milk from $1.30 to $1.81, and the 
patrons received the skim-milk free. This 
is worth 30 cents per 100 pounds to feed to 
calves and pigs. This is a cooperative 
creamery; the butter is sold in Bingham¬ 
ton at Elgin prices. u. h. k. 
Union Centre, N. Y. 
Ornamental Fowls. — 1 breed ducks and 
geese for ornamenLal purposes only, and 
as long as one keeps getting the new 
breeds there is a good demand for them. 
I gave up breeding ducks for market three 
years ago, as prices went so low that there 
was not much profit in them, and as prices 
have been lower since, I would not advise 
anyone to go into the duck business at 
present. I do not think that the goose 
trade will be overdone for some time yet, 
as that is a hard thing to get ahead in. 
The average goose lays only about 20 eggs 
in a season, and as they do not always 
hatch well, one may find in the Fall that 
the increase of the flock is rather dis • 
eouraging, where in the same time a 
small flock of ducks will lay eggs enough 
Lo keep one man on the jump all Summer 
looking after the young ducklings. 
Massachusetts. a. s. a. 
Feeding Horses. —On page 177, notes on 
feeding and watering horses, S. C. A. ad¬ 
vises a tight box, and puts in about a 
peck of hay; puts in meal and bran, pours 
on some water and mixes. My way is 
thoroughly to wet the hay first by mixing 
wflth shovel; then put the bran and meal 
on the wet hay and mix the whole mass 
with four or six-tined fork. It makes a 
better job. By putting water direct on 
meal or ground feed of any kind, it be¬ 
comes more or less a mass of lumps, which 
require much more labor to pulverize. 
His peck of hay is indefinite; all right for 
noon feed, and possibly for morning, but 
for night the horse wants more in some 
shape. The box must be handy to work 
in and over. The size I have for two 
horses is five feet long and 2% feet wide, 
and at one end 2% feet high, then tapering 
either one or both sides as low as one de¬ 
sires. If one has a light feed cutter, easily 
handled, place the end of the cutter inside 
the low end of the box; then move away 
to mix the feed. o. h. smith. 
No Silage Milk Here.— That silo man 
of Chaffee, N. Y., on page 153, seems to 
think “he is in it,” and all those who do 
not fill their silos are back numbers. Pos¬ 
sibly he has not learned all of it yet, for 
if he should happen to find himself in a 
Borden neighborhood, or where they 
bought the milk, he would very soon learn 
how to get along without silage, and he 
would also learn that he could keep just 
as many cows as he does now. Of course, 
the 100 bushels of ears of corn per acre 
are imaginary; he may have as many ears 
as that, but half that amount of bushels 
is more probable. If the corn was heavily 
eared he would feed less or make fat cows, 
and that would mean less milk. In reply¬ 
ing to what kind of dairymen we have, will 
say that Chenango is the banner dairy 
county of the State, and that speaks for 
itself. Our silo was built 12 years ago. It 
was thrown up two years ago, as we pre¬ 
ferred to get 3 1-3 cents per quart without 
silage, rather than 2% cents with the privi¬ 
lege of feeding this food. Right here silos 
are a thing of the past in the best part of 
the county, and it is a fact that the cows 
in the vicinity of the Bordens get the best 
care of any in the State, and produce 
fully as much now as they ever did. Our 
prices for the next six Summer months 
are as follows: $1.20 per 100 pounds during 
April; 95 cents during May; 85 cents in 
June; 90 cents in July; $1.05 in August; 
$1.25 in September. o. r. m. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
IMITOtl) URGE YORKSHIRES 
Rjgs of all ages from imported stock for sal - 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM. Rochester, Mich 
WAI V TED—HOLS TEINS. 
Registered Cows, Calves and a Bull; must be No. 1 
stock. T. M. Kation. “The Hermitage," Buffalo, N Y. 
Cm w Guernsey. Bulls, 6359, 6934 , 7203, 
rWI dale dropped July, 1899, June and No¬ 
vember, 1900; also three five-months’ Bull Calves. 
J. H. HUNTER, Valley Falls, N. Y. 
T HE MAPLE HERD of High-Bred 
HOLSTEIN-FBIESIAN CATTLE are to be 
closed out as soon as possible. Animals of all 
ages and both sexes are offered for sale. Address 
WM. ROOD, Binghamton, N. Y. 
Hereford Bull Calf. 
Registered — age S months; sire, Oliver 2d No. 
76543; dam Duchess Bacon Hall No. 76539. Also one 
Hereford Bull Calf, about six months old, not 
registered. VV. R. SELLECK, Huntington, L I. 
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Barre, Mass. Prop. Rookwood Poultry Yards. 
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