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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 17 
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Live StockandDairy 
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FARM AND DAIRY NOTES. 
Killing Quack Grass. —I have been 
especially interested this Spring in ob¬ 
serving how nearly Quack grass has 
been removed from large fields that 
only a few years ago were being pos¬ 
sessed by this persistent plant. It was a 
rapid grower in the Spring. The large 
roots, thickly set with joints, each one 
sure to send up a strong vigorous 
growth, made cultivation and seeding a 
terror. Nothing satisfactory could be 
done. If the season was dry we won; if 
wet the results were otherwise. Disk 
harrows with three and when necessary 
four horses attached, cutting and recut¬ 
ting, covering periods of two to four 
weeks, have done the business, and not 
only nearly reduced the Quack roots, 
but turned them into valuable humus, 
and they are just as valuable as any 
oiher source of vegetable matter. Four 
of these machines are doing daily ser¬ 
vice. We have purchased a mounted 
disk which is certainly doing good 
work, the Superior, manufactured at 
Springfield, 0. There seems to be no 
gain in power required, but each disk 
is set independently, adjusting itself to 
any slight variation in the surface, like 
running over back furrows and dead 
furrows. Pick up all surface stones be¬ 
fore harrowing. The machine will pass 
such obstructions with less inconvenience 
than a floating disk, because only the 
disk affected will rise. They interfere 
with good work, however, and no more 
time or effort is required than to wait 
until the cultivation is completed. 
Fit Soil Well. —Each year adds to a 
former conviction that too much haste 
is exercised in planting and sowing. I 
do not advise late work and delay, 
nor so-called slackness, but prompt¬ 
ness in starting cultivation and a per¬ 
sistence in continuation will most cer¬ 
tainly give a larger yield. Another 
point often misunderstood is ihat swift 
and complete work in a day will give as 
good results as the same labor extended 
over two weeks. Continued cultivation, 
even though slow, gives a chance for air 
exposure and a consequent chemical 
change, making potential plant food 
available. We have been cultivating all 
lands, corn included, although they will 
not be planted for three or four weeks; 
yet the bare furrows were drying out 
rapidly, and this surface firming has 
checked it. 
Wastes oe Manure. —My disposition 
is sorely tried every day that I leave 
home at the sight of the annual manure 
hauling. I wish there was some way to 
make people quit this waste. Manure 
is left around the barns until Spring, 
and then teams are obliged to stop off a 
week or more, when cultivation is need¬ 
ed, and haul manure. It is late, and the 
crop is hurriedly put in, and a double 
loss sustained; loss in manure and in 
needed tillage, and then complaints are 
made about the competition of the West 
and the power of monopoly and the ar¬ 
bitrary fixing of prices by the Milk Ex¬ 
change. See that the bung hole is per¬ 
fectly tight, and the spigot will waste 
very slowly if left open. 
A Barn Builder.—A Rochester man 
recently paid us a visit, studying barns. 
He had traveled through this State, get¬ 
ting information before building a fine 
barn near the city. I was interested 
because there were lessons to be drawn. 
First, he was a broad-gauge business 
man with large business interests, re¬ 
siding on his farm and doing business 
in the city. He had a business sagacity 
that advised spending a little time and 
money looking up mistakes oi..ers bad 
made. He was desirous of building a 
barn and stable that should come with¬ 
in the means of most farmers and ob¬ 
tain every modern convenience and 
comfort, as well as health for nis stock. 
These had not all been found in tne so- 
called model barns, costing large sums. 
It seems strange that rich men, promi¬ 
nent breeders, should advise, as they 
did this man, building the stable not 
less than 16 feet high, in order to have 
pure air, and go so far as to ridicule 
any other construction. Here was a 
man who could easily see that tne radi¬ 
ating surface of a 1,000-pound cow was 
insufficient to warm this great over¬ 
grown room. The upper space would 
be all right, while the floor space where 
the cow must be would be cold and 
damp. This man was also convinced of 
the utility of the King system of venti¬ 
lation. 
A Hen Department. —I find we have 
ample accommodation for 600 laying 
hens without building a new henhouse. 
The plan, briefly, is to put the business 
on the same basis as the dairy and fac¬ 
tory, a foreman in charge who, like our 
cheese makers, has nothing else to do 
but attend to his own department. Do 
you think we shall succeed? My neigh¬ 
bors are skeptical. Three large poultry 
plants within sight of my home are 
abandoned, so you see we shall not build 
presently to increase the number, but 
appropriate buildings are now standing, 
in addition to those already in use. Can 
farming be successfully carried on un¬ 
der the department store plan? I have 
thought that it could, and to carry out 
the idea we are trying it. The experi¬ 
ence thus far is mainly satisfactory; 
nothing remarkable, to be sure. The 
machinery has been in operation long 
enough to show that only the best of 
men can be safely employed, and that a 
close supervision and accounting is 
necessary. These poultry houses were 
built on a large scale at the outset, and 
not developed from a small beginning. 
The natural growth and development 
that comes from experience (hard ex¬ 
perience, too) is the kind that usually 
brings permanent success. Success 
comes from knowing and not guessing. 
Two incubators are running. The first 
hatch has resulted in one-third strong, 
healthy chicks 10 days old as I write. 
Some of the weaker chicks failed to get 
out of the shells, and 1 am glad of it. 
These weak ones are no good even if 
they do succeed in living. The chicks 
that will lay 150 to 200 eggs a year in 
after life must have vitality enough to 
kick the shell into The corner of the in¬ 
cubator. 
Cheese Notes. —It has been said by 
cheese men that high prices for meat 
did not mean high prices for cheese. 
Buyers for home markets are now ac¬ 
tive in securing cheese, and are taking 
it before it is properly cured. Six or 
eight days from the hoop will not in the 
long run pay. Cheeses are curdy, and 
the consumer cannot see a difference 
between a cured skim cheese and a 
green full cream. This point was illus¬ 
trated in our own case last Fall. One 
order came from a well-known fruit 
grower in Dutchess County. Through 
mistake a green cheese was shipped, and 
cut upon arrival. A letter followed 
which was, to say the least, not com¬ 
plimentary. We ordered the cheese re¬ 
turned and refunded the money. The 
buyer refused to do it. Some time dur¬ 
ing the season he will get a ripened 
cheese with compliments; an expensive 
way of keeping up reputation. We are 
feeling the effects of restricting the 
manufacture of filled cheese through in¬ 
creased demand from southern markets. 
The prices from these markets are also 
strong. We are now shipping to Balti¬ 
more, and cannot fill the orders. A 
large New England produce dealer with 
whom we have business relations, said 
to me recently: “Why is it that cheese 
men do not label their product in a more 
attractive manner thereby calling atten¬ 
tion to the contents?” I could not an¬ 
swer him. He was right in his sugges¬ 
tion, however. Maybe it is due to the 
fact that the business is done by dealers 
and not by the manufacturers. The 
producer does not come in contact with 
the consumer, a fruitful source of 
trouble. h. e. cook. 
Sulphur for Scours. 
1 notice on page 315 F. W. C. inquires 
about scours in calves. This disease is 
known here as calf cholera, or white 
scours. It was never known till about 
eight years ago, and since then thousands 
of calves died in spite of much dosing and 
nursing, till we learned of a safe, simple 
and absolutely sure cure—sulphur. The 
excrement is white as the milk that is fed; 
the heads and throats swell, calf gets 
dumpish and will not eat; nose runs. They 
do not all die. Put sulphur in each mess 
of milk till calf is well; a rounded table¬ 
spoonful for a young calf and two table¬ 
spoonfuls for one two months old. I have 
succeeded when calf was too sick to drink; 
mixed the sulphur with a auart of milk 
and ’turned it down. It should be fed at 
the start, as if calves are not sick they 
will be if the disease has started in the 
barn, as it is as contagious as smallpox. 
Sulphur will prevent as well as cure. I 
have never seen it fail, and many other 
dairymen who have tried it at my sugges¬ 
tion say the same. You may be right in 
your idea of the first cause of the disease, 
but I think that in this town we had as 
much filth and unbalanced rations years 
ago as now, and you cannot stop the dis¬ 
ease by any change of feed. I once read 
in a dairy paper this statement: “If calves 
are properly fed they won’t have scours.” 
Of course the writer knew nothing of 
white scours, or he would not have said 
it. As well might a woman say: “If chil¬ 
dren were only all fed on bread and milk, 
like mine they would never have measles.” 
Black scours is a totally different thing; 
it comes later, when sour milk is fed, and 
is . caused by overfeeding. It is usually 
slopped by reducing feed. d. a. k. 
Waitsfield, Vt. 
Breeders’ Directory 
Registered Jersey 
Bull Calves 
from Ida Stoke Pogis and Golden Lad at fair prices 
R. F, SHANNON. 007 Liberty St., Pittsburg. Pa 
123 HOL 8 TEINS 
niJLLHUBH'* CsRMR Mentor Ohio 
Cnr Colo— purebred holstein-friesians. 
lUI Oulu Bargains in BULL CALVES at the pres¬ 
ent time. Also BERKSHIRE SWINE and 8 COTCH 
COLLIE PUP 8 . W. W. CHENEY. Manlius. N.Y. 
T HE MAPLE HERD of High-Bred 
HOLSTEIN-FKIESIAN CATTLE are to be 
closed out as socn as possible. Animals of all 
ages and both sexes are offered for sale. Address 
WM. ROOD. Binghamton, N. Y. 
Young Registered Holstein-Fries- 
ian Bulls tor Sale Cheap. 
I have two bulls two years old and several yearling 
bulls for sale cheap. They are large, handsome, per 
fectly marked animals, all sired by Dora De Kol's 
Oount No 23757, and from best dams in herd. These 
animals are on McLennan Stock Farm, Ischua, N Y. 
Inquire of P B MCLENNAN. Syracuse. N.Y. 
LUI 1VU1LU LftMjU lUimMllULA Kng baron 
hot?. Pigs of all ages from Imported stock for sal 
MEADOW BKOOK STOCK FARM, Rochester, Mich 
Reg, P. Chinas, Berkshires and C. Whites. 
Choice Pigs, 8 weeks old, mated not 
ak n Bred Sows and Service Boars 
POULTRY. Write for hard tlmsi 
prices and free circular. 
HAMILTON & CO., Rosenvick, Chester Co., Pa 
AMfiflElA fiflAYC are handsome, hardy and 
JUlUUmt QUA I D profitable Prize stock 
Low prices Large oir B. W. Cole A Co., Kenton, O 
Collie Pups 
— Spayed Females. Circulars. 
DECKER, South Montrose Pa. 
SILAS 
I AMlLUi lUmiKLU Asj)Ilalt Keady 
Hoofing. Can 
be easily laid 
as the work 
only consists of 
nailing and ce- 
. men tin g the 
joints. Samples, prices & booklet giving instruclions 
ASFHALT READY ROOFING CO. for laying sent 
136 Water St., New York. free postpaid. 
A COLT should NEVER be BROKEN 
It should be TB A I MED 
■BjHKl have a system of training thaTwili mane vour 
fT I't colt more valuable tnan if Broken in me olo wdy 
W / | FULL PARTICULARS FOR STAMP. - ^ 
J ’ PROF J P. BEERY, Pleasant Hill. Ohio 
ft 
that runs on wheels. 
Sold Everywhere. 
Made 
by STANDARD OIL. CO. 
Horse Owners! Use 
GOMBAULT’S 
Caustic 
Balsam 
A Sate, 8peedy, and Positive Core 
The safest. Best BL.ISTKR ever used. Takes 
the place of all llnaments for mild or severe action. 
Removes all Bunches or Blemishes from Horses 
and Cattle, SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
OH FIRING. Impossible to produce scar or blemish 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Price Kf. 1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent 
by express, charges paid, with full directions for 
its use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
THE L AWREN CE-WILLI AMS C O.. Cleveland. O. 
Dog, Sheep or Goat Power. 
New Model. Strong. Durable. Light run¬ 
ning. Easily governed. Separator Agents say 
this is the ideal power for running Cream Sep¬ 
arators. We build the most complete and exten¬ 
sive line of Tread Powers on the market. 
Send for Free Catalogue. 
ST. ALBANS FOUNDRY AND IMPLEMENT CO., 
8 T. ALBANS, VT. 
“FUMA 
^8kills Prairie Dog*. 
Woodchucks, Gophert 
and Grain Insects 
“The wheel* of the 
gods grind slow but 
exceeding aniall " Bo the weevil, but you can stop 
“"‘isr “Fuma Carbon Bisulphide’L^o^ 
KDWABD R, TAYLOR, Peon Ymn, if. Y. 
NO HUMBUG STRIMKXT8 l'iil 
Humane SwiuaV. Stock Marker an cl Calf 
Dehorner. Stops swine of all ages from 
rooting. Makes48difforentear marks, all 
sizes, with same blade. Extracts Horn* 
Testimonials free. Price #150 or send $1 
(get! ton trial :i fit suits send balance. 
Fat'd Apr. 23,190*. 
FAKMEB BRIGHTON, Fairfield, Iowa. 
yearn. I’himI on 260 inillloiiH annually. IF local 
IruttflHt cannot supply, Mend *1.75 for #2 (100gal. 
?kt. to WM. COOPKR NEPHEWS, CHICAGO. 
THE CHAIN-HANGING 
Cattle Stanchion 
The most practical and humane Fastener ever in¬ 
vented. Gives perfect freedom of the head. Illustrated 
Circularand Price free on application. Manufactured 
by O. H. ROBERTSON, Forestville, Coun. 
wiider’s stanchion 
—being an 1 mprovement over 
Smith’s. Lightest, strongest * 
quickest, safest swing stanebiox 
made. Has ate el latch andautomatx 
lock.* Becomes stationary whex> 
open. Animal cannot turn it in back 
ingnut. Madeof best seasoned hard 
'wood. Tins for fastening with every 
stanchion. Send for testimonials. 
-J. K. WILDER* SONS, n : on B ^h. 
The BUST Cattle 
Fastening. 
SMITH’S TSelf- 
Ad justing Swlog 
Stanchion. The only 
Practical swing stan¬ 
chion invented. Thou¬ 
sands in use niust'd 
Circular free. 
GLENORA MFG CO., 
Glenora, Yates County, 
N Y Infringements 
will De prosecuted. 
FISTULA AND POLL EVIL 
Fleming’s Fistula and Poll Evil Cure 1 Cured 
Is a new, scientific A certain remedy. E , , _ , 
NO COST IF IT FAILS. E 111 15 10 
Write today for Important circular No. 441 Inn hour 
FLEMING BROS., Chemists, 8 OU ilCjS 
Union Stock Yards, Chicago. 8 
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LIGHTNING WELL MACHY 
IS THE STANDARD! 
STEAM PUMPS, AIR LIFTS. i r 3 j // 
GASOLINE ENGINES 
WRITE FOR CIRCULAR ■B,lK4SS* 
THE AMERICAN WELL WORKS €2TyS 
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