1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
427 
WINTERING CATTLE. 
I wish to rough a car or two of cattle 
through from September to May on 40 
acres in clover and 40 acres of corn land. 
Can rye be grown successfully in corn for 
Fall pasture, and what time should I sow, 
by drill or broadcast? If I cut off the corn 
in September is Winter rye better for Fall 
and Winter pasture?' Can corn be har¬ 
vested so as not to lessen the weight of 
the grain and yet be good fodder? If so, 
at what stage of growth or maturity? Is 
shredded fodder best kept in bale or bulk 
for feeding purposes? What is the aver¬ 
age market price of baled shredded fodder? 
Illinois. READER. 
Sow the rye broadcast before the last 
cultivation of the corn. It is good for 
Fall and Winter pasture. I make it a 
point to cut up corn when the husks are 
dry; it saves the grain and makes the 
best fodder. There is no difference in 
the keeping of shredded fodder, provid¬ 
ed you have room to keep it loose. It 
was worth from $6 to $8 per ton the 
past Winter. • J. g. mayer. 
Lena, Ill. 
Rye is sown freely in Indiana in corn 
for Fall and Winter pasture. It is 
usually sown in July with a drill. If 
the soil is very mellow it is well to sow 
broadcast and work it in with a Planet 
Jr., or a section of Breed’s weeder. 
These do not interfere as much with the 
corn roots at a critical time as drilling. 
We vary the time according to the dry¬ 
ness of the soil. If very dry the rye 
may not all sprout, and it hurts the 
corn more to stir the soil. In very dry 
Summers rye sometimes fails in corn, 
but this is unusual. It makes the best 
and most abundant Fall and Winter 
green feed. We cut practically all of 
our corn for either the silo or shred¬ 
ding. There is a little waste in cutting 
fodder at any time, but it is so small 
that it does not compare with the sav¬ 
ing of feed by using the fodder. It is 
now known that fodder or silage either 
is best when cut pretty ripe. We cut 
silage corn when half or more of the 
shucks are brown, and many of them 
open. We like corn for shock fodder 
to be ripe enough so that most of the 
shucks are brown. Many here go right 
on cutting for fodder after the silo is 
filled. Fodder keeps best in the loose 
mow unless shredded quite dry with 
the sap well out; if so it will keep any 
way it may be handled. It sells around 
here at $7 a ton. Some shredders leave 
too much shelled corn in it for one to 
afford to sell it at that price. Our friend 
will not rub against Hoosier feeders 
much before he will get the silo fever, 
and then he will begin to learn how to 
winter more cattle on 40 acres of corn 
than he can shake a stick at. He will 
regret that he didn’t catch on to the use 
of silage sooner. e. h. colllns. 
Central Indiana. 
EARLY-CUT HAY; CLOVER WANTED 
H. H. Lyon, on page 367, has a sug¬ 
gestive article on the fodder question. 
For one thing he “presumes,” backed by 
an institute speaker, that early-cut hay 
contains no more protein than hay cut 
late. This seems presumptuous, for the 
tables give the early-cut fodder a high¬ 
er per cent of protein, although the con¬ 
tinuation of growth may, of course, 
make a greater total of protein in the 
late-cut feed. Prof. Armsby, in a dis¬ 
cussion of the subject, on page 301 of 
Cattle Feeding, concludes by saying: 
“While, then, these recent results show 
that the comparative value of early-cut 
hay and green fodder may have been 
overestimated somewhat, they still show 
that its quality is superior to that of 
late-cut, other things being equal.” No 
doubt protein and palatability both 
count in favor of Mr. Lyon’s early-cut 
hay. He wants clover, and admits that 
his land is sour. There are probably 
two alternatives. He may have some 
of that natural grass land especially 
suited to certain fine native grasses. In 
that case, let him sell his plow, relin¬ 
quish his dreams of clover, and foster 
the natural growth, by top-dressing and 
suitable grass forestry, thanking his 
stars in the meantime that dairying to 
him means riding a mowing machine 
and the opening and shutting of the 
pasture gate. The bucolic ideal is with¬ 
in his reach. The other alternative is 
to drain the sour land of surplus water 
and thus sweeten it by the introduction 
of air. That is, if it is wet land. It 
would not be good practice to borrow 
money to buy alkali to counteract acid¬ 
ity in a water medium. It may be pro¬ 
fitable in an aerated soil, but when he 
has aerated his soil it may not be 
necessary. 
No doubt we shall soon have bacterial 
hatcheries for clover nodules, as we 
have for young trout and butter start¬ 
ers. Until Mr. Lyon can buy these 
curiosities of his nearest druggist let 
him sow in faith 10 to 15 pounds of good 
clover seed per acre upon his drained 
and sweetened fields. We can show him 
upon our farm eight acres of clover 
growing well, in spite of the hard Win¬ 
ter for young plants, which was sown 
in the corn last Summer at the last cul¬ 
tivation, just as the tassels were appear¬ 
ing. Considerable of this corn was at 
that time growing on the clover sod of 
a similar seeding the year before, and to 
show how that corn matured, I mention 
that we are now planting seed picked 
out of that crop. Our experience in 
feeding clover is like Mr. Lyon’s in 
proving its value. During January, 
1902, our cows—19—were making the 
best record in the year upon this corn 
siloed, about 35 pounds, 8 to 10 pounds 
of this clover hay that was cut before the 
corn was planted on the same ground, 
with three to five pounds of grain. They 
averaged 19 pounds of milk and a frac¬ 
tion for all cows in milk. It is doubt¬ 
ful whether the clover plant needs hu¬ 
mus so much as it needs plenty of min¬ 
eral fertilizer. If he has cattle to feed, 
let him not plow under any crop they 
will eat, for it will be worth more as 
fodder than as a humus maker. And 
in saying this I would not in the least 
undervalue humus. It is one of the 
great lacks of our old farms. But hu¬ 
mus can be formed with good stubble, 
especially clover stubble. Even corn 
stubble, in my opinion, is worth more 
to rot in the ground than to be la¬ 
boriously extracted with chunks of 
clinging earth to fester by the road¬ 
side or on a stone heap. It is heavy 
labor to cart corn stubs into the barn 
yard even, and nothing is gained over 
allowing them to rot where they grow. 
Unless one has plenty of land, Summer 
fallows, or Winter fallows either, for 
that matter, are too slow in competition 
with interest bearing notes and mort¬ 
gages. e. c. BIRGE. 
Connecticut. 
Sale of Jersey Cattle. 
A large attendance greeted Auctioneer 
Peter C. Kellogg on May 30 and 31 at 
the sale of T. S. Cooper’s imported Jer¬ 
sey cattle at Coopersburg, Pa. The larg¬ 
est buyer was Thomas W. Lawson, of 
Boston, who secured the famous import¬ 
ed bull Flying Fox at $7,500. While this 
is the highest auction price that has 
ever been paid for a Jersey, it is only 
about one-half of what Mr. Kellogg 
hoped to get for him. The highest price 
for a cow was paid by Louis L. Brad¬ 
bury, of Los Angeles, Cal., who bought 
imported Lady Fontaine’s Rosette at 
$3,100, after spirited opposition by M. S. 
Beltshoover and Mr. Lawson. The fa¬ 
mous champion cow Agatha went at 
$1,700 to Mrs. M. M. Patterson, of Port 
Kennedy, Pa. Several of the older 
daughters of Flying Fox sold at $900 to 
$1,000 each. The attendance included 
many trotting horse breeders as well as 
breeders of dairy cattle. Total amount 
realized during the two days’ sale was 
$58,170. Mr. Lawson’s purchases amount¬ 
ed to over $20,000. Over 100 of the 160 
animals catalogued brought $200 and 
upwards, 25 of these bringing from $500 
to $7,500. The following is a partial list 
of the sale: 
Bull, Flying Fox, four years, Thomas W. 
Lawson, Boston, $7,500. 
Cow, Lady Fontaine’s Rosette, four 
years, L. L. Bradbury, Los Angeles, Cal., 
$3,100. 
Cow, Agatha of Oaklands, six years, 
Mrs. M. M. Patterson, Port Kennedy, Pa., 
$1,700. 
Cow, Golden Bess of St. John, six years, 
Thomas W. Lawson, $1,600. 
Cow, Golden Lad’s Mermaid, six years, 
Thomas W. Lawson, $1,100 
Heifer, Flying Fox’s Golden Gem, two 
years, Thomas W. Lawson, $1,000. 
Cow, The Owl’s Oxford Daisy, four years, 
Thomas W. Lawson, $1,000. 
Heifer, Fox’s Handsome Lilly, two years, 
Thomas W. Lawson, $900. 
Heifer, Flying Fox’s Oxford Queen, two 
years, Thomas W. Lawson, $900. 
Cow, Golden Lad’s Lady Shamrock, six 
years, L. L. Bradbury, $900. 
Cow, Countess ot Oaklands, nine years, 
Mrs. M. M. Patterson, $800. 
Bull, Forfarshire’s Oxford King, one 
year, T. W. Lawson, $725. 
Cow, Oakland’s Flora, three years, T. 
W. Lawson, $700. 
Heifer, Flying Fox’s Golden Bess, one 
year, Thomas W. Lawson, $700. 
Cow, Count Wolseley’s Countess, twelve 
years, H. C. Hoskins, South Orange, N. J., 
$600. 
Cow, Oakland’s Courageous Maid, eight 
years, M. S. Beltzhoover, Ardsley, N. Y., 
$600. 
Cow, Lady Mon Plaisir, three years, T. 
W. Lawson, $600. 
Bull, Arthur’s Golden Fox, two years, 
Dentona Park Farm, Toronto, Can., $590. 
Bull, Noble Fox, one year, Dr. H. M. 
Plowe, Bristol, R. I.. $585. 
Cow, Nunthorpe’s Susanne, eight years, 
Dentona Park Farm, $525. 
Bull, Golden Marquis, five years, L. L. 
Bradbury, $525. 
Cow, Golden Lad’s Fawn Duchess, six 
years, M. C. Campbell, Spring Hill, Tenn., 
$500. 
Cow, Uncle Peter’s Lady Duplex, Mrs. M. 
H. Messchert, Douglassville, Pa., $500. 
Bull, Flying Fox’s Oxford Duke, George 
Crocker, Ramsey. N. J., $500. 
Cow, Pioneer’s Pensee, 10 years, Thomas 
W. Lawson, $500. 
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and use it freely about the places the lice 
are likely to harbor. Those left after the 
hot brine are not comfortable In the dry 
salt. MRS. A. M. A. 
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