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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 16 
Live StockandDairy 
HANDLING SECOND-CROP CLOVER. 
What shall I do with a second crop- of 
Red clover, provided it does not have suffi¬ 
cient seed in it to cure for the purpose of 
saving the seed? I have about seven acres 
of heavy clover nearly ready for cutting. 
If I continued raising wheat the second 
crop would be plowed under. Early in the 
Spring of 1901 the wheat on it looked good 
for 200 bushels, but for the first time in the 
history of the farm, nearly 100 years, the 
Hessian fly came, and left me only 40 bush¬ 
els. No animal is allowed to run on the 
farm except hens, or I should pasture it. 
I have pursued this course for 10 years, 
and propose to continue it. Does it im¬ 
prove the soil much to let the second crop 
lie and rot upon the ground, or is it better 
to cut and sell it, getting only a little more 
than the cost of harvesting the crop? 
East Pembroke. N. Y. w. e. b. 
If W. E. B. is to discontinue raising 
wheat, corn, etc., he will need live stock 
upon his farm. Of course if the clover 
remains upon the land some benefit will 
follow; not enough, however, to offset 
its value for feeding if live stock is to 
he kept. Usually the second crop is not 
valuable for market on account of diffi¬ 
culty in curing. No food will bring more 
satisfactory results when fed to milch 
cows. I would much prefer to take the 
milk out of it and have the manure left, 
than to have only the manurial effect 
of the crop upon the ground. If a grass 
crop is to follow another year and a 
small amount of Timothy seed was sown 
when seeding, as good a crop will follow 
if the second crop is removed. We have 
just cut the hay from a field where a 
portion of the second crop was left, and 
see no difference in the crop this year, 
which is more than 75 per cent Tim¬ 
othy. A basic principle underlies this 
question. It is not alone what to do 
with the seven acres of clover, that is 
really a small matter, but what is to be 
the future of this farm. Many have 
faced the same problem, which proves 
again, as before, that outside of market 
gardening some kind of stock is useful, 
and upon most farms a necessity. They 
form a link without which something 
seems lacking. Not every farmer is 
adapted to dairying. He does not like 
to be tied to milking. Then make beef 
or mutton. This clover crop would 
make good beef with a ration of corn 
added. The census shows the drift of 
farming in the East. New York again 
leads in milch cows. The income from 
milk is never large, but it never stops, 
provided food is supplied to good cows. 
Crop selling does not require such con- 
• tinuous labor; the income usually comes 
all at once when it does come. When 
disaster comes, like the case mentioned, 
no opportunity is offered to regain the 
loss until another year. I might add 
that a heavy crop left upon the ground 
might smother out a succeeding crop. 
No danger will follow with an ordinary 
growth. H. E. COOK. 
HOW TO MAKE A STAVE SILO 
THAT WILL STAND. 
I have never been very much in favor 
of stave silos. While admitting them to 
be cheap, and better than none, I have 
seen so many that had been neglected, 
hoops not tightened as they dried out, 
which a gale had tumbled into a shape¬ 
less mass, that I have advised inquirers 
to put up something more substantial. 
In building a silo, as in all other opera¬ 
tions of the farm, I believe that “what 
is worth doing at all is worth doing 
well,” consequently I have never recom¬ 
mended a stave silo, but recently I have 
been over into another county, and seen 
a modification of a stave silo that I be¬ 
lieve is all right. In the first place, get 
some good tough oak planks two inches 
thick and any convenient length. Rock 
elm will do, though not as good as oak, 
take it to mill and have sawed into 
strips half an inclj thick. Decide on size 
of silo to be built. Make the foundation 
of concrete a little larger than silo is to 
be when finished. Set a stake in the cen¬ 
ter, and on this nail a piece just long 
enough to act as a guide in setting 
scantling when erecting sides. For sides 
use l!£x4-inch hemlock of any desired 
length. Set these up on diameter of silo 
perpendicular and to the bottom. Three 
feet and seven feet up nail on the out¬ 
side one of the half-inch strips before 
mentioned, being sure to keep the circle 
regular. This will keep upright pieces 
in place until the circle is completed. 
Now put on each hoop so started, other 
half-inch pieces lapping them in differ¬ 
ent places until each hoop is three 
inches thick. Now commence and put on 
other hoops in same way, placing them 
one foot apart at bottom up to three-foot 
hoop, 16 inches apart from there to the 
seven-foot hoop, then increase the dis¬ 
tance each hoop two inches until the 
hoops are 30 inches apart, at which dis¬ 
tance they should be kept. If staves are 
to be spliced it should be done on a 
hoop. When this is done a silo will be 
made of l^x-l-inch, thoroughly hooped 
with wooden hoops 2x3 inches. The in¬ 
side should now be covered with the 
best quality of felt, well tacked to the 
staves. On this spread a thick coat of 
thick coal tar and over this put another 
thickness of felt, while tar coating is 
still green. Now line silo with %-inch 
Georgia pine ceiling, nailing thoroughly; 
coat the inside with two coats of coal 
tar, putting on the first quite thin, but 
using all the w'ood will take in, and sec¬ 
ond coat use tar as thick as can be 
spread. Give plenty of time to dry be¬ 
fore filling. The outside may be boarded 
up with vertical boarding, or it may 
have strips nailed on hoops and be 
boarded with novelty siding. The last 
will be the stronger and look the better. 
If the hoops are well nailed to the staves 
when being made we shall have a silo 
in which it is impossible for the staves 
to shrink or get loose. If the vertical 
strips are nailed on outside of hoops and 
on these a covering of felt is put before 
siding is put on, the silo will be prac¬ 
tically frost-proof. I saw several silos 
of this construction, some of which had 
been in use three years, and to all ap¬ 
pearance they were as good as when first 
erected, and I was told that the silage 
remained perfect to the very outside. 
J. S. WOODWARD. 
PUSHING THE CORN CROP. 
Many farmers who feed animals do 
not get nearly so much out of this crop 
as they might. The dairyman, breeder 
or feeder who does not use tne silo 
for storing his corn is assuredly not 
getting the best out of it. As an 
illustration of what may be done 
in an ordinary way in corn grow¬ 
ing, I will give the status of our present 
corn crop, and we have it running from 
that which has just been planted (July 
25) to roasting ears on the table, and 
tons of it going into the cows’ racks. 
We have two fields of a large-eared, 
large-foddered variety growing for cur¬ 
ing dry and husking, to be fed to horses, 
hogs, chickens, cows and for mush, 
muffins and the other recipe-book dain¬ 
ties. These fields were planted on ma¬ 
nured sods, and about 200 pounds of 
superphosphate drilled in with the corn 
in the row. It will make a great crop of 
corn. In it we have now just sprouting 
a fine set of Crimson clover. This will 
be plowed down next Spring, after being 
manured during the Winter, for pota¬ 
toes, oats and peas, tomatoes or silage 
corn. Then we have six acres for silage 
just coming in tassel, planted as the 
other, except Crimson clover was plow¬ 
ed down instead of sod. This patch was 
in tomatoes last year. It will make 20 
tons of silage to the acre. There are 12 
acres more for silage now three or four 
feet high, that was planted after rye was 
cut for hay, and it is now growing so 
fast that I had to make the foot varia¬ 
tion in its height to keep up with it. 
The Adams Early sugar corn that was 
planted early for soiling has been fed, 
and a second crop of Evergreen drilled 
in the ground from which the Adams 
was removed, between the rows. We 
like this better than plowing again. This 
is up well enough to have had a deep 
cultivation. Most of its cultivation now 
will be with the weeder. We have, also. 
Evergreen sugar corn more than a foot 
high that was put in after oats and peas. 
This ground was manured after the oats 
and peas were plowed, and superphos¬ 
phate drilled with corn in row. Most 
of the corn from this will go to market 
for late roasting ears, and the fodder 
into the silo. The corn just planted is 
Evergreen also, and will be used as the 
other. 
The Evergreen we are soiling and eat¬ 
ing now will be followed by millet with¬ 
out plowing the ground. All the other 
that is not in Crimson clover will either 
go in wheat or into rye. The rye will 
be plowed down or made into hay as we 
wish next Spring. If we had not had a 
satisfactory hay crop we would have had 
some of our clover stubble plowed im¬ 
mediately after mowing anu planted in 
corn for corn hay; rows 30 or 36 inches 
apart, north and south, and a bushel of 
common corn to the acre. I have an 
abiding faith in the value of corn to the 
American farmer, and I give it every 
manifestation of that faith. I grow it 
as abundantly as I can, as my outline 
will show, and I feed it liberally, and 
do not have a protein fit if an animal 
gets fat. All over the country I see so 
many cows and hogs and horses and 
men that could eat much more of our 
greatest crop. w. f. m’sparran. 
Pennsylvania. 
Utilizing Corn. —The daily papers 
tell of a so-called “new invention” for 
making one bushel of corn go as far as 
two: 
The device consists of a large galvanized 
iron case, witli drawers, to serve as re¬ 
ceptacles for shelled corn, each drawer 
having a capacity of half a bushel. On the 
top and on four sides of the case is placed 
common moss, such as may be gathered in 
the woods. The moss is three inches thick, 
land is compressed so as to form a huge 
sponge for the retention of water. It is 
thoroughly dampened, and in this moist at¬ 
mosphere the corn begins to sprout almost 
immediately. In four days the hard grain 
is converted into a mass of tender sprouts, 
fed by the softened pulp. It is then ready 
for feeding to live stock or poultry. The 
claims made for this process are: It in¬ 
creases the weight by the growth of the 
grain up to 100 per cent; renders the grain 
wholly digestible and nutritive; brings to 
the grain, by chemical changes, valuable 
food elements not otherwise obtained; aids 
digestion of other foods with which the 
grown grain comes in contact; supplies the 
best tonic that can be given to animals; 
converts corn, the great stock feeding ma¬ 
terial, Into the ideal food for poultry and 
all young growing stock, and supplies at 
all seasons of the year a food to all ani¬ 
mals which is the equivalent of the nutri¬ 
tious pastures of Summer. 
In brief, be sprouts the corn! Corn 
put into the silo is probably just as di¬ 
gestible. In any event with hogs follow¬ 
ing the cattle there will be little loss. 
Breeders’ Directory 
Registered Jersey Bull Calves 
from Imported Golden Lad at fair prices. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Fnr Q 9 1 Ot~‘ JEKSEY BULL CALVES, descended 
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A Foundation Herd of 10 or 20 young registered 
HOLSTEIN COWS is offered at a special price 
by DELLHDRST FARM, Mentor, Ohio. 
For Sal© 
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Swine and SCOTCH COLLIE 
PUPS from registered stock. 
W. W. CHENEY, Manlius, N. Y. 
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The high-bred herd of Holsteln-Frlesluns at 
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Address WM. ROOD, Proprietor. 
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O I Registered Red Polled Bull 
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J. O. BARKSDALE, Red Hill, Va. 
Ohropshire Ram and Ewe Lambs, eligible toregister 
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