1902 
THE RURAL MEW-YORKER 
683 
FEEDING VALUE OF SILAGE. 
Compared With Timothy Hay. 
In this locality, where cattle are bara 
fed for eight months per year, three 
tons of hay are necessary for their 
maintenance. These same animals have 
been kept better on one ton of hay and 
five tons of silage, and the milk yield 
when silage was fed was twice as great 
as when hay only was given. A good 
crop of silage will yield 15 tons to the 
acre, while two tons of hay is consid¬ 
ered a very good yield. As our farmers 
cut all the hay they feed to the stock 
the expense of cutting the silage is not 
so great as the cutting of dry fodder 
during the Winter. Thus the cost of 
silage per ton, figuring hay at $10, would 
be $1.33%. A farmer near this city win¬ 
ters 800 sheep and 80 head of cattle on 
50 tons of hay and 30 acres of silage. 
Another keeps 100 cattle and nine 
horses on 40 to 45 acres of corn and 70 
acres of hay. This stock is housed the 
entire year. If three tons of hay are 
necessary for eight months’ feeding it 
would take 4% tons for the year’s feed; 
109 animals should consume 490 tons of 
hay, allowing that 140 tons of hay were 
produced on the 70 acres. The silage 
from 40 to 45 acres answers for 350 tons 
of hay. It would require 230 acres of 
hay to furnish feed that this small acre¬ 
age of corn produced. Consequently we 
would sum up a ton of silage is worth 
about one-half as much as good Timothy 
hay, and the yield will be 7% times the 
weight of hay from the same acreage. 
Manitowoc, Wis. smalley meg. co. 
Big Value in Massachusetts. 
The value of silage depends a great 
deal upon the kind of corn and the con¬ 
dition that it is in when cut. The past 
year T have fed from 30 to 40 head twice 
every day and for five years past have 
fed 10 or 11 months of the year. From 
my experience wen-eared northern corn 
yielding 80 to 100 baskets per acre, cut 
when just beginning to glaze, is worth 
fully $8 per ton, as it not only takes 
the place of most of the hay in a cow’s 
ration, but also supplies quite a share of 
grain. Corn not well eared or from 
which ears have been picked will make 
silage worth $5 to $6 per ton compared 
with hay at $20. 
Chicopee, Mass. 
MAPES, THE HEN MAN. 
M. E. G., page 651, is certainly a 
“lively critic,” and hits at some of my 
weak points. His criticism of my 
brooder house, however, is easily par¬ 
ried. He says it is “too cold for Win¬ 
ter or early Spring chicks.” The fact is 
that my early Spring chicks did finely. 
It was the late hatched chicks that I 
lost, when the excuse of a “cold house” 
could not possibly be urged. Try again, 
M. E. G., and perhaps you can strike the 
nail on the head, instead of striking 
your finger. After you have kept 1,509 
hens a few years and got your bread 
and butter that way, you are likely to 
have less conceit and more knowledge. 
The house described by M. E. G. is un¬ 
doubtedly a good one. Eight square feet 
of floor space to each hen, however, 
means four times the outlay for build¬ 
ings that two feet does. That means 
serious inroads into the profits. I care 
more for profits than I do for “best re¬ 
sults.” 
How long a rest does a hen require in 
which to moult? I recently bought a 
couple of Buff Cochin hens that have 
already moulted, for an experiment; they 
are now laying again. They both laid 
on August 12, and one of them laid as 
late as August 15. They then stopped 
laying and began to moult freely. One 
of them began laying against on Sep¬ 
tember 15, and the other on September 
17. They have been closely confined, 
and no change made from our regular 
feed of mash, morning and night, ex¬ 
cept to give them a smaller allowance 
for a short time. 
Yes, we went to our county fair, and 
Billy G. went along. He had to compete 
with some Berkshires, with a pedigree 
a yard long, in his class of "best pig un¬ 
der six months old,” but he had a walk¬ 
over, and came home with the blue rib¬ 
bon. I saw the judge’s face open up 
with a smile, as he looked first at the 
pigs with the long pedigree, and then 
at Billy, and wondered whether he is a 
reader of Tiie R. N.-Y. Our pair of S. 
C. White Leghorns, and plate of white 
eggs also got the blue ribbon, but the 
pen of Leghorns got left. The judge 
found two or three bits of feathers, 
about an eighth of an inch long, on the 
leg of one of them. “Disqualified,” was 
the edict. Moral! Use your specs (and 
your razor) before you take birds to the 
show room. o. w. mapes. 
POULTRY NOTES. 
A Few Good Hens. —If The R. N.-Y. 
will publish a few lines from one who 
has been interested in reading the let¬ 
ters from Mapes and others I will give 
a brief history of a few hens owned by 
my brother in Auburn. He is a loom 
fixer in a carpet factory. He made a 
small incubator and hatched chicks for 
a neighbor and a few for himself. He 
kept 19 pullets in a coop 4x5 feet and 
four feet high. They commenced laying 
about January 1; from that time they 
averaged 17 eggs per day the rest of the 
Winter. I know this to be a fact. Now 
what about eight feet square space for 
each hen? I will give my experience 
in feeding hens last Winter on the 
Mapes plan. At the time I filled the 
boxes with wheat, corn, meat and a dish 
for skim-milk they were laying scarcely 
an egg. It was not long before they 
commenced laying well. I have always 
given them warm mashes and fussed 
with them, but did not get eggs in re¬ 
turn; so much for the Mapes plan. 
Atwater, N. Y. t. h. e. 
Moke Information Wanted. —Wa 
have thought all along that Mr. Mapes 
was quite a success as a “hen man.” His 
articles in The R. N.-Y. are very inter¬ 
esting and instructive, written in a 
plain, comprehensive manner, helpful 
both in his recording of failures as well 
as successes, but it appears that we mis¬ 
take. It is M. E. G., on page 651, who 
intimates that after all Mr. Mapes is 
really a back number, his methods and 
theories all wrong and presumably his 
few successes brought about more by 
accident than design. Thus are our idols 
rudely shattered. Now, M. E. G., by all 
means favor us with the detail of your 
methods; give us the figures. We long 
to obtain the secrets by which continu¬ 
ous and long-drawn-out success may be 
attained in the hen business. We are 
glad to note, however, that “Mr. Mapes’s 
colony plan is all right.” It seems to be 
about the only prop upon which he may 
safely lean, and we trust he will take 
courage and with this as a starting 
point, will in time attain to the higher 
degrees of the hen business already in 
the grasp of M. E. G. w. e. r. 
Derby, Vt. 
OUTLOOK FOR POULTRY. 
Poultry Is not coming in in the usual 
quantities on account of the weather con¬ 
ditions, and we know nothing particular 
about the situation only as it is reported 
to us. I have no doubt that there will be 
a large supply this Winter, more than 
last, but to what extent s' oek will be 
stored I am unable to say at the present 
writing. j. H . gail. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
We are having a very good poultry 
trade, much better than is usually the case 
at this season of the year. The price on 
fowls has ruled high all Summer. While 
we would not be surprised to see the price 
a little lower this Fall, we are not looking 
for any serious break. Owing to the high 
prices now ruling, very little stock of any 
description is going into cold storage here. 
Plymouth Rocks make the best selling 
poultry, both the color and size being what 
trade demands. We think if the farmers 
in producing sections would raise Plymouth 
Rocks largely, they wo.uld get better prices 
for their poultry at all times. 
Boston, Mass. a. & o. w. mead & co. 
As well as we can learn the general 
poultry market is higher than usual this 
season, turkeys being particularly scarce. 
We look for extremely high prices to rule 
all Winter. At this time there have been 
only early chickens stored, as the greater 
part of the poultry crop is stored during 
the Winter months. 
Chicago, Ill. MERRILL & ELDREDGE. 
The crop of poultry is as much or more 
than last season; a great many late 
Springs and turkeys will come in. A good 
many seven to nine-pound Spring turkeys 
are now coming in, and sell at 10 cents. 
We paid 11% on old turkeys all the week. 
Farmers are well fixed on feed, and as 
price of eggs is high, and will be high for 
the next 60 days, farmers will not sell any 
laying hens or young pullets, and will 
only sell off what poultry they do not want 
when selling prices suit them. We think 
there are lots of poultry in the country, 
and any big price offered will bring the 
goods. Prices on live for freezing are and 
have been too high for us. Very little 
poultry so far has gone into the freezer. 
All go into consumption. We had over 
1,100 boxed last year at this time and not 
100 this year so far. Plymouth Rocks and 
Brahma seem to have the lead in our mar¬ 
ket from Ohio, Indiana and nearby Ken¬ 
tucky points. Paid 11 cents a pound 
on live fowls and Springs to-day. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. romer bros. 
We are growing a good lot of beets, 
turnips, cabbage, clover, etc., for Winter 
green feed. We have kept before our young 
poultry this season lots of green food, such 
as lettuce, cabbage, clover, kale, lawn 
clippings, etc. Their runs have been 
among lots of fruit trees, with grassy 
range. We have devised some fine Sum¬ 
mer colony houses out of piano and organ 
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