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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 11 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Shredded Corn Fodder for Sheep. 
Since 1896 I have been shredding 
corn fodder for convenience in storing 
and handling. From the first season 
we used it as a sheep feed, and were 
convinced that it would not be the 
proper thing to depend upon this feed 
entirely as a roughage for sheep as 
some of our neighbors were doing. 
After using shredded fodder for five 
years as a feed for sheep I am con¬ 
vinced that there is nothing to be gain¬ 
ed by shredding the fodder. In fact, if 
sheep are compelled to eat the rougher 
portions or woody part of the stalk It 
will prove injurious to them, as the ab¬ 
sorbent properties of the stalks and the 
sharp edges are injurious to the linings 
of the sheep’s digestive organs. When 
we fed shredded fodder only once a day 
in plentiful supply so as not to compel 
the sheep to eat it too closely, and then 
fed clover hay abundantly we had 
nothing but the best results from its 
use. Moreover, when we fed whole 
corn stover on the snow or frozen 
Blue-grass pasture, or in racks we had 
equally good or better results. So m 
conclusion of this matter we must con¬ 
clude that the only inducement to shre 1 
fodder for sheep is to have the feed in 
more convenient form, and where it 
could readily be sheltered. When sheep 
are supplied with good clover hay, and 
are fed whole stover on the snow, it af¬ 
fords them exercise and a change of 
ration. But to feed sheep exclusively 
on shredded fodder, as some of our 
western friends are doing, is the source 
of much annoyance to them. The smut 
of the corn is incorporated in the fod¬ 
der by shredding and is frequently the 
cause of abortion in breeding ewes. 
With improved machinery for shred¬ 
ding by which the stover is reduced to 
fineness of excelsior, it brings us a 
valuable food for cattle and horses. The 
waste makes the best of bedding . 
Lagoda. Ind. Howard h. keim. 
Interesting Hen Notes. 
During the Fall and Winter some 
readers of The R. N.-Y. who feed a 
warm mash may have the same trouble 
I had a few years ago, with their fowls 
taking cold; if so, the following may 
be some help to them: I fed a warm 
mash every morning and as severe 
weather came on I had to be continu¬ 
ally doctoring some of the fowls for 
cold. After a time I remembered see¬ 
ing the statement that hens should not 
be allowed in the air after feeding a 
hot mash, as they were apt to take cold. 
I stopped feeding the mash and the 
hens were entirely well in a short time. 
Since that time I have fed but little 
mash and that cold. Whole corn, oats 
and wheat mixed equal parts by mea¬ 
sure or fed separate give me good re¬ 
sults. If I could get but two kinds of 
grain I should take corn and oats with 
plenty of green food if fowls are yard¬ 
ed; also plenty of grit of some sort. 
Mr. Mapes speaks of his Wyandotte 
hen laying while brooding chicks. 
When I used them for incubating I ex¬ 
pected them to commence laying when 
chicks were three weeks old, and 1 
was seldom disappointed. This being 
my first year raising chicks by brooder 
I will merely say I have had good luck 
with them, but don’t buy a cheap, 
small, dark brooder even if the manu¬ 
facturers say it is just the thing. I 
have one, but my large, well-lighted 
brooder is worth a dozen like it. 
A correspondent in The R. N.-Y. 
seems to have had a hard time in 
breaking up a broody hen. I believe he 
refers to the Wyandotte, as he says 
“that famous Michigan hen.’’ This is 
my plan, and it has been successful 
with me: Remove the hen the first 
night she is inclined to stay on the 
nest, putting in a box or coop free from 
litter. Give plenty of water and feed a 
small handful of oats once a day. The 
fourth day, after dark, return to pen. 
Schuyler Co., N. Y. f. j. kniffin. 
The Value of Silage. 
I am an ardent supporter of the silo. 
Some men have discontinued its use 
after one or two years, but I think they 
did not judiciously feed silage or they 
would have had good results from it. 
There are various ways of filling a silo. 
One way is to pick off all the ears from 
the corn and rob it of the best part, run 
the stalks in and then expect the silage 
will be all that is needed to keep stock 
on. My experience is to raise an early- 
maturing silage corn such as Learning, 
Early Mastodon, or Eureka, and put it 
all in; then feed carefully with plenty 
of hay, dry corn fodder, and grain. In 
this way silage is a great thing in the 
dairy barn; it is really green feed for 
Winter use. and works on the stock as 
a regulator. There is no need of condi¬ 
tion powders or laxative medicine being 
used when silage is fed. If it were not 
for the silo I would have to sell about 
one-half of my stock, as I could not keep 
so many on the same number of acres 
of land. The food value of corn silage 
will test about one-third the value of 
No. 1 hay. Silage is seldom bought and 
sold, so there is really no fixed price for 
it. I have seen the contents of a silo 
sold at auction for $2 per ton, but I 
should hate to see mine go for that. I 
have had about eight years’ experience 
in feeding silage and am highly grati¬ 
fied with the results. ir. m. taylor. 
Massachusetts. 
FACTS ABOUT CORN FODDER. 
More than one-third of all the diges¬ 
tible material contained in the entire 
corn plant is found in the fodder; less 
than two-thirds is concentrated in the 
grain. No one is justified in wasting 
one-third of the crop that he has been 
at the pains of growing. A ton of corn 
fodder contains practically the same 
number of pounds of digestible material 
as does a ton of Timothy. It does not 
follow, however, that as an exclusive 
ration for stock it is as valuable as Tim¬ 
othy, ton for ton, since it is not so pal¬ 
atable and not so completely eaten, and 
that the stock will not eat enough of it 
to make profitable gains. Experiments 
at the Missouri Experiment Station 
show that yearling steers may be win¬ 
tered on whole corn fodder from which 
all the ears were carefully removed, 
without gram or other food, and neith¬ 
er gain nor lose in weight. Similar 
steers when fed all the bright Timothy 
hay they would eat and without grain 
will make a slight gain. More pounds 
of fodder than of Timothy were neces¬ 
sary to winter cattle of this class. The 
coarser portions of this stalk, amount¬ 
ing usually to between 30 and 40 per 
cent of the whole weight of the fodder, 
were refused by the cattle. When fed 
alone, a ton of corn fodder has some¬ 
thing like half the feeding value of Tim¬ 
othy hay. That it is not good business 
policy, however, to winter cattle in this 
way in the ordinary season, will be ac¬ 
cepted without argument. 
Our most important and striking re¬ 
sults have been obtained from combin¬ 
ing the fodder with clover so as to sup¬ 
ply the muscle-making material >n 
which the fodder is so notably deficient. 
These experiments were made with 
large coarse fodder, which was allowed 
to stand in the field until required for 
feeding, and was fed whole and without 
any special treatment. With two-year- 
old cattle on full feed the results of two 
years’ work show that a bushel of corn, 
when fed in connection with equal parts 
of corn fodder and clover hay will make 
more gain than when fed in connection 
with good Timothy hay. With yearling 
cattle fed on roughness exclusively, 
practically twice as much gain was 
made with equal parts of corn fodder 
and clover hay as with Timothy. In 
other words, the cattle having Timothv 
hay alone gained 123 pounds during the 
experiment, while another bunch on 
corn fodder and clover gained 234 
pounds. It is shown that a combination 
o ? corn fodder and clover hay is fully 
equal to Timothy hay whether fed with¬ 
out grain, with a small allowance of 
grain, on half feed or on full feed, and 
whether with yearlings or aged cattle. 
In other words, the farmer can by this 
means make the whole coarse fodder 
produced in the Middle West serve every 
purpose in cattle feeding for which Tim¬ 
othy is now used. Under these circum¬ 
stances it is fair to say that Timothy 
and corn fodder have essentially the 
same feeding values. The annual fod 
der crop of the United States would on 
this basis represent to the farmer a 
valuation of something like three- 
fourths of a billion dollars. Missouri’s 
fodder crop would under these circum¬ 
stances bring the feeder something over 
$40,000,000 a year. All of this may be 
done without changing our system of 
farming, except to grow more clover, 
cow peas or Alfalfa to combine with our 
fodder, and reduce tne area now devoted 
to Timothy. h. j. waters. 
Missouri Experiment Station. 
Breeders’ Directory 
Registered Jersey Bull Calves 
from Imported Golden Lad at fair prices. 
R. E. SHANNON, 907 Liberty 8treet. Pittsburg, Pa. 
“QUALITY.” 
For Sale. A. J. C. C. Bull Calves, fit to head any 
herd. Tbetr dams have yearly milk records of from 
7,000 to 9.000 pounds averaging over five per cent fat. 
These calves will be sold now at prices any one can 
pay. For particulars address 
K. W MOSHER. Aurora, N. Y. 
A Foundation Herd of 10 or 20 young registered 
“ HOLSTEIN COWS Is offered at a special price 
by DELLHUK8T FARM, Mentor, Ohio. 
For Sal© 
, — PUREBRED HOLSTE1N- 
FRIESLAN BULL CALVES 
and SCOTCH COLLIE PUP8 from registered stock. 
W. W. CHENEY, Manlius, N. X. 
Holstein-Friesians X! l”;': ,: 1 
ing for sale I’r'ces reasonable Every animal 
registered. WOODCREST FARM, Rlfton, Ulster 
County, N. Y. 
DAIRY SHORT-HORNS;,S2.JSS s. 
winners. FLORA V. SPENCER, Spring Creek, Pa. 
Q _I -—November 1, a choice herd of thor- 
lOl wdlv oughbred, registered Devons. 
B. J. WIGHTMAN, West Eaton, N. Y. 
Phoohiroc -8 ^ 111 * and KaU plgs - 8 A -utile, 
UII uOII11 CO Malcolm, Box A, New York. 
Excellent Berkshires at Ohio Farm, 
Le Roy, O. sired by our imported Boar, Rrltish Model 
4th and others. M. L & H. II. B15NHAM. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES STXS 
hog. Pigs of all ages from Imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FAP.M Rochester, Mich 
Sheep and Dogs. 
We prevent dogs from killing our sheep 
by the use of poison and shot. The sheep 
business Is O. K.—if you have luck. 
Abbott, Neb jas. burnet. 
Shoot every dog on the place; any sus¬ 
pected dog give piece of meat in yard of 
owner; keep plenty of bells on sheep; noise 
scares dogs away. a. l. wilson. 
Creston, Iowa. 
I do not know of any way to prevent 
damage by dogs except to kill every 
strange dog that I find running in my 
sheep pastures. e. n. bissell. 
East Shoreham, Vt. 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires and C. Whites. 
8 wks. to 6 nos., mated not akin. 
Service Boars, B'ed Sows. Wiltefor 
prices and description Return if not 
satisfactory: wetefund the money. 
HAMILTON & CO., Rosenvick, Chester Co., Pa. 
—Q —I——Shropshire Ram Lambs: pure blood, 
■ Or wdlv hut not eligible to regltter. Very 
fine; $10 each. Address 
IRA H. HASBROUCK Box 987. Kingston, N. Y. 
/k H It A choice lot of Delaine and 
Jjk |%/| Black-Top Rams and Ewes 
l\lJL 1TX Wj to select from, will be sold 
cheap. Correspondence 
solicited. M. O. MULK1N, Friendship, N. Y. 
AftlftflD A (UI1TC are handsome, hardy and 
HHUUiiH UUH I M profitable Pri/.e stock. 
Low prices. Large cir. E. W. Cole & Co., Kenton. O. 
Silage for Hogs. —1 have no silo, and 
know of no one here who has tried it. 
There are but few silos in this part of 
the State. Silage, if I understand correct¬ 
ly, is more or less sour. If such is the 
fact I would not recommend it for swine, 
as I believe their feed should be sweet. 
Feed in a soured condition has a tendency 
to derange the digestive system of swine. 
I think better results can be obtained by 
feeding some of the root crops, such as 
artichokes, or sugar beets. The latter 
can be stored for Winter use and the 
former can be harvested by the hogs, ex¬ 
cept when the ground is frozen, and the 
exercise which the swine will get in root¬ 
ing them out will be of great benefit, 
especially for breeding sows. I have had 
my best success in this way. 
Rockville, Ind. geo. w. jessup. 
A SPAVIN 
igbone, Splint or Curb will reduce the selling p: 
of any horse 60 per cent. You might j ust as well get 
full value tor your horse. Cure him with 
Bony and unnatural enlargements, also all forms ot Lame¬ 
ness yield readily to this remedy. It is certain and sure in 
its effects and cures without a blemish as it does not blister. 
BIG HEAD CURED. , 
Gowen, I. T., Jan. 23,1001. 
Dr. II. J. Kendall Co., Dear Sirs:—I can heartily recom¬ 
mend your spavin Cure. I have a fine colt tliatwas troubled 
with big bend and a few applications of your Spavin Cure 
cured him. I have also taken splint. off from other horses 
with it. I use it in my family and find it a great cure. 1 
cannot praise it too highly for the good it has done me. 
lam. Respectfully, MRS. MAGGIE GORE. 
It works thousands of cures annually. Endorsements 
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As a liniment for family use, it has no equal. Ask your drug¬ 
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Dr. B. J. KENDALL CO., ENOSBURG FALLS, VT. 
Trade Mark. 
LUMP JAW 
Easily and thoroughly cured. 
New, common-eenae method, I 
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pay. FREE. A practical. Ill-, 
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Halos BtoekYards, Chicago, UL 
No Wall Street Tip Equals the Best Farm Tip. 
BUY ANGORA COATS. 
For Registered 8tocl: address 
BOSWYCK FARM, RIDGEFIELD, CONN. 
For Sale.—Scotch Collies, magnifi¬ 
cently bred. A. J. BENEDICT, Woodworth, Wis. 
Pfilllfl Pune - 8payecl Female*- Circulars. 8ILAS 
VU1116 I upa DECKER, South Montrose Pa. 
Qfinn CCDBCTC Some trained. Book 
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N- A. KNAPP, Rochester, Ohio. 
Choice stock for sale at all 
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Death to Lice 
on HEN8 and CHICK8. 
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I). J. LAMBERT, Box 307, Apponaug, R. I. 
F or Sale—at $2. Purebred Cockerels. Rhode Island 
Reds; White and Barred Plymouth Rocks: White 
Leghorns. A few pullets. All have had free range. 
Very large and healthy. Also Bantams at $1 each. 
E., Box 34, Mamaroneck, N. Y. 
White Leghorn Cockerels. 
We have a large flock of the finest stock we ever 
raised. Don't wait until Spring to buy your breeders 
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