1890 
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RYE FOR HOG PASTURE. 
September 12, I sowed White rye on clay loam 
for Spring pasture, also seeded with Timothy. If 
this Winter rye is pastured or mown off so as not 
to run to seed, will it be necessary to break it up 
and sow again ? ■ w. k. j. 
Springford, Ont. 
Ans—R ye being an annual, if pastured 
or cut off so that some goes to seed or 
matures, it will be necessary to plow the 
land again and reseed, if another crop is 
desired. I would manage the present 
crop as follows: Pasture in the Spring 
till it begins to point, then remove the 
stock and let the rye perfect itself ; this, 
when ripe, I would hog down. The hogs 
can hardly glean it so close but there 
will be plenty left to give a good volun¬ 
teer crop next year. The volunteer crop 
secured in this way, is often as valuable 
as the first crop. 
This way of managing the crop does 
not, in any way, injure or retard the 
growth of the Timothy the first year. 
The second year, the rye may, to some 
extent, overshadow the Timothy early 
in the season, while the rye is making 
itself. The volunteer rye and Timothy 
next Fall should furnish a large amount 
of forage, and a greater amount the next 
year. Still greater returns can be had 
in this climate by sowing clover in the 
rye. John m. jamison. 
Ohio. 
DAIR Y AND TRADE NO TES. 
“ Summer Hotel ” Time.— Some things 
in The R. N.-Y. of December 24 need an 
amen, and others need an argument. 
The article from Boothbay, Me., is true 
of many sections which have Summer 
visitors by the hundred or thousand. 
These fine home markets are totally neg¬ 
lected. 
But on the other hand, it is very hard 
to get a line of goods started, such as 
fancy butter, etc., because the larger 
houses and hotels are in league with the 
merchants. A farmer so situated that 
he can furnish a fancy grade of butter, 
goes to the hotel, talks it up, and does 
his best. The hotel is full, “ can’t take 
any to-day,” and suggests the store. 
After many trials, he goes to the store, 
with its low price, and trade. If he 
sells, oftentimes before he has left town, 
that hotel man has bought that very 
butter. 
The License Business.— Nothing is 
more unfair to the farmer than this 
license business. Within a few years, 
with us, the large poultry trade of the 
Summer months has been broken up by 
storekeepers and butchers, by bringing 
in dressed poultry loaded in barrels and 
Welsh butter tubs. Formerly, we could 
get 10 cents per pound, live weight, for 
fowls ; now they point to these dressed 
fowls and say that they cost 10 cents 
dressed. “Are they not nice-looking 
and tender?” Tender, I should say they 
are. The licensed vender is afraid of the 
farmer’s fresh goods, put up in attractive 
form, and it is he who cuts prices to 
work off wilted stuff from the South, 
that has been bought in the New York 
City market when it was a week or morp 
old. 
As to breakage of bottles in selling 
milk, most of the breakage occurs at the 
bottling place, and could be lessened 
with care. From 34 to 36 quarts is all 
that can be dipped from a 40-quart can 
of milk. Your trade will “spot” you 
very quick, unless you give an extra dip. 
Loch Sheldrake, N. Y. b. b. 
Kicking Cows.— I have had the managing of 
cows over 40 years, and over 40 at a time. Tub 
R. N.-Y. is right; heifers should be so raised that 
breaking is unnecessary. Yet occasionally, from 
accident or bad management, it is best to con¬ 
fine a cow for a short time. I have tried most of 
the plans given in The R. N.-Y., and in the right 
hands, they are pretty good. But the best I ever 
found is to stanchion or tie the cow short, and 
have a rope with a ring in one end; loop it 
around the left hind leg just above the ankle, 
wrap the rope twice around the stanchion or 
manger pole, draw the foot forward until the toe 
can barely touch the floor, and sit on the right 
side to milk or doctor the teats or udder. It 
holds the cow safest, subdues her quickest, and 
is the handiest to apply of any device I ever used. 
Iow a. O. E. FRENCH. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
There seems to be considerable increase of 
interest in matters pertaining to sheep raising, 
and the prospect is that soon many more sheep 
will be kept than formerly. It would seem no more 
than proper that we should produce all the mut¬ 
ton and wool that we require for use in our own 
country. h. h l. 
New York. 
What Pigs to Raise. —On page 817, of Decem¬ 
ber 3, 1898, C. W. M.’s 10-weeks-old pigs, weigh¬ 
ing 50 pounds each, are referred to. At present 
prices, they would be worth $2.25 each. The 
point Is, Where can I buy such pigs, and what 
breed are they ? I prefer Berkshires. They are 
offered near me for $5 each, say four to eight 
weeks old. f. p. h. 
Sparks, Ga. 
R. N.-Y.—The pigs mentioned were Chester 
Whites. You cannot afford to pay $5 for pigs to 
feed. Better get a good Berkshire boar and 
breed him to common sows. 
Monet in Cows.—Mr. Oscar Dunn, of Sussex 
County, N. J., who recently died, was one of the 
most successful farmers in northern New Jersey. 
At the time of his death, he owned 14 farms, all 
devoted to dairying, and supporting 500 cows. 
Mr. Dunn earned his first money as a farm hand, 
never had but two notes in the bank in his life, 
and never had a lawsuit. He rented all his 
farms on shares, and always had good tenants, 
some of them having worked his farms for 25 
years. It is said that he never had a written con¬ 
tract of any kind with a tenant. He had been 
farming for himself since 1844. This shows the 
possibilities of a poor man to make the soil pro¬ 
ductive, even in what our western friends like to 
term “ poor Jersey.” 
My 13 pullets, mostly Buff Leghorns hatched in 
April and May, have given four to seven eggs a 
day through November and December, thus far. 
I attribute it to location and watchfulness, for 
all the neighbors complain of a scant supply. 
The henhouse is on a rocky hillside on the edge 
of a little grove. The yard is dry and Bunny when 
the leaves have dropped, very bright in Spring 
and Fall. Everything that hatches lives, unless 
the hen tramples it, and there are no gapes. They 
have had chiefly mixed feed with warm water 
as the weather grew cold, and corn, and scarcely 
any meat scraps. On returning home September 
1 , after two weeks’ absence, I found them shy, 
inclined to eat only by stealth, and not fat. I 
feared that they would not begin to lay before 
cold weather. By making fresh nests, giving the 
hens a little treat of bread crumbs when they 
stole down the hill, and restricting all admonition 
and reproof to the rooster, I met their wishes 
half way. I find eggs were sold October 17, but 
do not know just when they began to lay. Two of 
them were determined to sit last Fall. r. t. 
Somers, N. Y. 
Grafting a New Cup.— A friend in Wisconsin 
sends us the following conversation, which he 
overheard between two farmers: 
Bob: “I say, Bill, I have got a cow that don’t 
seem to be doing well. She is poor as a crow, 
and goes around chawing old bones and leather. 
What Is the matter with her 1 ” 
Bill: “ Why, she has lost her cud.” 
Bob: “ No, that cannot be right, for she seems 
to chaw her cud right along.” 
Bill: “ Well, maybe she chawa a little of it, but 
she must have lost a part of it or else any fool 
can see that she would not be chawing old bones. 
She is trying to get a new cud.” 
Bob: “ Well, now, what can I do for her ? ” 
Bill: “ The best thing I know of, is to give her 
about half of a good big dishrag. You want one 
that has been used a long time, so it is good and 
strong, and poke it way back in her mouth so 
she will have to swallow it, and then she will be 
sure to come out right.” 
Now Bill is said to be a local authority on stock 
keeping, and his advice is usually followed. The 
only advantage we can see in this treatment is 
that it gets rid of a bad dishrag, that might pos¬ 
sibly convey germs to the members of the family. 
Not long ago we reported Ex-Gov. Hoard, of Wis¬ 
consin,- as saying how wonderfully Wisconsin 
had been developed as a dairy State. There seems 
to be a chance for home missionary work even in 
Wisconsin. _ 
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