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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 2 
Live StockandDairy 
DRY STALKS IN THE SILO. 
Weatherbeaten Fodder for Ensilage. 
Is It practicable to let the corn cure in 
the field, husk it as usual, and then cut 
the dry stalks into the silo, using water 
enough to keep the cut fodder moist? This 
plan has been advocated. Will it pay? 
Hard to Regulate Water. —A few 
successful attempts have been made to 
cut dry corn stalks, and preserve them 
in a silo by adding about as much water 
as the stalks originally contained when 
green. This water was applied on the 
carrier as the material was being put in, 
a better way to distribute it than to ap¬ 
ply the water to the material after it is 
in the silo. This practice has not be¬ 
come common, therefore, I judge it is 
not the best way to dispose of dry fod¬ 
der. If the stalks are cut a day or so 
before they are used, put where they 
will not freeze when wet, some bran or 
meal mixed with them, and then left for 
24 or 48 hours, according to the weather, 
they will heat up slightly and soften, 
and in this condition they are very ac¬ 
ceptable to the animals. Or what would 
be better, if some mangels were at hand, 
cut these, mix with the stalks and bran, 
sprinkle with warm water, and mix as 
farmers do cut feed for horses. We have 
tried to shred our dried corn stalks, but 
the power required to do this is great, 
and possibly, we did not have the best 
machine. Be that as it may, the prac¬ 
tice of shredding did not prove to be 
satisfactory in our case. 
One of my students, Mr. J. L. Stone, 
formerly practiced the cutting of straw, 
hay and corn stalks, when he was scarce 
of roughage, and treated the mass simi¬ 
larly to that described above, with very 
satisfactory results. True, it takes a 
little more labor than to feed the stalks 
uncut, or to cut them all at one time, but 
I judge that the results, from what I can 
learn, will justify such extra labor. In 
any case, the food thus prepared will be 
free from offensive smell, will be relish¬ 
ed by the animals, and more of it will be 
eaten than would be if treated in any 
other way. When dry stalks are put in 
the silo, it is difficult to get the right 
amount of water mixed with them. If 
too little is used, the material will heat 
and burn badly; if too much is applied, 
there will be a mass of soggy material, 
which will not be relished by the ani¬ 
mals. I. P. ROBERTS. 
Cornell Exp. Station. 
Put All in Silo. —The answer to the 
question would depend first upon the 
amount on hand; if small so they could 
be fed out in a short time, perhaps it 
would not pay to put them in a silo. If 
the cows fail to eat them entire, I would 
run them through a cutter, cutting them 
in half-inch lengths, moisten and allow 
to stand 12 hours. This will increase 
the palatability of the fodder, hence its 
value. If the quantity were large, I 
should say ensilage them by all means. 
The weatherbeaten stalks standing for 
two months and often longer have lost 50 
per cent or more of their former value. 
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We want every farmer who attends a 
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season to see a copy of The Rural 
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The Rural New-Yorker, 
New York. 
and the owner will find it necessary co 
add all of the corn meal taken off to give 
the cows energy sufficient to masticate 
and void this mass of woody fiber, say¬ 
ing nothing about supporting the ani¬ 
mal, or producing milk. If the Fall 
weather be dry, the stalks may be 
housed and mixed with straw, when 
they will usually keep well; but in case 
of wet weather, it is next to impossible 
to keep them indoors without mold and 
decay. 
If put into the silo, it will make no 
difference whether they are put up after 
a rain or water put on when cutting; I 
would prefer, nowever, to put them in 
dry, and arrange to wet them as they 
fall into the elev'.tor, on account of the 
handling. I have handled wet corn, but 
would not do it again, if possible to 
avoid it, as it is heavy and dirty work. 
The judgment of the owner will be re¬ 
quired to ascertain how much water it 
is necessary to add. The cut fodder 
should be slightly more than damp, it 
should be wet from 200 to 400 pounds 
per ton. 
Perhaps it is aside from the question, 
but from observation and experience 
combined, there seems no good reason 
for going to the expense of husking and 
grinding, when the ears and stalks can 
be handled and cut at the same expense, 
providing the feed is to be used for cows 
or steers. h. e. cook. 
New York. 
SHEEP AND APPLES. 
I have an orchard well fenced In of be¬ 
tween three and four acres, which is bear¬ 
ing quite a heavy crop of fruit this year. 
There are some very young trees in it which 
have been planted in the place of old apple 
trees. There is nothing but apples in the 
orchard. We have just cut a fair crop of 
hay and I would like to save the windfall 
apples in some way if it be possible to do 
so, I would put in hogs, but the fence is 
not hog-tight, while it is I think capable of 
holding sheep. Do you think it would pay 
me to buy a small flock of sheep and put 
them in that orchard? About how many 
should I get? Would you advise me to get 
all ewes or part wethers? Will these sheep 
be likely to injure my young apple trees? 
New Jersey. c. w. 
It was a bad practice to grow the hay 
in this dry Summer; it has done double 
damage—robbed the trees of both fer¬ 
tility and moisture, and there is now, 
probably, but little left for the sheep to 
eat. They would, however, if put in at 
once, eat all the windfalls and worms 
more effectually than hogs, even though 
the fence were hog-tight. If you had 
put 50 sheep into the orchard last April, 
and kept them there, giving enough 
wheat bran to keep them thrifty, you 
would not have had any grass to get 
more than an inch high, and the manure 
resulting would have made the leaves of 
the trees green and rugged. As it is 
now, I can’t see what you can do better 
than to buy the sheep. It is, of course, 
too late to plow the orchard, and you 
don’t want to leave the wormy apples 
to insure a curse of worms next season, 
so put in the sheep. If you don’t want 
to Winter them, can’t you buy last 
Spring’s lambs just weaned? If so, 
get 60 to 75, and put them there, 
provide plenty of water, and feed them 
daily enough wheat bran to make them 
grow. Or, if you only had a rape field 
for them to run on, or from which you 
could cut rape to carry to them, how 
they would grow, and how it would en¬ 
rich the orchard. 
If the small trees are not up so as to 
have the tops beyond their reach, you 
will have to drive four stakes, and nail 
slats, so as to keep the sheep from 
reaching the tops. If they are several 
years planted, you can protect them 
with the chicken wire guards; but be 
sure to put it on very loosely. It might 
be better to drive a stake on each side 
of the tree, and nail the wire to these. 
If you get lambs, and have some roots 
for next Winter’s feeding, you can let 
them run in the orchard until Winter, 
then put them in a warm fold, feed for 
a few weeks, and put a nice gain on 
them. Don’t make the mistake of buy¬ 
ing fat lambs, but rather those in nice 
growing condition, weighing about 50 
or 55 pounds. If you can’t find such 
lambs as you want, the next best thing 
is to get about 40 ewes, two or three 
years old, let them have lambs early, 
and next Summer keep ewes and lambs 
both in the orchard until the lambs are 
fat enough to sell. But in buying ewes 
for this purpose, don’t make the mistake 
of buying any of the large mutton 
breeds, but rather some good blocky 
American Merino grades, and cross them 
with a male of one of the mutton breeds, 
a Hampshire or Dorset preferred. 
In keeping this flock of ewes, you 
could use much coarser forage for the 
Winter feed than with the lambs, and 
would not need so much succulent food 
up to near lambing time. If you had 
suitable quarters, and understood the 
business, I would advise getting the 
ewes and raising Winter lambs, as, 
while using them to eat down the vege¬ 
tation in the orchard, or enriching the 
land, you could make more money out 
of them than in any other way in which 
you could keep the sheep. The finest 
apples we have had this year are on an 
orchard where we have had sheep for 
many years. J. s. woodward. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. 
The Quitter Cow.—I am very much 
interested in The R. N.-Y., and I think 
its reasoning very good; but I think 
you have failed entirely in making cut 
a case on page 602, with the Stealing of 
the Robber Cow. You do not show that 
she was to blame in anyway, only that 
she did not give mnk as many days as 
the other. Wherein was she as a cow, 
to blame for that? What evidence have 
you that, in her early training, some 
ignoramus of the two-legged sort did 
not force the short-milking habit or 
laziness on her? As I read the article, 
The Robber Cow ras the advantage in 
everything but the short milking period. 
Give her another show. J. h. n. 
R. N.-Y.—We had to take the figures 
as they stand. According to their 
statement, one cow ran $20 behind the 
other. She started out bravely, but 
she quit early. We don’t know what 
caused the cow’s laziness, but in some 
cases, it is certainly inherited. There 
are some persistent milkers that can¬ 
not be dried up, while others do well 
for a few months, and then demand a 
long vacation, v hich they always take 
unless they find rest on the butcher’-; 
block. We migi call these cows quit¬ 
ters, but they are robbers all the same. 
That faint, sickly feeling, which creeps over you 
at intervals, with palpitation, dizziness, apprehen- 
s ons of evil, and all that, may result seriously if 
long neglected; but Dr. D Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge 
wi,l correct the cause, promote healthy action, and 
bring strength. 
For colds that come in the night, you cannot have 
medicine too handy, and the right medicine Is J ayne's 
Expectorant. 
Easy to take and effectual, Jayne’s Painless Sana¬ 
tive Pills.— Adv. 
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Write wants. Spenoer’t Poultry Farm, Phenlx, R. I. 
Angora Goats for Sale. —Can furnish 
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C hoice Delaine and Black-Top Ewes and Bams for 
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84 Cows a/veraged 399 pounds 
lmtter each in 1898. Some 
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Registered Jersey Cattle 
For Milk and Butter. 
R. F. SHANNON. 907 Liberty St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
SHROPSHIRE SHEEP. 
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