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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 19 
LIVE STOCKS 
AND DAIRY. 
In the recent article describing' the 
sheep farm of Mr. T. II. King, the state¬ 
ment was made that “ mongrel ” rams 
were used. It seems that the best two 
rams on the farm were grades, one with 
Hampshire blood predominating, and 
the other with Cheviot. These two 
rams were bought with a lot of ewes, 
and proved to he more active and ser¬ 
viceable than registered Shropshires. 
They produced most of the earliest 
lambs, and the lambs were in good shape 
for market. In such a business, the im¬ 
portant thing is to get the lambs as 
early as possible. If the lambs were to 
be raised, the grade rams would not pay, 
but where the lamb “has no hope for 
posterity,” his father is not of so much 
importance. 
Dr. James Law reports an interesting 
case of poisoning by lead, which he re¬ 
cently observed. He found several sick 
cows suffering from nervous disorders 
in a herd from which one had but re¬ 
cently died. An examination of the dead 
animal revealed nothing, but a glance at 
the new tub silo gave the reason. It 
had been painted inside with a thin coat 
of lead last Summer,- the knots being 
coated again. The acetic acid developed 
in the ensilage had dissolved some of the 
paint, forming the poisonous sugar of 
lead, lead acetate. By prompt treatment 
of the sick animals, they were saved, 
but one in the herd apparently well, suc¬ 
cumbed suddenly, making the second 
victim. Coal tar would have been safe 
and quite effectual in covering the wood. 
There are many farm neighborhoods 
where it would be well nigh impossible 
for the farmers themselves to organize a 
codperative creamery or similar enter¬ 
prise. There is too much jealousy and 
distrust among them. Let a stranger 
familiar with such work come into this 
neighborhood, and he will sodn organize 
these farmers and get them to put up 
their money for a creamery or a canning 
factory. The farmers have long felt the 
need of such cooperation, but have not 
been able to organize among themselves. 
The success of the “creamery shark ” is 
based on a knowledge of this peculiarity 
of farmers. He knows how to organize, 
and he demands for his work 10 times 
what it is worth. There are honest and 
reliable houses that will do this work at 
a fair price, and their business is per¬ 
fectly legitimate. 
No one will question that corn is the 
great ensilage crop of America. No other 
crop, unless it be sorghum, will produce 
an equal amount of food material. The 
only drawback in its use seems to be 
that the food is not properly balanced. 
Although the corn plant contains an 
abundance of starch and woody matter, 
it is lacking in that far more valuable 
material known as protein. This flesh- 
and-milk-producing nutrient must be 
supplied by adding a liberal grain ration 
in order to get the best results from corn 
ensilage. What we need in the North 
to-day is the more general use of a plant, 
similar to the cow pea, which can be 
harvested at the same time and mixed 
with the corn in filling the silo. Some 
of the stations have found that the best 
crop for this purpose is the medium early 
green Soja bean, recently introduced 
from Japan. This plant can be made to 
produce, at small expense, 10 tons of en¬ 
silage per acre. It grows rapidly, and 
is more easily harvested than the cow 
pea. A mixed ensilage of corn and Soja- 
bean fodder, about half and half by 
weight, Contains at least one-half more 
of the flesh-forming elements than clear 
corn ensilage. Cattle eat it with a relish, 
and it seems to be preserved equally as 
well as corn alone. The Soja bean will 
produce a good crop with the use of verj* 
little nitrogen as fertilizer, provided a 
good supply of the mineral elements is 
furnished. The Soja bean is one of those 
“ nitrogen gatherers ” that draw freely 
upon the nitrogen of the air whenever 
those most active little agents, the root 
tubercles, are present. What the dairy¬ 
man needs to study is how to produce 
more nitrogen or protein in the fodders 
grown on the farm. Clover furnishes a 
generous bank account of this element, 
hut it is not available to mix with the 
corn, while the Soja bean matures at just 
the right time. 
Last week, we stated that the hogs at 
Cherry Lawn Farm worked over large 
quantities of trash and refuse clover hay 
into an excellent manure. Mr. Atkinson 
wants to get that statement just right. 
He says : 
It is said that you cannot insult a hog, but my 
stock are not the common, every-day hog, and 
were they still upon this earth, and knew that 
you were giving the public the impression that 
they were kept to turn over and work up manure, 
1 think that they would feel insulted. They were 
too lazy and contented to root or turn anything 
but themselves once in a while. When I tell you 
that those 23 eight-months-old pigs weighed, 
dressed, 5,8i0 pounds, or nearly 250 pounds each, 
you can see that they didn’t do much work. 
We always considered it very legitimate 
business for a hog to work over trash or 
straw into manure. However, if the full 
duty of a hog is to sleep and grow fat, 
we don’t purpose to insult him by asking 
him to work in addition. Besides the 23 
hogs killed in February, Mr. Atkinson 
says that he killed 16 in November that 
dressed 4,7f>0 pounds. This makes a total 
of 53* tons of pork in one season. Pretty 
good way to sell the corn on a fertilizer 
farm. 
Among western live stock, the rabbit 
occupies an important economic position. 
He destroys more than he creates. Secre¬ 
tary F. D. Coburn, of Kansas, gives these 
facts about the apple orchards of Well- 
house & Son. The Kansas rabbit will 
eat even a Ben Davis apple : 
For their orchard in Osage County, they used 
a car-load of lumber in the construction of 1,700 
rabbit traps; for their three orchards in Leaven¬ 
worth County, they have 1,600 traps, and in 
a Miami County orchard, 400 traps. These con¬ 
sist of a box 22 inches long, made of ordinary 
six-inch lumber, one inch thick, close at one end, 
and with an inward-swinging wire gate in the 
other end, which is shut by contact of the rabbit 
with a trigger after he has fairly entered. About 
four feet of lumber and four feet of No. 12 galvan¬ 
ized iron wire are consumed in the making of 
each trap, which costs, complete, from 12*4 to 15 
cents. 
That means 3.700 traps, or about 15,000 
feet of lumber ! It certainly gives one 
an idea of the wonderful development of 
Kansas orchards, and a novel live-stock 
industry. If the rabbits caught in those 
traps could be buried around the trees, 
they ought to provide most of the nitro¬ 
gen and phosphoric acid required ! 
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IS UP—BEWARE OF COAL TAR. 
Dairymen keep on the straight 
track—Use only pure goods. 
THATCHER’S O RANG E 
BUTTER COLOR is the only 
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Men and women doctor their troubles 
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unmistakable evidences of kidney trouble 
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from kidney and bladder trouble as 
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