1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
65i 
GOOD POINTS OF HOLSTEINS. 
WHAT TIIEIR FRIENDS CLAIM. 
I believe the Holstein-Friesian cow to 
be the most vigorous and healthy of any 
of the dairy breeds of cattle. She is the 
most hearty feeder. Sbe will eat rough 
feed better, and will do better on it with¬ 
out grain, and make more butter in the 
course of a year without grain, than a 
cow of any other breed. I believe, with 
a limited amount of grain to balance the 
rough feed, the Holstein-Friesian will 
produce more milk and butter than a 
cow of any other breed. I believe the 
Holstein-F'riesian will respond profitably 
to a large grain ration longer than a 
cow of any other breed. I believe the 
Holstein-Friesian is less liable to be 
spoiled by overfeeding grain than a cow 
of any other breed, owing to her habit 
of eating rough feed better. 
The Holstein-Friesian cow will pro¬ 
duce better veal calves than any other 
cow. The Holstein-Friesian cow will 
produce better steers for beef than any 
of the dairy breeds of cattle. She will 
produce more and better beef than a cow 
of any other breed of dairy cattle. My 
cows will average four per cent butter 
fat. My experience is that I can produce 
milk and butter cheaper with Holstein- 
Friesian cows than with cows of any 
other breed; if I could not, I would 
breed some other cattle. I believe the 
Holstein-Friesian cattle will do well in 
any part of the United States. I have 
shipped cattle as far south as Texas, and 
as far north as Minnesota, and they do 
well everywhere. 
We feed some mill feed while on pas¬ 
ture ; when grass is plentiful, we feed 
less. When pasture begins to get short, 
we increase the mill feed. We aim to 
keep our cows from shrinking in milk, 
and the only way v e know of is to feed 
them. Bran and gluten meal, half and 
half, are good. Hran and brewers’ 
grairs are good, and oats and bran are 
good. Malt sprouts with a little corn 
meal or gluten meal are also good. 
How Indiana Farmers Feed. —We 
do not consider ourselves western stock 
farmers here ; you will have to go nearly 
1,000 miles west of our place to strike 
the stock feeders of the West. We are 
more or less stock feeders and dairymen. 
We manage the food supply about as fol¬ 
lows : We store up a large supply of en¬ 
silage made from well-eared corn, both 
for Winter and Summer use; this we 
raise ourselves. Then we buy some of 
the by-products to balance-our ensilage, 
such as gluten meal, brewers’ grains ox- 
sprouts, bran and oats or starch feed. 
We use very little linseed meal; it is 
good, but too dear. We raise a large lot 
of corn, more than goes into the silo ; 
this we shock, and as soon as dry, it is 
run through a corn shucker and shred¬ 
der, and is used in place of hay. The 
corn we feed to fattening cattle and hogs 
the last three months before turning 
them off. We have followed the above 
for the past few years, and have been 
reasonably successful. wm. jackson. 
South Bend, Ind. 
AN ENSILAGE DISTRIBUTOR. 
I have just read in The R. N.-Y., John 
Gould’s advice for filling silos, and find 
that he is having the same experience I 
had five or six yeai’s ago. I promise 
him that he will not be satisfied with 
the cloth conductor for his ensilage, if 
he make much use of it. 
He will find it short-lived, and not free 
in its delivery when brought to an 
angle at the outside of a good-sized silo. 
I have worn out two cloth conductors, 
and one made of the best dxxcking, and 
found them unsatisfactory. 
1 then went to my hardware and tin 
man, and ordered a lot of galvanized 
sheet-iron pipe, like stove pipe, with one 
end larger than the other —8 x 9, I think. 
1 took my pipe across the street to the 
harnessmaker, and had a pair of buckles 
in straps, riveted to the large end of the 
pipe, and a pair of straps fastened the 
same way about three inches fi*om the 
small end to fit the buckles. Previous 
to this, I had a funnel made of this same 
sheet iron to enter my cloth spout, but 
found the funnel was too flaring. I then 
had another made steeper, and the rig 
worked to my satisfaction. I am using 
it the fourth year, and have found no 
mistake in it, only to find that the fii'st 
joint below the funnel should be larger 
by an inch or two, as the funnel should 
stand perpendicular while the conductor 
takes or may take a sharp angle. 
I also think every other length of pipe 
should have the straps and buckles on, 
so as to let the spout adjust itself to 
either or any direction. I am xising a 
corn harvester and binder, and am as¬ 
tonished 81 its success. 
Michigan. jerry Spaulding. 
DAIRY QUALITIES OF REREFORDS. 
I would place the Herefords between 
the Jerseys and the Holsteins for quan¬ 
tity of milk. Quality, no, and you could 
not buy a full Hereford from me for a 
dairy cow. Show Herefords and show 
Short-horns are no milkers, as a rule, but 
I have cow r s that will milk from calf to 
calf, and let down between three and 
four gallons per day when fresh. Cross 
a Hereford on any rich milker—Jersey 
or Guernsey—and you have an ideal dairy 
cow. Herefords are beef cattle, but will 
raue fine calves on their milk alone. 
Being hardy and having strong digestion, 
make the cross-breeds good dairy cows. 
As beef cattle, they outclass Short-horns, 
being early maturing, but as general- 
purpose cows, although without positive 
knowledge, I would say that Short-horns 
are best. But why any one should want 
any breed of beef cattle for the dairy, 
mystifies me. There ax - e plenty of good 
dairy breeds without putting beef cattle 
in the dairy. E. M. GILLET. 
Maryland. 
NOTES ON A WHEEL. 
A NEW JERSEY MILK DAIRY. 
At Pompton Plains, N. J., I visited the 
farm of James A. Graham, who is 
doing a retail milk business with 
about 170 cows, among them the cele¬ 
brated Pauline Paul that has a very 
large butter record. The farm was 
bought six years ago, and a large barn 
has been built, while a capacious milk 
house is nearing completion. The barn 
will accommodate about 100 cows ; part 
are kept on the “home farm”. The 
stable floor is of cement. The cows face 
each other, and the floor is higher in the 
center than whex-e the cows stand, and 
it slopes to the stanchions, where troughs 
are hollowed out the whole length. 
Water is turaed into these for the cows 
just before grain is fed. The grain takes 
up what little water is left by the cows. 
The troughs are washed daily. Drains 
lead from the drops to the yard, in which 
a tank will soon be placed. 
Sawdust is used for an absorbent in 
the Summer, and the barn is very free 
from disagreeable odors. 
Mr. Graham’s sister has chai*ge of the 
milk-house. A 25-horse power engine 
will furnish all the power needed. The 
milk cooler has a capacity of 250 gallons 
per hour, and milk is cooled (by spring 
water alone) to 52 degrees, then placed 
in cold stoi-age until ready to be shipped. 
Milk will be carried from barn to cooler 
by means of a trolley. Cans and bottles 
are washed, and then sterilized by steam. 
Some of the milk is sterilized, and Mr. 
Francisco’s methods will be followed 
quite closely. No butter is made at pres¬ 
ent, but the plant contains a separator 
which will be used if needed. All the 
milk is sold at retail at the military 
camp near by, and at Paterson. The 
price is from six to eight cents per quart 
bottle. The present production is about 
1,000 quarts daily. 
The expense has been very heavy so 
far, but, evidently, it is warranted, if 
we may judge from Miss Graham’s en¬ 
thusiasm in discussing the work already 
accomplished and plans for the future, 
even though the price is only about half 
that l’eceived by Mr. Francisco. G. a. p. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Corn meal anti shorts, half and half, fed to 
pigs at the Indiana Station made cheaper pork 
than corn meal aloDe. 
Toenails and Voice. — Our canary got dis¬ 
gruntled with his environments and style of liv¬ 
ing, and stopped singing. I cut about half an 
inch off each toenail, and the bird is now singing 
away as if no stop for repairs had been made. 
Polled Durham Cattle. —There are several 
families of Polled Durhams. Some of them are 
pure Short-horns that are polled, i. e., born horn¬ 
less. None is admitted to register that has 
other than Short-horn blood except native mulley 
blood. The polled feature is largely, if not 
entirely, a matter of heredity. Polled Durhams 
are a beef breed, and as they have the docile 
habits of Short-horns, I prefer them to any other 
polled breed. o. c. halstead. 
Rensselaer, Ind. 
Horses in New England. —Large numbers of 
horses are used in western Massachusetts, both 
on the farm and in the towns and cities. The 
horse market in these larger towns affords a. 
good illustration of the way in which agricul¬ 
ture is changed. There was a time when most 
of these horses were home-bred, raised either in 
the Berkshire Hills or in Vermont; then, when 
New England farmers began to give up horse- 
breeding, Canada supplied the demand, and the 
Canadian horses gave good satisfaction, being 
tough and wiry, though not as large as the west¬ 
ern horses. The high tariff on Canadian horses 
finally stopped that trade, and dealers began to 
buy horses from Illinois. These answered rea¬ 
sonably well until the hill farmers got an idea 
that the feet of these western horses gave out 
too rjuickly on their high, steep hills; then they 
began to buy in Michigan, but now they claim to 
be able to make a better bargain in northern In¬ 
diana, where they get a horse of good breeding, 
tough, and fairly well broken, at a reasonable 
price. 
Bran and Meal for Work Horses.— In our ex¬ 
perience, equal parts of bran and corn meal have 
proved an excellent grain ration for working 
horses. We would mix these foods by weight and 
not by measure, as of course, bran is very much 
lighter than corn meal, and a peck of each mixed 
together would not give anything like as good 
results os 10 pounds of each well mixed. Of 
course, for a driving horse, this would not answer 
so well as oats, for there is nothing better for a 
driving animal than plump oats and plenty of 
them. Working horses will do very well on the 
bran and corn meal. As compared with bran and 
corn meal, oats represent a value of 95, bran 102, 
and corn meal 103. The high value of corn meal, 
however, is due to the large proportion of starch 
or fat contained in it. Oats and bran contain 
more of the muscle-producing elements, and they 
must be mixed with the corn meal in order to 
give a good balance. For this purpose, for work 
horses, the bran is as good as the oats. The great 
value of the oat lies in the fact that it contains 
the substance known as “avenin.” This is the 
chief reason why oats prove better feed for a 
driving horse which is expected to show spirit 
and speed. A work horse is expected to show 
strength and endurance, and corn and bran will 
supply this. 
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