1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
275 
9100.00 
is the amount of the extra bonus we 
pay on May 1, to those club-raisers who 
send us five or more names on or before 
that date. We have a few clubs of five 
in now, but we do not expect any very 
large clubs at this season. A good many 
subscriptions expire in March and April, 
and those who skip around and pick up 
these renewals will be nicely rewarded 
for the time spent. We realize, however, 
that many of our good friends do this 
work more for the cause and because of 
their interest in the paper, than for the 
reward. While we appreciate this inter¬ 
est, we also want our friends to feel and 
know that there is always to be some sub¬ 
stantial return for work done. Tt is to 
be remembered that the $100 will be 
divided May 1 in proportion to the names 
sent by each, and will be in excess of 
commissions, rebates, etc. We want a 
good many clubs of five. Can’t you send 
one such club ? 
The Rural New-Yorker, New York. 
SCIENCE FROM THE STATIONS. 
REVIEWS OF IMPORTANT BULLETINS. 
A Valuable New Book. —It is safe to say that 
every American farmer who has made an honest 
effort to ksep up with the progress of scientific 
agriculture, has heard of Prof. W. A. Henry, of 
the Wisconsin Agricultural College. Prof. Henry 
has long been recognized as one of the leading 
agricultural scientists of this country. He lias 
made a specialty of the breeding and feeding of 
live stock. Wisconsin is a dairy country situ¬ 
ated peculiarly as regards supplies of stock food. 
West of her lie the great grain fields of Minne¬ 
sota and the Dakotas. Wisconsin followed the 
usual course of the western States; the forests 
were cut away, and then followed a period of 
wheat growing, until the lands showed signs of 
exhaustion; then far-sighted farmers in the State 
saw possibilities for dairying and meat-making 
that were afforded by the western wh'-at fields. 
Vast supplies of bran and other wheat refuse 
were to be obtained at nominal prices. The silo 
with its possibilities for intensive culture, fol¬ 
lowed, and step by step, Wisconsin developed as 
a dairy State, until, to-day, it is famous all over 
the world for its herds of cattle and its butter 
and cheese factories. 
Prof. Henry was foremost in this development 
of Wisconsin resources. There was much to 
learn from the beginning, for the feeding of bran, 
ensilage and cheap fodder crops were to be 
studied, tested and carefully proved before it was 
safe to give definite advice. The Wisconsin Ex¬ 
periment Station, under Prof. Henry’s direction, 
has for several years taken a leading place 
among western institutions. Each year has 
shown some deeper investigation into practical 
topics, and one by one, facts regarding the feed- 
ing of animals have been dug out and made clear. 
We speak of these things now in order to em¬ 
phasize the fact that Prof. Henry has done a 
double service to American stock growers, first 
in conducting the careful experiments that have 
taught us so much of the economy of cheap feed¬ 
ing, next in grouping these and similar facts to¬ 
gether and publishing them in book-form, so that 
all the world may take advantage of scientific 
research. 
In Feeds and Feeding, A Handbook for the Stu¬ 
dent and Stockman, Prof. Henry has given us 
what we consider to be by far the most valuable 
book on live stock feeding that has ever been 
printed. It is a thick volume, of over 650 pages, 
which deals with every phase of the f eedin g 
problem, a We have examined it with great care, 
and cannot see what important things have been 
left out. The great beauty of the^book is thatcit 
gives us the results of all American and foreign 
experiments that are worth recording. Here one 
may learn how the plant grows, how it nourishes 
the animal, how the animal utilizes and disposes 
of its food, how to mix foods to the best advan¬ 
tage, what foods are best in various 1 sections, 
and how to grow them most economically. It is 
all given here in concise and readable form and, 
in our judgment, every man who makes part of 
his living from the feeding of live stock ought to 
have this book on hand for constant reference. 
It is seldom that we feel like’giving such hearty 
commendation to a book on scientific agricul¬ 
ture, but this book by Prof. Henry can safely 
be commended as the best thing .of its kind ever 
published. The price of the book is $2, and we 
shall be glad to supply it to any of our readers 
at that price. We ought to handle thousands of 
them, for stockmen everywhere, if they could 
only understand how much information is crowd¬ 
ed between the covers of this book, would not 
rest until they had secured a copy. 
It has long been supposed by many people that 
hogs and corn must go together. Somehow, 
natural corn countries are looked upon as 
natural hog-growing sections, and many people 
argi.e that the hog cannot be grown profitably 
outside of the corn belt. We are learning new 
things about stock feeding all the t me. Bulletin 
No. 14 of the Montana Station (Bozeman), gives 
a record of a litter of Montana pigs, 11 in num¬ 
ber, which sold at 6 months and 27 days, for 
182.27. Montana is not a corn-growing country. 
The nights are too cold, and the altitude too 
high. These pigs were grown on Alfalfa, clover, 
peas, wheat and barley, and they were grown to 
the weight of 150 pounds each, at a cost of only 
two cents a pound. Such reports often make us 
think that there may be something wrong in our 
old idea of stock feeding. Every now and then, 
some one comes along with a record that upsets 
what we had supposed was an iron-clad rule, and 
when we think of a cold, mountainous country 
like Montana, producing pork at a cost of two 
cents a pound, we may overhaul our own plans 
and see whether we are not paying too much 
for our hog supply of meat. 
A Ba/anceo Fertilizer. 
We desire to inform the readers of The 
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and described on page 197 can he ob¬ 
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this issue.— Adv. 
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Dr. Robert Hunter of New York, extracts from 
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