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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
535 
SENSIBLE FARM AND DAIRY NOTES 
Use of Iumf.. —It was a great surprise 
to me when visiting in the limestone 
region of central New York to find that 
they frequently have sour soil. Ours is 
mostly sour, but I had supposed that a 
limestone soil could not he so. Some of 
the farmers there take the stone from their 
own farms, burn it and apply the quick¬ 
lime to their land. I understand that in 
its original condition the lime is not read¬ 
ily available, consequently the soil may 
become acid after a time. When applied 
as quicklime it is immediately available. 
Lime has always given excellent results 
where we have applied it. as have also 
ashes. The reason may be, and probably 
is in part, that it corrects acidity. Its 
tendency is also to unlock fertility and 
make it available for the plant. Some 
good judges say there is no harm in doing 
that, if not too much lime is applied, and 
a plant is ready to take up the food thus 
provided. On many soils Alfalfa and 
other leguminous plants will not thrive 
unless lime or ashes arc applied. I can’t 
get over tlie feeling, though, that lime 
should be used with caution. 
Ai i'ai.fa to Cows.—A hundred miles or 
so northwest of us. where I chanced to 
cracked corn, oats and oil meal cake in ; 
separate pen with creep so that lambs cai 
run to it at all times. They will sooi 
reach the weight of 40 pounds, and lx 
plump and line. These can be sent to soni 
hotel or fancy restaurant at a fancy prici 
If you are not in position to have a pri 
vate customer then select a reliable com 
mission firm that makes a business of thi 
line. There are four or five mutton breed 
that stand high for this business, and ; i 
good, but any good strong ewe with picul, 
of constitution and chance for mil 
crossed on a purebred Southdown rat 
will give the produce both size and qua 
ity; that is the great thing sought afti 
for fancy market. Rightly done and take 
care of ibis business will not be overdom 
Ohio. C. J. STUCKLEY. 
Eggs in Water Glass. 
(I. /■!. Vhnppaqwi, .V. V. I am parkin; 
some eggs in water glass solution. I Ixuigli 
the commercial solution at a cost of .TO cent 
per pint, and diluted one to nine with watei 
Will lIds be strong enough, or should I liavi 
bought (lie water glass in the powder? It 
so, will it dissolve readily in water? 
Ans. —The commercial solution o 
water glass or sodium silicate seems t< 
be the safest preparation for preservin; 
eggs. It is really a cheap article, am 
be one day last week, they are selling milk ;;o cciils per pint seems to be too much 
at fit) cents a hundred pounds, and some | jut t | im . j s always an extra charge fo 
gel even less than that. I heir land is |] 1C package and for transportation whet 
mote costly than ours, and I am not sure p llt U p j n t |,j s wa y. The powdered wate 
it is more productive under the same dc- glass does not dissolve thoroughly in watei 
gtee of tillage. Some of these farmers and is not reliable for that purpose. Th 
ate making better profits than we are, commercial solution, diluted one to nine 
though some are not. It depends on the 
man a good deal. They have learned, a 
part of them at least, to grow Alfalfa, 
and thus they stive buying much grain. 
They grow about all the stuff they feed, 
and they are feeding a well-balanced 
ration. One region does not appear to 
•have so much advantage over another 
after all, when all the evidence is in. 
Whether we can grow Alfalfa til all on 
our soil is still an open question, and 
then follows the question whether we can 
grow it profitably. We have tried and 
failed, but shall try again. 
Cost of Cow Kkepino.—A Philadelphia 
dairyman, Mr. (iorman, whom I chanced 
is amply strong enough to preserve th 
eggs well, provided they tire entirely fres 
when put in. We have found the soli 
lion may be used two years in succcssio 
if it is thoroughly healed and allowed I 
cool before the eggs arc placed in it tl 
second time. 
Questions About Cow Peas. 
A. U'. Xeib M mi limit I li . ,Y. •/. In plan. 
Ing cow pens and mowing them for bay, i 
the land benefited any? If they are phinte 
as a cover crop, leaving them till Spring t 
plow under, is I bore the same benetll to tb 
land as If they were plowed under green ? I 
there any diUlculty In plowing under in tb 
Spring when they are left on tile ground? 
Ans. -Yes, the roots and the stubbl 
to meet the other day, remarked, when will add considerable fertility to the soi 
I said that we are getting So cents a him- I his was shown by some experiments i 
dred for our milk, that he thought there 
couldn’t be much profit in it at that price. 
I assured him that there is no profit in 
80-eent milk unless the cows are good 
ones. He said lie was getting half the 
retail price for his milk, which sells in 
Arkansas and other States, where co\ 
peas were sown after wheat. The vine 
were cut and hauled away for hay, am 
the roots and stubble plowed under fot 
another crop of wheat. In this wa_\ 
though the vines were cut, the soil slow!. 
Philadelphia for from six to eight cents improved and the wheat crops increased 
per quart. Then 1 inquired about the Of course there would have been a large 
cost of keeping his cows, ours costing increase if potash and acid phosphate ha< 
in the neighborhood of $10 per year, lie been used on the cow peas, but we wan 
couldn't say just how much, but his pur- to make it clear that the roots and Stub 
chased feed of brewers' grains and dried hie contain 30 to It) per cent of th 
beet pulp is practically nine cents a day. manurial value of the crop. We thinl 
lie feeds silage or rye at this time of the they do the soil just as much good if lef 
year, oats and peas later, then follows to rot on the ground through the Winter 
with corn fodder. Ilis grain feed is We have sown Crimson clover and tur 
nearly as costly now as in Winter, but 
the roughage is somewhat less, though 
lie gets but little from his la acres of 
pasturage. Forty acres keeps bis 32 cows 
and three horses, so far as roughage is 
nips among the cow pea vines in Angus 
and had these crops grow until late in 
Fall long after the c< w peas were killei 
by the frost. When there is moistur 
enough to start the clover and turnips w 
concerned, but he pays $300 for the use think this plan belter than plowing th 
of the land per year. In our territory it vines under in September and sowin 
takes probably seven to 10 acres to keep a rye to cover the ground. \\ hen the i 
cow a year, but many pieces of land can pea vines arc cut for hay a new growt 
be bought for the price per acre that my starts up, and in a late season will mak 
a new vine. The dead vines plow unde 
easier than the green ones. A rollin 
cutter on the plow will take care of then 
’hiladelphia friend pays per acre in rent. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. n. n. t.. 
RAISING EARLY LAMBS. 
I know of nothing more profitable, espe¬ 
cially to the small farmer near any of the 
great citirs, than early lamb business, well 
managed with small capital. I he extra 
fancy priced ones must come iu the Fall, 
and are somewhat harder to get and pro¬ 
duce than those a little later on, but any 
farmer with ordinary business sense, who 
has good warm and well ventilated quar¬ 
ters for a small number of sheep, can liny 
“By Maw Kddy! I’m triad my wif 
thinks she believes in Christian Science. 
"Why, has it tiny good points?" “Sun 
She can’t insist now that she’s got to gt 
away for her health this Summer." Towt 
Ti ipics. 
“Do you think that honesty pays n 
politics?” asked the young man with tin 
alert countenance. “My friend,” answered 
Senator Sorghum, "I don't like the styb 
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Tubular bowls, only, 
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They cannot wobble or 
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Sore Shoulders 
used to lay a horse up Tor week*at utline, resulting 
In much annoyance and Iosh to the owner. Now yon 
cart care him while lie works and never lose a mo¬ 
ment of tils service by using 
Bickmore’s 
Gall Cure 
(Juarantced to 
riire 11 ti r it mm. 
Collar a n <1 
huddle Cull*, 
Hc*rufceh«*A> 
(Ircniic lied* 
Hpoeil Crack, 
Cut met <n None _ 
§32 'S' ®e-Sure And V/orkThe Horse- 
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else Is so good. Substitutes yield the dealer more 
profit, but cost you the same. Sample, enough to 
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A Never Failing Water Supply, 
with absolute safety, at small cost may be had by using th* 
Improved Rider Hot Air Pumping Engine and 
Improved Ericsson Hot Air Pumping Engine. 
Built by us for moro than 80 years and sold In every oountry in the world. Exclu 
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to well built that their durability 1 b yet to bo dotcrmlnod, engines which woro sold 
!U years ago being still In active service. 
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PENETRATES B 
i WONDERFULLY. 
a few good-sized common ewes early in of your question. Any man who take 
the; Fall and breed them to a purebred up honesty as a speculation is liable to get 
Southdown ram for January lambs; feed tired <d waiting for dividends and run t< 
them a proper ration and keep clean the opposite extreme.”—Washington Star. 
scientifically^MH 
PREPARED 
For HomeFactoryOr Farm 
SLOAN’S LINIMENT 
THIS TIME TESTED FAMILY REMEDY 
Kills Germs^^A has no 
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