1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
727 
MANCHESTER'S DAIRY NOTES. 
If you are late in getting your silage cut, 
and the corn is too ripe, or gets frost¬ 
bitten, when the silo is full give it a good 
soaking if possible. The corn will settle 
much more than you expect. You will 
not have any fire-fanged silage, and will 
improve the crop greatly. This we know 
from actual experience. Last season we 
put a good many hundred gallons on top 
of ours through a four-inch fire hose, 
and the silage came out fine. If you are 
so unfortunate (perhaps fortunate is a 
better word) as to have a heavy crop of 
weeds nearby, cut this right 'in, sandwich¬ 
ing it with the corn. The cows will like 
it and it will make milk. 
The nights are beginning to be cool, 
and there are some cold storms that come 
along now and a little later. There are 
some men so wedded to habit that they 
will see their cows stand at the bars from 
noon till four or five o’clock in the after- 
noon during a cold rainstorm. The cows 
are all humped up and begging for shel¬ 
ter, but then it isn’t “chore time” and so 
they stay out in the corn, and at milking 
time we find they give less milk, and 
wonder at the mysterious ways tnat cows 
do seem to have. 
How often we have read that a little 
grain night and morning was the best 
kind of a dog to bring the cows home 
from pasture, but although our cows get 
grain the year around we find it has very 
k'ttle effect upon bringing the cows home. 
It began to rain hard about three o’clock 
raid we soon started for the cows. We 
got all but about eight, and although the 
pasture was not over 35 acres we didn’t 
find them until about six o’clock, stand¬ 
ing in the woods waiting for we know not 
what. We were consoled a little in our 
wet misery on the way home to hear 
neighbors in other pastures calling for 
cows that in spite of bells and the use 
of dogs refused to wend their way 
quietly homeward. 
Every little while we think we have got 
rid of all the scrubs and boarders in the 
herd, and are in shape to make them all 
hum now, but it is only a few weeks or 
months at the farthest before we find 
there are some for the bologna man, or 
that are not paying a profit. Verily it is a 
constant fight to keep a good sized herd 
all the time, when each cow is paying a 
liberal profit. 
“What do I get out of it? Well, the 
fun of associating with the cows and even 
most of the time 1 am deprived of that” 
was the reply to a question as to what he 
got out of furnishing milk for New York 
for two cents per quart during August. 
We think he is about right but how much 
is it worth to associate with the cows? 
H. G. M. 
THE BEST CATTLE FOR BEEF. 
What kind of cattle are best for beef or 
steer raising, and where can I get some of the 
stock to start with? a. j. 
Sherburne, N. Y. 
Unquestionably the best cattle for beef 
are the Herefords or Short-horns. The 
western ranchmen say that there is no 
steer as great a “rustler” as the Hereford. 
On the rather broken lands in your county 
I am inclined to think that a more com¬ 
pact and smaller animal than either of the 
above breeds might serve your purpose 
better. One of these is the Aberdeen 
(Polled) Angus; short legs, compact 
bodies bred for generations for beef, and 
as their name implies, without horns; coal 
black in color, and rather handsome cattle 
to look at. They mature early, and be¬ 
cause of these qualities will perhaps give 
better satisfaction with a limited range 
than the larger breeds. They are also 
common enough, so that the price for 
foundation stock need not be high. The 
Galloways are of the same general type, but 
not being so numerous, will cost more; 
they have the advantage of a very heavy 
long-haired coat, valuable for coats and 
robes. Of course individual liking has 
much to do with the kind of cattle a man 
keeps, and I believe one will succeed best 
with that that suits his fancy, provided 
it is at all suited to his conditions. I am 
answering the question from the stand¬ 
point of beef production as the end sought. 
If one will be satisfied with less beef, for 
the sake of combining some dairy qual 
ities, then the Short-horns or Red Polls 
will come nearer to filling the bill. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
SOW THAT EATS PIGS. 
I have a nice Berkshire sow. Would like to 
keep her as a breeder, but she ate her first 
litter of pigs. Is there any preventive?. 
Dunbar, Pa. a. w. 
A sow that eats her pigs the first time 
she farrows is out of condition. Consti¬ 
pation is usually the cause; this is brought 
on by improper feeding, too rich food, of 
a binding, rather than a laxative nature. 
As to experience along this line, I have 
never had any trouble in 30 years’ hand¬ 
ling of brood sows. Advice is generally 
given not to save a sow after she has once 
eaten her pigs, but I do not think a sow 
becomes a confirmed cannibal from having 
once eaten her pigs. At any rate, I would 
not discard a sow as a breeder for the 
first offense. Breed this sow again, and 
do not allow her to become constipated. 
Give her range over a sod field of some 
kind, or if she can have a timber range, 
and the liberty of her nose to root when 
she pleases, it will be well for her and the 
young she carries. Allow her to get in 
good flesh, and as farrowing time ap¬ 
proaches feed her a slop ration of bran 
and middlings, equal parts by measure. 
This will prevent constipation, but I would 
not feed too heavily with it. Then I 
would treat the sow kindly, and have her 
as gentle as possible, so that when she 
comes to farrow an attendant can stay 
with her and see that each pig when it 
comes gets its fill of milk and goes quietly 
to sleep. If there is danger of the teats 
caking on account of the abundance of 
milk, rub them till the sow seems to enjoy 
the rubbing. In this condition the sow 
will not be irritated by the pigs sucking, 
but enjoy it. JOHN M. JAMISON. 
Ross Co., Ohio. 
A Successful Cistern. —in a late number 
there was an inquiry about cisterns. Here 
we think we have about solved the question. 
When the cistern is built it is coated inside 
with a wash of plaster of Paris, put on with 
a whitewash brush. (This makes the water 
soft.) Mix only a little at a time. We use 
“cut-offs” and until the air and roof is 
reached the water is turned off, then turned 
in. In the cistern for a pump we use a 
“water elevator,” an arrangement witli 
buckets, which not only raises the water, but 
carries the air down, keeping the water 
aerated and like running water. No filter 
used. That needs cleaning often or is worse 
than nothing. 11 . a\ g. 
Try on, N. C. 
The Test of Time 
serves to show that for Spavins, Ring Bones, 
Curbs, Splints and all forms of Lameness 
nothing is sure but Kendall's Spavin Cure. 
When men write like the below after years 
of experience they know what they are talk¬ 
ing about. 
Sllverton, Col., Jan. 4,1903. 
Dr. D. J. Kendall Co., Enoaburg Falla, Vt, 
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