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April 23 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
SHEEP AND WHITE DAISIES. 
I cannot agree with the answer given 
by Brother Van Alstyne to the question 
of H. B. S., page 218. Even if the field 
is tillable there is no way in which the 
white daisies can be so fully and so 
quickly exterminated as by using it as 
a sheep pasture. Provide plenty of wa¬ 
ter for the sheep; then put not less than 
10 sheep to each acre, and keep them 
in the field. In different parts of the 
field place troughs made of three boards 
each 10 inches wide and any convenient 
length, by nailing two of the boards up¬ 
on the edges of the third so an equal 
width shall be on each side of middle 
board so that a cross section will look 
like the letter H. Nail on ends as wide 
as sides. This will make a double trough 
each 4.y 2 inches deep and 10 inches wide, 
with a flat bottom, which is very much 
better than troughs V-shaped, and 
enough troughs should be provided so 
sheep shall have plenty of feeding room. 
By turning the trough over each day it 
will always be clean and dry. Feed 
three-fourths pound of wheat bran to 
each sheep per day, and see that they 
have plenty of salt, and be sure about 
water supply. With this number of 
sheep per acre fed on the wheat bran 
they will be forced to eat the daisies 
clear into the roots, and one Summer 
will entirely clean out the last of them 
unless more come from seed. For fear 
there may be plenty of seed to restock 
the field, better sow a liberal supply of 
grass seed the second Spring and con¬ 
tinue the sheep pasture the second Sum¬ 
mer. We have entirely cleaned fields 
of golden rod and others of Canada this¬ 
tles with this way of sheep treatment 
in a single Summer, and had the field 
finely fitted for pasture the next Sum¬ 
mer. The feeding of so much bran will 
keep the sheep in perfect condition, and 
at same time will add to the land what 
would be equivalent to applying a half 
ton of fertilizer 4.4 nitrogen, 4.8 phos¬ 
phoric acid and 2.7 potash, as the sheep 
would take practically nothing from the 
fertilizing value of the bran. But he 
must remember that in order to have 
the sheep accomplish the above result 
they should be substantially the native 
American Merino, as none of the Eng¬ 
lish mutton breeds are worth anything 
as scavengers. “They ain’t made that 
way.” j. e. WOODWARD. 
BEANS AND BEAN REFUSE. 
The canniest hen woman I know has 
fed beans to her flock all Winter. She 
claims an increased egg yield from their 
use. Taking into account the fact that 
the hens were not particularly well 
housed, and that their other rations con¬ 
sisted of corn, oats and buckwheat, I am 
inclined to join her in this opinion. 
Beans are rich in proteids and carbohy¬ 
drates. In this instance they helped to 
furnish the constituents for eggs, for 
when everybody’s hens were loafing this 
flock were attending strictly to their 
duties. I may say that the biddies took 
up the “bean habit” themselves. In the 
Fall the beans were cooked twice a week 
for the pigs. The hens would crowd 
about the receptacle in which the beans 
were placed and eat to repletion when 
they could get an abundance of other 
food. By the time they went into Win¬ 
ter quarters they were laying well, and 
they continued to do so all Winter. A 
percentage of the bean crop is unmar¬ 
ketable from being broken and stained. 
If simple cooking will convert this 
waste into a valuable food for the poul¬ 
try shall we not go and do likewise? 
There is another product of the bean 
thrasher for which I wish to speak a 
word of praise; that is the dry fine dirt 
which comes from the rollers, bushels 
and bushels of it One is often too 
much hurried in the busy season to se¬ 
cure an adequate supply of dry earth for 
Winter use. The bean thrasher will do 
this for you and deposit it upon the barn 
floor, all ready to be shoveled into bar¬ 
rels. Not a pound shall be wasted on 
our premises so long as we keep hens. 
The fowls love to scratch and dust them¬ 
selves in it, one member of the family 
even declares they eat it, this in addi¬ 
tion to its advantages as an absorbent. 
Save the bean dust and your fowls will 
be healthier and happier. m. e. o. 
Tompkins Co., N. Y. 
WHAT THREE GRADE JERSEYS DID. 
I have read with much interest the 
correspondence of J. Grant Morse. I 
know the Good Book says thou shalt not 
covet, but I would like to own his 10 
registered Jerseys. I cannot help taking 
exceptions to Geo. A. Cosgrove, on page 
230, “Hens vs. Cows.” On April 1, 1903. 
I began farming after 14 years spent 
off the farm, so I do not hold myself up 
as a model farmer. I will tell what my 
three grade Jerseys have done in one 
year. I bought them for $80, and hav¬ 
ing no provender had to buy all that 
was fed until the crops were raised upon 
the farm, and since then have kept a 
strict account of all the cows used, and 
in the year have fed the following: 
Ground feed, $24; 500 bundles fodder, 
$15; two tons mixed hay, $20; pasture, 
$24; iy 2 ton straw for litter, $12; mak¬ 
ing an expenditure of $175. Now for the 
balance sheet. I have three grade Jer¬ 
seys, for which I could get $100 without 
trouble; have sold in butter and veal 
calves $155; milk, butter and cream 
consumed in our family of five, $75; slop 
fed to hogs, $50; manure, $20; making 
in all $400, leaving a balance of $225 
profit. I doubt if Mr. Cosgrove can clear 
a better per cent profit on his fowls, and 
will close by saying that I enjoy taking 
care of the cows, and they thank me, 
through the milk pail, for any extra 
care given. louis Covington. 
Pennsylvania. 
EIGHT PENNSYLVANIA COWS. 
The Doylestown, Pa., Republican re¬ 
prints the figures given by J. Grant 
Morse on page 229, and then prints the 
record of eight “common” local cows. 
Mr. Morse keeps 10 purebred Jerseys. 
The total yearly income from them was 
$1,288.78. This is what the eight Penn¬ 
sylvania scrubs did: 
Now for the record of a Bucks County 
herd of the sort that has placed Bucks 
in the foremost rank of all the counties 
of the United States in agricultural re¬ 
sources. This is the herd of Joseph C. 
Slack, of Wrightstown Township, an en¬ 
thusiastic and capable young farmer, who 
thoroughly understands his business. To 
begin with he has but eight cows, while 
the New York herd numbers 10. His herd 
is not registered. They are what would 
be termed “common” cows in the matter 
of pedigree, but selected with a discrimi¬ 
nating eye. Mr. Slack has kept a carerut 
record of his dairy output for two years. 
From the product of the herd his family 
and his parents, numbering five people, 
have used what milk, butter and cream 
they required, and as in the case of the 
New York farmer no account has been 
made of the products consumed by tne 
family or guests. Here is the record of 
Mr. Slack’s herd for the year ending Feb¬ 
ruary 1, 1904: .. 
Butter .$522 13 
Cheese . 105 lo 
Hogs . 145 07 
Veal calves . no in 
Total .1893 26 
These figures show an average earning 
of $111.65% per head for the herd. 
Now mark this difference in favor of the 
New York herd. Mr. Slack obtained no 
premiums at exhibitions. He sold only 
veal calves, while the New York man re¬ 
ceived fancy prices for registered calves. 
For four registered bull calves the New 
York man received $145. He sold two 
heifer calves together for $75 and another 
for $70. He won $08 in premiums. Of 
course, all that counts in favor of his 
herd, but his figures and those of Mr. 
Slack are so close that it makes the record 
of Mr. Slack’s cows appear that much 
better. In brief, the Bucks County farmer 
with a smaller herd of ordinary stock, and 
without fancy prices or premiums, has 
held his own if he has not beaten the New 
Yorker and his registered herd. As an il¬ 
lustration of how Mr. Slack has been able 
to keep his herd to the top notch it may 
be stated that for the year 1902 his cows 
earned $111.81% per head as against 
$111.65% in 1903._ 
The outlook for feeding sheep is goou 
for those who have plenty of feed on hand 
and can buy the feeders at a right price. 
Fat sheep tht are handy weights are bound 
to sell at good prices, but to people who 
have to buy their feed now at a high price 
and pay high for their feeders 1 would 
think there is not much in it. a. allbn. 
Bexington, Neb. 
Cows Leaking Milk.—I have been a 
farmer for 46 years, and have had several 
such cows, and never as yet have had any 
trouble in stopping the leak. I have a very 
simple remedy which will cause no narm. 
I take a little rubber band, such as drug¬ 
gists put around packages, and put it round 
the end of the teats that leak; it must be 
just tight enough to stop the milk. I have 
used the rubber on some teats two months 
on cows that leaked so I could not dry 
off. I put them on and turn cow out, and 
it worked well. I buy cows in the Spring 
to turn out, and have found none that 
would leak so they would not dry off out 
in a good pasture. f. a. j. 
Northfield, Vt. 
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