1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
3S3 
MANCHESTER'S DAIRY NOTES. 
Wasted Power and Fertility. —We 
passed a barn yesterday with an im¬ 
mense manure pile adjoining it, and a 
river within two rods. Every rain takes 
a good portion down the river to ferti¬ 
lize the ocean. Lots of good hay wasted 
in the manure, yet hay is scarce and 
high. A little farther on a boy was 
sawing up a wood pile, running a cross¬ 
cut saw alone. In the yard, with noth¬ 
ing but daylight over it, was what 
two or three years ago, was a good en¬ 
gine, and a power saw frozen in the ice 
under the shed. Was the owner too 
lazy or what to hitch the two together 
and do in one day more than the boy can 
do in a month? But then the boy must 
be kept out of mischief, and a job found 
for him. Do you suppose he’ll stay on 
the farm when he gets old enough to 
“light out?” How could you work it 
better to drive him off? A little farther 
was a barn whose doors were bursting 
off with the pile of manure against 
them, and the meadows crying for that 
manure. They have not been fed for 
years. “Got to save it all for the corn 
and potatoes!” But half of it would 
better have been saved on the mowing 
land, instead of wasting away in the 
barnyard. Next is the farm where a 
dairy is kept. The boy wants to im¬ 
prove things; is a reader and a thinker, 
cows are not good ones; the boy wants 
to improve them, but father is getting 
along in years and cannot change. Al¬ 
most anything satisfies him. Either the 
boy will stir up things till improvements 
are made, or in a few years he quits 
farming, and what might be a good, 
thrifty farmer hunts for a job in town, 
and men wonder what drives boys off 
the farm. A little farther still is a 
good farm but the owner is getting old; 
no children to run it, and the land not 
half taken care of. Crops are growing 
less every year. New blood and energy 
are wanted to rouse up things and make 
the soil yield and bear fruit many hun¬ 
dredfold. Where is it coming from, or 
shall the land be allowed to go back to 
its orginal state as it was 100 or more 
years ago? Farms cheaper here than in 
the West; good schools near; best mar¬ 
kets in the world at our door. Who is 
going to solve these problems? 
Paying Pork. —Pork $12 and $14 per 
100 seems a big price when ordinary 
pork brings only about $7, but we know 
a young farmer living about 14 miles 
from market whose pork nets him not 
less than 12 cents straight How does 
he do it? Not by selling to the butcher 
or meat market, but by being his own 
butcher and seller. He has a weekly 
butter route, and to supply his custom¬ 
ers keeps about 40 cows. Several calves 
are raised, but the bulk of the skim- 
milk and the buttermilk goes to hogs, 
and he turns off every Winter from 40 
to 50 150 to 200-pound hogs. He smokes 
his own hams and bacon, which bring 
15 to 16 cents a pound. Spare ribs and 
shoulders are sold fresh at 12 to 14 
cents. The lard brings 12 cents, the salt 
pork 12 cents and the remainder is sold 
in sausage, souse, etc., at 12 to 15 cents. 
Of course this means some work in 
preparation but he does not have to find 
a market, as he easily sells all on his 
butter route; the people know it will all 
be fresh and good, and there is quite a 
difference in income between turning off 
yearly 6,000 pounds of pork at 12 and 
14 cents or the same at seven cents, and 
the extra work is well paid. Two other 
young men we know have built up a 
good trade each Winter selling their 
own homemade sausage which brings 
them 20 cents a pound, and they use all 
the pig, save the hams and spareribs 
and the lard. They are doing well at it, 
and there are many such openings for 
young men, and older men too, who will 
put up a good article that can be de¬ 
pended upon as uniform and of high 
quality. 
Weed Silage. —We had a seven-acre 
corn piece last season that was under 
water for considerable time. As a con¬ 
sequence weeds grew about as fast as 
the corn, and part of the piece we cut 
with the mowing machine and put, 
weeds and all, into the silo. It made 
good silage, but it is not the most eco¬ 
nomical kind to raise, and we hope to 
avoid any further crops of that kind. At 
the end of the Fall the lot looked bad, 
and as we wanted to put on oats and 
seed down this Spring we plowed it late 
in the Fall. It looked better after plow¬ 
ing, but I am afraid we made a mistake 
in leaving it bare, at least it has been 
quite an object lesson this Winter. One 
side adjoins the highway, the other is 
protected by a hill, but the snow has 
almost invariably blown off the piece, 
filling the highway and the field be¬ 
yond, and this snow has been colored 
every time by soil blown from this field. 
We actually believe that we have lost 
a great many tons of the finer particles 
of soil that were on the surface. Much 
or tne time there was so much dirt left 
in the snow on the highway that a team 
had hard work to pull loaded sleds, and 
when the wind blew hard as the soil 
kept drying out you might imagine your¬ 
self on a desert during a sand storm. 
We shall try to keep all fields covered 
hereafter throughout the Winter. 
Tarring Corn. —We have read of sev¬ 
eral methods of tarring corn, but ours 
is the simplest that we have seen. Put 
a bushel or more of corn in a bran sack, 
pour on to this three or four table¬ 
spoonfuls of gas tar or coal tar, tie up 
the sack, then work it back and forth 
on the floor a dozen times, and the corn 
is tarred and it will not blacken fingers 
scarcely any. No water is needed to 
moisten the corn and no ashes, plaster 
or other substance to dry the corn after 
tarring. 
Dishorning the Dairy. —Now is a 
good time to dishorn the cows, as they 
will get fairly well healed before going 
out to pasture, and the most serious in¬ 
juries are often caused when cattle first 
go out in the Spring. Anyone who has 
handled a dairy where the horns are off 
will never want to go back to horned 
animals. Our cows are in swing stan¬ 
chions with a partition in the manger 
between each cow, about 2% feet high. 
On this partition we set a 2x4 stick and 
the cow’s head rests upon it. Put the 
lead rope on the nose, take hold of the 
horn, turn the head sideways and the 
horn is off. As soon as the horn is off 
loosen the cow and let her out In the 
yard that she may not scatter blood in 
the barn; slide the 2x4 along and take 
off another. “It hurts,” you say. Prob¬ 
ably it does some, but we have seen the 
cow go to eating inside of two minutes 
after the horns are off. It also hurts us 
to get a crack in the head when clean¬ 
ing out a manger. It also hurts our 
feelings when the cow knocks the feed 
basin out of our hand just as we go to 
feed her. We do not like to have one 
come in from the pasture with a hole 
in her side or a long rake on the side 
of her body. Before dishorning we go 
through and rub a little vaseline around 
the base of the horn in the hair. This 
keeps the hair out of the way so you 
can cut close without cutting any hair. 
The hair soon lops over the sore spot 
and she looks like a “mulley.” 
Leading an Ugly Bull. —We went to 
bring home at one time a good-sized 
yearling bull, and as he had no ring in 
the nose decided to put one in before ! 
starting. This is where we made a mis- i 
take. We were careful in doing it, but 
of course it hurt the bull some, and he 
smelled some blood, and it made him 
ugly. We had a good staff to lead him, 
but he cared nothing for it, and made 
things quite “warm” for us. Finally we 
blindfolded him, and with the staff and 
two ropes, one on each side, held one by 
my brother and one by myself, we start¬ 
ed. The bull got off that blinder in no 
time; he made things lively for us, and 
finally we got a telegraph pole between 
us and more trouble, and the last the 
neighbors saw we were getting over the 
stone wall as fast as the law allowed 
and the bull not far behind. We did not 
bring him home that day, but next day 
went after him with a hay wagon, tying 
a rope around his horns and hitching 
him behind, with no trouble then or af¬ 
terwards. If we had at the first simply 
tied him by the horns without stirring 
him up or trying to lead him by a sore 
nose we should have avoided furnishing 
amusement for the neighbors or losing 
so much time. Too many farmers wait 
until the bull shows signs of ugliness, 
or is two or three years old before put¬ 
ting in a ring. We think it is better to 
ring them when 10 or 12 months old. 
For making the opening we use a five- 
cent ice pick, sharpening it a few min¬ 
utes on the grindstone, which leaves it 
sharp and polished, and it will pass 
easily through the tough muscle of the 
nose. We use the copper rings which 
swing open and are held by a miserable 
small screw, which if you are not very 
careful you will lose in the excitement 
which usually accompanies such work. 
Fasten the bull well before beginning, 
so that he cannot move backwards and 
forwards, nor sideways. Do not get him 
angry at this or any other time. When 
the screw is put in have a file handy to 
file off the edge of the screw, as it is 
quite apt not to leave a smooth surface 
on the ring, and would cause a constant 
sore in the bull’s nose. 
Choking Cows. —A cure for apple- 
choking in cows was given at a recent 
institute that appears to be a good one. 
A wire about the size used for baled 
hay was bent nearly double and slipped 
down the throat just by the apple and 
pulled out, cutting the apple in two 
parts or turning it a little and cutting 
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