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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Febr\iary 23 
SOMt COW COMFORTS. 
Food and Shelter. —The most critical 
time of the Winter for the cow is right 
now, and the wise dairyman is careful 
that all is done for the cow’s comfort, 
health and happiness. It has been a long 
time since grass was browned, and it will 
be a long time till it greens again in the 
Spring. The memcft’y of the past pas¬ 
ture has about faded from the mind of 
the patient cow, and the hope of that 
to come has not been born yet. Of 
course if her owner has been as wise as 
he should be he has provided an abund¬ 
ance of silage and good green hay and 
fodder, and is now supplying a balanc¬ 
ing amount of good protein. I like my 
cows to be fed to fullness twice a day; 
to have water always with them, and 
not be compelled to build up their con¬ 
stitutions and general vigor too much 
out of doors. In fact, if I can’t be among 
tliem in my shirt sleeves and be com¬ 
fortable I want them in their stables. 1 
have been using a silo for 15 years, and 
each year am more and moi’e convinced 
that it is the best and cheapest place for 
storing cow feed, and in itself and its 
collateral usefulness is one of the most 
important of farm economics. I believe, 
too, that my experience is but the ex¬ 
perience of all who have built them well 
and used them wisely, and why in our 
eastern country there is not at least one 
tub silo on each farm is beyond my com- 
prehension. 
The Ge.nekal-Pukpose Cow.—I find 
her in much demand. 1 find also every¬ 
where, some man who has found her, 
has tied to her, and is ready to stand up 
and swear by her, and at the fellow who 
does not believe in her. The wish is fa¬ 
ther to the thought. They are willing to 
own a plow and roller, and harrow and 
planter and reaper, etc., but they want a 
cow that will give 6,000 pounds of four 
to five per cent milk, maKe 300 pounds 
of butter, drop a calf each year weighing 
to the butcher 200 pounds, at six weeks 
old, and do all this on corn fodder, cob 
meal, straw, ice water and wind, and 
when she “gets up in years’’ fatten up 
to about 1,400 pounds for the aforemen¬ 
tioned butcher. No wonder they sniff at 
me when I boldly assert the Jersey is 
queen of the dairy, and wears a chip on 
her shoulder. 
Soiling.— Now, if you have never 
practiced soiling do try it next Summer, 
and now in the Winter of the cow’s dis¬ 
content is an excellent time to make 
plans and preparations. Don’t depend 
on pasture. If you have it well and 
good. If you don’t then you have the 
other. Plant plenty. If you find it get¬ 
ting old cut and cure, and plant some¬ 
thing else. Keep something there to 
take up the plant food. First plant peas 
and oats, then corn, then sugar corn, 
then cow peas, then Soy beans, and more 
corn, and millet and rape and peas, but 
corn is king in his season. Every place 
that would otherwise be bare over Win¬ 
ter sow Crimson clover; and if it should 
fail any place scratch in rye; then there 
is always a place for the manure so it 
runneth not to waste in the Winter. 
W. F. M’.SPA1U{.\N. 
Sorghum in Orange County, R. Y. 
On .Tune 18 I sowed seven bushels, 
costing $1 per bushel, of Amber sorghum 
seed on acres of fresh-plowed 
ground; harrowed the seed in with a 
spring-tooth harrow. It came up quick¬ 
ly and grew fast until the dry weather 
checked it. 1 cut it with a six-foot-cut 
mowing machine the middle of Septem¬ 
ber. It lay on the ground five weeks 
curing. It got one more storm on it than 
I intended, which discolored it some¬ 
what. I raked it with a horse rake, 
pitched it on a wagon like hay with 
forks, and unloaded it with a horse fork 
and carrier. It yielded eight two-horse 
loads, which was about two-thirds of a 
crop, on account of the drought, as it 
grew fi-om 10 inches to six or seven feet 
high according to fertility and moisture 
of ground. As I lacked seed a small cor¬ 
ner was planted to corn fodder, which 
gave me a comparison, and until I drew 
the corn I was in its favor, but when 1 
drew it, and since, I have declared in 
favor of the sorghum. It is the easiest 
and cheapest cut and handled, takes 
up smaller space, and fodders longer; 
is a good milk-producer, cows eating it 
up clean and with avidity. It is my In¬ 
tention to sow a greater quantity next 
season, and to sow earlier, as much of 
it did not reach proper maturity the last 
season with me. e. v. r. Gardner. 
NOT HEREDITARY 
In the main, consumption 
is not hereditary; it is infec¬ 
tious. 
Low vital force is hereditary; 
which gives consumption its 
chance. An infection starts 
it. 
Choice Vegetables 
always bring high prices. 
To raise them success¬ 
fully, a fertilizer con¬ 
taining at least 8% 
Potash should be used. 
Corncob Charcoal for Pigs. 
How can I make good charcoal from 
corncobs to feed to hogs? Some advise 
digging a small pit, and then cover when 
the cobs are well charred. I wish to hear 
from some one who has experience in thi.s 
matter. e. s. k. 
Reddick, Ill. 
Ans.—P rof. W. A. Henry, in Feeds and 
Feeding, a book which all stockmen 
should own, says: “The following di¬ 
rections for reducing cobs to charcoal 
are given by Theodore Louis: Dig a hole 
in the ground five feet deep, one foot in 
diameter at the bottom and five feet at 
the toj), for the charcoal pit. Take the 
corncobs, which have been saved in a 
dry place, and, starting a fire in the bot¬ 
tom of this pit, keep adding cobs so that 
the flame is gradually drawn to the top 
of the pit, which will be thus filled with 
the cobs. Then take a sheet-iron cover, 
similar to a pot lid in form, and over 
five feet in diameter, so as amply to 
cover the hole and close up the burning 
mass, sealing the edges of this lid in 
turn with earth. At the end of 12 hours 
you may uncover and take out a fine 
sample of corncob charcoal. Charcoal 
so produced may be fed directly, or, bet¬ 
ter still, compounded as directed by Mr. 
Louis in the following manner: Take 
six bushels of this cob charcoal, or three 
bushels of common charcoal; eight 
pounds of salt; two quarts of air-slaked 
lime; one bushel of wood ashes. Break 
the charcoal well down, with shovel or 
other implement, anu thoroughly mix. 
Then take li/4 pound of copperas and 
dissolve in hot water, and with an ordi¬ 
nary watering pot sprinkle over the 
whole mass, and then again mix thor¬ 
oughly. Put this mixture into the self¬ 
feeding boxes, and place them where 
hogs of all ages can eat of their contents 
at pleasure.” 
A Great Holstein Cow. 
.-Vnother remarkable butter record has 
l>een made by a Holstein-F'riesian cow. 
The cow, Beryl Wayne 32496, owned by H. 
D. Roe, Augusta. N. J., has completed an 
official seven-day test during which she 
gave 608.05 pounds of milk containing 22.298 
pounds of butter fat, equivalent to 27.872 
pounds of butter, 80 per cent fat. In the 
records of seven-day official test, as made 
by Holstein-Friesian breeders, by means of 
the Babcock test, this performance places 
Beryl Wayne as second only to her stable 
mate. Lilith Pauline DeKol 43434, whose phe¬ 
nomenal record of 28.236 pounds of butter, 
80 per cent fat, made such a stir in the 
Holstein world a few weeks ago. Beryl 
Wayne was bred in Augusta, N. J., and 
was born March 8, 1892, her sire was Aaggie 
Prince of Wayne 8781 and her dam Beryl 
3d’s Empress 10536. The cow was milked 
every six ’aours. The largest yield in one 
day was 91.75 pounds of milk, which gave 
3.37 pounds of fat. The test was made by 
H. C. McLallen and the retest, ordered by 
the Superintendent of Advanced Registry, 
H. P. A., by J. A. Foord of the Cornell 
Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Hat for Hogs.—I have had no experi¬ 
ence in feeding silage to hogs. Alfalfa and 
clover will never take the place of grain 
for fattening hogs, but make^ an excellent 
feed in the Winter, when swine cannot get 
grass. I consider it an excellent feed for 
stock hogs; when chopped up and mixed 
with meal it makes a growthy and healthy 
feed. T. B. B. 
Grafton, O. 
“Hollow Horn.’’— Hunter Nicholson, in 
the Jersey Bulletin, says that this so-called 
“disease” is usually some form of indiges¬ 
tion. Here is his remedy: Powdered nux 
vomica, one dram; Barbadoes aloes, four 
drams; belladonna, one dram; powdered 
ginger, one ounce; sulphate magnesium, 
one pound. Give all at one dose, shaken 
up in two quarts of lukewarm water, as a 
drench by the mouth. After the medicine 
has acted, begin feeding the cow gener¬ 
ously, avoiding constipating foeds, such 
as cotton-seed meal or large quantities of 
corn or cornmeal. As a rule, the so-called 
"hollow horn” has been brought about by 
:i hollow belly. 
Between the two, the crop 
is a big one: about one-sixth 
of the human race. 
We suppose it needn’t be 
more than 5 per cent, if people 
would take fair care and Scott's 
emulsion of cod-liver oil. 
We’ll send you a little to try, if you like, 
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