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THB RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 14 
Live Stock and Dairy 
DAIRY FARM NOTES. 
Weeds. —I was interested a few days 
ago in an address at our Pomona Grange 
upon weeds—not on account of its of¬ 
fering any very satisfactory method of 
getting rid of them, but it seemed to 
open my thoughts to their real value. 
To free a piece of land by hand labor is 
impracticable, and too expensive, unless 
it may be when introduced. Careful 
watch will beep them out for a time. 
We are now watching out and pulling 
wild carrot, but I am satisfied that it is 
only a question of time when with that 
weed pulling will be as much out of 
the question as it is now with Orange 
hawkweed. It as easy to say, keep out 
the weeds, but the saying is not unlike 
a hundred other things in farm practice. 
If it was as easily done as said, either 
in print or from the platform, every 
farm would he a garden and every 
farmer a bondholder. The question be¬ 
comes more complicated in the East by 
reason of large areas of broken land 
that are breeding places for every man¬ 
ner of foul stuff. Now I am not writing 
from the sitandpoint of having solved 
the trouble, but we are working along 
lines that are perhaps as practical as 
any, for large areas. 
Cultivation. —^The Department at 
Washington published a bulletin giving 
treatment of over 100 weeds, and fully 
80 per cent had only one treatment pre¬ 
sented, viz., cultivation and rotation of 
crops. This method is the only general 
treatment possible. Wild mustard or 
charlock is an exception to the rule. 
This weed seems to thrive under good 
treatment; the seed will lie dormant a 
long time, making it a disagreeable 
thing to handle. For a dozen years or 
more we have been very carefully 
grading seed grain, and separating out 
ali foreign seeds, until we were reason¬ 
ably free from the yellow weed. The 
machine this year was out of condition, 
which was not known when the men 
cleaned seed grain. The work was 
poorly done, some seeds left in, and 
sure enough, the grain fields showed 
the yellow in due time. I am satisfied 
that this weed can be safely combated if 
we stop sowing the seeds. 
Useless Fences. —The silo has come 
to be an important aid in weed-seed 
destruction. If they get in there they 
die. We are fast removing another 
weed burden. Our teams are now en¬ 
gaged in moving away a mile of fen¬ 
cing, mainly road fence, which had 
been necessary in pasture and driving 
cows to it. The fence value is easily 
$100, which will be saved because it 
will take the place of some purchased 
material. The land will he more easily 
worked, and to the eye, how much 
value? Oh, I don’t know. This much I 
do know, thajt this removal and clean¬ 
ing up is the last of the kind, making 
altogether about two miles of trash, 
stone walls, etc., which we have been 
patiently working at for a long time; 
that is, as fast as we had the money to 
do the work. This job takes away 
every rod of fence not absolutely neces¬ 
sary on our farms, as they are now 
managed. This is no new thing, but 
as I ride through the State I see miles 
of fences kept up, the value of which 
would pay the interest on the mortgage. 
Get rid of the fences as far as jwssible, 
clean up the roadsides as fast as you 
can, and another weed-breeding estab¬ 
lishment has been removed. 
Bulky Cow Food. —I do not wish to 
appear ridiculous when there is so much 
talk about high-priced cow foods, but 
really we have so much of the bulky, 
coarse foods that we are at loss to 
know just how to handle them all. An 
Immense growth of clover has come on, 
more than enough corn to fill the silos, 
and such a growth! Corn planted in 
June is 10 to 12 feet high on an aver¬ 
age, and earing splendidly. The sec¬ 
ond-growth clover is being fed to the 
cows; all they will consume, but Win¬ 
ter will come before they can eat it all. 
It rains every day, or nearly so, and to 
cut it for hay would be unsafe. I shall 
try 10 tons or more in the silo with the 
com, feed all we can, let some of it re¬ 
main, and possibly plow under a small 
area. But from present indications the 
Spring sowing of clover, both upon 
Winter wheat and Spring grain, will get 
so large as to endanger the crop by 
smothering; seven acres of clover on 
Winter wheat now stands knee high. 
Cows to eat it will cost $50 a head, and 
stables are now, or will be later, full. 
It is my judgment that a surplus to 
look at may be a good thing. The Al¬ 
falfa is ready to cut again, the thiird 
crop; while the Red clover is about 
good enough, the Alfalfa seems to have 
suited the cows a trifle better. I am 
now interested in feeding problems, just 
a trifle out of the usual run of ques¬ 
tions. We are feeding one dairy all of 
the green clover they will eat; another 
all the well-eared corn they will eat; 
another green oats, a small ration of 
three pounds middlings and gluten, and 
corn. The last-named are giving the 
most milk per cow, but there are other 
reasons than the kind of food. The 
first two are much alike in lactation, 
age, and ability to give milk, and they 
are getting quite different rations; one 
of them corn, the other clover. It 
proves that well-eared green corn is 
a pretty good milk-producing food, and 
it also proves another thing that I have 
contended for, and that is the necessity 
of feeding enough to satisfy every de¬ 
mand of the animal in succulence and 
bulk. As I write, the foreman who is 
feeding the clover has been in, and I 
have asked him to see whether the cows 
will not eat just as much clover and a 
dally ration of green corn besides. I 
think that they will, and, furthermore, 
produce more milk. In a week or 10 
days the cows will tell the story, and I 
shall copy it here. 
Sowing Wheat. —The experience of 
the past three years has put my mind 
in a state of uncertainty in regard to 
the proper time to sow Winter wheat. 
Our custom has been to sow late in Au¬ 
gust or early in September, which we 
did three years ago. Two years ago the 
soil was so hot and dry that it seemed 
unwise to put seed into the ground, 
and, by the way, I know of seed being 
injured by the heat before it could ger¬ 
minate. We therefore waited until Oc¬ 
tober 1 before sowing. The growth, of 
course, was small—not quite enough to 
cover the ground; but the yield and 
growth of straw was very good. Much 
the same climatic conditions prevailed 
last year, and we sowed late, even sow¬ 
ing one piece November 1. This late- 
sown, with the heavy snow, proved the 
best of the whole sowing. In order to 
get around the whole trouble, we are 
going bock to first principles, and com¬ 
menced sowing the first week in Sep¬ 
tember, in order to get through before 
silo filling. It is this ever changing of 
natural conditions, this kaleidoscopic 
presentation of rain and snow, heat and 
cold, drought and flood, that calls for 
good judgment and makes farming, 
after all, attractive to the thoughtful 
man or woman. I suppose other occu¬ 
pations are much the same, but to me 
the counter work of the merchant, the 
circumscribed horizon of the mechanic, 
or the worry and anxiety of the specu¬ 
lator lack the easy, attractive, changing 
panorama presented daily to a wide¬ 
awake farmer. 
Dairy Mattekb. —I am at loss to 
know why the Wisconsin cheese mar¬ 
kets have ruled so much higher than 
our own; nearly one cent a pound for 
fully two months. The casual observer 
would say at once that drought is re¬ 
sponsible, but I do not think so. 
Cheese can be put into the west¬ 
ern markets at one-half cent a pound, 
provided all other conditions are uni¬ 
form. I saw one of our own large 
dealers just on his way from Chicago, 
who explained the situation as purely 
speculative on the part of a large New 
York concern. This explanation some¬ 
what relieved the tension on my mind. 
With Lewis County making the high 
scores at Buffalo, as she does at 
nearly every cheese show I don’t like 
to see these Wisconsin fellows getting 
more money. Their product is certainly 
not better than ours, if as good. I am 
not a believer in reputation, only so 
far as backed up by quality. In every 
class of goods to-day name and brand 
count only as the quality is back of 
them, and while we said for years that 
the West could not make fine cheese, 
they are making it just the same and 
we have in New York, since we came to 
realize the situation, made rapid strides 
in quality. The State Department has 
done much for our cheese interests. 
Lewis County, which has become fa¬ 
mous for its home-trade product, can 
give credit to Mr. Horace Rees, State 
expert, for the unselfish effort which he 
has made in hehalf of our chief product. 
I don’t believe in waiting until a man 
dies before telling him of his good 
works, if he has any. The Lewis 
County cheese interests should erect a 
monument to Horace Rees. My local 
pride, or State pride, is quickened by 
the demand from other States for agri¬ 
cultural material. Prof. Anderson and 
Prof. Ward of Cornell have gone to Cal¬ 
ifornia, and now rumor has it that W. 
E. Griffith, butter instructor at Cornell, 
has been invited to take charge of their 
new dairy school, which all means but 
one thing; New York is still at the 
dairy head, but she can maintain her 
position only by the most persistent ef¬ 
fort on the part of every one connected 
with it. Cow keepers and feeders, but¬ 
ter and cheese makers, all must work 
together. h. e. cook. 
Killing Young Horns.—I want to know 
what to use to destroy or kill the horn 
just starting to grow on the young calf. 
I have seen In print some form of caustic 
paste or caustic stick used for that pur¬ 
pose, but am not sure of It now. J. b. 
Thomasvllle, N. C. 
Caustic potash Is used for the purpose. 
The hair close around the horn Is clipped 
oft and the horn moistened with warm 
water. The stick of caustic potash is then 
held to the little horn until the germ Is 
killed. This must be done when the calf 
Is very small; otherwise the horn will not 
be thoroughly killed, but will send out a 
rough stub.^_ 
Horse Owners Should Use 
GOMBAULT’S 
Caustic 
Balsam 
The Great French Veterinary Remedy. 
A SAFE, SPEEDY AND 
POSITIVE CURE. 
Prepared 
exclusive¬ 
ly by J. E. 
Gombault 
ex-Veteri- 
nary Bur¬ 
geon to the 
French 
Govern¬ 
ment Stud 
SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY OF FIRING 
Impossible to produce any scar or blemish. The 
safest best Blister ever n.sed. Takes the place 
of all linimenta for mild or severe action. Removes 
all Bunches or Blemishes from Horses or Cattle. 
As a HUMANREMEDY for .Rheumatism, 
Sprains, Sore Throat, Etc., it is invaluable. 
UflF ftiiMDlllTCC that one tablespoonful of 
Wc uUAnAN I tc CAUSTIC balsam win 
produce more actual results than a whole bottle of 
any liniment or spavin cure mixture ever made. 
Every bottle of Caustic Balsam sold is Warran¬ 
ted to give satisfaction. Price $ 1.50 per bottle. Sold 
by druggists, or sent by express, charges paid, with full 
directions for it8.*so. Send for descriptive circulars, 
testimonials, et<^ Address 
the LAWRENOE-WTLLIAMS CO., Cleveland, Ohio 
Breeders’ Directory 
JERSEY BULL 
Toarllng—registered, from a great show cow; al. 
most faultless, bv a producing sire Farmer’s price, 
B. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg Pa. 
123 HOLSTEINStr^ 
DEIxLHUKST FARMS. Mentor. Ohio. 
CnD CAI C—RUUebked holstkin-frie- 
rUll OALia SIANS. Two registered Bulls, 
ready for service. Above from best fauiHles. Write lor 
breeding and prices. W. W. CHENEY, Manlius,N.V. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull 
ready for servioe, and a fine lot of Bull Calves. Best 
of breeding, and from deep producing families. 
C. K. EKCORD, Peterboro, N. Y. 
C3rTJEH.3NnSEYJS 
On Exhibition and for Sale at Pan-American, Sept. 
10th to 21st. A beautiful lot of Guernseys, all ages, 
both sexes; splendid breeding.i 
CLAYTON C. TAYIXIR, Lawton Station, N. Y. 
leg. P. Cliiiias, Bcrkstiires and C. Whites. 
Choice Pigs. 8 weeks old, mated not 
ak n. Bred Sows and Service Boars. 
I'OULTKY. W'rlte for hard times 
prices and free circular. 
HAMILTON & CO., Kosenwlck, Chester Co., Pa. 
RAMS 
llclted. 
A choice lot of Delaine and 
Black-Top Rams and Ewes 
to select from, will be sold 
cheap. Correspondence so- 
M. C. MULKIN, Friendship, N. Y. 
Oflflfl FKKBKT8. Flnt-olass itook. Borne 
CUvU Trained. New prloe-liet free. 
N. A. KNAPP. Rochester, Lorain Co., 0 
nannen DfiPVQ 
DAIlIlCII llUUIlO per head per year, must 
have been bred for that purpose not for fine feathers 
and show-room points. Our method, attending hens 
by which we do. and anybody can, gain thehigh mark 
in egg production, Is the only pure and proper one 
to adopt and worth a hundred dollars to anyone In¬ 
terested in poultry We breed eight different kinds 
of chickens for egg-pioductlon only. We sell stock 
and eggs al all seasons. Have for sale at present 
April and May-hatched Barred Rocks as follows: 
Two pullets, one c >ckerel for f4; 10 pullets, 1 cock¬ 
erel for $12; cockerels In lots of 1 to 25 for $1 per 
head. With every sale amounting to $4 or more, we 
give our method complete, free of charge, and guar¬ 
antee it adopted, you will get 200 and more eggs from 
every puliet In one year. We have 1,000 of the birds. 
Our method attending hens is sent to any address 
upon receipt of $1. Address MT. CLEMENS POUL¬ 
TRY FARM CO.. Lock Box 7t>2, Mt. Clemens, Mich. 
Don’t Let Hens Loaf. 
They’ll work overtime on raw cut bone. A 
worker lays, a layer pays Voii can loaf 
half the time and still cut more bone with 
1902 
Model. 
Mann’s Bone Gutter 
than with any other tyiX). It cuts all. shin 
bones, meat and gristle. Wastes nothing. Neverelogs. 
'O DAYS FREE TRIAL-nonio°«yl“®^'"‘n<=«* ^^ree Cat’lgexplains. 
Duth to Lice 
on Hens and Ctaloks. 
... 64-page Book FREE. 
D. J. LAlMBERT, Box307, Apponaug, R. !• 
JNewten’t Cough, Dle^ 
temper und Indlgettlon Cure- 
A yeterin&ry apeoiflo for wind, 
throat and stomach troubles- 
StroDg recommends. per 
can. Dealers, mail or Bx.pmd- 
Newton Horse Remedy Co. 
( T) Toledo. Ohio. 
Cure Barren Animals 
THE LOSS SAVED IS CLEAR PROFIT. 
Others Cure their Animals, WHY BUTCHER yours T 
Thousands of cows, mares, sows, etc., restored to 
breeding in the past ‘20 years. The best stock farms 
In the world are our patrons, why not you ? ABOR¬ 
TION ; Every cow that aborts should be treated with 
this remedy. You cannot afford to experiment, 
profit by the experience of expert breeders. Treat¬ 
ment by mall, $1.10. Other remedies just as reliable. 
Ask for circulars any way. 
MOORE BROS., Veterinary Surgeons, Albany, N.Y 
Veterinary Pixine 
is of powerful potency. Irresistable and 
unfailing; penetrates to the depth of 
sores and heals bj’ granulations, not by 
drying and scabbing as do mineral prep¬ 
arations. Cures scratches that defied 
treatment for years ; grease heal and old 
sores when all known treatment fails ; 
hopple chafes and galls while horse 
works, and all shin diseases on domestic 
animals. Money returned if it fails. It 
is the only absolutely guaranteed scien¬ 
tific Veterinary Ointment on the market 
( 2-oz. box, 26c. ) At all Druggists and 
PRICE { 8-oz. box, 50c. > Dealers, or sent 
I 5 pounds, $4. ) prepaid. 
TROY CHEMICAL CO., Troy, N. Y. 
