1896 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(CONTINUED.) 
tree very loosely, not near touching 
them. Set on end and twist the ends of 
a few wires together, enough to hold it 
upright about the trees. No sheep will 
come near trees so protected, even to 
rub against them or butt their heads 
against them. But E. B. W. must re¬ 
member that, if the sheep are to run in 
the orchard, they must have a bountiful 
supply of fresh water ; otherwise, it is 
impossible to keep them away from the 
trees. He can protect them, also, with 
laths and wire woven together like a 
wire and picket fence ; but this is not as 
good, as it has a tendency to shade the 
bodies and that is not as good for the 
trees._j. s. w. 
OUR BUSINESS HEN. 
She is a Leghorn, a brown one at that; 
a high flyer, ’tis true, restless, noisy, 
half wild by nature, always hustling 
about peering into this, getting fright¬ 
ened at that; but with such a gamey, all- 
around business air, that her good 
qualities as one of the best, if not the 
very best, layers on earth are being 
more and more recognized every day. 
Since owning this particular breed, I 
have never lacked for eggs, winter or 
summer, except for a short time during 
the moulting season. The only draw¬ 
back with the Leghorn is its lack of size 
as a table fowl; but that is compensated 
for, in a measure, by the fine quality of 
the meat. I aim to give them all the 
range on the farm they will take, scat¬ 
tering the houses about here and there 
so they will not be crowded. I let them 
take their choice as to roosting places, 
which they seem to prefer in the tops of 
the tallest trees This, of course, does 
not apply to the winter season, as great 
care must then be taken to prevent 
their handsome combs being frozen, 
one other weak point with them I 
omitted, but far overbalanced by the 
added beauty of their full combs. 
Chicken thieves find them less desirable 
to pick off the roosts, owing to their 
half wild and noisy resistance when 
caught, a proceeding to which they 
never consent without a terrible racket. 
One great advantage possessed by the 
breed is that, although great foragers 
and hearty feeders, they seldom get too 
fat to lay, requiring but little attention 
that way. Their feed seems to go all to 
eggs, provided they have a variety and 
plenty of exercise. 
I was an enthusiast over the B. P. 
Rock until I found that a friend was 
getting two eggs to my one from the 
same number of B. Leghorn hens, and 
in the fall and winter season three to 
one. It is true their eggs are not of the 
largest size, but they do not lack flavor 
and beauty of appearance in the basket. 
I get pretty nearly as much for mine in 
market as do my neighbors with larger 
breeds, and twice as many from the 
same number of fowls. Having been 
troubled with a peculiar kind of disease 
closely resembling cholera some years 
since, I found a complete remedy in 
carbolic and sulphuric acid mixed with 
15 to 20 times its bulk in water, and ap¬ 
plied with a watering pot or pump 
wherever they roosted or fed. 1 also 
used a little in their feed and drinking 
water, only a few drops, as the acid is 
dangerous, and the fowls quickly show 
their disgust for it if fed too strongly to 
them, borne of my neighbors, curious 
to know the secret of my success in get¬ 
ting eggs in winter, have held up their 
hands in surprise when informed that I 
fed them upon wheat straw, b. s. cole. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER.' 
571 
in the large cities, daily their supply of 
fresh, sweet milk. 
New York is also supplied with cream¬ 
eries which take milk from farmers daily, 
at prices proportionate to the value of 
butter and cheese. I do not know of a 
creamery in this country. The only sale 
for sweet milk here is to the hotels and 
restaurants in the small cities, which 
cannot be other than small with less 
than three years of existence, and would 
be called towns iD New York State. 
These people, although they do not re¬ 
quire a great quantity of milk, want it 
delivered twice a day in this warm 
climate, at this season. But few farmers 
here can afford to leave their work twice 
a day and drive to town to deliver the 
small amount of milk which they make, 
at even 15 cents a gallon, and if they 
could afford to go, the market is so small 
that milk would not bring anything. In 
the cities, nearly every family keeps a 
cow, and they have milk to sell rather 
than buy. 
Farmers can make butter with their 
small milk supply, feed the skim-milk 
and buttermilk to their pigs and calves, 
and on their one weekly trip to town, 
which is, usually, Saturday, and which 
they would make anyway for their sup¬ 
plies, they take the butter, eggs and 
other products, and exchange with the 
grocer for groceries for whatever he is 
able to allow. Where every farmer has 
a little to sell, with no great demand for 
home consumption, the price has to be 
small. This butter, made by so many 
different parties, must vary in color and 
what the grocer has to ship to his near¬ 
est market, Kansas City, which is over 
200 miles, brings but a small price. 
There are but few who make cheese 
here, and those few get about the same 
price as is paid for cheese shipped here 
from Kansas. Some of my neighbors 
have tried cheesemaking, thinking that 
it would be more profitable than butter¬ 
making ; but they do not understand it 
well enough to get good cheese at all 
times. The climate may have something 
to do with it. When we have a home 
market here equal to the market of New 
York State, the people may prefer Jersey 
cattle rather than Short-horns. 
Oklahoma. e. ii. Littlefield. 
DAIRY MARKETS IN OKLAHOMA. 
Replying to the editorial note on page 
516, I would say that the fact that we 
are in Oklahoma and not in New York, 
makes it possible for the proportionate 
prices of milk, butter and cheese to vary 
so widely here from what they do there. 
While it will be only three years since 
the settlement of this country on Sep¬ 
tember 16, New York is an old settled 
country, and has its markets, and the 
best there are in the country, for all 
three articles named. With the milk 
trains running regularly, it is possible 
for farmers to sell and have delivered 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Killing Woodchucks. —I cannot do 
without The R. N.-Y. I read, on page 
507, about woodchuck killing. I think 
that Q. G. G. used too much bisulphide 
of carbon. I got one-half pint of it, put 
it in 15 holes, and saw some of the wood¬ 
chucks go in the holes before I put it in. 
I put it on batting and poked it down 
into the hole with a stick as far as I 
could reach, then stopped the holes. 
But one dug out, and that one was 
under a stone wall. e. d. <*. 
McGrawville, N. Y. 
Fodder and Feed Notes.— We have 
had quite an experience in soiling two 
cows this season, beginning with rye 
early in May, oats and peas in June and 
•July, and now fodder corn. All were 
good, but the corn is the least worthy. 
Oats and peas were sown early, on sandy 
land, well manured in winter; they 
grew very strong, and were eagerly eaten 
by the cows up to the time when both 
were nearly mature. I know of no crop 
equal for soiling. I have a lot just 
ready for cutting, and I sowed August 1 
again for late feeding, or to cure if the 
weather be favorable. Instead of fodder 
corn, I shall plant early sweet corn next 
spring for August feeding. 
Crimson clover was nearly all killed in 
March ; I pulled what few plants lived, 
and have just sown again to see whether 
northern grown seed will do any better. 
I also sowed medium clover, as I believe 
that this is the time to sow grass seed, 
and I cannot see why our Red clover is 
not just as good as the Crimson ; the 
root is much longer and larger, and, I 
suspect, is even better for the land. 
A neighbor sowed Timothy last Aug¬ 
ust on a wheat stubble slighly worked, 
and this year cut over two tons to the 
acre. So much seed and time are lost 
sowing clover among wheat in spring, 
that some other waj must be found. 
Mr. Clark gives us good teaching in The 
R. N.-Y., and the certainty of getting a 
catch of clover, is worth much more 
than the expense of working the land for 
August seeding after wheat or other 
grain. The crop the following year, iD 
most seasons, will be double. 
Shortsville, N. Y. r. johnston. 
Two Stock Notes. —A writer in the 
Iowa Homestead gives these bits of sug¬ 
gestion : 
We are likely to neglect our calves and young 
pigs through this stress of work. Now is the 
time that they need watering regularly. We can 
take more milk, too, if we give the calves a small 
ration of oats twice a day. For my part, I like to 
see calves commence the winter sleek and fat. 
Besides, I have noticed that it is not economy to 
stint young stock in their feed. Runts are hard 
to bring out of their runtiness. 
A friend of mine, a breeder of Hereford cattle, 
told me that he was setting aside a Held of Blue 
grass for winter pasture. He said that the grass 
would fall, and underneath, the blades and young 
stuff would be fresh and juicy all winter long. 
Cattle will thrive on this sort of feed, and come 
out in the spring in good shape. It is letting 
Nature put up our hay. I am perfectly willing to 
let Nature save me as much labor as possible. 
There is enough work to do at the best. 
Skim-Milk for Hens. —I do not know 
how an ordinary feeder could tell which 
is better—sweet milk or curds. Hens do 
not lay at all seasons alike, from many 
causes, and one could not be sure that 
some other cause did not produce an in¬ 
crease of eggs. I feed milk, sweet, to 
everything—cows and pigs as well as 
hens. The amount of milk consumed 
would be greater if soured and set on 
the stove until the whey could be poured 
°ff* If I had plenty of milk, I would 
make it into curd and mix it with the 
mash. The only difference between 
them is the amount of water they con¬ 
tain, and the curd makes a stronger 
ration by having the water eliminated. 
Providing the hens were fed enough of 
other foods, I do not believe that any 
difference in results would be noticed 
from either method. c. e. chapman. 
Protect, Your Stock Fro.n Files. 
Myself and patrons have been so delighted with the 
effector “ Shoo-Fly,” manufactured In Philadelphia, 
Pa., that I made duplicate orders in May. airgregatlnK 
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Kansas City, Mo. 
I have used Shoo-Fly two years on my cows. It 
pays. Send me Twenty-five (25) gallons. 
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5 PPCIA I Send 20c.: will return 1 pint Shoo-Fly. 
wrbwiMb Name Express Office. $1.60 per gal. One 
gal. lasts 3 animals a season. Freight pd. on 10 gals. 
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THREE YOUNG JERSEY BULLS 
from dams that made 18 lbs. 8 ozs., 17 lbs. 12 
ozs., 24 lbs. 3 ozs. honest printed butter In 7 days 
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RHINECEIFF, N. Y. 
CHENANGO VALLEY 
burgh, Jr., Proprietor. Dorset Horn, Shropshire and 
Ramhou 11 let Sheep, Dutch Belted and Jersey cattle: 
also Poland-China, Jersey Red and Suffolk Pi*8. 
The era of scrubs has passed. Thoroughbred Boars 
and Bulls only should be used for breeding purposes. 
Willswood Herd 
Recorded Berkshire Swine. 
Registered Guernsey Cattle. 
WILLS A. SEWARD, Budd’s Lake, N. J., or 
207 Broadway, New York City. 
South-Down Sheep. 
CASSIUS M. CLAY, White Hail, Ky. " 
WE 
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POLAND-CHINA RIBS 
Many Hundred “Cough Remodles" have been 
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W, & B, P, Rocks and W, Wyandottes 
Good March to May-hatched Pullets or Cockerels $1 
One-year Breeding Hens, $1; six for $6 ’ 
One-year Cocks, $2. Eggs, 76c. per sitting, 
m? ix r stc| ck and Eggs guaranteed pure. 
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ABO 8K ^ KCTED PKKIN DUCKS; extra stock 
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QOOffc FERRETS. Trained Ferrets, that 
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