1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
3o5 
CLOVER IN THE SILO. 
Would you advise me to put clover in silo 
for Summer feeding or cure for hay? I have 
enough silage to last until May, and clover 
will be ready to cut by June. In the mean¬ 
time I shall have plenty of pasture. I’lease 
give me directions for silaging clover, and 
state if there will be much spoiled if I start 
to feed as soon as put in. I am making 
butter. c. o. w. 
Still Pond, Md. 
What is Done in Delaware. 
We have filled silos with Crimson clo¬ 
ver, and with Winter oats and clover 
grown together, in May, for many years, 
using cutter. We have usually filled two 
small silos; began using one of them as 
soon as filled. For a few days this top 
of silo, heating and unfinished as silage, 
is not the best of feed, but as soon as we 
get down where it is properly fermented 
it is all right and better than soiling. Of 
course Red clover may be used instead 
of the Crimson. We feed this silage 
about four months and corn silage the 
other eight months of the year, never 
pasturing. One feed per day—at noon— 
should be dry, either hay or fodder. 
Delaware. e. h. Bancroft, 
What a Northern Dairyman Says. 
The corn plant is the only one in my 
judgment intended by nature for the 
silo. The composition of the plant, 
sugar and starches, are most easily and 
safely preserved. The legumes can under 
favorable conditions be made valuable, 
but under no circumstances would I sil¬ 
age the clovers or oats and peas, if the 
weather permitted drying. I know at 
times it is almost impossible to cure them; 
then I should cut them fine, add water 
and take the chances. Often in the Fall 
they can be mixed witn corn; then all 
goes well. Soy beans work with corn, 
but are poor stuff when put in alone. 
Cut the clover after the dew is off on 
a hot day; within a couple of hours put 
in hay tedder, do not wait until the leaves 
are dry. After the clover has wilted, and 
when the sun is shining hot, cock it up 
with care. Do not roll it, but put one 
forkful on another. This will quickly 
settle, the heat will dry it, and the leaf 
will do what it does when growing, con¬ 
tinue to evaporate water. These cocks 
will shed water after 12 hours, if the 
clover is cut before ripening. Sometimes 
the hay should be gently turned over. 
Never shake it out fine. This is the only 
safe, sure way of handling clover. 
_ - H. E. COOK. 
POULTRY NOTES BY WHITE. 
Will purebred S. C. White Leghorns ever 
lay brown eggs? j. b. h. 
Black Creek, N. Y. 
The eggs from the purebred White 
Leghorn should be almost snow white, 
yet we occasionally see an egg that is off 
color, although when placed beside Ply¬ 
mouth Rock eggs it looks like the em¬ 
blem of purity. 
What should a good laying White Leghorn 
hen weigh? 
The Leghorn did not have a given 
“weight,” in the old Standard of Per¬ 
fection like the Wyandottes, Rocks, or 
other heavy breeds, and I do not think 
the new Standard gives it either, as they 
were judged by style, shape and car¬ 
riage, etc. Different breeders have bred 
to their own ideas of what a Leghorn 
should be, and so a purebred S. C. White 
Leghorn mighi be just as purebred 
weighing three pounds as one that 
weighed four pounds or 4]/ 2 , although 
that is the weight we ask of our hens, 
and we occasionally have them weigh 
over 5 pounds. A cockerel should weigh 
five to six pounds to satisfy us, but may 
be "well bred” and not weigh four 
pounds. 
What do yon think of b ns as poultry 
food? Should they be cooked or feed raw? 
Please give analysis of same, and what to 
feed with to make a balanced ration. 
Rushville, N. Y. r. g. p. 
Although we have never fed many 
bushels of beans to poultry we like to 
feed them; and believe the hens like 
them. They should be cooked soft and 
mixed with their mash. Beans are an 
exceptionally strong feed, with a very 
high per cent of protein, and should be 
fed sparingly if you are feeding much 
meat, but will help to balance up corn or 
other feeds that are lacking in protein. 
After my chickens are about four weeks old 
they get droopy and die. I lost many of 
them last Summer, and I do not know what 
to do for them. w. o. b. 
Ossinning, N. Y. 
Of the innumerable ills that our chicks 
are subject to in the days of their in¬ 
fancy, it would not be possible for anyone 
to say what was the matter with these 
unless more information was given than 
we have in this case. In the first place, 
the chicks are very subject to being chilled 
in their first few weeks of life, and if 
once chilled there is little hope of them. 
But although nothing is said of the feed, 
I have the idea that is where the trouble 
is. They may not have any grit, or they 
may have got some musty feed. You 
might as well poison them outright as 
feed little chicks musty or even slightly 
spoiled feed. We once lost a lot of 
chicks by feeding some cracked corn 
that had heated on the dealer’s hands. 
Pie spread it out and dried it thoroughly 
and sold it to us as good, killing our 
chicks just as surely as if he had gone 
gunning for them. f. q. white. 
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All “bucket bowl” sep¬ 
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Tubular bowll, only, 
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almost turns them. 
They cannot wobble or 
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