THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
May G, 
38o 
FARM AND DAIRY NOTES. 
Trouble in Churning. 
I have several cows which have caused me 
considerable worry. Their milk will not 
churn into butter; it simply comes to a thick 
froth like whipped cream. Last Summer they 
ate green apples, getting them nearly 
every day, many times becoming “drunk," as 
it is termed in this place. Can you inform 
me what is wrong with the milk? Do you 
think new grass will help It? The cows are 
well fed (good hay and wheat middlings). 
Milton, N. .T. w. M. H. 
Cream made from cows that have had 
too many apples is apt to be “off”; some¬ 
times stringy, sometime foams, and is not 
normal. Generally, however, when cows 
get straightened around it is all right 
again. If your cows are strippers the 
trouble may be there, or if cream has 
been frozen or you are trying to churn at 
too low a temperature either of these 
might be the cause. If cream is properly 
ripened and you churn at 60 or 62 de¬ 
grees you ought not to have trouble. Are 
your cows salted daily or frequently? I 
have known a good many churn troubles 
cured by regular, frequent salting. 
Winter Fodder for Cows 
What shall I grow this season to feed my 
cows next Winter for best results in cream? 
My main crop will be corn, oats, potatoes, 
wheat, rye, clover and Timothy hay. Shall 
I add sugar beets, or mangels or sow sweet 
corn, or rely mostly on cotton-seed meal? 
Kent Co., Mich. v. a. s. 
If you have not less than 10 cows, by all 
means have a silo. Its advantages have 
been taught for years. I know of no 
crop that can equal corn for this purpose, 
and should hardly know how to run our 
dairy without it. Silos can be well built 
now that are inexpensive, neat and dur¬ 
able, and there is a feeling of contentment 
that comes over one who has a silo well 
filled with good com. The job is done, 
no husking with cold fingers, no storing 
of corn or taking to mill when toll runs 
from s to 15 cents per 100 . No wet, 
moldy fodder, no corn butts in the manger 
or manure. Instead, a food relished by 
the cow, healthful and a great milk pro¬ 
ducer. Plan to feed 30 to 40 pounds daily 
and plan for at least eight months’ feed¬ 
ing, and if you have enough for 10 
months you will not be sorry. With good 
silage twice daily and early-cut clover or 
oat hay once a day, and a grain ration 
of equal parts bran, ground oats and cot¬ 
ton-seed meal, from six to eight pounds 
on an average daily, you are in position 
to make milk in an economical manner, 
and milk that will have cream upon it. 
Cut up the rye straw short, half inch or 
less, for bedding. Sell the Timothy hay. 
It is not a good milk producer. I should 
not try to raise sugar beets or mangels 
when I had a silo. h. g. Manchester. 
ADVANTAGES OF THE MULE COLT. 
The mule colt matures earlier, hence 
is marketable gooner than the horse 
colt, thus saving nearly two years’ feed 
and handling. A two-year-old mule will 
do as much work as a four-year-old colt, 
and he benefits by it, if properly handled. 
It costs less to raise mule than horse colts 
or other ordinary stock; mules eat less 
than horses, steers or cows; a steer at 
three years of age is worth from $40 
to $60, and has eaten as much as a pair 
of mules worth from $300 to $500. A 
good average cow will consume as much 
food as a pair of mules during three 
years, and you may have cleared on her 
$300 (and how many do this?). The 
mules are not only worth more, but have 
given little care or trouble. Feed to 
mules as much food as you feed to hogs 
during three years and it will net you 
more profit and with less risk of loss. 
Mule colts meet with fewer accidents 
than horse colts; they instinctively avoid 
holes and dangerous places; they have, 
ordinarily, few if any, blemishes when 
mature and their value is not decreased 
by blemishes to the .ame extent as horses. 
As compared with the horse when grown, 
mules can stand more hardship than 
horses can; they can stand heat better, 
and do not sweat as easily; they eat 
less than horses, consuming on an aver¬ 
age only one-half as much grain while 
doing the same work; they can masticate 
rougher food; in the absence of hay I 
have known them to thrive on the ma¬ 
terial furnished for their bedd.ng. The 
demand for mules is constantly increas¬ 
ing. The opening up of the Panama 
Canal will require thousands of mules; 
the drifting of capitalists into the terri¬ 
tories acquired by the Spanish-American 
War has resulted in the starting of large 
sugar plantations and tobacco tracts, 
Mules can thrive in these islands, where¬ 
as horses cannot stand the climate. Ten 
million dollars has been left in the United 
States lately by European governments 
for army mules, Great Britain taking the 
largest number. 
Mules are steadily increasing in value; 
our Government paid an average price 
of $72.73 for them in 1898; in 1904 it 
paid an average price of $160.85 per head. 
J. L. Jones, superintendent of the jack 
and mule department at St. Louis 
World’s Fair, gave it as his opinion that 
if we can increase the value of horses 
in this country to the value of mules, the 
country will be richer by $150,000,000. 
Mules are scarce, and high in price, ow¬ 
ing to so many having been bought .’.p 
and shipped out of the country; there 
never was a better time than the present 
for the farmer to raise mules. The mule 
takes its size (principally) from the mare, 
Percheron and Norman mares ranking 
first in value for this purpose. A pair 
of mules recently sold in Chicago for 
$700 were out of Norman mares weighing 
over 1,700 pounds each, and were sired 
by a jack barely 15 hands high (jack 
measure) ; this is only an instance of 
what large mares will do when bred to a 
medium-sized jack. I am not in the 
jack business; I have 12 mares that I 
shall have bred to my black Spanish jack 
(the only one I own) this season, but I 
have guaranteed to my neighbors a.stand¬ 
ing offer of $50 for each mule colt as 
soon as weaned (sired by my jack) if 
foaled by a mare weighing not less than 
1,400 pounds. I may pay more than $50 
after seeing the foal, but guarantee that 
amount, but, candidly, I do not expect 
many of my neighbors to accept this very 
moderate offer, as they are becoming 
fully alive to the value of the mule foil, 
as it the ambition of most of them to 
own at least one good team of working 
mules as indispensable adjuncts to this 
Alfalfa region in harvesting the crops. 
I consider that it would pay any farmer 
owning 10 or a dozen mares to own a 
jack; a good one is little trouble, and 
easily handled; the purebred black Span¬ 
ish jacks ranking in my estimation first 
in value. The patronage of his neighbors 
who do not own enough mares to war¬ 
rant their owning a jack will soon pay 
the jack’s cost, and after that he will be 
a source of profit. “Why are not more 
mules raised?” Simply because in most 
localities there are no jacks to breed to. 
It is a mistake to think that any scrub, 
worn-out mare is good enough to breed 
to a jack; the best mares in the country 
are not too good to use in raising mules. 
The better the mare the better the mule, 
and a good mule is a prize to the farmer 
rearing it; in my opinion it would pay 
to use purebred Percheron, Norman or 
Clydesdale mares for the purpose; al¬ 
though any ordinarily good mare weigh¬ 
ing 1,400 pounds or over, should, if bred 
to a good jack, have a good mule foal. 
CHARLES I. MUNDY. 
Kittitas Co., Wash. 
Higher MTi.k Standard.- —We opposed the 
Cowan milk bill, because we are aware that 
much of the njilk produced in the State 
would be below the 3.3 standard, especially 
during the Spring and Summer. We remem¬ 
ber testing milk in a cheese factory where a 
small per cent of it would reach 3.3. These 
dairies were common and grade cows, and not 
much of any Holstein blood. So it is not 
Holstein breeders alone who oppose this bill. 
No doubt the quick action of the New York 
State Hdlstein Club did much to kill (his 
bill, but many Granges in northern New York 
voted against the bill. We think if they 
would pass a bill making it a misdemeanor to 
skim the milk after it leaves the farmer they 
would pretty near get at the great evil of 
poor milk for the cities. Label the milk as 
we do the cheese, “Full Cream.” 
Adams, N. Y. s. mather & sons. 
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