1905. 
TIIK RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
4o3 
RAISING HENS IN CALIFORNIA. 
What do you think of the advisability of 
going to southern California and starting 
in the chicken business? I am “on to” 
the trick of getting eggs in Winter here, 
but feel that, with Nature so kindly dis¬ 
posed, it must be so easy in that warm cli¬ 
mate as to make it non-profitable. j. j. 
rhiladelphia. Pa. 
I know of no reason why the chicken 
business cannot be conducted as profitably 
in California as anywhere in the world. 
I have done well at it myself, but have 
been too much occupied with other things 
for several years past to do anything with 
chickens. Anyone who is* ‘,‘on to” the 
trick of getting eggs in Winter in Penn¬ 
sylvania can surely succeed where there 
is no Winter to speak of. Rut why spec¬ 
ify southern California? It seems to me 
that the best location in the world for 
raising poultry and eggs is near San 
Francisco, that is, within easy shipping 
distance. Petaluma, a little town across 
the bay north of San Francisco, is the 
shipping point for a territory largely de¬ 
voted to poultry raising. The larger part 
of fresh ranch eggs in the markets of San 
Francisco and near-by cities come from 
that point, and I understand that the out¬ 
put is increasing each year. But there are 
plenty of locations within, say 50 miles 
of San Francisco where poultry raising 
alone or in connection with fruit growing 
will pay with the right man behind the 
business. h. g. keesling. 
Santa Clara Co., Cal. 
SOME FODDER CROPS IN NEW 
HAMPSHIRE. 
We have a piece of land. li,4 acres heavy 
clay soil, broken up in 1902, given a good 
coat of manure and planted to corn. The 
next Spring owing to a, wet spell and pres¬ 
sure of other work, we did not get it plowed ; 
the grass came in naturally, and we cut 90 
cocks of hay, a mixture of Witch grass, 
clover and Timothy. Last Spring it was 
plowed, giveu another good coat of manure, 
and sowed to barley which was cut green for 
fodder, and gave a good crop. I would like 
to try cow peas for green fodder. Would 
you advise sowing them on such a piece of 
land and in this latitude? Could I get a 
profitable crop without any more manure 
this year? I want to get the most I can in 
feeding value from that piece of ground this 
year, without applying any more manure. Is 
there any other crop which would be likely 
to give any better results? w. w, 
I should advise sowing Canada peas 
and oats together to cut for green feed. 
They give an earlier crop, the oats sup¬ 
porting the peas so they will not lodge. 
I think they would give good results on 
the land mentioned. m. j. d. 
Danville, N. H. 
I know nothing about cow peas, but if 
I was in this man's place I should plant 
corn fodder, as that gives us a good crop 
here every year. For my part I think this 
a good way north to plant cow peas, as 
we have about six months of Winter, and 
what would give a good crop in the South 
would be a complete failure in the North. 
Chesham, N. H. p. a. s. 
Cow peas is the last crop I should try 
under conditions named by your Cheshire 
County correspondent.. Neither should I 
try Soy beans. If a soiling crop is de¬ 
sired. corn fodder, oats and peas or Japan¬ 
ese millet, or a part of the land to each, 
would, I think, be best. Let our southern 
brother have his cow peas, the dweller 
in the “Great American Desert” his Alfal¬ 
fa ; they doubtless need them. For the 
present we northern folks will do well 
to rely on grasses and clover, f. h. c,. 
Exe’er, N. H. 
As to sowing cow peas on heavy clay 
I think such crops do better on a light 
soil. My experience with cow peas is 
very limited, but a heavy growth of corn 
fodder ought to be grown on that field 
without more manure, provided the soil is 
thoroughly worked and allowed to get 
dry and mellow before planting. I have 
raised heavy crops of Hungarian on just 
such soil, but it should not be sown until 
lime. Oats sown on the field ought to do 
well for fodder. As to Soy bea.is I con¬ 
fess that I know nothing about raising 
them. w. m. d. 
Hancock, N. H. 
Your Cheshire Co. correspondent will 
not be safe in growing cow peas on a heavy 
clay l.i. soil. Soy beans are better 
adapted to such a soil, and to our New 
Hampshire climate, I have grown both 
crops with a fair degree of success on svh 
a soil in a favorable year. My advice is 
to use one of our old standby forage 
crops. Corn is the royal one. Soy beans 
can be mixed with the corn for seeding 
where silage is the design. The silage 
will be" enriched and the crop increased at 
no extra expense of the nitrogen of the 
soil. I am not as yet an enthusiastic ad¬ 
vocate of this mixture, but hold it worth 
a trial. Orts and peas will do well, and 
r.o harm will be done if barley is added to 
the mixture. Probably the oats and peas 
will please him better than the corn, judg¬ 
ing by the character of the inquiry. There 
are few, if any, aspirants for our favor 
among the newly proposed crops that ex¬ 
ceed for New England corn, oats, peas, 
barley, r.ye, clover and Hungarian, the old 
tried and prolific crops of this section. 
Gilmanton, N. H. j. w. s. 
MILK TRADE IN WAUPACA, WIS. 
Our supply of milk comes from nearby 
farmers, and a few who keep one or two 
cows in the city and sell to their neighbors. 
It fs usually carried by wagons in cans, bot¬ 
tles, pails, etc. There is no local milk trust. 
Trices are five cents per quart retail, 2 y a to 
four cents where sold in quantities. The 
milk averages about three per cent fat. The 
trade in bottled milk increases very little. 
There appears to tie no official inspection. 
We sold milk in Waupaca 10 years, stopped 
a little over 12 years ago. We only live one- 
half mile from city limits. The milk was 
tested a few times by private individuals and 
at farmers’ institutes. The test was about 
3.5 and since then our herd tests four per 
cent or better. Herd is composed of regis¬ 
tered and grade Red Polled cattle. Our cream 
goes to butter factory now. Waupaca lias 
about 3,300 population. In Oshkosb there 
is a city inspector, I am told by a man who 
has lived there a number of years. 
s. s. c. 
In Wichita, Kansas. 
The milk supply in our sections comes 
from farmers and is distributed by wagons. 
There is no milk trust. Price is 10 cents 
gallon, five cents per quart. Per cent of 
butter fat is 3.8. The bottled milk business 
is increasing. There is no official inspection. 
J. s. 
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