THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 20, 
MORE ABOUT BALKY HORSES. 
Speaking about balky horses, Edgar Sar¬ 
gent, the poultry man, gave an interesting ac¬ 
count of his experience with two of these er¬ 
ratic animals. A pair of horses had been 
brought to a neighboring farm, and one of 
them at once refused to pull, and would do 
nothing but rear. She was taken back to the 
stable, neglected and abused, and when Mr. 
Sargent saw her was so weak from starva¬ 
tion she could hardly walk. In fact her con¬ 
dition was so wretched, Mr. Sargent- pur¬ 
chased her for $5. The next Winter, after 
she had become a horse again, Mr. Sargent 
being called away, told his son to haul from 
the woods the fuel which had been cut, but 
on no account to use a whip if the horse 
was balky. A very light load was put upon 
the sled, and at once she commenced to rear 
and refused to start the load. Coaxing her 
until he became tired, he took his gun and 
started for a rabbit hunt A noon he tried 
to induce her to move, and failing, again 
resumed his hunt. The horse remained there 
until about three o’clock, when apparently 
having had all she wanted of it. and getting 
hungry, she started for home, but instead of 
following the road, she broke out into the 
snow two feet deep and passed around a 
slight elevation and then back to the road. 
After that Mr. Sargent had no further trou¬ 
ble with her. The other horse had pulled the 
load of wood out into the highway and then 
stopped. A neighbor with a heavy team 
wished to pass, but the horse absolutely 
refused to move ahead, although she would 
back. The neighbor became Impatient, and 
wished to use the whip, but Mr. Sargent un¬ 
buckled the holdbacks aud told the horse to 
go on. Instead of doing that she balked 
violently, and coming in sharp contact with 
the rough and pointed ends of the wood she 
encountered a painful surprise which cured 
all desire to run backwards then and there. 
She started up promptly, hauled the load 
home and never has been balky since. 
Maine. F. c. cuetis. 
BEST ANGLE FOR LIFTING SILAGE. 
Not long ago I overheard brothers-in-law 
in a hot dispute over the question as to 
whether the corn lifted easier with the carrier 
set at a great angle than it did set at a 
small angle. Is there any difference, and 
why? M. f. v. 
The most practical angle for a carrier to 
be set for elevating silage is at an elevation 
of 45 degrees. If set at more than this it 
would probably elevate the silage easier, but 
the capacity for carrying would be diminished. 
EF.LCUER & TAYLOR AGL. TOOL CO. 
The nearer perpendicular the pipe is placed 
the easier the cut silage can be elevated; 
on the other hand, if the pipe is placed 
horizontally the cut corn would be apt to 
settle at the bottom of the pipe, and the 
wind pass over it, therefore much more blast 
is required, which in turn means more power 
to operate it. In some instances the pipe 
will gradually fill up, in which case the 
speed and the power to operate it will have 
to be increased as the pipe assumes different 
angles from a perpendicular to a horizontal 
position. .TOSEPII DICK AGRICULTURAL WORKS. 
It is not practical to set flie pipe for 
pneumatic elevator any further from the 
perpendicular than is absolutely necessary. 
When a pipe to a pneumatic blower is set 
at an angle of 30 degrees or more, gravity 
acts on the silage going up the pipe, strong 
enough to bring it against the ower side 
of the pipe. There friction also adds to re¬ 
tard the ilow of silage, and together they will 
hold the heavier parts and will gradually fill 
the pipe. Choke the air off and the thing 
will plug in no time. We would say that the 
reason a perpendicular pipe works easier is 
because there is practically no friction, and 
the silage drives in a straight line from the 
propelling wheel, papec machine company. 
It requires less power to elevate the 
silage at a steep elevation than it 
does in a more horizontal position. The 
reasons are, first, the steeper the eleva¬ 
tion the shorter the carrier, which naturally 
requires less power to drive, and second, 
when the carrier is set at a steep elevation 
you get the benefit of the weight of the 
returning chain under the carrier, which helps 
to draw the silage up, which is not the case 
when the carrier is set in a more horizontal 
position. Third, in a steep carrier—which 
is necessarily shorter—there is less weight, 
on account of there being fewer loads on the 
slats, and also less friction to overcome than 
when the carrier is set in a more horizontal 
position. THE SILVER MFC,. CO. 
The straighter up you run a chain and 
bucket elevator, delivering silage into the 
silo, the easier it operates and the less power 
it requires to operate it. We place our argu¬ 
ment on this basis, namely, that when you 
run a carrier on a little incline, you must 
have a longer carrier, to reach the same 
point, and the longer the carrier the more 
space the carrier would have to travel, and 
when running on a small incline of course the 
more the weight of the chain and buckets on 
the trough, which creates friction and re¬ 
quires power to overcome it. The straighter 
up you run the carrier, the shorter the dis¬ 
tance to convey the material, the less- the 
friction of the web on the trough, which of 
course means the requiring of a small amount 
of power- The argument, is ihe same on a 
silage cutter with blower. If you run the 
pipe in an inclined position, it is practically 
impossible to deliver silage into a silo, while 
if you run the pipe straight up, you have 
no trouble whatever in delivering a large 
quantity of silage into the silo. 
THE E. W. ROSS CO. 
In our judgment the difference is very 
little, if any. If a carrier is lowered to a 
point approaching nearly a horizontal line, 
there would be a large degree of friction to 
be considered. Not only the heavy silage 
would drag heavily on the carrier, but the 
chain and wooden buckets would also add to 
this friction and consequently additional 
power would be necessary to do the work 
with carrier in this position. On the other 
hand, if the carrier should be elevated to 
almost a perpendicular position, then while 
the friction that we speak of would be to 
a very great extent eliminated, on the other 
hand you would have the entire weight of 
the green material to lift. In our judgment, 
if there should be any difference, we think 
it would lie in favor of the carrier when 
elevated at a higher or greater degree of 
elevation. However, as above intimated, it 
there is any difference between the two points 
under consideration it is so small that it 
would hardly be worth considering when it 
comes to estimating power necessary to 
elevate green silage into a s'ilo. 
W. R. HARRISON & CO. 
Hen Manure. —I notice what you say 
about hen manure. I always take it at once 
to the field, and spread it around growing 
crops in Summer and on the meadows in 
Winter. This time of year I have the drop¬ 
pings boards cleaned every morning, using 
a broad, square-pointed shovel. It is cleaner 
and healthier, and I do not like to be caught 
by a cold snap with a week’s droppings 
frozen up. Thermometer dropped to two 
degrees about zero this morning, and only 
one night’s manure in the houses. 
JOHN B. LISK. 
Cost of Milk. —I have been much inter¬ 
ested in several articles in recent R. N.-Y.’s 
regarding the cost of milk, and as I am 
engaged in keeping a careful "cow account” 
with my small herd of 1- Jersey grades 
since May 1, I venture to give you a few 
figures along that line, as they appear to 
this date. My farm is located on Grand 
River, and on account of the great flood in 
June last my pasture field, which usually 
furnishes ample feed, was overflowed and 
practically ruined for the greater part of 
the season, necessitating liberal feeding al¬ 
most the entire Summer. However, we are 
making a fair showing. Thus far the gross 
income for milk and cream (mostly taken at 
the door) averages $8.15 per cow per month, 
feed $3.52, leaving a net average monthly 
income of $4.03. or $32.41 each for the 
seven months. The most expensive part of 
the year for “milk making" and to esti¬ 
mate the final outcome would be hazardous, 
but. I expect to go as low as $ 20 , and I 
hope to reach' $60 net with my best cows. 
The larger portion of our cows come fresh 
during Fall and Winter, hence with silage 
and mangels we are getting nearly a Sum¬ 
mer flow. The feed cost of milk for the 
various months, runs from four cents for 
May to 9.50 for November, an average of 
5.01 per gallon. Average test 5.15. 
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