1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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“POUDRETTE” AND DISEASE. 
“Hotel Keeper,” Neiv York .—I used last 
year for the iirst time “poudrette” as fer¬ 
tilizer ; it was very effective on lawns and 
on vegetables. There were quite a lot of 
people sick with diarrhoea, and I would like 
to know the opinion of experts whether this 
fertilizer could have anything to do with it, 
used on vegetables eaten uncooked like 
lettuce, tomatoes, etc. I know poudrette was 
used by vegetable growers in France years 
ago, and it was made from night soil dried, 
ground up and lime added to it. It might 
have been taken from great institutions 
like hospitals, etc. I do not know if pou¬ 
drette in this country is taken from the same 
material, but it would be interesting to look 
this question over. 
I have not been able to learn anything 
concerning details of the preparation of 
poudrette, and cannot say whether in 
such preparation sufficient heat is applied 
to destroy any germs which may be pres¬ 
ent. The chances are strongly in favor 
of their not being destroyed. On the 
other hand, the outbreak of stomach dis¬ 
order you mention is not caused by any 
known organism, and it seems to me that 
an especially effective salad or similar 
dish which might have appeared at the 
boarding house would be a more prob¬ 
able source of the trouble than fertilizer 
applied to the lawn, unless the conditions 
became so extreme that the boarders were 
forced to eat grass like an ox. 
H. A. HARDING. 
Bacteriologist, Geneva, N. Y. 
It seems to me quite possible that the 
fertilizer could have been the cause of 
sickness, if the application of the same 
shortly preceeded an epidemic of stomach 
or bowel disease among the occupants of 
the nearest houses. This might be due 
either to dust, or other transfer as by 
flies, etc., from the material upon the 
food eaten, or if well water were used, 
by leakage through rains, etc., into the 
water supply. Even if the leakage were 
into water used to rinse dishes with it 
might be sufficient. Not knowing the de¬ 
tails as to age of the poudrette, the his¬ 
tory of the materials of which it was 
composed, etc., it is not possible to dis¬ 
cuss the matter in any except a general 
way. In rural communities there is fre¬ 
quently an epidemic of bowel and stom¬ 
ach trouble in Tulv and August, when the 
fly season is at its height. This is gen¬ 
erally ascribed to excessive heat, with 
possible exposure of body to chill, or in 
case of children to eating fruit. As, in 
many rural districts, the fecal discharges 
of mankind are exposed to visits by flies 
that in turn light on the fruit, food, 
dishes, etc., it seems probable that the 
germs of Summer complaint passed, so 
profusely from the early cases are thus 
transferred to all in the neighborhood. 
But the matter has not been scientifically 
demonstrated. julius nelson. 
New Jersey Station. 
CARRIERS FOR MANURE OR FEED. 
I am using in my barn a carrier to carry 
feed and silage. We keep about 100 head of 
cattle of all ages, have GO cows in one stable. 
We have one carrier for grain feeds and an¬ 
other for silage. It runs on a single over¬ 
head track, with switches, so we can run to 
all parts of the barn. It is a great time 
and labor saver. After once having it in¬ 
stalled in our barn, we would be as loath to 
do without it as to cut our grass by hand 
after using a mowing machine. 
Vermont. c. F. smith. 
I have two different kinds of carriers, one 
a cable, the other a solid steel track sus¬ 
pended to every joist. All carriers seem to 
be made on one of these two plans. I use 
the cable one in my hogpens. It is a 
straight run there. In my cow stables, where 
curves are needed I use the track. As to the 
workings of the carriers, I find they save 
work over my old method of wheeling out 
manure. I have a covered barnyard, into 
which I have always wheeled the manure. 
The carriers do not save labor over the 
method of throwing the manure right out 
under the eaves, or of the other method of 
having an alley wide enough to drive a team 
behind the cows, and haul direct to the field. 
Stfll. I unload direct from the carriers into 
a wagon or sleigh. I think with 40 cows, 
seven horses and 30 hogs the carriers save 
me half an hour per day. This means 18 
days a year, and hired help is scarce and 
high with us. My silage is so convenient 
for feeding I do not use a carrier for it. 
I have said the carrier saves me half an hour 
a day. Perhaps this is too low an estimate. 
It is also somewhat easier than the wheel¬ 
barrow method. b. J. cole. 
New York. 
I am using my feed and litter carrier for 
the purpose of transporting silage from silo 
to dairy barn. My silo is 50 feet in length, 
built of stone, about six feet of it being 
below the level of the barn. It is divided 
into four bays by wooden partitions, thus 
giving us about 12 square feet, of feeding sur¬ 
face. The first bay is fed by throwing the 
silage into a cart, which we back up to 
the door of silo in the alley, which connects 
the silo and barn ; then we put a section of 
track across this empty pit, and run the 
carrier up to the door of the next one, and 
return it to alley, where it dumps its load 
into the cart which conveys it to the feeding 
alley SO to 100 feet away, and so we con¬ 
tinue until the four pits are empty. We are 
prevented from running the car tke entire 
length of barn by having to use the fend¬ 
ing alley to load ancl unload hay, etc. The 
track for carrier would be in the way of the 
teams. We have cellar barn which we can 
drive under to load, and I do not think we 
need any carrier for the purpose of han¬ 
dling the manure. For handling the grain 
I prefer a low-down truck, which I push 
along in front of the cows while feeding, and 
then return to feed room. The carrier is a 
very convenient thing for feeding and the 
transportation of anything about the barn 
when so built that the overhead track will 
not be in the way. geo. a. holley. 
Rhode Island. 
COW PEAS AND SOY BEANS FOR 
SILO . 
You ask for experience in putting cow 
peas ancl Soy beans in silo. I filled my 
silo for five or six years with peas and 
corn, and found it made better silage 
than corn by itself. I was the first to 
begin here, and it is followed now by the 
majority in this locality which is a dairy 
section. While I never used any Soy 
beans in the silo, I have raised and fed a 
good many crops of them, and I feel sure 
they would make good silage. They can 
be handled easier and will make a larger 
yield to the acre. If I were in the dairy 
business now I would certainly try them. 
One great advantage in growing a crop of 
this kind to put in with the corn is that 
it makes a better balanced ration that is 
better relished by the.^cows, and feeds 
more satisfactorily. Another important 
item is that you can use the ground near 
your silo to grow the crops to fill it; 
each year, grow the peas where you grew 
the corn the year before, and the corn 
where the peas grew. I tried this for 
five vears, sowing the ground in the Fall 
as soon as the crop was off in rye with 
only 100 pounds of bone dust per acre, 
pasturing with my cows a month or six 
weeks in the Spring, then plow and let 
lie several weeks and plant again, and the 
crops improved all the time; the last crop 
was the best, and a very heavy one. 
Clark, Ky. N. F. 
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