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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
BARN PASTURE FOR COWS. 
Part III. 
For the station farm Prof. Voorhees 
considers cow peas very desirable as a 
soiling crop. There has been great dif¬ 
ference of opinion expressed regarding 
the value of cow peas north of Philadel¬ 
phia—so much so that I would hesitate 
to advise the average reader to sow 
them heavily without first experimenting. 
There can be no question about their value 
at New Brunswick, both as green forage 
and when cured into hay. They make 
their best growth in hot weather, and are 
as sensitive to frost as beans. There are 
many varieties and in order to learn 
which was best for central New Jersey 
careful experiments were conducted. Red 
Ripper, Black-eye and Wonderful have 
made the best showing, and are probably 
safest to plant. The culture is much like 
that of beans—the cow peas being drilled 
about 2'A feet apart. They come up like 
beans, and are cultivated by horse power 
until the vines begin to run. This cul¬ 
tivation keeps down the weeds, and after 
the vines get well started they make such 
a thick mat that the weeds are controlled. 
They can be sown from the middle of 
May to the middle or end of July with 
fair prospect for a good crop. Thus they 
can be made to follow rye, oats and peas, 
grass or millet. In some cases Crimson 
clover can be seeded among the cow peas 
so as to follow when the vines are cut, 
but this does not always succeed, espe¬ 
cially when the cow peas make a very 
rank growth. Prof. Voorhees prefers 
cow peas to Soy beans. The peas give 
a heavier yield, and are a surer crop. 
The best varieties for soiling are the 
erect-growing sorts, which grow some¬ 
times over two feet before they begin to 
run or trail upon the ground. Where 
the ground is fit and the climate not too 
cold the cow pea makes an excellent for¬ 
age crop, as it sprouts readily and makes 
a very quick growth. 
The different seedings at the station 
gave an average of over (S/ tons of green 
forage per acre, with a cost of about $1.50 
per ton. As wc saw in the table printed 
last week, the cow-pea forage 'ranks well 
with Red clover. As for the hay or dried 
vines, it is by analysis superior to good 
clover hay, though to look at it for the 
first time a stranger to it could hardly 
believe this. At the station cow pea feed¬ 
ing begins about the middle of August, 
and continues through the season. The 
soil where the crop is grown always 
shows improvement in following crops, 
for cow peas arc peculiarly valuable for 
obtaining nitrogen from the air. In some 
cases cow peas are planted in the corn. 
When the corn stands about four inches 
high the cow peas are drilled with the 
corn planter, so as to run about three 
inches to one side of the corn rows. .Then 
all may be cut together and fed green 
or cut into the silo—for cow pea vines 
alone or mixed with corn make excellent 
silage. 
To show the value of cow pea hay an 
experiment was carried out in which for 
a number of days cows were fed on silage 
and a good grain ration. 'They were then 
changed to silage and cow-pea hay, and 
then back again in such a way that as the 
milk was weighed and carefully examined 
it was possible to compare accurately the 
cow-pea hay with the grain. The result 
was that the hay fully replaced the grain 
in the ration, producing practically the 
same amount of milk and butter at much 
less cost. If well-cured cow-pea vines 
could be ground into a coarse meal they 
would very nearly take the place of wheat 
bran. _ h. vv. c. 
PRODUCTS , PRICES AND TRADE. 
The Massachusetts cranberry crop promises 
to be considerably larger than last year. 
Ox October 1 a parcels post agreement 
with Denmark will be in effect. The limit of 
weight will be four pounds six ounces and the 
rate 12 cents per pound. 
By May 1, 1008, all railroads in this coun¬ 
try must dispose of their direct or indirect 
holdings of coal properties. This law was 
passed by^ Congress on account of the com¬ 
plaints of independent coal men that they 
could not get coal from the mines on so 
favorable terms as those dealers who were 
known to be figureheads for railroad owner¬ 
ship. It will be interesting to note whether 
the railway lawyers will be able to devise 
ways of dodging the intent of the law while 
nominally complying. 
"Mere we are with this lot of peppers and 
eggplants on our hands, and it is nearly nine 
o'clock. Five or six ljobrs ago they would 
have sold for 25 cents per barrel more than 
they will bring now,” said a produce dealer 
who takes pride in his ability to sell quick¬ 
ly and to advantage. This man’s store is 
opened very early, about 1 A. M. 11 is trucks 
were at the car containing these peppers and 
eggplants before midnight, but it happened 
that in the same car was a small shipment 
for another house that does not open until 
0 A. M„ and the railroad company refused 
to allow the first man to take his part until 
tlie other receiver was there. So instead of 
being sold out at 3 or 4 A. M. the peppers 
and eggplants were hanging around at 0 
A. M., and buyers scarce. The result is that 
the shipper will get about $25 less for the 
lot, and will doubtless feel that he has not 
been well treated by the commission man. 
A Shrewd Game. —A Syrian recently 
arrested for smuggling goods into New York 
claimed to be an importer of peas and nuts 
on which only a nominal duty is levied. 
In tlie packages of dried peas were found 
small rolls of expensive lace, handmade 
Syrian goods, dutiable at no per cent. The 
lace found in four packages of peas was 
valued at about $3,000. It was in rolls 
about the size of sausages, wrapped in plain 
cloth. On this lot alone the importer would 
have made about $1,000 in addition to his 
regular profits. The difficulties in the work 
of customhouse inspection are numerous. It 
seems an impossibility to examine the en¬ 
tire contents of every package, yet unless 
this is done the inspector can never be cer¬ 
tain that he is not letting something valu¬ 
able go through, as in the case of this lace 
packed in dried peas. Syrians and other 
foreigners are often seen on the streets and 
at seashore resorts, selling expensive hand- 
woven or knit goods at much lower prices 
than the same things can be bought for in 
regular stores. No doubt many of these 
things are smuggled. 
Nearly two months ago a reader sent two 
cheeses to a commission house in New York. 
For six months he heard nothing from them. 
I called at tlie place. They were apologetic 
and promised to fix it up. as it. had been 
overlooked. A week passed without any “fix¬ 
ing up." On calling again yesterday I was 
told that the check had just been sent. Per¬ 
haps it has. They were again very sorry that 
it happened and asked whether I could not 
get this shipper to send them some eggs. 
They could return him 25 cents for brown and 
30 for white. This is certainly a very good 
offer at a time when the rest of the egg trade 
is glad to sell best white for 26. This 30- 
cent business is only a “bluff.” The slip¬ 
pery commission man thought I would at 
once write tlie shipper to send on the eggs, 
in which case they would probably hold him 
u)i in the same way as with the cheese, or 
claim that tlie eggs were broken or under 
grades as an excuse for a heavy dock in price. 
There is a good margin of profit in the but¬ 
ter. cheese, egg or fruit and vegetable busi¬ 
ness. handled on a fair and square basis, 
and there are dozens of houses doing busi¬ 
ness in just this way, but they are not now 
soliciting shipments with the promise of four 
or five cents above market prices, as in the 
case of those dealers who are working as 
near as they can to the fraud line without 
having their mail stopped or getting in jail. 
Not long ago a shipment of 100 tubs of but¬ 
ter was consigned to a New York house. The 
butter came by express, but the New York 
officials of the express company in charge of 
delivery refused to deliver the butter to the 
consignees, turning it over to a house that 
bandies their “refused” shipments. Their 
suspicions were well founded. In a few days 
the house to which the butter had been con¬ 
signed failed. That express company de¬ 
serves at least one credit mark for intelli¬ 
gent and active interest in the welfare of a 
patron. 
That 10 per cent Union Pacific dividend 
deal may be variously considered as a good 
tiling, a piece of unmitigated rascality or a 
joke, depending on whether one is on the 
winning or losing side, or on the outside, 
which is perhaps the safest. As to keeping 
secrets, however, those directors are a great 
success, for the public, with the exception 
of the favored ones, had no idea that the 
dividend wo.uld be more than five or six per 
cent until the 10 per cent announcement was 
made on the Stock Exchange. There has been 
a large amount of discussion as to whether 
the way tills matter was handled was right 
or excusable. But this seems a waste of time 
and words, much like searching for shining 
examples of compliance with the Ten Com¬ 
mandments in a horse trade or poker game. 
Good management and great prosperity in the 
sections covered by the Union Pacific have 
changed it from practical bankruptcy only a 
few years ago to a paying property, and it is 
scarcely to be expected that men schooled in 
a lifetime of stock-jobbing would neglect an 
opportunity to make millions by the conceal¬ 
ment of facts and the publication of things 
that the unwary may unwisely consider facts, 
which combine to make what is commonly 
known as a stock deal. The Union Pacific 
has made money enough to pay 10 per cent, 
and with the prospect of enormous grain crops 
to haul the intimation is that dividends will 
continue the same or greater. People are 
crazy to buy, because a stock that will pay 
this sum is sure to be worth more than the 
present going price. When a stock is boom¬ 
ing and people ready to pay more than it has 
ever brought before tlie sellers pick up an 
easy profit. If these sellers know when the 
boom is coming, in fact make it and time 
its arrival to the fraction of a minute, they 
will be likely to have a large amount of stock 
on hand to sell, and the profits will steadily 
jingle info their pockets, while the hopeful 
buyers are loading up. These buyers may 
make an equal profit, but the seller has an 
immediate and sure tiling out of a situation 
lie lias created. The realities of future divi¬ 
dends will depend on crops, trade and the 
will of those in control of the road. If it 
seems desirable to increase their holdings, a 
little mar>'->uIation will depress the price and 
make an equally good time to buy. 
w. w. H. 
SALE FOR WATER GLASS EGGS. 
Will you inform me whether eggs pre¬ 
served in water glass have ever been placed 
on the market as such, and if so. where, 
and how the price compares with the price 
of fresh eggs? c. M. E. 
B loss vale, N. Y. 
We know of no eggs which were preserved 
in water glass that have been marketed here. 
There are a great many ways of preserving 
eggs, but we have found that the cheapest 
and best way to preserve eggs for all-around 
use was by holding them in cold storage. 
We could not give you the value of any eggs, 
no matter how they were preserved, unless 
we had an opportunity of investigating them 
and judging of their quality for ourselves. 
Baltimore. bi.atter bros. 
The best method of preserving eggs is in 
some good chemical cold storage house, held 
steady at 30 to 31 degrees, with proper 
ventilation. An egg eandler or anyone experi¬ 
enced in handling eggs can readily distin¬ 
guish a storage egg, limed egg or any 
other kind of preserved eggs from fresh eggs. 
We do not know of any preserved in water 
glass. JOHN C. QUICK. 
New York. 
INTESTINAL DISEASES IN HENS. 
Will you help us with our hens? We have 
a flock of 30 B. P. Rock hens, and they seem 
to have some bowel trouble. Droppings are 
green and white, and two or three have died. 
On examination we find liver and heart ap¬ 
parently healthy, and The intestines are cov¬ 
ered with little white lumps from the size 
of a pin’s head up to the size of a pea, and 
there was in one of them a sac as large as a 
small egg, filled with a watery fluid. The 
hens are dopy a week or two, and then die. 
I feed wheat, barley, little corn, mash of 
middling and vegetables, plenty of grit, oys¬ 
ter shells, green stuff. They are tip-top 
layers. s. c. 
Massachusetts. 
This a very good ana intelligent 
description of the trouble with the hens, 
and as I have not had anything of that 
kind in my flock, I sent the description 
of the case to two professors of poultry 
culture, one of whom writes that the 
nodules or lumps on the intestines are 
caused by the attacks of a small worm. 
He does not give a remedy, but I should 
think a dose or two of any vermifuge 
which can be obtained at any drug store 
would be tlie proper remedy; the dose 
of course to be proportioned to hen size. 
I am inclined to think that the last three 
words of this correspondent’s letter con¬ 
tain the keynote of his trouble; “Are 
tip-top layers,” lie writes. Perhaps the 
hens have been pushed for eggs a little 
too much; in other words, have been 
overfed; and I would suggest that he 
cuts down the quantity of feed for a while, 
even if fewer eggs are obtained. If they 
are fed three times a day cut out the 
noon meal, feeding the mash at night and 
mixing some hard grain in the mash so 
the gizzard will have some work to do. 
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