1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
5i9 
SHEEP FOR ROUGH PASTURE. 
I have a cultivated chestnut orchard on 
the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia which 
requires Summer pasture. The growth of 
wintering forage is difficult, and I, therefore, 
desire sheep which can rough it on rough 
and bushy pasture and eat close. Owing to 
the scarcity of Winter forage the lambs 
should be bonn late in the Spring and spend 
most of their time on pasture. I know that 
Dorset is a Winter breed. Is there any 
breed better for my purpose? At the present 
time I have a flock of Virginia Mountain 
ewes and purebred Dorset ram, and was plan¬ 
ning to build up a flock on that basis, but ow¬ 
ing to changes in my plans of forage I should 
be glad to have your opinion concerning this 
breed for the rough pasture, late lamb com¬ 
bination described above. j. r. s. 
First, let me say, you run a great risk 
if you turn sheep into your chestnut or¬ 
chard. Unless the trees are large, and 
the bark hard, the sheep will be likely to 
ruin them. If you will put chicken wire 
about the trunks as high as the sheep can 
reach, you will protect the trees. As to 
the breed of sheep, the Dorsets are a 
Winter breed, in that they will conceive 
in warm weather and therefore drop their 
lambs in early Winter, so they will sell 
for high prices at from 10 to 12 weeks 
old. This means high feeding during the 
Winter, a thing you are not situated to 
do. The desirable feature of the Dorsets 
is their habit of early lambing; aside from 
this they are surpassed by several other 
breeds in weight of carcass and fleece, as 
well as hardiness. I should consider you 
were making a serious mistake to head 
your flock with a Dorset ram. As you 
are situated, what you want is a hardy 
sheep, a good forager or rustler, and one 
that will give a good, rather quickly ma¬ 
turing lamb, as well as one that will shear 
well. Your conditions as described, are 
not such as will develop the best lambs 
or sheep. In your case I should use a 
Rambouillet ram with my native ewes. 
This breed is hardy, heavy shearers, with 
a good strong frame that produces a good 
compact mutton lamb in a reasonable 
time. The Gieviots would be much bet¬ 
ter for vou than the Dorsets, if for any 
reason you do not want to use the Ram¬ 
bouillet. They come from the mountains 
of Scotland, are exceedingly hardy, with 
well-shaned and sized carcasses, and are 
fair shearers; withal a most beautiful 
sheep, particularly in the face. They are 
not as easily confined as most other 
breeds. You can regulate the lambs com¬ 
ing in late April or early May by turning 
the rams with the ewes about December 
1, no matter what the breed. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
RUST IN A HOT WATER BOILER. 
What can be done to prevent rusting in a 
boiler used for heating a house? It is 
located in a damp cellar. Can it be painted? 
We have found that the best protection 
against a boiler rusting during the time it 
is unused is to fill the plant with water, 
occasionally drawing same off and re¬ 
plenishing with fresh water. This keeps 
the air from the inner surface and pre¬ 
vents rusting. abendroth brothers. 
We know of nothing that will prevent 
cast iron from rusting in a damp cellar 
with the exception of painting. If the 
boiler was painted on the inside and kept 
painted it might prevent the rusting. It 
has been our experience that the best way 
to prevent rust on a heating apparatus 
was to keep the cellar as dry as possi¬ 
ble, and we recommend to all inquirers 
that the cellar windows be kept closed in 
the day time and open at night, in order 
to dry out the cellar as much as possible. 
THE BOYNTON FURNACE CO. 
You do not state just exactly what kind 
of a water heater it is, but if it is a cast 
iron heater, the rust is doubtlessly caused 
by the fact that the heater is not used 
verv frequently, and when it is used the 
action of the hot water on the sediment 
which collects in the heater during the 
time it is not in use causes it to rust. 
Another cause for rusty water in a cast 
iron heater is overheating of the water, 
that is, heating it above 180 degrees or 
possibly 160, the variation of temperature 
depending on the chemicals in the water. 
To prevent water from rusting by either 
of these causes, it would be possible to 
galvanize cast iron water cylinders, but if 
the cylinder which the party you mention 
has, has been in use for some time and 
has caused rusty water for some time, 
it would not be practical to galvanize it, 
as it would doubtlessly crack in the pro¬ 
cess. The best thing to do would be to 
order a new cylinder and have same gal¬ 
vanized, or to have a brass cylinder made 
to suit the heater. 
THE J. L. MOTT IRON WORKS. 
If the boiler is cast iron, the best way 
of protecting same during the Summer 
months when the boiler is not in oper¬ 
ation would be to draw the water entirely 
out of the system, and then refill, opening 
all fire doors and taking down smoke pipe, 
allowing a free circulation of air. When 
cellars are extremely damp, it is prac¬ 
tically impossible to retard the rusting 
of boilers of which you speak. Of course, 
we are manufacturers of boilers of the 
cast iron type, and have followed up very 
little the results obtained in the corrosion 
of wrought iron boilers. 
THE HERENDEEN MFG. CO. 
We understand your query refers par¬ 
ticularly to the rusting in the fire-box and 
over the flue surfaces of the boiler, and 
not on the inside of the heater. If the 
apparatus is kept filled' with water there 
can be no rusting or oxidation, as this 
prevents the entrance of any air. If the 
rusting is in the fire-box of the heater it 
is undoubtedly due to the difference in 
temperatures, and while it cannot be over¬ 
come any damage can be prevented by 
taking off the smoke pipe and all the 
doors, and either oiling or lightly paint¬ 
ing the inside surfaces. Building an oc- 
casonal fire so as to soot over the sur¬ 
faces is also a preventive, but we believe 
the oiling is better. 
GURNEY HEATER MFG. COMPANY. 
RATIONS FOR MILCH COWS. 
With gluten meal, direct from the glucose 
works here at $23 per ton, loose, how does 
this compare with whole corn shelled at 
50 cents per 56-pound bushel for feed for 
dairy cows, with Timothy hay as roughness 
and bran from full process mills at $20 per 
ton? Is not the whole corn the best? Feeders 
here buy gluten to feed steers at above prices. 
Timothy, $12. s. 
Iowa. 
Why not feed clover and Alfalfa hay 
instead of Timothy and bran and gluten 
meal? As I understand it, the object in 
feeding something else with the corn is 
to get roughness and protein. By feed¬ 
ing clover or Alfalfa hay he would get 
the roughness and the protein and would 
have a balanced ration at much less price 
than buying bran and gluten. Alfalfa 
hay, which he can buy at $12 per ton, and 
grow for $3 per ton, will furnish as 
much protein per ton as either the bran 
or the gluten, and at a much less cost. 
In fact it will take the place of the Tim¬ 
othy as roughness and will be no extra 
outlay at all. He can simply save the 
bran and gluten. With whole corn at 
40 to 50 cents, and growing our own 
clover and Alfalfa at a cost of about $4 
per ton for clover and $3 per ton for Al¬ 
falfa, our feeding problem is very simple 
here. I do not think that a better bal¬ 
anced ration could be figured out than 
corn and Alfalfa, and I am certain there 
could be none as cheap. henry field. 
Iowa. 
Spray Tank on Cultivator. 
J. W. R., Chester, N. J .—I have been 
thinking of putting a tank on top of pole of 
cultivator, which would be about three feet 
above the ground. Would this answer with 
a spraying nozzle attached to spray potatoes 
with Bordeaux Mixture, that is, without hav¬ 
ing air pressure? 
Ans. —We do not believe this would 
work. There would not be enough pres¬ 
sure to drive the liquid through the noz¬ 
zle in the form of a spray. It would be 
like running liquid through the rose of a 
flower pot. This might wash off the 
plants, but in order to do them much 
good you must blow the liquid upon them 
in a fine spray. 
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Look [through a microscope at milk 1 
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You’ll see this web growing thicker 
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How can you expect all the cream to 
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“Bitter Milk.” —Let everyone who finds 
his cows giving bitter milk investigate the 
feed before dosing the cows. I have been 
through it, having a nice Jersey cow that 
gave bitter milk, so bitter I could not use it, 
but when I found the cause was nothing 
but a feed of couch grass the cure was easy. 
I have been the means of curing many a 
cow for neighbors since. Couch hay does 
not seem to make the milk taste badly. I 
am planning to eradicate this grass by con¬ 
stant cultivation in hot dry weather, aaid one 
year succeeding in time to set cabbage and 
the next year a good clean patch for straw¬ 
berries was the result. In my boyhood days 
this grass was known as dog grass. 
Byfield. Mass. j. o. h. 
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T . , . _ _ Brunswick, N. Y., August 13 th. 
In answer to your favor of the nth, I would say my Silo was built Septem. 
ber, 1899 , by a man from Cornell, who had worked on two at the Experiment 
Station. Gave him $ 2.00 per day and his fare one way, $ 30 . 00 ; lumber 
$ 67 . 00 ; hardware, $ 15 . 00 . Enough silage spoiled from faulty construction 
to have paid 20 per cent on the cost of a first-class one, and it blew down 
August 10 th, but rather than not have any Silo, I would build one every 
year. But now I have ordered one of yours and hope to have It standing 
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