1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
679 
MANGELS MIXED WITH SILAGE. 
I have about 500 bushels of mangels. 
I low would it be to run these through the 
silage cutter and put them in the silo with 
the corn? G. j. B. 
Baliston Spa, N. Y. 
I have not tried the experiment, and so 
my judgment would not have full value. 
My opinion would be against any such 
scheme, for several reasons. They are 
not ready for harvest when we fill our 
silos. They grow very rapidly during the 
last days of September and first two weeks 
of October. In fact, with us they are not 
ripened as early as corn cutting. A man¬ 
gel must be ripe as well as any other 
crop. Neither would this plan cheapen 
the expense of handling. I should also 
doubt the same palatability after being half 
cooked. Cows are very fond of crisp suc¬ 
culent mangels, and will leave nearly 
every other food for them. I find it very 
cheap and easy to pit them. 
Take a well-drained spot and throw out 
four to six inches of soil about eight feet 
wide and long enough to hold the re¬ 
quired amount. If the base is eight feet 
the height of the pyramid will be about 
four feet. Place a layer of straw on the 
ground under them, then cover with 
straw six to eight inches over this; put 
just dirt enough to hide the straw, with 
only the thinnest cover at the ridge to 
allow the escape of moisture. Let them 
stand until the ground begins to freeze; 
then cover with straw and dirt again. 
This double air chamber makes for com¬ 
plete insulation. Should they be exposed 
to exceedingly low temperatures and no 
snow covering, as they were last Winter; 
it is a safeguard to throw' on a thin cover 
of horse manure in midwinter. If there 
is a thin snow covering it will not be 
necessary. For best feeding results beets 
should stand two months before using. If 
required they can be taken out duripg the 
'Winter. Unless a root cellar is construct¬ 
ed so that a temperature near the freez¬ 
ing point is mantained they will keep 
much better in a pit. A soft wilted beet 
is a poor thing. It is not generally known, 
but a fact, that beets can be fed as a 
substitute for grain up to about one 
bushel daily. That is, if mangels are 
used, containing as they do about 10 per 
cent dry matter, we could substitute one 
bushel of 60 pounds for about seven 
pounds of well-balanced concentrates, the 
grain, of course, containing a small per 
cent of water. The problem, however, 
for most of us is to grow them cheaply. 
_H. E. COOK. 
CHICKS BARE OF FEATHERS. 
How can I grow feathers on my young 
chicks? A number of them are quite bare 
of feathers. We use “louse killer” and do 
not see any lice; still their heads, necks, 
breasts and under wings are completely bare 
of feathers. Wlvat shall I do? What can 
be the cause of it? t. c. 
New York. 
This correspondent does not state what 
breed of chicks he has, nor how old they 
are. There is a great difference in 
breeds about early feathering. The 
Asiatics are very slow about it, and Leg¬ 
horn chicks often suffer and sometimes 
die from too rapid feathering; that is, the 
feathers grow and develop so fast that the 
chick cannot eat and digest food enough 
to sustain the drain upon its system; it 
grows weaker, the long wing feathers 
drag on the ground, and finally the little 
thing dies. When I bred White Leghorns 
there was always a loss of chicks from 
this cause. Those that have been inbred 
too long and are of weak vitality are very 
apt to suffer from this too rapid feather¬ 
ing. The Asiatic breeds never are trou¬ 
bled in this manner; on the contrary, they 
usually run around half naked about all 
Summer, or until they weigh three or 
four pounds. The American breeds, 
Wynadottes, P. Rocks, R. I. Reds, etc., 
are about half way between Leghorns and 
Asiatics as to feathering and usually have 
no trouble on that score. Occasionally 
there are a few that do not feather out 
when the rest do, and some breeders con¬ 
sider this a sign of laGk of vitality, or of 
poor condition, and mark such chicks so 
they can tell them when full grown, to 
prevent breeding from them. I do not 
know that anything can be done other 
than giving abundance of good food, 
plenty of meat and green stuff, to pro¬ 
mote rapid feathering; nature will take 
her own course in such matters. My 
White Wyandotte chicks have feathered 
out very nicely this season; better than 
ordinarily, I think. I have just one chick 
running around with body bare and red¬ 
dened by the sun, wing feathers twisted 
and crossed over his back, and a little 
tuft of feathers on his head. He is a 
comical looking chap, but what amuses 
me is that all the other chicks have “sent 
him to Coventry,” that is, they won’t asso¬ 
ciate with him or have him around where 
they are; they pick at him if he comes 
within reach, and won’t let him roost in 
any of the little coops. So he roosts in 
one of the henhouses on the ground be¬ 
tween a nest box and the wall, in a space 
just big enough to squeeze into. If T. C.’s 
chicks are not lousy I do not think he 
need worry any about their not feather¬ 
ing; he will find they will have feathers 
enough before cold weather. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Lost Strayed or 
Stolen—One Cow 
That Is about what happens each year 
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