THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
8o9 
1607. 
HAY LOADER AT WORK. 
I send you a picture, Fig. 403, of a hay 
loader in actual operation, taken by a 
young school boy, being the first picture 
taken by him of a moving object. I ob¬ 
ject to the hay loader you had on page 
730, as “working.” Compare the teams, 
also the men. See the driver in this pic¬ 
ture; see the man with fork in hay; see 
hay on top of his forkful; note the posi¬ 
tion of team and the curve to the front 
leg of horse. In the picture on page 730 
notice the men on their fork handles. It 
brings to my mind working roads by the 
labor system; men on their hoc handles 
listening to a good story. We have hay 
loaders here, and unless on a down grade 
the team is working. I can show you 
now where team had to leave foot prints 
that will show next haying time. In 
and free from dirt, and also serve thor¬ 
oughly to clean the feeding troughs. The 
basins are liable to become more or less 
filled with fodder, feed, dirt, etc., and un¬ 
less carefully watched, will clog up pipes 
and cause trouble. e. b. voorhees. 
New Jersey. 
The system of watering cows from 
small basins inside the stable is going out 
of vogue. I have visited about 1,500 dairy 
farms during the past year, and I do not 
now recall a single place where such 
drinking fountains had been recently in¬ 
stalled, or were about to be installed. 
Most of the “certified’’ plants have the 
continuous open manger of cement in 
which they water during bad weather, 
but I think all prefer, as I do, a cement 
trough containing running spring water, 
situated in a yard that is protected from 
A HAY LOADER CAUGHT ON THE MOVE. Fig. 403. 
former picture that near mule is not mov¬ 
ing ahead with the load. If he is I don’t 
want him. c. w. smith. 
New York. 
BEST METHOD OF WATERING 
COWS. 
Do you find that the system of watering 
cattle in stables from a basin fastened to a 
post between each two cows is going out of 
practice? What in your opinion is the best 
method of stable watering? 
I do not know whether the system of 
watering cattle in stables, from a basin, 
is going out of practice or not. I think, 
however, that the system of watering at 
a trough is growing in favor, because it 
is cheaper to install. There is no possi¬ 
bility of the system getting clogged up, 
or out of order, and besides the watering 
can be so regulated as to have it pure 
the prevailing winds. It is nearly impos¬ 
sible to keep the small fountains clean, 
and the open manger has the disadvantage 
of carrying disease from one cow to an¬ 
other. The same holds true of the out¬ 
side trough, except that the sunlight de¬ 
stroys- most disease germs in a short time. 
Where the water is always before the 
cows there is such a good excuse for not 
turning them out for exercise during bad 
weather, while it must be done, if water 
is outside. In producing milk for infant 
food we have something to think about 
beside getting the last possible drop each 
day from each cow. My own experience 
is against the usual theory, that the in¬ 
side basins will add to the quantity of 
milk. My records for the year, in the ag¬ 
gregate, from the same cows, showed no 
falling off during the year after discard¬ 
ing the inside fountains. 
New York. ellis m. santee. 
I believe that this system is not gain¬ 
ing ground, and that it is not in keeping 
with modern methods of milk produc¬ 
tion. While the method was very popular 
at one time, principally for the reason 
that it was convenient, the tendency now 
is to water the stock in an open cement 
trough in front of the cows if watered 
in the stable at all, the water being 
drained out of the trough when the cows 
are through drinking. The advantages 
claimed for having water constantly be¬ 
fore the animals are probably not as great 
as have sometimes been pictured. Ob¬ 
jection has frequently been made to the 
open trough system in the stable for the 
reason that it adds to the danger of 
spreading disease. The same criticism, 
however, may be made of many of the 
watering basins which are not provided 
with valves to prevent the water from 
running back after it has once entered 
the basin. I have often seen one or two 
cows drinking the contents of all the ba¬ 
sins in the barn when standing in their 
own stalls. The most serious objection to 
the individual basin, in my opinion, is 
that it serves as a collector of dust and 
particles of feed and becomes filthy unless 
looked after with great care. This holds 
true, whether the basins have covers or 
not. The open cement trough for water¬ 
ing the herd is a step in advance of the 
individual basin, and pure water sup¬ 
plied in the open air convenient to the 
barn is the ideal. c. b. lane. 
Dept, of Agriculture. 
I have not yet seen a watering device 
for cattle in stables, which is entirely sat¬ 
isfactory. Some of the water basins are 
satisfactory so long as they are well 
cared for, but lack of care is likely to 
cause trouble sooner or later. The long 
cement trough with water inlet at one 
end, is objected to by many persons be¬ 
cause the cows at the lower end of the 
trough must drink water which has come 
in contact with the noses of all the oth¬ 
er cows, and thus disease may be spread. 
I have often thought that a good system 
of watering cows would be to provide ba¬ 
sins which are simple in construction, and 
which can be easily cleaned, emptied and 
flushed out individually as often as de¬ 
sired. I have not yet seen such an equip¬ 
ment, and am not sure it could be worked 
out satisfactorily. r. a. pearson. 
Cornell University. 
We have never used the individual ba¬ 
sin system of watering cattle in any of 
our barns on the College Farm at Ames. 
I do not think they are in very common 
use in the West. The cement trough sys¬ 
tem, extending the full length of a row 
of stanchions, is becoming quite common, 
though it is sometimes used only for feed¬ 
ing and not for watering. A water trough 
or tank under shelter and in a convenient 
place affords a good means of watering 
dairy cattle, and the one most commonly 
in use, I think. If this system can be 
followed, without exposing the cows to 
the severe cold in inclement weather, I 
think it is quite satisfactory. 
Iowa College. c. f. curtiss. 
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YOU 
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and thicker until it forms solid curd. 
How can you expect all the cream to 
rise through that? It can’t. This 
caseine web catches a third to half the 
cream. You stand that loss just as 
long as you use pans or cans for they 
haven’t enough skimming force to 
take out ail the cream. But, just the 
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