1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
883 
A BUNCH OF GRADE JERSEYS. 
I send a picture of some of the stock 
(shown at Fig. 443) produced on my 
farm; they are grade Jerseys. On the 
left is a pair of twin heifer calves with 
their mother in the background, while 
the other three calves are triplets. The 
twins were born February 4, 1907, while 
the triplets were born July 6. This pic¬ 
ture was taken when the triplets were 
but five days old; their mother stands 
just back of them. The mother of the 
triplets is grandmother of the twins. 
Michigan. _s. a. keyes. 
WATER BASINS FOR COWS. 
I was much interested in reading in a 
late R. N.-Y. the comments made upon 
the individual water basins for use in 
cow stables, the consensus of opinion be¬ 
ing “going out of fashion/’ as they were 
too much trouble to keep clean and too 
liable to get out of order. These objec¬ 
tions might be valid if the system was not 
properly installed. Here in central Cayu¬ 
ga Co., N. Y., we have a way of doing things 
that perhaps differs from our dissenting 
friends, yet giving first class satisfaction 
to ourselves. For example, we construct 
no more needless gutters for the cows 
to step over or in, just having a drop 
six or eight inches, towards which the 
walk back of the cows generally slopes, 
perhaps one and one-half inch to five 
feet, which is sufficient to confine the 
liquid where it belongs. This way is 
much cheaper to make and easier to keep 
and even sold at a verv high Drice. Has 
anything of this kind been done at your 
station? What forage crops have you grown 
and found best, what breed of sheep do you 
think would be best for this kind of work, 
and how many, in your judgment, could be 
safely crowded upon an acre, making the 
manurlal value of the sheep and their work 
upon the soil the main nbieet? 
I doubt verv much whether it will be pos¬ 
sible for those engaged in the greenhouse 
business to enrich soils by grazing sheep 
upon them in order to secure supplies for 
their work. In the first place, a man has got 
to know something about sheen, nowadays, 
in order to handle them successfully ; in the 
second place, if an attempt was made to 
crowd a large number on a small area, the 
chances are that parasitic diseases, and a'so 
diseases of other sorts would be cropping 
out to Interfere with the business. It seems 
to me that a man would have to wait too 
long in order to get results by a method 
of this kind, or in other words, the small 
amount of fertility added to the soil through 
the feeding of supplementary foods would 
not be very much each year, and a good 
deal of time would have to elapse before 
the soil could become sufficiently rich to be 
of value. it. s. shaw. 
Michigan Agricultural College. 
Years ago I carried on a soiling experiment 
with sheep and found them a very difficult 
animal to handle. A sheep will eat almost 
any kind of vegetation when allowed to do 
so at its own pleasure. To cut and carry 
green feed to them is a very different proposi¬ 
tion. Another and even more serious trouble 
is that of parasites. The sheep in this 
country, over great areas, are badly affected 
with internal parasites, that work great 
harm. Sheep kept on the same land for 
more than one year are especially subject to 
ailments of this character. I do not believe 
your florist will make a success of the enter- 
A BUNCH OF GRADE JERSEYS. Fig. 443. 
in order, and the orthodox gutter has 
had its day in these parts. 
As to the question at issue, are water 
basins a success, I answer if rightly put 
in; if not a thing of beauty they are of 
joy continually, through the long cold 
Winter, and all the care there is to keep 
the water where the cows can help them¬ 
selves is to see that the windmill keeps 
the 50-barrcl tank well supplied with wa¬ 
ter, and the float valve in the supply ba¬ 
sin does the rest. As the tops of our 
basins are 30 inches high, and as we have 
no feed racks or mangers in front of the 
cows, all feed go to them more or less 
on a level, so it is hardly ever necessary 
to skim a few straws off if they might get 
in. One would hardly believe how much 
time that little faucet puts in, delivering 
water to the cows, showing that they 
drink little and often. All whom I have 
talked with in regard to the water basins 
are unanimous in commending them, and 
if from any cause the cows are cut off 
from this accustomed way of drinking, 
the milk scale will convince you of the 
value of the system. a. h. g. 
SHEEP AND GREENHOUSE SOIL. 
It is a hard job for glasshouse gardeners to 
obtain (he proper soil for their work under 
glass. They have great trouble in obtaining 
manure and soil containing a proper amount 
of organic matter. One of our readers is tired 
of buying the city manure, and he thinks 
that he can keep sheep on a two-acre lot, 
crowding as many sheeD as oossible into the 
pens, and growing a succession of crops like 
rape, sorghum, cow oeas. oats, ete., turning 
the sheep from one to the other and thus 
greatly enriching the soil. Then this soil 
could be dug up, used for greenhouse work, 
prise. Sheep manure, from great sheep-feed¬ 
ing establishments in the West, is now in 
some cases dried, ground and sold as a fertil¬ 
izer through regular channels of trade. 
Wisconsin Station. w. a. henry. 
We have some pasture lots near the build¬ 
ings on the college farm that are rather thin 
and gravelly, and by surface dressing and 
growing a succession of soil crops we suc¬ 
ceeded in keeping the land in a very good state 
of fertility and up to a strong productive 
capacity. We have usually seeded the lots 
to rye in the Fall, grazed with sheep early 
and plowed this under and sowed peas, oats 
and barley, and turned this under in July 
and seeded to rape, and the rape followed 
again by rye. This method was continued 
for several seasons, and the lots for the past 
two years have been seeded down to Alfalfa 
and have been giving very good results. I 
think a similar system might be followed in 
the case you mention. In order to get the 
best results, however, it would be necessary 
I think to adopt the English system of hurd¬ 
ling the sheep on a limited area each day. 
By that system the ground could be plowed 
and put into other crops as soon as it was 
grazed. Of course the land would be still 
further improved by feeding the sheep oil 
cake, or other concentrated feed stuffs in 
connection with the grazing crop. I think 
this plan might be desirable anyway, 
as the sheep could then be turned to market 
as soon as they were fattened. By means of 
the. hurdling system and the use of some, 
grain, I think it would be possible to handle 
at least 25 or 30 sheep per acre. I do not 
know that the breed of sheep is important. 
This system is used with practically all 
breeds of sheep in Great Britain, unless it be 
the black faces and some of the other moun¬ 
tain breeds. Amy of our mutton breeds 
could be handled by this system. The South- 
downs will subsist on scantier vegetation than 
any of the larger breeds. c. f. curtiss. 
Iowa College. 
Water Foaming in Boilers.— Tell I, A. S., 
West Hartford, Ark., page 820, to take one 
pint of carbon oil and put It in a bucket of 
water, and pump it in his boiler when the 
water is foaming, and it will prevent it Do 
this whenever the water foams and It will 
have desired effect, as I have had experience 
with it. w. N. l. 
Elliottsville, Pa. 
COL. G. W. CRAWFORD’S 
SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM 
of nearly 1500 acres, and barns holding 300 horses, 
has now on hands over 200 stallions of fine 
BELGIANS, PERCHERONS and GERMAN COACH. 
Banning in age from I year old to 5 years. Color—bays, blacks and 
grays; weigh from l(i00 to 2200 IBs. These stailions are all for sale on 
reasonable terms. Cash or bankable notes running 1,2 and three years. 
Also there is a lot of tine Belgian and Percheron mares for sale, 
Newark is situated 33 miles east of Columbus, and 157 miles west of 
Pittsburgh, on B. & O. and Pan Handle R. R. Trains evory hoar. 
Customers are invited to visit the farm and see the nice stock. 
Scncl for Catalogues. 
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Citizens Phone 266, Bell Phone 651 W. 
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The Largest Importers and Breeders of German Coach, 
. ereneron and Belgian Stallions in America. Have imported 
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rairs and stock shows than all other importers combined. 
yur horses are all from three to five years of age and we 
deliver all horses that wo sell to the buyer. Write us for full 
particulars and mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
J. CROUCH & SON, La Fayette, Indiana, U. S. A. 
Lost Strayed or 
Stolen—One Cow 
That is about what happens each year 
for the man who owns five cows and 
does not use a Tubular cream sepa¬ 
rator. He loses in cream more than 
the price of a good cow.The more cows 
he owns the greater the loss. This is a 
fact on which Agricultural Colleges, 
Dairy Experts and the best Dairymen 
all agree, and so do you if you use a 
Tabular* If not, it's high time yon 
M 
did. You can’t afford to lose the price 
Of one or more cows each year—there’s 
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skimmer that does perfect work,skims 
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