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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 9, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
ARE DAIRY COWS SOIL ROBBERS? 
Until recently I should not have 
dared to head an article as above, for I 
should expect that a delegation of dairy¬ 
men would have me promptly commit¬ 
ted to an insane asylum. But after hav¬ 
ing heard the dean of an agricultural 
school argue that cows are soil robbers 
I shall make bold to argue that they are 
not. Mr. Cook went at it in this way: 
He claimed that the farmers had gone 
cow crazy. They were keeping too 
many cows, and said cows were crop¬ 
ping the pastures so closely that the 
grass was destroyed and the weeds took 
possession of the soil. I will say, with 
all due respect to Mr. Cook, that I do 
not believe this. No one expects to 
kill out a newly-seeded lawn by con¬ 
tinuous clipping with the lawn mower, 
but on the other hand he expects that 
the grass will keep getting thicker as a 
result of the clipping. Of course we ex¬ 
pect to fertilize the lawn at intervals, 
and also the cow fertilizes the pasture, 
and in excess of what she removes in 
most cases; I refer to the practice of 
feeding a little br n or silage at milking 
time, “just to make the cows come 
home.” 
That close cropping alone will not run 
little, and manured this little far in ex¬ 
cess of what they should. That is an 
excess of nitrogen. The oats grew up 
rank and then fell down and smothered 
the clover, and by the time the dairy¬ 
man got over his farm in this way the 
general condition of the farm was worse 
than when he began. Unfortunately a 
good deal of what Mr. Cook said about 
this was true, but I do claim he made a 
mistake when he laid the blame on the 
cow. Bossy produced the fertilizer. If 
man wasted it or misapplied it, bossy 
should not be blamed. I have yet to see 
a dairy farm that was over-supplied with 
cow manure. Instead of putting 25 
loads on an acre, put on eight or 10. 
Instead of getting the hired man to see 
how many loads he can haul in a day, 
get him to see how evenly he can spread 
it, and how many acres he can cover. 
Put the fine manure on the new seeding. 
It will not make the oats lodge after 
they are in the barn, and it will make 
the young clover hustle next Spring. 
Plow one-fourth of your meadow land 
each year and seed it the next. That 
will give one-fourth in corn and other 
hoed crops, one-fourth in peas and oats 
to grind for the cows, and that will leave 
one-fourth in one-year-old meadow and 
one-fourth in two-year-old meadow. 
Follow this plan for a few years, and if 
your farm keeps getting poorer you may 
GRADE COW, BELLE, WITH JERSEY BLOOD. Fig. 14. See First Page. 
out the grass was very clearly illus¬ 
trated to me a few years ago. When I 
lived on my hill farm I had a small field 
that I used as a calf pasture, and for 
the last two years I also kept a mare 
and her colt there when the mare wa's 
not working. I often had this lot very 
much over-stocked, and the grass was 
kept eaten clear down to the earth. I 
used to feed the calves skim-milk and 
grain, and sometimes hay to patch out 
the grass. Of course I also fed the 
mare, letting her run here with the colt 
in preference to stabling them in warm 
weather. 
When I moved to Laurel Farm I 
turned all that side of the farm into 
meadow, the calf pasture included. I 
did not expect much from it, but I had 
no time to plow it, so I let it go. But 
the grass was not dead. In the Spring 
it started up like a well-kept lawn, and 
produced over two tons of hay to the 
acre. I have mowed this patch now five 
years, and the past season it was as good 
as the first. I have taken but one crop 
each year, and the aftermath has gone 
back on the land. Of course this field 
had a great deal of manure, besides that 
which came from the grass, as prac¬ 
tically all of the skim-milk and quite a 
quantity of grain went on to this lot. 
But if grass could be killed by close 
cropping this patch would certainly have 
gone under. 
Then Mr. Cook went on to show how 
the cow ruined the rest of the farm. 
He said that the dairymen plowed but 
say that the dairy cow is a soil robber 
and that Mr. Cook is right. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
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showed me in th’ picture?” “Yes.” “Tell 
her to crawl into th’ umbrella cover.”— 
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intoMON 
Is easy with Boyle’s Steel Stanch¬ 
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down, stand or turn the head at 
will; ties securely but keeps cows so 
comfortable and contented in con¬ 
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JAS. BOYLE & SON 
Dept. G,, 
SALEM, OHIO. 
Is the feed that contains all the nutritious elements in'' 
.just the right proportion to make muscle, energy and fat 
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Fashionably bred large producing cows bred to 
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GENIE CLOTBIEDK, one of the world’s 
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The GUERNSEY COW is the 
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Reason WHY-by writing 
Guernsey Club, Box R. N. Y., Peterboro, N. H. 
A Good Madison Countv Farm Of 
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Also Thirtv-Five Tons Of Hay Will Be 
Placed On Cars at $13.00 Per Ton. 
JERSEY CATTLE $50 and Upwards. 
J. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton, N. Y. 
SPRINGBANK HERD™Sr Sir!?S 
bred to Watson’s Charmer Duke, 106100, son of 
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Lady Premier B., 81248. The first Berkshire Sow 
that ever sold for $1000.00 ;tt Public Auction. 
J. E. WATSON, Marbledale, Conn. 
KALORAMA 
BERKSHIRES 
A limited number of young sows bred to a grand 
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Also a fine lot of fall pigs of the highest quality 
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/"'Old.IE PUPS from imported Stock. Females 
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num FARM Berkshire Hogs and Jersey 
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G00K FARMS-JACKS 
LOCUST HOME BERKSHIRES 
Direct Premier Longfellow, Lord Premier and 
Masterpiece strains. Young stock for sale. 
S. C. FRENCH, Atwater, N. Y. 
Large Improved English Yorkshires 
A. A. BRADLEY, Frewshurg, N. Y. 
Saddle Horses, Trotting 
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We are the largest Breeders and 
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Roxing-ton, Kentucky. 
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GREATS^EW YEAR SALE 
BELGIAN, PERCHERON AND GERMAN 
COACH STALLIONS AND MARES 
WILL BE SOLD AT 
THE SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM, NEWARK, O., 
on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 12th and 13th, 1909. 
SALE TO COMMENCE £T 10 O’CLOCK A. M. EACH DAY. 
RAIN OR SHINE. BAD WEATHER NO INTERFERENCE. 
A new importation of 100 head of stallions and mares will arrive 
from Europe at The Sharon Valley Stoek Farm on New Year’s 
Day. 100 head of Belgian, Pereheron and German Coach Stallions 
will be offered for private sale during this two days’ sale. At this 
sale you can buy pairs of heavy draft mares. Belgians and Perehe- 
rons, 2, 3 and 4 years old. in foal, and Draft Stallions weighing over 
a ton. German Coach Stallions, the finest in the world. A lot of 
draft geldings in pairs or single—some line high-acting roadsters. 
