1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
66 
CARING FOR CHICKS. 
Last year on page S14, “Reader” de¬ 
scribes the troubles he had with brooder 
chicks. lie thought the brooder floor too 
high (about 16 inches) making too steep 
a shoot, or run for the chicks, and he 
found it a difficult thing to keep chicks 
under hover. During some of our first 
experiences with brooders, we had no end 
of trouble in teaching the chicks to go 
back up the steep runs to the hovers. They 
would persist in crowding into any old 
corner, or where the sunlight fell, and they 
would often get chilled and trampled to 
death. We had to be continually on the 
lookout, and attribute a great part of this 
condition to the serious mortality we had 
with brooder chicks. They say “live and 
learn.” and that is just what a poultry- 
man has to do and he will surprised in 
after years to see how little be really 
knows. Several years ago we built some 
sectional brooders, one 12 feet long with 
four brooders, and one 15 feet with five 
brooders. These are end to end and fed 
from one pipe. In each brooder there are 
two rooms, and with a hover would make 
three. The hover chamber is two by three 
feet. The curtain separates a one by three 
foot room where the little chicks are fed 
and watered. They are, for a week or 10 
days, kept in the brooder and thus learn 
where the warm place is. The front of 
this one by three room lias a wire across 
so that light and air have free play. When 
the chicks are a week or 10 days old the 
floor of this one by three foot space drops 
down and helps to form the shoot or run¬ 
way to the ground 14 inches below. We 
tack a piece of burlap on this runway, 
place a board about two feet away, so 
that chicks cannot get too far away from 
their warm place to lose track of it. We 
throw a little chick feed upon the burlap- 
covered run, and we have no more trouble. 
Chicks must have a reasonable time to 
learn what you want, them to do, but when 
they are once taught it is more difficult 
to teach them some other way. We have 
a path one foot deep behind our brooders 
which we find a help when adjusting the 
flame, lighting or trimming the wick. 
We like to keep our eyes and ears open, 
and our mind in a receptive state, so that 
the “know how” to do things will find 
ready access. We used to load our six by 
three foot coops upon the wheelbarrow and 
crane our neck to look over the coop to 
see where we are going. Xow we pull the 
wheelbarrow behind us and have no 
trouble. For years when we wished to 
move chickens or pullets into Winter 
quarters or other coops, I called out the 
whole family to help, each taking three or 
four birds at a time. Lately 1 found out 
that with a good-sized crate on the wheel¬ 
barrow I can move them so much easier 
and do it myself. w. T. WALLIS. 
Massachusetts. 
SILAGE FROM CANNING FACTORIES. 
What is the quality of the so-called 
silage made at the canning factories? I 
am told that it is sold to farmers who haul 
it home to feed. A neighbor told me that 
such silage smells so badly that farmers 
who haul it are not permitted to hitch 
their horses in town, but must move out 
of town as fast as possible. Anything in 
that? o. a. c. 
I asked one man who has fed tons of 
it, and he said that we could get the corn 
husks and cob silage, meaning by this 
the refuse that goes into the silo at sweet 
corn time. The cobs are first run through 
a shredder after having the corn cut off 
for canning; after this they are carried 
on an endless chain, the same one that 
runs from the big husking shed, containing 
the husks, also many a bushel of good 
feeding corn, so that this mass of stuff is 
all excellent feed, both before it goes into 
the silo and after it comes out. This kind 
of silage we think very good, even better 
than much of the home-grown product that 
does not have So many ears in it, but the 
great bulk of canners’ silage is made from 
pea vines, and it is this class of silage 
no doubt that your correspondent means. 
My informant told me that he was never 
able to make good sweet milk from pea 
vine silage; there is something like an acid 
forms in the heating process, so that al¬ 
though the stuff is a good color, a heavy 
dark green, and cattle eat it readily after 
they get used to it, it is certainly ill- 
, smelling stuff, and I -don’t believe your, 
correspondent has exaggerated the matter 
very much. Following the same line of 
thought, I asked another farmer, a neigh¬ 
bor, who has for 12 years made butter 
from about 30 cows and supplied private 
customers in nearby city at fancy prices; 
therefore he must be particular about his 
feed. When I asked him about pea vines 
he said that he had tried them, and while 
the cattle will eat them up clean and will 
milk pretty well on them, yet, he said, 
“It don’t seem possible that anything that 
smells as badly as that pea vine silage 
could be good wholesome feed, and I don’t 
think I want any more.” I could go on, 
but it hardly seems necessary, as both 
men whom I talked with are good business 
men, who have had large experience in 
feeding stock. Sometimes the canning 
company buys up stock in the Fall to 
winter themselves and sell in the Spring. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. w. N. w. 
DAIRYING IN SOUTH DAKOTA. 
When I filed on my claim I never 
dreamed that I would try to start a dairy 
in this place, but we sometimes change our 
minds. I wanted to be more at home and 
more independent. I am a carpenter, and 
it took me away from homo more than I 
like to be, so we decided to try butter 
making and the poultry business. We 
bought some cows and went to work. 
Ranchmen do not make enough butter for 
their own use. Very few of them even 
milked one cow when I first came to Da¬ 
kota, so you sec we did not have dairy 
cows to pick our cows from; calves had 
run with them for generation after genera,* 
tion. We picked clear red two-year-old 
heifers that were coming fresh, never had 
been handled and about as wild as deer 
and good grade Short-horns. They had 
never been stabled, and we did not have 
one to put them in. We had a corral 
about 50 feet ill diameter and a saddle 
rope or lariat. When I had a heifer to 
break I would throw the rope over her 
head, draw her up to the fence and pro¬ 
ceed to business. I have broken about 30 
in this way and have never struck one 
of them in anger. There has not been a 
kicking cow in the bunch, and in less than 
a week’s time I could milk them anywhere 
in the yard. You will ask why didn’t I 
go East and got milch cows. Not more 
than 25 per cent of the cows brought here 
from the East will breed the first year, 
perhaps not more than 50 per cent the 
second year; after that they are all right. 
Mares are the same. We have to buy and 
cull out to get cows good for anything, 
and it is slow work to get cows- that 
will make butter. What breed do we use 
here in this locality? Anything that runs 
on the prairie. I have taken Short-horn 
grades. Would like to get Jerseys, but 
haven’t the price. We feed prairie hay. 
There is not much money in it, but we 
are independent, and our own boss. I am 
going to raise corn, speltz and millet as 
fast as I can get my land broken up. My 
wife is a number one butter maker, and 
we have not sold any butter for less than 
20 cents when other were getting 15 cents. 
We put it up in two-pound fiber boxes and 
stamp each one with our stamp. To look 
at our claim or ranch you would not call 
it a dairy, but wo have to mark it so 
people will know whose butter they are 
getting. _ c. d. 
Leaking Stove Fipes. —A recent inquiry 
was in regard to creosote leaking out of 
the joints of a stove pipe, when burning 
green wood, and how it could be prevented. 
Your reply was, “burn dry wood.” We 
have been troubled in the same way since 
the cheap air-tight sheet-iron heating 
stoves came into use, and overcame the 
difficulty by simply putting the pipe in 
wrong ciul up, though really right end up 
for this class of stove; then when the 
stove is closed to hold fire over night and 
the moisture condenses in the pipe, it 
runs back down the pipe into the fire and 
is consumed, instead of leaking out at 
every joint to ruin carpets and furniture. 
Put your pipe up right and you will have 
no trouble with creosote. r. z. n. 
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