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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
DAKOTA DAIRY QUESTIONS. 
I borrowed money to file on my claim, 
nn d bought my cows on time. What kind 
of buildings would you put up? Ihe cheap¬ 
est lumber is $30 per thousand. What 
would you feed? Bran, $38; shorts, $40 
per ton; corn, 00 cents; oats, 40 cents; 
and not to be had most of the time. I 
believe the country is adapted to dairying, 
and butter and eggs keep better here than 
they do in the States east of us. o. e. d. 
Biddings, S. Dak. 
It is impossible to give any definite plan 
for a dairy barn for your locality with¬ 
out knowing your local conditions, as a 
suitable plan for a dairy barn in one lo¬ 
cation may not be at all appropriate for 
another. If, however, your ^ground is level 
as most farms are in your section, I would 
build a stable 32 feet wide and as long as 
necessary to accommodate the number of 
rows and other stock you wish to keep. 
This width gives room for one row of cat¬ 
tle on each side of the 10-foot driveway 
in the center, or part of the room can be 
used for box stalls, feed. etc. The posts 
should not be more than 14 feet long, as 
it is better to confine your operations as 
closely to the ground as possible. This, 
would allow an eight or nine-foot ceiling' 
and a roomy loft above for hay and straw. 
If more room is wanted for the storage of 
hay it should be provided in the shape of 
a cheaply constructed hay barn on the north 
or west side of the stable, and connecting 
with it. Never build a hay barn on the 
south or east side of the stable, as you 
need all the fresh air and sunlight it is 
possible to secure with two square feet of 
cotton cloth and two square feet of glass 
for each cow. These windows and venti¬ 
lators should be placed mostly in the east 
and south sides, about four feet from the 
floor. With this arrangement for light and 
ventilation the stable can be kept practi¬ 
cally dry on the inside all Winter. The 
walls should be double-boarded, with paper 
between, and battened on the outside. You 
may expect very little trouble from disease 
in your herd if you provide a good dry 
stable in which the temperature keeps above 
freezing in cold weather. 
In regard to feed, you cannot afford to 
pay $38 per ton for bran nor $40 per ton 
for middlings. Corn and oats would be 
more economical to use at the prices 
quoted. Grind the corn and oats together, 
about equal parts by weight, and add one 
or two pounds of linseed oil meal each 
day for a cow giving milk. Of course, the 
quantity of grain fed must depend upon 
the condition of the cows and the amount 
of milk they are giving. If you could buy 
sprouted wheat, or that which has been 
damaged, for sale at about 60 cents per 
bushel, and have it ground for feed, it 
would no doubt prove to be a saving. 
_ c. s. GItEEXE. 
Feeding Rye Hay. 
Is rye bay cut. just before coming to the 
milk stage injurious as a feed for mares in 
foal ? Rye grain is, I understand, what 
ergot is made from, and I have heard that 
rye straw as a feed is apt to cause abortion. 
New Jersey. w. m. b. 
Ergot is a fungus disease of the seed 
heads of rye. and the fungus may be found 
before the seeds ripen, so that affected rye 
might be injurious even if cut before the 
heads had filled. Apart from this rye hay 
is a coarse food and not quite suitable for 
mares in foal. These animals will do bet¬ 
ter if given good hay and bright corn fod¬ 
der, along with grain, roots or a little 
nicely-made silage. Rye hay, free from 
ergot, may, however, safely be fed as a 
part ration along with good hay and fod¬ 
der. _ a. s. A. 
White or Blue Limestone. 
S. S., Sussex Co., X. J .—Is there any 
difference, from the Alfalfa standpoint, in 
the value of crushed white or blue lime¬ 
stone? This question is asked because we 
can secure the crushed white stone nearby 
for 60 cents per ton. and do not know where 
the blue stone can be got at any price. 
We are aware, however, that nearby far¬ 
mers have always declined to use lime 
burned from white stone, for agricultural 
purposes, and therefore we have hesitated 
to use it on an Alfalfa •field. C. B. Wing 
(page 781), who claimed to have given us 
“the secret of Alfalfa growing in a nut¬ 
shell,” seems to have a decided preference 
for crushed unburned limestone, but does 
not express his preference as to which kind 
of stone. Ours is a blue-stone soil, but has 
not had an application of lime in several 
years, and we now desire to try Mr. Wing’s 
“nutshell” scheme. 
Ans.—A s to the relative value of 
white and blue limestone, blue lime¬ 
stone as a rule is magnesian limestone, 
and the white limestone is pure car¬ 
bonate of lime. We should use the 
white limestone, for while all white 
limestone mav not be cure carbonate of 
lime, it certainly does contain as much, 
if not more, lime than the blue, or 
magnesian limestone. 
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