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THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
March 13, 
LIVE STOCK NOTES. 
Early Crops For Canada. 
Winter Planning. —Our Winters are 
not only useful for reading and thought 
—for storing up energy both of mind 
and body—but they are useful to the 
farmer in the fact that they give him 
plenty of time for planning his busi¬ 
ness and his work. Useful ideas may 
come to one in the busy season—when 
he ‘'works all day and does chores all 
night,” as David Harum used to say— 
but the busy season is no time for 
formulating plans and methods of pro¬ 
cedure. One very important subject for 
us dairymen to consider is the grow¬ 
ing of an abundance of fodder for our 
cows during the Summer months, when 
pasture fails to furnish enough grass 
to keep up the flow of milk. Tn rare 
cases, where one has a large territory in 
pasture, and where it is divided into 
two or more lots so that the cattle may 
be changed every few days from one 
lot to another, it may be unnecessary 
to supplement with fodder crops. But 
even then there may be a waste of land 
in having so much in pasture unless it 
be rough permanent pasture that cannot 
be cultivated. To the farmer who can 
grow Alfalfa successfully, there is noth¬ 
ing to say. Surely “his lines are cast 
in pleasant places.” We can only look 
with covetous eyes upon his abundance, 
and grow those things which we can 
succeed with. 
Dry Times Coming. —Any dairyman 
of experience recognizes the fact that 
there is great loss every Summer, es¬ 
pecially in the months of July and Au¬ 
gust, on account of the scarcity of pas¬ 
ture grass. To be profitable a dairy 
must be kept up to its full capacity dur¬ 
ing July and August, as well as the 
months following, for the quantity of 
milk produced in September, October 
and November is influenced very 
largely by the way in which cattle are 
fed in July and August. Cows receiv¬ 
ing an insufficient supply of food for 
two months decrease greatly in milk, 
and the flow cannot again be brought 
up to where it should be, even when 
there is an abundance of grass in Sep 
tember and the following months. 
Hence, in order to reap the benefit of 
good Fall pastures, and of the high 
prices for butter and cheese which pre¬ 
vail during these months, we must feed 
our cows well during July and August 
The cheapest, easiest and most certain 
plan of insuring an abundance of food 
during July and August is to make use 
of soiling crops. According to many 
experiments backed by the • experience 
of thousands of successful dairymen, 
the best soiling crops we can grow in 
this climate are vetches, peas, oats, 
clover, Alfalfa and corn. 
Soiling Crops. —The following suc¬ 
cession of soiling crops is highly recom¬ 
mended by one of our experiment sta¬ 
tions, and has been found very satis¬ 
factory in practice. It is worked out 
for a dairy of 10 cows, so that any 
dairyman may increase or decrease the 
amount of land in each crop in pro¬ 
portion to the number of cattle in his 
herd. 
1. Clover, one acre. To have been 
sown with the mixture of peas and 
oats the previous year. Feed off from 
June 20 to July 15. If the pasture has 
been allowed to get a good start be¬ 
fore the 'cattle are turned out in the 
Spring, it may be unnecessary to feed 
anything during the latter part of June 
and the first half of July. 
2. Peas and oats, acre. Sow one 
bushel of peas, 1 y 2 bushel of oats and 
five pounds of Red clover seed on one- 
half acre of land, about the first week 
in May. Feed off July 15-31. 
3. Peas and oats, one-half acre. 
Sow the same mixture on another half 
acre about the third week in May. Feed 
off August 1-15. 
4. Corn, one-half acre. Plant 10 
pounds Longfellow, or other early variety 
in hills three feet each way. Plant as 
early as possible on well-drained land, 
clover sod preferred, manured at the 
rate of 20 tons per acre. This heavy 
manuring is recommended in order to 
force a heavy early growth. Perhaps 
a smaller amount of manure, supple¬ 
mented by a commercial fertilizer, would 
be better—especially in a cool, wet 
season. Feed off August 15-30. 
5. Corn one-half acre. Plant 12 nounds 
Learning or other medium variety, 
same as above. Feed off in September. 
We have found that the most sat¬ 
isfactory method of feeding soiling 
crops as a supplement to pastures, is 
to put the fodder in the mangers in 
the afternoon where the cows can find 
it when they come in to be milked. 
They will nearly always come to the 
stable of their own accord when they 
know there is a good bite of something 
tempting awaiting them; thus saving 
the time of going for them, which par¬ 
tially compensates for the labor of cut¬ 
ting and hauling the heavy green stuff, 
whatever it may be. During the rush 
of haying and harvesting there may 
be some excuse for throwing fodder 
over the fence into the pasture, but 
this method is very apt to be wasteful 
and unsatisfactory. Some fodder will 
be soiled by the feet of the animals 
and then the “boss” cows will get the 
lion’s share, while the more timid in¬ 
dividuals get very little. No doubt it 
would pay to grow enough fodder crops 
to feed our cows twice a day during 
fly time. We could then keep them in 
the stable during the day, allowing them 
to run at pasture in the night. But the 
extra labor involved would be consid¬ 
erable. Besides the handling of so much 
heavy fodder, there would be large 
quantities of semi-liquid manure to be 
removed each day, which would re¬ 
quire a good deal of time and an abun¬ 
dance of dry sawdust or other absorbent. 
c. s. M. 
R. N.-Y.—Remember that these crops 
and dates are arranged for a locality 
in Quebec—north of Vermont. Change 
the dates for lower latitudes. 
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JUBILEE YEAR 
99 
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