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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
the year round, witli a pay roll of. over prices. The same care is exercised in 
$8,000. Three retail rhilk wagons are feeding the young stock from the time 
used to deliver the milk, something they are calves until they are old 
like 250 gallons per day, which is all enough to fulfill their mission at Spring 
AN OHIO HOME FOR THE JERSEYS. Fig. 241. 
THE HEAD OF AX OHIO DAIRY HERD. Fig. 242. 
AN OHIO DAIRY FARM. 
I recently visited the Spring Grove 
Dairy Farm of Jacob E. White at 
Greenfield, Ohio. The farm consists 
of 254 acres of the finest land, espe¬ 
cially well located for an ideal dairy 
farm. The buildings are all new, and 
consist of a dairy barn, 44 by 200 feet 
in area, with stanchions for 100 cows, 
and 20 box stalls to be used for calves 
or for cows soon to be mothers. The 
interior is all cement excepting stall 
partitions. The King system of ven¬ 
tilation is used, which works to per¬ 
fection. The windows, about 100 in 
number are all screened, and can be 
darkened to keep flies out. Everything 
is arranged for the’ comfort of the 
cows. Four silos, with a total capacity 
of 500 tons, furnish green food for 
Winter. A cement pit at end of the 
barn saves all the manure, none being 
allowed to go to waste. The barn is 
equipped with litter carrier, and lighted 
by electric lights. It is also piped for 
running water, although it is never 
used, as Mr. White prefers letting the 
cows out twica a day, when they can 
water out in the fresh air. He finds 
by doing this the past year that his 
cows have never been off their feed 
and have done exceptionally well. A 
new stone creamery GO -by 75 feet, 
modern in every respect, handles all 
the milk from the herd as well as milk 
from many of the neighboring farmers, 
and Elgin prices are paid for butter 
fat. There are also calf barns and 
bull stables, which are constructed for 
safety in handling as well as being con¬ 
venient. 
Care and Feeding. —At the time the 
writer was at the farm, Mr. White was 
feeding the dairy cows 20 pounds of 
silage and G'A pounds grain, together 
with 'hay and Altai fa, which is all cut 
previous to feeding. Mr. White finds 
Alfalfa an ideal milk producing feed. 
The past year he had 18 acres, which 
yielded 75 tons, and finds that it is 
saving him from $4 to $5 per day in 
grain, with an increased flow of milk, 
provided it is properly cured. All of 
his is cured under caps. This coming 
year he intends fitting 22 acres more 
for Alfalfa, and when he gets it grow¬ 
ing will be able to reduce his grain bill 
quite a bit. Milking begins at 2.30 a. m. 
and 2.30 p. m.; 17 men are employed 
bottled. The butter is made by an ex¬ 
perienced butter maker, - packed in 
prints neatly cartoned, and is shipped 
to Pittsburg and adjoining markets, 
where it awaits a ready sale at good 
Grove Farm, trying to promote growth 
instead of fat. 
The Herd.—M r. White started in the 
dairy business 1G years ago, with a 
small herd of grade cows, but finding 
, May 29, 
that most of the cows had been bred 
for beef rather than milk, and that it 
was impossible to combine both, he dis¬ 
carded them, and set to work to estab¬ 
lish a herd of Jerseys. By careful se¬ 
lection and breeding he has a herd of 
100 milch cows, together with 50 head 
of young stock, that is without equal. 
While at present no individual milk 
records, lie has several 50-pound cows, 
none being kept that are not profitable, 
as boarders are not allowed on the 
farm. At the head of the herd is the 
imported bull King of Hambie, No. 
65298, without doubt the best-bred bull 
in Ohio. Another bull, Idle Hour 
Blue Belle Prince, No. 72292, is also 
owned, and is a very fine specimen. 
The cows are bred so as to yield a reg¬ 
ular flow of milk the year around, so 
his customers may have their regu’ar 
supply. From time to time, as the herd 
increases, he has people eager to be¬ 
come regular customers. All of this 
has been accomplished on a rented and 
run-down farm, now well fenced, with 
good gates, graded roads and walks, 
something like four thousand loads of 
manure being used each year. This 
year he is buying floats in carload lots, 
and is using them as an absorbent. He 
lias now a farm in high state of culti¬ 
vation, producing double the amount 
of corn per acre, and as great an in¬ 
crease of other crops. a. v. 
ABNORMAL BREATHING. 
What is Hie trouble with my cow? She 
is young, giving a good mess of milk, looks 
well and oats weli, but lias some trouble 
to breathe. You can bear her all over 
the barn. Do you suppose she lias the 
heaves? j. d. 
It is unlikely that the cow has a dis¬ 
ease of the nature of “heaves” (em¬ 
physema of the lungs) so commonly 
seen in horses. We fear that the dis¬ 
ease will prove to be tuberculosis af¬ 
fecting the glands of the throat, and 
this may be determined promptly by 
having her tested with tuberculin, 
which cannot possibly do any harm to 
any cow, but which will promptly de¬ 
cide whether or not tuberculosis is 
present. Sometimes the same glands 
are invaded by the ray fungus (actino- 
myces) which causes lumpy jaw, and 
where that is the case an operation 
may succeed. There is no cure for 
tuberculosis. Until the test has been 
made do not use the milk. a. s. a. 
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T 1 
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