TWO. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
849 
PASTURE ON HILLY LAND. 
F. ,/., Port Byron, A'. Y.—I have a lot 
which has been pastured for years, too 
hilly and in fact such shape it is impos¬ 
sible to get a crop off. What can I put 
in to furnish Summer and Fall pasturage? 
Part of the lot affords no pasture, seem¬ 
ingly run out. Is there anything that could 
lx* done by plowing and seeding, letting 
stock run on it, to avoid fencing. 
Ans. —Grasses of Blue-grass nature 
may take more kindly to those hills 
and withstand the elements, especially 
the fury of prevailing Winter winds 
and the consequent exposure. “Any¬ 
thing that is worth doing is worth 
doing well.” Alfalfa would doubtless 
come nearest to the ideal crop, but of 
course it may involve a whole lot of 
new problems; however, Alfalfa is so 
valuable, either as a feeding crop or 
soil restorer alone, that it is well 
worth trying to find out if it will 
succeed, and if not why not, then sup¬ 
ply needs, or remove cause of failure. 
The inquirer mentions “too hilly,” 
therefore the drainage may not enter 
his category of troubles. Tillage and 
manure are probably at his elbow, lime 
is cheap and inoculation often not nec¬ 
essary. Personally, I know of many 
pieces of Alfalfa in this locality, Mon¬ 
roe Co., where ideal stands have been 
secured without lime or inoculation, 
neither of which is in arty way con¬ 
demned. Alfalfa is practically a bal¬ 
anced ration alone. Early cut, prop¬ 
erly cured and housed it is neaily 
equal in feeding value, pound for 
pound, to wheat bran. The following 
from Farmer's Bulletin 339 (Wash¬ 
ington), December, 1908, actual feed 
ing value of different - feeds, based on 
amount of digestible nutrients. “Al¬ 
falfa hay, $20.10; clover hay, $14.12; 
Timothy hay, $9.80; wheat bran, $22.80, 
and shelled corn, $20.16.” Then, too, 
the elements of fertility in a ton of 
Alfalfa hay, Bulletin 154 (1898), 
Stone, is estimated at $7.08, saying noth¬ 
ing of the organic matter value. Ni¬ 
trogen is figured at only 14 cents per 
pound, which is too low. Phosphoric 
acid and potash each at 4 x / 2 cents. 
Same comparison as above, Timothy 
hay is valued at $2.95 per ton. And 
last, but not least, the great value of 
Alfalfa as a restoring agent of fertil¬ 
ity is but litt’e appreciated except by 
a few. T. E. MARTIN. 
NEW JERSEY STALLION LAW AGAIN. 
On page 545 our good friend, Edward 
Van Alstyne, claims that on page 502 
Clark Pettit was too severe on the 
above law and the Commission enforc¬ 
ing it. Believing, as the writer does, 
that Mr. Van Alstyne and Prof. Voor- 
hces have done much to benefit the 
farmers of New Jersey, still every good 
citizen owes it to them, as well as to 
* 
the State, to oppose any mistakes they 
make in matters of such importance as 
horse breeding, which, if unchallenged, 
m'ght lessen the good influence ex¬ 
pected from them in the future. 
Mr. Van Alstyne while acknowledg¬ 
ing the superiority of the American 
trotter over all other breeds as all- 
around horses, says many of them are 
too small and hot-headed for farm 
work, but seems to forget that equally 
as great drawbacks are found among 
the culls of all other breeds. He im¬ 
plies that the average farmer cannot se¬ 
cure such trotting-bred mares, as can 
he bred profitably to our best trotting 
sires, and hence would do better to use 
such cart and coach horse sires, as our 
Commission has recently imported. Ex¬ 
perienced breeders who have experi¬ 
mented with such sires here for at least 
30 years know that all the animals 
bonot here by them in that time, that 
have sold from our farms for as much 
as $200 apiece, can be counted on the 
fingers of one hand, while a large per¬ 
centage of the offspring of our best 
trotting sires even from cheap trot¬ 
ting-bred mares, sell right off our 
farms for from $200 to $500 each for 
use on the roads and city driveways, 
often excelling where bred on farm and 
road the offspring of cart and coach 
horse sires. In proof of which, let us 
cite instances that might be continued 
indefinitely, showing that the results 
from our very cheapest trotting-bred 
dams, and good trotting sires, greatly 
excel the best results ever secured here 
from work-horse sires. From an old 
pair of non-standard farm mares, se¬ 
cured for just $89, utterly unlike in 
size, color, breeding, form and disposi¬ 
tion, we secured from a first-class im¬ 
pressive trotting sire, a beautifully 
styled and gaited matched five-year-old 
bay road team, sold right off the farm 
for $1000, while two neighbors, from 
another cheap pair of non-standard 
farm mares, also utterly unlike in form 
and disposition, bred from the same 
sire, another superb matched carriage 
pair, fully 16 hands high, that we sold 
for $1400, right off .the farm, to a party 
in Mr. Van Alstyne’s own State, who 
used them two or three years and re¬ 
sold them in New York City for $3400. 
At least 75 per cent of all the mature 
offspring of this same sire (and largely 
from ordinary trotting-bred farm 
mares) have sold for from $200 to as 
much as $6000 apiece, with the demand 
constantly growing for line road and 
park horses, yet breeders located be¬ 
tween New York and Philadelphia, are 
advised to breed the lower-priced work 
horses, few of which have ever com¬ 
manded as much as $200 apiece from 
breeders’ hands. True, not every trot¬ 
ting sire so uniformly secures results, 
but nearly all of them excel any work 
horses ever kept here, in selling values 
of their offspring, and would be doing 
still better had it not been for the in¬ 
judicious intermingling of all kinds of 
equine blood of different breeds in the 
past, as is now again advised, and en¬ 
couraged by our State. 
Now as to the law itself. We have 
never met a breeder of New Jersey 
who ever heard of it, until after it was 
enacted, or one who knew the State 
was to embark in importing and own¬ 
ing stallions, until after 13 sires of four 
different breeds had arrived in this 
country. Nor have we ever met a New 
Jersey breeder who, after understand¬ 
ing the provisions of this wonderful 
law, has not condemned it; a law that 
originally made, breeding the chief 
foundation of license, but now licenses 
animals whose breeding is utterly un¬ 
known; a law that requires soundness 
and perfection, but under which notori¬ 
ously unsound animals are licensed; a 
law whose enactment was a virtual ac¬ 
knowledgment by our State that her 
horse stock could be improved by 
mingling therewith the blood of the 
cart horse breeds of Europe, and in 
utter defiance of the protection of 
American industries, brings here at 
public expense, of a depleted public 
treasury, these animals to compete at 
fees (that merely cover the cost of their 
keep) with sires secured at their own 
expense by enterprising and loyal citi¬ 
zens. M. P., on page 563 says, “the 
large numbers of western draught 
horses brought East proves that there 
is dissatisfaction with the 2:30 horse, 
and not because of cheaper rations in 
the West.” M. P. is entitled to another 
guess, and to recall that we bred these 
cart horse breeds here before they were 
common in the West, and discarded 
them because the trotting horse paid 
better, and the constant demand for 
all our best ones for city use still 
makes room for trainloads of lower- 
priced, western-bred substitutes, such 
as the average New Jersey man cannot 
afford to produce, as others will better 
understand after trial of these latest 
importations. 
Had this law simply created and 
empowered a competent commission to 
examine all stallions kept for public 
service, and issue certificates of com¬ 
mendation for only those that filled 
specific requirements, the inferior un¬ 
commended ones would soon have been 
crowded out; but with breeding and 
soundness both ignored, we need not 
wonder that breeders, already burdened 
with the highest tax rate ever experi¬ 
enced here, complain of paying $5 ad¬ 
ditional for licenses, that mean nothing 
save a fine of $100 for each fee charged 
without it. Hence many of your R. N.- 
Y. readers have solicited a reply to Mr. 
Van Alstyne, whose statements, if un¬ 
noticed, might interfere with our hav¬ 
ing the law repealed, and at the same 
time encourage other States to repeat 
New Jersey’s mistake, clark pettit. 
Con. G. W. Crawford, proprietor of the 
Sharon Valiev Stock Farm. Newark. Ohio, 
has aone to Europe for six to ci^ht weeks. 
While there he will visit France, Germany 
and Belgium, and select the best Individuals 
in the way of draft and coach stallions and 
mares (hat he can find. Ills next auction 
sale will be held in October, exact date to 
be named later. 
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