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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 4, i 
A PUREBRED JERSEY. 
The picture from which the cut at 
Fig. 454 was made was sent us by Mr. 
W. S. Goutremont of Lewis Co., X. 
Y. It shows the heifer Gold Leaf. Mr. 
Goutremont knows the value of pure 
blood in a herd. He says: 
“We used to think (when we were 
boys) a cow that would make one 
pound of butter a day was quite a cow. 
This heifer was making one pound of 
fine butter a day at 21 months old. Her 
mother made 17 pounds in seven days.” 
as for the farmer to try to grow Alfalfa 
with one-quarter the amount of soil inocu¬ 
lation, one-quarter the amount of lime and 
one-fourth the amount of fertilizer that he 
should use. In reply to questions as to 
the amount of soil to use for inoculation, 
he said his experience indicated that it 
was better to use three to four tons per 
acre rather than less. We could not af¬ 
ford to fail on this point after the other 
larger expenses had been Incurred. As to 
the use of lime, Mr. Sadd said he con¬ 
sidered two tons per acre of caustic lime 
none too much. 
Mr. Sadd called attention to a field he 
had seeded with barley as a catch crop 
STATE OF NEW YORK 
Department ^rAgriculture 
RAYMOND A. PEARSON, COMMISSIONER. 
NOTICE 
TUBERCULOUS CATTLE 
Examination Required for Tuberculosis 
Neat Cattle Entering New York State 
for Breeding or Dairy Purposes. 
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PUREBRED JERSEY HEIFER GOLD LEAF. Fig. 454. 
CONNECTICUT DAIRYMEN INSPECT 
ALFALFA FIELDS. 
One of the largest field meetings ever 
held by the Connecticut Dairymen’s Asso¬ 
ciation was gathered at the farm of It. L. 
Sadd, of Wappiug, on August 11. About 
500 persons gathered to inspect the fine 
herd, tlie Alfalfa growing on the farm, and 
to listen to the discussions relating to Al¬ 
falfa culture and other dairy topics. Mr. 
Sadd is practicing intensive dairying and 
is one of the few farmers in Connecticut 
who lias had sufficient faith in Alfalfa to 
follow up its culture until he lias made a 
success of growing it. There is only a 
small area of pasture on the farm, so that 
Mr. Sadd finds the Alfalfa very valuable as 
a Summer feed for his large herd of cows. 
The farm, at present, supports 80 head on 
a total of 117 acres, and the owner says 
it is his aim and ambition to develop the 
farm so that it will support one head of 
live stock for each acre. He believes this 
will be possible by depending largely on 
Alfalfa as a Summer feed, and on corn 
silage as a Winter feed. 
At tlie afternoon gathering Mr. Sadd told 
his experience for the past six years with 
Alfalfa in a simple but most interesting 
way. He said : “The home of the Alfalfa 
plant is in a limestone soil, and seed sown 
in that kind of soil will grow as readily as 
our grasses do here. Thus we see that Al¬ 
falfa is an unnatural crop with us, and that 
it becomes necessary for us to supply the 
deficiencies of our soil and climate. These 
may be classed under two beads: the in¬ 
oculation of the soil witli the proper bac¬ 
teria. and the correction of soil acidity 
by the liberal use of lime.” Mr. Sadd began 
experimenting with Alfalfa in 1904, sow¬ 
ing one acre in August of that year, using 
the pure cultures from the Department of 
Agriculture at Washington, with the hope 
of securing good soil inoculation. As a 
means of comparison, he obtained soil from 
an old Alfalfa field and tried this on one 
square rod near one end of the field. This 
one rod was the only portion of the field 
“that amounted to anything.” The presence 
of an abundance of the root nodules on 
this small area indicated the chief reason 
for success. The next year Mr. Sadd 
sowed a new pateli of one-eighth acre, and 
Inoculated the soil heavily from the suc¬ 
cessful rod of the year before. From this 
be enlarged to three acres in August, 1906, 
using three to four tons of inoculating soil 
per acre from the one-eighth acre field. 
This three-acre lot has furnished four crops 
per year, and at the date of the meeting 
(August 11) was ready to harvest for the 
third time this Summer. Mr. Sadd said 
just 29 days had passed since the last cut¬ 
ting. and he estimated that the field would 
cut one ton per acre, notwithstanding we 
had just passed through a period of severe 
drought. Re-seeding, he thought, would be 
necessary once in three to four years, as 
the Alfalfa seemed to be slowly replaced 
by our common grasses. Other fields bad 
been sown from time to time till 10 acres 
were now growing on the farm. Mr. Sadd 
laid great stress on the necessity of sup¬ 
plying the proper condition for success. He 
said the housewife might as well try to 
produce good bread without sufficient yeast 
the last Spring, but the growth of the Al¬ 
falfa then was seriously checked by weeds 
and the dry Summer we have been hav¬ 
ing. This experience with Spring seeding 
agreed with that of others who were pres¬ 
ent, that it was rarely a success in Con¬ 
necticut. The Alfalfa plant is so slow in 
its growth when young that the weeds 
which thrive in the Spring and early Sum¬ 
mer are almost sure to choke it. Mr. 
Sadd said that he believed the time would 
soon come when we would grow Alfalfa 
for silage. It was a difficult crop to cure 
many seasons, and if we could put it into 
the silo, this method of preserving would 
solve a serious problem. In closing, ho 
said : “We cannot overestimate the value 
of Alfalfa to the Connecticut dairyman-. It 
is worth ail It costs as a soil Improver.” 
C1IAS. S. PHELPS. 
Oats and Peas. —This is what one 
farmer says about his crop: “I put on 
a good crop last Spring for peas and oats: 
was busy haying 
and oats as soon 
They were rather 
was a good tiling, 
to Iho cows, and 
and they have inc 
others about are 
We feed the cows 
and morning.” 
Massachusetts. 
ind did not get to peas 
as I would have liked, 
ripe, we thought, hut it 
for we are feeding them 
have stopped all grain, 
•eased in milk, while all 
falling off in the milk, 
all they will eat, night 
M. A. E. 
By virtue of the authority given and the duty 
imposed upon me as Commissioner of Agriculture 
of the State of New York, by the Agricultural Law, 
I hereby give notice to all persons concerned, that 
for the purpose of preventing the shipment of 
tuberculous animals from other States into dairy 
herds of this State: 
1. All cattle hereafter entering the State 
of New York, and used or intended to be 
used for breeding or dairy purposes within 
this State, shall be kept in quarantine until 
duly released by theCfonamissioner of Agri- 
cull ure. 
2. Such cattle will not be released from quaran¬ 
tine until shown to he free from tuberculosis by 
both physical examination and tuberculin test 
made by a veterinary practitioner satisfactory to 
the Commissioner of Agriculture. 
3. Such cattle in quarantine shall not he 
allowed to mingle or come in contact with 
other cattle and they shall not be trans¬ 
ported nor allowed to go from one farm or 
property to another without written per¬ 
mit from the Commissioner of Agriculture. 
4. The detention of such cattle shall be at the 
owner’s expense and risk. 
6 . The above, however, does not apply to any 
cattle which have crossed the State line in a rail¬ 
road ear or other conveyance so long as they re¬ 
main continuously in or on such conveyance. 
(i. The Slate does not allow indemnity for tuber¬ 
culous animals which have not been in the State 
at least six months. 
7 Statements relative to requests for permits 
for moving such cattle should be sent to the Bu¬ 
reau of Veterinary Service, Department of Agri¬ 
culture, Albany. N. V., and should state number of 
cattle, place where procured, origin of shipment 
and proposed destination and proposed route of 
shipment, also time of arrival at point of destina¬ 
tion. 
8 . Article V. The above requirements are pub¬ 
lished under the provisions of the Agricultural 
Law, Chapter 1 of the Consolidated Laws. 
9. Section 97 of the same article of the Agricul¬ 
tural Law provides as follows: 
“ Penalties.— Any person violating, disobeying 
or disregarding the terms of any notice, order or 
regulation, issued or prescribed by tlie Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture, tinder this article, shall for¬ 
feit to the people of the State of New York the 
sum of one hundred dollars for every such vio¬ 
lation.” 
10 . Bequests for further information should be 
addressed to the Commissioner of Agriculture, 
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