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THE RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
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ALFALFA SEED IN PECOS VALLEY. 
I enclose you a report of my Alfalfa 
seed crop for 1909: 
7% acres, 1,907 lbs., at 15c. $290.55 
5 tons of seed hay at $6. 30.00 
$320.55 
Expenses. 
Cutting and stacking at $1.25 
per acre . $9.40 
One irrigation, one day's 
labor . 1.50 
Cost of water, 8 inches.... 2.70 
Thrasher’s toll . 38.75 
Coal for engine. 3.50 
2V{. days’ labor thrashing, at 
$1.50 . 3.75 
10 sacks at 23 %c . 3.70 
Board of hands. 2.75 
$00.05 - 
$254.50 
Alfalfa is commonly cut four times 
in the season; but when a seed crop 
is made, it takes the place of second 
and third cutting; first and fourth cut¬ 
ting making hay. The half acre in this 
case was in a different field, the re¬ 
mainder of the field having been used 
for soiling for the dairy. When we 
came to the last of the field it had be¬ 
come too ripe for good use in soiling 
and was left for seed. The yield from 
this half acre was 232 pounds. We used 
a buncher which delivered the seed hay 
out of the team’s way. w. b. w. 
Carlsbad, New Mexico. 
Farming Without Manure. 
I have read your article on page 087 on 
chemicals and clover and thought I might 
help E. H. S. I had some experience in 
the same line. I bought 10 acres about 
one-half mile from where I lived, and this 
was very unhandy to make manure. I was 
young, with no experience and all our 
farmers feed cattle. Not very many cows 
are kept, but nearly all of them say the 
cows and feeding steers do not pay, but 
they must have the manure. I divided my 
land into four fields, 2'/i acres, farmed a 
four-year rotation, and fed steers four 
years at a loss. Then I stopped it, and 
everybody said it would never hold out. 
I bought 1300 pounds raw bone, 500 pounds 
sulphate of potash, 300 pounds nitrate of 
soda, 300 pounds blood. This made in all 
2400 pounds. This I put on the cornstalks for 
tobacco, broadcast with grain drill. After 
tobacco I sowed wheat. I put 200 pounds 
fertilizer to the acre that analyzes 2-6-8, 
and after wheat grass and sod in corn. 
I do not pasture, mow the second crop and 
let it lie where it falls. The chemicals cost 
me between $35 and $40 a ton, but some 
years half of ray hay crop paid for it. 
I had the corn stover to sell and the 
straw that, otherwise went for manure, and 
when I fed cattle I used three-quarters 
of a ton of fertilizer to the manure. I 
have done this four years. I have better 
crops all around than I had before. I 
never had over 30 bushels of wheat to the 
acre. Two years ago I had 32 bushels; 
last, year I had 35 bushels, and have a 
good crop this year, but have not thrashed 
it yet. I.ast year I fed a cow and horse 
and fattened one bull on my hay and sold 
about three tons. The cow and beef got 
some corn stover. H. it. b. 
New Holland, Pa. 
A Sick Dog. 
I want a little advice about my dog. lie 
is a St. Bernard and he is very thin ; eats 
well, but it does not seem to do him any 
good. Ills' eyes are red and running mat¬ 
ter. The lids have dropped down ; sores on 
his back. lie keeps biting at them. I 
thought he might have worms. F. A. L. 
Massachusetts. 
If the dog is under a year old he prob¬ 
ably has distemper, and you should have 
him treated with anti-distemper serum by 
a qualified veterinarian who also can best 
prescribe for the other ailments present. 
Keep the eyes clean by washing with a 
10-per-cent solution of boric acid. For the 
skin disease it will be necessary to wash 
the dog with a solution of coal tar dip. but 
that treatment will have to be postponed if 
he has distemper. Evidently it is a case 
needing the personal attention of the local 
veterinarian. a. s. a. 
Indigestion in Horse. 
We have a horse seven years old, weight 
about 900 pounds, that has done far from 
well since early Spring, before that was 
plump and lively. The latter part of March 
she became “lazy” and thin, appetite re¬ 
maining good; was being driven but once 
or twice a week. We began feeding ground 
feed with hay; she had been gettiug very 
little grain. Now we give four quarts, two 
parts bran, one of cornmeal, three times 
daily. Occasionally Khe has been out to 
grass part of a day. About the middle of 
May we began using her to draw the milk, 
giving her a drive of five miles dally. 
We used her to cultivate 2% acres of corn 
twice over, working one-half day at a time. 
Some weeks the only work she did was to 
draw the milk, 150 pounds, five miles; oth¬ 
ers she had a drive of 10, sometimes 15 
miles once or twice. I cannot say how 
she was driven. She has shown lameness 
at different times in different legs until 
three weeks ago she showed a decided lame¬ 
ness in the right forward quarter; could 
not locate it more definitely, as we searched 
in vain. Yesterday, when taken out of the 
barn, both front legs were so stiff that she 
used them like a pair of sticks. The long 
hair has gradually fallen from her tail and 
mane. I notice what seems to be bunches 
of scurf near end of tail. Is there any help 
for the horse? What is the trouble? rc. C. 
Overfeeding and irregular exercises will 
make any horse sick, and ground feed is 
especially liable to cause indigestion, which 
is present in this case, and doubtless asso¬ 
ciated with chronic founder. Feed whole 
oats, bran and hay. Every horse should 
Chew his food unless the condition of the 
teeth make pehfoct. mastication impossible. 
Cut the grain ration down a half and work 
or exercise the horse every day. Have her 
clipped and then keep her properly groomed. 
A. S. A. 
Picnic Sports. —At’ a picnic of Pennsyl¬ 
vania farmers we are told that a fine little 
calf changed hands as the result of the 
milkmaids' race, which was the hilarious 
feature event. Eleven pretty girls ran 75 
yards with milking stools and milk pails 
in either hand to a sedate Alderney cow, 
and then scrambled to see who would get 
the- approved position for milking. Miss 
Etta Shuman led from the start, and was 
pronounced the winner of the race. Her 
prize was the fine half-grown calf which 
had been standing placidly beside its 
mother during the race. The second prize, 
a nannygout, was awarded to Miss Anna 
Shuman. Miss Rose Oberland, third, won 
a pot of old-fashioned apple butter. This 
must have made much fun, but what is the 
advantage of such haste in milking a 
cow ? 
Express Charge. —I want to show you 
how I was held up by the American Ex¬ 
press Co. I sent to Connecticut for some 
castings for a Cutaway harrow. The pack¬ 
age, weighing exactly seven pounds, was 
expressed from Iligganum, Conn., to Grand 
Junction, Mich., C. O. D. The expressage 
was 80 cents, and for sending hack the 
money, $1.50, the charges were 20 cents, 
making one dollar for seven pounds. By 
parcels post the package would have cost 
about 25 cents. Thus are we robbed for 
the benefit of the corporations and the 
country stores' who are standing in their 
own light. Let all agitate for parcels post. 
a. h. g. 
‘SaveThe-Horse’SpavinCure. 
BCGJRADC NAHA 
SOUND 
Lynn, Mans., August5, 1900. 
Troy Chemical Co., Binghamton, N. Y. :—Enclosed $6.00 for 
>no bottlo of Spavin Curo and one pound of Ointment. I usod 
bottle on a bone spavin lost year and it worked to perfection. 
W. E. Hallo well, 24 Friend Street. 
Bay City, Wig., August 10, 1909. 
Troy Chemical Co., Binghamton, N. Y.:—1 bought two bottles of 
your Save-tho-Horso about three years ago for a mare and it did 
wonders. I worked the mare every day and cured her of two 
Bpavins, and she ia as sound today as when a colt. Ben Bknson. 
Geneva, Ind., August 4, 1909. 
Troy Chemical Co., Binghamton, N. Y. :—I took off a wind puff 
as big as your hat from the withers of one of my horses. I only 
used one bottlo. Otto Bolds. 
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Horse works as usual. Dealers or Express Paid. 
Troy Chemical Company, «* Commercial Ave., Binghamton, N.Y, 
For Lame Horses 
For curb, splints, spavin, whirl puffs, sprains or swell¬ 
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