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IS or 20 inches wide under the fore feet, 
which should be one inch lower, or 
three inches thick. This drop of one 
inch keeps the cows from slipping and 
holds the bedding. geo. w. everson. 
A One-Piece Roof 
The same space covered with a single 
roll of Ruberoid roofing would require at 
least 600 shingles. 
600 separate pieces of wood, each inclined 
to warp a different way. 1,800 exposed edges 
—1,800 chances for leaks. 
Yet a roof of Ruberoid, whether it re¬ 
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piece roof. 
For with each roll comes our exclusive 
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sealed against warping—sealed against the 
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A Ruberoid roof is heat proof, cold proof, 
rain proof. It resists acids, gases and fumes, 
Ruberoid Is Fire-Resisting 
And it is so nearly fireproof that you can 
throw burning coals on it without danger 
of setting fire either to the Ruberoid, or 
to the timbers un¬ 
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gives it is the cheap¬ 
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.STANCHION 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
RATION FOR WHITE LEGHORNS. 
How much grain (in weight) per meal 
each hen should be given to White Leghorn 
laying hens, kept in pens' 10 by 16, with 
scratching yards same size? Is it good 
policy to feed whole corn? w. g. s. 
Allentown. Fa. 
I doubt if anyone could even approxi¬ 
mate the amount, in weight, of grain 
that should he fed a hen at one meal or 
even in one day, as it depends so much 
on her condition and whether she is 
laying or not. We know how much a 
hen will eat in a year, and Cornell has 
given in Bulletin 249 a complete ration 
and amounts used by pens of White 
Leghorns by weeks and months. But 
the only rule we can give is to feed 
just as long as the hens are hungry 
and no more. We like to see the hens 
come to us when we go in the pen 
with feed, and if they don’t start 
scratching when the first handful of 
grain is scattered they get no more for 
that meal. We always feed our hens 
whole corn, as our local mills charge 15 
cents per 100 pounds for cracking. 
FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
of concrete 4 inches thick, except a strip 
HOW TO FEED CORNSTALKS. 
What is the best way to handle corn¬ 
stalks for feeding six cows, all to be milked 
through the Winter? Milk is wholesaled 
at the door. Wo have uo silo. We raise 
flint corn, and bind the bundles with tarred 
string. We have good meadow hay, and 
we shall have mangels and carrots. 
Berlin, Conn. L. b. 
We can get most out of dry corn¬ 
stalks by making what we call “imita¬ 
tion silage.” The stalks are run through 
a cutter and put in a box or hogshead. 
Boiling water is then poured in and a 
cover or blanket put on the top. Ex¬ 
perience will show how much water to 
use. If a jet of live steam could be 
used it would he better than the water. 
In about 12 hours the cut stalks are 
softened, and when fed with grain 
scattered over them will be eaten clean. 
The bundles might he steamed whole in 
this way, though we have not tried it. 
With our own strain of flint com we 
do not need to cut and steam, as the 
stalks are slender. Stock eat them as 
they do hay. For larger stalks this 
method suits us. Fine cut dry stalks 
are not very satisfactory, as the hard 
pieces often hurt the cow’s mouth. We 
would rather shred the stalks, or cut 
them with a broadax in six-inch 
lengths. _ 
CEMENT FLOOR FOR COW BARN. 
On page 439 1 noticed an article on 
cementing the floor of a cow barn. Men¬ 
tion was made of the use of tarred paper 
under the cement. I would like to know 
exactly how it is managed. b. f. s. 
Fairfax, Ya. 
In using tarred paper under the cows 
in a concrete floor perhaps it is best to 
start at the bottom of the gutter, for 
which excavation has been made two 
inches deeper than under the cows, and 
there should be a fall in the grade under 
the cows of lA inch from the stan¬ 
chions to the gutter. Having made the 
bottom of the gutter 4 inches thick and 
three or four inches on each side wider 
than the gutter is to be, lay down a 
2 by 4 on the bottom of the gutter, 
and as this bottom of the gutter is two 
inches higher than the excavation un¬ 
der the cows we have four inches for 
the first layer. If the concrete has not 
been mixed too wet. and has been well 
tamped, we can immediately lay down 
our tar paper, placing the first strip even 
with the side of the gutter. The ends 
should he turned up four inches, as we 
want the concrete under the cows to be 
a non-conductor of heat and cold, and 
it should not be connected with anv 
other concrete. The next strip should 
he placed so that it can be turned up by 
the stanchions. The two strips may lap. 
Paint with coal tar. Lay down care¬ 
fully more paper and paint again. Then 
put on another layer of paper. Immedi¬ 
ately drive in some sharp wooden pegs 
to connect the two layers of concrete. 
On top of the tar paper put on a layer 
