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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 4, 
WHAT IS WHAT. 
Two “greenhorns” started on a fine 
farm in North Carolina as an invest¬ 
ment. They did not understand the 
farm or the country, and knew but little 
about farming. Here is their first 
report: 
We started in to learn “what was 
what,” keeping careful records of every 
dollar expended, when and why. and after 
l."> months know, from trying something of 
everything we were advised to try. and 
found old residents, successful and unsuc¬ 
cessful, had done and advised ns to do 
just wlia’t did and did not pay. with the 
result that we are pinning our faith for 
the future on apples, potatoes, cabbage, 
grass and sheep. 
We find many farmers who do not 
know what parts of their farming pay, 
or what their farm is best adapted to. 
It is more than half the battle to know 
what to raise. Having settled that a 
man is free to devote his best thought 
to learning how to raise it. You will 
notice how many farmers and fruit 
growers are talking about sheep. 
DRY MASH FOR POULTRY. 
Will you tell me how to prepare a dry 
mash for 50 hens; I mean what ingredients 
and what proportions? 
Pennsylvania. f. f. b. 
The dry mash which is to be fed in 
a hopper should be made the same as 
if to be fed wet, with the exception 
that it is better to feed the beef scraps 
in a separate hopper, so the hens will 
not waste the feed to get some beef 
scraps. We mix it as follows: 100 
pounds wheat bran, 100 pounds wheat 
middlings. 100 pounds cornmeal, 50 
pounds ground oats, 25 pounds Alfalfa 
meal. This is well mixed and the hop¬ 
pers filled up as often as they get empty. 
FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
TURNIPS FOR MILCH COWS. 
What is the feeding value of Purple Top 
turnips and what kind of grain should be 
fed with them for cows giving milk? I 
have 1,400 bushels of turnips and about 
four acres of cornstalks that I want to feed 
with them. What is best to use in the 
gutters (cement) behind cows to increase 
the value of the manure? t. s. d. 
Deposit, N. Y. 
The analysis of turnips is as follows: 
Water, 92 per cent; digestible protein, 
1.1 per cent; carbohydrates, G.l per cent, 
and fat, .1 per cent. Compared with 
bran or middlings at $20 per ton, tur¬ 
nips should be worth about $2.20 per 
ton, judging from their chemical analy¬ 
sis, but as they have a succulent value 
in addition to this when fed with dry 
feed to milch cows which have no other 
succulent feed, their true value is not 
far from $4 per ton at the present time. 
Always be careful to feed the turnips 
after milking, as they may impart their 
flavor to the milk if fed before. A good 
ration for you to feed would be all the 
cut cornstalks and chopped turnips the 
cows will eat with a relish. You should 
add to this at least four pounds of Ajax 
flakes and two pounds of cotton-seed 
meal, and you will have as economical 
a ration as you can easily secure. I 
have used both gypsum and South Caro¬ 
lina rock (acid phosphate) in gutters 
with good results, but the more profit¬ 
able material to use will depend on its 
availability, cost, and the requirements 
of the land to which the manure is to be 
applied. c. s. greene. 
PEPPERING A “CRIBBING” HORSE. 
On page 976 H. A. E. asks for remedy 
for horse that is “cribbing.” About 12 
years ago my son had a valuable 
young horse about five or six years old 
he had reared, which became an in¬ 
veterate cribber. He had never seen 
one before, and called my attention to 
it, and we went to the stable to investi¬ 
gate. After watching him .some time, 
I told my son I thought I could cure 
him. I had never heard of tire meth¬ 
od, but I said, “I’ll try.” I simply 
procured one-quarter pound of cayenne 
pepper and mixed it with about a tea¬ 
cupful of lard. We went to the stable 
and turned the colt into the yard, and 
with a small brush smeared his man¬ 
ger with the pepper and lard. We then 
opened the door and let him come in. 
He had not been in the stall exceeding 
a minute before he seized the manger, 
but he released his hold in short order, 
and for the next 10 or 15 minutes he 
went through all sorts of horse gym¬ 
nastics. After a while he got relief, 
and he smelled all along the manger, 
finally he lipped it, and received the sec¬ 
ond dose. That was enough; he never 
cribbed during the next two years (as 
long as my son owned him). I told my 
son as a precaution to apply a little of 
the pepper and lard occasionally as a 
reminder, which he did. once every few 
weeks. I think if H. A. E. will apply 
this remedy, lie will have no occasion to 
remove any part of the manger, and I 
think his horse will not attempt to crib 
after one or two doses of cayenne pepper. 
Albany Co., X. Y. c. l. g. blessing. 
HEN NOTES. 
We have the pullets shut up in the hen¬ 
house with no run. The henhouse is very 
light, and we keep one window out all 
of the time, and the opening covered with 
cheesecloth, so they have plenty of air and 
no draft. The floor we keep covered with 
dry straw, and feed our coarse feed in it, 
so they will have to dig and scratch to get 
it. It gives them exercise. We are feed¬ 
ing wheat and oats now, and are going to 
get some buckwheat soon : this is for the 
morning feed. Nights we scrape back the 
straw and feed corn, just what they will 
clean up. Then we keep shells and a dry 
mash before them all the time, also plenty 
of clean water. Here is the dry mash: 
Two parts bran, two parts oats, ground, 
two parts bran middlings, one part corn- 
meal. one part buckwheat middlings, one 
part dried beef scrap. If one lias the fa¬ 
cilities for sprouting oats the hens are 
very fond of them (not over four or five 
inches deep), three part,s oats to one 
part soil, where it is warm, and sprinkled 
once a day. will grow and the hens will 
eat tops, oats and roots, and the pans or 
boxes can be refilled by routine. \ m. D. 
Camillus, N. Y. 
I have about 200 hens and pullets; they 
are crowded, but are laying very well, 40 
odd per day, which is remarkable for this 
time of the year. 1 attribute the good 
laying to heavy feeding and to hen-hatched 
pullets, which have matured without any 
setbacks. I am planning to raise 500 pul¬ 
lets next Spring entirely with hens. This 
year's experience proved it to be entirely 
practical when a proper house was pro¬ 
vided. I shall build a house on the order 
of the hot-water brooder house, with small 
pens for the hen and her brood, and know 
it to be practical. w. d. s. 
Virginia. 
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Poultry Facts 
Y 
OU can’t shut a laying hen in a closed 
coop; limit your responsibility to a few 
handfuls of grain a day, and continue (for long) to 
collect eggs. You can’t leave growing chicks to dew, 
and wet and sour feed and count them all next winter. 
But you can —by practicing “The Dr. Hess Idea” 
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DR. HESS Mr PAH-A-CE-A 
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Except in Canada and extreme West and South. 
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UPCC CTAflf CA&n Stock raisers often face a serious problem. Cows shrink in milk and 
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