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THE RURAb NKW-YOKKER 
November 28, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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CLOVER AND TURNIPS IN THE CORN. 
I took the advice from your paper to 
sow one-quarter bushel Crimson clover 
and two pounds Cow-horn turnips. I got 
a good stand of both. The cut shows a 
stand on late planted Shoe-peg sugar 
corn. Got a fair stand on 40 acres. 
Maryland. G. w. m’c. 
R. N.-Y.—The picture at Fig. 426 
shows how the field looked when the 
picture was taken. It is hard to make 
a good engraving of such a crop, yet 
this picture shows what a mass of stuff 
covered the ground. In some cases the 
tops of the Cow-horn turnips stand 2J4 
feet high with a tap root nearly as long 
in the soil. Our own crop this Fall is 
not as good as the one pictured here, 
as the dry weather held it back. We 
consider, however, that it has already 
more than paid the cost of seed and 
tillage, even if it were to die out to¬ 
morrow. Anyone who has ever tried 
this plan of keeping the corn ground 
covered with a living crop after the 
corn has been harvested, will see with¬ 
out argument the great value of the 
system. When this crop has been 
plowed under in the Spring and chemi¬ 
cals put on the soil a farmer will have 
the effects of a heavy dressing of ma¬ 
nure on his next crop. This plan is of 
especial value on fields far from the 
building, where a long haul for manure 
would be required. By sowing clover 
and turnips in the corn at the last cul¬ 
tivation and then using chemicals crop 
after crop of corn can be grown on the 
same ground._ 
SILAGE AND ALFALFA FOR COWS. 
We have good corn silage with large 
well-filled ears and Alfalfa bay for rough 
feed, and will have to buy grain. We can get 
ground corn, peas and flaxseed and oil cake, 
old process, wheat middlings and bran. Will 
you inform us the best of these to buy, and 
how large a quantity to feed to ordinary 
cows, giving 40 pounds of milk a day. We 
have a Borden condenser here, but they re¬ 
fuse milk made from silage. Will you tell 
us why, for the condensers in the State 
of Michigan will receive it? A. tv. H. 
Ingersoll, Ont. 
Corn silage, with well-filled ears, and 
Alfalfa hay, which we presume was cut 
early and cured in good condition, make 
a combination of fodder that it would 
be hard to beat for milch cows. With 
an abundance of these feeds cows should 
do well on comparatively small allow¬ 
ances of grain. Many excellent combi¬ 
nations could be made from cornmeal, 
peameal, oil cake, wheat bran and mid¬ 
dlings. For cows showing a tendency 
to milk down thin the following ration 
ought to give good results. 1. Two 
pounds cornmeal, two pounds oil cake, 
four pounds bran. Cows in good flesh 
should do'very nicely without the corn¬ 
meal. Any of the following mixtures 
would probably give satisfaction. The 
quantity fed must be governed by the 
size and condition of the cow, and the 
quantity of milk she is giving: 2. 100 
pounds bran, 200 pounds middlings, 100 
pounds oil cake. 3. 100 pounds pea 
meal, 100 pounds bran, 100 pounds corn¬ 
meal. 4. 200 pounds middlings, 100 
pounds bran, 100 pounds pea meal. 
There is no good reason why condens¬ 
ers should refuse milk made from sil¬ 
age if the silage is good, and certain 
precautions are taken in the feeding of 
it. One feed a day should be given, and 
that immediately after milking in the 
morning. If the stables are then thor¬ 
oughly cleaned and aired no taint of 
silage will be detected in the next milk¬ 
ing. The milk, of course, should be re¬ 
moved from the stable as soon as it is 
drawn from the cows. c. s. m. 
“HOGGING OFF” CORN. 
“Hogging off” season commences us¬ 
ually from about September 1 to 15 
here. Just before the last cultivation of 
the corn two pounds of Dwarf Essex 
rape seed are sown per acre. About the 
time the corn is all dented the hogs are 
turned in, care being taken to have them 
accustomed to the new corn by cutting 
and feeding it to them in their old pas¬ 
ture for at least a week, starting in with 
a small amount and gradually increas¬ 
ing until they arc receiving a full feed. 
I consider early Spring pigs which have 
had green pasture during the Summer 
and weighing around 125 pounds the 
best for this work. One acre of average 
corn can be allowed for each 15 hogs of 
this age, and when they have the piece 
cleaned up another piece can be fenced 
in. I always use woven wire fencing 
26 inches high, which is very easily 
taken up and moved. As for posts, cor¬ 
ner posts are all that is needed. Be¬ 
tween these cornstalks can be woven 
into the fencing to hold it in place. I 
have always used the electric weld fenc¬ 
ing as it stands up and keeps its shape 
well. My experience is that when first 
starting to fatten hogs they will gain 
faster and much cheaper when turned 
into a field of rape and corn than when 
penned up in a yard and have the corn 
husked for them, but for finishing them 
for market, say the last two weeks, 
would prefer yard feeding. In all cases 
fresh water should be kept where they 
can have access to it at all times. With 
a good stand of rape in the cornfield 
hogs will usually make from 15 to 20 
pounds gain to each bushel of corn in 
the field, though much depends on the 
quality of hogs fed. PAUL sherman. 
Minnesota._ 
THE ALASKA WHEAT. 
As to the “Alaska” wheat, we saw and 
had It 15 or 20 years ago. It was then 
called the Mummy wheat. Seed was said to 
have been obtained from the sarcophagus 
of an Egyptian mummy. About 40 years 
ago we had a much more wonderful wheat 
obtained from some town in New York 
State, and called the “Wild Goose” wheat, 
claimed to have come from the crop of a 
wild goose shot while on the way south 
from the Yukon country. The grains, or 
kernels, were fully three-fourths of an inch 
in length, and large around in proportion, 
were monstrous in size, and the yield was 
said to be prodigious, and it was well 
calculated to create a rich harvest for some 
promoter in the art of graft and dishon¬ 
esty. However, the age of graft and dis¬ 
honesty as it is now was not yet ushered 
in at that time. Some of your older read¬ 
ers may remember this wheat, and we have 
thought at times since that it might be 
of value in such a climate as we have here 
to grow for feed. J. F. c. 
Washington._ 
Potash and Bone with Manure. 
F. O., St. Louis Co., Mo .—We have had 
a severe drought in this location. I kept 
the cultivator moving through the straw¬ 
berries once a week until the frame 
dragged on the ground. I then used the 
double shovel four times through the row. 
The drought continued. I then put good 
manure, suitable for hotbeds, at the rate 
of 15 tons per acre in the furrow. This 
held the moisture. I sprayed four times 
this season, and my young and old patches 
are the finest I ever saw, vigorous and 
healthy, and but few leaves punctured. A 
friend of mine told me to use potash, but 
he did not know at what rate per ton of 
manure. lie did not know whether to put 
it on the row or on manure, nor did he 
know what time it was put on. He had 
picked for a man who had used potash 
and he said the berries were the finest 
he ever picked. I have about 4% acres, 
and would like to strike it just right if the 
frost or some oilier obstacle does not in¬ 
terfere. At what rate use potash per ton 
of manure, or suggest something more 
suitable to add to the manure to make it 
a good fertiilzer. 
Ans. —This plan of plowing a furrow 
between the rows and putting manure 
in it is a new one to us. We plow such 
manure under before setting the plants, 
and use no more manure except the 
mulching while the beds last. On an 
ordinary soil heavy use of manure alone 
will make a fine growth of plants, but 
not as good a yield of fruit as—you 
would be led to expect. You will need 
both potash and phosphoric acid with 
the manure to obtain the best results. 
Our plan would be to use less manure— 
say 10 loads—and to use 30 pounds of 
sulphate of potash and 40 pounds fine 
ground bone with each ton of manure. 
Use the manure as you are now doing— 
if you obtain good results—but broad¬ 
cast the fertilizer separately and work it 
in between the rows with the cultivator. 
You can use it now if you like, but our 
plan would be to broadcast it all over 
next March. The best time to use the 
bone would have been in August, since 
the fruit buds for next year’s crop are 
made during the Fall. 
Small Home Made Cheese. 
IT. A. D., Few York .—1 have a farm at 
Costcn, Md., and the family on it do not 
know how to make cheese. I do not know 
where to buy them the apparatus or give 
them the recipe for doing it. The Italians 
bring in cheese put up in bladders, and 
some Parmesan cheese about three inches 
thick and five inches in diameter. The 
Dutch pineapple cheese only weighs, I 
think, about six or eight pounds. If the 
family on my place could make only 10 or 
15 of these cheeses in a year it would he 
a treat to them, say 50 or 100 pounds a 
year. I have some circulars and price lists 
from different dairy supply houses, but all 
this apparatus is for a large cheese fac¬ 
tory, and they are evidently thinking of a 
carload of cheese, a large affair. You see 
my idea is something like a spinning wheel 
and hand loom—100 pounds of cheese at 
15 cents a pound, $15. The blue Stilton 
cheese weighs about 14 pounds and sells for 
about 40 cents. These Italians who bring 
over in their baggage and also the Italian 
importers are not as well educated as the 
people on my place, yet they know how to 
make nice cheese, and I do not think the 
apparatus or recipe should be hard to get. 
I do not think it any harder to make, say 
100 pounds of cheese in the year than to 
put up all the preserves that the women do. 
The women can make good butter because 
they know how, and if they knew about 
cheese could do as well. Would you tell 
me where I could get a small family press 
and vat and also the recipe for home-mak¬ 
ing by a family the enumerated kinds of 
cheese. 
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