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'THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
[ Q'fApl/' OfiH T^illrV t0 ^ '*■ and dien mirrd >ered and set up them in their working condition; ma- 
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AN EIGHT-SIDED SILO. 
I am Intending to build a silo for my 
herd of about 25 cows, and would like ta 
build practically according to the follow¬ 
ing plan if feed will keep as well as in 
planks are used to hold them together into gilt-edged butter. But I will say to 
at bottom and bolts can be also used you that it would not do. They would re- 
at tops, but a piece of board could be ceive no ribbons, and the crowd would 
also tacked across and removed each declare that there was something wrong 
time it was desired to raise form, about them, because they drew no prizes, 
those built round and entirely of wood, which could be done each day. Door Then we have to pay 10 per cent of the 
except the foundation. I have a basement open j n g 26x30 inches and door to fit first premium to enter an animal, be- 
barn upon an eight-foot wall, which is 18 . . . , . _ ,. . , ’ 
inches thick at the top and 20 inches at into Jt set 111 notches in concrete. I sides an exorbitant price (another 
the bottom. The roof is arranged so that, would recommend about two feet of graft) for feed and bedding.” 
I can build about 26 feet above the pres- concrete between each two doors well - 
ent wall In one corner is a space about re i„forced. Concrete to be mixed one n Valub °f * G °° D Bull.— The Maritime 
12x16 where I shall build. I would like , . , , , Farmer puts it this way: 
to build an eight-sided silo in this space, ^ ai t sand to six parts good sharp gravel, “There is not a farmer in the country 
making each corner side about three feet, and lifter all done finish by brushing that will wink even at paying $150 for 
building a wall upon five sides to height over with cement whitewash, 
of the present wall, and using the present 
wall for two sides, and leaving one corner 
open for the door. This, of course, would 
bring the bottom of wooden part even with 
wooden sill of barn. The wooden part I 
would build of one-inch matched pine, using 
hemlock scantling for the framework. I 
would like your opinion whether the out¬ 
ward pressure would endanger the present 
wall, and whether the new wall would with- 
it. C. ANGEVINE. 
PRIZE WINNING CATTLE. 
“Why do not more of the small 
breeders exhibit their cattle at the 
fair?” 
a good horse simply for the work there 
is in him. Teams are selling in many 
places for $300 to $500. It is a strange 
judgment of values that will hesitate at 
paying that price for an animal that will 
put more selling value and more milk 
production into a herd for years to come. 
But we see it every day in other things. 
“There are several reasons why the The b “ nd Y° r f bIp , of ^«apness, what a 
. curse it is to the farmer. How it clouds 
_ general run of breeders hesitate about jjj s vision, put shackles on his feet and 
stand the pressure, not being bound into showing cattle. In the first place, one manacles on his hands. Many farmers 
the present wall; also as to whether the must practically ruin his dairy cattle are afraid of the ridicule of their neigh- 
silage would keep well in the wall part, to put them in ‘show’ condition By bors if tbey should P a y the P rlce a g° od 
If feasible I would extend the silo into • T . , . bull is worth.” 
thp <rrm,r.n „ . tins I mean that the judges give prem- 
the giound from two to four feet. . ...... r Salted Chicks.—L et me answer E. F R. 
New York. G . A . x. lum s only to animals that are as fat as what to do next time his chick8 or hens 
While I have never built a silo tinder as and dia ^ ^ ave fl le peculiar soft contract poison from eating salt. I have 
just such conditions as the ones given £ reas y ldd e that belongs only to a fat been through this experience, and have 
- 6 ’ cured my own fowls without loss after be¬ 
ing sure that salt was the cause of my 
trouble. Take one-half pound of boiled 
flaxseed, ground, and one quart of strong 
coffee; mix into a slop, give to hens or 
chicks, and let them help themselves. 
Lake George, N. Y. h. l. b. 
July 18, 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS 
GENIE CLOTHII.DE, one of the world’s 
official record cows with 30.05 lbs. butter in seven 
days and 116.45 lbs. butter in thirty days. 
PONTIAC CHIRON, one of the best sons of 
Hengerveld De Kol. Out of a dam with a record of 
25.7 lbs. butter in seven days and with two sisters 
on the dam’s side with records of 26.39 lbs. butter at 
four years and 20.59 lbs. butter at three years of age. 
W. W. CHENEY, - Manlius, N. Y. 
HOLSTEIN BULL FOR $50. 
Born Nov. 14, '07. A splendid individual, 3 4 black, 
beautifully marked. SIRE—King Segis Pontiac, a 
son of King Segis (whose first 4 daughters to fresh¬ 
en have made official 7-day butter records, under 
2*2 yrs. averaging over 19 lb. each), and Pontiac 
Olothilde DeKol 2d, our 28.72-lb 4-yr.-old, full sister 
to the noted 31-lb. $8,000 4-yr.-old Pontiac Rag 
Apple. DAM—A daughter of Toitilla Artis DeKol 
(18.12-Ib. A. R. O.), and by a grandson of Nether- 
land Hengerveld (World’s Champion several years, 
26.66-lb. A. R. O.) First check for $50.00 takes this 
bull, with all papers, the stevens bros.-hast- 
INCS CO., Brookside Herd, LIVERPOOL, N. Y. 
Holstein Bull Calves. 
$20.00 to $23.00 
Cheaper than you can purchase elsewhere, Quality 
considered. Write for Photographs & Pedigrees. 
\v e also offer special bargains in cows and heifers 
bred to our great Sir Kornclyke Manor DeKol 
Jr. KlVENBUItGli BROS., Ilillhurst Farm, Oneida, N, Y 
I believe I could do so. I would ad- an * nia ^ 
vise breaking into old wall a few inches “ Il: would hlirt an animal to make a 
at places where new wall joins, so as to s,low ’ °* him.” 
get a little fresh hold to make a tighter “J ust ima S ine the effect on one of 
job. One could go down a few feet if your cows or a heifer that you are grow- 
needdd, provided that old wall also goes ing into a cow > t0 take her in the 
down the distance required. The silage S P rin S and P ut her in the barn on a 
will keep perfectly in the wall part pro- fattenin g ration, and “sweat her out” 
vided the wall is smooth and not full with a seven-pound wool blanket all 
of humps and holes like all the stone Summer t0 P roduce that flexible hide 
supposed to belong to the dairy animal. 
You see the whole thing is wrong.” 
“Is that the way they do it?” 
“Sure, I talked with the man in 
charge of a cow that won a prize at 
the State Fair. He said he expected 
she would die from the treatment she 
had received.” 
“Then what are such cattle good 
for?” 
“Under these conditions these animals 
are only valuable as show animals. They 
are utterly valueless as practical farm 
stock.” 
“What is the remedy?” 
“When the fair commissioners will 
give us a practical dairyman as judge, 
VILLAGE FARM 
JERSEY HERD 
II. V. PRENTICE, Prop., Worcester, Mass. 
HERD HEADED BY 
THE GREAT FONTAINE FERN BULL 
GOLDEN FERN’S 
GREY FONTAINE 
A son of GOLDEN FERN’S LAD. 
Dam Fontaine of St. Saviour, with a butter 
test of 16 lbs. 12 ozs. This herd contains nine 
daughters of Golden Fern’s Lad and several 
daughters of Eminent 2d. Blue Bell’s Blue 
Fox.Caiest, Maple’s Poet, Stockwell and other 
noted sires. 
JERSEY BULL CALVES AND Y0UN6 BULLS 
Grandsons of Golden Lad, Eminent, and 
King: of St. Lambert. Over 200 head of Regis- 
stock to select from. ST. LAMBERT 
DAIRY CO., Georgesville, Ohio. 
wall I have ever seen in silos. They 
will spoil silage every time. My ex¬ 
perience teaches • me that there is gen- a man who knows dairy cattle, and will 
erally a bad streak of spoiled silage judge them as such, a man who will 
where a wooden silo joins a wall, and discard a fat dairy animal, as not rep- 
while it need not be bad I do not like resenting dairy type, instead of giving it 
to see spoiled silage, and cannot recom- first premium. Then the practical dairy- 
mend such a plan of construction. I men can bring their stock to the fair.” 
would build silos for my own use of “Then the practical dairyman has no 0,1 
no other material than concrete, and chance at present ?” 
below is what I really advise in this “Of course under this regime of 
silo: fitting a show herd only some profes- 
Dig down required depth and also sional show man can stand a ghost of a 
make trench extra wide at very bottom, chance. These men are no more dairy- 
say 24 to 30 inches. Carry up a good men or farmers than the fellow who 
heavy foundation a couple of feet, keep- runs the Midway exhibitions. It is true 
ing inside line of wall straight and that some of the big dairymen show 
even with desired size of silo. Join cattle, but it is a fact that they main- 
into old wall by breaking out some of tain two distinct herds, a herd of work- 
old wall and also carry wall right on ers, and a herd of ‘show’ cattle.” 
over old wall about four or five inches “Then as at present managed the ex¬ 
thick, until top of old wall is reached, hibits of dairy cattle have little real 
New wall need be only six inches thick value?” 
above the heavy foundation mentioned. “What in the name of common sense 
When top of old wall is reached go on is the use of the State of New York 
up all the way with six-inch concrete paying out its money for premiums on 
wall. In this wall I should put rein- dairy cattle when the real dairy cattle 
forcing iron as follows: A 14 -inch steel are excluded, and only expressly bred 
rod around silo in concrete about once and fitted ‘show’ animals can stand a 
each foot of height. This may be any chance to win ?’ ” 
other sort of reinforcing. It need not “What is the effect of it?” 
be welded together; just a little loop at "These are conditions that prevail not 
each end of each piece, and ends only in this State, but all over the 
lapped by one another. Across over country, and they tend to keep the gene- 
doors and such places would put in ral rank and file of farmers from in- 
more iron, enough so that I felt that it vesting in purebred cattle. You see their 
was strong. Forms could he made as idea of purebreds is as they see them 
shown in cut. Wire could be used in at the fair, and they know at once that 
place of bolts to hold forms in place they are not the kind of cattle that 
and cut off each time to loosen form, they can make money with. You may 
Forms to be of two-inch plank, any suggest that it would he a good plan 
width handy. This figure can be drawn for some breeder of purebred dairy 
out on a barn floor and form plank cut cattle to bring them to the fair and show 
JERSEY CATTLE. 
BERKSHIRE HOGS, 
li. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
ALL ABOUT HOLSTEINS 
Send for free illustrated pamphlet describing 
this great breed of cattle. 
JE^-L^-ilQy^tLEQN^SecV^Brattleboro, Vt. 
m FARM Kerksll >r© Hogs and Jersey 
I Mliltl Cattle; stock for sale; always 
on band. M. L. BENIIAJI, LeRoy, Ohio. 
rOLI.IB PUPS from imported Stock. Females 
^ cheap. NELSON BROS., Grove City, Pa. 
CCOTCH COLLIES, Spayed Females, two to 
eight mos. Circ. SILAS DECKER, Montrose,Pa. 
0 I Pi PIGS, Mar. and April farrow. Mated not 
v. x. v. a kin. Bred sows. All Registered Silver 
Premium Stock. F. J. Schwartz, E.Pliaisalia.N.Y 
DOLAND CHINA PIGS, best breeding. Pro- 
1 iific, quick maturing. March and April Pigs for 
sale. 0. O. CARMAN, R. 33, Trumansburg, N. Y. 
A Few Gilts For Sale, 
due to farrow between now 
and September 15,1908; also 
Spring pigs of both sexes. 
Write for prices to John 
Goodwine Jr.,Potouiut,Ver.Co.,III. 
QURflPSUIOC^O Yearling Rams, 30 Ram 
onnu lOll HILO Lambs. Also Ewes and Ewe 
Lambs; 2 extra rams for show. Address 
FRED VAN VLEET, Lodi. New York. 
LARGE IMPROVED ENGLISH YORKSHIRES. 
from best Importation. Address 
A. A. BRADLEY, Frewsburg, New York. 
SAL 
Uuroc Jersey Ked Pigs and Collie Pups. 
We have a fine lot of Red Pigs we must sell. If you 
want some nice Pigs write us; will Price them 
right. J H. LEWIS & SON, Cameron, W. Va. 
PINEHURST SHROPSHIRES 
Leading' American Flock 
Send for descriptive circular of 60 Rams; 
gives age, weight and characteristics. Have 
60 beautiful Ewes for sale. Address Box D. 
HENRY L. WARD WELL, 
Springfield Center, Otsego Co., New York. 
BULL CALVES™! YOUNG BULLS 
ready for service, that are of good size and individ¬ 
uality. All are from officially tested dams, and are 
sired by Homestead Girl De Kol’s Sarcastic 
had. We have sixty daughters of this Bull that 
will be kept in the Herd ami officially tested. 
Write for description and prices. 
WOODCREST FARM, 
Rifton, Ulster County, New York. 
The BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS 
are bred for large production. Good size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these are the kind you want write or come to 
see them. 125 to select from. Animals of both sexe 3 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please you. 
A special offer on some nicely bred Bunn Cauves. 
A. A. CORTELYOU, Somerville, N. J. 
THE STEVENS HERD 
OFFEH8 
20 REGISTERED HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN 
COWS from 2 to 6 years old. These cows are 
large producers, well bred and perfect in every 
way, some recently fresh, others due soon, others 
bred to freshen in the fall. All have A.R.O. backing. 
PRICE REASONABLE. 
Write at once for particulars, or better come and 
see them. 
HENRY STEVENS & SON,Brookside Stock Farm.Lacona.N.Y. 
RED POT I S Are tl,e Most Profitable 
rvihy fDLLj Cattle on Earth 
As fine herds of Red Polls and Guernseys as any 
in the state of Pennsylvania at Uniondale Stock 
harm. A limited number for sale. I). L. Stevens, 
Proprietor, Uniondale, Susq. Co., Pa. 
KALORAMA 
BERKSHIRES 
A limited number of young sows bred to a grand 
imported boar for March and April farrow. 
Also a fine lot of fall pigs of the highest quality 
and breeding at very attractive prices. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan, N.Y. 
SPRINGBANK HERD 
LARGE BERKSHIRES 
A fine bunch of Sows coming a year — 
°jd by Grand Premier, No. 80005,bred to Baron Duke 
85th, No. 91215. A son of Premier Longfellow, No. 
68600, Grand Champion at St. Louis in 1904. Booklet 
on application. J.E. WATSON, Marhledale, Conn. 
Large Berkshire Swine 
Breeding herd of 150 animals to select from. 
Both English and American breeding. Breeding 
herd largely the get of Lord Premier 50001, Premier 
Longfellow 68,600 and Masterpiece 77,000. 
Correspondence solicited. 
H. C. & H. If. Harpending, Dundee, N. Y. 
Large Berkshires 
American and English Breeding. Matings not akin. 
Catalogue on application. 
WILLOUGHBY FARM. Gettysburg, l*a. 
LOCUST HOME BERKSHIRES 
Direct Premier Longfellow, Lord Premier and 
Masterpiece strains. Voting stock for sale. 
S. C. FRENCH, Atwater, N. Y. 
Milk Oil Dip 
For 
Cattle, Sheep, 
Hogs. 
Oldest American Dip. Cheapest, 1 
most effective, strongest obtainable. 
1 gal. can $1.00, 52 gal. barrel $40. 
Catalog Stockmen’s Sunplies Free. 
CYRIL FRANCKLYN. 62 BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK 
ShooMM 
•.THE** 
.'.•'.ANIMALS' 
-FRIEND „ 
ILLS EVERY 
FLY IT STRIKES 
when our patent sprayer Is 
used. Keeps all insect 
f tests off cows in pasture 
ongertban any imitation. 
Used since 1885. Absolutely 
harmless, cures all 6ores. 
Ualfcent’s worth saveso 
.••••' -i&y mg* '*i quartsmilkand much flesh. 
NO LICE In Poultry House, or any place it is 
sprayed. If dealer offers substitute, send us $1 for 
Improved 3*tube Sprayer and enough SHOO-FLY to 
protect 200 cows. Name express office. $1 returned 
if cows not protected. Send postal forf res booklet. 
Shoo-Fly Mftf. Co., 1317 N. lOthSt., Phlla.JPa. 
U 
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every Farmer and Stock Raiser should know all about. 12% of digestible organic 
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