1911. 
IS 33 
M I L K. 
In effect March 1 the New York Ex¬ 
change price was reduced one-half cent to 
?1.61 per 40-quart can, netting 3% cents 
to shippers in 26-cent zone who have no 
additional station charges. 
We get our milk from small dairies In 
adjoining townships, west of here. The 
milk trust has not reached across Rocky 
River as yet. Price eight cents per quart 
now; seven cents for a few months in 
Summer. z. o. D. 
Rocky River, O. 
In regard to the milk and cream in this 
locality, in our town the milk is retailed 
for seven cents and is sold by the producer 
to the pedler for about one-half what it is 
retailed for; the retailer drives to the farm 
after it. Most of the milk from this 
county goes into Cleveland, the average 
price being 18 cents per gallon delivered in 
Cleveland (which costs 1% cents.) We 
make cream, 22 per cent., for which we 
get 85 cents per gallon in Cleveland. I be¬ 
lieve that at the price of feed there have 
been many cans of milk sold that cost the 
producer in actual cash more than he re¬ 
ceived for it, to say nothing of his work, 
but still he thinks he must stick to his 
cows to keep his farm up. I feel that when 
we cannot produce an article at a small 
profit it is time for us to quit. We keep 
all registered Brown Swiss, and they are 
doing well; also we have sale for all our 
young stock at fair prices. But the farmer 
who lias only grade cows has only one 
source of income, that being from the milk 
pail. s. a. H. 
Painesville, O. 
Weight of Silage—Price. 
Will you tell me how many cubic feet of 
silage it takes to weigh a ton, and about 
how much a ton of silage is worth, or is 
it different prices in different localities? 
Madison Co., N. Y. c. w. h. 
On the average a cubic foot of silage will 
weigh about 40 pounds. The price varies 
with that of other fodder—usually not far 
from 30 per cent of the price of Timothy 
hay. Have any readers ever bought or sold 
silage? If so, what was the actual price? 
Women Milkers, 
Is it possible to get in this country 
women milkers? Could one find a district 
where girls are taught to milk or where 
there are girls willing to be taught and fol¬ 
low that occupation? Where would I ap¬ 
ply for information? s. b. t. 
It is doubtful if you can find any large 
number of women milkers who would be 
willing to go to a regular dairy farm. In 
the dairy country the wife or daughter 
will often help milk, but the practice is 
not as common as in the old country. You 
might obtain such women among the im¬ 
migrants fresh from Sweden, Denmark, 
Germany or Switzerland. 
Green Fodder Crops for Connecticut. 
I have unexpectedly come into possession 
of a good farm adjoining my own and a 
number of head of fine grade Holstein cows, 
which I would like to keep. There is no 
pasture land with the new farm. I have 
not pasture enough to furnish feed for all. 
What would you advise me to sow to help 
out? Will rape do well in the Spring, and 
how early can it be sown? The object, of 
course, is to get early feed to be succeeded 
by other soiling crops. This laud is situ¬ 
ated in the foothills of the Berkshires, and 
is about 1,300 feet above sea level. I have 
one acre sown to Alsike clover. The land 
is rich and has been kept up with liberal 
manuring and fertilizer. Bromus inermis 
as a grass food is recommended for pasture 
and hay. Would you advise its use? 
Eart Ilartland, Conn. d. g. 
We would not try brome grass except as 
an experiment. Far better, in your locality 
to depend on oats and peas, Japanese mil¬ 
let and fodder corn. (Sow the oats and 
peas as often described in The R. N.-Y. 
as early as the ground will permit. Early 
in May seed to Japanese millet, as soon as 
the ground is warm enough sow corn thickly 
in drills. Follow oats and peas with more 
millet and keep on sowing corn up to July 
1. This will give you a good succession of 
green crops. Rape is not so good for cows 
—it may taint the milk. 
Rape and Milk.— On page 18 W. H. 
L. asks about feeding rape to cows. I 
cannot quite agree with the answer that 
is given. A few years ago, having quite 
a field of rape, I began early in the 
Spring to feed it, first in the barn, be¬ 
ginning with a small feed and gradually 
increasing until a full feed was fed. 
Later the cows were staked on it after 
milking in the morning for an hour or 
so, and soon left on it all day, and al¬ 
though our folks are very quick to de¬ 
tact any off flavor no complaint was 
ever made. Clover and wheat or any 
green feed will taint milk if cows are 
turned on it for a full feed all at once, 
is my experience. S. 
Oregon.; 
R- N.-Y.—Our cows certainly show 
the “turnipy” taste in milk when fed 
green rape. '< 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Storing Brewers’ Crains. 
Would it be practical to store wet brew¬ 
ers’ grains by the carload in a double wall 
circular frame silo? Would it make a 
cheap feed at $7 per ton? What size silo 
will I need to hold 25 tons? j. s. d. 
Arlington, N. Y. 
This question is submitted to readers 
who have tried it. We have not had 
experience. We should consider it a 
risk with wet grains at $7 per ton. 
What Makes a 
Cream Separator 
Good or Bad? 
Corn Fodder for Five Cows. 
We can only raise flint corn here to have 
it ripen. Would it not be as well for me 
to have a gas engine and cutter and make 
and cut my fodder as I use it, as to go to 
the expense of a silo? Silo will cost me 
§175, and I haven’t the price. I shall not 
keep more than five cows and three young 
stock. I shocked the corn and let it ripen 
in the field last season, then hauled to the 
barn, husked the corn and piled the fodder 
up in the mow. It is keeping fine, without 
any mold. I borrowed an old silage cut¬ 
ter and am cutting it by hand power; it is 
an awful job but the cows eat it up clean, 
and are doing so well that I determined to 
cut it all up. I got three galvanized tubs 
and feed morning and night scalded fodder 
with their grain mixed in. l . l. b. 
Maine. 
That is just what we would do. It 
would hardly pay to build a silo for 
half a dozen cattle. This cut fodder 
can be put in a tub or vat and hot 
water thrown over it. Then if covered 
during the night the fodder will be well 
steamed and make a very good substi¬ 
tute for silage. 
Warbles. 
What is the trouble with my cows and 
what can I do to relieve them? Last Sum¬ 
mer I pastured the cows in an old field 
where the ditches have not been cleaned 
out for a number of years, and the mud 
and stagnated water would be in places 12 
or 14 inches deep. The cows crossed the 
ditches and sometimes walked down them 
and ate along the bank, and I thought that 
the cause of a trouble they had in the Sum¬ 
mer. First the front legs were swollen and 
covered with small lumps, and soon after 
the swelling would commence to go down, 
the skin crack and the hair and skin would 
come off; then they would heal. At the 
same time there were places where the 
hair would raise up, looking as though 
something had stung them, and the hair 
came off those places. Now there are 
lumps on their backs from the shoulders 
to the hips. A few days ago I was look¬ 
ing at them and found a small round hole 
in each one of them and there has been 
some pus or something coming out of them. 
I do not think my cows look as well as 
they should on what they eat. Please tell 
me what is the trouble and what I can do 
to relieve them. g. t. r. 
Maryland. 
By squeezing you will find that each of 
the boils upon the back contains a large 
grub or larva of the ox warble fly (Hypo- 
derma liheata). Squeeze out and destroy 
each grub; then bathe part with a two 
per cent, solution of coal tar dip. Use 
same solution on legs and any other part 
of the skin that is not in normal condi¬ 
tion. Feed an abundance of nutritious 
food. a. s. A. 
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