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THE RURAL) NEW-YORKER 
April 22, 
A CHENANGO CO. HORSE DEAL. 
A few weeks ago, on getting a call 
over the ’phone, this was about the 
gist of the conversation: 
“Hullo; is this Morse? Say, you are 
the man who wrote up that horse deal, 
aint you? Well, that piece was worth a 
whole lot to some of us fellows down 
here at Smyrna. How would you like to 
know how just such a case has worked 
out here?” 
“First rate.” 
“All right, come down here and go to 
Mr. G. N. Willcox, the feed man, and 
he will tell you all about it.” 
Smyrna is 10 miles or more from here, 
down in Chenango County, but I thought 
it was worth the drive to find out how 
one of these company horse deals has 
panned out, so one pleasant morning I 
made the trip. The man I was directed 
to I found to be a dealer in grain and 
feed, and a pretty busy fellow at that. 
At the time I got there he was helping 
to unload a car of gluten feed, but he 
came up to the store, and, between calls 
to wait on customers, told me about the 
horse company. 
“Oh, yes,” he said, “I was one of the 
suckers, all right. We paid $2400 for a 
horse worth about $200, and at present I 
own half of him at that. Four 'shares at 
$200 each failed to meet the first pay¬ 
ment. One man went around with the 
agent and helped to sell the horse. He 
took two shares, and we afterwards 
found that one-third of his was indorsed 
on the note as paid. He never paid any¬ 
thing and we had to take over his shares. 
The first year, 1905 , we paid one of the 
stock-holders $300 to keep the horse. He 
bred 30 mares and got 17 colts; in 1906 
bred 75 mares and got 22 colts; 1907 , 
bred 57 mares and got 17 colts; 1908 , 
bred 37 mares and got 12 colts; 1909 , 
bred 39 mares and got 11 colts; 1910 , 
bred but 12 mares. 
“Now I think these figures prove that 
the horse had a good opportunity to 
make good, but it was not in him to do 
so. The first year he was used lightly 
and the second year we had all the 
mares we wanted. Then his colts began 
to show what they were, and patronage 
began to fall off, and the more the colts 
have developed the less the patronage.” 
This horse was an English Hackney, 
which, I believe, is about as useless a 
breed of horse as the American farmer 
could well invest in. Their chief merit 
lies in the fact that they are high step¬ 
pers, with great knee and hock action. 
This of course makes them desirable 
when bred in their purity, as fancy har¬ 
ness horses. But they lack size, and 
when crossed with the common farm 
mares the offspring is usually a very 
common little runt of a horse of no 
especial value. While this case has 
proven disastrous to the purchasers, I 
do not think it necessarily shows how 
our own deal is likely to turn out. I 
think that the Belgian ‘breed is much 
more suitable for our needs than the 
Hackney. I also think we have a good 
colt, whose actual value is around half 
what he cost us. We shall try to use 
him intelligently, accepting for service 
only such mares as are likely to produce 
good colts, and thus give the horse a 
fair chance to make good. If he proves 
to be a good breeder I think he will pay 
fairly well. Of course it is not fair to 
expect that anything of $1200 value 
should pay a dividend on a valuation 
inflated to twice its worth, or that if 
some of the shareholders should fail to 
make good that the others could get 
out even. If we only are able to show 
the farmers the folly of paying high 
prices for unacclimated Western horses 
when they can just as well raise those 
that are better suited to their needs, I 
think that our $2400 will not be lost 
to the community. 
New York. j. grant morse. 
Concrete Posts. —On page 420 John C. 
Hoffman refers to Mr. Kinsley, page 186, 
setting fence posts without bracing. I 
would think Mr. Hoffman after going to 
all the expense concreting a wooden post, 
would be making a serious mistake by not 
planting a concrete post and have a post 
for all time to come. Plant a post that 
will not rot; the concrete posts are cheaper 
than wooden posts, to say nothing about 
their lasting qualities. c. e. sattler. 
Ohio. 
HOW TO FEED SHOTES. 
I have just commenced feeding 10 shotes 
weighing 75 pounds each that I would like 
to market in June. Can I profitably market 
them then, considering that I have no pas¬ 
ture for them and have all my feed to buy 
except slop and corn? What shall I use 
to make a balanced ration for them? 
McLeansboro, Ill. G. E. w. 
A pig feeder these days is up against, 
a tough proposition when he fattens 
hogs on corn alone in warm weather 
with only kitchen slops to wash it down, 
factory soap being used in dishwashing 
for it is assumed that there is no milk 
because there is no pasture for the pigs. 
If this inquirer has a farm he can surely 
find a place to grow something green for 
his pigs. If not very large, a little green 
stuff that may be grown will be a great 
help along with the corn. Fall rye and 
rape can be sown any time now, or clover 
can be sown with the rye. In a fort¬ 
night if the weather is warm the rye will 
furnish a bite for the pigs and the clover 
will not be far behind. Rape may also 
be used, but requires a longer time to 
get started. 
With corn alone they need something 
rich in protein. Under these circum¬ 
stances the writer would use Alfalfa hay 
out of the mow, last year’s cutting, this 
put through a cutting box and soaked 
with slop 12 hours would balance the 
corn part of the ration, or clover hay 
will well answer the same purpose. Not 
having these, middlings or tankage can 
be used. If the middlings are a straight 
article, not mixed with chaff or beards 
so the hogs will not eat them, tankage 
gives most excellent satisfaction, using 
about one-tenth by weight the quantity 
of corn used, and can be fed dry in a 
flat-bottomed trough by scattering it 
over the bottom of the trough about 
one-half inch thick. It can also be made 
into a slop, but should be fed at once, 
not allowing it to stand from one feed¬ 
ing time to another, as it will get 
putrid. The hogs will relish the tank¬ 
age very much. JOHN M. jamison. 
Ross Co., Ohio. 
Summer Silage Without Silo. 
C. E. M., Millbrook, N. Y .—I am very 
much interested in Isaac C. Roger’s article, 
“Summer Silage Without a Silo,” and 
would like to ask some questions. My silo 
is 12 x 36 feet, and is empty by Spring. 
Can I put in a few loads of peas without 
running them through a cutter and expect 
them to keep? Can I commence to feed at 
once without waiting for them to settle? 
Can I use the same method with green 
rye? If this works successfully it will be 
a great help to me in making milk cheaply 
in hot weather. 
Ans. —I have never had any ex¬ 
perience in putting in a small quantity 
of peas in silo or stack without weight¬ 
ing down, where it was expected to keep. 
They heat very quickly and even loads 
hauled in on Saturday afternoon to last 
over Sunday would sometimes get very 
hot, but that hurt them little or not at all, 
and even a load or two thrown in a pile 
to last a few days, quickly heats, settles 
and turns to silage, and what little it 
moulds on the outside makes no dif¬ 
ference, as it all goes. No need to wait 
for them to settle or anything else. 
With us, running peas and oats through 
the cutter would have been pretty hard 
on the machine, as it was difficult to 
keep from gathering up stones, i would 
not undertake to put in a few loads, if 
by few is referred to as a small quantity. 
It is safer to plan for more feed than it 
is expected to be needed, rather than 
to go on small margins. I would advise 
putting all the crop in .excepting a load 
or two, or what might be necessary to 
feed for a day or two while the big lot 
settles. Green rye should be cut with 
cutter, cut green and settled the same 
as for peas, according to my experience 
as referred to in the article on that sub¬ 
ject. ISAAC C. ROGERS. 
“Have you heard,” asked Mrs. Old- 
castle, “that Grace Moneylove has mar¬ 
ried an octogenarian ?” “Mercy sakes !” 
exclaimed Mrs. Justrich. “Is that so? 
Well, he may be all right, but I’ve 
never seen a man who wouldn’t eat 
meat that I’d live with.”—Judge. 
You Gan CureThat Lame Horse 
Under A Bond Guarantee 
A 
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y This is a straight-forward business proposition that yon 
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WARD 
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SEPARATOR 
SENT ON TRIAL, FULLY 
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BAINBRIDGE.N.Y. 
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We will send yon 100 lbs. of DR. 
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Steel Wheels- 
That’s So! Hired hands are 
getting scarcer every day; 
but LOW DOWN STEED 
WHEELS will help to take 
their place. Then, too, the 
•'sun don’t affect a steel wheel 
llike it does the best of hired 
help. More brain and less 
muscle nowadays. Cata¬ 
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HAVANA METAL WHEEL CO. 
Box 17, Havana, Ill. 
$20 to $50 WEEKLY: 
selling the Automatic Combination Tool 
in your home county. A Fence Builder’s Tool, I 
Post Puller. Lifting Jack, Vise, Wrench, etc. 
Used by Farmers, Teamsters. In Factories,! 
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3 tons. No experience necessary, Free Instruc¬ 
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AUTOMATIC JACK CO. 
33 Main St., Bloomfield, Ind. 
OUR GUARANTY 
We guarantee that the 
PAPEC will cut and elevate 
more silage than any other 
cutter, same power being 
used, and that it will elevate 
(silage 50 feet with less power 
jtlian any other cutter. 
PAPFf PNEUMATIC 
* ensilage cutter 
Always ready for business; easy to set 
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—it’s FREE. Agents wanted In several 
localities, attractive proposition. 
25 Distributing Points in U. S. 
PAPEC MACHINE CO. 
Box 70 Shortsville, N. Y. 
BEFORE YOU BUY WRITE FOR 
NEW CATALOG DESCRIBING THE 
GUARANTEED MONEY-SAVING 
INTERNATIONAL 
SILOS 
strongest built.simplest to put up and easiest operated 
on the market. Adjustable automatic take uphoop— 
continuous open-door front—air-tight door and per¬ 
manent ladder are some "''♦he unusual features. Th« 
International Blln Cn_ 113 Main St.. Uneerllln. Bb 
SILO 
You can shovo ensilage out ofthe unobstructed, 
continuous door front of a Unadilia Silo 15 cents 
a ton cheaper tnan yon can pitch it up 3 to 6 ft. 
over cross-bars on an ordinary silo, 
TJn&dllla Silo doors shove up—most others 
push in, making it necessary to feed to the 
bottom of these doors before they can be opened. 
Non-breakable lugs, cold rolled over threads on 
•end of steel hoops—stronger than ordinary 
cut thread hoops. Write for 25 Reasons Why. 
Extra discount for early orders, Agents wanted. 
UN ADILLA SILO CO., Box B, Uiiadilln, N. Y. 
SILOS 
The inventors of the Modern 
Continuous-Opening Silo offer 
to the public the largest and 
most complete line of Silos on 
the market. Our experience, 
which antedates that of any 
other firm manufacturingthese 
goods,has enabled us to produce 
the highest quality at 
the most reasonable 
prices. Send for our 
catalog on Silos and Silo Fillers, 
“the kind Uncle Sam uses,” and 
tell us the size of Silo wanted. 
HARDER MFC. COMPANY 
BOX || COBLESKILL, N. Y.' 
Tho only thoroughly manufactured 
Silo on the market. Full length stave. 
Continuous door frame complete with 
ladder. Triple beveled silo door with 
hinges. Equipped with extra heavy 
hoops at bottom. 
AIR TIGHT 
Makes winter feed equal to Juno 
grass. THE ROSS will more than pay 
for itself in one season. Write to¬ 
day for catalog which gives facts that 
will save you money. Agents wanted. 
The IS. W. Ross Co.(Est,1850) 
Box 13 SPRINGFIELD. OHIO 
GREEN MOUNTAIN 
SILOS 
Three bearings all around 
each door like a safe or re¬ 
frigerator door. Hoops are 
stronger than others. Staves, 
doors and fronts soaked in 
preservative if you wish. 
Green Mountain Silos differ 
from other round silos. 
Free catalogue gives details. 
Post card will bring it. 
CREAMERY PACKAGE MFG. CO., 
338 West Street, Rutland, Vt. 
