1911. 
•OTHE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
071 
Patching Up a Cheap Silo. 
H. L. 8., Rome, N. Y .—I have a silo 
made of 2 xG inch pieces, but not matched, 
and I cannot get it perfectly airtight. 
Some silage spoils in places around the 
edge. Would it do to line it with some 
of those tough building papers, or can any¬ 
one suggest a remedy? 
Ans.— It would appear as if you had 
one of the silos of the type recom¬ 
mended by Cornell University, a few 
years ago, as a temporary makeshift to 
store surplus corn. They never in¬ 
tended them as permanent silos, yet be¬ 
cause they were cheap, many put them 
up to their sorrow. With a silo of this 
kind it is only a question of making it 
do as much service as possible in order 
that one may get his money back. To line 
it with some heavy building paper will 
unquestionably cause it to save the silage 
for a year, if the structure is otherwise 
strong. I have done this in one silo 
where I formerly had a door to admit 
a carrier, and the silage keeps perfectly. 
If the structure is really worth saving 
the better way will be to lath and plaster 
it, using a cement plaster. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
Value of Canada Field Peas. 
Can you toll me the feeding value of 
Canada field peas? They are mixed with 
oats. We have always cut them for fod¬ 
der until this year; we had so much hay 
we did not need the peas and oats, so let 
them ripen and have now had them 
thrashed. Would they he better for dairy 
cows than poultry? How would they do 
for horses or pigs? d. b. H. 
Vermont. 
As a. feed for dairy cows, growing swine, 
growing chickens and laying hens, peas 
would be worth approximately 50 per cent, 
more than corn or oats when properly pre¬ 
pared for feeding and fed in the required 
proportions for a balanced ration. Teas 
are considered .lust as valuable for poultry 
feed as they are for dairy cows and growing 
pigs; but have never tyeon used as. exten¬ 
sively for horse food as for other stock 
requiring more protein, and it is doubtful 
if the feeding value of peas for horses 
would greatly exceed that of oats. Peas 
should be ground before feeding to horses, 
and either ground or soaked several hours 
before feeding to swine or cows. The proper 
proportions of peas and oats to feed for 
best results depend largely upon the con¬ 
dition of the stock, the purpose for which 
it is being fed and UTe otner constituents 
of the ration. c. s. G. 
COLD STORAGE LEGISLATION. 
The storage holdings of butter at the 
present time are somewhat lighter than 
they were last year at this time but about 
the same as the year previous. Of eggs, 
they are much heavier than at any time in 
several years. Just what effect the new 
cold storage law will have when these 
holdings of both butter and eggs are mar¬ 
keted is very hard to forecast at present. 
New York. james Rowland co. 
Eggs are in excess of holding of last 
year. Butter is short. The laws designed 
to regulate cold storage so far have had 
no effect. T don’t think it will have any 
effect in the near future, unless as to sup¬ 
ply and demand. What would we do in the 
flush of both butter and eggs unless we 
had some way to protect it. Destroy this 
protection and what high prices consumers 
would haVe to pay when these commodities 
would be scarce. ciias. it. zinn. 
New York. 
The cold storage legislation went Into 
effect so late in the season it will not have 
any effect on the amount of goods this 
year, but it may handicap the New York 
State cold storage houses another season. 
We do not anticipate that it will on ac¬ 
count of the length of time allowed; the 
amount of butter stored this year, as com¬ 
pared with a year ago in Buffalo, is lighter, 
but, taking all the cold storage warehouses 
in the United States together, the amount 
of butter stored is fully equal to what it 
was last season. I think what we fear 
most about the butter question is the high 
prices to which it is being forced up to at 
the present time; if we could keep the price 
of butter down to a point so the consumer 
could buy it for 30 cents per pound, there 
would be no trouble about selling all the 
butter made in the United States, and it 
would pay the producer a good profit at 
that price. gleason & lansing. 
Buffalo. N. Y. 
Regarding the amount of eggs and butter 
stored compared with last year, there are 
more eggs stored than last year; less but¬ 
ter, on account of the very dry season in 
the section of country that produces but¬ 
ter. We do not think the laws on cold 
storage have any effect on the amount of 
produce stored. Both eggs and butter have 
been stored at a lower price than last year. 
While this is true, there was considerable 
butter carried over from last season. The 
very hot weather which extended over a 
'arge part of the country has affected pro¬ 
ducts. Should we have a favorable corn 
crop it will aid much. We anticipate lower 
prices this year, as # last year was a dis¬ 
astrous one; losses very heavy on butter, 
eggs and poultry. de winter & co. 
New York. 
The Day’s Work on an Ohio Farm. 
What was done yesterday is more easily 
told this morning at four o’clock than it 
would have been yesterday evening at seven i 
o’clock after the day’s work was done. 
Stock growing and feeding is the main 
work here, aiming to feed more grain fod¬ 
der and hay than is grown. The corn on 
•'ccount of the drought is but little more 
than half a crop. With one-fiftli the area 
of the farm in Alfalfa the amount of hay 
Is more than the number of animals pro¬ 
duced will consume. Yesterday morning the 
140 lambs purchased must be gone over 
and tagged to clean them up and destroy 
the worms, wet and hot weather being 
the main cause of the trouble. This is 
not by any means a pleasant - 30 b; in this 
case several were found to be wormy. It 
was also expected that a few had stomach 
worms; these were treated with gasoline, 
which was short in supply, and finished 
with sheep dip. a coal tar distillation. The 
hired man husked corn before noon for the 
feeding hogs that are being worked up to full 
feed on new corn, so they can be turned in 
in a day or two on a plot of corn fenced 
off for them from the large field. 
Afternoon the man commenced his job of 
cutting corn by cutting the fodder from 
which he had husked the corn before noon. 
The writer’s part of the hog feeding was to 
haul a load of corn after the fodder was 
cut. A wire fence with wooden stays sepa¬ 
rated the cornfield from the Blue grass 
pasture where the feeding hogs were grazing 
close to the fence. When they saw the corn 
being gathered up they became much inter¬ 
ested, and nosed the fence for weak places 
—in case easily found. I had noticed that 
the horses trying to reach the corn over the 
fence had broken the stays, but thought 
little of it till the hogs came crowding 
through it into the cornfield. The fence 
can only be properly repaired with a new 
one, so the hogs must be confined in a dry 
lot till their corn plot is ready and they 
are ready for it. In this lot besides corn 
they will have some rank rape pulled from 
along the edge of the cornfield near by. 
The sows and their litters have the run of 
a Timothy and clover pasture, it being my 
part of the feeding to carry ear corn to 
them from the wagon in the lot where the 
feeding hogs are fed. This about the easiest 
way possible to start young pigs in the 
Fall, giving them the freedom of the farm 
and some new corn. Once or oftener it is 
a part of my day’s doings to visit one or 
both Alfalfa fields and enjoy seeing the 
growth made since the rains came. It is 
apparently equal to that made in the Spring. 
The writer feels that there is no crop which 
while growing excels it in beauty. Cer¬ 
tainly none excels it in the promise it 
gives to the farmer while growing. While 
the drought had us in its grip the horses 
were fed Alfalfa hay daily. Now each 
morning finds them at the stable door 
wanting it. leaving fine Blue grass pasture 
as unsatisfactory. joiin m. jamison. 
Ross Co., Ohio. 
Live Stock Notes. 
The Government has just bought in Kan¬ 
sas four Morgan horses, which will be 
taken to the Government breeding farm in 
Vermont where effort is being made to 
preserve and improve the Morgan breed. 
On page 82G .T. IT. B. of Ringgold. Va., 
asks for information about Mammoth Black 
hogs, a breed that is new to the United 
States but old to the farmers of southern 
England. I have a number of purebreds 
and think they are about the finest I ever 
saw. The name In the registry books of 
England is not Mammoth Black hut Large 
Black Pig. The distinguishing traits are 
extreme quietness and doeilitv with a fine 
tendency to put all thereat on their backs 
and hams as good lean meat, for it is an 
excellent bacon breed. They stand on 
strong straight legs, make a fine long even 
ham and have a splendid bacon side length. 
They keep well in pens or paddocks. They 
have large drooping ears that act as blinders 
and no doubt tend to make them less ner¬ 
vous than they otherwise would be. 
Lincoln Co.. Va. , 1 . a. t. 
At the National Dairy Show, Chicago, Oc¬ 
tober 26-November 4. premiums for Brown 
Swiss and Dutch Belted cattle will bo in¬ 
creased 20 per cent, and there has been 
added to the classification a Breeder’s Cow 
Herd, open to the best 3 0 cows two years 
old or over. This is open to all breeds', and 
win bring the best specimens of each breed 
against each other. Cows entering this 
contest must be bred, but not necessarily 
owned by exhibitor, who, if he is fortunate, 
will receive a $ 1,000 trophy and cash 
prizes of $250 and $100. There will be on 
exhibition a model dairy barn, and this 
with the Government’s elaborate photo¬ 
graphic trips through the leading dairy 
districts, will round out the agricultural 
architecture exhibit. 
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-HOMESTEAD FARM IN HUNT 
COUNTY, N. J. 108 acres; fertile 
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Virginia Orchard Land miles from Washington, 
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A Few Gray Gall Ducks and Drakes For Sale 
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S. C. Black Minorcas Pullets 
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Wanted, Experienced Farmer 
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complete set of buildings—two miles from Port 
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dairy farm for several years. J. B. TURK, 62 
William Street, New York. 
WANTFD AT ftNPF - Single Ilian under 30 
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each. THE MACKEY FARMS, Gidboa, N.Y. 
THOROUGHBRED 
S. 0. WHITE LEGHORN 
yOUNG 
MAN wishes position on poultry or fruit 
farm: some experience. C. B. C., care R. N.-Y. 
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WANTED—4 or 5 GOOD COWSToV^Tr 
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CEEO HIGH—PIGS LOW—Huy now for another year’s 
■ advanced prices. 0.1.0. pig half price. PARDY 
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