the; rural new-vorker 
October 7, 
Hope Farm Notes 
Keeping Corn Fodder.—I suppose 
this question is in- the minds of 10,000 
readers: 
What would be the best way to store 
cornstalks for feed of cows for Winter, not 
having any silo? P. K- 
Connecticut. 
Of course you understand that I 
never describe any model plans. We 
just tell what is done here. Our fodder 
corn is now being cut. We tie it in 
small shocks or bundles and set them up 
straight, with the tops closely tied to 
shed rain. These shocks remain in the 
field until about the middle of Novem¬ 
ber. Selecting a dry spell, we haul and 
set them straight up on top of the hay 
in the mows. It is better to set them 
up straight rather than to pile them flat. 
Should there be too many to put in the 
barn we make a temporary shed out¬ 
doors. Fix a stout pole about four feet 
above ground and lean the bundles of 
fodder against it on either side. This 
makes an inverted V-shaped pile with a 
chance for air to work through the cen¬ 
ter. A rough roof of slabs or frames 
of building paper will keep off rain. 
The secret of utilizing dry corn fodder 
is to begin feeding it early. We shall 
begin in October—one feed per day for 
the horses and as soon as the Cows need 
anything but pasture. This saves the 
hay for later feeding and uses the fod¬ 
der while it is fresh. We formerly 
made the mistake of keeping the fodder 
until January or February. It does not 
pay. heed it out early and save hay for 
late Winter. Where a man has no silo 
he can if he likes make a good imitation 
silage. The dry stalks are run through 
a cutter into a vat or barrel. Boiling 
water is poured over them and the 
whole thing tightly covered and left 12 
hours or so. If one had steam power a 
jet of steam would answer. This soft¬ 
ens the stalks and really gives a fair imi¬ 
tation of silage. As between cutting 
and shredding the dry stalks we prefer 
the latter. The big hard stalks when 
cut have sharp edges, which often 
wound the mouth of a horse. There is 
less trouble with cattle. Our flint corn 
gives a slender stalk, which is eaten 
whole without trouble. 
Poisonous Weeds.— I give the follow¬ 
ing incident to show how careful we 
should be in giving general advice. A 
man in Connecticut wrote in great 
trouble to say that several head of cat¬ 
tle had been killed by eating such com¬ 
mon weeds as redroot, purslane and pig¬ 
weed. This man said he cut these weeds 
in a garden, wilted them and fed to' 
cows. The cows sickened and some of 
them died. The man at once assumed 
that these weeds developed a poison 
while wilting and that this killed the 
cows. Now we have fed these weeds 
to stock again and again, but never had 
any trouble. Hogs and sheep in par¬ 
ticular are very fond of such growth. 
So before printing the note we sent to 
the Bureau of Animal Industry at 
Washington. This is what they say: 
You are advised that it is customary for 
dairymen to feed purslane, redroot and pig 
weed to their stock without regard to the 
quantity. This practice has been in vogue 
many years, and no harmful results have 
been brought to the notice of this Bureau. 
In these cases plants in all degrees of ma¬ 
turity and of drying have been. used. Since 
your correspondent cut the weeds of 
which he complains from a garden patch, it 
is very possible that the fatalities which he 
records were caused by poisons used in 
spraying vegetables or fruit trees, and not 
by the weeds named. J. a. moiiler. 
So there you are. No doubt about 
the fact that thousands of tons of these 
weeds are annually cut into silos and fed 
out without injury. I believe in doing 
justice even to a weed. It does not 
seem possible that these weeds alone 
killed the cows. 
The Fall Crows. —Here is a chance 
for some friend of the crow; 
Will you inform us what to do to keep 
the crows out of our corn ? They strip the 
ears and pick at the kernels. We have 
placed a scarecrow high above the corn, but 
they come the same as ever, in flocks of 10 
end 12. The corn patch is quite some dis¬ 
tance from the house. G. m. s. 
Connecticut. 
I hardly know what to advise. What 
Eort of a “scarecrow” have you? The 
best one is a toy windmill of bright 
colors with a piece of thin wood or 
steel fixed so it will clap or slap as the 
mill turns around. This noise will 
scare the crows. Bright pieces of tin 
hanging in strings will make them shy 
in daytime. If you can catch a live 
crow in a trap fasten his leg to a 
small chain and the other end of the 
chain to a tall stake; the cries of this 
captive will scare off lus friends. A 
few dead crows hung up by the heels 
in plain view would help. So would 
two or three nervous dogs tied to long 
ropes in various parts of the field. But 
let our crow brothers tell us! 
Home and Farm. —I came home the 
other night to find two small boys lined 
up with some great question in mind. 
Perhaps you have seen people before 
now who have some great favor to ask 
and yet dread to get it out. The pleas¬ 
ures of anticipation beat the fact of 
failure all to pieces. The little redhead 
waited until he saw me feating my baked 
apple, and then he came with his great 
request—while the towhead stood like 
a committee behind a spokesman. It 
seemed that a neighbor had given these 
little boys a mongrel puppy, and 
Mother had told them they must ask me 
if they could keep him. This putting it 
up to father is an old refuge which 
many of us are familiar with. I am no 
dog man. This puppy seems to carry 
the blood of several breeds—all strug¬ 
gling for dominance and losing most 
of their power in the struggle. He 
shows some collie blood, and little Red¬ 
head was wise enough to tell me that the 
puppy might grow up like old Shep— 
who lies buried under the apple tree. I 
looked at these eager little faces a mo¬ 
ment, and remembered how much the 
love of a cat or dog may mean to a 
child. So I told them they could keep 
the mongrel, and there was much danc¬ 
ing and delight. Then I had to go out 
and see the famous animal tucked away 
in his basket for the night. I now have 
a chance to get a terrier of a famous 
rat-hunting strain, so we promise to be 
well supplied with dogs. The little boys 
have agreed to pay the taxes on their 
puppy. Well, when I was a boy I was 
not permitted to keep a little dog or 
any other pet except a hen or calf that 
was to be killed and eaten. I have al¬ 
ways wished I could have had a pet 
which meant nothing on earth but love 
and confidence. ... As you know, 
we are rye cranks at Hope Farm. I 
fully believe in this rough and ready 
grain. It will grow under the hardest 
conditions and make a great lot of 
straw to plow under or cut. This year 
in particular it was too dry to sow or¬ 
dinary cover crops in August. So we 
let the weeds grow. Now they can be 
disked under and rye scattered and 
harrowed in. It will make a fine 
growth. After potato digging a spring- 
tooth harrow will smooth down and 
gather the weeds and vines. These may 
be hauled out for mulching, rye scat¬ 
tered over the field and harrowed in. 
In part of our young orchard we grew 
fodder corn in drills. This fodder is 
cut and shocked along the rows. Then 
rye is scattered over the ground and a 
cultivator started back and forth. With 
such rough seeding the rye will make a 
good growth. I do not know of any 
other crop which can be seeded so eas¬ 
ily and with such little work. Of 
course rye does not add any plant food 
to the soil, but it adds a good quality of 
organic matter, and prevents great loss 
of plant food in the Fall. We can seed 
rye for three weeks yet and get a fair 
crop. I would by all means keep put¬ 
ting it in even with rough harrowing. 
H. w. c. 
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