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February; 24, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
CULLING OUT THE FLOCK. 
In any branch of the live stock busi¬ 
ness an unproductive animal is always 
kept at a loss, and this is particularly 
true in sheep raising. Where purebred 
sheep are maintained, one of the first 
points to be sought after is uniformity to do without a silo, and one soon learns 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
Soiling Crops and Silage. 
In providing the year’s feed on a dairy 
farm all roughage must be grown on 
the farm, and the grain bill must be re¬ 
duced by growing the legume hays and 
raising buckwheat, provided there is 
nearby mill where you can get it ground 
and the product separated, so you can 
feed your middlings. No one can afford 
of type among the breeding ewes. In 
every flock there will be found a few 
sheep which seem to be almost entirely 
different from the rest, and these are 
bound to beget lambs of the same type 
and stamp. No matter how productive 
that pasture alone will not carry you 
from Winter feed to Winter feed. 
Hence soiling crops for the “burnt pas¬ 
ture season." One solution is, of course, 
sufficient silage for the whole year’s 
term. Until you can supply that quan- 
such ewes may be it is generally best to tity you must fall back on soiling crops. 
get rid of them as soon as possible 
One of the first things that impresses a 
prospective buyer is a nice, even lot of 
sheep. 
Another matter of very much im¬ 
portance in the breeding flock is consti¬ 
tution. I never tolerate in my flock a 
ewe that is narrow in the chest, slug¬ 
gish in her movements or possessed of 
other characteristics which indicate a 
lack of vigor. In my own personal ex¬ 
perience I have found that a weak lamb 
will almost invariably be produced by a 
weak ewe, and in breeding any kind of 
Now comes a question of economy. 
Assume you have one silo. June 15 
there is still say 10 feet of silage—not 
more than one-fifth enough to carry 
you through to the new crop, or say 
September 25. You have the silo avail¬ 
able and you own your own silage cut¬ 
ter and gasoline engine. Now, shall the 
soiling crops be planned for a suc¬ 
cession, each crop sufficient to feed the 
herd the eight to 10 days during which 
alone each crop is “at it best” for 
feeding green or shall we plant a larger 
area of a single crop (leguminous or 
live stock there is no legitimate place partly so by preferences), as oats and 
for weaklings. In deciding whether or 
not a ewe is constitutionally weak I al¬ 
ways pay attention to her record during 
the past season. Thin flesh is not al¬ 
ways an indication of weakness. The 
ewe may have reared two big lambs 
during the Summer, and such a one 
cannot be expected to be fat and sleek 
in the Fall. In fact, if she has been 
able to give such nourishment to the 
lambs that her flesh is much reduced it 
is about the best evidence possible to 
prove she ought to be retained. The ewe 
may appear fat and lusty in the Fall 
owing to the fact that she has raised no 
lamb during the Summer, or that she 
has not properly fed the lamb she was 
supposed to raise. Here, too, is a mat¬ 
ter for the breeder’s judgment to decide 
whether or not she should be disposed 
of. All of this goes to show the im¬ 
portance of keeping a close record of 
the productiveness of the individual 
members of the breeding flock, a matter 
which I always closely attend to. 
No matter how productive a ewe may 
be I never keep her on this account un¬ 
til she is too old for service. At the 
present prices of mutton even old sheep 
cannot be profitably thrown away at the 
close of their usefulness, but should be 
sold soon enough that they can find a 
place on the market. When I have ewes 
that show signs of age I separate them 
from the remainder of the flock and 
fatten them, and unless they are ex¬ 
tremely poor when entering the fatten¬ 
ing lot I can soon dispose of them at a 
fair price. In my flock a diseased ewe 
is never permitted to remain. If the 
disease is one that I think can be quickly 
eradicated I give the animal special 
treatment; otherwise it is sacrificed at 
once. There is nothing that injures the 
appearance of a flock more than a few 
sickly looking sheep which have appar¬ 
ently but a few days to live, and unless 
they can be quickly cured I have never 
found any way to make a profit in keep¬ 
ing them. w. H. UNDERWOOD. 
Johnson Co., Ill. 
peas (Canada field), and when just 
right (oats in milk) cut it into the silo 
and feed it out as you do the silage? 
1 can see no objection to cutting such 
a crop right in on top of what silage 
you have, for it would simply seal it 
up and leave it all right, and I should 
think it would be less labor to handle 
the one crop in a bunch (provided if 
you command the crew—which we can 
do) rather than plant six to 10 “suc¬ 
cession crops” and putter with each daily 
or every two days, hauling to barn to 
lie on barn floor until fed out. 
Who is doing this? If not, why not? 
It would seem a good topic to discuss. 
How would it do to cut in Fall some 
rye instead of haying it? True, rye is 
a non-legume, but would not its feeding 
value be better in this form than if 
hayed? Will you not put this question 
in open forum? Surely some of us could 
learn a good deal. Again, who is grow¬ 
ing a Summer legume to silo in Fall 
with corn, say Soy beans? If not, why 
not? j. s. b. 
Connecticut. 
R. N.-Y.—These are good questions 
which interest many. Let us have prac¬ 
tical experience if possible. 
are used exclusively 
Qp°/ OF THE WORLD’S 
& O/o CREAMERIES 
by 
Ten years ago there were a dozen 
different makes of creamery or 
factory separators in use. Today 
over 98 per cent, of the world’s 
creameries use DE LAVAL sepa¬ 
rators exclusively. 
It means a differ¬ 
ence of several thou¬ 
sand dollars a year 
whether a DE LAV A L 
or some other make of 
separator is used in a 
creamery. 
Exactly the same 
differences exist, on a 
smaller scale, in the 
use of farm separators. 
Owing to the fact, 
however, that most 
farm users do not keep 
as accurate records 
as the creameryman, 
they do not appreciate 
just what the difference between 
a good and a poor separator means 
to them in dollars and cents. 
Now, if you were in need of legal 
advice, you would go to a lawyer. 
If you were sick you would consult 
a doctor. If you had the tooth¬ 
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Why ? Because these men are all 
specialists in their line, and you 
rely upon their judgment and 
skill. 
When it comes to 
buying a separator 
why not profit by the 
experience of the 
creameryman ? His 
experience qualifies 
him to advise you cor¬ 
rectly. He knows 
which separator will 
give you the best ser¬ 
vice and be the most 
economical for you to 
buy. That’s why 98 
of the world’s cream¬ 
eries use the DE 
LAVAL exclusively. 
There can be no 
better recommendation for the 
DE LAVAL than the fact that the 
men who make the separation of 
milk a business use the DE LAVAL 
to the practical exclusion of all 
other makes of separators. 
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1. I have a horse with heaves which I 
know is incurable, but would like to re¬ 
lieve him as much as possible. I am told 
that extract of stramonium is used in medi¬ 
cine given to people for asthma. This 
seems to me to be similar to heaves. Can 
this be given to a horse mixed in his feed, 
safely 1 E . j. c. 
1. Stramonium is not commonly used for 
heaves, but is an ingredient of many heaves 
powders. For farmers’ use Fowler’s solu¬ 
tion of arsenic is better, the dose being 
half of an ounce night and morning. Wet 
all feed. Do not feed bulky feed at noon 
or work horse soon after a meal. Prefer 
oat straw to hay in Winter and let horse 
live on grass In Summer. a. s. a. 
Tour Pens 
Y OU can’t fatten hogs in a dirty pen. The 
hog house should be sprayed occasion¬ 
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not only to kill the lice and other vermin, but 
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sour swill drippings. Lice hide under the 
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sour and caked, giving off foul, poisonous 
odors which the hogs inhale. 
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and |N DIGESTION TR0UBLES 
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Indigestion causes Heaves 
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Put up in screw top cans, 50c & $1.00. Large 
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