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THE RTJRAI> NEW-YORKER 
April 6, 
Silo for Three Cows. 
On page 373 I. F. asks about a silo 
for one or two cows. I have a silo 
seven feet in diameter and 26 feet high; 
I keep three cows and have fed them 
for two Winters from this silo with 
very satisfactory results. This silo is 
made with wooden hoops, cased with 
one thickness of ^-inch yellow pine 
tongue and groove flooring. Were I 
building another silo I would use the 
same kind of materials. I believe six 
feet is as small a diameter for 1 a silo as 
will give satisfactory results. The 
smaller the diameter of the silo the 
more care must be given to tramping 
and packing the silage at the time of 
Ailing the silo. d. s. Harris. 
York Co., Va. 
A Summer Silo. 
In reply to a question asked a short 
time ago concerning Summer silage I 
would say that I have found it much 
easier to fill silo in Spring and Summer 
than to cut feed daily. If silo is part 
full and one has another crop ready to 
put in, remove at least two inches of 
the silage immediately before adding 
new and it will be all right. As to value 
of various crops for silage, rye is better 
after being kept in silo than when fed 
green, as heating softens the stalk, and 
cattle will eat it in preference to green 
rye cut when one-third of piece shows 
heads. Oats and cow peas or Canada 
peas make excellent silage cut when 
oats are in milk. Clover is best of sil¬ 
age, but in hot weather spoils in less 
than 12 hours, when exposed to the air, 
if used alone, but when used with millet 
makes the best of silage. Corn and Soy 
beans is an ideal silage, as is corn and 
clover. You can start in Spring and 
put in rye, wheat and so on through the 
season and have good silage, but remove 
two inches before adding more and cut 
all crops for silage before they begin 
to ripen. I should plan to empty silo 
once in two years, although I know no 
reason why silage older than two years 
would not be good. This from an ex¬ 
dairyman and farm superintendent. 
Enfield, Mass. F. E. p. 
Size of Cow Stalls. 
Am I correct in my measurement in 
making the stalls for two cows each 4% 
feet wide and 5% feet long from stanch¬ 
ions to inside edge of gutter, and with 
3% foot passage in rear? I shall have a 
cement floor covered w r ith planks in stalls; 
will use wooden swinging stanchions and 
wooden partition. My object is to keep 
the cows clean, but do not want them to 
be uncomfortable for want of room. 
Paterson, N. J. J. H. 
The size of the stalls should corre¬ 
spond with the size of the cows which 
are to occupy them. The dimensions 
you mention are, however, larger than 
is required by any common cows. The 
largest cows we can get, which are 
Holsteins, weighing on an average of 
perhaps 1100 pounds, require a stall 45 
inches wide and five feet long from 
stanchions to edge of gutter. This 
gives them plenty of room, although it 
would do no harm to make the stall a 
little wider, but if made any longer you 
could not keep the cows clean without 
a great deal of unnecessary labor. The 
length of stall required for smaller 
cows like the Jerseys is about 4J4 feet. 
You are correct in using swing stanch¬ 
ions. I prefer chain hanging stanchions 
to those which swing on a pivot, afe 
cows can lie down and get up much 
easier when the stanchion will move 
about four inches in either direction. 
In placing the wooden partitions do not 
let them come any nearer than 18 inches 
from the gutter, as it is not easy to 
keep them clean when they run any 
closer. _ c. s. G. 
“HELPING” FARMERS IN HORSE BREED¬ 
ING. 
In the New York Assembly bill No. 718 
was introduced by Mr. Cuvillier, of the 
Thirtieth District, located in New York 
City. It is an amendment of the law pro¬ 
hibiting gambling and betting establish¬ 
ments. This bill introduces the innocent 
words “to be” referring to buildings used 
for gambling. Mr. Cuvillier has sent a let¬ 
ter to farmers asking their support for this 
bill on the following argument: 
“The bill is for the purpose of relieving 
agricultural, race track associations and 
county fairs from criminal liability for 
acts committed on the grounds without the 
knowledge of the directors. Thq enactment 
of this law has diminished the breeding 
and raising of horses not.only in the State 
of New York, but in the entire United 
States, as has been shown by Major-General 
Wood of the United States Army before 
Congress and the officials of the largest 
municipalities in the United States that 
they cannot get proper mounts for the 
army, police and fire houses, as well as 
horses to be used in commercial life.” 
Mr. Samuel Fraser, of Livingston County, 
sent him the following letter, which is a 
hot vote with the postage stamp : 
“I note in the letter you sent with this 
copy of the bill, you state, that this law 
would increase the breeding and raising of 
horses, and that it is in the interest of 
the farmer, and that you are working for 
the farmer and not the jockey clubs and 
racing establishments. 
"As a farmer I think you could best 
serve my interests and those of the farm¬ 
ing community by allowing this bill to meet 
a speedy death. If, as your letter purports, 
it is necessary to tolerate betting in order 
to promote the breeding of horses for our 
police force and fire stations, I am per¬ 
fectly willing to have this part of farming 
abandoned until such time as the army, 
police and fire stations are prepared to 
pay the proper price for horses. I always 
find in my business that I have to pay for 
anything I get, and pay generally all It is 
worth. I do not see why the army and 
police should not do the same, and not ruin 
a great many young men and others for the 
sake of providing cheap horses for those 
officials who are to hunt these men down 
when they have gone wrong. I think it 
would be much better to reduce their 
chances for going wrong rather than pro¬ 
vide cheap horses for officials to hunt them 
down after they have been made into 
crooks. Therefore, in the interest of hu¬ 
manity as well as in the interest of the 
farmer, I would ask that you drop your 
bill as soon as you conveniently can, and 
concentrate your energies on some legisla¬ 
tion which will be of benefit to the farmer, 
provided as you are at this time inspired 
with such a motive, and I trust that you 
will be inspired with that motive, and that 
you may see from this and others who may 
write you that this call is not asked for 
by the farming community. 
"If you are anxious to help the farmer 
I would ask your earnest support for the 
bill providing funds for the College of 
Agriculture and the Experiment Station at 
Geneva, and for the inauguration of cus¬ 
tom or law which shall leave our Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture and all those con¬ 
nected with the enforcement of agricultural 
laws absolutely free from any political 
control.” s. eraser. 
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