1912 . 
THE) RURAL NEW-YORKER 
769 
DAIRY PARTNERS IN OHIO. 
The Purebred Cow and Her Progressive Owner. 
I have been reading the letter from the high school 
graduate, page 659, with interest, and feel he has ar¬ 
rived at a time in life when he must decide for himself 
what is best. I would like to give him the actual ex¬ 
perience of two farmers’ boys in our own neighbor¬ 
hood, neither having finished his high school education. 
Both boys started with practically nothing. The elder 
one commenced farming after a severe surgical opera- 
with loss, but through all have kept their faith in 
the best. They did not stop at eight hours’ work, nor 
10, but often worked 15 or 16 hours per day. They 
are both members of the Holstein Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion of America, also of the Western Reserve Hol¬ 
stein Breeders’ Association, a local association that 
is doing great work promoting the interests of cattle 
breeding. This started three years ago with 50 mem¬ 
bers, but now has 150 enthusiastic members. They 
meet every other month with eminent speakers pres¬ 
ent. The Northern Ohio cattle breeders’ annual sale 
that such cracks as would be made in the frozen 
ground would expose the material more readily to 
the warmth of the atmosphere when Spring opens. I 
have no idea what fault could be found with such a 
proposition from the standpoint of the tree-planter, 
and so present the matter for discussion. Let me 
anticipate any objection to the use of dynamite in 
frozen ground by stating that I would use an ex¬ 
plosive which would not be affected by a cold tem¬ 
perature. t. c. A. 
R. N.-Y.—We shall welcome a discussion of this. 
HAMBDEN CORNUCOPIA PAULINE. Fig. 296. 
DAUGHTERS OF PIETERTJE CORNUCOPIA LAD. Fig. 298, 
tion had eaten the profits of his earlier days. He had 
been renting a farm for four years when the partner¬ 
ship was formed. The younger brother was just 
21, with a little over $100. They purchased a start 
in purebred Holsteins, renting a farm of 136 acres, 
and putting in crops on adjoining land as they could 
secure it. They borrowed the money to pay for their 
first great sire, and during these trying years their 
credit has always stood good at the local banks. 
How well they selected can be seen by the picture, 
Fig. 299, but when Pietertje Cornucopia Lad arrived 
as a calf, he gave entire satisfaction, and has proved 
himself a great senior sire. His young heifers could 
be easily picked out in a herd, so uniform are they 
in all the high qualities of the sire. The next sire 
purchased by these brothers was Segis Lyons De Kol 
Beets, who in a class of eight at the county fair 
won first, and up at Geauga County Fair more and bet¬ 
ter Holstein cattle are exhibited than at the Ohio 
State Fair, situated as it is in the Western Reserve, 
known all over the United States as the home of the 
best of the breed. Pietertje Cornucopia Lad’s first 
daughter has just freshened at two years and is giving 
on pasture with a grain ration of one quart bran, 
one quart gluten with her calf one week old, 45 
pounds of milk per day, which tests 3.5. They have 
14 other promising young heifers from this sire. Their 
full aged cows are now, on the same rations, averag¬ 
ing from 50 to 56 pounds of milk per day. 
They have two-year heifers that freshened last 
September, now June 3, giving 40 pounds per day. 
The scales form an important part in this dairy. Each 
cow’s milk is weighed, and marked; thus they know 
just what they have given during the year. At the 
end of five years these brothers have 31 head of pure¬ 
bred Holsteins, a team each, and a complete outfit of 
up-to-date farming implements, as well as all neces¬ 
sary dairy utensils. Their cream is shipped to Cleve¬ 
land daily. The skim-milk, a valuable addition to 
any farm, is fed fresh and sweet from the separator 
to calves. They prefer to feed their young heifers 
until they are a year old on the skim-milk. 
Now in taking up this work these young men fully 
realized they had a hard proposition. They have met 
is conducted near here, where over 100 head of Hol¬ 
steins, backed by the breeder’s personal guarantee, 
are sold each Fall. So I would say to the young man 
beginning life, choose your vocation after much 
thought and careful deliberation. Select a section of 
country where other men are in the same business 
you wish to follow. If they are making a success 
you can if you have health and ambition. Then hang 
on till you win. Organize a society to promote your 
interests. We are coming to the day of the organized 
farmer. He will not always be at the mercy of the 
middleman as he is to-day, but will demand his fair 
share of the consumer's dollar. Take the best farm¬ 
ing papers, not omitting The R. N.-Y., the paper that 
gives actual experience of the working farmer. If 
stock raising appeals to you, select the best registered 
stock; it will pay. It costs no more to raise a calf 
from registered stock than grades. A new-born 
registered Holstein heifer calf will bring $100. a grade 
cow full aged and fresh, on an average from $60 to 
$75, with calf by her side. mrs. james lampiian, 
PLAN FOR EXPLOSIVES IN TREE PLANTING. 
I have read in the issue of April 20 “How We 
Plant a Tree,” and it has made me want to submit a 
proposition with reference to the use of explosives in 
tree planting. A friend of mine, who has under con¬ 
sideration the matter of planting 7.000 trees, has con¬ 
sulted me in the matter of using explosives. Al¬ 
though I have a rather extensive experience in the 
use of explosives, I have none whatever in tree plant¬ 
ing. But having in view the matter of getting the 
most efficient results in the use of them, it has oc¬ 
curred to me to take advantage of a detail which the 
season affords, that is, the frozen crust of the ground, 
on the assumption that in breaking up the ground it 
is desirable to disturb the greatest possible area of 
the surface. To do this I purpose to bore a hole in 
die ground in Winter or early Spring to a depth of 
say three or four feet, put the charge of explosive 
down to the bottom, and blast it. this to be done as¬ 
suming that the resistance of hard, frozen material 
would afford a means of holding together like a crust 
and thus breaking a larger area. It is further assumed 
Thus far, we think, conclusions have been based upon 
but a few years experience in blasting holes for plant¬ 
ing. Our own opinion is that a small hole is better 
than a large one, but if any planter can give proof 
that the large hole makes a more permanent and su¬ 
perior tree, we want the facts. 
LIME AND POTATO SCAB. 
Being unable to get a satisfactory stand of clover 
on my farm, I applied in 1905 to a piece of land when 
seeding to wheat one ton of burned stone lime per 
acre. The following clover crop for hay was fine. It 
gave me first and second cutting in 1907. In 1908 
the land was planted with potatoes, using 1,500 pounds 
of a 5-8-8 fertilizer per acre. The potato yield was 
good and showed no scab. That Fall the land was 
again seeded with wheat, and clover seed sown in 
Spring of 1909. Both crops yielded bountifully, and 
after cutting the second growth of clover for hay 
in 1910, 15 two-horse loads of barnyard manure were 
applied per acre. The land went into Winter with 
a heavy growth of clover on it. In 1911 potatoes were 
• again planted on this land, using clean, but untreated 
potato seed and 500 pounds per acre of a 4-8-7 fer¬ 
tilizer in the drill. The extreme drought caused a 
light potato yield, but the yield of potato scab was 
heavy. It was hard to tell the potatoes from a lump 
of dirt on the spots where the lime was thrown in 
small heaps before spreading in 1905. Before apply¬ 
ing lime, potato scab had given no trouble on my 
farm, and the harvesting of the clover crop for hay 
gave but little labor. In this case it looks as if apply¬ 
ing lime was all right, but be very careful not to plant 
any living germs of potato scab in that soil, as they 
multiply many times before the potato crop comes 
round again, and are ready for a vigorous attack. 
The experience of J. T. IL, of Connecticut later in his 
experiment would be of value to us. 
Long Island. frank b. smith. 
Mice in the henhouse? Set a trap- of any preferred 
type, lay a small drain tile on the floor of house or yard, 
and put the trap in the middle of it. The trap is thus 
out of the way of the hens but offers an alluring invita¬ 
tion to the mice. 
