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THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
August 10, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Earth or Cinder Floors for Hoghouse. 
1. Can earthen or coal cinder floors be 
recommended for a hoghouse? 2. What 
can be said for rye for a cow pasture? 
Pennsylvania. c. B. 
1. Earthen and cinder floors for hog- 
houses will give good satisfaction, but 
they must be so arranged that they can 
be kept dry and free from surface 
water. Such floors are better than con¬ 
crete and more durable than wood. 
2. Rye makes good late Fall and early 
Spring pasturage, but later it gets hard 
and woody, and is not relished. For 
pasture rye may be sown any time the 
soil can be prepared during the Sum¬ 
mer, and being hardy can be sown much 
later than wheat if necessary, but in 
the latter case no pasture can be ex¬ 
pected before Spring. If the rye gets 
too large for the stock it may be cut 
for hay or let ripen for the grain. 
Ohio. W. E. DUCKWALL. 
Raising Rabbits for Market. 
I am considering raising rabbits for meat 
purposes, for a living. I have buildings 1 
can remodel that are dry and light in 
which I now house about 700 S. C. W. 
Leghorn hens. I have land I can raise 
clover hay on and I also have an acre of 
Alfalfa started. Which do you consider the 
more profitable to raise, hens or rabbits? 
What is the average price of domestic rab¬ 
bit meat in New York City throughout the 
year, and is there much demand for it? 
Are the Belgian hare about the right size 
and kind of meat wanted, or what other 
rabbit is better suited for the market? I 
would have to depend on commission houses 
for the sale of them. m. a. 
We should not advise anyone to drop 
the poultry business for rabbit raising 
unless he had a sure market for the 
rabbits in sight. There is certainly not 
enough demand for tame rabbits in New 
York to warrant sending many here. 
Wild rabbits, cottontails and jacks, sell 
fairly well at from 15 to 50 cents per 
pair, but they are considered “game.” 
Tame rabbits are not, and for tame meat 
most people prefer poultry, mutton, 
pork or beef. Perhaps the public taste 
would be educated to the point of sub¬ 
stituting Belgian hares and other tame 
rabbits for the staple meats, but until 
this education is started, at least, the 
rabbit farmer would better go slowly. 
At any rate it is not safe to depend 
on the general market, as one would 
with an egg trade. 
High-Priced Oxen 
The Ilornell Tribune-Times reports a 
sale of oxen: 
“William Hamilton, manager of the 
stables at Lincoln Park, Chicago, who has 
been spending the past 10 days in this sec¬ 
tion in search of a yoke of oxen for the 
park stables, bought a yoke of Edward 
Root, of Ivlipknocky, near Canaseraga. The 
oxen will tip the scales at 3,000 pounds 
and are five years old. The price paid was 
$250. Mr. Hamilton was sent East to buy 
a yoke of oxen to be used in Lincoln Park, 
one of Chicago’s most noted parkways, for 
educational purposes. As soon as they 
arrive in Chicago they will be placed in the 
park and will be used to haul old-fashioned 
vehicles in order that the younger genera¬ 
tions may know how their forefathers 
traveled and carried on agricultural pur¬ 
suits.” 
Ivlipknocky, where these cattle were 
grown, is the highest elevation of land in 
Allegany Co., N. Y. It is the town of 
Almond, five miles from Canaseraga and 
10 from Hornell. The oxen are five years 
old, purebred Devons, exactly alike, dark 
red in color, fat and sleek, weigh 1550 
each, and are very gentle, having been 
raised almost as pets by the family of Mr. 
E. L. Root, who sold them to the Chicago 
Park authorities. 
SILO EXPERIENCES. 
It is hard to estimate the value of the 
silo for the farmer or stockman who is 
keeping much live stock. By live stock 
I mean chieflv cattle. The universal cry 
seems to be shortage of pasture, but the 
farmer who has a silo has no apprehension 
for the want of succulent food provided pro¬ 
vision has been made for a supply of silage 
during the Summer months. From Novem¬ 
ber <J we have been feeding silage regularly 
twice per day, save about five weeks in 
May and June, when the cattle were first 
turned out on pasture. M e will have suffi¬ 
cient silage to run us until filling time, 
then we will begin feeding the new silage. 
The cows are fed silage at milking time, 
and in our experience we have never discov¬ 
ered that it affected the milk or that it 
ever imparted an undesirable flavor or odor 
to the butter. However, a neighbor who 
at one time had private butter customers 
in a large city, when first feeding silage, 
fed an excessive amount and the customers 
inquired what was wrong with the butter, 
as it had a peculiar taste unlike anything 
they ever tasted before. Then lie began 
feeding more sparingly of the silage and the 
trouble was soon corrected. 
We never fed silage to sheep only in 
limited quantities and had the best of re¬ 
sults, although some individuals will eat 
more silage than others and if care is not 
exercised serious results may be the out¬ 
come. We never fed silage to hogs or 
horses. We know of several who feed it to 
horses and report no bad results, but since 
the stomach of the horse and sheep are so 
very different from that of the cow we do 
not feed it. No doubt there has been many 
deaths of horses caused by feeding silage, 
but the feeders never say anything about 
this. The horse’s stomach is too small to 
digest silage. Serious results may not come 
at once, but may later on. 
We have obtained most excellent results 
from feeding silage when fed in conjunc¬ 
tion with other feeds. Some feeders in 
our section feed silage alone to cattle, but 
silage when fed alone is too narrow a ra¬ 
tion, and is deficient in several necessary 
elements, chief among which is protein. 
Protein is usually supplied in the form of 
clover, hay, bran, oil meal and some other 
foods. Last year we fed 20 pounds of silage 
twice per day, clover hay twice per day and 
oil meal and chop feed twice daily. If the 
feeder can supply this protein on his own 
farm his income will naturally be larger. 
This he can supply best perhaps by grow¬ 
ing Soy beans, which are rich in protein. 
These can be grown right along with the 
corn, and at cutting time if done with the 
binder, they may be cut and tied up in the 
corn and in this way they are easily cared 
for. ' i. L. s. 
Ohio, v 
THE GURLER SILO. 
The plastered or Gurler silo is shown in 
Fig. .306, reproduced from Circular 48 of 
the Columbia, Mo., Experiment Station. 
The foundation for one of these silos is 
made by striking on the ground a circle 16 
feet in diameter, which is as large as is 
recommended for an ordinary silo. A pit 
three feet deep is then dug, the wall of 
dirt cut plumb and floor leveled. The 
foundation is reinforced concrete, which 
should be extended one foot above ground 
on the outside, and a concrete floor four 
inches deep is laid. The sills are of 2x4 
lumber cut into two-foot lengths. Those 
sills are laid while-the foundation concrete 
is soft enough to close about the anchor¬ 
ing, which consists of bolts with heads and 
washers on, or heavy spike nails with heads 
down. 
The studding is made of two lengths of 
2x4 lumber, spiked together in the middle 
and set two feet apart. Each stud is toe- 
nailed to the center of a section of the sill. 
The lower half of the studding is put on 
first, the second piece being spiked on with 
a two-foot lap. After the lower half is 
THE GURLER SILO. Fig. 366. 
nearly complete and needs no bracing. The 
sheeting is one-half inch lumber, nailed 
horizontally on inside of studding, taking 
care to break joints. Metal lath may be 
used, or the same material with 1%-inch 
widths and beveled on edges, nailing so as 
to break joints and leaving suitable space 
for clinching the mortar. The wall is then 
plastered one-half inch over the lath with 
mortar made from three parts sharp sand 
to one of good cement. In erecting the 
studding provision must be made for the 
doors. The first door should be 2% feet 
above sill. Doors are 2% feet high, with 
four-foot space between. They are made of 
floor boards nailed together at right angles, 
with tarred paper between. Any desired 
roof or siding may be used. In a windy 
country this silo should be anchored by 
four strong guy ropes, fastened securely in 
the ground five feet from base of silo and 
attached to silo about half the distance 
to top. 
Distemper. 
I have a valuable collie dog; of late 
he is acting as if he had the distemper. Can 
you tell me a remedy for it? c. H. 0. 
As you do not describe the symptoms 
shown by the dog we cannot tell if he 
has distemper: but if that disease is pres¬ 
ent its symptoms have to be treated as 
found by the veterinarian. Good nursing 
and feeding are of prime importance. Dis¬ 
temper medicine is sold ready for use at 
the drug store and is useful for abating 
the fever. _ The modern veterinarian con¬ 
trols the disease by hypodermic use of dis¬ 
temper antitoxin. a. s. a. 
* Bloody Milk. 
I have a young cow three years old ; this 
is her second calf. Iler calf is nearly three 
mouths old, and for the last three weeks 
off and on she has been giving bloody milk. 
What is the cause and what can I give her 
to cure her? She is a fine cow. She is a 
strong healthy cow in fine order, a. s. c. 
West Virginia. 
Bathe the udder with cold water three 
times a day and at night with strong alum 
water. Unless she is In calf give her 
a dram of dried sulphate of iron and two 
of salt night and morning in her feed. See 
that her udder is not being bruised in the 
stable. Small blood vessels have ruptured 
in tlie udder. Sometimes this is due to ex¬ 
cessive congestion with blood, or it may 
come from bruising or garget. a. s. a. 
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HARDER 
The’Quality” 
SILOS 
Why buy a tub when you can get a Silo 7 Why 
accept a substitute which only holds your com 
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and converts it into rich, succulent silage of great¬ 
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STEVENS TANK & TOWER CO., Auburn, Maine 
150 Indiana Silos 
Per Day 
That’s our capacity since our new fac¬ 
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to keep going till the last hill of com 
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* AH INDIANA SILO 
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need one to save your late and imma¬ 
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Nearest “ Indiana Building, DesMoines, Iowa 
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Many things enter into the cost of filling your Silo, but 
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