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THE RUHAb NEW-YORKER 
Corn as Green Manure; Silo. 
O. F. R., Windsor, Vt. —1. I would like 
to know if any of the readers have had 
experience in plowing under green corn 
fodder, and would also like to know its ap¬ 
proximate value to the land. The piece 
Which I have in mind is planted to canning 
corn on a sandy loam. The land has had 
no manure for 10 years, but had an applica¬ 
tion of chemical fertilizer last Spring at 
the rate of a thousand pounds to the acre. 
The canning corn will be picked the first 
week in September, and if possible I would 
like to plow this in, as I have more than 
enough for feeding purposes. What would 
you recommend sowing this Fall either as 
a cover crop or to seed down for permanent 
grass ? 
2. I have an old water tank 14 feet 
high by 12 feet in diameter, made of two- 
inch plank with draw hoops. I have 
thought of using this tank as a possible 
silo by making a concrete bottpm lor the 
first eight feet, and then setting the tank 
on top. How can I arrange it so that 
the drying and swelling of the wood will 
not crack the concrete where the two join? 
Ans. —1. Green corn fodder plowed 
under would be of some value to the 
soil in the way of adding humus. I 
know farmers in the South who fol¬ 
low the practice of picking off the ears 
and then turning the stalks under as a 
means of getting rid of them. As a 
general practice, however, I should re¬ 
gard the corn plant as too valuable to be 
used for this purpose. Dwarf Essex 
rape might be seeded in the corn at 
the last cultivation. This would come 
up and make quite a growth as soon as 
the corn was harvested, and make a 
good cover to turn under. I should 
rather cure and store the stover against 
a future lean year, or, what would be 
better, put it in a silo. Winter rye is 
about the only cover crop which may 
be sown after September 1 in Vermont 
and makes a good growth. Seeding with 
Timothy or clover after August 15 
would be rather hazardous in this lati¬ 
tude. 
2. Four years ago we built a wooden- 
hooped cypress silo on a cement foun¬ 
dation. A rim of wall projected inside 
the silo about one inch, while outside 
the wall projected about 10 inches be¬ 
yond the silo. After the silo was put 
in place we filled the angle at the in¬ 
tersection of the silo and the wall on 
the inside with a rather rich mixture of 
cement and sand, letting the cement, 
lap up on the boards about one inch. 
In like manner we put a rim of cement 
around the outside, so that the water 
would not get in. After four years of 
use this cement is not cracked to any 
extent. I should soak the staves with 
which the cemertt came in contact with 
water for some time before putting on 
the cement. Then the wood will be 
swelled to the maximum and will not be 
likely to cause the cement to crack. 
E. S. BRIGHAM. 
VETERINARY NOTES. 
Unnecessary Hog Troubles. 
It is a continual surprise to the writer 
to find that owners of swine report mis¬ 
fortunes and ask for a cause and rem¬ 
edy when they give the correct explan¬ 
ation themselves, and it, if understood, 
would suggest the proper remedy. We 
have alluded to this matter before in 
veterinary answers, and receive simi¬ 
lar complaints week by week. One man 
writes as follows: “I am having un¬ 
accountably bad luck with young pigs. 
They get along all right for a time, 
but then begin to vomit and scour, and 
are soon dead. I am feeding them well 
on all the soaked shelled corn they 
can eat and their mothers get the same 
food. They are kept in board floor 
pens which we try to keep clean.” Here 
is another: “My pigs have some sort of 
skin trouble which I have had on the 
place year after year. The ears swell 
up, curl over and the skin gets purple 
in color and cracks open. They have 
a creek to run to for water and a straw 
pile for shelter. Have had pigs in this 
place for years, and always feed them 
all the corn they want. They also have 
the run of wheat and rye in the field.” 
We have had a number of complaints 
similar to the last, and then more from 
those who have sows that have gone 
down behind when suckling pigs. 
It should be apparent to the owner 
of the first lot of pigs that they are 
simply affected with indigestion, ancf 
that corn, corn, corn to pigs and dams 
is the cause, along with lack of ex¬ 
ercise and confinement on board floors. 
Once more let us say that young suck¬ 
ling pigs cannot possibly digest all the 
soaked corn they can eat, nor is there 
any demand for such food in their 
young, growing frames. Nor is corn 
the best food to supply the dam with 
nourishment and make milk the best 
fitted for her young. We feel sure 
that the trouble could be avoided by 
giving the sow and her litter plenty of 
exercise on green clover or other pas¬ 
ture and feeding her upon slop of milk, 
middlings, bran and ground (screened) 
oats or similar nitrogenous foods. The 
young pigs need no corn. In addition 
to their mother’s milk they should have, 
as soon as extra food is needed, slop 
similar to that given to the sow, but 
practically no corn until they are well 
grown and have a frame large enough 
to carry fat. 
Then as to the skin trouble. The 
cause is almost identical, viz: corn feed¬ 
ing and dirty water and a dirty sleep¬ 
ing place where pigs have been kept 
year after year. Health cannot well be 
expected in such an environment un¬ 
less cleanliness is followed and disin¬ 
fectants used freely about the place 
and even on the backs of the pigs. 
Skin disease is bred by filth, and fe¬ 
vered condition of the blood and indi¬ 
gestion of some form is usually asso¬ 
ciated with this form of eczema. It 
has also been noticed that green rye 
and wheat given as a sudden change 
when upon corn rations is very apt to 
cause skin diseases. Properly used the 
green pasture will obviate such dis¬ 
ease, but given in excess on corn diet 
may heat the system and cause skin 
trouble, as in the instance before us. 
We believe that the skin trouble would 
disappear if our correspondent would 
abandon the old hog yards for the time 
being and plow and seed them down. 
Also he should discontinue use of the 
creek as a drinking place for swine, 
and burn that straw pile with its fester¬ 
ing host of evils. Let up on heavy 
corn feeding until pigs are grown, and 
combine green pasturing with plenty 
of milk and nitrogenous foods, and the 
pigs will thrive and remain healthy. 
Another man complains that his pigs 
when suckling lost tails, and some of 
them had skin disease as well. He 
tells the reason, although he does not 
recognize it, when he says “sows and 
pigs were kept in pens, with oat chaff 
for bedding once a week.” Damp bed¬ 
ding is the cause of the tails dropping 
off, and oat chaff is the worst stuff 
imaginable for bringing about the loss. 
Bedding for pigs must be changed fre¬ 
quently and never allowed to become 
damp and foul or such troubles are 
sure to follow. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
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