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'THIS RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
January 11, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
SILOING VETCH AND RYE. 
I am interested in a silo; I would like 
one for Summer use, and wish to make 
one do for Winter and Summer use. I 
have had but little experience with vetch, 
but have been reading of the good results 
from it, and that rye and vetch do well 
together. Can they be cut and put in 
silo by the middle of May ? 1 have had 
rye large enough and it is a great milk 
producer or pasture. I would like the idea 
or the experience if anyone has tried this. 
Ohio. J - M - 
Personally I have no experience with 
siloing vetch, nor can I find any ex¬ 
periments with it as a crop for Sum¬ 
mer soiling through the agency of the 
silo. Vetch has a fair feeding value 
as a green crop, but I am inclined to 
think that it will he classed with a dozen 
other crops that have been advocated, 
and is quickly discarded, to go back to 
the greatest of all silo crops, corn. It 
would not pay to put such a small 
(as compared with corn), crop into a 
silo to feed out immediately, when no 
crop can approach the latter in amount 
or effective feeding any day in the 
year, as corn silage. When a man can 
raise easily, 18 tons of corn silage on an 
acre, and no other crop compares with 
it in palatableness, or milk influence, it 
would, in the opinion of the writer, be 
better to feed the vetch green, and fol¬ 
low with the silage. The late experi¬ 
ments show the superior feeding value 
of silage over even best pasture, and 
with a uniformity of food material that 
cannot be secured in any other way. 
Corn on fairly fertile soil can be de¬ 
pended upon for a full average crop, as 
was attested this year, and has a surety 
of growth accorded to no other forage 
plant. I advise staying by the corn 
plant in the form of silage for Winter 
roughage or Summer soiling crop—the 
only crop that has met all conditions 
and demands at the feeding floor. 
Ohio. JOHN GOULD. 
A CASE OF RINGWORM. 
The white spots on the face of the 
steer in the picture, Fig. 18, are caused 
A CASE OF RINGWORM. Fig. 18. 
by ringworm. Ringworm is due to a 
parasite of a fungous nature attacking 
the animals at some tender place, such 
as the eyes, or at a point of injury, and 
thence spreading in a circle until it has 
run its course or been killed by treat¬ 
ment with iodine, sheep dip or other 
disinfectant. This trouble seems to at¬ 
tack only unthrifty stock and fails to 
get a foothold on lusty, vigorous cattle. 
Treatment for steers is scarcely prac¬ 
tical. but for cows and calves treatment 
of the animals and disinfection of sta¬ 
bles and sheds is imperative. Ringworm 
is not so troublesome as lice, but while 
the scab persists is more disfiguring. 
Hillsboro, O. w. E. d. 
FEED GRINDER OR SILO, WHICH ? 
Persons keeping dairy cows most eco¬ 
nomically, expecting to get the most out 
of them, will need either a silo or abund¬ 
ance of ground feed and roughage. The 
person just beginning, who cannot af¬ 
ford both, but will have $150 to put into 
either, will need some deliberate thought 
to know which to buy. 
If a silo is not purchased, but a $150 
grinding outfit instead, chop can be eco¬ 
nomically ground, but this chop will need 
to be balanced with high-priced concen¬ 
trated feeds, as oil meal, cotton-seed meal, 
bran or any of the numerous commercial 
feeds found on the market, containing con¬ 
siderable protein. I believe if one of 
either is purchased, and dairy cows and 
steers mostly are to be fed, 1 would pre¬ 
fer the silo." but it must be emphatically 
borne in mind that the silo and silage 
alone will not solve the feed problem en¬ 
tirely. Silage, in most cases, is composed 
entirely of corn. Corn silage is a one¬ 
sided ration, deficient in protein, the one 
necessary essential, and if protein is not 
furnished by feeding one or more of the 
above named concentrates, or some legumi¬ 
nous feed, as Soy beans, cow peas, clover 
hay or Alfalfa, the ration cannot be as 
profitable. 
In feeding silage to cattle they should 
have some roughage as fodder, but clover 
hay and Alfalfa are better; when they can 
be supplied the results will be excellent. In 
connection with this, perhaps one of the 
best and cheapest concentrates, rich in 
protein, is cotton-seed meal. Cotton-seed 
meal usually analyzes from 36 to 40 per 
cent, protein, at this time, December 15, 
it can be purchased for $31.25 per ton 
f. o. b. cars in Tennessee. Many persons 
have the faulty idea that feeding silage to 
cattle alone will be quite enough for good 
results, but unfortunately this is incor¬ 
rect, and dependence on the silo alone is 
false economy. Cattle can be maintained 
on this alone, but they cannot be ex¬ 
pected to yield very abundantly at the 
pail, and if feeding steers their gain will 
be quite slow, while if some concentrates 
are given the increase in weight will be 
steady and quite marked. 
If only $150 are at one's disposal why 
not buy both? We have a 12 x 31 silo, 
five feet in the ground, that cost us com¬ 
plete $150. We put the eight-inch con¬ 
crete wall and did all other work ourselves. 
This, however, was of a cheap grade of 
lumber in two pieces. Wood silos may 
have gone up in price since then, but per¬ 
haps a 10 x 24 would be found quite large 
enough for the average farmer, and ought 
to be purchased for $100 or $125. For 
$25 a good, fast-grinding sweep feed mill 
could be installed, and the grinding of the 
chop could be done at odd times and on 
rainy days if the mill were in an en¬ 
closure. I purchased such an outfit 15 
years ago. and have worn out two sets of 
burrs. We ground the chop for 10 head 
of cattle, chickens, and at different times 
for the horses. The steam or gasoline 
grinding outfit will be rather expensive 
to operate, although some custom grind¬ 
ing might be done that would help pay 
for the mill. I have fed silage to ewes 
in lamb and lambs with the best of re¬ 
sults, and if I were to spend only $150 
for one of the two contrivances, and ex¬ 
pected to keep cattle and sheep, it would 
be the silo. In 'conclusion, I might add 
that in feeding silage to sheep caution 
must be exercised not to feed too much 
at one time, and practice every precaution 
that no moldy silage is given to the sheep, 
or serious trouble may be the outcome. 
Silage is of a loosening nature, and is a 
fine laxative for ewes in lamb. 
Miami Co., O. ira g. shkllabarger. 
Report of Biological Survey. —Ac¬ 
cording to the annual report of the Bi¬ 
ological Survey recently submitted to 
Secretary Wilson the rearing of fur¬ 
bearing animals in the United States for 
their pelts continues to be a subject of 
much interest. Skunks, muskrats, mink, 
and foxes are reared in captivity or on 
preserves under control of breeders. The 
large prices asked for mature black 
foxes for breeding purposes has resulted 
in confining the industry in the hands 
of a very few. Comparatively few at¬ 
tempts have been made to raise mink in 
the United States, but experiments are 
being conducted in cooperation with the 
National Zoological Park with a view to 
determining the most successful meth¬ 
ods of rearing these animals. Muskrat 
farming has probably reached its high¬ 
est point of development on the eastern 
shore of Maryland. Muskrat marshes 
are worth more measured by their ac¬ 
tual income than cultivated farms of like 
acreage in the same vicinity. Only one 
other animal in the world, the European 
rabbit, exceeds the muskrat in the num¬ 
ber of skins marketed. The report also 
calls attention to experiments for the 
extermination of prairie dogs, ground 
squirrels, and gophers that are being 
conducted by means of poison baits, 
traps, and other methods. It is a sur¬ 
prising fact that the daily forage for 
32 adult prairie dogs equals that re¬ 
quired for a sheep, and that 250 eat 
nearly as much as a cow. Spotted-fever 
ticks in the two younger stages live al¬ 
most wholly upon small native rodents, 
and the California ground squirrel has 
been infected with bubonic plague by 
fleas from rats. The danger that these 
diseases may become endemic furnishes 
an additional important reason for the 
destruction of the animals. The bureau 
reports that the antelope is in greater 
danger of extermination than any other 
kind of American big game, that there is 
great need for a suitable preserve in the 
antelope country, and that the buffalo on 
the National Bison Range have now in¬ 
creased to 81, or 44 more than the orig¬ 
inal number three years ago. There are 
now 56 bird reservations, and additional 
inspectors and wardens have been ap¬ 
pointed to care for them. The Euro¬ 
pean rabbit, introduced on Farallon 
Islands, California, and Laysan Island, 
Hawaii, has become such a pest that 
efforts will be made to reduce its num¬ 
ber on Laysan Island. Every effort has 
been made to stop the sale of plumage 
of certain birds, gulls, terns, and espe¬ 
cially herons. New regulations passed 
under the Alaska game law practically 
makes game refuges of five islands in 
southeastern Alaska. Instructions have 
been given to the revenue cutters in 
Bering Sea to insure a strict enforce¬ 
ment of the law protecting walrus. 
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