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THE RURA-lb NEW-YORKEH 
January 11, 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The total number of eggs laid this the 
sixth week of the contest, is 765, a gain 
of 67 for the week. The grand total is 
3,034. Thomas Barron’s White Leghorns 
continue to lead all the other pens, his 
birds laying 6-4-S-5-6. 28. Edward Cam’s 
Leghorns laid 6-5-5-4-4, a total of 24. tak¬ 
ing second place for the week. These 
English birds have a total score of 137 
by Mr. Barron's, and 115 by Mr. Cam’s. 
They are the only pens that require three 
figures to cover their output. The White 
Leghorns of Braeside Poultry Farm, 
Stroudsburg, Pa., lead the American pens 
with a total of 95, their record for the 
week being 22. Smith Bros., Pennsylvania, 
are next with a record of 92. though they 
only laid seven the last week. The White 
Orpingtons from White Acres Poultry 
Farm are next with a score of S8. Burton 
E. Moore's White Leghorns have a record 
of 75, and the Bose Comb R. I. Reds from 
Glen View Poultry Farm, Connecticut, 
score 73. The White Wyaudottes entered 
by Edward Cam of England, have outlayed 
ail the other pens of that breed by more 
than three to one. Their total is 74, while 
the average of all the other pens of White 
Wyandottes—taking out Mr. Cam’s pen. is 
only 23.4. Here is a distinctly American 
breed, originated in this country, which, 
exported to England, comes back and out¬ 
lays the ones that have stayed at home. 
Is this due to the “educational advantages 
of foreign travel,” or is it because the birds 
are so glad to get back to a country where 
the sun shines that they are expressing 
their happiness by extra efforts to produce 
eggs? Really it would be interesting to 
know whether Mr. Barron's and Mr. Cam’s 
birds are doing as well at home as the 
ones sent here. 
Mr. E. H. Pohle's White Wyaudottes, 
Pennsylvania, stand next to Mr. Cam's 
with a total of 59: and Wm. E. Ross of 
Connecticut third with a score of 35. One 
of Mrs. Haynes’ pullets laid four eggs this 
week. This is the little lady who wanted 
her pets to take part in the contest so 
badly, that she sent them six miles on 
horseback over the mountain trails of 
Idaho, then 45 miles by stage to the 
nearest railroad, and 2,500 miles by rail. 
Everyone would be glad to see these birds 
make a good record. The best score made 
by White Plymouth Rocks is 3S by W. J. 
Tilley’s pen. The highest score by the 
Barred Rocks is 39 by Brooks Sanitary 
Hennery. Illinois, and J. W. Miller's birds 
of the same breed laid 37. Geo. P. Dear¬ 
born’s’ Single Comb R. I. Reds have laid 
65; the next best being Howard Steel’s 
pen. with a score of 50. The highest score 
of the Rose Comb Reds was made by Glen 
View Poultry Farm, they having 73 to their 
credit. C. S. Scoville’s' hens stand next 
with a score of 54. E. S. Edgerton's Reds 
laid 43. Geo. H. Schmitz, with his pen of 
Buff Leghorns has a record of 56. and 
Chestnut Hill Farm has a record of 44. 
Two pens of White Leghorns have not laid, 
neither has the pen of Blue Andalusians, 
the pen of Black Orpingtons, the White 
Laced Red Cornish, the Buttercups, the 
Silver Wyandottes, and the two pens of 
Buff Wyandottes. Two pens of Barred 
Rocks, one pen each of Single and Rose 
Comb R. I. Reds, have not laid. Of the 
White Orpingtons, White Acres” pen has 
laid 88, but the next highest of that breed 
is 30 by Gilbert Moore’s' birds. Com¬ 
pare the above best scores of all the lead¬ 
ing breeds with the 137 of Barron’s and 
115 of Edward Cam’s White Leghorns and 
we get a good idea of what these English 
birds are doing. geo. a. cosgkove. 
[ SUGGESTIONS FOR WINTER WORK. 
Almost every farmer looks about for 
opportunity to earn more money during 
the Winter, and supplementing the ideas of 
D. J. L. in the Thanksgiving issue, there 
are farmers in all parts of the country 
using various ways to turn the otherwise 
idle season to profit. The following' applies 
most particularly to Southern Michigan 
and Northern Ohio. 
There is demand for the services of 
men with portable sawing outfits. I know 
of several of these outfits that are kept 
busy nearly all Winter, and return the 
owner 75 cents an hour for his services, 
wear and tear on machinery and on his 
investment. He also furnishes the gasoline. 
The engine is almost indispensable on the 
farm, and the portable saw rig is worth 
its price, and in view of this, the outfit 
will pay its way nicely. Another farmer 
having a three-horse engine, and grinder 
told me that he had as much as 10 days’ 
work ahead of him at one time. He was 
doing grinding for the neighbors, and the 
toll supplies him with a good amount of 
feed for his stock, which was as good as 
money for him. 
There is demand for coal props, and 
the farmer who has young trees on his 
property which he would find more profit¬ 
able to have cleared, could spend his time 
advantageously in cutting off these small 
trees. Parties buying the props ask for 
the minimum size of four inches inside the 
bark, and ask that props be cut in lengths 
of four, six and eight feet. A piece of 
timber six inches in diameter at the 
smaller end may be split in two, and one 
eight inches in diameter may be quar¬ 
tered. The rate paid at the mine is about 
a cent a foot and buyers pay % cent. 
Soft wood is not wanted. Soft wood may be 
turned into heading for cheese boxes and 
for box timber, and for this from 84 a 
cord upward for three and four-foot sticks. 
The minimum size is six inches in diame¬ 
ter. There is demand for elm for hub 
timber, and a cent a foot is paid for it, 
and elm is taken down to four inches. 
The remainder may be worked into wood 
for home use, or sold. With brush land 
cleared, its value is more than doubled. 
I have visited several localities where 
farmers have worked by the day clearing 
brush land. It is not unpleasant work 
during the Winter and the returns range 
from 81.25 to 82 a day. 
A large ice company with houses scat¬ 
tered among the small lakes of Michigan, 
employs many men during the Winter sea¬ 
son. They pay from 81.75 to 82.25 a 
day for their services, and a number of 
hundred dollars are turned into the purses 
of the farmers during an otherwise dull 
period of work. Some farmers have in¬ 
creased their comforts and financial re- 
turns during the Summer season by secur¬ 
ing a supply of ice for the warmer months. 
Probably' the greatest industry and one 
which has been more widely practiced in 
Southern Michigan than elsewhere, is that 
of feeding sheep and steers during the 
Winter. Farmers would buy “feeders” in 
Chicago, ship them to their farms, keep 
them all Winter, and in the Spring the 
higher price and the increased weight, 
would generally return them a profit. 
Lambs were bought from Chicago com¬ 
mission houses for prices for various 
years, ranging from 8-1-50 to .$7.25 a 
hundred, depending on the year. The 
following Spring they sold from $6 to 
$8. Farmers figured that if they could 
buy lambs for $6 in the Fall and sell 
them for the same figure in the Spring at 
the farm, the increase in weight, pro¬ 
vided the death rate was less than one 
per cent., would pay them for feed, while 
the compost was liberal reward for their 
labor. Many thousand sheep have been 
bought by farmers in Hillsdale, Lenawee 
and Branch counties in Southern Michigan, 
and in the Northern part of the State the 
large sheep farms are wintering many 
thousands which were raised locally. 
Southern Michigan sheep are Western 
stock brought from the ranges in Mon¬ 
tana. Wyoming and Colorado, and formerly 
from Kansas aud Nebraska. But the fall¬ 
ing off sheep production in those States 
and the practice of wintering the stock 
kept, has deprived the Chicago market of 
feeders from these States. Steers were 
formerly bought by farmers for feeding, 
but owing to their scarcity, the narrow 
margin of profit and high price, they are 
being abandoned by the feeders. Feeding 
being an established Winter work, banks 
have willingly loaned liberally to worthy 
farmers to buy stock and practice feeding. 
Generallv farmers have gone through the 
Winter, and have had a nice sum of money 
left in the Spring to pay for labor feed and 
interest. w - J - 
TALKS FROM TEXAS. 
On page 950 it is stated that second 
growth sorghum is poisonous. In this 
part of Texas the second growth sorghum 
is considered equally as good as the first 
growth for feed; dairymen here say the 
only cause of cows hurting themselves eat¬ 
ing sorghum is when a hungry cow is 
turned into a field to help herself. She 
will eat and gorge herself until she is 
bloated so much she cannot stand. I am 
feeding now and have been for the last 
30 davs second growth sorghum feed, from 
a peck to half a bushel of cut sorghum 
twice a day to a cow or horse, and cannot 
see any bad effects. My first crop of 
sorghum was eight feet high and one inch 
in diameter at the ground; the second 
growth is five feet high, and I have some 
third growth that is four feet high. Will 
those that have had cattle poisoned by eat¬ 
ing second growth sorghum kindly state 
if they can the amount of sorghum fed, also 
the symptoms, and how long after eating 
before death? 
A great many dairymen are readers of 
The R. N.-Y., and sometimes they have 
trouble with the cows giving bloody, thick, 
lumpy or stringy milk. I have had Just 
such trouble with my 20 cows. A Southern 
woman told me to try thi3 (I have tried 
it the last year four times with success) : 
As soon as you find the udder swollen 
and milk bloody or not fit to use, take 
two tablespoonfuls of lard and two table¬ 
spoonfuls of baking soda, mix well together, 
now rub all of this well on the affected 
quarter after you have milked. The next 
time you milk use half the amount; you 
will not need to use it the third time. This 
is for the first symptoms of garget. 
Another remedy this same lady told me 
about, and it never failed, she said, where 
it was tried. For poison ivy take moth 
balls and dissolve them in wood alcohol, 
then take a piece of soft cloth and wet it 
with the liquid and dab it on the affected 
places (do not rub) three or four times 
a day. l. m. 
Arcadia, Texas. 
Prices to farmers are about as follows : 
Wheat. 95 cents per bushel; buckwheat. 
65 to 70; hay, $16 to $17 per ton (loose) ; 
pork, nine to 10 cents per pound; dressed 
turkeys, 22 to 24 ; live chickens, 12 to 14; 
live ducks and geese, 14 cents live; milk, 
four to 4% cents per quart, retail, seven 
cents. Quite some plowing done, owing to 
open weather. There has been much 
much damage the past season to potatoes 
and corn by grubs. Some fields of potatoes 
almost ruined by them. j. M. b. 
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