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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock and Dairy 
THAT “ASHLAND DAIRY PLAN.” 
In the discussion of that Wisconsin 
plan for furnishing dairy cows to farmers 
I do not understand who holds the title 
on the cattle until they are paid for. 
Will some local farmer tell us about this? 
j. M. R. 
The bank advances the necessary fund 
for the stock at 6 per cent, in Mellen and 
7 per cent, in Ashland. The bank holds 
a mortgage on the cows and farmer’s 
note. Those notes are secured by the 
members of the “Business Men’s Club.” 
The farmer or person owning the cows 
leaves one-half the amount of the cream¬ 
ery check in the bank each month. The 
cows are drawn by number and each 
person is obliged to keep the cow thereby 
drawn and pay whatever the average 
price happens to be. The farmers are 
obliged to raise all the heifer calves. 
Tfcis mortgage the bank holds also in¬ 
cludes the offspring of these cows. 
Wisconsin. wm. baumbach. 
HEAVY HORSES FOR HARD WORK. 
E. C. B. on page 549, asks about what 
size horses he should get to handle his 
sulky plow and his Cutaway double¬ 
action. He wants a team of horses 
weighing at least 2,750 pounds to handle 
these implements. A team of Morgans 
would be too light unless the ground was 
exceptionally loose. While the Morgans 
have great strength and pulling power 
in proportion to their size, yet they lack 
the weight that is necessary to handle 
the heavier implements as well as a 
medium team of Pereherons could. Two 
Percheron mares weighing about 1,400 
pounds apiece would make an almost 
ideal team. I saw a team of six-year- 
old gray Percheron mares at a sale re¬ 
cently that would have satisfied E. C. B. 
perfectly. They went for $650, too. 
Morgans are the best horse there is for 
cultivating, but their light weight makes 
them unsuited for the heavier work. 
West Virginia. E. A. 
AMMONIA FORMED IN STABLES. 
Probably all readers of this paper have 
observed the familiar odor of ammonia 
in the stable, and of course all know 
that ammonia in a form which may be 
utilized is one of the expensive fertilizers.- 
It is injurious to the animals to have 
to breathe the ammonia fumes, so if we 
could prevent this and also save the 
ammonia for fertilizer purposes we would 
accomplish a double object. If sawdust 
be allowed to soak in dilute sulphuric 
acid (oil of vitriol) made by adding one 
part acid to 15 parts water and is then 
drained from superfluous liquid, the pre¬ 
pared sawdust may be spread on shelves 
in the stable, where it will absorb am¬ 
monia, the product being sulphate of 
ammonia. The saturated sawdust may 
be thrown on the manure pile once or 
twice a week. Calcium sulphate or land 
plaster is also frequently used to absorb 
the ammonia but the first method is said 
to be far superior. In mixing, the acid 
should always be added to the water, as 
it is heavier and likely to spatter if water 
is added to it. E. E. FRICKETT. 
North Dakota. 
STARTING TURKEYS ; COW FODDER. 
I have a hen sitting on five turkey 
eggs, also another on five goose eggs. It 
is almost impossible to raise turkeys in 
this section ; when they get to a pound 
or more they die. Will you tell me what 
to start both the geese and turkeys on, 
and also what to feed them both after 
I get them coming on well? Will you 
tell me whether pea vines of the garden 
sorts are good for cattle after the peas 
are picked, and if so how shall I care 
for them until Winter? I have two 
cows, and would like to know how much 
land I would need to grow fodder corn 
or sowed corn and millet to Winter two 
cows and when is best time to cut and 
cure, also when is time to plant. F. B. 
Glenham, N. Y. 
The turkeys of your vicinity probably 
die of the infectious disease known as 
blackhead. This disease has made the 
raising of turkeys in many sections al¬ 
most impossible and you will be for¬ 
tunate if you succeed in rearing any to 
maturity. Stale bread soaked in milk 
makes a good feed for the first day or 
two, after which sour milk curds and 
such other food as is given to young 
chicks may be fed. Great care is needed 
not to overfeed and you will probably 
do well to give considerably less than 
you think they ought to have. Goslings 
are started on grass fed on sods, a 
little cornmeal mixed with sand and 
charcoal, and later a mixture of ground 
grains, grass and vegetable foods. After 
a week or two they will be able to look 
out for themselves and as geese are for¬ 
agers they should have an ample grass 
run and access to water. 
Pea vines are excellent for cows and 
the surplus that cannot be fed green 
may be cured as hay. You will be 
able to get much more fodder from corn 
than from millet and will not need the 
latter unless as a catch crop where the 
corn for some reason has failed. Fodder 
corn should be drilled in sometime dur¬ 
ing the latter part of May or the first 
of .Tune, in this latitude, and should be 
allowed to mature before being cut but 
should be cut before the first frost. Mil¬ 
let may be sown as late as the fore part 
of July and for this reason is often 
made to replace a piece of corn that has 
failed to make a stand. It is a gross 
feeder, needs good land, and does not 
make the best of hay, therefore is not 
popular as a forage crop where corn 
does well. The acreage of corn needed 
to support two cows depends entirely 
upon the soil and the season. Good corn 
ground should produce from 10 to 12 
tons of green fodder per acre in a good 
season, and it is usually calculated that 
one acre in corn will winter one cow; 
it will be best, however, to allow a little 
more than that unless you have exception¬ 
ally good ground. M. B. D. 
AILING FOX TERRIER. 
My bov has just been presented with 
a two-months-old fox terrier, three pounds 
in weight. Will you tell me what to feed 
it and how often? The journey rather 
upset it, and it has had diarrhoea ever 
since. I have fed it bread and milk 
(scalded) but it seems to want more. 
Is very lively and does not act sick at 
all. E. H. H. 
Maine. 
The trouble you are having with your 
fox terrier pup is not uncommon, and is 
probably caused by the change of feed 
and conditions together with too much 
exercise. As this breed of dogs is very 
active, you should try to keep it as 
quiet as possible. This may be done by 
building a small enclosure of wire poul¬ 
try netting near the house for the pup 
to stay in on pleasant days. The best 
medicine that I have ever found for dog 
ailments is young tender grass. If given 
an opportunity a dog will usually eat 
enough grass to keep him in good health. 
This seems to serve as a tonic to the 
whole system. Mistaken kindness often 
causes a person to feed young pups too 
much. This is true especially of meat, 
and should be avoided as much as pos¬ 
sible, as a simple diet of johnny cake 
and fresh milk with a very little meat 
occasionally is all that is necessary. Do 
not feed wheat bread while your pup is 
in this condition, as it is too laxative. 
If the case appears to be too severe or 
of too long standing for the foregoing 
treatment to be effective you should give 
a tablespoonful of olive oil at night, fol¬ 
lowed by areca nut once a day for three 
days. The dose of areca nut is just a 
little of the powder on the end of a 
penknife, about half an inch, thoroughly 
mixed with the food. It is usually bet¬ 
ter to feed three times a day than it is 
to feed more or less times, but of course 
you will have to be governed by the 
condition of the pup when feeding, as 
well as in giving the medicine, as you 
will understand how difficult it is to pre¬ 
scribe for an animal you cannot see. 
C. 8. G. 
On page 742 in an article about con¬ 
tracting Holstein cows, you say : The 
bull must be from an A. O. It. cow, 
nothing less than 15 pounds. We are 
using a 28-pound bull. What is meant 
by the use of a 15-pound or 28- 
pound bull? I do not understand 
the use of these terms, as here given, 
unless it stands for a cow that gave 28 
pounds of butter fat per week or 28 
pounds of milk per day. c. H. R. 
Payson, Ill. 
It. N.-Y.—What they evidently mean is 
that a “28-pound bull” is the son of a 
cow which has made a certified record 
of 28 pounds of butter in a single week. 
Montana Horses. —I believe in good 
stock in people just the same as do¬ 
mestic animals. The horses here have 
been bred up from the Mexican or Indian 
ponies, or a great many of them at 
least. The bulk of horses will average 
fully up to the draft horses of the United 
States but every once in a while one 
of those “pinto spots” will show up; 
then a nice-looking well-shaped horse 
will inherit a streak of the hot blood of 
the real cayuse, and needs a man to han¬ 
dle it. T. ll. 
Montana. 
June 28, 
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To many buyers of a cream separator 
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