1913. 
THE RURLAr r. 
NEW-YORKER 
«fc>3 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
Buying Pullets. —At this season we 
begin to receive letters from people who 
want to buy quantities of live pullets for 
Winter keeping. Many of these people 
have been toM that they can buy high- 
class pullets here in Xew York at the 
price per pound of live weight poultry. 
This price, of course, is under that usu¬ 
ally charged for well-bred stock. Those 
who come here expecting to pick up su¬ 
perior live pullets at the price of old 
poultry, or roosters, will be sadly dis¬ 
appointed. Prom the very nature of the 
business- no poultry man in his right 
mind would think of sending his best 
pullets down here to be sold at live poul¬ 
try prices. The man who would do that 
would certainly not be able to produce 
high-class stock. At this season old hens 
and old roosters, and the first crop of the 
young roosters may be bought at live 
weight. There will also be a number of 
pullets, but they are rarely of a high 
quality, being usually the culls which 
some breeder has rejected. Our own ex¬ 
perience in buying live poultry for breed¬ 
ing purposes here in the city has not been 
satisfactory. We seldom get really high- 
class stock, and they are likely to be dis¬ 
eased. or well covered with vermin. While 
they can be bought for less money than 
the breeders who sell direct call for, we 
have found it better business to buy good 
stock direct, rather than to try and pick 
out a lot of miscellaneous pullets- in the 
live poultry market. A good well-bred 
and well-grown pullet is worth good 
money,, and if a man is going into Win¬ 
ter eggs at all, with the present high 
prices for feed, he would much better buy 
good stock and pay a high price for it, 
rather than to try an experiment with 
mongrel stock picked up here and there, 
without regard to its pedigree. 
Co-operative Egg Selling. —An in¬ 
teresting co-operative experiment is being 
carried on By the poultry department at 
Cornell University. Prof. Rice is not 
satisfied with simply showing farmers 
how they might produce more eggs and 
more poultry. The 35-cent dollar also 
needed attention, so that they started in 
to organize a scheme for selling eggs in 
larger quantities, somewhat after the 
plan of gathering cream at the creamery 
and selling it as a uniform product of 
butter. At the present time 95 farmers 
send their eggs to the college. These eggs 
are candled,, cleaned, and carefully graded 
by quality. By obtaining 1.400 dozen or 
more each- week they are able to provide 
uniform supplies to hotels, dealers or 
others who want large quantities of a 
guaranteed product. Before bringing the 
eggs to the college, these farmers usually 
sold them to the egg peddlers or to deal¬ 
ers. Under the new arrangement of 
bringing them all to a central point for 
sorting and grading, these farmers- aver¬ 
age from three to four cents per dozen 
more than when they sold as individuals, 
and this extra price is obtained after tak¬ 
ing out the cost of carrying, cleaning 
and grading. Not only is this so. hut a 
premium, is paid on quality, ami the man 
who brings the freshest and best eggs will 
obtain more for them, in the same way 
that the man who brings the highest 
quality of milk to a creamery will obtain 
most for it. The scheme thus far has 
worked out well, and shows what can be 
done through careful co-operative work. 
The principle in such work is ever the 
same. Farmers must combine and hang 
together. They must not only be able- to 
give a definite quality of any product 
throughout the year, but they must guar¬ 
antee the product as high class and uni¬ 
form. 
The SmotER Silo. —Dry weather 
continues severe. In many parts of the 
country this is the fourth or fifth year 
with, a shm-tage of pasture or green fod¬ 
der, The case has become a serious, one- 
in many parts of the East. Some fann¬ 
ers successfully tide their cattle over by 
means of soiling crops which are cut 
green day by day and fed to the cattle. 
It becomes more and more apparent, how¬ 
ever, with each, year of drought that the 
best thing- to tide the cows over is a 
good “barn pasture” or Summer silo. 
With a good supply of silage on hand a 
dairyman may laugh at the drought, :md 
the question of pasture does not trouble 
him. The corn crop properly started, 
cultivated, and fed, will got through, and 
give a fair crop even in a very dry time.. 
In many cases- it would pay far better to 
plow up part of the pasture, plant corn, 
use a lair amount of fertilizer, and build 
an extra silo for Summer use. The cattle 
could then be kept in the shade away 
trom the flies and tile heat, where they 
would do much better, while the silo 
would provide an abundance of succulent 
rood. In this way more cattle could be 
kept with greater comfort, and by plow¬ 
ing and working the pastures at inter¬ 
vals, the entire farm would be improved. 
Hornless Holsteins. —In the Hol¬ 
stein-Friesian World, Mr. Geo. E. Stev¬ 
enson, of Scranton, Pa., describes what 
he calls the only herd of naturally horn¬ 
less Holstein cattle. Mr. Stevenson says 
he began in 1884 with experiments in 
breeding natural polled cows and regis- 
tered Holstein bulls. lie saved the 
heifer calves that were naturally horn- 
less. and bred them back to the polls. 
Artcr several generations he selected a 
■'Ulf calf from his highest grade cow and 
a registered bull and used him in his 
herd, lie says he finally produced an 
animal from the seventh cross with a reg¬ 
istered bull which was naturally horn- 
less. This animal contained 127-128th 
Holstein blood. Calves from him out of 
the high-grade poll cows, and even from 
horned cows were almost universally 
hornless. In 1911 Mr. Stevenson heard 
of a pure blood hornless bull calf, and he 
bought him. lie also heard of a horn¬ 
less cow and a heifer, both of which he 
bought. East year Mr. Stevenson adver¬ 
tised for pure blood Holsteins which 
were naturally hornless. He says he lo¬ 
cated more than 40, and succeeded in 
buying a number of good ones, with not 
only good records, but no horns. The 
Holstein Friesian Association has al¬ 
ready gone on record as accepting horn¬ 
less animals for record,, provided the 
pedigree is clear. Mr. Stevenson, there¬ 
fore. claims that he has a strain of these 
cattle, naturally hornless, and at the 
same time giving good records with milk 
and butter. Mr. Stevenson says that his 
study of the matter satisfied him that the 
hornless trait is a recession, and comes 
chiefly through the De Kol family of 
Holsteins. He says that scientists recog¬ 
nize the fact that animals and plants in 
domestication have a tendency to drop 
parts of the anatomy which are no longer 
useful in the ordinary economy of the ani¬ 
mal. In domestication horns axe not 
needed as weapons for defense, and are 
therefore not needed. Mr. Stevenson 
says that the St. Lambert family of Jer¬ 
seys produced animals naturally horn¬ 
less, or animals that dwarf or lose the 
horns, the dwarf horns being shells with¬ 
out inside bone and loosely attached to 
the skin. He also speaks of several fam¬ 
ilies of Short-horns, and one family of 
Hereford’s which form, the basis for polled, 
animals of those breed's. He therefore 
thinks that this polled or hornless trait 
in the Holstein, is probably a recession, 
characteristic of the De Kol family. The 
advantage of a hornless cow is evident to 
any dairyman. We have met dairymen 
who did not care to handle the hornless 
animals, because they fear that they were 
not of high quality, since selection had 
been made for a polled head rather than 
for milk or butter production. In the 
case of these Holsteins. however, the 
polled cattle are individually of high 
character. 
Value of Barley Grains. 
I have been feeding to my milch; cows 
during the past Winter and Spring bar¬ 
ley grains or beer grains which as I un¬ 
derstand are one and the same thing, but 
called beer grains or barley grains locally 
as may be. They are not a complete 
ration as I find, but require an addition 
of wheat bran or cornmeal, and of course 
the roughage which all f" -a afford. 
What are protein content difference be¬ 
tween barley grains and corn silage? 
These barley grains are delivered at our 
station at a cost to farmers in ton lots 
of about $S per ton. Silage may be 
stored (I read) under average conditions 
at about $2.50 to $3.50 per ton. At these 
prices which in your opinion is the more 
economical and therefore the most desir¬ 
able feed? I have seen it stated that 
barley grains were fed largely by dairy¬ 
men in Northern New Jersey formerly, 
but are not used at all now. To my own 
knowledge, however, the dairymen on 
the Harlem Division of the New York 
Central Railroad once used barley grains 
largely, storing in pits made for keeping 
them during warm weather, but are not 
using them at all now—many of them 
not substituting silage for them either, 
but resorting to other preparations han¬ 
dled commercially under various names 
by their local feed merchants. A. F. t. 
New Jersey. 
In 100 pounds, of silage there are 21 
pounds of dry matter, of which nine- 
tenths of a pound is digestible protein, 
while 100 pounds of wet b raw era’ grains- 
contain 24 pounds of dry matter of which 
3.9 pounds are digestible- protein, accord¬ 
ing to Bulletin 154 of the Cornell Uni¬ 
versity Experiment Station, so you see 
the brewers’ grains contain practically 
three times as much, digestible protein as 
corn silage. Tu regard to the former ex¬ 
tensive use of wet brewers’ grains and 
their subsequent discontinuance, you will 
probably fimi the reason for this in the 
fact that while wet grains make a very 
good feed while fresh, their keeping quali¬ 
ties axe limiteif to such- an extent that 
efforts in this- direetiou usually prove a 
failure.. Considering the difference in 
cost. I much prefer silage as a feed foe 
m il'eh cows and young stock unless I 
was located very eloaely to a Brewery 
where tile grains could be procured fresh 
every day without much labor or cost 
for hauling, c. a. &. 
Molasses for Pigs. 
I have bought a barrel of molasses 
and wish to feed it to young pigs six 
weeks old. if that is not too young. 
Would you give me some information on 
this subject, just when to start feeding 
it and how much to feed to each little 
pig. and how l can increase it as they 
grow older, also- what else to feed to bal¬ 
ance the ration, as I have ground oats, 
wheat middlings, bran ami linseed meaL 
How much of these feeds is fed with the 
molasses? I wish to get the most weight 
possible in the shortest length of time, 
that is about six months of age. Pigs 
are bringing a good price around this 
section. $4 and $4.50 apiece, five and six 
weeks old, and then they are hard to 
find. t. K. 
New Jersey. 
I think you are making a mistake to 
put good money into molasses for feeding 
to pigs. As a rule molasses is used as 
a sort of appetizer, and pigs will usually 
eat enough without anything of this sort, 
provided they are fed a reasonably bal¬ 
anced ration. With skim-milk and a 
little bran and middlings added you have 
a very good ration. You can add a little 
ground oats to good advantage if the 
price is low. Oil meal should be fed in 
small quantities as a laxative when the 
condition of the pigs seem to require it. 
You will not require any oil meal with 
molasses, and you should feed the mo¬ 
lasses in very small quantities mixed with 
the skim-milk. It is impossible for me 
to give you any exact rale as to quanti¬ 
ties of the different feeds to give each 
day. as that must be regulated according 
to the requirements of the animals fed. 
C. S, G. 
Grain Ration for Cows on Pasture. 
I would like a grain ration for trash 
cows on pasture. Oil meal, $36; cotton¬ 
seed meal, $34; gluten, $31; bran, $26; 
malt sprouts. $27: cornmeal, $26; 
ground oats. $28 per ton. F. C. N. 
New York. 
At the prices quoted I would suggest 
that you make a mixture of 400 pounds 
wheat bran, 200 pounds each of ground 
oats and gluten feed and 109 pounds of 
cornmeal, feeding of this according to 
the condition of each, individual cow and 
the amount of milk she is giving. 
C, S. G, 
Experience with Pit Silos. 
The pit silos are giving the best of 
satisfaction in every way. My brothers 
and I have six pit silos 14x27. and in¬ 
tend to dig them deeper this Fall before 
filling, them. There are 30 pit silos in 
the county, all giving satisfaction, and 
some being dng now that I know of. The 
pit silo hms several advantages. It will 
not burn, blow down. let silage freeze- 
or silage spoil on account of air •„ does 
not cost half to fill r can use a cheaper 
rig. tilled on- 10 to 121 gallons of gasoline 
to the silo with, 'dght-borse power gas 
engine., cutter half inch. Our silos cost 
about for cement outside of work, or 
about $60, figuring work and everything; 
takes about three days to dig one here 
The silage is about as easy to take out 
as above ground. We use a homemade 
elevator, costing us about $6 for cable i 
and rope, and besides we figure we get j 
paid for taking it out in cost of silo, in- j 
terast and taxes and cheapness of tilling. 
Cushing, Neb. m. c. a. 
Where the ground is of such a nature 
that the excavation can be quite easily 
made the pit silo is all right. In a ter¬ 
ritory where lumber is high, as it is in 
Nebraska, there are three reasons why 
the-, pit silo is preferable. First, it is 
much cheaper in construction, as it can 
be built with the common farm labor. 
Second, the equipment for filling does 
not east as much, I would think, not 
mure than 25 per cent as much as for 
a large cutter with blower, requiring 
from 12 to 19 horse-power steam engine 
to operate: it is not necessary. Third, we 
are inclined to believe the silage keeps 
better and are not troubled with freezing. 
There are large numbers of the pit silos 
being put in in this State some 40 feet 
deep from 16- to 20 feet in diameter. 
Nebraska. f. w. chase. 
Does Away with Sour Milk 
Milk keeps better, 
is th oronghly aer¬ 
ated and cooled -, 
glass, stable and 
other odors re¬ 
moved by the 
“Best.v” 
Milk Cwler 
Milk tlows down on 
both outride surfaces, 
cold wliter starts at 
bottom of cooler and 
Hows np. liequires no 
m&re nt ion. Parts 
touched by milk am 
coppe i: or brass tlnned. 
Semi for our new 
Catalog. “ I>” 
Dairymens Supply 
Co., Philadelphia 
and Landsdowne.Pn. 
HORSES 
SHETLAND PONIES 
An unceasing source of pleasure and robust health tochlldren. 
Safla and ideal nlajrnmtes. Inexpensive to keep. Highest type, [ 
Complete outlDs. Satisfaction guaranteed, mummied C.ita- 
oguo. BELLB ME.VDK F.VR3T, BOX 20, MAKKltAM, Vi. 
50 STALLIONS 
and MAKES, $250 to $1000 each 
Write for my illustrated 
Circular telling why I can save 
you money on the-pure base of a Per- 
cheron or Belgian Stallion or Mure. 
A.W.Green.Middlefield, O. 
R,. R. Sta., E. Orwell, on Penna. Ry 
Midway between Ashtabula & Warren 
When you write advertisers mention Tub 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal." See guarantee editorial page. 
Mil If TIPI? CT C —Express Prepaid. Samples Free. 
I IwIVIb I w Travers Brothers, Gardner, Siam. 
Dogs and Ferretj 
OnlliA PiinQ-* 5 - i. e.swonger 
VfUlllt? rupa I)e Graff, Ohio 
f'rylK#» PiTr»«r _Tlle kind that bring the cows, 
V^ome tulips NELSON’S, Grove City. Pa! 
Fftlffits fnrSa p— 1 ? Ithel ’ colol 'orsex, any size,sin- 
I GT IGld IUI OalC „| es , mated pairs ami dozen lots. 
Catalogue free. C. H, KEEFER & CO., Greenwich, Ohio 
IS W I3XT E 
Largre Berkshires at Highwood 
Bred Sows, Service Boars, Pigs all ages. Ninety 
brood sows and seven mature herd boars in our 
brooding herd-. No animal good enough unless 
Large enough We have the large, long-bodied and 
good-neaded kind that make good in the farrowing 
pen as well as show ring. 
H. C. & BT. B. Haxpending, Dundee, N. Y. 
Springbank Berkshire Herd 
BIG BEItKSHIKKS—I have bred more high- 
class hogs than any breeder in Connecticut. Wat¬ 
son s Masterpiece No. 123931 at heart of herd. Noth¬ 
ing for sale but March and April pigs-at present 
J. E. WATSON, Prop., Alarbledale, Ct. 
Alfalfa Lodge Yorkshires 
Large English White—Short-nose type. Special 
sale Boar pigs. Ten dollars each. Trios not akin. 
JOHN G. CURTIS, Box 373, R ochester,N.Y. 
DUROC JERSEY RED SWIKE 
The most popular and profitable breed in America 
Fancy pigs at very reasonable prices. Quality un¬ 
excelled. K. W, McALLEN, Fannettsburg, Pa. 
CttELDON EARM- registered Unroes. Pigs-of both- sex 
d Bred Sows. Service Boars, Best of breeding 
C. ST. BARNES'. Oxford, N. V. 
A k C’S AND CHESTER WHITES— A few fine regis- 
**' cared boar pigs, 8 to- 12. weeks old. heed from 
finest stogie Pncesy ROMS and 112.011 each 
VICTOR EABM8, - ReUvale. N. Y. 
E ureka stock farm 
• Registered Jersey 
Brills and Heifers, 
7 mns. to- T years oltf. 
Chester White. Po¬ 
land C hi na. amt; Berk¬ 
shire Pigs. aJL ages. 
Collie- Pups amt a__ 
variety of POULTRY. Warns for Ciucin.AR 
EDWARD WALTER, West Chester, Pa, 
CATTLE 
HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES ,111 
marked and well-grown BULt CALVES FOR SALE, from 
three to four months old. All from A. R. O. dams 
with records of 19 lbs., jr. three, to 25 lbs.. 5 years 
old. Sire, Pietertje Hengerveld Segis 6th, whose 
dam and grand-dam averaged 31.15 lbs. butter in 7 
days. Average fat, 4.H6. Price, $50 00 to $100.00. 
ELMTREE FARM, Harry Yates, Prop., Charlotte, N. Y. 
East RiverGrade Holsteins 
FOR SALK 
1GO HEIFERS—1 and 2 years old; sired by fnll- 
blooded burls; dams are high-grade Holsteins. 
T5 COWS —due to calve this Fall. Large, heavy 
milkers. 
30 FRES-H COWS—Come and see them milked. 
XO liHGISTKIvlSH HULLS—Also grade bulls. 
DEPT. Y JOHN B. WEBSTER, 
Bell Phone No. 14, F. S. Cortland, N, Y. 
Holsteirr-Friesian Bull Calves f" r Sa j*r^q£i 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM. Cliittenaopo. N.Y. 
Ontario Pietje Segis 
born Felt. 8, 1913. grandson of King Segis and 
Pietje 22d’s Woodcrest Lad. Showy markings; 
white predommating. Remarkable breeding. 
Price, for quick, sale, $158. Send for pedigree. 
CLOVERDAI.E FARM, - Charlotte. N, Y. 
THE TOMPKINS CO. BREEDERS' JOURNAL, with xale-liat 
1 of pure-bred stock, 25cts per year. Copy free. 
We have some very good offers in Holstein and Jer¬ 
sey cattle. German Coach Horses, Shetland Ponies, 
Southdown, ewes and Cheshire giits. A two-year 
Berkshire hoar., registered, $25.00. TOMPKINS CO. 
BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION, Box B, Trumansburg, N. Y. 
Guernsey 
MOST ECONOMICAL PRODUCER OF HIGHEST 
NATURAL COLORED DAIRY PROOUCTS 
OUT THEM. Writ® 
The American Guernsey Cattle Club 
Box Y PETERBORO, N. H. 
If You Want Guernseys ^^V^Iew 1 
GUERNSEY BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION, Box 96. PeeksKill.N. Y, 
Breed Up—Not DownToT y oan u a ff or d lT ^ 
buy Superior dairy dams. No better sires. It. F. 
SHANNON, 9U7 Liberty Street. Pittsburg. Pa. 
Th« WARNERS AYRSHIRES for Sale 
UNCAS OF HICKORY ISIAN0. No 12740, dropped Decem¬ 
ber 12. 1909, by Osceola- of Hickory Island, a son of 
Olga Fox. No. 18545, and grandson of Luknlela, No. 
12157 (12187 lbs. milk. 543 lbs. butter) and grandson 
of Lady Fox, No. 9669 (12299 lb*, milk. 624 lbs. but¬ 
ter!. Descended also from such individuals as Lord 
Dudley of Driunsuie, No. 7552, Glencairn 3d and 
Kirsty Wallace of A lichen train, champion cow in 
milk tests at Buffalo Exhibition-. Young stock for 
sale. Address, MANAGER WARNERS, Ipswich, Mass. 
PUREBRED REGISTERED 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
No business shows a greater range of profits than 
that of dairy farming The secret of success lies in 
having cows able to utilize large quantities of feed and 
in feeding them up to their capacity. 
The farmer who is playing a losing game with 50 small- 
yield cows can play a winning game by exchanging them 
for 18 good Holsteins, 
Send for Fret Illustrated Descriptive Booklets. 
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