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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 26, 
BELIEVES IN THE FIRST CALF. 
Is the heifer’s first calf fit to raise? 
I should say yes; why not? The heifer 
in developing her first calf, if not bred 
before 15 months of age, puts all her 
constitution, vigor, and early motherhood 
into this, usually, her best offspring 
during her life. After that you try to 
get all you can out of her in butter and 
milk, and some of you keep it up so 
long that the cow quite often fails to 
develop or carry her next calf to matur¬ 
ity, by this long term of milking, and in 
neglecting to feed the cow the proper 
balanced ration, it is impossible for her 
to develop her next calf as it should be. 
It is usually lacking in constitution and 
vigor, and if this treatment of her con¬ 
tinues she will soon lose her calves be¬ 
fore time. There is just about as much 
sense in this “first calf” discussion as 
there is in planting potatoes, or shing¬ 
ling your house in the moon. I have 
handled many different breeds of cattle 
in the last 30 years, and have found that 
or mixed hay the}' will eat readily they 
should do pretty well. Corn, here, is 
worth 65 cents per bushel and when on 
a full feed cattle, at times, get as much 
as 25 pounds of corn per day each, and 
no other grain is given and not much 
roughage is eaten. Of course hogs are 
allowed to follow the cattle. But at 
higher prices, especially at $1.15 per 
bushel, as quoted some places in the 
•Southeast, supplementary feeds should 
be used, and it should pay well to grind 
the corn, cob and all, for fattening cattle, 
to insure more complete digestion. 
Ohio. W. E. DUCKWALL. 
HOUSE FOR SILO MACHINERY. 
Fig. 155 shows the way we put in 
silage. The picture was taken, as you 
see when wagon was not at cutter, so 
that we could show the small house over 
cutter which remains with the three 
panels which constitute the three sides 
simply and speedily replaced when cut¬ 
ting is over; a small trap-door fits into 
A PERMANENT HOUSE FOR SILO MACHINERY. Fig. 155: 
the first calf in nine cases out of 10 is 
the flower of the mother’s family, and I 
would pay from $5 to $10 more for a 
first calf, than for any other from that 
cow. I have five cows in the herd that 
were first calves, and any stranger would 
pipe hole when machine is taken apart, 
and we have a little house nestling at 
base Qf silo. It has a cement floor to 
which cutter is bolted, and cost very 
little in place of a $35 truck to mount 
the blower on for moving it, which in 
pick them out as the cream of the bunch. 
Don't kill your first calves; you will find 
a good market for them among R. N.-Y. 
readers if you will advertise them. Of 
course they must be registered stock to 
sell to breeders. N. a. bucklin. 
Ohio. 
LICE; FEEDING CATTLE. 
1. What is the best remedy for lice on 
colts and hogs? Is sulphur good? If so, 
how much should be given? 2. In feeding 
cattle 20 ears of snapped corn per day, is 
it best to divide the feed morning and 
night, or is it best to give one feed per 
day? Will it pay to give a quart of cotton¬ 
seed meal over the corn at .$37 per ton? 
I count cattle at $6 per hundred on hoof 
at home; corn at $4 per barrel. r. v. s. 
Virginia. 
1. You should try a one to three mixture 
of kerosene and lard for lice on colts 
and hogs, or a kerosene emulsion may be 
used full strength. Clip the foretop and 
mane of the colts off short and apply 
the mixture thoroughly, with a stiff 
brush, to the parts where the lice seem 
to be located. Strong infusions of tobac¬ 
co are favored by some, and several of 
the sheep dips are efficacious. Whatever 
is used it is well to repeat the treatment 
in about a week to kill the nits escaping 
the first dose. Sulphur given internally 
has no value and is only of slight value 
when applied externally. Kerosene and 
lard or the sheep dips will clean the hogs 
of lice, and the dips will help in case of 
any skin trouble also. 
2. P. V. S. should feed his cattle twice 
a day for best results. At the price quo¬ 
ted for corn it will certainly pay to feed 
cotton-seed meal at $37 per ton. A pint 
per steer scattered over each feed of 
corn, making a quart per day, will help 
out the rather small ration of corn nicely, 
and the cattle should do well. P. V. S. 
does not say what kind of roughage lie 
has, so oire is in some doubt as to the 
sufficiency of the ration. However, if 
these cattle can get all the corn fodder 
turn has to be housed. This arrange¬ 
ment is original with the owner, and as 
far as we know is unique. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. ulsterdorp farms. 
“Who gave the bride away?” asked a 
man interested in the marriage of a 
young lady he knew. “Her little brother,” 
replied a friend. “He stood up in the 
middle of the ceremony and yelled, 
‘Hurrah, Mary—you’ve got him at 
last!’ ”—Credit Lost. 
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