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April 30, 
USES FOR TRIAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. 
We have thought of listing some of 
the ways in which our people are using 
the 10-cent subscription blanks. All men 
seem to /■feel at times that some little 
recognition of a friendly service should 
be given. There are those who offer a 
cigar or even a drink. We have had 
occasion to refuse both offers many 
times—having no use for either article 
and preferring a good apple. Some of 
our people realize that some such atten¬ 
tion is often expected and they have 
formed the habit of offering a trial sub¬ 
scription to The R. N.-Y. 
One man let his neighbor take a wagon 
and refused pay for it. The neighbor 
started The R. N.-Y. coming. Another 
man was stuck in the mud. A farmer 
who lived near came and pulled him 
out. This man refused to take pay for 
what he called “a neighborly service.” 
but he did not take The R. N.-Y., so a 
10-weeks’ trial trip landed him as a per¬ 
manent subscriber. A woman was 
obliged to borrow a cup of sugar from 
her neighbor. Of course she could not 
pay for it, but the 10 weeks started. A 
city man went on his bicycle for a coun¬ 
try ride and stopped to rest under a tree 
near a farmer’s house. It was dinner 
time and the family had homemade ice 
cream. They sent the little girl with a 
plate for the stranger. He could not 
pay them in money, but a trial subscrip¬ 
tion made a new friend for The R. N.-Y. 
A farmer in Michigan wrote his compli¬ 
ments on a copy of The R. N.-Y. and 
put it in a bale of hay. A Georgia man 
bought the hay, read the paper and be¬ 
came a subscriber. Another man cut out 
an article which pleased him, wrote un¬ 
der it, “These are my sentiments—from 
The R. N.-Y.,” and hung it up in the 
store. A young woman advised the 
young man who came to see her to try 
The R. N.-Y. How could he refuse? 
We hope “they all lived happily ever 
after.” 
There are dozens of ways which our 
people have adopted for “introducing”* 
The R. N.-Y. You would be surprised 
to see how many of those 10-cent trials 
“stick,” and how large a proportion turn 
their trial into a blessing by being regu¬ 
lar subscribers. It is all a form of co¬ 
operation which works out like a charm. 
Our ideal is to make The R. N.-Y. so 
that it cannot possibly do harm in your 
family, but have a fair chance to do 
good. 
BRINGING WATER INTO HOUSE. 
IP. J. 8., Canandaigua, N. Y .—I have' a 
well 26 feet deep, 28 feet from house. Can 
I put a pump iu the house and draw- the 
water without laying the pipe over three 
feet deep? 
Ans.—Y ou do not give the height of 
water in the well. Assume then the lift 
is 26 feet, the horizontal run does not 
affect the lift save in friction and in ex¬ 
hausting the air. You can put the pump 
in the house and get the horizontal line 
below frost line and make it work. But 
to get good results be sure the horizon¬ 
tal line has no buckles to trap air. Give 
the pipe a drop of six inches toward the 
well. Use red lead freely on every 
screwed joint, for it must be absolutely 
tight, owing to the amount of air that 
must come out in starting. If I were 
doing this work I would provide a 25- 
gallon tank of water above the pump 
for priming purposes. If the well is 
an open one I would put a vertical swing 
check just below the water line to hold 
the water in the pipe, also above this a 
cock with wire rod to be opened from 
above for draining against freezing. The 
leather plungers would be soaked over 
night in boiling or hot tallow, so they 
would have a tight fit with little friction 
in pump cylinder. Don’t use common 
engine or machine oil on leather. The 
job will work all right properly installed 
and handled, but the lift is high for a 
force pump, and the air troublesome, 
hence, follow directions sharply. 
T. T. P. 
THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER. 
POOR LAYING HENS AND PULLETS. 
I would like a little help, although I 
think the trouble is plain or that it is due 
to my using pullets’ eggs for hitching. I 
have a mixed flock of chickens mostly It. I. 
Iteds. They are very healthy and very fat, 
have 100 two-year-old hens inclosed in 
house 10x30 feet with scratch house at¬ 
tached 16x16 feet. This lot average about 
40 per cent eggs. Then there are 200 pullets 
housed in house 48x10 feet with scratch 
house 48x12 feet; this lot has only an 
average of 25 per cent. All of these chickens 
have an unlimited range to forage on. The 
hens are fed 1 y 2 gallon of cracked corn, 
wheat and oats in equal parts mixed well 
into the litter each evening after the hens 
have gone to roost, so that they will have 
it to work on the first thing in the morn¬ 
ing. About 3 ii m. I feed a mash of six 
parts wheat bran, six parts ground oats, 
three parts scraps*, two parts wheat mid¬ 
dlings. This is moistened enough to save 
the middlings, but is never wet or sloppy. 
Of this I give all they will eat. Can I 
change the feed so as to increase the egg 
production of the pullets, which are fed as 
the hens except they get a little more 
scratch food or 3 y 2 gallons for 200 birds? 
The two-year-old hens do not lay as many 
as they should, but if the pullets did as 
well 1 would be satisfied. c. u. K. 
Virginia. 
I do not understand just why these 
hens and pullets are not doing better. 
It may be the ■stock has been weakened 
by careless methods of breeding. It cer¬ 
tainly looks as if that was the trouble, 
when the pullets do worse than the hens. 
“Breeding down, instead of up.” The 
only change I would make in their feed 
would be to put in hoppers of dry mash 
and beef scraps. Be careful not to make 
the change too abruptly, but put the 
hoppers of dry mash in the houses and 
continue the feeding of the wet mash in 
smaller quantities each day, until it gets 
down to nothing in about a month. 
FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
RATION FOR HOLSTEINS. 
Wil you please seud me a “balanced 
ration.” for llolstcin cows, compounded 
from mixed feed, gluten and oil cake, to 
be used with silage and mixed hay? 
New Hampshire. w. L. j. 
The following ration compounded 
from the feeding stuffs you mention 
should produce good results when fed to 
large Holstein cows: 
Feeds. 
Digestible 
dry 
matter. 
Pro¬ 
tein. 
Carb. 
aud 
fat. 
40 
lbs. silage.... 
.. 8.4 
.36 
5.16 
10 
lbs. mixed hay. 
. . 8.71 
.422 
4.625 
6 
lbs. mixed feed, 
. . 5.28 
.375 
1.59 
4 
lbs. gluten. . . . , 
. . 3.G 
.928 
2.796 
o 
lbs. oil cake meal. 1.82 
.586 
.97 
Nutritive 
27.81 
i-atio, 1 
2.671 
:5.64. 
15.141 
While this ration is a little wider than 
the standard calls for, it is as narrow as 
the nature of the ingredients will allow 
for practical purposes. The experience 
of many of the best feeders proves that 
milk can be produced more cheaply by 
supplying a large proportion of protein 
in the form of bulk}'- foods, like dried 
brewers’ or distillers’ grains,- so that it 
will not be necessary to feed the highly 
concentrated feeds in such large quan¬ 
tities as to injure the health of the ani¬ 
mals. c. s. G. 
RYE AS A GREEN MANURE. 
G. B. II., M'eat Mansfield,, Mgks .—:What is 
the result of rye as a green crop plowed 
under, the ground being then seeded to 
Red clover? Will the rye turned under 
benefit clover? I shall plant an acre to 
potatoes this year using a special potato 
fertilizer. After digging potatoes I shall 
sow to rye and turn rye under next year 
the first of May. Shall I gain by turn¬ 
ing under rye, or shall I get better re¬ 
sults, by leaving out the rye and disking 
the ground, then sowing clover? 
Ans. —If you handle the rye properly 
the soil will be improved. Very often 
the mistake is made of plowing the rye 
under lightly fitting the surface and sow¬ 
ing seed. In a dry season this would be 
a sure invitation to failure. The rye 
left loose and open lets in the air, so 
that the soil dries out rapidly, too much. 
The only safe way is to roll or pack 
down the soil after turning under the 
rye, crushing it down as firmly as pos¬ 
sible. Then if the surface is well 
worked you will have a good seed bed. 
But why plow the rye under for clover? 
We sow clover on the young rye in late 
March or early April. When the ground 
is harrowed with a light harrow the seed 
is well worked in and we get a good 
“catch.” The rye can be cut early for 
fodder, and the clover makes a good 
growth. 
BRAIN DISEASE IN COW. 
March 5 1 found my cow down in corner 
of lot. She could not get up until I turned 
her over. I gave her two pounds of salts 
during the day. She ate, but not as hearti¬ 
ly as before. She went on this way for 
about 10 days, then she came in one after¬ 
noon staggering as though she bad "blind 
staggers.” Her eyes were sore, and she 
went totally blind in right eye. She ap¬ 
peared to be all right though blind in one 
eye, giving her usual amount of milk. Re¬ 
cently she came home staggering as before 
and 'seems to be almost blind in both eyes. 
She gave just about one-fourth amount of 
milk she ought to have given. All the 
trouble seems to be in the head and neck. 
She holds her head to the right and cannot 
turn herself to the left at all. If she gets 
herself against the fence or wall she loans 
against same as though she was afraid she 
would fall. I don't know what is wrong 
with her, nor do any of the old men in 
this neighborhood. During the Winter I 
have fed her wheat bran, one bag cotton¬ 
seed meal and pea hay. I turned her out¬ 
side during the day and kept her in good 
stall bedded with leaves. Do you think 
she could have been poisoned, or is it what 
I have been feeding? c. c. 
Tennessee. 
The brain is affected, possibly by a blow, 
or from some derangement of the digestive 
organs. A stroke of lightning also might 
cause the condition described. The physic 
was proper treatment. Give a dram of 
iodide of potash twice daily in water for 
live successive days a week. Blister the 
poll of the head. Such cases, however, are 
unpromising. a. s.a. 
“BIG WING” IN CHICKS. 
Recently a neighbor called and offered 
30-odd chickens, age up to three weeks, for 
10 cents each. He assured me they were 
healthy and all right, and we paid him. 
On examination several of them were seen 
to be "big wings.” 1 remember that sub¬ 
ject was discussed iu The It. N.-Y. some 
months ago, but cannot recall the recom¬ 
mendations. e. l. s. 
Two years ago this question was well 
discussed. The “big wing” trouble seems 
to be largely confined to the Leghorn or 
other nervous breeds. The tail and wing 
feathers start early and make a surpris¬ 
ing growth, out of all proportion to the 
body of the chick. This makes a heavy 
drain upon the system, and the chick, 
weakened in body, usually dies unless quick¬ 
ly relieved. Such chicks are usually ab¬ 
normal anyway and arc wrong from the 
first. They are weaklings and “sick” and 
whether they recover or not should never 
be used for breeding stock. Aside from 
this natural defect it is thought that 
“big wing” may come from indigestion or 
poor feeding. Sonic poultry keepers re¬ 
port fair success in clipping off the wing 
and tail feathers close to the flesh as soon 
as the trouble is noticed. This sometimes 
relieves the bird by checking the strain 
on the system, but it is doubtful if it 
would help when the chicks are well grown. 
Teacher: “Johnny Jimson, why were 
you not at school yesterday?” Pupil: 
“Please, ma’am, I was convalescin’.” 
Teacher( in surprise) : “From what, 
pray?” Pupil: “Three apple-dumplin’s 
an’ a packet of cigarettes.”—Tit-Bits. 
He had worn all his father’s cast-off 
clothing, from coats to collars, without 
a murmur; but now they found him 
shedding copious floods of tears. “What’s 
the. matter, dear?” inquired his loving 
mother. “Have you hurt yourself?” 
“N-no!” he wailed. '“But father’s had 
his beard shaved off, and now, I sup¬ 
pose, I’ve got to wear those old red 
whiskers !”—Melbourne Leader. 
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