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THE RURAL 
NEVV-VORKER 
Live Stock and Dairy 
EXPERT CARE OF DAIRY COWS. 
You ask for more in detail about hand¬ 
ling my cows, in addition to what ap¬ 
peared on page 232. My cows are all 
grade Jerseys or Guernseys, mostly the 
latter now, but a number of them do 
not seem very good ones, and I hardly 
understand how they average for the 
year as well as they do, but it must be 
because I keep them at it pretty steadily. 
They are usually dry only from four to 
six weeks. I feed them grain twice a 
day, all of the year except when they are 
dry in the Summer, but I feed a very 
small amount when pastures are good 
in early Summer, and I have quite 
a large pasture, but increase as 
grass gets short. After corn is in the 
silo I turn them on the meadow, where 
they get pretty good grass usually. Per¬ 
haps this is not good policy, but part 
of this land overflows in times of high 
water, and enriches it, and on the rest 
I practice a short rotation of crops; 
corn, oats and clover and Timothy, cut¬ 
ting hay only one year. I do not think 
much of the oats, as there is not much 
money in a good crop of them, but I 
need the straw for bedding, and have 
to sow something as a nurse crop for 
the grass seed. Fall being my shortest 
season for milk I can sacrifice something 
in order to get butter enough to keep 
my customers supplied until I have more 
fresh cows in the Winter. 
I have a hired man all of the time, 
unless it is for a short time that I can¬ 
not find one, but I always feed the grain 
myself, and am around usually to see that 
the other things are fed right. There 
are not many milkings in the year but 
what I am on hand to help and super¬ 
vise ; my cows have water in buckets 
where they can get it any time they 
want it, and I am sure that is a great 
help in producing Winter milk. They 
nearly always drink after eating; just 
when it would be very inconvenient to 
turn them out of doors to get water, and 
they drink so much less at a time. I get 
the water from an excellent spring by 
using 1,500 feet of %-ineh pipe, with an 
elevation of about GO feet, so I have a 
good pressure to wash buggies, spray the 
garden, lawn, etc., as the pipe is always 
full no matter how dry the weather. 
I milk at regular hours, run the milk 
through the separator and feed it to the 
pigs and calves and sometimes cows while 
it is warm, using a small gasoline engine 
at the barn for the separator and grind¬ 
stone, and another one at the house to 
operate the churn and washing machine 
with wringer. I do the heaviest part of 
the butter-making, but am well assisted 
by my wife in that as well as many other 
things. She helps milk occasionally when 
onq of the other milkers is away. We 
also have an automobile, which helps 
break the monotony of farm life, and we 
can see considerable extra country and 
other things with that, as it is so much 
quicker and does not sweat and get tired 
like horses. E. N. rytiier. 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. 
THE HUMBUG OF THE HEN. 
Forty years ago, my father told me to 
get something “bigger” than a chicken. 
The reason of this was because at that 
time the great profits from chickens, or 
hens, was heralded broadcast as at the 
present time. On page 1G2 Mr. Mapes 
comes forth with a report on “Hens vs. 
Cows.” The comparative report in his 
case I believe to be true. The product 
from the cow sold from the farm is sold 
all over this land at a small loss to the 
producer. The great profit from the cow 
is made when the product is sold the 
second time to the consumer. The par¬ 
ticular point I wish to bring out in this 
report, is the “$4,500 worth of market 
eggs from 1.800 hens, and $500 more on 
increase of 800 young birds.” I know 
that a good laying hen will consume eight 
ounces of food of some kind per day of 
24 hours if she can get it. If she can¬ 
not get it she will not lay in proportion. 
If it takes eight ounces of feed per day, 
how manj r pounds per year? Answer, 
182 pounds; 1,800 hens would consume 
327.G00 pounds. Now what is the cost 
of chicken feed where Mr. Mapes buys? 
At $30 per ton it would cost nearly 
$4,000 to feed his 1,800 hens one year. 
lie has an increase of 800 birds. These 
birds will consume at least two ounces 
per day for six months. Their bill for 
feed at $30 per ton will increase the feed 
bill $270 more, or a total cost for feed 
$5,170. 
The income from each hen is $2.50. 
If the eggs sold for 60 cents per dozen, 
they averaged a trifle over four dozen 
per hen. If 50 cents per dozen they aver¬ 
aged five dozen per hen. If sold for 40 
cents per dozen they averaged a little 
over six dozen per hen. If sold for 30 
ceuts per dozen they averaged a little 
over eight dozen per hen. If sold for 20 
cents per dozen they averaged a little 
over 12 dozen per hen. 
I am a dairyman. If Mr. Mapes will 
turn his 10 to 12 cows over to me for 
one year with 100 little pigs, and half 
the feed it will take to feed his 1,S00 
hens, with the increase of calves, I will 
take my wages out of the profits, and 
give him 10 per cent on the investment. 
I will make a plaything of the venture 
besides; I will not work over five hours 
per day, and play the rest of the time. 
Washington. v. w. c lougii. 
R. N.-Y.—We fear this sort of figuring 
will hardly go. Mapes says his hen feed 
for the year cost him $2,366. It will not 
do to say that a hen ought to eat half 
a pound of food per day and then multi¬ 
ply by that whether these hens consume 
that amount or not! We figure about 
five ounces of grain per day for our own 
hens. 
SOME FACTS ABOUT GOATS. 
I note an inquiry by G. W. D., Nor¬ 
folk, Mass., for information in regard to 
clearing land with goats. Will you ad¬ 
vise him that if he will communicate 
with this association we can probably 
assist him in securing goats? I say prob¬ 
ably, for the reason that the demand is 
in advance of the supply. This associa¬ 
tion maintains a sales bureau which lists 
stock offered for sale, and supplies in¬ 
quirers with copies. 
I have personally tried sheep (Michi¬ 
gan half bloods and Shropshires) An¬ 
February 2S, 
goras and common milch goats in clear¬ 
ing land, and prefer the milch goals, al¬ 
though all do good work. All the shelter 
that is required is a roof to get under 
when it rains. If there are many stiff 
high-bush blackberry canes or bull-briers 
in the pasture by all means select milch 
goats. Both breeds of goats like a large 
proportion of brush and a small portion 
of grass in their rations, and the sheep 
a large amount of grass and a small 
amount of brush. This is especially true 
of the English breeds. 
The increase with milch goats is great¬ 
er than with sheep or Angoras, and the 
kids will bring a better price and can be 
more readily sold. For instance, the pre¬ 
vailing price of a goat kid in the Spring 
for eating purposes is $4, at other times 
of the year 50 cents to $1 less, but never 
below $3. The kids are salable when 
but a few weeks old, and sell by the 
piece and not by the pound. Goats com¬ 
monly have twins after the first kid¬ 
ding, and if the owner does not care to 
milk a goat one of the kids can be sold 
and the other left to nurse the mother. 
It is advisable, of course, to sell the 
male kids. Goats which are not kept for 
milking purposes can be bred twice a 
year; that is some of them will breed 
twice a year. I have been told that users 
of goat meat never become tired of it, 
while they do tire of mutton. I have 
never tried it myself, as I do not use 
meat of any kind. If G. W. D. could 
secure a few purebred Swiss goats he 
would find a ready sale for the young 
stock at from $50 to $100 each. To se¬ 
cure quick results in clearing a pasture 
all the larger trees should be cut down, 
and the stock will kill the stumps by 
eating off the young shoots as fast as 
they appear. elmer f. dwyer. Pres. 
Standard Milch Goat Breeders Club, 
Lynn, Mass. 
“I Despise a hypocrite.” “So do I.” 
“Now, take Jackson, for example. He’s 
the biggest hypocrite on earth.” “But 
you appear to be his best friend.” “Oh. 
yes; I try to appear friendly towards 
him. It pays better in the end.”—Boston 
Transcript. 
ROSS BROS. 
Grow* Tallest—Has Most Leaves—Greatest Number of Ears 
You do not need to plant your whole farm when you can fill a 200-ton silo from 4 or 6 acres with Et 
We’re selling Eureka at last year’s prices. Good seed is going to be very scarce and much higher t 
Eureka. 
w w _ _ before 
the planting season is over. Ask yourself what corn is worth per bushel that will produce 70 tons and 800 pounds. 
We are not asking you to experiment, we are only asking you to buy seed corn that has been proven by thou¬ 
sands of successful farmers to be the best that money can buy. Read what some of our customers say. 
New Hamburg, N. Y. 
Ross Bros. Co., 
Worcester, Mass. 
Gentlemen:—In reply to your in¬ 
quiry about the Eureka Seed Corn, 
will say that there is nothing else 
like it for fodder. It grows a larger 
and better stalk and will grow any¬ 
where. The party who tilled our silo 
thought that our corn beat anything 
that lie had seen and wanted me to 
get him some of the seed for next 
year. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) J. W. CROWELL. 
Mannsville, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1913. 
Ross Bros. Co.. 
Worcester, Mass. 
Gentlemen:—The seed I purchased 
from you last Spring proved to be the 
best silo corn I ever raised. Most 
corn in this section was very poor 
owing to the long, dry spell we had. 
Most of my corn was 14 feet high. 
I want you to book me for 4 bushels 
of the best you have. 1 want it on 
the cob shipped same as last year. 
Several of my neighbors want to" buy 
some, perhaps later will send you ail 
order for them. Yours truly, 
(Signed) W. E. WILLARD. 
REFERENCES: Bedford Farmers’ Co-op. Assn., Bedford Hills, N. Y, 
Greenwich, N. Y., 
Nov. 10, 1914. 
Ross Bros. Co., 
Worcester, Mass. 
Gentlemen:—I have been planting 
the Eureka Corn for three years, and 
as long as I till my silo I shall con¬ 
tinue to do so if I can get it. 1 have 
sent you each year an order for corn 
for my neighbors and have always 
been asked to send again. Quite a 
few have spoken to me now for next 
yenr. I hope to send in a larger 
order than last year. 
Very respectfully yours, 
(Signed) THOS. A. HARRINGTON. 
High Lawn Farm, Red Hook, N. Y. 
Brooklands Farm, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. G. A. Leach, Prop., Imperial Stock Farm, Cortland, N. Y. 
SHEFFIELD WORLD’S PRIZE FLINT CORN 
still holds the record for the heaviest yield of flint corn, 123.8 bushels, of crib dry corn from one acre. If you 
grow corn for grain, plant Sheffield. No other flint corn equals it. It can be planted later and will mature 
earlier than any other kind. It will produce more good ears, well filled out, than any other variety. Look out for 
your stock of flint corn before it is too late. There is a lot of poor corn on the market. Our stock of Sheffield 
has been tested and will germinate nearly 100%. 
Eureka corn shelled is _ always shipped in our trade-marked burlap bags, and ear corn is shipped in rat-proof 
crates holding 70 pounds. Either buy direct of us or some of our agents who have the genuine. Write at once 
for catalogue and quotations. 
COMPANY, 
67 Front Street, 
WORCESTER, MASS. 
May All Be Kept For One Year On 
the product of one acre of land. It’s hardly believable. And keeping seven cows for a whole year on 
one acre goes a long way towards reducing the cost of milk. Eureka Corn produced in one year on 
one acre 70 tons and 800 pounds. Figuring at the rate of 50 pounds of ensilage per day, which is a very 
liberal allowance, this amount will feed seven cows for one year, with enough left over for 261 feeds. 
This enormous crop won us our $50.00 gold prize for the heaviest yield. We believe this record cannot 
be broken by any other corn, but Eureka can still beat it. 
We believe our crop of Eureka Corn for 1914 planting will germinate better than 98%. 
Eureka Corn was introduced by us about 25 years ago. It is a white, smooth dent corn, grows the 
tallest, usually from 16 to 20 feet, has the most leaves and is short jointed. If planted thin, it will 
yield two and three ears to the stalk. Planting Eureka Corn is as good as an insurance policy to 
any farmer. It grows where other kinds fail and the yield is tremendous. 
EUREKA CORN 
