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TH E) RURAL NEW-VORKER 
February 28, 
THE TIME IS NOW 
AH the winter long, the troubled owner of 
alame horie reads our advertisements. Then, 
day after day slips away, while he talks, la¬ 
ments, listens, takes advice and hesitating 
—FAILS TO ACT—till the Springtime is 
on him and his horse is notyet able to work. 
Meantime the thrifty, prosperous, resolute 
man, reads, considers the evidence carefully 
—Decides Promptly—and his horse is work' 
ing in, say, ten days to two weeks. That’s 
exactly what happens every winter. 
We Originated the treatment of horses by 
mail—Under Signed Contract to Return 
Money if Remedy Fails—and every minute 
of every day for Eighteen Years our advice 
andtreatmentshavebeen on the way wherever 
mails go and horses are. Our charges ar© 
moderate. Spring work is near; Write. 
Our Latest 8 av«The.IIor»« BOOK is a Mind Settler 
_Tells How to Test for Spavin—What to Do for a Lame 
Horse-Covers 68 Forms of Lameness—Illustrated. But 
■write describing your case and we will send our—BOOK 
—Sample Contract and Advice—ALL FliEK—to (Horse 
Owners and Managers—Only.) 
TROY CHEMICAL CO- 24 Commerce Ave., Binghamton, N. Y. 
Drugirlsts everywhere Sell Save-tbe-llorse WITH 
COJSTRA.CT or Bent by us Express Prepaid* 
Lame Horses Put Back 
To Work Quick 
'T'RY Kendall’s Spavin Cure. It has saved 
x a great many horses—has put them 
back to work even after they had been given 
up. Over 35 years of success has prerved 
the merit of 
KENDALL'S 
Spavin Cure 
It Is the old reliable remedy for splint, 
spavin, curb, ringbone, thoropin, bony 
growths, swellings, sprains and lameness 
from many different causes. 
Its cost is so small a matter, compared to the 
value of a horse that you cannot afford to be 
without it. 
Sold by druggists everywhere. 11.00 a bottle. 0 
for $5.00. Get a copy of “A Treatise on the Horse” 
at your druggist’s, or write 
Dr. B. J. Kendall Company, 
Enosburg Falls. 3 Vermont 
p$S orbine 
STOPS 
LAMENESS 
from a Bone Spavin, Ring Bone, 
Splint, Curb, Side Bone, or similar 
trouble and gets horse going 6ound. 
Does not blister or remove the 
hair and horse can be worked. Page 
17 in pamphlet with each bottle tells 
how. @2.00 a bottle delivered. 
Horse Book 9 K free. 
ABSORBINE, JR., antiseptic liniment for 
mankind. Reduces Painful Swellings, En¬ 
larged Glands, Goitre, Wens, Bruises, Vari¬ 
cose Veins, Varicosities,heals Old Sores. Allays 
Pain. Will tell you more if you write. @1 and 
$2 a bottle at dealers or delivered. Book 
“Evidence” free. Manufactured only by 
W, F. YOUNG, P. 0. F. t 88 Temple St., Springfield, Mas*. 
' $3 Package^ 
will cure any case or 
money refunded 
$1 Package 
cures ordinary cases. 
Postpaid on receipt of price. » 
Agents Wanted i 
Write for descriptive booklet £ 
MINERAL 
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NEGLECT 1 
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astounding records of sure cures from spavins, splints, 
bunches, swellings, windpuffs, etc., made with, 
1 QUINN’S OINTMENT 
Money returned if not satisfied. Un¬ 
beatable for curing cuts, bruises and 
1 scratches. Ask your druggist or 
1 send his name with $ 1.00 for bottle 
on trial Write for booklet anyway. 
tV. It. EltDY & CO., Dept. li, Albany, N. Y 
l ^»i1n — —— 
WILL SILAGE SOUR THE SOIL? 
Your article page 1, “Why the Land 
is Sour,” brings a question to my mind 
that I would like to see discussed. I 
have been planning to build a silo, but 
a friend from Orange County, who lives 
in a section where shipping milk is main 
feature of farming, and where silos have 
been extensively used, says the farm¬ 
ers there complain about the fertil¬ 
izing value of cow manure when 
silage forms a large part of the feeding 
rations. My friend admits that silage is 
a good milk-producing food, but says 
there seems to be very little if any fer¬ 
tilizing value in manure when silage is 
fed, and that the growing of corn takes 
a large area of land and seems to impov¬ 
erish the soil, notwithstanding that all 
manure is returned to the land every day. 
The question in mind is whether, when 
silage is a large portion of roughage fed, 
the manure may not be acid, considering 
the fact that silage creates a large 
amount of acid in the process of fermen¬ 
tation? Is there any difference in values 
of manure when silage is fed, or when 
dry roughage alone is fed? j. j. c. 
Stillwater, N. Y. 
This question has been asked many 
times. There seems to be a general be¬ 
lief that manure made from feeding sil¬ 
age is sour. The natural way to find the 
truth of this is to “ask the manure.” 
This has been done by the scientists who 
answer below : 
There is no ground for the belief that 
manure made when a reasonable amount 
of silage is fed has an acid character. 
The acidity of the soil is due to other 
causes. I have fed acetic acid to sheep 
and also acetate of lime, and failed to 
get any pronounced acid reaction in the 
manure. J. b. lindsey. 
Mass. Exp. Station. 
I would stiite that manure made from 
silage should not he more acid than that 
made from any other forage, provided, of 
course, that large quantities of waste I 
silage are not mixed with the manure. 
The organic acids present in silage are 
assimilated in the body of the animal, 
and the manure produced by such ani¬ 
mals should not contain any marked 
quantity of free organic acid. 
New Jersey Station. j. G. lip.man. 
Organic acids in passing through the 
process of digestion and assimilation are 
changed into carbonates, which are alkal¬ 
ine. For illustration, potassium acetate 
is given to persons suffering from an 
acid condition of the blood to neutralize 
tlie acid. The potassium acetate so given 
is changed into potassium carbonate. 
There is, therefore, good reason to believe 
that the acetic acid or other related or¬ 
ganic acids present in silage are con¬ 
verted into carbonate and bring about a 
condition the reverse of acid. 
l. l. van slyke, Chemist. 
Geneva, N. Y. Station. 
There is no reason why the dung from 
animals receiving silage would be sour. 
In the digestive processes in the intes¬ 
tines of the animal the acids are largely 
neutralized by the alkalies of the bih>. 
The remnants of uneaten silage would be 
sour, and if swept from the manger and 
mixed with manure the latter would be 
in an acid condition if battled directly to 
the field. However, if the silage rotted 
before being placed on the land, its acid 
properties would be destroyed. A recent 
bulletin of the Ames, Iowa, Station, 
which !i;is been conducting investiga¬ 
tions concerning lactic acid in corn sil¬ 
age makes the following statement: 
“To determine the influence of aerobic 
fermentation upon the lactic acid, a sam¬ 
ple of spoiled silage from the top of the 
wooden silo was examined. The result 
for volatile acids on this sample was re¬ 
ported in our previous bulletin. The resi¬ 
due after distilling off the volatile acids 
was extracted with ether and treated 
with zinc sulphate in the usual way. but 
no crystals of zinc lactate could be ob¬ 
tained. In the rotting of silage h.v molds, 
tlie lactic acid evidently meets tLe same 
fate as the volatile acids. These acids 
are not simply neutralized by basic pro¬ 
ducts resulting from the breaking down 
of protein, but are actually destroyed.” 
It is therefore evid.-nt that the acidity 
of manure from silage would not he high 
enough to have any decided effect on the 
soil when the manure is placed upon the 
field. A. A. BORLAND. 
Vermont Exp. Station. 
Cows Eating Boards. 
My cows are fed silage twice a day 
and Timothy hay at noon, oat chop for 
grain fed on the silage. They want to 
chew old boards, even tear the battens 
off the barn. What do they require in 
their food to stop this, and what is the 
cause? e. b. g. 
Castile, N. Y. 
These symptoms usually indicate a 
depraved condition of the system■ caused 
by a lack of hone-forming matter in the 
feed. This is seldom found where cattle 
are fed wheat, bran or similar feed. 
Probably the best remedy is to give each 
cow n good handful of finely ground bone 
at. least once a day in their grain. This 
usually removes the trouble, although a 
cow may be sick from other causes. 
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