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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKKR, May If?, 
1914. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Ilay from Crimson Clover.714 
Raw Phosphate Rock and Manure.714 
Arsenate of Lead and Seed Corn.715 
Medium Red Clover Seeding.715 
Ashes and lien Manure.716 
Lime on Corn Ground.719 
Fertilizer Bluff from Oregon.716 
Action of Lime on Soils.717 
Marketing Horseradish .719 
Alfalfa in Northern New Jersey.719 
Neglected or Abandoned Land .719 
Lime and Manure .719 
Hope Farm Notes .7212 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Carbon Dioxide in Incubation ...713, 714 
Are Tom Barron's Hens Wyandottes?. 714 
Care of Little Turkeys.716 
Hens With Distended Crops.716 
Control of Egg Production.716 
Systematic Grade Breeding.72S, 729 
The $5,000 Clydesdale Colt .729 
Percherons, Belgians and Jerseys.729 
Possibilities in Mule Raising.729 
Curds in Buttermilk .730 
Shoeboil .t..729 
Corn and Cob Meal; Calf Pasture.730 
Dairy Ration .730 
Feeds for Cows and Hogs.730 
Summer Cow Ration .730 
Ingredients for Balanced Ration. 730 
Staggers .730 
Turkey With Swollen Head.732 
Installment Incubation .732 
Silage and Buckwheat for Hens.732 
Feeding I.aying Hens.732 
The Egg-Laying Contest .733 
Ailing Chicks .733 
Warts .733 
Shoe Boil .735 
Snuffles .730 
HORTICULTURE. 
Mushroom of The Fields . 
Fighting Strawberry Weevil. 
Orchard on Low Land. 
Killing The Peach Borer . 
Apple Aphis . 
Fruit Reports . 
Laying Out a Small Place. 
Hog Manure for Apple Orchards. 
Desirable Pecans .. 
The Cabbage Maggot . 
Weed Killers . 
Apple Trees Do Not Bear. 
Propagating Grapes; Raising Melons.. 
710 
710 
710 
717 
717 
720 
721 
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WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.720 
The Conservation of Fuel.720 
Some Sausage Dishes .720 
The Rural Patterns .737 
Seen in New York Shops.737 
Inexpensive Substitutes for Polished 
Floors .73,7 
Hot Drink Substitutes for Tea and 
Coffee .737 
Economy Cake .737 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Dry Earth Vault .710 
English Sparrows and Cabbage Worms.719 
Setting Up a Buzz Saw.719 
That Nasty Fly .719 
Labor Short-Cuts .719 
Events of the Week .720 
Editorials .724 
Land Bank of the State of New York.725 
Farmers’ Transportation Association. .72.5 
New York State News.725 
Government Crop Report ..725 
Drainage Meeting .725 
Cornell Forestry School .725 
Publisher’s Desk .734 
Products, Prices and Trade.731, 735 
Humorous .730 
Ration for Milch Cows. 
1. Can you give me a balanced ration 
for fresh milking cows from the follow¬ 
ing grain? Cottonseed meal, eornmeal, 
wheat bran and brown middlings. 2. 
Can yellow ochre and glue be mixed for 
floor paint and what proportions? 
b. w. F. 
1. You can make a very good grain ra¬ 
tion for fresh cows by mixing the grains 
you mention in the followiug propor¬ 
tions : Four pounds wheat bran; two 
pounds cottonseed meal; two pounds 
eornmeal, one pound brown middlings. 
Whether this will constitute a balanced 
ration or not depends upon the rough- 
age available. If you have good mixed 
hay ami clover it will produce very sat¬ 
isfactory results but some form of succu¬ 
lent feed should be added such as ensilage 
or dried beet pulp if the best results are to 
be obtained. 2. You could mix yellow 
ochre and shellac for Hoor paint but yellow 
ochre and glue would not be good for 
anything its glue will not stand water. 
C. S. G. 
Timothy for Cow. 
Will you advise a ration for a mixed 
herd of cows where the milk is bottled 
and good color of cream is desired? I 
have for fodder some good Timothy and 
the kind of fodder raised on farms where 
it has not been seeded down for years; 
do not know what name one should give 
it, although some people call it "tine cow 
hay”; bran, protein 1414%, $1.45; wheat 
feed, protein 15%, $1.50; distillers' dried 
grains, $1.55; gluten, $1.55; cottonseed 
$1.75; meal $1.40. w. F. v. 
Pennsylvania. 
You cannot expect to obtain very sat¬ 
isfactory results by feeding Timothy hay 
to milch cows. You would do better to 
feed this to your horses and use only 
your ‘‘hue cow hay” for the production of 
milk. For a grain ration you could use 
the following: Four pounds dried dis¬ 
tillers’ grains; two pounds wheat bran ; 
two pounds cottonseed meal; two pounds 
oil meal or four pounds dried beet pulp 
soaked before being mixed with other 
feed. If your cows are very thin in 
flesh you could add two pounds of corn- 
meal to this mixture and feed as much 
to each cow as she requires, regulating 
the amount according to her ability to 
eat and digest the feed eaten and the 
amount of milk she is giving. Do not 
feed cottonseed or eornmeal to cows 
within two months before parturition or 
two weeks thereafter. c. S. G. 
Ration for Cow. 
Will you give balanced ration for cows 
for me, using the following feeds? Corn 
silage; mixed hay (clover and Timothy) ; 
eornmeal $1.55; gluten $1.70; cottonseed 
meal $1.00; bran $1.55; linseed meal 
$2 per cwt. c. F. J. 
Pennsylvania. 
For the production of milk we would 
advise the following grain formula: Five 
pounds wheat bran : two pounds cotton¬ 
seed meal; two pounds eornmeal; one 
pound gluten feed. This should be mixed 
thoroughly together and fed in two feeds, 
morning and evening, with about 40 
pounds of silage divided between the two 
feeds. The noon feed should be mixed 
hay, feeding just what will be readily 
eaten without much waste. The amount 
of silage and grain to be fed to each cow 
must always be regulated by the appe¬ 
tite of eaeli cow and the quantity of milk 
she is giving. C. S. G. 
Promoting Heifer’s Growth. 
1 have- a heifer which has had a calf 
six months too soon, as she is only 19 
months old. Can you tell me a com¬ 
bination of feed that will increase her 
size instead of her milk supply? 
New Jersey. M. R. T. 
The same kind of nutriments are used 
for both milk production and animal 
growth, therefore your only course is to 
feed the heifer a ration sufficiently lib¬ 
eral to provide for both milk and growth. 
Keep the heifer in good smooth condition, 
but not fat. It will be better not to 
breed her for about six months from the 
time she freshened, but keep right on 
milking her until about two months be¬ 
fore she freshens again. c. L. M. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Warts. 
I have a yearling bull which has two 
clusters of warts, one on the top of his 
neck just in front of his shoulder, about 
20 in number; another cluster on the 
knee and ankle of his left forward leg. 
about 15 in number. One neighbor said 
castor oil would remove them, but they 
seemed to grow. Another said one table- 
spoonful of soda and one-half teacupful 
of vinegar would kill them, but it does 
not. Can you give me some advice what 
to do? ’ J. B. II. 
New York. 
Castor oil well rubbed in once a day 
is an excellent remedy for masses of 
small warts upon the udder or on the 
muzzle. Large warts of cattle should at 
once be twisted out and the bleeding 
stopped by applying a hot iron or Mon- 
sols solution or .powder. If they cannot 
be removed in this way they should be 
cut out. A. S. A. 
Snuffles. 
We have lately lost five shotes weigh¬ 
ing in the neighborhood of 75 pounds 
each. They were first attacked with a 
cough, which gradually diminished but 
did not wholly leave them. Their heads 
swelled, eyes were bloodshot, had great 
difficulty in breathing, grew thinner each 
day as each succeeding day found them 
eating with greater difficulty. I finally 
killed them and had a veterinarian ex¬ 
amine one of them, and he pronounced 
it osteo-porosis, as the cheek bones were 
excessively enlarged by a soft bony 
growth which could be easily sliced off 
with a knife, this growth pressed against 
the wind-pipe thereby causing the diffi¬ 
culty in breathing. He claimed there 
was no known cause for. this growth, 
neither was there any known remedy. 
We feed a mixture of wheat middlings, 
bran and meal. The swine have access 
to salt and charcoal though they do not 
eat much of it. The pens are kept clean. 
The hogs are purebred Berkshires. Will 
you inform me if there is a known cause 
and a remedy? E. F. 
Massachusetts. 
The disease is not osteo-porosis, but is 
maxillary rachitis (rickets), commonly 
termed “snuffles” or “bullnose” (French: 
“reniflement,” German, “schnufelkrank- 
heit”). The disease is due to malnutri¬ 
tion (disturbance in metabolism) and is 
most likely to attack pigs of pampered 
sows. A deficiency in lime salts in the 
drinking water and feed is to be sus¬ 
pected as a contributing cause. Pre¬ 
ventive measures consist in making the 
sows live a natural life, out of doors as 
much as possible and fed on mixed ra¬ 
tions including 10 per cent, of digester 
tankage. Precipitated phosphate of lime 
should be mixed in the feed daily for 
sows and pigs. Lime water may be add¬ 
ed to the milk or slop and sows given free 
access to wood ashes, charcoal and slaked 
lime. Avoid heavy feeding on corn. Con¬ 
finement to pens is especially dangerous 
for both sows and pigs. Worms should 
be combated by the usual remedies. The 
disease is incurable so that affected pigs 
should be destroyed and burned. Affected 
stock should not be retained for breed¬ 
ing purposes. a. s. a. 
Age Limit for Guineas. 
How many years will a Guinea hen 
lay her usual number of eggs and at what 
age does she cease to be profitable? Can 
a Guinea rooster be kept to the same age 
or must I keep young males? I have 
never found anything on this subject in 
poultry books. e. t. 
Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 
Guinea hens usually are prolific layers 
until they are eight or 10 years old. 
Male birds should be renewed every four 
or five years._ 
Leg Weakness.. 
My hens seem to have some disease 
which affects them so they cannot walk ; 
have had three or four out of 200 pullets 
hatched last season go that way. All 
have recovered so far except one. whose 
bones seem to be very soft. They also 
lay some soft-shelled eggs. I feed cracked 
corn, oats, wheat, buckwheat for whole 
grain, mixed feed, eornmeal. beef scraps, 
charcoal for mash; also sand and grit 
' J. L. W. 
Leg weakness in mature fowls is 
thought to be due to rheumatism con¬ 
tracted in damp drafty quarters, or to 
close confinement and heavy feeding dur¬ 
ing the Winter months. If the conditions 
at fault can be corrected, most cases re¬ 
cover without special treatment; in other 
cases, a good physic, like a teaspoonful 
or two of castor oil, is all that is neces¬ 
sary to put them upon their feet agan. 
_ M. B. D. 
Feed for Laying Hens. 
I have 30 laying hens which average 
about 12 eggs a day. They are fed a 
scratch feed three times a day, consisting 
of 13 pounds oats. 20 pounds corn and 36 
pounds wheat; this mixture lasts one 
week. There is a dry mash before them 
all the time, consisting of the following: 
Cornmeal, 15 parts; animal meal, 16 
parts; Alfalfa meal, 16 parts. There is 
oyster shell, charcoal, and grit in hop¬ 
pers before them at all times, as well as 
tepid water. A large armful of meadow 
hay is put in the coops every other day 
on top of the litter. The house is 20 by 
10 feet, and lias the Cornell system of 
nests and roosts. Can you tell me how I 
can increase my egg production? They 
are all White Wyandottes, hatched May 
1st, 1913. I will be very thankful for 
any information on the subject. 
G. H. B. 
A dry mash consisting of practically 
equal parts of corn meal and Alfalfa 
meal is not well balanced as it contains 
too much protein in proportion to the 
carbohydrates, and too much of it in ani¬ 
mal meal. A better mixture would be 
100 pounds each of wheat bran, mid¬ 
dlings, gluten feed, and cornmeal, to 
which is added 50 pounds of animal meal 
and one quart of salt. Clover hay would 
be far superior to meadow hay, and some 
green food should be provided if possible. 
If nothing else -L? at hand, dried beet 
pulp, which can be purchased through 
any feed dealer, is a fair substitute. 
Whether this system of feediug will in¬ 
crease your egg output no one can say, 
but it is a better one than that you 
are using, and should give better results. 
Turkey With Swelling. 
Some time ago I wrote to you asking 
what I should do for a turkey that had 
swellings on face. I received answer and 
followed directions but she does not im¬ 
prove. We opened the swelling and 
pressed them out and used carbolic vase¬ 
line, but they fill right up again. I also 
took some peroxide diluted with boiled 
water and syringed it out. There is a 
discharge from one of the eyes. Is there 
anything else I can do and was it all 
right to use the peroxide? Would you 
kill the bird? Would she be fit for food? 
She eats well, seems well enough other¬ 
wise. M. B. 
Your treatment with hydrogen perox¬ 
ide is good and it will probably be still 
more efficacious if, after syringing out the 
pus eavites, you fill them with some dry 
antiseptic powder, like iodoform, aristol, 
or boric acid. The nostrils and cleft of 
the mouth may well be syringed out with 
the peroxide also, if there is any dis¬ 
charge from them. If the turkey is a 
vigorous one. eating well, and apparently 
does not suffer from the local affection, it 
would seem a pity to kill her at the be¬ 
ginning of the breeding season. 
M. B. D. 
Getting Rio Of Grey Squirrels.— 
The reader who writes on page 521 about 
them, will find that whole corn soaked in 
water poisoned with strychnine crystals, 
will kill the squirrels off rapidly, with 
little danger to birds that he cares for. 
Robins do not touch whole grains: 
blackbirds and crows will. Sprinkle the 
corn about the edge or edges of the 
parch adjoining the grove where the 
squirrels stay, late in the evening, when 
there is prospect of fair weather. Some 
put it out late in the afternoon, when 
they will get it for their last meal. But 
finding it in the morning is best, when 
they are out for breakfast before people 
are stirring to frighten them. I have 
seen them dead by the dozen in the West, 
where settlers are annoyed by them, par¬ 
ticularly if a patch adjoins a forest or 
small grove of trees.| The plan may not 
work if this man’s, or his neighbors’ 
fowls have access to his fields. 
T. C. P. 
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WANTED ON POULTRY FARM — Man and 
wife. E. L. TREWEU, Freehold. N. J. 
FARM FOREMAN, practical, life experience, 
married, references. E., P.rewster, New York. 
POSITION WANTED by young man. 24 years 
of age. as manager on duck farm: four years’ 
experience. THOMAS KINO, Beenaerville, N. J. 
WANTED IN BERKSHIRE HILLS—Young 
woman of charaeter for general housework 
and companion. MRS. WILLIAM FORD, Drury, 
Berkshire County, Mass. 
PARTNER WANTED to start poultry plant; 
Virginia farm, near large markets; single 
man. M. Y., care It. N.-Y., 333 West 30th 
St.. New York. 
WANTED POSITION AS HERDSMAN in an 
A1 Gurnsey herd where an experienced A. R. 
feeder can get results: married, one child. 
BOX 192. Peekskill, N. Y. 
FARM HELP—The New York State School of 
Agriculture at Morrlsville, N. Y., can recom¬ 
mend several trained, practical young men. 
F. G. IIELYAR, Director, Morrlsville, N. Y. 
WANTED—Single man for general farm work. 
Must be strictly sober and honest: good milker; 
wages $25. board and washing. Send reference 
in first letter. OAKnURST FARM, Millerton, 
N. Y. 
FARM SUPERINTENDENT is open for engage¬ 
ment has had life experience managing large 
estates; understands farm and construction 
work has good references. BOX 116, Pocantieo 
Hills. N. Y. 
POSITION WANTED as manager of dairy or 
poultry farm; married, no children; thorough¬ 
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knowledge. H. A., care R. N.-Y.. 333 West 30tli 
St., New York. 
WANTED POSITION AS FARM FOREMAN 
or head dairyman on private estate: single; 
life experience; up-to-date farming and man¬ 
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make excellent butter: references. Address 
F. BOWCOCK, care of General Post Office, 
New York. 
POSITION WANTED as working foreman by 
married man. 35 years old. five children; 
hustler: twenty years’ experience: fruit or 
dairy farm preferred; can take charge of 30 
cows with no help except during harvest; does 
not drink. B. J., care K. N.-Y., 333 West 30th 
St., New York. 
YOUNG, MARRIED POULTRYMAN DESIRES 
position: commercial or estate; graduate of 
Massachusetts College poultry course, and knowl¬ 
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and typewriting; honest and dependable; refer¬ 
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333 West 30th St., New York. 
ALFALFA HAY. F. P. ERKENBECK, Fayette¬ 
ville, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—White potatoes, direct from 
farm. 80 cents bushel. WILLARD B. KILLIC, 
Swedesboro, N. J. 
BROODER STOVE WANTED about May 29 
for 200 chicks. FRENCH. 208 New Britain 
Ave., Hartford, Coun. 
VERMONT MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP—The 
most delicious sweet known. Sugar, ten-pound 
pails, SI.20; syrup, $1.10 per gallon. Send your 
order direct to the maker. L. H. GALE, South 
Londonderry, Vermont. 
FOR SALE—A four and one-half and a thir¬ 
teen and one-half horse power gasoline en¬ 
gine. Will sell for seventy-five and two hun¬ 
dred dollars respectively. ONEIDA COMMUNI¬ 
TY, LIMITED, Oneida, X. Y. 
FARM WANTED—In Maryland or Virginia in 
exchange for New Jersey property. G. F. 
MELICK. Metuehen, N. J. 
FOR SALE—Farm of 70 acres, well watered, 
good buildings, good wood lot. one mile from 
Railroad, stores, church, blacksmith, ou mail 
route. L. I,. SMITH, Westdale, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Chautauqua grape farm, 90 acres; 
splendidly situated: fine buildings; $2,000 
down; liberal terms balance; description, photo¬ 
graphs upon request. HARRY STANSBUUY, 
Forestville, N. Y. 
FRUIT, TRUCK. POULTRY FARM FOR SALE 
—36 acres, excellent location and market: good 
buildings; all kinds fruit: strong soil: witii or 
without stock, etc.; buy direct, saving commis¬ 
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FOR SALE—Owego, Tioga County, N. Y., Colo¬ 
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halls, furnace, bath, gas, electricitv on the 
beautiful Susquehanna River; lot 80x301): ideal 
summer or all-the-year home. Sell for $7,000. 
Address OWNER, Box 255, Owego, Tioga County, 
FARM FOR SALE-—60 acres with 0-room frame 
house and large barn, 3M> miles from L. V. 
R.R. station and market;" 1 mile from vil¬ 
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$1,500, cash. Write to DANIEL HOGAN, 
R.D., Wyalusing, Bradford County, Pa. 
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