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September 19, 
SWEET CLOVER FOR HOG PASTURE. 
I WOULD like your advice regarding 
the sowing of Sweet clover. I would 
like to sow it in an apple orchard as 
pasture for hogs, and later, when inocu¬ 
lated, sow pasture in Alfalfa. It is now 
in sod except where it has been rooted 
up by the hogs. Soil is stony, but level 
and in good condition. Would it be ad¬ 
visable to sow the Sweet clover alone or 
with rye, and let the hogs harvest the 
rye next Summer? J. R. c. 
Pittstown, N. J. 
Sweet clover is rapidly gaining in pop¬ 
ularity as a forage crop suitable for use 
for cattle and swine, and it would seem 
that it is very well adapted as a source 
of green forage for swine, it being un¬ 
doubtedly hardier than Alfalfa and prob¬ 
ably more resistant. Our experience has 
been limited to its use in combination 
with rape and Soy beans. Early in April 
we seeded a small area utilizing the fol¬ 
lowing mixture: Oats 30 pounds; Cana¬ 
da field peas 30 pounds; Dwarf Essex 
rape 6 pounds; Sweet clover 15 pounds. 
The oats and peas furnished early forage, 
but during late June, July and August 
the rape and Sweet clover has furnished 
an abundance of forage. I am satisfied that 
a combination of Soy beans, rape and 
Sweet clover forms the basis of one of the 
very best forage crops available for swine. 
To our surprise the Sweet clover was ex¬ 
tremely palatable, and unlike Alfalfa, 
can be safely pastured the first year. It 
it necessary to keep the plants fairly well 
pastured down, and not allow them to 
branch out with their woody stems. I 
do not know how the Sweet clover will 
winter in this section, but if the vigor 
and vitality of stray plants along the 
roadside forms any criterion, it is safe 
to assume that the plants will be extreme¬ 
ly hardy and vigorous. One of the strong¬ 
est features of this rape-Soy beans-Sweet 
clover combination is the fact that the 
mixtures can be seeded any time from 
early Spring until the first of August, 
and furnishes a feed extremely rich in 
protein and unusually palatable. The 
mixture that we have used this year is 
made up as follows: Soy beans one 
bushel; Dwarf Essex rape six pounds; 
Sweet clover IS pounds. 
The Soy beans were drilled by them¬ 
selves, while the rape and Sweet clover 
were mixed in this proportion and seeded 
with a press drill. We shall have some 
very interesting facts later in the season 
to show the comparative value of this 
combination, for all our brood sows have 
been feeding in this field since early in 
July, and have not been fed any grain in 
addition whatsover. They are gaining 
from three-quarters to a pound a day and 
are evidencing unusual thrift and vigor. 
At the present time we have about 20 
brood sows, averaging about 300 pounds 
each, and 20 Spring gilts averaging about 
100 pounds each, that are pasturing in 
a four-acre field, the former obtaining 
their maintenance exclusively from the 
forage plants. Rather than seeding the 
Sweet clover and rye mixture as sug¬ 
gested, I would prefer to utilize rye and 
vetch as a full mixture, reserving the 
Sweet clover to be seeded early in the 
Spring, with rape, following rye and 
vetch, which can be used as an early 
grazing crop or plowed under as a cover 
crop. F. c. M. 
N. J. Experiment Station. 
SOY BEANS AND CORN. 
I T is my own opinion that as a general 
proposition, corn is the king of silage 
crops. Personally, I have had no ex¬ 
perience with other crops except Soy 
beans. I am very sure that while the 
beans may help to balance the ration the 
yield is so much less than that of corn 
that I can balance the ration more cheaply 
with cottonseed meal or other concen¬ 
trate. However, I believe it worth the 
time and expense to mix a few medium 
green Soy beans with the seed corn. Un¬ 
der favorable conditions the beans will 
make a considerable growth, apparently, 
without hurting the corn at all, and if in¬ 
oculated they undoubtedly add some nitro¬ 
gen to the soil. If the weather is rather 
dry the corn will swamp the beans, and 
if there are many woodchucks they, will 
eat most of them. 
This year my Soy beau seed did not 
germinate well, but despite the fact that 
the corn is very thick and rank, and that 
up to three weeks ago the weather was 
exceedingly dry, the few beans that came 
up have made considerable growth, and 
had the seed grown well would have made 
considerable silage. In case of a short 
corn crop or wet weather at silo filling 
time it might be advisable to mix other 
crops with corn in the silo, but generally 
speaking I should prefer to hay the other 
crops, and make silage of corn, and so far 
as my observation goes, that is the ex¬ 
perience of others. 
In regard to mixing Soy beans and seed 
corn, I might state that one must not 
treat the Soy beans with arsenate of lead, 
as is sometimes done with corn to keep 
crows away. It will not hurt the corn, 
but the beans will not germinate when so 
treated. Last year I treated the mixed 
seed with arsenate of lead and planted 
where the planter had skipped a couple of 
rows, and while the untreated corn germ¬ 
inated almost perfectly, every treated Soy 
bean rotted. And the crows pulled most 
of the corn, too. Chester l. mills. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Cribbing. 
I S there any remedy for cribbing? I 
have a fine, young colt that is a crib- 
ber, and would like to cure him of it 
if I can. c. b. c. 
Cribbing is incurable when confirmed. 
Keep the colt in a box stall from which 
everything has been removed on which the 
teeth or chin could be set to practice the 
vice. Windsucking may be stopped tem¬ 
porarily by buckling a wide strap fairly 
tight around the neck just back of the 
throat-latch. Another plan of stopping 
the vice is to tie one end of a small rope 
to one r‘ " of the halter or bridle, pass 
the other end under and across the in¬ 
cisor teeth of the upper jaw, under the 
lip and after drawing fairly tight tie 
the free end to the other ring. 
A. s. A. 
As to Rye for Horses. 
W HAT do you say about rye feed for 
horses? We are feeding ground rye 
and oats mixed half and half by 
weight, 15 quarts to each horse daily. 
How could that ration be bettered for 
heavy work nine hours per day? It is 
a fact that our horses shrink more than 
others. We do not grow wheat or oats. 
Has rye ever been known to kill fowls? 
New York. c. E. B. 
There is only one more unsuitable 
grain than rye for horses, and that is 
wheat. If a horse breaks loose and 
gorges on either ’ye or wheat acute 
founder or death commonly results. Stop • 
feeding rye and add one ninth part of 
wheat bran to the whole oats. Do not 
feed ground feed to a horse that has 
good teeth. Ergot often present in rye 
might kill poultry, if taken in large quan¬ 
tities, but we have no record of such an 
experience. a. s. a. 
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1 ITAVE a Jersey cow that just had a 
calf, but I am unable to got any milk 
from her. The calf can get no milk, 
as no milk comes down into the teats. 
She has an extra large udder, looks as 
though she should give at least 20 liters 
of milk. The cow seems to be in good 
health, very little fever if any in udder, 
and very little caked. I know nothing of 
the cow’s past life as I got her with some 
other cattle when she was dry. She is 
about eight years old,. Do you think 
using a milk fever outfit and pumping 
air into her udder would help any? I 
have sent for one; have no veterinary to 
go to here, although town close to 
40.000. M. V. J. 
Mexico. 
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cow’s udder as interference will he likely 
to do more harm than good. Better let 
the calf nurse, if you find that it is get¬ 
ting enough milk, and when it is weaned 
fatten the cow for slaughter. A. 8 . A. 
Roaring. 
A YOUNG horse, about 5% years old, 
is suffering from throat trouble. 
When he was three he had the ton¬ 
sils, as horses are liable to at that age; 
something grew in his throat, so that he 
cannot breathe freely when he runs or 
works hard. There is a noise in the 
throat. A veterinarian suggests putting 
a tube in the trachea. Will that be 
any good? A. B. 
Massachusetts. 
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mean that the horse had an attack of 
strangles (colt distemper) which has re¬ 
sulted in “roaring” (laryngeal hemi¬ 
plegia). The insertion of a permanent 
silver trachea tube would enable the 
horse to breath without roaring; but it 
would not cure the condition given rise to 
roaring. That might be remedied by the 
operation of arytenotomy to be performed 
by a qualified surgeon. Treatment other 
than this would not be likely to do any 
good. A. 8. A. 
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