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THE RURAL NEW-YORE EH 
January 
IMPORTANCE OF CORN SILAGE AND 
ALFALFA. 
Part II. 
AY TEA.—After feeding the cows, 
you will find on the floor the leaves 
and small stems of Alfalfa. Take at 
least one pound of these per calf a day. If 
you do not feed the tea from as much 
as a pound of Alfalfa, you do not have the 
required amount of nourishment. Press 
the hay in a kettle, pail or any metal 
dish, add the flaxseed meal, put on six or 
seven pints of water for each pound of 
hay, bring to a boil, or let steep. Add 
enough cold water to cool to 08 or 100 
degrees. Be sure it is not too cold nor 
too hot. A thermometer costs but little 
and you know you are right. Very im¬ 
portant that the feeding pails are clean, 
actually washed every day, and clean 
enough for you to drink from yourself. 
The calf should he kept clean and dry. 
The particular feeder makes a success. 
If the feeder is indifferent, the calf will 
be, to the extent of dying and the “hay 
tea” will be condemned when the feeder 
is entirely at fault. If troubled with 
scours, give double the blood meal or an 
egg. The linseed oil will have an oppo¬ 
site effect. 
Method of Feeding. —Be sure to give 
(he first milk to the calf, but if impossi¬ 
ble to give the colostrum, give two tea¬ 
spoonfuls of castor oil. Give the whole 
milk the first five days, eight pints a 
day. The usual weight of a calf when 
born is 60 pounds. 
Sixth day seven pints whole milk, one 
pint hay tea ; seventh day six pints whole 
milk, two pints hay tea—Oatmeal. 
Eighth day five pints whole milk, three 
pints hay tea; ninth day, four pints whole 
milk, four pints hay tea—One-half rolled 
oa ts. 
Tenth day three pints whole milk, five 
pints hay tea—Cornmeal dry. 
Eleventh day two pints whole milk, 
six pints hay tea ; Twelfth day one pint 
whole milk, seven pints hay tea—Also two 
ounces of Alfalfa hay. 
Thirteenth day one pint whole milk, 
seven pints hay tea. 
Hay Tea Grain Hay 
3d Week lOPts. 3 oz. 3 oz. 
4th “ 10 “4 4 
5th “ 11 “ 5 5 
6th “ 11 “ 6 6 
7th “ 11 “ 7 7 
8th “ 12 “8 8 
If you wish, cut out one pound of tea 
each day for the next 12 days and feed no 
more tea. Increase the grain and hay 
as the calf will take it. The calf will be 
larger and better developed to continue 
the tea until four 
months 
old. 
Hay Tea 
Grain 
Hay 
Lbs. 
9th Week 
12 Pts. 
1 OZ. 1 OZ. 
120 
10th “ 
12 
it 
1.2 
1.2 
130 
11th “ 
12 
<4 
1.3 
1.3 
140 
12th “ 
11 
44 
1.5 
1.6 
150 
15th “ 
10 
44 
1.8 
2 2 
ISO 
21st “ 
8 
<4 
2.5 
2.5 
240 
24th “ 
0 
44 
3. 
3. 
270 
27th “ 
0 
44 
3. 
3.5 
300 
If the calf weighs more than 60 pounds 
when born, give more tea in proportion to 
the weight, but always keep the same 
proportions in making same. 
Combination Crops.—Tiie R. N.-Y. 
advocates sowing catch crops in the corn 
at the last cultivation. So with 40 acres 
of silage and 20 acres of corn to sow to 
turnips, squash, pumpkins, etc., there is 
just enough to keep the helpers busy. 
You don’t believe it? A motto on my 
wall says “Things move along so rap¬ 
idly nowadays that people who say ‘It 
can’t be done’ are interrupted by some¬ 
body doing it.” You know, when we 
were kids, what great pumpkins, water¬ 
melons, squash, etc., grew in the corn. 
No trouble to do it today if we will put 
the ground in the same condition of fer¬ 
tility. The crop rotation is the first 
thing. Have a purpose and make every¬ 
thing come to that purpose. There is 
nothing better to get a seeding than 200 
or 300 pounds of complete fertilizer per 
acre, besides a liberal supply of manure 
with the oat or barley crop. I like bar¬ 
ley best because it is off the ground 
earlier than oats. Sow your Alfalfa just 
as you would Red clover, 12 to 15 pounds 
to the acre. If you have any doubts 
about Alfalfa catching, sow the same of 
Sweet clover per acre with your oats or 
barley. If you wish, you can sow before 
the 10th of August, after the oats or 
barley are off the ground; but be sure 
to sow it. Don’t let the year go by 
without. Try it. Be • sure to inoculate. 
You can get any of the legume cultures 
from your agricultural station for much 
65 lb. calf 
should 
weigh 
pounds 
70 
75 
SO 
90 
100 
110 
less per acre than you can haul 300 
pounds of soil and sow it per acre. 
Sweet clover will grow where nothing 
else will. Cut it the first time when 18 
or 20 inches high. The second time cut 
for seed. There is great demand for it 
now at a high price. The rootage per 
acre from a thick stand is nearly 20 tons, 
or equal to four years of hauling and 
distributing manure. Nothing in the 
world like it to bring up poor land that 
will give two crops a year and 20 tons 
of roots for manure. Alfalfa will fol¬ 
low with a larger tonnage of hay. 
A Convenient Layout. —At Alpha 
Farm the buildings are in the northwest 
corner. We are planning 10 16-acre 
plots. I see no use for miles of fence 
when every acre is tilled and live stock 
fed silage and Alfalfa and and kept in 
small lots near the barn for exercise. No 
one can afford to pasture land at even 
.850 an acre value, when 1 1-6 acres 
keeps a cow a year. The back of our 
barnyard is 25 rods from the road ; run¬ 
ning the lane south 80 rods, gives us 13 
acres in the plot next the road, 80 rods 
long, divided into three lots, one eight 
acres of Alfalfa for hogs. That makes 
the next plot back or east 19 acres, which 
we are dividing into five lots for feed 
and exercise, each one entered from the 
east side of the land, and both plots 32 
acres. This plan gives us three plots or 
48 acres for Alfalfa, two for silage, one 
for corn, one for oats or barley, one for 
potatoes and beans, one-half plot each. 
The potatoes should be sold in July and 
followed with late cabbage as second 
crop; the other two plots for small lots 
for the stock, etc. We are planning to 
put a hay-rack or feeding rack across the 
line between the two feed lots so young 
stock can use it from either lots (so one 
lot can be cropped to corn each year) and 
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so it will not have to be handled but 
once. This makes the rack V-shaped. 
Width at eaves 24 feet, and will hold 
about 12 tons. A silo will be built at 
the north end so it will be convenient to 
take care of 40 young cattle up to two 
years old. We already have two cement 
silos 18x36, a two-story barn 38x8 feet, 
running, water before each cow, cement 
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