248 
1 H tC KUKAL Ni£ W - Y OKKKK ~ 
February 2u, 
standing apparently ready to receive callers. She 
< yed me a little suspiciously at first, and then friend¬ 
ly. "She is on her feet fully three-fourths' of the 
time.” Mr. Cockerell remarked. “She is different 
from other great cows in this respect as well as in 
some others. Other record producers the larger part 
nf the time lie down.” 
“Jlurne Cowan is in better flesh than any time 
heretofore in the test,” was remarked. “She tipped 
ihe scales at 1320 pounds early this month, which is 
100 better than when she started in the test.” 
A HEALTHY COW.—Here is where brains and 
feed mixed count. This great cow is gaining. She 
stands in strong contrast to emaciated animals, thin 
nd poor as a result of forcing. The ability of her 
care-taker lies in bringing her to remarkably good 
condition and keeping her there. Murne Cowan was 
a wonderful picture of good health, and it was im¬ 
possible to believe that this cow should for 11 
months be piling up a record which will place her 
as world’s dairy animal. Murne Cowan is strong 
and rugged. Her performance at the pail, and her 
transmitting ability is evidenced in her daughter, 
Sweet Maria, with record of 12642.5 pounds milk, 
(A2.S6 pounds fat as a three-year-old. 
THE PRODUCING COWS.—Men who know cows 
much better than I tell us that an active tempera¬ 
ment showing nervous force is evidence of a won¬ 
derful producer. This cow’s hair is fine and silky, 
her skin soft and pliable, yellow as gold. She has 
a feminine head; her shoulders for cow of her size 
are very sharp. She has great heart girth, depth 
nf body and spring of rib. Her hips, thighs and 
pin bones are wide apart; the tail long and fine, 
tlie top line level. The udder was remarkable, car¬ 
ried high up behind, and well forward, the teats 
were large, well placed, the milk veins large and 
tortuous, the milk wells large 
FEEDING.—I asked Mr. Goekerell about the feed. 
"We believe very strongly,” he said, “in feeding the 
cow a large proportion of roughage, not the kind 
that will simply fill her up, but that which contains 
a large proportion of nutrition. It keeps the cow’s 
digestive apparatus in good condition, it makes a 
large proportion of loose material, so grain mixes 
well. The chances are less that she gets off her 
feed. We believe in feeding liberally beets or beet 
pulp, as the system is thereby kept cool. One is 
i nabled to feed less grain, and the cow is able 
lu appropriate maximum feeding value in the grain. 
“Here is our ration, nothing mysterious or strange, 
no expensive feeds, that cannot be secured by any 
:.inner,” Mr. Goekerell said. We credit the farm 
a good figure for what we buy of it, and we buy 
grain in quantities as cheaply as we can. We get 
grain in this way at lower figures than the farmer. 
I have divided the feed”ig expense, spread all items 
uver a 365-day period, although some things were 
fed only part of season. This is for convenience in 
figuring. We fed 16 pounds grain daily, costing $2S 
a ton: beet pulp 3*4 pounds daily at cost of $23; 
16 pounds beets daily, cost $6 a ton; 8% pounds 
Alfalfa hay, at $19 a ton; 38 pounds silage at $5 a 
'.on, four pounds sweet corn. $10 a ton; five pounds 
green Alfalfa at $4 and 1 1-3 pounds molasses, at 
825 a ton. The grain ration is composed of 4*4 
pounds bran, corn 3 D grains, 4)4 pounds; flaxseed 
meal, 1.8 pounds; ground oats two pounds, Buffalo 
gluten feed, 1.2 pounds; old process oil meal and 
< ottonsCed each one pound.” 
A TASTE FOR SILAGE.—“Murne Cowan has her 
likes and dislikes like any cow in a farm herd,” 
said Mr. Goekerell, “and the farmer who wishes to 
secure best results must satisfy individual tastes 
< f his cows. They cannot all be fed by rule. Murne 
Cowan likes silage; she would make herself sick 
eating it, if we would let her have all she wanted. 
One month she ate 48 pounds daily. She consumed 
36 pounds a day during August and did even six 
pounds better daily in July. She doesn’t like flax¬ 
seed meal. She is the object of deception here. 
She enjoys beet pulp and I mix in a fraction of a 
1 mind with each feed of beet pulp, and as we feed 
every four hours, she gets better than 1.6 pound 
■ f flaxseed during the day in this manner. It 
i> hard to teil a cow’s likes and dislikes until you 
work her out. > 
THE MILK RECORD.—“I milk her four times 
daily, and regularly, fhe farmer must milk regu¬ 
larly. Here are her official figures: 
March . 
A m il . 
May . 
.1 une . 
July . . 
August . 
Meptcmbi r . 
* 'etobvr . 
November .. 
December .. 
Milk. 
22sl.fi 
2361.5 
2305.9 
2210.8 
2089.7 
19.34.5 
1842.5 
17.33.2 
18.34.6 
1884.4 
Butterfat. 
o< 
102.02 
92.93 
90.84 
91.53 
85.89 
85.81 
83.19 
91.55 
96.10 
The test was well along in January with over a 
month to run, and each month promises results un¬ 
der official surveillance, almost as good as those 
of December. 
I was shown other great cows. Spottswood Daisy 
Pearl is a nearby companion of Murne Cowan. This 
remarkable Guernsey has a world record of 18602.8 
milk, 957.38 fat, to her credit. Julia Chene was an¬ 
other interesting cow with record of 15194.2 milk, 
827.26 fat, and likely to make 1000 pounds fat this 
year, whose 18 half sisters have an average of 
585.03 pounds fat, and 10,089 of milk. Johanna 
Chene is another cow with 16186.7 milk, 8G3.36 
pounds fat as three-year-old. This is as what Hol¬ 
stein men would call junior three-year-old, and the 
record of that breed is 774.64 pounds. w. j. 
THE LEGHORN AND WYANDOTTE LEADERS 
O N page 92 we gave a comparison of the income 
month by month of the two leading pens in the 
last egg-laying contest. We found that the 
eggs from the 10 Wyandottes sold for $57.44, while 
the Leghorn eggs brought $54.63. The Wyandottes 
laid a few more eggs during the period of high 
prices. The figures were the wholesale prices at 
Storrs for each month. We find that some of our 
readers have applied retail prices in their home 
markets and obtained different results. It was un¬ 
derstood that we merely gave the prices at Storrs, 
where the eggs were laid. 
Many readers have asked us to go further and 
give the cost of feeding and the gain, if any, in 
weights of the birds in these two pens. That is fair 
and it will add to the value of this discussion, so we 
have obtained a statement of the grain and mash fed 
each month. Here is the table, the figures represent¬ 
ing pounds: 
10 Wyandottes. 10 White Leghorns. 
Dry Mash. 
Grain. 
Dry Mash. 
Grain. 
pounds. 
pounds. 
pounds. 
pounds. 
November .. 
.... 38 
58 
17 
50 
1 >ecember .. 
.... 36 
49 
30 
42 
January • •• 
. ... 42 
42 
17 
46 
February .. 
.... 27 
59 
12 
47 
March . 
.. .. .35 
56 
IS 
53 
April . 
. . . . 47 
37 
33 
36 
May. 
. ... 49 
38 
40 
30 
June . 
.. . . 47 
34 
38 
34 
July. 
.. 52 
32 
40 
29 
August .... 
. . .. 54 
34 
40 
.35 
September . 
.... 51 
33 
.35 
28 
Oetober . ... 
.... 52 
2,0 
2.3 
32 
Total.. 
.... 5.30 
502 
.343 
468 
A fair average price for the feed, both mash and 
grain, is $2 per hundred pounds. Thus the Wyan¬ 
dottes consumed a total of 1,032 pounds, making 
their food cost $20.64. The Leghorns consumed 811 
pounds, with a cost of $16.22. The average cost of 
feeding a Wyandotte was $2.06, of a Leghorn $1.62, 
or 44 cents each in favor of the Leghorn. Notice 
that the Leghorns ate nearly as much grain as the 
Wyandottes, but 157 pounds less of mash. Notice 
also how, during certain months, the hens consumed 
more mash and in others more grain. 
As for the weights of the hens, we have the in¬ 
dividual weights, hut to stive space have lumped 
them together. The 11 Wyandottes which came to 
the contest weighed 52.5 pounds. Two died—the 
nine that completed weighed 50.4. These nine gained 
4.3 pounds. The 11 Leghorns weighed 40.7 pounds 
on arrival. One weighing 3.6 pounds died, and the 
10 taken away weighed 35.95. Thus it may he said 
that 10 Leghorns actually lost 1.15 pounds. Why 
not therefore figure it as follows; 
Wyandottes. Leghorns. 
Value of eggs. .. . 
4.3 pounds at 15e. 
.$57.44 
.64 
Value of eggs . . . .$54.63 
Less cost of food.. 16.22 
1 .ess food cost. . . 
$58.08 
. 20.64 
$38.41 
$37.44 
There having been some question about the rations 
fed to these egg-contest liens, we give the following 
latest report; 
Dry Masii. 
Coarse wheat bran . 
. 200 
pounds 
it 
Cornmeal . 
. 100 
Gluten feed . 
. 100 
K 
Ground oats . 
. 100 
It 
Standard middlings . 
. 75 
“ 
Fish scrap . 
. 45 
Beef scrap . 
.. 
. 4 r. 
*' 
Low grade flour . 
. 25 
• * 
Scratch 
Grain. 
('racked corn . 
.. 
. 60 
pounds 
Wheat . 
. <0 
it 
i T envv white oats . 
. 40 
U 
Barley . 
• ••••••< 
. 20 
it 
Kafir corn . 
. 10 
Buckwheat . 
. 10 
• ( 
A change has been made by increasing the amount 
of fish and beef scrap in the dry mash, and leaving 
scrap entirely out of the scratch grain. The green 
feed used is mangels and sprouted oats. 
Big Stories About Big Baldwins. 
A MAN connected with one of the largest hotels in 
New York told me a few days ago that an apple 
salesman from New York State came to the hotel 
about a month ago and offered to sell Baldwin 
apples to run the size of 48 to make a bushel. Is this 
in the range of possibilities? I have been picking and 
counting apples and peaches a great many years, hut 
these Baldwins beat me. I have filled a bushel of Fall 
Pippin with 44, the whole tree run would fill a bushel 
with 50. I have done the same with Northern Spy, R 
I. Greening and have beaten it with Wolf River and 
Ohio Nonpareil. But the best Baldwin I can recollect 
picking was a tree run of 84 to a bushel. This ques¬ 
tion applies to the supposition that the seller could fill 
an order of such apples of 25 to 50 barrels. The hotel 
people did not buy, hence the necessity of this question. 
New Jersey. J. L. s. 
The New York apple salesman who your corres¬ 
pondent says is willing “to supply any fair number 
of Baldwin apples which would run 48 to the 
bushel” is hitting it pretty hard—sounds like a 
Western story. In the experimental work in the 
Auchter orchard where we have been comparing 
sod and tillage, we have grown very good Baldwins 
as you know. Tree run, the Baldwins on the tilled 
plat in this experiment averaged 115 to the bushel. 
and these 
were as 
large as 
any Baldwins 
I have 
ever seen. 
On the sodded plat, they ran 
154 
to the 
ROX 
PACKING 
TABLE. 
Diameter 
Style 
How 
No. apples No. No. apples 
of fruit 
pack 
packed 
per row layers 
in box 
2 5-8 in. 
3-2 fling. 
flat 
7-7 
5 
175 
2 5-8 in. 
3-2 “ 
7-6 
5 
163 
2 .3-4 in. 
3-2 “ 
it 
6-6 
5 
150 
2 3-4 in. 
3-2 “ 
it 
6-6 
5 
15(1 
2 7-8 in. 
3-2 “ 
it 
5-5 
5 
125 
.3 in. 
2-2 “ 
side 
7-7 
4 
112 
3 1-8 in. 
2-2 “ 
“ 
7-7 
4 
112 
3 1-8 in. 
2-2 “ 
a 
7-6 
4 
104 
.3 1-4 in. 
2-2 “ 
it 
6-6 
4 
96 
3 1-4 in. 
2-2 “ 
flat 
6-6 
4 
96 
3 3-8 in. 
2-2 u 
** 
5-5 
4 
80 
.3 1-2 in. 
2-2 “ 
a 
5-4 
4 
72 
.3 5-8 in. 
2-2 44 
it 
4-4 
4 
64 
.3 .3-4 in. 
2-2 44 
a 
4-3 
4 
56 
.3 .3-4 in. 
.3 straight side 
6-6 
• » 
• » 
54 
3 7-S in. 
3 
** 
5-5 
•J 
• > 
45 
bushel. Tn 
packing 
fancy Baldwin apple 
s I 
believe 
I am correct, in saying that it is seldom that a 
smaller number than 84 per box can be obtained 
and the number per box of fancy Baldwins more 
often runs 96. You ask if it would be possible for 
any of our growers to provide 50 barrels of apples 
which would run 4S to the bushel. I believe that it 
would be impossible with the Baldwin in this or any 
other State. I enclose a table in use by those who 
pack in boxes which will give you an idea of the 
number of apples per bushel box. 
New York Experiment Sta. u. i>. hedrick. 
FARMER SHARING PROFITS WITH MAN. 
A S we bad read beautiful accounts of coopera¬ 
tion between workers and capitalists, we un¬ 
dertook to inaugurate the profit-sharing plan 
with the men on our farm. I told one young man 
that if lie would get a fine crop of corn from a piece 
which we had planted in rich ground he might have 
a part of the crop, and all the prizes he might gain. 
He was earning his regular salary, so this was ex¬ 
tra. lie was very loth to cultivate it. and did not 
hoe it at all. I think it was cultivated once or 
twice. After the weeds had grown to be nearly as 
tall as I was, I went down and hoed the corn myself. 
At that time, we had two men. We talked to them 
about how they could add to their incomes by tak¬ 
ing an interest, and told them we would give them 
10 per cent, of the net profit. It made not the 
slightest difference to them. In fact, both quit be¬ 
fore the end of the year. Soon after, we had a 
man who worked most energetically all the time. 
We had made no promises but as we had a good 
year, we made him a present of a months’ wages 
extra. He was a good man, but intemperate, and 
got to drinking so he was unfit to work. 
The next experiment we made was to offer to the 
two men working for us, each one-third more wages 
(the other third to go to the boss) if they would 
increase their efficiency by one third—or, in other 
words, if the three could do all the work they should 
divide between them the wages of a third man. 
To teach this efficiency it was first necessary to 
keep a time-sheet for a week or two, so as to see 
where the leaks were, and also to see the improve¬ 
ment. Little books, each with a pencil tied to it. 
were furnished each man. Only the “boss” kept 
his book. Later we heard that one man would have 
kept his, but the other wouldn’t, and No. 1 said 
he wouldn’t if No. 2 didn't We have quit offering 
percentage, or commissions or extra wages. It 
seems to us that the old-fashioned ambitious young 
fellow is only to be met with in romances. 
New York. et.len e. de graff. 
II. N.-Y.—We print this in the firm belief that in¬ 
stances of success with this method of payment will 
be reported. 
