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THE RURA.I> NEW-YORKER 
June 12, 1915. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Uncle Ezra Invests in a Cow. 
Bought a cow t’other day; 
Man was getting short of hay, 
Bather sell his wife, he said. 
Or part with anything he had, 
But his bay was getting low, 
And the cow had got to go. 
“Such a cow,” says he to me, 
“Is something that you seldom see; 
Gives two pails twice a day, 
Only eating medder hay. 
(live her shorts and cottonseed. 
Another pail you’ll sorely need. 
Butter that ’ere cow will make 
Can’t be beat in all the State. 
Her mother took first money at 
The Monroe fair for butter fat.” 
I shaved him ten and took the cow. 
Wish I hadn’t done it now . 
Felt like I’d been stealing sheep, 
’Cause I got that cow so cheap. 
Of course it wa’n’t exactly right 
To take advantage of his plight, 
But turn it round and I could see 
That he would do the same to me. 
I took her home and gave her feed 
Of ensilage and cottonseed. 
Could hardly wait for milking time, 
So as to try that cow of mine. 
I won’t attempt to express my thoughts 
But all I got was just three quarts. 
Yet he told the truth when, says he, 
A cow like this you seldom see. 
For her bag was bigger when I got done 
Than it was before I had begun ; 
But strip and strip it was no use. 
There wasn’t another drop of juice. 
Next cow I buy I will not fail 
To enquire the size of the milking pail. 
Maine. JI - M * 
Sweet Corn in Silo. 
Can you give me advice on keeping 
sweet corn stalks in a silo? I have plant¬ 
ed about four acres of sweet corn and 
have started a small brick silo. My in¬ 
tentions are to fill the silo with the 
stalks. I would like to know if they 
will make good silage and keep all right 
in a brick silo? J. C. B. 
Port Crane, N. Y. 
Sweet corn stalks make good silage, 
though not rated as high as food as reg¬ 
ular silage corn, as they are apt to take 
on more acidity in the silo. The great 
canneries put the sweet corn refuse into 
silos in great amounts, and it is fed with 
much satisfaction. I opine you intend 
to strip off the ears and put in only the 
stalks. In a small silo, the great diffi¬ 
culty will be in lack of pressure to force 
out the air so to prevent excessive heat¬ 
ing. and liability to mold. You would 
best cut the stalks in as fine as possible 
and when filled, put on some sort of a 
cover so you can weight the mass down 
and make it settle as solid as possible. 
I would paint the inside of this brick 
silo with some of the tar roofing paints, 
to prevent wall moisture. J. G. 
Ohio. 
Value of Milking Machines. 
About a year ago I wrote asking about 
milking machine used in a section of 
Ohio. Will you advise me if they are 
still giving the satisfaction they did at 
that time and are more being installed? 
Shelton, Conn. F. B. D. 
Milking machines have not “had their 
day.” They are here to stay to all ap¬ 
pearance, and are as well spoken of and 
their numbers being added to daily. I 
have nothing to recall as to what I have 
said in the past about the machines. It 
is very rare to hear that any of them 
are causing any trouble in operation or 
repairs. Keeping them clean is not diffi¬ 
cult when one follows directions. Keep¬ 
ing the pipes in a solution after wash¬ 
ing. seems to have settled all difficulty on 
that score. A uniform working power 
so that the pulsations will not be chang¬ 
ing from fast to slow and reverse, is a 
matter that must be insisted upon, and 
one that has a little reserve power on de¬ 
mand is of value, and where these condi¬ 
tions are met with, the milking machine 
is quite as reliable as a well-hung grind¬ 
stone. J. G. 
Ohio. 
Oats and Peas for Silage. 
Can you tell me what kind of silage 
oats and peas would make, and how near 
their maturity they should be before har¬ 
vested? Would they be any better cut 
than put in whole? Would they be bet¬ 
ter cured as hay or silage? G. A. V. 
Lexington, N. Y. 
Very little is now being said about oat 
aud pea silage, corn having so completely 
overshadowed them in the amount se¬ 
cured to the acre, and its superior keep¬ 
ing qualities over any other crop, and 
now one rarely hears of combination sil¬ 
age, though many think Soy beans cut 
in with the corn is a valuable addition. 
Oats and peas being both on the protein 
side of the ration makes them somewhat 
difficult to “heat” up together properly in 
the silo. They should be cut into the silo, 
as the oats are hollow-stemmed and carry 
too much imprisoned air into the mass, 
and they must be cut to obviate this, and 
the peas pack much better cut. Both 
crops should be cut as they approach ma¬ 
turity to prevent too great acidity. Peas 
alone are siloed iu great quantities at 
the large canneries, as well as the waste 
of the corn, and are reckoned as having 
fine value. I have an opinion that a 
heavy oat crop is more valuable cut and 
thrashed, than as silage. It is probable 
that unless you have a large amount of 
oats and peas to silo so as to get heavy 
pressure of itself, it would be better to 
“hay” both of these crops. J. G. 
Ohio. 
“What’s the Use of Testing?” 
“This is the question I frequently 
asked myself,” a Pennsylvania farmer re¬ 
marked a few days ago. “I knew that 
my herd tested anywhere from 3.8 per 
cent, to 4.25 per cent., according to the 
factory figures. I thought that is very 
good for a herd of grade Ilolsteins. 
Just to satisfy my curiosity I invited a 
farmer familiar with testing to bring his 
outfit to my farm, and go through the 
herd. I was v< ry careful about getting 
fair samples from all of my cows. I had 
one two-year-old which I thought was a 
boarder. She- gave a good quantity of 
milk, but I gave her credit for being a 
losing proposition when it came to pro¬ 
ducing butterfat. I had offered her for 
sale to some of my neighbors, for what 
I thought might be a fair figure, quantity 
of milk considered. When her milk 
was tested we were completely sur¬ 
prised. The figures were 4.5 per 
cent. The sample was fair, the test was 
duplicated to satisfy myself, and that 
night as I sat down to milk her I felt 
ashamed, for I had undervalued her. I 
had been offering a $200 cow for much 
less than $100. It cost me 25 cents 
apiece to test the cows, or $2 for my 
herd, and it is surely worth more than 
$100 to me to know that the cow least 
appreciated was the best, and that in¬ 
stead of keeping old Bess for profit I had 
been keeping her these half dozen years 
for sentiment.” w. j. 
Ohio Plan for Leasing Bulls. 
Disposing of surplus bull calves has 
become a problem particularly with many 
breeders. The State of Ohio has dairies 
at a dozen public institutions, aud is 
loaning bulls for service providing the 
requirements are satisfied by the appli¬ 
cant. The application drawn up by Dr. 
T. A. Burnett covers the arrangement 
efficiently, and there are many State in¬ 
stitutions which could perform efficient 
service among conservative dairymen by 
placing promising males as Ohio is doing. 
Ohio’s purpose is to encourage communi¬ 
ty breeding, and requires: Lessee must be 
a resident of Ohio. Lessee must be own¬ 
er of six or more dairy cows, and must 
be located in prospective dairy section. 
Bull leased to remain property of Ohio 
Board of Administration, and lessee must 
pay express or freight on bull to farm, 
and must be cared for as directed by a 
representative of the Ohio Board of Ad¬ 
ministration. Lessee may breed without 
cost 12 of his own cows annually, and 
when more than 12 cows are bred, lessee 
must pay one half service fee. Lessee to 
receive $2 service fee, and to retain one 
half this fee for maintaining bull. Lessee 
to be responsible to the Ohio Board of 
Administration for one half service fees, 
settlement to be made annually. The per¬ 
iod of lease to be two years for bulls 
ready for service and this may be ex¬ 
tended six months to one year for bull 
calves. The Ohio Board of Administra¬ 
tion reserves the right to remove bulls 
at any time if proper care is not given. 
A New York dairyman has made a 
similar proposition, his calves to be 
reared and used for service for two sea¬ 
sons by the lessee, at which time the bull 
will be taken over by its original owner. 
A well cared-for bull at 2 */> or three 
years of age should bring a satisfactory 
figure from the butcher, at comparatively 
little expense to the owner. w. j. 
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