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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 25, 1915. 
New York State Shropshire 
The picture shows a purebred Shrop¬ 
shire yearling ram, one of 40 owned by 
Henry L. Ward well. The Shropshire is 
highly valued as a general purpose sheep, 
combining wool, mutton, size and prolifi¬ 
cacy to an unusual degree. The lambs 
mature quickly and fatten easily. Shrop- 
shires make a desirable cross in flocks of 
ordinary grade sheep. 
Millet for Silage. 
Does millet make good silage? Where 
should it be placed in the silo to keep 
the best? Should it be mixed with the 
corn or put in separately? G. e. b. 
Itoscoe, N. Y. 
Millet will make a fair quality of sil¬ 
age, not as good as corn, and on the 
machinery to put it in the silo, I think 
it would be better to let bundles of corn 
lie on the ground a few days rather than 
put it in shock and have it dry out. I 
have not had experience with corn cut 
into silo dry and moistened with water. 
I should think if it was necessary to use 
water to moisten the silage it should be 
forced into the blower drum, getting the 
water well mixed with the dry cut corn. 
One who has had some experience in the 
silo with cut green corn could soon tell 
when there was sufficient water mixed in 
with the dry cut corn. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. J. E. beedle. 
Only eight States showed an increase 
in sheep production for 1913 over 1912, 
and yet the shortage amounts to over a 
quarter of a million for the year 1913 
over the previous year. In view of the 
decline there is surely a future in sheep. 
The fifty million kept on our farms back 
Shropshire Yearling Ram. 
whole we would prefer to dry the millet 
as hay rather than cut it into the sil¬ 
age. It will depend somewhat upon the 
weather, as in a very damp season coarse 
millet is rather hard to cure. If it can 
be dried reasonably, we should prefer to 
make hay of it to feed along with the 
silage. If it went into the silo at all we 
should prefer to mix it in with the corn 
without cutting. 
Making Artificial Silage. 
On page 1078 you advise P. M. A. 
against a small silo, and to feed his 
roughage dry, “made appetizing by some 
of the approved plans of feeding.” Per¬ 
haps many of your readers, including the 
writer, will have a good deal of corn¬ 
stalk roughage to feed this Winter, and 
it might be very instructive reading if 
you give us a brief review of some of 
the best of these “approved plans of feed¬ 
ing” this roughage dry. a. m. p. 
Allendale, N. J. 
We have described this method of 
handling corn fodder so many times that 
it seemed as if our readers were all fam¬ 
iliar with it. We call the product “arti¬ 
ficial silage.” Dry cornstalks are cut or 
shredded in the usual way and packed 
into hogsheads or vats. Boiling water is 
poured over them or steam may be ap¬ 
plied through a pipe or tube. This is 
covered over to hold the steam and the 
stalks are left in this condition over 
night. The steam softens them so that 
the cattle will eat them far better than 
they will the dry fodder. To make them 
more appetizing a quart or two of waste 
molasses is poured into the hogshead 
over the stalks just before the hot water 
or steam is applied. This molasses 
spreads through the mass and gives it a 
pleasant taste, and the cattle will eat far 
more of this artificial silage than they 
ever would of the chopped dry stalks. 
When to Cut Silage Corn. 
My experience teaches that corn should 
be quite well matured to make good 
sweet silage. If corn is too green and 
juicy one gets a sour silage. Should the 
corn be 6ver-ripe there is danger of mold 
and the silage does not seem as palatable 
to the stock. I have put in frosted corn 
that was rather immature, and took out 
pretty good silage, but is was sour, and 
I do not think it had the feeding value 
of silage cut in the silo from more ma¬ 
ture corn. Let the corn get well glazed ; 
some ears will get ripe but there will 
be immature ears enough to offset the 
ripe ones. Cut the corn about a day or 
two before putting in silo, without it has 
been frosted and has many dry leaves, 
and let it lie on ground. This will let 
a part of the leaves and stalks wilt and 
prevents the silage from being over juicy. 
It makes a sweeter silage. If one has 
corn well matured and cannot get the 
in the early eighties has dwindled down 
to a little over thirty-four and one-half 
million. Lambs command higher prices 
than steers and can be kept more cheap¬ 
ly. One cow demands of pasturage and 
feed that which eight sheep would con¬ 
sume, and Joe Wing says that every 
sheep is worth $10 a year. There is less 
labor in caring for the sheep, and the 
ewe deserves a chance on the dairy and 
grain farm. 
“Meridale Facts” 
147 cows in jhe Meridale Herd average 7994 lbs. milk, 
518 lbs. butter, in yearly authenticated test work, con¬ 
ducted under the Register of Merit rules of the 
American Jersey Cattle Club. 78$ of them qualified for 
Class AA, indicating that they performed under normal 
conditions the normal functions of both lactation and 
motherhood. 
The average yearly field of tested Meridale Jerseys has 
increased 1045 lbs. milk, 104 lbs. butter, per cow, in six 
years’ work. 
If such FACTS interest you, we would like to send you 
a copy of “Meridale Facts” for 1915. Address: 
ayer & McKinney 
300 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Special Price 
ON REGISTERED 
HOLSTEIN BULLS 
Calves and yearlings. Send for list, stating 
class and age of animal you want. We 
can and will please you. 
ALLAMUCHY FARMS, Allamuchy, N. J. 
CHENANGO COUNTY COWS 
High Grade and Registered 
HOLSTEINS —Several Hundred 
now listed for sale by our members. These are 
mostly fall cows, but include many pure-bred 
heifers and bulls. Chenango lias the most dairy 
cows to the square mile of any county in the 
state. We have had no foot and mouth disease. 
For further information write or call at 
FARM BUREAU, - Norwich, N. Y. 
EastRiver Grade Holsteins For Sale 
100 Extra high grade Holstein cows served 
to come fresh in Aug . Sept, and Oct. 
Served to Reg. bulls. They are milking 
good now. Come and see them milked. 
Reg. bulls ready for use. 
JOHN B. WEBSTER, 
Dept. Y, Cortland, N. Y. Bell Phone 14. F. 5 
Young Stock for Sale-;,” 
grade tuberculin-tested cows sired by fine registered 
Holstein Bull. Exceptional opportunity. Address 
WILLIAM BROOKS, Supt., Hungerkill Farm.Voorheesviile, N.Y. 
Holstein Service MrSS^TSSt'&’fSi 
to 10 mo. old.) If you are 1 ooking for the blood 
which produces world champion cows, write to 
Ira S. Jarvis, Hartwick Seminary, N. Y. Prices moderate 
Ontario Don Pietj 
white: ready for service. Sire, 35.61 lb. hull; dam, 
royally bred twin heifer, 18.52 lbs. at 2 yrs., 6 mos. 
Price, $250, and worth 20 ordinary hulls. Send for 
pedigree. Cloverdale Farm, Charlotte, N. Y. 
TAKE ANOTHER LOOK 
at 
CROWN PRINCE MECHTHILDE DE KOL 
Yes, a bull like this will bear considerable inspection. He isn’t one 
of the kind we sometimes show because we have to and then wish you 
would forget. 
LOOK AT HIM 
again and remember fourteen of his daughters and five granddaughters 
feature 
THE HAVERHILL SALE 
OCT. 1, 1915, at HAVERHILL, MASS. 
Another feature is the entire 
DISPERSION of the E. D. TAYLOR HERD 
One of the largest consignors is M. E. Woodworth. Seven of his 
consignment are sired by Mr. Woodworth’s herd sire, The King of 
Butter Kings 12th, whose sire, the $4,000 bull, The King of Butter 
Kings, is a son of the $10,000 bull, The Milk & Butter King, and the 
$8,000 cow, Pontiac Rag Apple. 
Looking over the entries we also find 
7 sired by Schuiling of Maple George. This is a bunch of good 
ones, too. 
6 sired by a son or from daughters of King Pontiac Asiatic, one of 
the good sons of his famous sire, King of the Pontiacs. 
4 sired by sons of the famous 32-lb. cow, Lyndon Alcartra Polkadot. 
2 sired by Sir Cornucopia Colantha. 
Nor would we want you to overlook those splendid young things 
wherein we find as grandsires such famous bulls as Colantha Johanna 
Lad, Aaggie Cornucopia Johanna Lad Jr., 7th; Pietje 22d’s Woodcrest 
Lad, Johanna Rue 3d’s Lad, Aaggie Cornucopia 3d’s Count, Henger- 
veld De Kol, Lilith Pauline De Kol’s Count, Lord Netherland De Kol, 
King of the Pontiacs 7th, King Pontiac Asiatic, Johanna De Kol Sar¬ 
castic Lad, Dutchland Colantha Lad, etc., etc. 
This sale affords a splendid opportunity to pick of some promising 
heifers or nice youn'g cows, animals that have excellent prospects be¬ 
fore them and that look like exceptionally good propositions to take 
home and develop. 
The’sale will commence at 10 a. m. at the Kenoza Driving Park. Be 
on hand early and look them over. The best bargains are usually the 
first ones sold. 
All animals over 6 months of age will be tuberculin tested by State 
approved veterinarians. 
Liverpool Sale & Pedigree Co., Inc., Sale Mgrs., Liverpool, N. Y. 
HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES 
34.09, seven days, 30 days, 134.06. They are extra good 
individuals, all from A. 1(. O. dams. Write for pedi¬ 
grees and prices. THE YATES EAKMS, Orchard Park, N.Y. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves F f 0r o ? a ! e ,r^u 1 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM, Cliitteuanao. N. Y. 
DELAWARE COUNTY JERSEYS 
The kind that pay. We have listed for sale a pure bred hull 
one year old on Sept. 15th, Solid light grey with Ida* k p"lnts. 
A fine extra large animal. Dam is St. Laml*ert. Sire in 
grandson of the IMPORTED JAP. We have many other, both 
pure bred ami high grade Jerseys. llKLAW ARE CO. 
JERSEY BREEDERS ASSO., Franklin, N* Y. 
irDCFVQ— Heifer and Bull Calves, $50 to $100. 
J BIvijIj I ,3 Bred Heifers and Cows. $100 to $250. 
Heavy producing Imp. and Reg. of Merit Stock. Blood 
—Eminent Raleigh, Gamboges Knight, Oxford Lad, 
etc. All Stock offered hacked by Official butter records. 
OAK.WOOD FARM, R. 3, Newburgh, N. Y. 
penny FOB gFBUIPF— 1 PRICES, S7b 00 to S150 00 
KlAUT run itnWIUL Registere<iHolstein . (ll j 
Jersey Bulls. Splendid individuals with great 
hacking. Best blood in the land. A Iso younger bull 
calves. Write for iist. HOMEWOOD FARMS. RYE, N. Y. 
FOR PRODUCTION Registered Jersey hull 
calves, only, from producing dams .and highest type 
sires. R. F. SHANNON, 603 Renshaw Bldg.. Pittsburgh. Pa. 
Fosterfields Herd ^ T ^i^ RS ^f, 
1 HEIFKlt CALVES— for sale. Prices very reasonable. 
CI1AKI.es G. EOSTEK, box 1.3, Murrislunii, Net, Jersey 
On account of the lateness of the season 
$100.00 Will Buy a Pureblood 
Holstein-Friesian Bull 
14 months of age, whose sire sold for $6,000.00. 
All papers and delivery to express office. 
H. B. SWEET,Clarendon Building, Utica, N. Y. 
HOLSTEINS AND GUERNSEYS 
An exceptional offer of purebred cows, heifers 
and calves. Many to freshen soon. Also desirable 
grade cows of both breeds. Single animalsor car lots. 
Bulls ami hail calves at the lowest prices we ever 
offered them. A few Percheron colts. 
Tompkins Co. Breeders’ Association 
C. O. Carman, Sec’y. Trumausburg, N. Y. 
SPOT FARM HOLSTEINS ?-'". 
at auc¬ 
tion—Strasburg, Lancaster Co., Pa. Tuesday, Sept. 
28th; 30 high-grade Holsteins, fresh and close 
springers; 10 yearling heifers; registered and high- 
grade hulls, ready for service; 5 registered bull 
calves, sired by a 3 4 brother to the $25,000 hull; 2 reg¬ 
istered cows. Meet us there. REAGAN BROS., Tully, N.Y. 
SPRINGDALE FARMS [VTuTe&Te 
Holsteins. 300 fancy cows and heifers to select 
from. F. P. Saunders & Son, Cortland, N.Y. 
