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THE. RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 9, 1915, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Purebred Cattle and Alfalfa. 
The picture of a purebred Guernsey 
standing in a field of Alfalfa, shown below, 
is indeed suggestive of money making. 
This purebred sire heads the herd of 22 
cows belonging to Dr. II. I>. Itobbins, 
Vinton Co., Ohio, and the Alfalfa shown 
is part of a field of six acres that Dr. 
Robbins mows each year, obtaining yields 
of from 3y 2 to four tons per acre from 
the three cuttings. This field is inter¬ 
esting because it is one of the finest suc¬ 
cessfully seeded Alfalfa fields in the 
township in which it is located. The 
sod is particularly heavy and there is 
scarcely a weed or other plant than Al¬ 
falfa on the entire six acres. It is ex¬ 
tremely difficult to obtain a paying stand 
of Alfalfa in this locality if inoculating 
houses, as, if the former is a separate 
building, it can be built of the cheapest 
lumber and in a more inexpensive way 
than would be suitable for a building de¬ 
signed to store and protect milk. As a 
matter of greater or less convenience, 
however, they are sometimes built as one, 
the part containing the ice being separ¬ 
ated from the milk room by a solid par¬ 
tition. 
A milk house may be of the simplest 
construction possible, or as elaborate as 
may suit the taste and pocketbook of 
the owner. The essentials are a vat, pre¬ 
ferably of concrete, of sufficient size to 
contain as many cans of milk as it will 
ever be required to hold, and of sufficient 
depth to permit the cans to be submerged 
to their necks, and a tightly constructed 
Purebred Guernsey on an Ohio Farm. 
and liming are not done thoroughly. For 
that reason the system followed on the 
Robbins farm to obtain so good a stand 
is interesting. 
Small patches were seeded at first as 
an experiment, first in May and June, 
and finally in July and August. It was 
found that the Alfalfa obtained a much 
better start ahead of the weeds if sowed 
the middle of August. It will sometimes 
grow, if seeded Aug. l. r >, five inches high 
in three weeks, outstripping any other 
plant attempting to grow with it. The 
land was always limed well before seed¬ 
ing, one-half to one ton of lime being 
spread to the acre. The inoculation was 
by means of Sweet clover soil. Sweet 
clover growing in abundance along the 
railroads and limestone pikes produced 
great quantities of nodules; and the soil 
they grow in is therefore excellent for 
Alfalfa inoculation. As high as three 
wagonloads were applied per acre to 
make sure that all the surface was cov¬ 
ered. Because the work was thoroughly 
done there was practically no failure in 
the making of a thick Alfalfa sod. All 
the surface of the field, which had pre¬ 
viously been in corn, was top-dressed 
with manure, and Dr. Robbins advocates 
the use of plenty of phosphate and pot¬ 
ash. 
The most important aim in the seeding 
of Alfalfa, according to Dr. Robbins, is 
to obtain a thoroughly good stand, for 
the field is to stand for several years and 
the plants must be sufficiently thick to 
keep down all trash. One-half bushel of 
seed was sown per acre for this reason, 
and after each cutting the use of a 
spike-tooth harrow is advocated. The 
cultivation seems not only to keep down 
weeds but benefits the Alfalfa. 
The sowing of Sweet clover for inocu¬ 
lation purposes has been tried by Dr. 
Robbins, but he does not obtain the re¬ 
sults he does with the Sweet clover soil. 
Though he has never tried the commer¬ 
cial bacteria, he is planning to, believ¬ 
ing that that system of inoculation 
would be less laborious and less expen¬ 
sive. H. B. COBB. 
Ice and Milk House. 
Will you advise me about the size and 
mode of construction of a combined ice 
and milk house for a dairy of six cows? 
Water to be used is 58 degrees on the 
average. What method do you consider 
best for packing ice? J. R. T. 
Oxford, N. Y. 
I know of no real advantage to be 
gained by combining the ice and milk 
building to protect the milk from ver¬ 
min and thieves. A vat 2x4 feet in size 
and 20 inches deep, in a building 0x8 
feet, would doubtless answer your pur¬ 
pose, while, for the ice-house, rough 
boards may be used both for walls and 
roof. Drainage should be provided be¬ 
neath the ice so that water from its 
melting will be quickly carried away and 
there should be a free circulation of air 
over it. Double walls are not necessary 
if there is an ample space between the 
ice and the sides of the building to be 
filled with sawdust. A small quantity of 
ice, no matter how well packed, will not 
keep as well as a greater bulk, and it is 
hardly worth while to attempt to store a 
few cakes. As a matter of convenience 
in loaling milk cans on to a wagon, it 
is well to have the floor of the milk house 
and the vat all of concrete and high 
enough above the driveway to permit of 
filled cans being lifted into a wagon with 
little exertion. M. B. D. 
Pig With Cough. 
A pig bought July 1 has a bad cough; 
at times it seems to be running short of 
breath. Lately it has been getting thin¬ 
ner all the time, and for the last few 
days it has refused to eat. What is 
the trouble? m. m. 
Y’ou do not state the age of the hog. 
If the animal is fully grown (adult) the 
disease in all probability is tuberculosis, 
and this is incurable and would unfit the 
animal for use as meat, and the malady 
woull prove contagious to Other pigs. If 
the pig is young lung worms probably 
are present and for these there is no spe¬ 
cific remedy, but a well-fed pig usually 
manages to withstand the ravages of the 
parasites. Isolate the pig, feed it well 
on light, laxative slop, and in the slop 
mix a teaspoonful of turpentine for every 
eighty pounds of body weight and con¬ 
tinue it for three consecutive days and 
repeat the treatment the following week. 
If the cough and emaciation continue the 
pig should be destroyed and a post-mor¬ 
tem examination made. A. S. A. 
A bashful young Scot called upon a 
girl for quite a while without finding 
courage to speak up. At length one Sun¬ 
day night he said: “Jane, do you 
ken I was here Monday night?” “Aye.” 
’ And again Tuesday.” “Aye.” “And I 
were here Wednesday and Thursday.” 
“Aye.” “And once more on Friday and 
again last night.” “So you were.” “And 
here I am to-night.” “Yes.” Finally, in 
desperation: “Woman, do you no smell 
a rat?”—Credit Lost. 
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