THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1309 
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Goats and Poison Ivy. 
On page 1223 H. P. B. asks how to 
kill poison ivy. Your answer, advising 
keeping the leaves cut off to kill it, is 
about the only way. I enclose photo¬ 
graph of my way (see below). This 
line fence was just as you see it in the 
left corner, all wild cherry trees and a 
great mass of poison ivy. We enclosed 
this by the wire fence and the Angora 
goats cleaned it up, as you see it by pic¬ 
ing this kind of a silo, and one only has 
to put on the cement as fast as four or 
five feet of wall is ready, then on the sec¬ 
ond day a second coat and on the fourth 
day a third coat. Lay the cement on 
as heavy as makes a good job, and it will 
be right there every time you look for 
it. In cutting the sand where it is loose 
I did not quit work, but worked very 
carefully, and every time I had a foot of 
wall bare I treated it and when I got 
Wire Fence Cleared of Poison Ivy by Goats. 
ture, in just one Summer. I find that the 
Angora goats are very fond of poison ivy, 
and H. B. I*, will find them very effec¬ 
tive if he chains a few along his fences. 
J. II. CLARK. 
Making a Pit Silo. 
[We have had many questions about 
pit or well silos. These are simply holes 
dug into the ground with the walls ce¬ 
mented or planked. The silage is cut 
down into them and dug out as required. 
In dry Western regions these silos are 
quite common, but in the Eastern States 
where the soil carries more moisture 
they are not often dug. On dry, sandy 
soils, where the drainage is good these pit 
silos are often quite economical, but it 
is difficult to dig into sand so that the 
walls will not cave in. The following 
notes show bow the work was done on 
a sandy Ohio farm.] 
First strike a circle the size of your 
silo diameter and then cut a trench out¬ 
side of this circle as narrow as can be, 
and clean it out. I used a common post 
hole digger, and an IS-inch ditching 
spade; cut the trench about 3 1 /} feet 
deep, and it was possibly seven or eight 
feet across. Be careful to leave inside 
<— This way to barn This way to wagon —5k 
Twin Pit Silos. 
true and wall even as this is the mold 
which you use to cast the first of the 
silo. Now cast this full of a good qual¬ 
ity of concrete. Nothing is made by 
skimping when it comes to cement work. 
Do not make it too rich eithei\ One ce¬ 
ment, two sand, and if you have a good 
clean aggregate, you can use as much as 
the batch will carry and leave no voids. 
Make it just wet enough to show water 
on top after it is well tamped. Then 
take some sheet iron and make a form 
the width of the iron, say 32x120 inches; 
that is what I had. I set it on top of 
the ring I had cast, and cast a second 
ring, setting four pieces of 2-inch pipe 
in it the way I wanted my track to run 
into the barn, for supports for the track. 
You can dig out the earth inside the ring, 
and do not disturb the sheets of iron, as 
it is better to leave them on while you 
finish the silo, or about a week. 
When you get down where the sand is 
loose, bare only so much wall as you 
are sure will stand at a time and make 
a batter of pure cement and water about 
the consistency of good cream, and apply 
to the sand by dipping a whisk broom in 
the batter and giving it a flirt so the 
mixture will leave the broom and alight 
on the sand wall. Be careful all the 
time not to let your broom strike the 
wall. In an hour go over it again, and 
repeat in another hour, three coats of 
spatter, in all, and the next day you can 
take your trowel and have the nicest wall 
you ever spread cement on. 
There is no staging necessary in mak¬ 
four or five feet ready I went over the 
other silo and worked at that, and by 
working a day and then waiting we lost 
no time on the silo. 
I put crosspieces on top of the pipe, 
put up my track, cut an oil barrel in two 
at the middle, made a flap bottom and 
ran it up with a horse and a trolley for 
hay fork. A hay carrier extended one end 
of the track out far enough so I could 
drive under with the wagon and dumped 
it into the wagon, so really we only 
shoveled it once. e. w. h. 
Ohio. 
Stocked Leg. 
I recently bought a mare 15 years old 
which is run down and has a swollen 
hind foot just above the hoof. The swell¬ 
ing is all around the foot, is soft but does 
not seem to be painful, as she trots well 
and does not show any sign of lameness. 
Would you advise me through your paper 
how I can reduce the thickness and what 
to feed the horse to put some flesh on 
her quickly? I can give her plenty of 
pasture but what else would you advise 
me to feed her? c. 
New Jersey. 
Hand rub the swollen parts three times 
a day and then bandage snugly with 
flannel. Never let her stand for a single 
day idle in the stable. Have her teeth 
attended to by a veterinarian and then 
feed an abundance of whole oats, wheat 
bran and mixed clover hay and in cold 
weather add a few ears of corn at noon. 
_ A. s. A. 
Buffalo Markets. 
Potatoes have been going up steadily of 
late, being now $1 or more at retail and 
75 to 95 cents wholesale. The local crop 
is small and rotting some. Apples are 
pretty high, .$4.50 down for reds and 
$3.25 down for greens, with nothing of 
much account retailing for less than $1 
per bushel. Pears are scarce at $1.00 per 
bushel. 
The ton price of grapes is up to $40 or 
more, but they are very plenty at about 
usual retail prices, retail, five cents per 
pound for all colors. Peaches wholesale 
at 45 cents a bushel down, good Craw¬ 
fords still retailing at 35 cents. Plums 
and prunes are plenty and dull at IS to 
25 cents for plums and 20 to 30 cents 
for nrunes per 7-pound basket. 
There is a fairly good tone to the vege¬ 
table market, but prices are low. Cab¬ 
bage is $1.50 to $2.75 per 100, with good 
Savoy retailing at five cents per head and 
Brussels sprouts at 15 cents per quart. 
Lima beans are 12 to 10 cents per quart; 
fancy celery is 35 to 45 cents per large 
bunch, retailing at 10 cents per small 
hunch ; peppers are $1 to $1.75 per bar¬ 
rel ; tomatoes are 25 to 45 cents per half 
bushel; cranberries are 10 cents per 
quart, retail, quality not very high. Beets, 
white turnips, carrots, vegetable oysters, 
parsnips, retail at 10 cents per two-quart 
measure. 
Butter is firm at 31 cents for fancy, 
wholesale, running down to 20 cents for 
poor and 24 cents for process. Most re¬ 
tailers sell what they call best Elgin at 
30 cents. Cheese remains at 10 cents for 
fancy, wholesale. Eggs are quoted by 
wholesalers as high as 42 cents for fancy 
white, but these must be regarded as spe¬ 
cial brands, for there is a supply of 
guaranteed eggs retailing as low as 30 
cents. 
Poultry is more active, dressed turkey 
being 20 to 21 ceifts for fancy ; fowl, 10 
to 17 cents for fancy; broilers, 20 cents; 
ducks, 16 to 19 cents. Live turkey is 
about on a par with dressed, fowl and 
duck, about 3 cents lower. j. w. c. 
FOR DAIRY COWS 0 
Will positively produce more milk than any 
other ration either home mixed or purchased 
and do it without giving your cows constipa¬ 
tion or udder trouble. Ready to use right out 
of the sack without any mixing or bother. 
Absolutely free from adulterants and fillers, just like 
the feed you would mix for yourself, is a special 
combination of choice cottonseed meal, dried beet 
pulp.cluten feed, corn distillers’ prainn, wheat, bran, wheat 
mid dungs and a little salt, that’s all; each ingredient weighed 
byautomatic scales and all thoroughly mixed inhume power 
driven mixers, so that it is always absolutely uniform, and 
always good. An extra quart or two of milk daily from each 
cowmay turn aloss intoaprolit. Try LARRO-FEED formoro 
S rofits. Sold on “money back If not satisfied’* plan.ILARRO 
eaters almost everywhere; write us if none near you. 
THE LARROWE MILLING CO., B47G»llespis Bldg.. Oetroit, Mich. 
BUY YOUR FEEDS DIRECT 
Millfeeds, Grain, Cottonseed, Gluten. Ask Prices. 
BARTLETT CO., . Jackson, Mich. 
DAIRY CATTLE 
Fosterfields Herd CO ws, T 11H FElfs* S a n p 
HEIFER CAL V r ES— FOR SALE. Prices very reasonable, 
('ll. l HUES 0. FOSTER, Box 173, Morristown, New Jersey 
Splendid Yearling Jersey Bull Dam^Reels- 
ter Merit test.UTO lbs. butter one year. Also choice 
bull calf. A. F. PEIRCE, Winchester, N. 11. 
Registered Jerseys 
FOR SALE. Tuberculin tested and free from 
abortion, including two four-year-old daughters of 
Golden Fern's son 78087; 10 It. M. daughters. On test 
one produced 725 lbs. of butter in 354 days and 
another promises to make 850 ibs. butter. Four 
heifers by a double grandson of Sultan of Oak- 
lands. Price, $00 up. Send for list. 
C. H. HECHLER, - Roslyn, L. I., N. Y. 
Registered Ayrshire^ ^lili^inu^ 
at $50. Both nicely marked. Sired by the famous 
Netherhall White Hill. For particulars address 
PHILIP PRICE, . West Chester, Pa. 
GRADE GUERNSEYS 
cows 
Nine cows, lately freshened. Reg. hull, 25 months 
old. Dam’s in A. It..test. Price, $90. 
JAMES H. SEAMAN, Glens Falls, N. Y. 
GRADE Guernsey Cows and Heifers 
FOR SALE. Some fresh and some due soon. (Also 
reg. bull, 0 years old.) Prices reasonable. RICHARD 
0. UE FOREST, Forestdale Farms, R. D. No. 1, Amsterdam. N.Y. 
SHEEP 
H orn Dorset ram lambs and registered 
ESSEX PIGS. CHARLES LAFFERTT, Little Valley, N.Y. 
Hampshire yearling and Ram Lambs e 'bred n to ees ’ 
Flower r;im. Ewe lambs, extra tine. Prices right. 
HASLETT BROS., - Seneca, X. Y. 
Delaine Rams 
Priced low. 
—The wool and mutton combi¬ 
nation. Also ewes. Good ones. 
Weatherby & Son, Trumansburo. N. Y. 
I E you want to buy the best SHROPSHIRE 
or SOUTHDOWN SHEEP. Send for "book¬ 
let” and prices. NIAGARA STOCK FARM, Lewiston, N.Y. 
RAMBOUILLETS FOR SALE^ s h ^*^& 
and Ewes bred directly from our own importation 
from Baron von Homeyer. Markham 8 Puffer, Avon, N.Y. 
F ifteen thoroughbred registered Shropshire ewes 
for sale. LYMAN HEEL), West Winfield, N. Y. 
Registered Shropshire Rams ewes ra a™d a ewe s 'ia A so 
for sale. 
ewe lambs 
E. E. STEVENS & SONS.Wil.son, N.Y. 
PleasantRidge Stock Farm tESSBSSSS 
lett, Dorset,Lincoln,CotswoldandUheviotRams and 
Ewes ever offered. Also Poland, Duroc and Essex 
sows and boars, all ages. Prices right. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. D. H. TOWNSEND 8 SON, Interlaken, N. Y- 
Horscs and Mules | 
COR SALE—SHETLAND PONY MARE, with 
• outfit. Black; 5 years; best Hawley blood; re¬ 
gistered. J. G. Greene, R. 2, Rochester, N. Y. 
100 Percheron and Belgian Stallions 
MARES AND HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 
Also SHETLAND PONIES. Free circular. 
A. W. GREEN, - Mitldlefield, Ohio 
Highland View Stock Farm 
Our barns are tilled with the best Percheron and 
Belgians at the lowest prices. 
0. N. WILSON, Prop., - Kittanning, Pa. 
Spanish Jack 
and Mules 
Jack, 8 years old, a snre foal-getter. Six large 
young mules, one pair 4 and 5 years old: one pair 3 
years old; one pair coming two. All will he sold 
very low to close out stock. Time will be given on 
approved notes. 
GEORGE A. BLAIR, The Highlands, Lebanon, N. Y. 
SWIKTE 
Branford Farms Berkshires 
Headed by the following GREAT BOARS : 
LEE PREMIERS RIVAL 
BRANFORD ARTFUL RIVAL 
LEE PREMIERS’ MASTERPIECE 
HOPEFUL LEE’S SUCCESSOR 
\Vc are now offering bred and open sows— 
Service boars and pigs, both sexes. Buy a 
sow bred to, or a pig by Lee Premier’s Rival, 
the greatest boar we ever owned. Bred, raised 
and owned by Branford Farms. Daughtersof 
his will be bred to Branford Artful Rival, the 
boar who did such good work for A. J. Love- 
joy & Son. Satisfaction guaranteed. Specify 
your desires, and we will endeavor to meet 
them. Visitors always welcome. 
Branford Farms, Groton, Conn. 
Large Berkshires at Highwood 
ment of the Brazilian Government has selected our 
liord to supply boars to that country, leading breed¬ 
ers of Brazil and Argentina having been here and 
passed upon the excellence of our Berkshires, after 
examining the various large herds in this country. 
Selected service boars, bred sows and young pigs for 
sale. II. C. & H. B. Harpending, Dundee, N. V. 
Buy Your Boar Now 
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas I will be 
besieged by buyers looking for boars fit for imme¬ 
diate service. While i probably will be able to satis¬ 
fy their requirements, they will have been picked 
over considerably. Better buy now so that Mr. 
Man will feel at home ami have his mind on busi¬ 
ness when the busy season comes. 
R. Y. BUCKLEY, Woodrow Farm, Broad Axe, Pa 
Springbank Berkshires 
Nothing for sale but big March and April PIGS. 
J. E. WATSON, Marbledale, Conn 
For Sale Berkshire and 0.!. C. Swine 
two to twelve months of ago. Good breeding. Ex¬ 
cellent individuals Prices reasonable. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. TARBELL FARMS, SMITHVILLE FLATS, N Y. 
REG. CHESTER WHITES AND BERKSHIRES 
Best breeding; all ages; both sexes. Write for 
prices. Winlorton Farms, Toms River, N. J 
PUREBRED BERKSHIRE PIGS-six weeks 
* olti—sows. $0; boars, $5. Sons from last spring’s 
litters, $10. Cloverdale Farm, Charlotte, N. Y. 
RFRK ( 5HIRFS~ The deep, heavy, bone type. 
LtLiiuuninLU q.,. owi1 f or breeders and guaranteed as 
represented. Prices right. A C. HOOPER, Bozman, Md. 
O-l-C-’s&ChesterWhites 
All ages, from choice prolific stock. Registered 
pigs, $10 per pair. Send for reduced price list. 
VICTOR FARMS, - Bellvale, New York 
SEPTEMBER 20TH 
Duroc Pigs, $4 
registered, $5. Grades, $3. Registered Guernsey 
bull calf, $35. Oxford buck, $12. 
W. H. DOW & SON. - Middlebury, Vt. 
COR SALE—DUROC JERSEY RED BOARS 
weighing over 200 lbs. at 5 months old. 
J. II. LEWIS & SONS, - Cadiz, Ohio 
Reg. Durocs 
1 sow with 9 pigs; one witli 8, and Boar; all for$180 
if taken at once. KISSLEY’S BAKERY, Tannersville. N. Y. 
For Sale-Chester White Pigs £Lh; Ua re/iste^ 
ed: 8 weeks old. A. J. LAM, Oriskany, N. Y. 
Kinderhook Duroc-dersey Swine 
in the East for registered stock of all ages. Best of 
breeding. Free from disease. Pairs not related. 
Jas. E. van Alstyne, Sec'y, Kinderhook, Columbia Co., N. Y. 
R egistered o. i. c. boars, 3 mos. old, 
*12 each. NELSON N. ALEXANDER, Harriman, N. y! 
Thoroughbred Mule-Foobl 8 H .'SK«« , t.B. 0 i.»'! 
CHESHIRE SERVICE BOARSU3S 
me your wants. G. E. SMITH, Castile, N. Y. 
For Sale—Duroc Jerseys and 0.1.C. 
males. All from registered sire and dam, from 2 
to 12 weeks. Stockhurst Farm, East Meredith. N Y. 
FOR PURE BRED TAMWORTH SWINE 
write or visit WE8TVIKW STOCK FARM. R. 
F. D. No. 1, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 
CHELDON FARM REGISTERED DUROCS 
** Pigs of both sex. Bred sows. Service boars. 
Best of breeding. C. E. BARNES, Oxford, N.Y. 
DUROCS-iSgJgfg 
$15pair: not akin. Ped. Write 
WEEKS, De Graff, Ohio 
Pedigree Chester Whites s ° t ^ k 0 Ei?ber I 1 s e ex t 
Ridgely Manor Farm, - Stone Ridge, N. Y. 
Dogs axicl Ferrets 
FFRRFT? FAR CAI F Booklet anti price list free. 
rcnncic run dMLt JNO. F. MURRAY. New London, 0. 
For Sale Ferrets, Guinea Pigs, Rabbits, Toulouse 
GEESE AND PEKIN DUCKS. C. JEWELL, Spencer, O. 
Fprrpfe froi* ® 1 th e r color, large or 
I erreus iorodie s)lla ]|. mated pairs or dozen 
lots. Choice stock. C. H. Keefer 8 Co.. Greenwich. Ohio 
3000 FERRETS 
C. M. SACKETT, - 
FOR SALE. Pine stock. Il¬ 
lustrated catalog and 
price list free. 
Dept. R, Ashland, Ohio 
Collie Pups 
—The intelligent kind. Also Blood- 
hounds. Nelson’s, Grove City, Pa. 
