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IShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 20, 191T. 
A Quick—Vigorous Start 
All of our fertilizers and phosphates contain 
sufficient soluble nitrogen to give the young 
plants a good “send-off,” also a vitality of 
stem and leaf which will enable them at 
the proper time to absorb organic nitrogen. 
Makes 
Crops 
Profitabie j 
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1 
Ground Corn Fodder 
There is some corn fodder cut up and 
ground almost like bran for feed here, 
and it is claimed by some that it analyses 
more than bran. Can you tell me what 
corn fodder cut so fine does analyze? It 
makes a very nice feed. Does it pay to do 
the (‘xtra work? n. i.. B. 
Cast Earl, I’a. 
Those who tell you that corn fodder 
can be made equal to bran for feeding are 
wrong, as the following comparison will 
show ; 
1t»0 lbs. of the fodder will contain the 
following: 
I’rotein Carbohvdrates Fat 
1 lb. 12.S lbs. 0.4 
Comi)are this with 100 lbs. of average 
wheat bran, as follows : 
Protein Carbohvdrates Fat 
PJI /2 lbs. 41.(5 .‘libs. 
Thus yott can see that thwe is no pos¬ 
sible comparison between the two, and no 
matter how fine you may grind the fodder 
up you cannot make it equal to the bran 
in feeding value. By grinding the fodder 
you can make it easier to feed and rather 
more digestible, so that the stock will eat 
more of it than they would of the entire 
stalk, l)ut cutting and grinding will add 
nothing whatever to the actual feeding 
value of the fodder. 
F. P. Maxwell, of Buckhannon, W. Va., 
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per hour. I had about 900 tons ground last 
year and do not notice any wear on the 
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New Jersey: Good Farms; Corn Fodder 
You state on page l.’)22 that good farms 
and farmers may easily be found in New 
,Ter.sey, and I mu.st agree with you. Hav¬ 
ing traveled over much of the United 
States oiist of the ^lississippi. I can safely 
say thiit nowhere CJin localities adapted 
to so niiiny lines of farming he found 
which will excel Central New .Terse}’. Of 
course I am considering the nearne.ss to 
railroad, cities, towns, etc., and the local 
social activities. Liirge farms with 50 
cows and perhaps 100 .Jersey Hed pigs can 
he found with a soil adapted to nearly all 
ci'ops. Pi’ohiihly nowhere does the soil 
vary as it does in New .Ter.sey. The gen¬ 
eral opinou of the public is that New Jer¬ 
sey is only a sand hank, hut they have 
seen only waste land along the shore or 
along the railroad to Atlantic City. In 
some ways the .Jersey farmers could tell 
of niiiny problems worked out by them, 
hut they are either too busy or modest to 
pass it on. 
There has been much discussion in The 
J t. N.-Y. concerning the best methods of 
handling dry cornstalks, and I have been 
expecting .some of our good Jer.sey fann¬ 
ers to speak up. I have found here a 
manner much better than burning or 
.spreading the canes left after the cows 
have eaten off the leaves, (icnerally the 
Autumn is favorable, and all husking is 
(lone in the field. The corn is cut eight 
or nine hills on a side, making a solid 
row of stacks ,‘50 or 40 hills each. Be¬ 
tween these rows of stacks the ground is 
sown to grain, it being first disked up and 
tlien drilli'd. During husking the bundles 
of stalks are stood in large stacks on the 
rye and when this is finished the strips 
are sown. The dry stalks tii'd in bundles 
are luuiled to the barns and phiced in long 
“ricks” along the most exposed parts of 
the barnyard, generally the south and 
west sides. These ricks are about eight 
feet wide, depending on the length of the 
stalks and about the same height before 
the top is put on. I am going to leave 
the matter of building one of these ricks 
to a more experienced hand. 
Starting at one end and only removing 
the top as fast as used the bundles are 
generiilly thrown over the fence into the 
barnyiii-d for the cows to cat. The coarse 
canes or st.ilks are mashed down by the 
cattle and mixed with the manure, and to- 
gether with the raiu.s and an occasional 
snow, rots in a mass. On top the dry 
stalks furnish a bedding for tlie cows to 
lie and sun themselves, and it is an excep¬ 
tion when the cattle are not in the barn¬ 
yard much of the day. IMany have long 
sheds for the cows to go under during a 
storm, and to help brciik the strong winds. 
It is surprising wliiit a lot of manure 
th(’s(‘ .stalks make and it is very different 
to handle from the dry cam’.s. It is 
haiidh’d the same ns any other litter, 
.some cleaning the biirnyard _ out in tlie 
Siiriug while others leave this stalk ma¬ 
nure until after haying and then spread 
in on the newly-cut sod. There is consid¬ 
erable contrast between tlie proper use 
of tills method and the (l(H'p mud and 
filth S(‘(‘n in many barn yards in other 
States. 
There is no question that the silo has 
its place in dairying, hut on the best of 
land wliere corn turns out two and three 
Inislud liaskets of large ears one dislikes to 
run it all in. A certain neighbor of 
meiuis has a large farm and keeps over .50 
cows. He will not use a silo and this 
season has five ricks of cornstalks about 
80 feet long, and the top nearly level with 
the eaves of liis barn. Here the.se stalks 
are considered hett(-r than Timothy hay 
for cows, and are sold for 15 to 5c per 
bundle. G. X. s. 
Coukstown, N. .J. 
$ 3,000 
200 Acres, 34 Head Holstein Stock, 2 Horses 
1 Colt, 150 Hena, Farming Tools and Crops 
Tlii.s f.arm h.qs an extra good set of Iniildings 
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the following personal property: .'>0 tons of hay. 
10 tons of straw, quantity of ensilage, 100 
hnsJiels oats, one rubber tired surrey, 40 busliols 
buckwheat. 15 or 20 Inishels wheat, 2 lumber 
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