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Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 10, 3 01 ( 
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YOUR HUE. 
Horse or Cow hide. Calf or other skins 
with hair or fur on, and make tiieni 
into coats (for men and women), rones, 
rugs or gloves when so ordered. Your 
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Information. It tells how to take off 
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With prices ; also fur garments remod- 
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571 Lyell Ave., Rochester. N. Y. 
Dairy Ration 
1, Would you give me a good bal¬ 
anced ration for two Jersey cows, both 
fresh, at present milking 24 quarts a day 
between the two? They each weigh about 
000 lbs. We have pleuty of oats and well- 
matured corn; hay is of good qualit.y, 
though it is Timothy; also have plenty 
of cornstalks, all frozen by the early frost. 
2. Would you give me full information 
for preserving^ pork for the Winter? 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. g. a. 
1. All the roughage you have on hand 
is of low jirotein nature. It therefore be¬ 
comes wise to use some high protein 
feeds, such as cottonseed and oilmeal, to 
approach a balance. Of course, the cows 
should have all the Timothy hay and 
cornstalks they will clean up. Make the 
grain ration two parts cottonseed meal 
and one-half part linseed oilmeal. Add 
one per cent salt to the mixture when 
mixing it up. 
2. To preserve pork pack in layers in 
concentric rings in a good tight barrel, 
such as a mola.sses barrel. INIake up a 
saturated salt brine and pour into the 
barrel, covering the pork. Place a wood¬ 
en r.ack over the pork and weight down 
w'ith a good-sized stone to keep the pork 
under the brine. h. F. .7. 
Silage and Soiling for Ten Cows 
Will .vou advise as to amount of silage 
corn necessary to plant (tiverage yield) 
to produce silage for 10 cows? I would also 
like advice as to rotation of soiling crops 
giving necessary acreage on basis of 10 
cows. In other words, I want to grow 
sufiicient silage and soiling crops to cover 
12 months ; herd 100 cows, w. T. E.- 
Nobscot, Mass. 
There are so many disadvantages to the 
soiling system and so many advantages 
to feeding silage the year round, or nearly 
so, I will figure the proposition on two 
different bases. The uncertainty of get¬ 
ting the expected crop in time and the 
Labor of cutting it as needed are the prin¬ 
cipal disadvantages of the soiling sys¬ 
tem. In the first case, let us suppo.se you 
are to use silage from October 1 to May 
20, a period of almost 230 days. Figur¬ 
ing .3.5 lbs. per cow’ feed a day makes .350 
Ib.s. dtiil.v feed. For 2.30 days this would 
equal 80.500 Ihs., or about 40 tons. Y^our 
corn should average at least 15 tons iier 
ata’e, wdiich would mean about thwe acres 
of corn. 
Soiling crops for 10 eow.s from May 20 
to October 20 would come about as fol- 
ows: Winter rye, seeded preferably in 
September, two bushels to an acre, "two- 
thirds of an acre, time of cutting ^lay 
20 to .Tune 8. Clover, 15 to 20 lbs. to an 
acre, sown August or early Spring, one- 
Iialf acre, time of cutting .tune 0 to .Tune 
25. Oats and peas, one and one-half 
bushels of each to acre, sow one-third 
acre on April 25, May 5 and May 20. 
Cut .Tune 25 to July 28. Millet, 14 
(luarts to acre. Sow one-fourth acre ^Ijiy 
20, June 5 itnd .Tune 20. Cut July 28 to 
August 28, Fodder corn, 15 (imirts to 
acre. IM.mt one acre May 20. Cut Au¬ 
gust 20 to October 1. Personally, I be¬ 
lieve you would find it more satisfactory 
to take them off silage during a part of 
June and July only, using oats and peas 
and millet as the soiling crops and bal¬ 
ance of land to grow good clover hay. If 
you wished to do this, you can figure 
amount of silage necessary from figures 
I have given above. ii. f. j. 
Barley for Hogs anti Horse 
1. IIow' much ground barley should be 
it day to fatten a hog weighiu" now’ 
175 to 20f) lbs. V Hogs have been running 
at pasture all Summer with no graiu. 
IIow much should a little pig 10 weeks 
old have for a growing ration? 2. IIow 
much ground barley should a horse ha e 
a day w'hen fed mixed Alfalfa hay? IIow 
much of the Alfalfa and hay should a 
horse have? w. N. s. 
Medina, N. Y'. 
1, The best rule for feeding a fatten¬ 
ing bog is to give what he will clean up. 
J)on’t let food aceurnulate in the trough. 
A young pig should have some skim-milk, 
a slop if possible. A ration of 80 parts 
ground barley, 15 parts oilmeal and five 
parts tankage would be good. Feed w'hat 
'be will clean up in good shape, not over 
a pound or so a day at first. 
2. The horse, if at w’ork. should have 
10 lbs. of grain a day, and 15 lbs. of the 
hay. H, F. ,T. 
^Milking Method; Fattening Cow 
I. AYill you advi.se me what effect it 
has on a cow if, wheu milking, the milk 
is forced into the teat by taking bold of 
the udder just above the teat? 2. What 
is the best feed for fattening an old cow 
that has lost her' grinders? Hiow’ soon 
after a cow freshens should she be bred? 
Michigan. s. c. H. 
1. The method of milking which you 
mention would have no injurious effect 
providing it i.s expelled from the teat 
quickly and regularly. 
2. Good legume hay and cornmeal are 
bc«t for fattening cows. However, at 
present prices, you are likely to lose 
money trying to fatten the cow you men¬ 
tion. If .she is in any kind of condition, 
should sell her as she is. A cow should 
freshen once a year. This means breed¬ 
ing her two or three months after h-esh- 
ening. n. F. .T. 
Frosted Kafir Corn 
Is it worth while to put my acre of 
Kafir corn in barn or feed it out? It 
was hit bj’ the heavy frost and is brown 
now. The frost September 10 was heavy 
enough to make ice; it killed almost 
everything for all the farmers throughout 
this section; corn, beans, melons, pump¬ 
kins, etc. w. E. P. 
Hamburg Cove, Conn. 
Frosted corn is quite unpalatable; the 
feeding value is not great. In order to 
get the most out of your acre of corn, put 
it in the barn. Cut it up as you feed it, 
and mix some feeding molasses with it. 
Dilute the molasses with water before 
mixing with the corn. This greatly in¬ 
creases the palatability so cattle will 
clean up fodder more readily. The molas¬ 
ses is also of considerable feeding value. 
H. F, .T. 
The Topknot of the Houdan 
On page 1008 I noticed R. J. W.’s in¬ 
quiry about Houdans, and your reply that 
possibly the chief objection in keeping a 
flock of these bens was, you had heard, 
that the crest or topknot acted as a 
sponge in wet climates. I wish to give a 
few facts as regards this topknot from 
my eight years experience with this one 
breed, tind to deny the statement that the 
topknot acts like a sponge. 
It is a fact that many of these hens 
enjoy a bath in the rain. I .smile as I 
write this, for I wonder what these people 
would say who make the above claim, 
could they have seen my Houdans in a 
recent storm standing out of doors (which 
they did not have to do) with their rain- 
soaked crests dripping, dripping, tmd the 
male in particular with his tail drooping 
and the rain running down his glossy 
back and off from the end of his tail. He 
was enjoying a shower bath as much as 
«ny boy that ever took one, and this is a 
common experience with him. 
When I first kept this breed I also 
had heard that it was dangerous to have 
them get their crests wet. and many a 
time I hiive been out and driven them in 
out of the rain, but times happene<l when 
I would be away from home and up would 
jcome a storm. No doubt that the IIou- 
dans were very glad I was away, that 
at last they might be permitted a bath, 
for many times I would find them dripping 
wet. A number of such experiences con¬ 
vinced me that I need not worry about 
the Houdan in a rainstorm any more 
than about any other hen. 
In the Winter a case of icicles on the 
crests with no ill effects to the bird for¬ 
ever cured me of the idea that a wet top- 
knot was such a serious matter. This 
happened in my pullet house; it was in 
the dead of Winter, and my pullets were 
laying. I awoke one morning with such 
a severe cold and chills and sore thront 
thiit I went to the henhouse to do ehiI.v 
what was absolutely necessary that moni- 
ing, I took note that while the pan of 
water had frozen during the night, yet 
the Houdans had made a hole through 
the ice and could get some water, so I 
did not stop to refill the pan. At night 
I visited them once again. There were 
several birds with wet topknots and small 
chunks of ice clanking as they shook their 
heads to get it off. They had drank the 
water in the pan until it became so far 
below the ice that they had been obliged 
to put their whole head under the ice to 
get any water, and a laying pullet needs 
abundance of water. Frequent wettings 
during the day of the tips of the feathers 
bad by night caused lumps of ice to form 
on these k’athers, but I was too sick to 
do anything about it just then. There 
were no ill effects and no colds as a re.siilt 
of the wetiug. 
People as a rule take it for granted 
that the Houdan is no kind of a utility 
bird, because it is fancy looking. I have 
bad strangers look at my Houdans and 
then say, “They are very interesting, hut 
I do not suppose they lay very many eggs 
of course.” They seemed much surprised 
when told tluit they did and were profit¬ 
able up to the age of four and five yetirs 
of age, and that there was no better 
table fowl to be found. 
To those who are attracted to the 
Houdans I would say that there are 
mauy wetikling strains in these birds, as 
in Plymouth Rooks, R. I. Reds or any 
other breeds. Begin with strong stock, 
just as you would expect to have to do 
with any other breed, breed for the best 
and keep at it, as you must do with any 
breed to be successful. Breed for what 
you waut; if you want small crests 
breed for small crests. Given a chance 
the Houdan can hoe her own row with 
any breed. The males are great fighters 
and will protect their flocks. The IIou- 
dan is susceptible to kindness and is 
easily made into a pet; they respond 
readily to good treatment and will fill 
your egg basket accordingly. 
New Y^ork. e. l. SWEETSEB. 
