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Milk and Live Stock Notes 
Corn and Soy Beans for Silage 
AYlliat has been your experience in 
growing corn and Soy beans together? 
Ilave you had experience growing Soy 
beans with corn for silage? What is the 
most practical method where no corn 
harve.ster is used? Gould not the beans 
be planted in hills right along with the 
corn and cut by hand? What proportion 
and variety of beans should we use? 
Soy bean.s and corn cannot be pro¬ 
duced to any great advantage in the 
same field where it is desired to silage 
the entire product of the field. Two rea¬ 
sons prompt this suggestion. In the first 
place, Soy beans are a hot-weather crop, 
and their planting had best be deferred 
until the middle of .Tune. Silage corn 
to produce* the best yield.s- in this section 
should be planted early in May. In the 
second place, the corn shades the ground 
and prevents the normal development of 
tlie Soy bean; again. Soy beans and 
corn when planted in the same field* in 
rows makes harve.sting a most unattrac¬ 
tive task. 
The rr: dern corn harvester will not 
bind the c< n and beans* in a satisfactory 
manner. A great many of the vines will 
be loose or s -.'ken off. Furthermore, it 
is not an ea:;. matter to cultivate Soy 
beans and corn in the row. A number 
of the beans germinating relatively late in 
the season are apt to he covered, and 
with the ground slmded a little they will 
not reach their normal development. My 
suggestion would be that the corn be 
planted in one field and the Soy beans in 
another field, and that they he mixed 
by means of the .silage cutter, at the time 
the silo is filled. Four or five tons of 
corn to each ton of the Soy beau- forage 
would prove a useful proiiortion. I am 
satisfied that the total yield per acre of 
field corn and the Soy beans would be 
.sulistantially increased by this practice. 
As far as variety of beans to use, I 
would suggest the iledium Green Soy 
bean. They will yield abundantly and 
are more palatable than some of the 
other varieties. In case it is desii<‘d to 
plant the beaus in rows or hills, through 
the agency of the corn planter, it would 
be proper to mix 40 lbs. of seed corn 
with 20 lbs. of Soy beans. If the beaus 
are planted in drills, it i.s uece.ssary to 
seed* a bushel and a peck per acre. 
FREDERICK C. MISKLER. 
Suspected “Cow Itch” 
Will you give me a cure for the cow 
itch? i think I must have caught it 
from the cows. w. b. 
Massachusetts. 
Without a more definite diagnosi.s* than 
“cow itch,” I am unable to prescribe a 
remedy. Itches are caused by many 
things, from lieu lice to buckwheat pan¬ 
cakes. A remedy for the former would, 
obviously, not be applicable to the latter 
and parasitic mange in a cow would 
not require the same treatment as cow 
pox; either of which might be described 
as “cow itch.” Gow pox, which is trans¬ 
missible to the hands of the milker, dis¬ 
appears of itself in a short time, needing 
no specific treatment. It is precisely 
the same -thing that is given to one by 
vaccination against smallpox. If you 
have some itching eruption that does ■i<'„ 
show any tendency to heal of itself, bet¬ 
ter get a doctor’s advice. M. B. D. 
Cost of Keeping Driving Horse 
Has anybody to your knowledge ever 
figured out the cost of horse travel per 
passenger mile? Assuming that a horse 
be used regularly for travel only, and 
that he carry two passengers right along 
30 miles a day, what do yon estimate 
would be his annual cost of upkeep, valu¬ 
ing everything he eats and uses at its 
normal cost of production? It seems to 
me that such a horse could not well cost 
less than $200 per annum with deprecia¬ 
tion, shoeing, carriage and harness costs; 
and with the cost of his heavy eating 
to do this steady wQi’k, the expense might 
run one or two hundred dollars more. 
Neav York. ii. B. L. 
No doubt some of our readers have 
figured this out carefully. If so, we in¬ 
vite them to send us what they make 
of it. In the Fall of 1916 Mr. W. A. 
Olds of Ingham Go., Mich., started with 
ihis wife to drive a horse to Florida and 
back. They were on the road over eight 
months, and had a varied experience 
camping out or boarding. This trip ought 
to give a fair idea of the cost of horse 
travel, and Mr. Olds has sent ns the fol¬ 
lowing statement. He averaged about -30 
miles a day: 
In regard to keeping a driving hor.se on 
the road, would say $1.25 per day in 
feed barns or $1 per day buying your 
own feed, and camping out. I will give 
you a few prices in part of the 15 
States we crossed: Two feeds, horse and 
buggy in barn over night, Cleveland, O.. 
$1; Niagara Falls, $1.25; Chester, Pa., 
.$2; Wa.shington, D'. C., $1.25 ; Charlotte, 
N. C., 7.5 cents; Knoxville, Tenn., $1.25; 
Atlanta, Ga., 75 cents; Tallahassee, Fla., 
75 cents; Baton Rouge, La., 50 cents; 
Memphis, Tenn., 75 cents. Oats cost 
from 40 cents in the North to $1 in the 
South; hay from .$20 in the North to 
$.30 per ton in the South (1916 and 
1917) ; probably higher now. Ilorse- 
.shoeing, four shoes. Michigan, $1.40; 
Herkimer, N. Y., $1.20; Frankfort. Pa.. 
$2; Thomasville. N. C., 80 cents; Macon, 
Ga.. $1; .Tackson, Tenn., $1.40. We had 
no breaks on the buggy, and the only ex¬ 
pense on it was 15 cents for grease, but 
a new set of tires was nearly worn out 
when we arrived home. We found our 
expenses varied according to the people 
we met. One man in Ohio objected to 
our horse eating a little .second-crop grass 
beside the road; while another im Ten¬ 
nessee told us to let the horse in his 
field of good grass. We found that in 
most of the towns stables had been turned 
into garages, and there was no place for 
the horse. Gasoline w.is for sale every¬ 
where ; but hay, in the South, was hard 
to get. You could not compare our trip 
with the horse to one made with an auto¬ 
mobile, and we forded rivers, with rock 
and quicksand bottoms, and waded 
throus'h water and mud that touched the 
horses’s nose and came into the buggy 
box. 
Legal Requirements for Retail Milk 
Can you inform me as to the law gov¬ 
erning the sale of milk in a small town 
of three to four thousand inhabitants? 
I am at present making butter from a 
herd of grade Guernseys, selling most of 
the butter to farmers, neighbors and - 
brother Grangers. I expect that I shall 
have a surplus in the flu.sh season. What 
law or laws must I comply with to sell 
milk either bottled or loose to my grocer 
to be resold to his trade? G. M. 
Fort Plain, N. Y. 
Tlie grocer to whom you sell this milk 
will have to apply to his local health of¬ 
ficer for a permit to retail milk in his 
municipality' health officer, or his 
representative, will then visit your barn 
and score it in accordance with the score 
card furnished by the State Department 
of Health. The grade attained upon 
this scoring will (leterinine the grade 
mark which your milk may bear; the low¬ 
est grade being “C Milk R.aw.” If your 
equipment and methods are such as to 
enable the health officer to give you this, 
or a higher grade, there will be nothing 
further for you to do. If, however, j^ou 
desire to retail some of the milk yourself, 
you must make an application to the 
health officer for a milk dealer’s permit 
ilj will then score your barn and issue 
a perrait accordingly. No part of this 
procedure involves you oy your grocer iu 
any expense; the scoring of dairy barns, 
issuing of permits, etc., being a part of 
the local health officer's^ duties, for which 
he is paid by the municipality. This is 
the law so far as he State exercisw con¬ 
trol; it Is withi:: the power of any town, 
city or villa*ge to_ make S'linnlemeu'.ary 
"O'ru'.fitions gC/''erning the sale of milk 
withir '.ts jurisdiction, however, and you 
can easily ascertain by inquiry of your 
local health officer whether there are auy 
such applying to your municipality. 
M. R. J). 
Keeping Qualities of Pasteurized Milk 
How long will pasteurized milk keep 
sweet, and fit to feed a month-old baby? 
The doctor told my daughter to pas¬ 
teurize three quarts at one time. She 
has to feed a few ounces at one time. I 
say the milk will not keep good so long. 
Slate Hill, N. Y. b. s. e. 
Pasteurized mUk will keep sweet con¬ 
siderably longer than uupasteurized milk 
if kept at reasonably low temperatures. 
However, for baby feeding I should con¬ 
sider it very unwise to feed milk which 
you have had in the house more than 36 
hours. Of course, the baby might do all 
right if the milk were three or four days 
old, but it certainly doesn’t pay to take 
au.v chances. I should suppose it would 
be better to pasteurize a quart at a time, 
either in the bottle or in a small double 
boiler. H. L. j. 
Scours in Galves. —I wish some of the 
farmers would try my cure for white 
scours in young calves and report success. 
A little grated nutmeg in their milk; do 
not overfeed for a few days. I have 
purebred Jerseys, and do not like to use 
powerful drugs. Ralph r. retts. 
Delaware Co., Md. 
