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ITAc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
LIVE STOCK NOTES 
Top Milk 
Will you explain why we farmers call 
the first milk we get from the cow the 
“top milkV’ w. M. I!. 
Pennsylvania. 
Top milk, as a name for the first milk 
drawn from the cow, is a new one to me. 
The first milk drawn is properly called 
the “fore milk” to signify that it is the 
first part of the milking. As you doubt¬ 
less know this part of the milking tests 
much lower in fat than does the la.st part 
or the entire milking mixed together. 
Top milk is a term commonly used in 
modifying milk for infant feeding, mean¬ 
ing the top of the milk or the cream on 
a bottle of milk. Frequently a formula 
will call for so many ounces of top milk. 
H. F. J. 
Artificial Feeding for Cattle 
Prof. G. II. Cleve of the Colorado Agri¬ 
cultural College describes a new and my.s- 
terious disease which has appeared among 
cattle in Eastern Colorado. The be¬ 
come blind and are unable to eat or drink. 
“There is apparently paralysis of the op¬ 
tic nerve and the tongue, without inflam¬ 
mation of these or adjacent organs. There 
is congestion of the brain with but very 
little if any fever. Animals are unable 
to eat or drink, but if food is placed back 
in the mouth they will masticate it with 
avidity and swallow it without difficulty. 
If water is poured into the mouth they 
can easily swallow it and will give evi¬ 
dence of wanting more. 
“We do not know the cause of this con¬ 
dition, but bad water and scarcity of food 
would .seem to be contributory factors. It 
has been learned that if animals are fed 
artificially and watered for a few days 
they almost invariably recover, otherwise 
they usually die. No poi.sonous plants 
vrere found that could be considered re¬ 
sponsible. 
Mold in Silo 
The silage in my cement .silo is affected 
with a blue mold. This occurs only in 
the lower part of the silo and next the 
walls. What the cause and remedy? 
Indiana, m. f. k. 
Silage frequently spoils in a thin sur¬ 
face layer next to the wall, but if the 
silage is spoiling on the top surface layer 
it w'ould seem that it was not being fed 
off fast enough. Now that silage is 
infected with mold spores there is no 
remedy exept to pitch out and haul away 
the spoiled part and feed out the remain¬ 
der fast enough so it will not spoil. 
II. F. J. 
Pasturing Cow 
Do you think it best to keep cow in 
field all day or hours in forenoon and 
afternoon? I feed two parts corn bran, 
two parts gluten, two parts dairy feed, 
one part oil meal, in connection with hay 
and pasture, and think that said feed is 
rather laxative. What changes would 
you advocate, if any? I have almost con¬ 
cluded that it is not really necessary to 
feed so much grass pasture to produce 
the maximum amotint of milk a cow is 
capable of producing. At any rate, I had 
the hay, and not too much pasture for 
steady pasture, and so I made use of it 
in connection with a few hours of daily 
pasture and I never had better results. I 
can buy cottonseed meal at $2.00, 20 per 
cent protein. Would you prefer that to 
oil meal at $3 for Summer feeding? 
Northampton Oo., Pa. a. k. 
Under your conditions I should say you 
were doing exactly right in not using pas¬ 
ture all day. Oil meal would make your j 
ration laxative and for this Summer^ I j 
should try the cottonseed meal in its 
place. Cottonseed meal will correct the 
trouble. II. F. J. 
A consignment sale of .Jersey cattle will 
be held at Highlawn Farm. Lenox, Mass., 
August 22. Some of the best animals in 
Berkshire County have been entered for 
this sale, coming from herds of Scher- 
merhorn Estate. Lenox: Blythewood 
Farms, Pittsfield; Highlawn Farm, 
Lenox; J. Macy Willetts, Howard Wil¬ 
letts, New Marlboro; Harry S. Dewey, 
Great Barrington; John B. Watson, 
George E. Davis. Becket; W. A. Slater 
Estate, Lenox. About (50 animals ivill be 
in the .sale, including a number of Regis¬ 
try of Merit cows. Leander F. Herrick 
is* auctioneer. The day preceding will be 
joint field day of Berkshire County .Ter.sey 
Breeders Association. North and South 
I’omona Grange and Berkshire County 
Farm Bureau. 
Dairy products lead in this county. 
Milk is bringing the farmers for .Inly 
$2.25 per 100 lbs., delivered to the Bor¬ 
den’s station. It costs the faiauers 10c 
to 15c per 100 lbs. to get their milk 
hauled to the station. Cheese is netting 
the farmer 22c per lb. Butter, 40e at 
the store. The dairymen who make butter 
in this section are receiving 45c per lb. 
from customers. Veal calves, 15c per lb., 
live weight; pork, 17c per lb., live weight. 
22c per lb., dressed. Beef cows, $50 to 
$75; yearling heifers, dry, $35; two and 
three-year-old heifers, dry, $40 to $50; 
milch cows. .$50 to $100. I’otatoes, 00c per 
bu. Farm conditions are fair. Help is 
the main problem. The farmers are not 
raising many crops that require much 
hand labor because they cannot get the 
help. The farmers’ help has been called 
to war; more are still going, and there 
is less help to haiwest the crops. There 
is a larger acreage of oats this year than 
in 1917. Corn crop is equal to 1917. Po¬ 
tatoes are the lightest crop. The farmers 
have planted potatoes for their own use 
only on account of labor. Oats are look¬ 
ing fine. Corn, not very good. Hay is 
a light crop this year. I'alley farmers 
are cutting their usual crop of hay, while 
the hill farmers will have about* 25 per 
cent of last year’s crop. The business out¬ 
look is good. F. B. w. 
Otsego Co.„ N. Y. 
Good dairy cows. $90 to $150; regis¬ 
tered dairy cows (Holsteins), $1,50 up. 
Horses, $125 to $.300. as to quality. The 
supply is greater than the demand just at 
present. Pigs, $4 to $7 at four weeks of 
age. Fowls, 28c to 34c per lb., live. 
Eggs. 40c to 46c per doz. Oats, 90c to $1 
per bu.; wheat, $2.10 per bu.; no corn 
here, only w'hat we buy. That costs $3.55 
per cwt. I am paying $3 per bag for 
horse feed and it is poor at that. Cow 
feed costs from $50 to $70 per ton. No 
bran. League prices for milk, .$2.16 for 
3 per cent. Cows are shrinking. Our 
milk station was getting 140 cans, but at 
the present time they are not getting over 
110 cans. Oats look good, but wheat will 
not be over 50 per cent of a crop, on 
account of the hard Winter. Corn is 
small and not growing much. Help for 
haying is very scarce. Wages are $3 per 
day and up; this on account of the draft. 
Very few young men are left here. Old 
meadows are very light, but new seeding 
is fair. I never saw a piece of Spring 
wheat around here till this year. There 
are several acres now. I do not think 
that the acreage of Winter wheat will be 
increased any this Fall unless the Govern¬ 
ment sets the price higher. As it is now, 
I do not think it would cover the co.st of 
production. We can get no pure wheat 
flour, even by taking wheat to the mill. I 
understand that one of my neighbors took 
eight bushels of wheat to the mill and 
got 12 pounds of war flour and $2.10 per 
bushel. Not much barley raised here, 
only mixed with oats. Unless help is 
available, farmers will have to reduce 
the dairies and acreage to a considerable 
extent by another year. Potatoes look 
good. Beans not very good. Several peo¬ 
ple have quit raising poultry on account 
of the high price of feed. All crops, 
with the imssible exception of oats, will 
be a partial failure on account of the 
wet weather. Very few sheep are raised 
around here. F. A. w. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. 
This is a mixed farming country with 
a few large dairies. Cows are selling for 
$100 and up. Butter, .50c; milk, from 
l2c to 18c per qt.; veals, 22c dressed; 
eggs, 45c to 65c; potatoes, $1.50. Sheep 
are raised considerably here, lambs selling 
for $10 live, and 35c dressed. Hay crop 
is about half of what it was last year. 
Oats and potatoes are looking fine. Many 
farmers in this section are growing wheat 
this year and it is looking fine. Feeds are 
very high; dairy feed, $52 to $60 a ton ; 
hay, $20 to .$26 a ton. The weather has 
been very cold and wet, but has warmed 
considerably during the last week. I en¬ 
joy reading your paper very much; think 
there is no farm paper to equal it. 
Franklin Co., N. Y. o. n. E. 
This is a dairying and farming section. 
High-grade cows bring $75 to .$100; veal 
calves, live, 15c per lb. Milk brings $2.28 
per cwt. for 3 per cent, delivered to the 
creamery; milk bottled and delivered in 
town, 11c per qt.; butter, 47c per lb.; 
cheese, 29e. Pigs are scarce, selling at 
$7 to $8 each. Hens, 20c; chickens. .30c 
per lb., live; eggs, 42c per doz. Pew 
sheep in this section. Potato crop look- 
August 10, 1918 
ing fine; potatoes are .59e per peck; 
string beans, 20c per qt.; peas, 10c; cab¬ 
bage, 7c per lb.; corn, 5c per ear. Ber¬ 
ries high; not many of them. Grain is 
fine; corn is poor because of the damp 
weather. Oats are fine and lots of them. 
Many farmers planted their large potato 
fields to oats this year; $3 for seed pota¬ 
toes last year, and sold the potatoes for 
80c per bu; there is a large acreage in 
potatoes this year and the outlook is well. 
Many have planted beans and they look 
fine. Hay is thin in most places around 
here. I think farming conditions are im¬ 
proving. j.w. F. 
Susquehanna Co., Pa. 
In this section we have had the most 
favorable Spring in several years and 
farm conditions are very gratifying after 
two extremely wet seasons. The leading 
products in this county are fruit, track 
crops and dairying. Milk at cheese fac¬ 
tory IS $2 per cwt.; a la'rge quantity is 
shipped to Rochester at League prices. 
Butter, 42c per lb.; cheese, 26c. Sour 
cherries, 6c per lb. at canning factory; 
berries, 11c per qt. Apples are large for 
this time of year and will be about 60 per 
cent of a crop in this section. Think the 
quantity and quality of most staple crops 
are above the average at this time. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. w. m. l. 
Live Stocif Sales 
Aug. 27—Guernseys. At New Castle 
Farm, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 
Sept. 6—Holsteins. Backus Bros, con¬ 
signment sale, at Watertown, N. Y. 
Sept. 11—Holsteins. Consignment sale, 
at Cuba Fair, Cuba, N. Y. 
Sept. 12—Ayrshires. Consignment sale, 
at Cuba Fair, Cuba, N. Y. 
Sept. 1—Guernseys and Jerseys. Con¬ 
signment sale, at Cuba Fair, Cuba, N. Y 
Oct. 18-19—Holsteins. National Dairy' 
men’s sale, Columbus, O. 
Sept. 2—Holsteins. Benninger’s con¬ 
signment sale, Hatfield, Pa. 
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