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TTAe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
J<oi»tcinl>er 14, I'.Ms 
TIGER LIME 
(AGRICULTURAL) 
Get Lime Now 
Now—hocan-io >iiij)iiicnt< can be niiuie jiromptly from Hiilfalo plant— 
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Now—l>ec;iiise wheat is the best crop in your rotation for lime, d’he 
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'i'liis lime is liunied from tlie 
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Oats and Peas in the Silo 
I have retid s(!%eriil times about putting 
green oaLs and peas in the silo. This h.as 
been tried twice in our neighborhood 
that T know of with almost complete fail¬ 
ure. Tlie stuff gets rotten in the silo, no 
matter how fa.st it is fed. Do you think 
it was put in too green, or what could be 
the troul)le? I thought of trying some 
in my silo this year, but what my neigh¬ 
bors say about it does not sound very en- 
eonragirig. Do you think it would be 
lietfer to put it in when it is almost ripe? 
Wisconsin. R. K. 
I have seen oats and peas put in the 
silo when ne.arly ripe with good results. 
However, it is difficult to got the air out 
of the oat .stem and if the silage contains 
I ;iir it is going to rot. My .advice in the 
‘ matter would he the same as in tho case 
, of clover or Alfalfa, and that is to cure 
tlie oats and pfais into hay if the weather 
permits. Tf the silo ts used wait until 
the oats and peas are nearly ripe enough 
for cutting for grain before ensiling. <'oni 
is still king as a silage crop. H. f. .t. 
Coarse Fodders for Cows 
Is it more profitable to cut Alfalfa hay 
for dairy cows or should it be fed as it 
eoines from the inowV Should it he bet¬ 
ter to cut same, iu what manner should 
it lie preiiared iiiid fed? I.s it lietter to 
shred sugar corn fodder for dairy cows 
Ilian to feed it as ordinary f>Klder? 
Alary laud. P. c, w. 
'i'liere is no advantage iu cutting 
Alfalfa ha.v for use iu feeding dairy cows. 
They can utilize a vast amount of coar.se 
feed tiiid recinire such material to prop¬ 
erly fake care of the concentrates supplied 
in the form of grain mixtures. There is 
nothing so useful for dairy animals us 
ehoieo Alfalfa liay. It is jialatabic, nu¬ 
tritions and .satisfying and will supply 
protein in a very welcome and efficient 
iiiaiiner. A cow may safely be fed all she 
will consume and clean up with relish. 
If fed once daily, .say in the middle of the 
day, where silage and some grain are 
fed night and morning, the best results 
will follow. With no silage two feedings 
.should he made, night and morning, fol¬ 
lowing the grain allowance. Grinding or 
eiitting .\Ualfa hay is an expensive 
method of iirepuration and is clearly out 
of the (piestion when it comes to feisling 
inileh cows, f’alves also do be.st when 
siipjdled with liberal amounts of choice 
Alfalfa buy. 
Sugar corn is another forage that Citu 
!)(' fed without extensive preparation. If 
fed greiui or even partially cured the cows 
will clean up the leaves, also the stalks, 
with relish. Tf cured and stored away in 
the mow or iu barracks, there is more 
excuse for shredding, since the jiradice 
enables a larger consumption and more 
of the stalk is actually 'eaten; further¬ 
more, the waste material makes better 
manure, as more of the liquids will be 
absorbed by the shredded jiarticles. Again, 
the manure can bo handled with greater 
ease if the stalks are shredded and the 
bedding goes' further. Sugar corn is also 
a sphmdid roughage for dairy cows and 
for growing stock ns well. Its yield per 
acre is usually abundant and there is 
very little waste. F. c, M. 
Substitutes in Cattle Feed 
The Euroi>oan war is driving many of 
the foreign nations to hunting up new 
sources of food for their stock. Last year 
we told about some of the things which 
the Germans are doing to utilize wastes 
in stock feeding. The Food Administra¬ 
tion now tells of other work bi'ing done in 
this line. Off the coast of France there 
are certain kinds of seawc'ods which are 
used in feeding stock. Three pounds of 
tlii.s setiweed were found to be equal to 
four pounds of oaLs, and aninmls suffer¬ 
ing from Ij'iuphangitis were helped by 
eating the seaweed. In Holland, Ger¬ 
many and Denmark other kinds of sea¬ 
weeds are being dried and ground, to be 
mixed with foddm'. The fresh weeds or 
coarse grass found in swamps are crushed 
and mixed with grain for cattle feeding. 
.\corns are being 1; rgely fed all over Eu¬ 
rope. The.se acorns are crushed and the 
hulls are removed. Then they are mixed 
with (looked ptitutoes or roots, and han¬ 
dled in this way they awj said to give fair 
results. Horse chestnuts are also being 
fed to cattle and sheep. Pigs refuse to 
eat them, and they are said to he poison¬ 
ous to jioiiltry. The usual plan is to 
crush the horse chestnut and soak in lime 
water. This overcomes the strong acid or 
tannin principle, and after this soaking 
they arc dried and ground. Heather, 
which is a short, hard form of brush, has 
been used quite extensively in Germany 
for the past two years. The stems of the 
heather are ground fine and mixed, with 
moiasses. In Austria the roots of certain 
kinds of ferns are dug or plowed up and 
ornshed for pig feeding. All over Ger¬ 
many it is said that the twigs and young 
.shoots of trees and shrubs are tised for 
feeding. They are crushed and ground 
and mixed with mtiterials which the cattle 
like to eat, although they would not be 
eaten by themselves. Of course these 
food products are only substitutes, and it, 
is not likely that after the war they will 
be fe<l to any great extent, but liiiniiMi 
food is .short, and while that shortage re¬ 
mains all sorts of things will bo used for 
feeding cattle and horses. 
Plan for a Silo 
I want to present a plan for silo build¬ 
ing, better, I think, tluiii tho.se brought 
init by Mr. Judkins on page (>.13. Take 
2x4-iu. lumber, surfaced on side and edge 
about 5 ft. long for a 12-ft. diameter sih> 
(eight pieces), (.ay them on level con¬ 
crete bottom, in which are bedded head 
down 1(5 (5-iii. holts, iirojecting 2Vi in. to 
fasten first coum* to, laying the 2x4-in 
jiieces fiat as per diagram, breaking 
joints at I'oruors and spiking eacli 
jiiece with four or five 5-in. sjiikes, cut¬ 
ting (“lids off to i>erfect angle, kee|iiiig 
inside surface pliinih. You can build to 
any height at one time, or any time as 
needed ; it requires no rods or rxiiensive 
liibor, cannot blow down, settle out of 
shape or shrink apart, eosting less in 
most .sections than any other kind. Hoof 
is easily finished by using shorter se<?- 
tions, drawing in to any pitch de.sired 
and covering with roofing or lumber. Thi.s 
is the Ilian of grain elevator building iu 
the West. It is well every few feet apart 
in height to let the 2x4-iu. pieces project 
out far enough as staging until finished. 
I'ermont. s. R. kklly. 
Live Stock Sales 
Sept. 11—ILdsteins. Con.signnient sale, 
at Cuba Fair, Cuba. N. Y. 
Sept. 12—Ayrshires. Consignment sale, 
at Cuba Fair, Cuba, N. Y. 
Oct. 1—Holsteins. T’roadmead Farms, 
Union City. Mich. 
Oct. 4—Guernseys, llichtud F. Klenuu, 
Itaraboo, IV'is. 
Oct. 17—Holsteins and Guernseys. 
(^‘ntraI Wis. Breeders’ Ass’n, Marsh¬ 
field, IVis. 
Oct. 18-19—Holsteins. National Dairy¬ 
men’s sale, Columbus, O. 
Nov. 12-13—Holsteins. Waukesha Cu. 
Holstein T’reeders, Waukesha, Wis. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, Sept. 
9-14. 
Southwestern Jersey Cattle Show, 
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. lG-21. 
National Association of Gardeners, an¬ 
nual convention, Cleveland Oliio, Sept. 
24-20. 
Iowa Dairy Cattle Congress, Waterha*, 
Iowa, Sept. 30-Oct. (>. 
Trenton Fair, Trenton, N. J., Sept. 3<t- 
Oct. 1-4. 
Tractor demonstration. State Experi¬ 
ment Station, New I’>runswick, N. J.. 
Oct. 8. 
International Milk Dealers’ convention, 
Colnm'bus, Ohio, Oct. 14-15. > 
National Ice Cream Manufacturers’ 
convention, Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 17-18. 
The National Dairy Show at Columbus. 
O., Oct. 10-19, will btive a great variety 
of educational exhibits, interesting to both 
producers and consumers of dairy prod¬ 
ucts. 
