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Tjfte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 23, IblS 
Blood Medicine 
For Your Stock 
' MEDlClHt' 
- ^ tonic 
Three pack¬ 
ages make a 
complete 
treatment for 
a horse or 
mule. 
Stock worth 
keeping, is 
stock worth 
keeping 
healthy. 
For Horses 
and Cattle 
To tone them 
up ^vlien “off 
their feed” and run-down; to regulate 
the bowels, stimulate the liver and im¬ 
prove the kidneys. For obstinate sores, 
thrush, scratches or grease heel, give 
Sleekene to improve the blood, and apply 
Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh externally. 
When a horse’s coat is rough, Sleekene 
is especially recommended. 
If your dealer cannot supply you, a full sized 
package will be sent postpaid for 50 cents. 
Made only by 
G. C. HANFORD MFC. CO. 
SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
MINERAL 
Thuse 
over 
HEAVE??ms 
^COMPOUND 
Lump Jaw 
V 
■ The farmer’s old reliable treat 
I ment for Lump Jaw in cattle. 
I Fleming’s Actinoform 
I Sold for $2.50 a bottle under a positive 
H guarantee since 1896 — your money re- 
H funded if it fails. Write itoday for 
■ FLEMING'S VEST-POCKET VETERINARY ADVISER 
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EASY TO ERECT 
That the Unadilla Silo presents uo building prob- 
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Either conical or gambrel roof (with extra silage 
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you pay. No special, costly 
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the government’s advice, 
order early. Send to-day 
‘*>h. /l/IVAVlLlL.a\\ c«'t'iIog, prices and 
;<£?■//*? / nii I \ n v\\ Agency Offer. Address 
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SILO CO. 
Unadilla, N. Y. 
or 
Des Moines, la. 
2 
DOWNI7 
ONE YEAR - 
TO PAY 
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^ Bkimming, durable. Cuaran- 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
HEREFORDS 
By Champion Prince Real and 
from Prince l{ui)ert 8th, cows 
STOCK ALL ACES 
If you want tlie best, write 
ALEX MORRISON, Shelbur«e.vT 
Capt. J. Watson WEBB, Owner 
WALGROVE HERD 
MILKING SHORTHORNS 
OVER 50 HEAD IN HERD 
Many imported. All regi.stered. Tuberculin tested. 
Itlilic Vecords kept. Write for i>rice and particulars 
onHerd Headina Bulls. walnulGroveFarm.Washlngfonville.N.Y 
Mr. General Farmer! Dairy Shorthorns 
breed for you.' Try them. We offer a trio for foun¬ 
dation. 2 heifer calves and !i bull, unrelated. Choice¬ 
ly bred. First draft or check for $425 takes them. 
A few others. EDWIN EASTERBROOK, Interlaken, N. Y. 
Swiss Goafs '’na':* $40 
A few dry does. No milkers to sell. Only letters enclos¬ 
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A Thebeef breed for the East. Mature 
■«—early, easy feeders. Send forillus- 
A -n ,, ^ trated booklet with particulars of 
JJ U a the breed and stock for sale. 
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SHEEP 
Sheep Prices Reduced 
During the Month of Nov. will sell high class range 
bred yearling ewes, A and B grades, !@16.50, others 
atS15. Send for circular or come and see these 
I ewes, interstate LIVESTOCK CO.. Inc., Selkirk, N. Y. 
Booklet 1 
Free 
$3 Package guaranteed to give satisfaction or monej 
Iiaclc. .SI Package sufficient for ordinary cases. 
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Southdown Rams for Sale 
from tlie celebrated flock of Wm. Rockefeller. Address 
K. M. HAWKS, - Tarry town. New York 
Fine Wool“0vcr the Top”at 75c 
Ilximbouillet, Delaine, Dorset, Cheviot and Shropshire 
rains. Cheshire and Chester White Brood sows. Duroc 
piga- 6 weeks old. .!>. II. TOWNSK.M) SONS, Interlaken, N. Y. 
HAMPSHIRE RAMS For Sale 
An extra good two-vear-old at a bargain. Some great 
lambs. A fewewelambs. IIASr.liTT ItUOTlIbUS, Seneca, .V.Y. 
For Sale-25 Fine Shropshire Ewe Lambs 
three-fourths thoroughbred. W. S. DROM/tN, Middleporl, H T. 
15Reg.YearlingShrop8hireRamsH^®c?vER^TtIii.’N.T. 
ForSale-Reg. Shropshire Ram Lambs 
STEVENS BROS. 
Wilson,HewTork 
F AIUIIObJIK lUMl’SimtH RAMS for sale. Exceptionally 
line individuals. Earl 1>. Hrowii, U. 2, Illoii, N. Y. 
Ifnrakiil Fur ^hoon lambs die. 
iXdIdKUirUi OIlUUp Ewes and Ituins for sale at $50 each. 
Better ones higher. Clakic Gregory, Mt. Vision, N. Y. 
c 
HORSES 
Shetland and larger Pony Weanlings 
$36 to S60. Broken Ponies, $75 to 8 1 00. Fifty head, 
all colors. State age, color and sex you want. Six liead 
I’ogistcred Bed Polled Female.'!, 8 months to (i vears. 
P’. li. STKWAKT, . Kspyville Station, Pa. 
SHETLAND PONIES 
We sell on the INSTALLMENT pla n. 200 head to 
select from. Herd establislied 1891. Send 10c 
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THE SHADYSIDE FARMS, North Benton, 0. 
DOGS 
MOUNTAIN BRED AIREDALES 
Ked Raven strain. 
HegisLcred pups, 
$25.00 buys a perfect female of the very best blood. ^Iale 
pups $50.00 and upwards. BRANDETH LAKE FARM. Brandeth. N.T 
Airedales and Collies o i 
pups, grown dogs, and ijrood matrons. Large in¬ 
structive list, 5c. W. R. WATSON, Box 1745, Oakland, Iowa 
ForSale-FarmRaisedAiredaIeSi.f,^mpen’ui"^^^^^^^^^^^ 
ber puppies, $10—$15, ALBERT NEWTON, Bellows Falls, Vermont 
Collie Pups I 
The intelligi-nt kind. 
NELSON’S. 
Also Guinea Pigs 
Grove Cltv, I’u. 
JUDGING FARM ANIMALS, by C. S. 
Plumb; $2.25. A Practical Manual on this 
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Your Live Stock 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Sheep in Massachusetts 
I intend to buy a few ewes this Winter, 
and would like to know the average 
weight at maturity, the weight of lambs 
at time to take up in the Fall, and the 
average weight of fleece and how prolific 
the different breeds are. I would like 
particularly to know about Oxfords and 
other mutton breeds, as I think the pro- 
] duetion of meat would pay better than 
wool in this section (Boston), it. L. P. 
Massachusetts. 
The question of sheep on the Eastern 
farm is attracting increased interest. The 
price of wool alone invites the shepherd 
to his flocks, while the prices for lambs 
I and even mutton will enable a clear profit 
if losses from dogs and predatory animals 
are not too great. As for the Oxford, they 
represent the popular tyjie of mutton 
sheep. They have a large, sturdy frame, 
are hardy grazers and yield lambs of good 
stamina and vigor. Mature ewes will weigh 
from 200 to .SOO pounds, and early Spring 
lambs should weigh from 7o to 125 iiounds 
when brought in from the pastures and 
fed out slightly on grain and clover hay. 
i As to fleece, a good average would be 
' eight pounds; many mature specimens 
' will yield a fleece weighing as much as 
14 pounds. Strictly speaking, one should 
pay generous atteutiou to both the fleece 
and the moat, as both are essential for 
profit at ])revailing feed and labor jirices. 
The Southdown is perhaps the special¬ 
pulling and thrashing equipment is re¬ 
quired ; and even then the job ;s a dirty, 
tire.somc one to the inexperienced Out¬ 
side of a bean-growing section J would 
advise Soy beans only as a forage for 
sheep or swine, else a cover crop in corn 
intended for bogging down with shotes. 
A number of trials have been made to 
grow Soy beans and corn for the silo from 
the same area ; mixing the corn and beans 
at planting time and harvesting both in 
the Fall. The practice cannot be ap¬ 
proved, fir.st, because the two crops plant¬ 
ed at the same time will not mature to¬ 
gether; and second, with the beans cling¬ 
ing to the stalks, cultivation is difficult; 
likewise, harvesting is almost impossible, 
especially if the field happens to be a 
weedy one. If it is desired to grow Soy 
beans for cn.siling, I would advise drilling 
them in a separate field early in June, and 
partially curing them before placing them 
in the silo with green corn. Five tons of 
corn to one ton of the partially cured 
beans will increase the feeding value of 
the silage, and the protein fermentation 
will not be excessive. True enough, the 
silage will be badly discolored, but the 
animals do enjoy this mixture and it in¬ 
creases the milk flow. I believe, however, 
a more useful practice follows when the 
entire area is planted for corn, and where 
the necessar.v protein is obtained from 
either oilmeal, cottonseed meal or gluten 
meal. 
In many instances the beans are cut 
Fh-Kt Prize and Champion Shropshire Flock 
ized early maturing mutton breed, while 
the Shropshire, the Hampshire and the 
Oxford are larger, and represent the pop¬ 
ular type of sheep maintained on the av¬ 
erage farm for meat and wool. The Dor¬ 
set and Cheviot come in for special ad¬ 
miration ; the former due to their remark¬ 
able prolificacy and habit of mating twice 
within the season ; and the latter for their 
attractive appearance, due to their clean 
faces and fleeceless legs. The American 
farmer ought to produce more sheep, and 
truly the one drawback seems to be the 
mongrel dog and a perph’xed failure on 
the part of our law-making agencies to 
provide ample protection against the 
brute’s destructive habit.s. True, fencing 
is expensive and shepherds are scarce ; yet 
the dog nuisance is clearly the most an¬ 
noying. There is surely more money 
earned per head by a small flock (25 
head) than will obtain from a larger 
number (300 or 300), which ought to be 
an inducement to the small operator to 
put in a few head. The “More Sheep— 
More Wool Co..” riiiladelphia, Mr. A. C. 
Bigelow, president, has done a great deal 
of constructive work in encouraging the 
general installation of small flocks on 
Eastern farms, and has even gone so far 
as to distribute breeding ewes at very at¬ 
tractive prices. It would pay R. L. _P. 
to write this agency for such information 
as they will be glad to distribute. 
Soy Beans for Hay and Silage 
Could you give me any information 
about growing Soy beans for silage with 
corn? Could they be sown for pasturage 
for sheep, and are they as good a nitro¬ 
gen gatherer as peas? Did you ever use 
them for hay? G. c. E. 
New York. 
Soy beans are what are commonly 
termed a “bot-weatber crop.” Care must 
be exercised iu choosing both the season 
for planting and the time of harvesting, 
as the plants are very susceptible to cold 
weather. Two objections present them¬ 
selves when Soy beaus are included in a 
regular rotation. First, they are a short 
or one-season crop; second, the yield per 
acre for silage is so relatively small, as 
compared with corn, that the cost per 
ton mounts very high. Since they cannot 
be planted with the best results until 
•June, one loses an early Spring crop, and 
since they must bo harvested before frost 
they enjoy a relatively short growing sea¬ 
son. . i 
Again, if beans are planted in any quan¬ 
tity, a special drill planter is essential, 
and if they are matured for seed special 
and cured as hay. Here again the yield 
per acre is relatively light; the beau hay 
ripens at a season of the year (Septem¬ 
ber) when the days are short and the 
curing becomes very difficult, since the 
leaves are large, the stems, coarse, and 
both absorb a great deal of moisture. 
Sheep enjoy the Soy bean hay, and do 
well when fed upon it; dairy cows relish 
the change, but if fed continuously on this 
fodder tire of it, and again it is washy 
and does not cure in the mow as bright 
and free from mold as does as Alfalfa or 
clover. As a forage it ranks high for 
hogs and sheep; seeded with rape and 
Sweet clover in the Spring, the forage is 
abundant throughout the growing season. 
A useful mixture for cither sheep or swine 
would be Soy beans, one bushel; Dwarf 
Essex rape, .5 pounds; Sweet clover, eight 
pounds. Seed preferably about May 15, 
and do not pasture until the plants are 
eight inches high. Rape and Soy beans 
can be seeded alone; and the beans al¬ 
lowed to pod and ripen for u.se in fatten¬ 
ing hogs and lambs in conjunction with 
corn with satisfactory results. 
The nitrogen-gathering qualities of the 
beans fully equal if not excel peas, and a.s 
a cover crop (outside of the expense of 
seed, which is very high) they are very 
useful. Canada field peas with oats and 
rape are clearly a more useful forage for 
sheep or swine, and yield a greater ton¬ 
nage of hay per acre ; their growing sea¬ 
son is much longer, and where the oats 
are allowed to head and partially seed, a 
catch crop ensues that makes excellent 
Fall pasture. 
Feeding a Family Cow 
I own a fine Jersey cow, three years 
old, that is not doing very well, though in 
very good flesh. I get from 12 to 14 
pounds of milk a day, while in the best of 
the grass season I get as high as 23 
pounds of very rich milk; her test is 6.6. 
I realize I have not very much for a niilk- 
pi’oducing feed for the Winter. She 
freshens about April 1. I have only a 
good grade of Timothy hay, a little millet 
I cut and cured. Can I feed beet pulp to 
any advantage so as to balance her feed? 
What is the value of it? If of any value, 
how much to feed and whether to feed 
once or twice a day? IIow does it com¬ 
pare with silage? If it is not profitable 
to use, will you give me an outline for a 
ration? I have to buy everything but the 
hay. This year I raised a few sugar beets 
and' fed these to the cow, and while they 
lasted they seem to produce au iuereased 
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