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HOPE FARM NOTES 
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sponge, and absorbs the liquid which is 
in contact with it—and gives up to one 
what it takes from another. Some people 
toil and slave and go through life like a 
machine in order to leave their children 
property or position. They are the people 
w ho see only the top of the rye and never 
think ol the little roots or influences down 
under ground working everywhere, seeking 
to hold the plaut tirmlv to its work and 
purpose. I heav people who make fun of 
rye as a cover crop because tliey say it 
adds nothing to the soil. When I see that 
great spreading root system tilling all the 
soil, saving the wastes and binding the 
land together. I know hotter, for this in¬ 
visible work down out of sight is the true 
value . f the cover crop, and I know. too. 
that those who strive to give their chil¬ 
dren only the material things of life are 
neglecting the truest part of the home 
cover crop which lies beneath the surface 
in the little common and true humanities 
upon which is built the touch of nature 
which makes the world akin. u. w. c. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JAN. 18, 191<> 
FARM TOPICS. 
What Puts the ‘ Pop" in Pop Corn. 74 
The New York Alfalfa Belt—Part II. 74 
The Effect of Limestone on Oats. 75 
What Price for Tractor Plowing. 75 
The Culture of Pop Corn. 7 $ 
Cattle Banish a Hay Press. 77 
Root Growth of Wheat and Corn. 77 
Crops and Farm News. 80 
Country-wide Produce Situation. 80 
Government Aid in Buying Farms. 83 
Up-State Farm Notes. 86 
Crops and Farm News. 87 
Hope Farm Notes. 88 
Attacks on the Co-operative Law. 91 
The Farmers' Battle in Nebraska. 91 
Amendments to tlie Commission Law. 91 
Buying Farms on Contract. 91 
Coming Farmers' Meetings. 103 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Wool Prices . 83 
Development of the Milk Strike!...!!..!... 91 
Western Cattle for Eastern Pastures. 96 
Ration for Young Pigs. 96 
Dangers in Cross-breeding.96, 98 
Feeding Holstein Heifer. 98 
Testing a Dairy Herd. 98 
Raisin Seed Meal. 98 
Wintering Brood Sows and Pigs. 100 
Pigs With Blind Staggers. 100 
Barley Compared with Wheat for Pigs. 100 
Grain with Oat Straw. 101 
Milk Ration: Food Composition. 101 
Buckwheat for Milch Cows. 101 
Ration for Butter Making and for Pigs.... 101 
Ration for Fresh Cows. 101 
Fattening an Old Cow. 101 
Contracted Hoofs . 102 
Pin Worms . 102 
Hard Milker . 102 
Copperas for Worms. 102 
Nasal Gleet . 102 
Cat with Catarrh. 102 
Fouls . 102 
Mammitis: Scours . 102 
Chronic Indigestion . 102 
Worms . 102 
Lameness . 102 
Grain Ration . 103 
Hard Churning . 103 
Ration for Holsteins. 103 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 103 
Bringing Up the Family Calf. 104 
Indigestion . 104 
Piralysis . 104 
Wriodic Opthalmia . 104 
Worms ..104 
' v,r arts . 104 
Dairy Ration: Weedy Fence Row. 105 
Potion for Young Heifer. 105 
v alue of Sheep Manure. 106 
Consider the Goat. 106 
New Cure for Hard Milkers.107 
The Useful Milch Goat. 107 
Kerosene for Foul in Foot. 107 
Butter Fat in Holstein Milk. 107 
License for Horseshoeing. 107 
Abscess; Dairy Feed. 107 
THE HENYARD 
A Balanced Hatching Season.73. 74 
Sanitary Droppings Board. 81 
Infertile Goose Eggs. 81 
A Poultry Problem. 81 
Suspected Cholera . 81 
A Tioga County, N. Y., Boy's "Project”... 85 
Egg-laying Contest . 108 
Turkey Breeding . 108 
A Railroad Man's Henhouse. 108 
Spraying the Henhouse. 108 
Fowls with Wasting Disease. 108 
Wholesaler’s License . 108 
HORTICULTURE 
Winter Work for Fruit Growers.75. 76 
Fruit Trees on Every Farm. 76 
Storing Squashes . 77 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 82 
Savory Herbs . 82 
Salt on an Asparagus Bed. 83 
Mice Damaging Trees. 89 
Toadstools on Lawn. 89 
Transplanting Cedars . 89 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Dr.v. 94 
Tennessee Notes . 94 
The Rural Patterns. 94 
Fruits and Vegetables.94, 95 
Embroidery Design . 95 
Warm School Lunches. 95 
Taking Leave . 95 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Events of the Week. 78 
Cats and Birds. 83 
Thatching Advice Wanted. 83 
The Civil War Debt. 83 
Fisli for Pond..., . 84 
Lizards in Aquarium. 84 
Filler in Bran. 84 
Improving State Roads. 84 
Crude Oil for Wood Preservative. 84 
Questions About Vinegar Making. 85 
Obituary . 86 
Publisher's Desk . no 
On Wednesday of last week the general 
feeling was that the milk .strike would be 
settled during the week. (>n Friday the 
end of the fight seemed farther off than 
ever before. In those two days farmers 
all over the milk territory put new life 
and determination into the fight. The 
meeting at Ftica on Thursday was an 
inspiration. X 0 organization of farmers 
ever took a more determined or stronger 
position. There was not a white feather 
shown anywhere. Every speech rang out 
defiance of the milk trust, and every in- 
tilienee that was pitted against the pro¬ 
position that at last milk producers are 
to receive a decent living from the pro¬ 
duction of milk. The resolution that pro¬ 
ducers would not compromise in any way, 
shape r manner went through with a 
whoop, and went over the State as a 
defiance from the farm of every agency 
that would by coercion or legal enactment 
deprive the producer of the right to sell 
his own product at a price to cover the 
cost of producing it. We have plodded 
for long dreary years to this purpose, and 
the emphatic expression of it now is 
worth millions to farm industry of this 
State and nation. 
(Governor Smith has appointed a com¬ 
mittee composed of two dealers, two 
League members and two consumers to 
settle the dispute. lie said no more in¬ 
vestigation was needed, and he believed 
the best men to settle the dispute were 
the ones who were quarreling about it. 
The District Attorney's investigation has 
been postponed and probably abandoned. 
A flood of bills, most of them showing 
confusion of mind on the subject, has 
been introduced in Albany. 
Dealers claim that they are getting 75 
per cent of normal supply, but city indi¬ 
cations do not seem to justify the claim. 
In some outlying sections consumers re¬ 
port no supply at all. The best develop¬ 
ment during the week has been the stand 
taken by the producers. Farmers have at 
last come to realize their own power, and 
they are learning how to use it. 
Dairy Ration: Weedy Fence Row 
1. I have a herd of 34 cows. 11 milk¬ 
ers, for this Winter. The feed consists 
of a silo 30 feet high by 14 feet. 6 inches 
across, which is full, refilled three times, 
hut not ipiite as much corn as desirable. 
I wish to know how to feed for the best 
possible results. I have lots of barley and 
oats. Oats are worth 75 cents, barley $1 
per bushel. How much barley should I 
feed to substitute the corn that is lacking 
in the silage? I have some Alfalfa hay 
and a nice lot of Alsike clover. How 
should these grains he fed for best re¬ 
sults? I have a fine lot of barley straw, 
also. ITow much silage should I feed a 
day, and how much should I feed to 
have it last till Spring? These cows are 
grade Holsteins. 2. I have a line fence 
to pasture, and on the opposite side my 
neighbor lets the bushes and weeds grow, 
and the cows wear down my woven wire 
reaching over the fence. The fence is 
mine, but the bushes are his. Can I com¬ 
pel him to cut the brush? a. j. p. 
1. Feed 35 to 40 pounds of silage per 
head per day. I figure you have about 
100 tons in your silo. This is figuring 
40 pounds of silage to the cubic foot. The 
above rate of feeding will leave you plenty 
of silage for Summer use to supplement 
short pastures. Give two feeds of hay, 
morning and afternoon, and let cows have 
access to straw at middle of day. Make 
RP a grain ration of 200 pounds ground 
barley, 100 pounds of ground oats, and 
200 pounds dairy feed, adding one pound 
of salt to each 100 pounds of feed. 
2. There is no law whereby you can 
compel your neighbor to cut the bushes 
and weeds on his side of your fence. If 
you could not get him to cut them, vou 
might iuduce him to let you do 'it if 
they get too bothersome. h. f. j. 
Ration for Young Heifer 
I have a six-months Holstein heifer 
calf of very good breeding I want to bring 
through the Winter in growing condition. 
Will you give a good ration, also how 
much hay to feed at a time? I buy all 
fay feed. p. b. n. 
Pennsylvania. 
Assuming that you have mixed hay, 
make a grain ration 100 lbs. ground oats, 
barley or bran; 50 lbs. cornmeal. 50 lbs 
gluten feed, 25 lbs. linseed oilmeal. Add 
a pound of coarse fine salt to each 1(H) 
lbs. feed. The heifer’s condition will serve 
you best as a guide to amount of grain 
to feed. Let her eat all the hay she will, 
and I would say 2 or 3 lbs. grain a day 
for the present. n. p. j. 
"For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’a 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
Burns large chunks of wood 
as easily as it burns hard or 
soft coal or coke. Draws the 
cold air from chilly rooms and 
converts it into delightful 
warmth. Also protects your 
root crops against freezing. 
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