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June 21, 1010 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Ruptured Pigs 
I have a Berkshire sow that gave me 10 
young ones twice, and in each litter she 
lias two little- fellows, of which one is 
ruptured. My desire was to keep two 
good sows for breeding, but my neighbor 
told me not to do so, as the rupture would 
be inherited. What is you opinion? 
Chnlfont, Pa. J. a. c. 
While it is claimed that the tendency 
to develop scrotal hernia is inherited, con¬ 
clusive facts do not substantiate this 
claim. The mere fact that one or two 
pigs in two or three successive litters 
were ruptured would not. in any way in¬ 
fluence me in discarding the sow pigs 
from the accompanying litters as breed¬ 
ers. If the mother were a persistent and 
regular breeder, and produced litters of 
10 pigs and grew them well. I would not 
hesitate in selecting the largest and best 
sow pigs from such litters as breeders. 
There are a number of reasons that might 
account for the ruptured condition of the 
pigs, only one of which might be the fact 
that the tendency toward this condition 
was inherited. 
Feeding Brood Sow 
I have a brood sow due to farrow in 
about two weeks. I have been feeding her 
liberally on separator milk, supplemented 
with a' little grain, a few waste apples, 
etc. Is there danger in feeding this 
sweet skim-milk in liberal amounts three 
times a day? The sow has a yard of 
about one-fourth acre in a corn.rr of my 
orchard. She eats some grass and seems 
to be doing well in every way except that 
I am afraid she is making bag too fast. 
I have had but little experience with 
brood sows. . G - A - s - 
Pennsylvania. 
You need not have any fears from feed¬ 
ing your brood sow generous amounts of 
skim-milk, provided you slacken up on 
the feed just previous to farrowing, and 
provided further that you do not force 
her during the period immediately follow¬ 
ing the arrival of her litter. Skim-milk 
naturally stimulates the flow of milk, and 
very young pigs cannot begin to nurse the 
full production of the brood sow on full 
feed. For fattening pigs prudence prompts 
the suggestion that the amount of milk be 
limited to 5 lbs. of milk for each pound 
of corn, yet for brood sows, during their 
gestation period or where they are nurs¬ 
ing pigs, there is no necessity for limiting 
the amount of milk to this margin. Bar¬ 
ring the week previous to farrowing, and 
the two or three weeks following. I am 
sure there is no possibility of injuring a 
brood sow by letting her have all the 
skim-milk that she will clean up with rel¬ 
ish. In fact, there is nothing more nu¬ 
tritious or desirable, yet it must be fed 
with caution during the critical stage in 
the arrival and early start of the young¬ 
sters. 
Silo Juice and Prohibition 
I am inclosing herewith a clipping in 
reference to the juice in a silo being an 
intoxicant. It seems to me this is a mat¬ 
ter which Tjif, B. N Y. can well take 
time to investigate. Personally.I don’t be¬ 
lieve a word of it. but if it is . so there 
should be no trouble in proving it beyond 
a shadow of doubt. There is a . heap of 
.stuff going the rounds of the daily press 
at this; time which is simply whisky prop- 
a gen da and absolutely nothing else. C. I. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
The clipping is as follows: 
Penn Yau. May 0.—Former Assistant 
Attorney General’ Harry B. Harpending, 
of Starkey, has torn down the silo on his 
big stock farm. Obtaining alcoholic drink 
f”om silos is getting to be so common that 
Mr. Harpending does not wish to be re- 
spo"s ; ble for a condition which might pro¬ 
mote drinking. 
It is said that his example will be fol¬ 
lowed by other Yates County farmers and 
an attempt will be made to find other ani¬ 
mal foods to take the place of the product 
of the silo. 
This is a fake. The item was sent 
through the press as a practical joke. Mr. 
Harpending disposes of the fable as fol¬ 
lows : 
I tore down my silo a year ago because 
T b -d so many brood sows on the farm 
that they crowded out most of the dairy 
herd. The silo was a large one. and only 
suitable for a herd larger than I main¬ 
tain. This whole silo fable can be 
classed with hollow horn and wolf in the 
tail. The only thing the contents of a 
silo will stimulate is the flow' of milk. 
This foolish report about “rum in the 
silo” keeps coming up in the city papers. 
We are usually told how the hired man 
sucks the juice through a crack or catches 
•*- in a cup and drinks it like cider until 
he is well “earned.” This is certainly 
“corn juice.” The city people read this 
stuff and some of them are light-headed 
enough to claim that the farmer favors 
prohibition because he wants to shut up 
the saloon and still drink silo juice! We 
have run down many of these reports, and 
always found a fool or a fable at the end 
of the story. We want a sample of any 
such juice for analysis. In some cases 
the stories are clearly a part of the propa¬ 
ganda against prohibition. 
Forage and White Beans for Sheep 
1. I have 65 sheep and have pasture for 
4r>. and I wish to keep them all until 
Fall. I have a field next to the pasture 
of live acres; I expect to sow oats on 
three acres and the other two to rape. 
When shall I sow the rape so as to turn 
the sheep out about the first of August? 
Ilow much seed to the acre? I intend to 
sow broadcast. Can you give me a bet¬ 
ter plan? 2. Can we feed sheep old beans 
after they lamb? c. F. R. 
New York. 
1. Rather than put oats on the three- 
acre field and rape along on the two acres, 
I would use a combination of oats, rape 
and clover in all the mixtures, which 
would be a bushel and a half of oats. 4 
lbs. of Red clover, 4 lbs. of Alsike clover 
and 5 lbs. of Dwarf Essex rape. You 
will find that this combination mixture 
will supply succulence throughout the 
season and, if the oats are permitted to 
come out and head and rattle off, they 
will reseed themselves and make excel¬ 
lent late Fall pasture. If you seed the 
rape alone, use from 6 to 7 lbs. to the 
acre, and if you have some Soy beans 
yon could include half a bushel of the 
same in your combination mixture. 
2 . I take it that you refer to the or¬ 
dinary white beans which are not very 
palatable for live stock, and. if used at 
all, they should be mixed in equal parts 
with corn, oate and bran. Of course 
they must be ground if they are to be 
used to the best advantage. 
Grassy Flavor in Milk 
Can you give me a recipe to stop cow’s 
milk from being grassy? The night’s 
milk is so grassy that I cannot use it. 
Is there anything one can put in it. If 
not. what is the best thing to do? G. n. 
New Jersey. 
When cows first go on pasture in 
Spring the milk always has a grassy 
flavor that cannot be helped. Unless 
there are some plants or weeds in the 
pasture causing strong flavors this grass 
flavor is not usually so bad as to injure 
the sale of the milk. If you are sure it 
is a plain pasture grass flavor the only 
way you can help it out is to put the 
cows on pasture after milking in the 
morning and take them in just after din¬ 
ner. giving them a small feed of hay at 
night. 
Live Stock Notes 
Linseed Oil for Lice on Horses 
Will the iilan of killing lice on cattle by 
using raw linseed oil work as well on 
horses? several subscribers. 
Prof. Lamson says the linseed oil can 
be applied to the horse, according to the 
testimony of some good horsemen. He 
has not tried it on horses himself. 
Treatment for Scours 
I notice two .letters in The R. N.-Y. 
concerning scours in calves. We had in 
this vicinity a number of cases of this dis¬ 
ease in veal calves, a thing we had never 
known before. We cured ours as follows: 
First, a dose of castor oil. followed, after 
this had operated, by two or three table¬ 
spoonfuls of browned flour in enough of 
the cow’s milk so that it could be poured 
from a bottle. We gave this only twice 
(noon and night), and the calf was cured. 
Scotia, N. Y. c. b. w. 
Jersey Cattle Club Meeting 
The fifty-first annual meeting of the 
American Jersey Cattle flub was held 
in New York June 4. The registration 
and transfer of purebred Jerseys lias been 
extremely heavy during the past year. 
Tin* Register of Merit now includes some 
12.000 cows with yearly records. Three 
new records were made in the past year 
and the thousand pounds of fat mark was 
passed twice. The club has increased its 
appropriations for fair premiums and 
Register of Merit prizes, as well as hav¬ 
ing created a fund for calf-club work. 
An appropriation was made to take 
care of the expense involved by the pro¬ 
posed economy test that is to take place 
in Texas, bosrinning October L r >. at the 
Texas State Fair Grounds. This test is 
the outcome of a challenge by Ed. C. 
Lasater. the owner of Falfurrias Jersey 
Ranch, Texas, with its 5.000 Jerseys, to 
the Holstein breeders of Texas to hold a 
year’s test of the two breeds for deter¬ 
mining which can produce all dairy pro¬ 
ducts most? economically. 
The re-election of M. D. Munn. of St. 
Paul. Minn., as president was unanimous, 
and E. A. Darling, of Vermont, was made 
vice-president. George T. Chaffee remains 
treasurer, and R. M. Gow. secretary. 
The new directors are William Ross Proc¬ 
tor, New York ;E. A. Darling. Vermont; 
A. F. Platter, Texas, and Hugh G. Van 
Pelt, Iowa. 
Should the Dairyman Retire? 
We think the man or boy who begins 
at 16 years of age and milks eight, or 10 
cows each day for 46 years milks until 
he is 56. should retire with $30,000. He 
milks 100 quarts each day; be milks 1.- 
460.000 quarts. If he can do that much 
work and can save two cents a quart, 
be has $20,200. Had the consumer been 
competent, had they but efficiency, had 
they a system, the two cents net may have 
been accomplished. Had they bought 
milk in larger quantities, had they bought 
four-quart cans, had they bought four 
quarts every day or evert/ other dot/ and 
paid in advance . that middleman need not 
have been handicapped. Had the delivery 
been conducted with bandy system, the 
three or four cents a quart saved—for 
consumers and farmers—should have 
given him the coveted $20,200. 
Pennsylvania. d. c. kexyon. 
Washington and Rensselaer Counties 
Wool Sales 
The Washington and Rensselaer Coun¬ 
ties (N. Y.) Wool Growers’ Association 
made their second shipment of wool for 
this season on June 7. loading two cars 
at Eagle Bridge with 31.468 lbs., one at 
Johnsonvillo with 13.074 lbs., and one at 
Iloosick Falls with 8.600 lbs. This, with 
the previous shipments, makes a total of 
125.046 lbs. handled by the association 
this year. It is probable that another 
shipment will have to be made at a later 
date. All was consigned to Adams & 
Leland. Boston. Mass. J. C. C. 
Eagle Bridge. N. Y. 
Not all the big stock farms are located 
in the West. Some of our Western 
friends seem to think that New Jersey is 
a land of mosquitoes and garden crops, 
yet there are some large farms inside the 
State. For instance, in Morris County 
there is one farm where, this year, 600 
hogs will be raised and fattened, with 
over 100 acres of corn alone, and a large 
acreage of rape and other pasture crops. 
There seems no good reason why in many 
parts of the East stock raising should not 
be well developed, and within the next 
few years the output of meat, and of pork 
in particular, will be largely increased. 
Cows have come through the Winter in 
as good condition as usual; the flow of 
milk is heavier at present. The weather 
has been very backward, unusually cold 
and much rain. Pastures are good, and 
new seedings are looking fine. Old sod. 
where there has been no manure, is light. 
I do not think there will be any more 
heifer’s raised than common. The dairy¬ 
men are fairly well satisfied with the 
outlook for hay; oats and potatoes are 
expected to fall under the average crop. 
The dairymen are very well satisfied with 
the Summer prices for milk so far, and 
Will do all in their power to help keep 
up a living price. U. B. II. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
July 1—Milking Shorthorns. Brad¬ 
ford Co., Pa.. Breeders’ Association. 
Troy, l’a.. Fair Grounds. 
July 4—Holsteins. Otsego County 
Holstein Club. Richfield Springs. N. Y'. 
Oct. 6-8—Holsteins. Quality Holstein. 
Chicago, Ill. 
Oct. 8-0—Holsteins. Annual Dairy¬ 
men’s Sale. E. M. Hastings Co., Lacuna, 
N. Y.. manager. 
Oct. 0—Central IlMnois Shorthorn 
Breeders’ Association. Paris. Ill. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety. Summer meeting, starting from 
Freehold. July 11-12. 
Connecticut Poultrymen’s Association, 
field meeting, Connecticut Agricultural 
College. Storrs, Aug. 4-5-6 
Union Agricultural Association, sixty- 
fourth annual fair, Burgettstown. Pa., 
8 ept. 30-Oct. 1-12. 
New Jersey State IloUioultural So¬ 
ciety. annual meeting, Atlantic City, 
probably Dec. 3-5. 
BERKSHIRES 
Reg. Big Type Berkshire Pigs 
Lack of facilities for caring for our pigs causes us to offer 
our regular $20and $2fl pigs at 91 S each at four werksohl. 
ENTERPRISE STOCK FARM - Ariel. Pa. 
Large Type Reg. Berkshires 
of all ages. Select yon a breeder from a fourteen- 
pi" litter. Puv no cash until von tret the stock-. 
BAVII) WIANT, Huntington Mills, Pa. 
Registered BERKSHIRES 
.Piprs Both Sexes—Miurh Qunlifcv. Reasonable Prices. 
POWELL CREEK FARMS. Mays Landing:. N J. 
Berkshire Pigs Masterpiece and Long- 
fellow breeding. Prices rightT Mrs, 0, U. FINCH, Vienna, Va. 
BERKSHIRES 
'STONE’S I 
BERKSHIRES 
We offer 25 Registered Young 8 
Sows bred to farrow in August j 
and September. They carry pigs 
by our two Great Boars 
Epochal of Stone Farm No. 255848 
Superior ol Stone Farm 2d No. 258489 
Price $100 each, shipped in July 
We offer 
50 March and April pigs sired by 1 
above boars and 
H andsome Robin 3rd Mo. 222512 1 
Price $25 each when 2 mos. old. 
RICHARD H. STONE 
Trumansburg, N. Y. 
Highwood Mollic 57th, 56 pigs in 5 titters 
FLINTSTONE BERKSHIRES 
Order your Sprint: nigs now from large, uniform, 
healthy litters, carrying the blood of many of the 
Breed’s greatest animals. 10 sows farrowed 94 live 
pigs, raising82. Pigs will be of shippinn ape on June 1. 
FLINTSTONE FARM DALTON, MASS. 
^Choice Berkshires^ 
We have some extra nice young 
boars, sows and gilts of Masterpiece 
and Double Champion 33rd breed¬ 
ing at prices that are right. 
Webb Farms Clinton Corners, N. Y. 
Large BERKSHIRES 
AT HIGHWOOD: 
Oar customers write ouradvts. Letter from 
an official of the U, 8. Gov’t: "The boar reached 
us in good shape and we are much pleased with 
him. 14'hen do you expect to ship the sows f" We 
have sold Berkshires to the United States 
(iov’r foifmany years. 
H. C. &. H. B. HARPENDING, Box 15, Dundee, N. Y. 
Big Type BERKSHIRES 
Hex! Public Sale, October 25th, 1919 
Consisting of 60 head. Thirty boars ready for 
sei vice and 30 open gilts of Spring 1919 farrow. 
No hogs are sold from this herd at private sale. 
C. H. CARTER, Whitguern Farm. West Chester, Pa. 
Anedjo Berkshires 
Are bred for size and quality combined 
The big. mellow, ensv feeding type, with neat heads, 
broad bucks and K X T It A II E AV Y II A M 8. 
Foundation herd*, service boars, brood sowsaud pigs 
H. M. TERWILLIGER.Mgr. Anedjo Farm,Webster. Mass. 
Berkshire Brood Sows and Pigs 
Inability to care for them compels sale entire 
< stock. $<iO to $100. Good mothers, six weeks, 
either sex. SSIO, with paper-. Very high 
class boar, Beaut, ’s Majestic Boy 257966. farrowed 
Sept. 18th. 1917. #60. Boar pig three months. SI 5. 
BELMONT Farm - Hinsdale, Mass. 
Springbank Berkshires 
Sows ami gilts T tun offering are bred to Symho- 
lee'N Superb. 254336 and Dui.e’s Champion 22d, 
246254. for late March and April farrow Three June. 
1918, Service Boars out of a Charmer's Star Master, 
No. 165723. Sow. Send for Historic, pedigrees and 
price. J. K. AV ATSO N, Marbledale, Couu. 
BERKSHIRES 
Spring pigs of the kltuf that will please you. 
Every pig gun rim teed a breed c'-. Write for list. 
H. GRIMSHAW . . . NORTH EAST, PA. 
