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Jhe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
July 19, 1010 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Building Up Weak Heifer 
I have a purebred Guernsey heifer. 
She. calved in March, but unfortunately 
calf was born dead and I had a lot of 
work saving her. She looks poor and I 
am anxious to build her up. What would 
you suggest as a good l'atiou for her? 
This was her first calf. She is producing 
about 18 lbs. milk. I have her out on 
pasture. J. H. 
Yonkers, N. Y. 
There is nothing safer nor any more 
nutritious to feed a heifer that has had 
the ill luck suggested than a grain ration 
made up of equal parts of ground oats, 
cornmeal, wheat bran and oilmcal. If she 
is milking around IS lbs. of milk daily 
she should be fed from 7 to 9 lbs. of this 
mixture, and in addition should be provided 
with as much Alfalfa or clover hay as she 
would eat in conjunction with the pas¬ 
ture grass. I would breed her four or five 
months from the date of her last calving, 
as this would give her a 1 ’ather extensive 
dry period previous to her next lactation 
period. Of course the time of mating 
might depend upon the season of the year 
that you desire to have her fresin It is 
unwise to have a heifer fresh during the 
Summer months, for the flies are so an¬ 
noying and the hot weather is not con¬ 
ducive to a satisfactory flow of milk. 
Forage Crops in Silo 
1. Can cattle be carried, without loss 
of flesh or milk flow, entirely on silage, 
as roughage, as well as upon hay alone 
and silage? 2. Can grass be ensiled and 
make as satisfactory fodder as silage as 
it will when cured as hay? 3. Is there 
any saving in fodder to harvest grass 
green to the silo as against curing it and 
harvesting as hay? 4. Is there any bene¬ 
fit to such plantings as clover to harvest 
in early blossom for the silo, having in 
mind that the plant is a biennial, seeds 
twice and dies? 5. Is there any saving 
in plant investment through concentrat¬ 
ing grass crops in silos as against curing 
and storing as hay? 6. Is there any sav¬ 
ing in the labor cost of feeding out grass 
from the silo as against feeding it out 
from the haymow? 7. Is there as much 
Avaste left- after feeding silage as after 
feeding cured hay? A. M. n. 
Lyous Falls, N. Y. 
1. Assuming that you 1 ‘efer to beef cat¬ 
tle, it has been demonstrated conclusively 
that hay is not necessai-y. provided one 
has an abundance of silage for daily 
feeding. It is not uncommon for two-year- 
old steers to consume as much as 60 lbs. 
of silage per day when their ration is 
limited almost exclusively to this ma¬ 
terial. At the Experiment Station at 
Purdue University, Skinner reports feed¬ 
ing his test cattle 35 to 40 lbs. of silage 
per day in conjunction with shelled corn 
and cottonseed meal and, when they had 
free access to all of the clover hay that 
they would consume, they very seldom 
would eat more than 5 lbs. per day. At 
the Pennsylvania Station. Tomhave re¬ 
ports feeding silage exclusively and ob¬ 
tained quite as good results as when the 
silage was supplemented with hay. It 
would seem, therefore.'that-where one 
can produce silage abundantly it is not 
necessary to furnish any hay for fatten¬ 
ing cattle. 
2. It is not practicable In ensile grass 
ns a substitute for corn silage. In the 
first place, the rowcn contains a very high 
percentage of moisture and, in addition, 
considerable protein, with the result that 
when the mass is placed in the silo it fer¬ 
ments extensively and often burns the 
material, rather than keeping the green 
attractive color and flavor that accom¬ 
panies corn. When it is ensiled the grass 
becomes very dark in color, and unpal¬ 
atable. and is very apt to spoil. Instan¬ 
ces have been reported where Alfalfa and 
some of the clovers have been placed in 
the silo, although the keeping qualities 
were not retained unless some coarse ma¬ 
terial, such as oat straw or rye straw, 
was cut up at the same time and run 
into the silo. I am sure you would make 
a mistake if you put the hay in the silo 
rather than to cure it as custom pro¬ 
vides. . — 
3. As a matter of fact, nothing would 
be gained by harvesting the green grass 
as you have indicated. Practically all 
the feeding value would be retained if the 
material were cured as hay, although it 
would not be as palatable. . 
4. For the reason suggested above it is 
not practicable to put clover, or any of 
the legumes, in the silo. The fact that 
they would yield two crops per year 
would not be advantageous, for you will 
find that there is no crop that will yield 
as much actual dry matter per acre as 
corn intended for the silo. 
5. Here again I would advise you to 
cling very closely to such materials as 
corn and sorghum for silage purposes, as 
you will find the yield per acre will ex¬ 
ceed that obtainable from any other 
source. 
6. From a standpoint of economy you 
will find that the labor cost is a great 
deal less when you cut the hay and cure 
it than would be the case if you cut the 
green grass and attempted to put it into 
the silo. You would handle tons and 
tons, of extra water that would have no 
feeding value. The digestibility of silage 
is a lot higher than that of cured hay, 
which is the only saving that would re¬ 
sult from the use of this combination. 
Ration for Young Pigs 
I have two February pigs which seem¬ 
ingly are doing nicely, except for the last 
few days. About two weeks ago the 
smaller one had a bunch come on the 
groin, which I thought was a small rup¬ 
ture, but it seemed to come to a head 
and healed up again. The bunch is still 
there, about the size of a robin’s egg. A 
few days ago I noticed another similar 
growth. I have been feeding equal parts 
cornmeal, middlings and ground oats. 
Tankage is almost impossible to get here. 
They also have plenty of grass, clover, 
weeds and waste vegetables ; are fed the 
grain twice a day, all they will clean up 
in 10 minutes. They also have a big 
basket of rape every day; this I planted 
in drills and cut off. so that it grows 
again. The pigs are penned, pen kept 
clean and dry. They have no parasites; 
also have a supply of charcoal, lime and 
sulphur. The last few days I have used 
for feeding 00 lbs. corn flour, 30 lbs. 
middlings and 32% lbs. ground oats. I 
bought a heavy supply of corn flour from 
a grocer for 2c per lb. and thought it a 
cheap feed, as it was clean and sweet, 
and cornmeal cost me 4%e. I can get 
meat scraps from the butcher and cook 
them. Will they take the place of tank¬ 
age? The pigs have grown fairly well. 
Northport, N. Y. c. s. n. 
From the description it would appear 
that the two projections that you de¬ 
scribe are only masses of cuticle* result¬ 
ing from an imperfectly healed wound 
following castration. 1 do not think that 
it will cause any trouble and I would 
give it no further concern. 
So far as a ration for your two pigs is 
concerned, you are feeding them a ration 
that is well suited for growth and devel¬ 
opment. and it would be well if you could 
secure some of the meat scraps as sug¬ 
gested and mix them with the corn flour, 
after cooking the scraps, and thus bal¬ 
ance the grains that your pigs are being 
fed. It is important that pigs be kept 
free from lice and parasites during this 
season of the year, and if they are fed 
generously of the garden refuse, as you 
have described, it is not essential that 
they be given large amounts of grain. 
Usually a variety of feed is to be de¬ 
sired, and if you can secure the corn flour 
and mix it with equal parts of ground 
oats, and then add approximately 5 per 
cent of oilmeal, or perhaps you may have 
some skim-milk, you would find that this 
combination would establish a well bal¬ 
anced ration for pigs. Generally more 
profits result from the keeping of a few 
hogs by utilizing materials from the kitch¬ 
en and garden, than obtain where pur¬ 
chased feeds are used exclusively in the 
ration. The pigs should be kept gaining 
and growing rapidly and regularly, but 
care should be taken not to permit them 
to put on excessive amounts of flesh dur¬ 
ing their early stages of growth. This 
practice does very well if they are to be 
marketed or butcliered_when six or seven 
months old; but, assuming that you are 
growing tli?se pigs for home consumption, 
I am sure that the gains would cost less 
provided you relied, largely upon the ref¬ 
use material to supply the growth and 
stretch during the Summer season and 
then fatten up the pigs during Octobei*, 
November and December. 
Value of Milking Shorthorns 
About 12 years ago we started to raise 
milking Shorthorn cattle. At that time 
One of the Orangedale Herd 
we had nothing but grades, and for about 
eight years we have kept registered 
Shorthorn bulls which we breed our grade 
cows to. In 1915 we decided to get some 
registered cows and purchased two fine 
young heifers from a breeder in the West¬ 
ern part of the State. These heifers were 
not from noted milking Shorthorns, but 
today they are milking pretty well. One 
was fresh about six weeks ago and is 
milking around 40 lbs. daily, which is not 
bad for her second calf. 
What we like about Shorthorns is that 
they are so easy and quiet to handle. A 
Jersey bull, when he is old enough for 
service, most always gets nasty and hard 
to handle, but most Shorthorn bulls do 
not get that way so young, and some do 
not at all. Another reason we like them 
is that when a bull gets too old for service 
or you have to get rid of them, there is 
some good meat, and more of it, which 
will bring you much more money. When 
a farmer has a Shorthorn bull or steer 
for sale he does not need to hunt very 
long for a market. Their meat always 
brings the very highest price, and butch¬ 
ers are always ready for them. Take, for 
instance. Jerseys or some small breed 
like them. They will eat just as much 
feed in a year as a Shorthorn. Take a 
Shorthorn heifer 30 months old and a 
Jersey heifer 30 months old, and say they 
would have calves at 30 months old. If 
these two heifers did not give enough 
milk to pay to keep them, and they were 
sold for beef, the Shorthorn would bring 
twice as much as the Jersey. Ordinarily 
a Shorthorn cow will give 6,000 lbs. to 
IS.000 lbs. in a year of 4 per cent milk. 
Milking Shorthorn cows will weigh from 
1,400 to 1,S()0 lbs.. and bulls from 1.800 
to 3.000 lbs. A Jersey cow will weigh 
from 700 to 1.100 lbs., and a bull from 
900 to 1.300 lbs., which means a good 
deal of difference when it comes to selling 
them. At. public auction Shorthorn cows 
bring from .$500 to $10,000 each. The 
only regret we have is that we ought to 
have bought two or three heifers when 
we got our first bull, but, like many 
others, we thought it was too much 
mouev to put into cattle, and we see our 
mistake. orangedale farm. 
Pennsylvania. 
A High-priced Shorthorn 
A reader send the following from the 
Galloway Advertiser, a Scottish paper. 
This i.s probably the highest price paid 
for a beef bull: 
“A sensational sale of a bull took place 
at the show of the Royal Dublin Society 
at Ballsbridge, when £10.100 was paid to 
Mr. Albert James Marshall of Bridge- 
bank, Stranraer, the well-known Scottish 
breeder, for his bull Edgecote Hero. This 
animal was calved September 19. three 
years ago. and was bred by the Edgecote 
Shorthorn Company, of Edgecote, Ban¬ 
bury. His sire was Earl of Kingston, 
dam Evelwyn, by King Christian of Den¬ 
mark. On the opening day of the show it 
was current rumor that Mr. Marshall 
had refused an offer of £7,000 for this 
bull. This offer was later on increased 
until it reached £10.100, at which figure 
the sale was closed, thus constituting a 
world’s record for a bull of any breed. 
Another interesting fact connected with 
the sale is that the purchasers are the 
Edgecote Company, who bred the ani¬ 
mal.” 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
Oct. 6-8—Ilolsteins. Quality Holstein, 
Chicago. Ill. , _ . 
Oct. 8-9—Ilolsteins. Annual Dairy¬ 
men’s Sale. E. M. Hastings Co., Lacona, 
N. Y., manager. 
Oct. 9—Central Illinois Shorthorn 
Breeders’ Association, Paris, Ill. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, Slim¬ 
mer meeting, Lawrence County, July 23, 
Experiment Station, "Wooster, Sept. 10. 
Town of Franklin Improvement Asso¬ 
ciation. field day and picnic, Yermont- 
ville. N. Y., July 26. 
Farmers’ Week. Massachusetts Agricul¬ 
tural College, Amherst. July 28-Aug. 2. 
Massachusetts State Grange, annual 
meeting. Amherst, July 29. 
Massachusetts Tobacco Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation. annual meeting, Amherst. July 29. 
Massachusetts Holstein Breeders’ Asso¬ 
ciation, 1 2 3 4 5 6 'annual meeting, Amherst, July 30. 
Massachusetts State Dairymen’s Asso¬ 
ciation, annual meeting, Amherst, July 30. 
Seventh Annual Poultry Convention, 
Amherst, Mass., July 30-Aug. 1. 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, annual meeting. Amherst. July 31. 
Boston Market Gardeners’ Association, 
annual meeting. Amherst. Aug. 1-2. 
Connecticut Poultrymen’s Association, 
field meeting, Connecticut Agricultural 
C-ollege, Storrs. Aug. 4-5-6. 
Society of American Florists and Or¬ 
namental Horticulturists, Detroit, Mich., 
Aug. 19-21. 
Annual farmers’ picnic of Cayuga 
County, Hamilton’s Grove, Weedsport, 
N. Y„ Aug. 21. 
Annual field day, Connecticut Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station, Mt. Carmel 
Farm, Aug. 22. 
Ohio State Fair, Columbus, O., Aug. 
oer on ’ ’ 
Vegetable Growers of America, annual 
convention, Detroit, Mich., Sept. 9-13. 
Union Agricultural Association, sixty- 
fourth annual fail-, Burgettstowu, Pa.. 
Sept. 30-Oct. 1-12. 
Greater Arizona State Fair, Phoenix, 
Dec. 3-8. 
. New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting, Atlantic City, 
probably. Dee. 3-5. 
National Farmers’ Exposition and 
Ohio Apple Show. Terminal Auditorium. 
Toledo, O., Dec. 4-12. 
New England Fruit Show, State Arm¬ 
ory, Hartford, Conn., Friday, Nov. 14, to 
Tuesday, Nov. IS. 
“Some fellows have no hearts,” said a 
Damp to his chum, as they were starting 
out for the day’s journey. “I’ve been 
telling that man I’m so dead broke that 
I have to sleep outdoors.” “Didn’t that 
catch him?” said the chum. “No, he 
told me he was doin’ the same thing and 
had to pay the doctor for telling him to 
do it.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. 
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BERKSHIRES 
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STONE’S 
DCKNorllKLo 
We offer four March boars sired by 
Epochal o! Stone Farm No. 255848 
from a litter of 9 out of 
Matchless May 
Also offer Aug., 1918 
Gilts bred to farrow in Sept, and Oct. 
at Attractive Prices 
RICHARD H. STONE 
Trumansburg, N. Y. 
A rare opportunity to get a good start at ridi- 
cuously low prices with 
PROLIFIC 
BERKSHIRES 
40 Spring Pigs sired by Rival Longfellow 
SOth No. 238095 and by Kurha’s Duke 
Longfellow 3rd No. 267474, at #15 poi 
pig; #27.50 per pair; #40 per trio. 
4 fourteen months old Sows still open at #70 
apiece; 2 Hoars ready for service #90 apiece. 
All perfect and satisfaction guarantied, 
Iiftilia Farm 
Geo. L. Barker, Supt Parksville. Sullivan Co., N. V. 
BERKSHIRE BOARS 
All Ages—10 weeks to 15 months. 
Every one a mammoth, growthy animal. 
$15 to $75 ea., registered and transferred 
YVHITiHORE BROS. MT. MORRIS, N. Y. 
^-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: 
Letter from C. C. Peck. Seekonk, Mass.: • Re¬ 
ceived the boar. He is O. h We have sold more 
boars during the past twenty years than anv 
other three breeders in the United States and 
each year shows an increased demand for 
Highwood boars. 
H. C. & H. B. HARPENDING, Box 15. DUNDEE. N. Y. 
Big Type BERKSHIRES 
Next Public Sale, October 25th, 1919 
Consisting of 60 head. Thirty boars ready for 
service 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. 
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Anedjo Berkshires 
Are bred for size and quality combined 
The big, mellow, easy feeding type, with neat heads, 
broad backs and E X T It A 11 E AV V II A M 8. 
Foundation herds, service boars, brood lowsand pigs. 
II. M. TERWILLIGER.Msr. Anedjo Farm, Webster, Mass. 
^BerkshireSwine 
CHOICE BLOOD LINES 
Service Boars, Brood Sows and Pig* Price* Rea¬ 
sonable. Visitors welcome. 
^ FKANCIS C. DALE, Cold Spring-on-Hudson, Putnam Co., N.Y. 
Springbank Berkshires 
Sows and gilt* 1 am offering are bred to Symbo- 
leer’s Superb. 254336 and Duke's Champion 22d, 
24G254. for late March and April farrow. Throe June, 
1918, Service Boars out of a Charmer's Stnr Master, 
No. 105723, Sow-. Send for Historic pedigrees ami 
price. J. E. WATSON, Olarblodnle, Conn. 
REGISTERED BERKSHIRE 
of best breeding. A fow extra good service boar*. 
RICHARD E. WAIS, Lebanon, N. J. 
BERKSHIRES 
Spring pigs of the kind that will please you. 
Every pig guaranteed a breeder. Write for list. 
H. GRIMSHAW - - - NORTH EAST, PA. 
Reg. Big Type Berkshire Pigs 
A few more 4-wi.s.-old pigs at $15 each; 8-wks.-oid 
pigs at S17 each, registered and transferred. 
ENXKlil’ltlSJE STOCK. FA KM, Ariel, Pa. 
Registered BERKSHIRES 
PiKS both Sexos— High Quality. Reasonable Price*. 
POWELL CREEK FARMS, Mays Landing, N. J. 
JUDGING FARM ANIMALS, by C. S. 
Plumb; $2.25. A Practical Manual on thi* 
subject. For ealo by Rural New-Yorker 
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