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The RURAL NEW.YORKER 
July 26, 191'J 
Finish Your Silage Job Right 
You have gone to a lot of time, trouble and expense 
with your com crop. You have plowed and harrowed 
well, selected good seed and cultivated thoroughly. 
Now you are face to face with the problem of con¬ 
verting part of your com crop into the best kind of silage. 
Be careful what you put into your silo. Don’t fill it 
with com that has been chewed and beaten into small ragged pieces 
—com which has lost most <of its juice and which will be sure to dry¬ 
out at the top of your silo and get soggy at the bottom. 
Clean-Cut Silage 
Cut your silage com so that 
every piece is sharply nipped—cut 
it slid?, and clean! Good, sharp 
cutting does not bruise the com, 
but keeps all juices intact and 
assures you of a silo full of perfect 
feed—good from roof to bottom. 
ROSS Ensilage Cutters 
ROSS Cutter Knives work 
with a shear motion. They hug 
the cutting bar and stay close from 
the first turn of the wheel till the 
last pound of good, nutritious 
feed is packed into your silo. 
ROSS knives cant be forced 
away from the cutting bar~they 
run against ball-bearings which 
hold tight and can be adjusted 
even while the machine is run¬ 
ning. A ROSS slices the corn so 
that each small piece keeps aU 
of its natural juice. 
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2-12 Willow St., SIDNEY. N. Y. 
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Before You Buy Your Silo. 
investigate the reliable Green Mountain. Send 
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Us GREEN MOUNTAIN 
Keep Two 
Cows At the 
Cost of One 
Don’t give them dry fodder or expensive 
mill feeds any longer. Use a Harder Silo, turn 
all your corn crop into sweet nourishing silage and 
watch your dairy profits grow. 
have been foremost in America for 20 years, 
by United States Government, leading State 
stitutions and dairy authorities. 
A Harder Silo will cut down your feed bills. 
It will pay for itself within a year or two —this 
is the experience of hundreds of 
Harder users. 
HARDER MFG. Corp. 
Box 11, C0BLESK1LL, N.Y. 
Now Gambral 
Roof adds to 
capacity 
THE HENYARD 
Could Not Produce Normal Eggs 
The birds in the present egg-laying con¬ 
test at Vineland are pullets, daughters of 
the birds which were recorded for the 
past two years. In the pen entered from 
Hope Farm three, of these pullets are 
daughters of one hen. They are thus own 
sisters. As all were of superior appear¬ 
ance and vigor it was thought they would 
make fine records. That was to be ex¬ 
pected from their pedigree, since the moth¬ 
er proved herself a superior bird, while 
the father comes from the best family of 
laying Reds in the country. Two of these 
pullets have done well, while the other 
laid only, one egg in 34 full weeks’! It 
was thought that she might be malformed 
in some way, and in the hope of learning 
something about the trouble this pullet 
was killed and a post-mortem examina¬ 
tion made. The following report from 
Prof. Thompson of the New Jersey Col- 
legs tells the story. We think it is true 
that there is now more of this ovarian 
trouble than in former years. What is 
responsible for it? 
“I have performed a post-mortem exam¬ 
ination on your bird. No. !>, from the con¬ 
test. I am enclosing a diagnosis report 
of this case. I found a typical ovarian 
and oviduct tumor formation. I would 
estimate that there were approximately a 
dozen more or less fully formed eggs 
which had dropped through a rupture in 
the oviduct wall to form the tumorlike 
pouch which had pushed itself in between 
the folds of the intestines. The interior 
of the sac was a mass of yoke material 
in various stages, some extremely liquid 
and again some in a hardened, cheese-like 
condition. The size of the sac, as you 
can imagine from rhe contents, was quite 
large, being approximately that of the size 
of a baseball. It seems strange indeed that 
the bird did not present a more abnormal 
appearance from the exterior. It would 
seem that there was more or less reab¬ 
sorption of egg material going on. If 
this were not the case I am sure that the 
trouble would have killed the bird quite 
some time ago. It was a very typical 
case and such as to establish beyond 
doubt that the bird would not have been 
able to produce a fully formed normal egg 
and lay it. I have been particularly in¬ 
terested in observing the number of such 
eases that have come to my attention in 
the last two years. In flocks of heavy 
producing fowls it seems that there is 
more ovarian trouble than was formerly 
thought to occur. w. c. Thompson. 
Care of Chicks 
Can you tell me if I can get a bulletin 
on brooding little chicks by hand, or with¬ 
out the old mother hen? I have about 
500 incubator chicks; they are three 
months old. and some of them are nice 
big broilers and some are little bits of 
things, all hatched at the same time. 
They are beginning to lose their feathers 
so they are almost entirely bare, and 
nearly every day I find one or two dead. 
I would like to know how to handle them 
so I would not lose so many. mks. f. g. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
If you will write to the State Col¬ 
lege of Agriculture at Ithaca, N. Y.. ask¬ 
ing for their bulletins upon raising 
chicks, I think that you will get the in¬ 
formation that you wish. You might 
also make the same request of the Storrs 
Agricultural Experiment Station, Storrs, 
Conn., and the New Jersey Agricultural 
Experiment Station at Now Brunswick, 
N T . .T. All these stations publish bulletins 
upon chick raising, and I do not see why 
you cannot obtain as much information 
from them as from the correspondence 
course of the “professor” of whom you 
speak. These bulletins are sent free to 
inquirers, though only as a matter of 
courtesy outside the State. M. b. d. 
Loss of Goslings 
What is the trouble with my young 
geese? They get weak in the legs, and 
then they die. I have them with a hen. 
I feed them a mash, a little grain ; they 
have all the green oats they want. They 
run in a yard about 5 ft. square. F. h. 
New Jersey. 
You may be feeding too much grain 
and too little green stuff. Geese are grass 
eaters and the goslings should have plenty 
of tender grass, lettuce or other green 
food, and but a moderate amount of grain. 
Such grain mixtures as cornmeal, wheat 
middlings and bran, in almost any pro¬ 
portion, moistened and fed in a crumbly 
condition three times daily are used, and 
it is important to keep fresh water con¬ 
stantly before them in fountains or other 
dishes in which they cannot swim. Avoid 
sloppy food, make the greater part of 
their ration green stuff, keep their quar¬ 
ters clean, give them a clean grass run 
after a week, keep clean drinking water 
always before them, delouse the hen that 
cares for them before giving them into her 
care, and provide some grit with their 
rations. M. B. i>. 
Farmed (to farmerette to who has been 
sent to feed the pigs) : “Why have you 
brought the swill hack?" Farmerette: 
“Well, they were asleep and looked so 
comfy I simply hadn’t the heart to disturb 
them.”—Loudon Punch. 
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113 Flood Building 
Meadville Pennsylvania 
Horse, Cow and Calf 
HIDES WANTED 
Salt hides well before shipping—we 
want prime hides and will pay 
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PRODUCTIVE POULTRY HUSBANDRY, 
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