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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Cabbage in the Silo 
I live in Cortland County, N. Y., and 
grow from 10 to 15 acres of cabbage each 
year. After the salable heads have been 
cut there remains several tons of rough- 
age per acre. It is the custom to cut and 
feed a portion of this roughage to the 
cows until about the middle of December, 
after which it becomes snowed under and 
frozen too solid to make a desirable suc¬ 
culent feed. Since the season for feeding 
this roughage is so short it is possible to 
make use of only a small proportion of 
our otherwise valuable by-product at 
present. I am wondering what would be 
the effect of running the surplus in the 
silo. Does anyone know whether this 
roughage will make a silage that cows 
will consume advantageously, or would it 
be too acid? A. A. K. 
Preble, N. Y. 
This question was sent to a number of 
farmers and dairymen in Cortland Coun¬ 
ty, and they all agree that they have 
never seen this plan worked out. and they 
are all of the opinion that it would prove 
a failure if tried. One farmer, with con¬ 
siderable experience makes the following 
statement about it, and we also print a 
statement from the Cortland Holstein 
Farm : 
When cutting cabbage, we always first 
cut the head and then the roughage is sev¬ 
ered at the stump, usually with one blow 
of the cabbage knife. The heads are 
thrown in heaps and drawn to the car or 
storage cellar. Within a short time, say 
a week or 10 days, not much over that, 
and as much sooner as convenience will 
permit, we go over the field with forks 
and pitch the roughage into heaps or 
windrows. Or sometimes, if cutting is 
done late and heavy frosts threaten injury 
to the crop before it can be hauled in. we 
have piled the heads in heaps and covered 
them with roughage, the leaves turned 
down and overlapping each other. The 
heads thus protected will 'stand very 
heavy frost safely. Indeed. I have known 
them* to go part way through the Winter 
in this way, but it is not a safe plan to 
leave them thus indefinitely. 
If the heads are drawn out of the field 
at first, and the roughage collected in 
heaps or windrows, one can suit his con¬ 
venience somewhat in hauling the rough- 
age. We begin feeding it at once, draw¬ 
ing as needed; also drawing as fast as 
possible and piling it in big heaps outside 
the barn doors where it will be easy to 
get at for feeding. It will freeze solid. 
But I never knew the cows to refuse to 
eat it as long as it lasts, no matter how 
hard it is frozen. However, when too 
hard to eat easily. I have sometimes 
thrown a feeding ahead into the warm 
stable, where in 12 to 24 hours it is soft¬ 
ened sufficiently to be eaten with, more 
ease. By keeping enough ahead in the 
stable for an extra feeding at all times it 
can then be thawed as used. I sheriff 
consider it possible, with fairly steady 
cold weather, to feed roughage the greater 
part of the Winter in this way if I could 
get it. It merely requires provision ahead 
by cutting it in time, piling it in heaps 
and drawing to the barn before it gets too 
badly frozen, or is snowed under. If one 
hasn’t a silo it is a great help to feed with 
hay. F. 
I once knew a man to fill his silo with 
refuse cabbage. After a very few days it 
of course began to heat and the stench 
was so great that the health authorities 
made him clean the silo out at once. It is 
a well-known fact that cabbage, either the 
good heads or the refuse, cannot be put in 
lai'ge quantities without heating, and as 
soon as they heat they are spoiled. If 
the inquirer would get a pair of tobacco 
shears and cut all the stumps just below 
the leaves and heap this fodder up in piles 
about the size of a haycock, put what 
heads there might be in it upside down, 
so they will not hold the water that runs 
into them, he could keep this fodder until 
long after the ground freezes and snow 
comes. It is a good plan to draw the 
same into the barns a day or two before 
feeding, and let any snow or ice thaw out 
before feeding to the cows. I have han¬ 
dled cabbage refuse this way for the last 
15 years, and have lost hardly any of the 
feed ; neither did we have any bad results 
from feeding the same in this manner. 
CORTLAND HOLSTEIN FARM. 
Pasture and Barn Notes 
Ailing Cows. —We have had our share 
of trouble with abortion. Frankly, it does 
not worry us neai’ly as much as it used to. 
We find that by taking good care of the 
cow that aborts we can get a pretty fair 
milk flow, can get her to breed again, and 
that she seldom aborts a second time. 
Take the case of Mayflower, one of our 
purebred Guernseys, which has just drop¬ 
ped a nice heifer calf. She aborted last 
August when about seven months along. 
We flushed her out, put her on good feed, 
and she came to a fair milk flow. Three 
months later we bred her, and now, prac¬ 
tically a year from the time when she 
aborted, have her back in normal condi¬ 
tion, the mother of a nice heifer calf, and 
in our judgment she is a safer cow to 
have than one which has never aborted. 
Soiling.- —Last week we told you about 
our plan of feeding our green stuff once 
a day. The pasture got pretty short, and 
we began to feed the cows twice a day in 
the barn, with the anticipated result that 
they have stopped grazing in the pasture 
altogether and simply hang around for 
feeding time. 
Milk Flow and Weather. —Our Fall 
cows are freshening without having made 
up satisfactory udders, even in the case of 
those that have been dry for eight or 10 
weeks. It is hard to say just why this 
is. because they are in good condition and 
the feed has been fairly good in the dry 
stock pasture. I wonder if Nature does 
not have something to do with it. It has 
been dry here and there has been little 
new fresh grass. We believe that the 
cows missed the stimulating effect of such 
feed and as a result are freshening with¬ 
out ving made up the udders that they 
are .uable of carrying. 
Guernsey _ Calves. — Frequently we 
hear it mentioned that Guernsey calves 
are hard to raise. We do not find it so. 
It is. true that they look weak and puny 
at birth beside the Holstein calves, and 
because they often weigh only half as 
much cannot take the same feed. Our 
usual plan is to start them on two quarts 
of new milk twice a day, and of 24 calves 
born we have not lost a single one. One 
thing that we are careful about is not to 
feed them milk that is frothy, but to wait 
until the froth has all disappeared from 
the new milk, even at the risk of it get¬ 
ting a little cooler than they like it. We 
are also careful not to feed them the milk 
from cows that are at the end of their 
lactation period, and testing abnormally 
high. Other than taking these precau¬ 
tions (and they apply equally well to the 
Holstein calves), we pay no more atten¬ 
tion or have any more difficulty with the 
Guernseys than with the Ilolsteins. 
Silo Corn.—O ur corn is going into the 
silo. It may be a little too mature. A 
good many of the ears are shelling. There 
is a difference of opinion in the neighbor¬ 
hood about it. Some of the neighbors hold 
that there will be a great waste in feeding 
it to the cows next Summer. Because we 
never before put as mature corn as this 
into the silo, we don't know. It is one of 
the interesting things we are going to find 
out this Winter. The Farm Bureau man 
has not yet given us the weights on our 
variety test. This we hope to tell you 
about later. lie did tell us. however, that 
the corn that looked the biggest did not 
weigh up the heaviest. dairyman. 
Leaking Teats 
I have a good cow that leaks her milk 
in pasture or barn between milkings. Is 
there a remedy? J. w. 
New York. 
Milk three times daily. Twice daily 
immerse the teats for a few 'minutes in 
a strong solution of alum. If that does 
not suffice, apply melted wax or paraffin 
after each milking, and if that does not 
stop the leaking paint the tips of the 
teats with flexible collodion. Stop apply¬ 
ing collodion as soon as the teats become 
irritated. Do not tie tapes around the 
teats or put on rubber bands, as they 
may do more harm than good. A. s. A. 
cent of full crop, 
holds oats higher, 
board. Farmers 
to anticipate, but 
depends largely 
October 11, 1919 
Farmers who are inclined to pay fair 
wages and accord fair treatment have no 
trouble of any great consequence to get 
sufficient help. Wheat not. yielding as 
well as in 191S. Corn 20 per cent better 
than last year. Apples are hardly 10 
per cent of a crop, practically failure in 
Clearfield County. Buckwheat well filled 
and no loss from frost. Potatoes 85 per 
Old corn high, which 
Wages .$2 per day and 
are naturally inclined 
the business outlook 
„ . on future conditions, 
which are not exceedingly' bright at this 
time. Protein feeds which are absolutely 
necessary in the production of milk are 
so high that many are considering reduc¬ 
ing their herds or ceasing for market pro¬ 
duction entirely. Considerable mining of 
coal and fire clay and manufacture of fire 
brick in our locality. Corn. $1. in the 
ear. 35 lb.; wheat. $2.10; oats, $1 ; rye. 
$1.50; buckwheat. $1.25; hay. baled, $20. 
delivered from field. Potatoes. $1.00 to 
$1.7o; apples, none for the market. Milk. 
5)c delivered, retailing 15c; butter. 55e; 
eggs, 50c. Live poultry, hens, 25c; young, 
30c. Beef. 18c, hog-dressed; veal, 22c, 
hog-dressed; lamb, alive, 12c. w. T. T. 
Clearfield Co., Pa. 
Lump on Udder 
I have a heifer that was fresh five 
weeks ago; had a caked udder behind on 
left side. I have been giviug her a hand 
massage, but this bunch does not seem 
to go away very fast. Could you advise- 
treatment of some kind to remove this® 
caking? Cow is in good health, gives 
good flow of milk, eats heartily. I. w. 
Indiana. 
Milk three times a day and massage 
the quarter each time. After the evening 
milking rub in a mixture of one part of 
mercurial ointment and three parts of 
lard, lanolin or soft soap. Wash the af¬ 
fected quarter thoroughly before milking 
next morning. Once daily give half an 
ounce of powdered saltpeter and poke 
root in water or feed. If the ointment 
does not give good results substitute full 
strength iodine ointment, to be rubbed in 
once tlailv. a. s. a. 
Farmers in Lackawanna County prin¬ 
cipally produce milk and vegetables for 
market; some grain for home use. Hay 
is selling from $35 to $40 per ton, crop 
fair. Potatoes. $1.75 to $2 per bu., crop 
late, but looking like an average yield; 
some indication of rot. Tomatoes. *40 to 
50c per %-bu. basket. Apples, very few. 
poor quality, $2 to $3 per bu. Cabbage. 
5 to 10c per head. Silage corn is looking 
fine. Oats below the average, w. l. a. 
Lackawanna Co., Pa. 
A regulation permitting the carriage 
of dogs on tramcars on payment of one 
penny fare has come’ into operation in a 
certain town. “I suppose.” said a lady, 
“if my dog is to be charged a penny, he 
will have the same privileges as other 
passengers—that is. he may have a seat?" 
“Certainly, madam,” replied the conduc¬ 
tor. “On the same terms as other pas¬ 
sengers—he will have a seat, but he will 
not be allowed to put his feet on it!”— 
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