The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Goats for Clearing Land 
On page 344 is an inquiry from H. B. 
K. regarding goats for clearing land, in 
v-liieh you advise him to get sheep. My 
advice Inst the contrary. We have 
used goats ior t >e last'"five years to clear 
land, and it is surpi.;ing what an amount 
work they will do, and they will kill 
the sprouts so they will never sprout 
again, and do it in one season’s time, pro¬ 
vided H. B. K. has enough goats to 
“goat” it well. We use Angoras and get 
what are known as “brasher” goats from 
the Kansas City or St. Louis mail.etc. 
We get them about the time the foliage 
begins to start in the Spring, and after, 
the goats have been shorn. Then we re¬ 
consign them to the market in the Fall 
after the frosts come, and before the 
weather gets bad. and generally get about 
S2 to $2.50 more per head than we paid 
in the Spring, and get our land cleared 
for nothing. I will never, as long as I 
live, wield an ax or grabbing hoe when a 
goat can do so much better job. and make 
a profit besides while doing it. H. B. K. 
can get thin, shorn goats in the Spring 
and they will go to market fat in the Fall 
on brush, or he can feed them a little 
grain before shipping. They are used the 
same as mutton and sold for mutton on 
our markets, I am told. We prefer two- 
year-old wethers, as they are stouter and 
taller, and get the larger brush better. 
Then again, he will find, if he has a 
"billy” or two in the brash that the dogs 
will leave them alone, when they would 
get sheep. We always put a few bells on 
Them also, as this seems to help keep the 
dogs away. I should think H. B. K. 
would want from 75 to 100 goats, depend¬ 
ing some, of course, on how much shrub¬ 
bery he has on his land. They will eat 
and kill every kind of shrub that grows 
here except buckeye and hickory, and 
will kill hickory if they do not have too 
much of something else. For fencing we 
use 30-in. woven wire with two barb wires 
on top. Be sure to put the braces for 
your posts on the outside of the fence, or 
they will walk up the braces and jump 
over. If vou have new land to clear by 
all means get goats, and if you want to 
start Blue grass on it mix some Blue 
grass seed with some bran and feed your 
hutches singly, one foot above the ground. 
Each mature rabbit should have 12 square 
feet of floor room, and the hutch should 
be 0x2 feet by 20 inches. Lumber should 
be matched and covered with roofing 
compartment. This will give a nest and 
retreat box, and 4x2 feet open run for 
the rabbits. It is the only system of 
several I tried that keeps them free from 
snuffles. 
2. Always keep hay and water before 
the rabbits. Feed oats (two handsful) 
at night. In the morning feed dried beet 
pulp soaked in water over night; squeeze 
out and mix bran so as to make it just 
moist. Two handsful will feed a mature 
Front of Rabbit Hutch , Facing South 
3. Feed the doe bread and milk once 
a day two days before the litter is due 
and continue for a week, after which 
other food may be substituted. When 
young are three days examine them and 
take away any over six. You will get 
better and healthier youngsters. Disturb 
as little as possible. If hutches are built 
as above the weasel will not be able to 
gete in. F- d. g. 
Our farmers are seemingly getting 
along well : help each other when help is 
schrce. Nearly every farmer has his au¬ 
tomobile ; they seem to enjoy life. Crops 
were fairly good. The seeding in the Fall 
looked fine when Winter set in. and has 
been well covered with snow—well pro¬ 
tected. We are 25 miles from market, 
but with our track we make it in 1*4 
hours. Have 21 acres: take everything 
we can spare to market and sell. Our 
year’s sale was $1,320 from our acres. 
I am in my eightieth year: my wife and 
I do the work. Wheat. $2.40 per bu.; 
rye, $1.35; corn, $1.40: oats. SOc; but¬ 
ter. 50c per lb.; eggs. 50c: chickens. 28c 
per lb.; apples, bu.. $1 to $1.50: potatoes, 
$1.50 to $2 per bu. : pork. $18 per 100 
lbs.; calves, live. $16 per 100 lbs. Many 
beef cattle are fed in the county. 
Perry Co., Pa. ■ G. A. w. 
paper. An economical way of building is 
this: Make a closed hutch 6x2 feet by 20 
inches - divide in three compartments; 
have three doors with 6x6-inch opening 
at the edge of the door. Make 4x2 feet 
runs with inch mesh wire in front of each 
rabbit. Does with young should be fed 
a third time just between morning and 
evening meals. The bran can also be 
mixed with cooked potato peels, which 
a’ 1 usually thrown away by the average 
be usekeeper. 
Old Lady : “That parrot I bought 
yesterday uses most violent language.” 
Dealer: “Lady, I don’t deny that he 
does swear a bit. but you must be thank¬ 
ful that he doesn’t drink or gamble.”— 
Melbourne .Australasian. 
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Showing Floor of Rabbit Hutch 
goats, and there will be Blue grass where 
none grew before. They will also get all 
kinds of weeds I know of here except 
mullein. 
On page 397 L. G. inquires how to keep 
his cow from sucking. If he will put a 
good five-ring leather halter on her head 
and a good stout surcingle around her 
body back of her fore leg and run a short 
round pole with a link or two in each 
end between her fore legs and attach it to 
the halter ring under her chin, and to a 
ring on the bottom side of the surcingle, 
the cow cannot suck herself but can eat 
and pasture all right. Adjust so as not 
to let the stick hang too low. 
Missouri. H. n. iiawley. 
It is not advisable to buy goats or even 
sheep just to clear brush land. If one is 
going to keep sheep the brash will make 
a lot of cheap feed. Cattle will kill the 
undergrowth where it is not so high they 
cannot reach the tips, anything that 
will keep the leaves picked off. For quick 
results, the trees too high for the animal 
to reach the top should be cut on one side 
and broken over, leaving it attached to 
the stump. What kills the root is that it 
is working to put out new leaf growth, 
and without the leaves nothing reaches 
the root to feed it. and it becomes ex¬ 
hausted. Cutting a sapling completely off 
leaves the root dormant, and a good por¬ 
tion of them will have enough vitality to 
put out new shoots. The only advantage 
goats have over the other animals is that 
they are natural browsers, and will eat 
little of anything else so long as there are 
leaves and twigs they can reach. 
New York. nat l. rowe. 
Rabbit Hutches 
1. Will you give me directions for 
building a rabbit hutch accommodating 
about niue rabbits? 2. Can you give me 
a good ration for both old and young 
Flemish Giants? I have oats, bran and 
Timothy hay. 3. One of the rabbits is 
going to have young, and I would like to 
know how to take care of mother and the 
young ones. Hfae bred live about two 
months ago, but a weasel killed the young. 
She is purebred, and I would like to 
raise them without any of the .same 
trouble. r. m. m. 
New York. 
1. Babbits do best outdoors, therefore 
the hutches should be built in the open. 
If you have plenty of room build the 
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