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Harder Silos 
“Every cent I’ve planted in Harder Silos,” 
sa.vs Silas Low, "Las sprouted out a dollar. 
They ve made my dairy a paying busi¬ 
ness with less work and less worry. 
"They give me time to enjoy life with 
my family and take part in the affairs of 
my community. 
"They keep my cows all winter looking 
aud producing like the middle of July.” 
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•Pie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Eared Corn for the Silo 
609 
How do New York farmers feel about 
corn for silage? Do they prefer to have 
the corn well eared out, so as to put 
more grain into the silo, or do they want 
a larger stalk with less grain, or pick off 
some of the ears? j. s. b. 
The consensus of opinion of the best 
farmers and dairymen in Orange County 
seems to be that corn silage should be 
well eared and matured to make the best 
type of silage for milk production. 
Orange Co., N. Y. L. n. greene. 
I believe the better class of our Dela¬ 
ware County farmers are in favor of a 
variety of silage corn that will produce 
good ears, and then put them all. or prac¬ 
tically all. in the silo. Occasionally a 
farmer will snap off enough for his hens, 
or something like that, but most of the 
ears are run in with the corn. There 
are a few, but they are very much in the 
minority, who are in favor of the larger- 
growing varieties, and there are also a 
few who are large milk producers and 
will not have silos on their farm. On 
the whole, I believe our better farmers 
believe in the earlier maturing corn. 
EARL G. BROUGHAM. 
County Agricultural Agent. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
A little survey conducted last season in 
connection with our 30 corn tests brings 
out the fact that about 95 farmers in 
every 100 are planting silage corn va¬ 
rieties which ear and come to maturity. 
Only a very small percentage of the 
farmers in this country are planting va¬ 
rieties which do not ear at all. If you 
wish my personal opinion in the matter, 
I would state that there is a happy me¬ 
dium between the varieties which are all 
ears and no stocks, and those which are 
all stock and do not ear at al during our 
growing season in the country. Such 
varieties as Sweepstakes, Hall’s Golden 
Nugget and Luce’s Favorite come the 
nearest to this happy medium, in my 
judgment. c. E. smith. 
• County Agricultual Agent. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
Feeds and Feeding now $2.75 
This standard book by Henry & Mor¬ 
rison has been advanced to $2.75, at 
which price we can supply it. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
'133 R’psi ”ntb York 
Feeding Garbage to Hogs 
L. .T. R. comments on feeding garbage 
to hogs. Our experience along this line 
may be of interest to some of your read¬ 
ers. We have been feeding hogs on 
garbage for about, five years, and with 
good results. At first we cooked all our 
garbage, the veterinarian believing it 
necessary to prevent disease. It was my 
belief that the hogs would do much better 
on the uncooked garbage, aud after about 
a year’s feeding an experiment was tried 
with 40 head. 20 on raw garbage and 20 
on cooked. The pen fed on raw garbage 
were ready for slaughter about three 
weeks sooner than those on cooked. Dur¬ 
ing the past year and a half all garbage 
has been fed raw. and. I think, with ex¬ 
cellent results. We feed for slaughter 
about 400 head per year. Last year 125 
head, weighing an average of 100 lbs. 
when placed on feed, gained an average 
of 10S lbs. in 100 days’ feeding, this on 
garbage alone. 
At the present time we have 220 hogs 
in the. feeding pens, all getting raw gar¬ 
bage and no other feed. The garbage is 
dumped on concrete feeding floors with 
drains provided. The floors are cleaned 
and scrubbed down each day after the 
hogs have finished eating. There are sev¬ 
eral places around Washington where city 
garbage is being fed raw with good re¬ 
sults. Some of these have a large self- 
feeder built in which the garbage is 
dumped. We were the pioneers in gar¬ 
bage feeding in this section, and had many 
thing to learn, from experience, of course, 
and made some mistakes. 
About 50 head of brood sows are kept 
each year; these are fed garbage until 
about the time they are due to farrow, 
when they are taken off and fed a grain 
mixture until after the pigs are weaned. 
We have found it a bad policy to try to 
feed garbage to pigs until they have at¬ 
tained a weight of about 75 lbs. We 
have found it necessary to keep all our 
hogs immunized against cholera, and all 
those shipped in for feeding must be 
treated to prevent colds and pneumonia. 
Maryland. j. a. conover. 
“Did the play have a happy ending?” 
“Well, the heroine was kissing the hero 
as the curtain started down, but I saw 
her kick him on the shins at the final 
flop.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. 
Giants 
in 
Strength 
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Moldy Silage 
On page 388 A. II. W. asks what is the 
matter with his silo, stating mold is found 
through the center. This inquiry is ans- j 
wcred by II. F. J., who says the two men 
whom the inquirer had working in his 
silo did not keep very busy. lie possibly 
is doing these men a great injustice. I 
think the trouble is that A. II. W. did 
not add enough water. Many of the silos 
in this locality, only have one man in 
them while filling, and the silage comes 
out in fine condition. For the last, two 
years I only had one man in while filling, 
and have no trouble with mold. We 
have a in. rubber hose, long enough 
to reach the top of the silo, and the water 
is discharged into the hood of the ele¬ 
vator. We keep this stream of water go¬ 
ing constantly if the corn is well ma¬ 
tured. This is a dairy section, and I can 
see six silos from my front porch; only 
one of them reports any moldy silage, 
and his corn was over-ripe. 
Ohio. h. s. BARTLES. 
6 6 IN union there is strength” is an old saying, and we 
might add—“and protection 
Craine Silos consist of 3 walls instead of one—an 
inner wall of closely fitted staves covered by thick, 
waterproofed Craine Silafelt, and an outer wall of 
Crainelox continuous spiral covering. 
This union of a strong wall running up and down with another 
running around, gives strength and protection to every square 
inch of silo. Craine Silos are doubly insured against wind and storm. 
The inner Silafelt wall between two wood walls 
will defend your silage against escaping warmth or 
incoming cold or wet. 
Giants of strength that are as handsome as they 
are strong. No unsightly hoops to tinker with or 
neglect. Craine Silos stay put and keep on “Keep¬ 
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pays to build a silo once and for all. 
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Box 110, Norwich, N. Y. 
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