350 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



own boys in a way that constituted a high-handed outrage. The Sultan of Turkey 

 could be no more cruelly despotic than some farmers are with their own sons and 

 daughters in this respect. 



It is absolutely wrong to let a boy grow up and go to school year after year with 

 no work or responsibility, whatever, and it is equally wrong to make one plod 

 through stupid hard labor 365 days in the year. The tendency in the first instance 

 is to make him dislike manual labor and farming as an occupation, in the other 

 to make him a dull, stupid machine capable of grinding out a certain amount of 

 rude labor, and as he grows older you might find him working out on farms and 

 in lumber camps until the end of his days. These courses are not economical. As 

 soon as a boy is old enough he should have certain work given into his charge and 

 he should be held responsible for it. As he grows older he should do a regular 

 day's work when not in school, but it is not economy, after a boy has done a man"s 

 work all through haying time, to grudgingly give him twenty-five cents and 

 expect him to celebrate our independence and be proud of his country. 



FEEDING HOGS. 



JAS. ANDERSON, MIDLAND, AT MIDLAND COUNTY INSTITUTE. 



I would first call your attention to care and feeding of young pigs. I would try 

 to take them away from their mother at about six weeks old. I would put them 

 into a pen and feed them five times a day; morning and evening, new milk direct 

 from the cow, and the balance of the day with skimmed milk; also a little whole 

 corn, morning and evening, and nothing more until they are about two and one- 

 half months old, then I would drop off to three times a day. Whole corn keeps 

 them round and straight, and not poddy. 



To fatten hogs the first thing they need is a house or pen, and hogs in a good 

 healthy condition is the next thing, and my experience has taught me, if I wish 

 to feed whole corn, to give them just what they can or will eat and no more, 

 and that twice a day only. I have learned that to overfeed is very injurious to 

 the animal and the waste of grain is more than useless. I have passed pens of 

 swine where I have seen a large pile of corn mixed up with the filth of the pen 

 and the hogs wallowing in their own filth. This is wrong. Neatness about the 

 pen is just as essential to the health of the hog as it is to the family in the house, 

 and the farmer who neglects these simple rules must be a great loser in the end. 

 But our best feeders have come to the conclusion that ground feed is preferable, 

 and I have tried it in two ways; first, to feed the meal dry, and my objection to 

 that is that it takes longer for the grain to assimilate to the wants of the systera 

 than to make it into a stiff mush, which they can eat readily; this feeding should be 

 attended to twice a day only; nothing should be given at noon, only a little water. 



WHAT A COOPERATIVE CREAMERY CAN DO FOR A COMMUNITY. 



I. J. BROUGAT, MIDDLEVILLE, AT BARRY COUNTY INSTITUTE. 



It depends largely upon what a community will do for a creamery whether it 

 proves a success or a failure. The doors of many creameries are locked today 

 because the stockholders and patrons went into the business with no knowledge of 

 it, in a weak, frightened, half-hearted way, ready to withdraw their influence and 

 patronage at the first trifling grievance. Do you wonder they fail? Any business 

 would fail depending upon the same class of patronage. In a community that will 

 cooperate if you are determined to go into the dairy business on business princi- 

 ples, ready at all times to uphold and defend the creamery, there will be no 

 trouble to build up a creamery that would be the pride of the town in which it is 

 located, and a source of good profit both to the patrons and stockholders alike. 

 To illustrate the above statement, I will give you figures of what our creamery at 



