SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII. 583 



I was going to be over stocked with those colts, in the fall of the year I 

 would got them in the best condition I could and then I would sell them. 

 I would aim to keep a number of good milk cows. I would arrange to 

 have one-half of them fresh in the fall and one-half in the spring so as 

 to have as much milk as possible all the time for my hogs and other 

 purposes. 



I would build a good hog-house, have the doors open front the south to 

 got the sunshine when I needed it; then I would build a good floor, lay it 

 out of brick, around that brick feed floor I would build a fence, a tight 

 fence at least four feet high. I would have a door in each end of it so 

 I could put my feed in there, let it be corn or slops, without having the 

 hogs in there until I had my feed ready, and then I would let them in 

 together. I w'ould keep sixteen brood sows; have them farrow along in 

 April. First, I would feed nothing but corn and water, and then feed 

 slops. I would arrange a feeding-place whereby the small pigs could run 

 away from the mother; I would fix a low, flat trough and put in milk 

 where these pigs could learn to drink milk; a little later on, would mix 

 their milk with red shorts and soak the corn, and turn my sows upon pas- 

 ture as early as I could. I believe in the brood sow having all the grass 

 she can get. I think the grass is the best thing for her, and I would con- 

 tinue to soak shelled corn until after harvest, and when the oats are taken 

 off I would turn my hogs in on the clover. Right here permit me to say, 

 I would sow the clover at the same time I sowed in the oats, and put th-i 

 clover in as deep as I put the oats in. I have practiced that for ten years 

 and have not had a failure during all our dry seasons and wet ones like- 

 wise. As soon as new corn is flt to use I would commence lightly feeding- 

 my shoats on new corn, and as I increased new corn I would decrease old. 

 corn until I got them on full feed en new corn. I would carry them along 

 in their winter quarters until February or March I would be regulated 

 by the price at that time. Those hogs ought to weigh in the neighbor- 

 liood of 1.500 pounds. Ten brood sows ordinarily have taken care of and 

 raised about 100 pigs; that is what I count on; those lUO pigs or hogs 

 weigh around 300 pounds, and if we get four cents a pound they w'ill briiig 

 us $1,200; if we get five cents a pound they will bring us $1,500. Our colt:i 

 that we raise that season will be good money to us; our calves that we 

 raise up until they are large enough for the butcher for veal will bring 

 good money. I would put the calves to the butcher if I was not raising them 

 for beef purposes; then we have our chickens, I have not mentioned. 

 Taking all those things, with our high-priced land, we ought to be abie 

 to make a good rate of interest. 



Now as to the cattle proposition, it would be owing whether I was 

 going to run a big business or whether I was just going to farm on a small 

 scale as to whether I handled any stock cattle and fat cattle. If I had a 

 small farm I would get a dairy cow; if I had a large farm I would lavo 

 beef cattle and would aim to handle my calves in January and February. 

 Permit me to say I would prepare my corn fodder in the fall and hay and 

 such stuff as I wanted for roughness, and I would carry them through on 

 corn fodder and some corn. Then when spring comes and the grass gets 

 up I would turn them out and carry them until the next fall along just 



