666 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



I always aim to have a nice bunch of early fall pigs to follow the cattle 

 when the older ones have gone to market, and it is a joy to me to watch 

 them as they diligently look after the waste and to notice how fast they 

 grow; but for various reasons we are not feeding cattle this winter and 

 so we have had to handle our pigs differently. After the clover pasture 

 gave out I added a slop of middlings to balance their corn and this is the 

 way I have arranged it. I am not fortunate enough to have any fancy 

 hoghouse on the place, but I judge one who could not make money today 

 raising hogs without an expensive hoghouse ought to hire out to someone 

 who can. 



There is a nice barn, however, with a shed 30x40 feet in one end of the 

 basement. I fenced off one-fourth of this for my slopping and feeding 

 pen. I placed two troughs lengthwise of this pen and with my box of 

 middlings in one corner, a tank of water in another, a salt bucket hung on 

 a pin and the pig creep closed I can prepare the slop undisturbed and with 

 a minimum amount of time and labor. I have always observed that 

 when we have things handy we usually attend to our stock just a little 

 better. 



I dislike so much to see pigs root pretty golden ears of corn around 

 in the mud or on a dirty floor, and at best it is difficult to prevent this 

 wholly in rainy muddy weather. The thought struck me some time ago 

 that if self-feeders work so well for lambs, why not for pigs? I made 

 one, hitched the power to the sheller and ran through about 40 bushels 

 of corn. This feeder is about 27 inches wide, 12 inches deep and 6 Inches 

 high and is set in one corner of my slopping pen, fastened to the wall. 

 It works like a charm and I wonder why I never thought of it before. 

 Someone says the pigs get too much corn. I think not; they will always 

 squeal for their slop with water at their side. I never could figure any 

 profit in limiting the feed to a maintenance ration for pigs anyway. No 

 crowding and fighting, no feet in the trough. They begin when they wish 

 and quit when they wish and I never had pigs do better. The power and 

 sheller had been standing idle for some time, but now with a little time 

 occasionally we can keep forty-eight shoats going and the beauty of it all 

 is that the feed is always fresh and clean and always on tap. 



THE HABITS OF THE BEE AND SOME MISAPPREHENSIONS. 



From Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Bulletin No. 148. 



By Everett F. Phillips, Ph. D., (Fellow for Research in Zoology, University 



of Pennsylvania). 



Of all animals, aside from man himself, there are very few that have 

 been the object of more admiration and interest to men of every age 

 than the common honey bee. The domestic animals have, of course, been 

 the objects of much study, but it is much to be doubted whether they 

 surpass the bee in interest. On account of its value to man as a honey 

 producer, as well as because of its most interesting habits, but few insects 

 are as well known as is the hive bee. Apis mellifera. 



