1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(continued.) 
save their owners a profit of $1 a piece 
or more per year that never saw a 
scratching shed ? And, pray, why is 
the novel idea of scattering the grain in 
litter (has The Rural ev<?r heard of that 
before) only practicable in scratching 
sheds ? Much as I admire The R. N.-Y., 
I shall not take this copy around among 
my hens. Fact is, they are fools enough 
to “work like beavers and be merry as 
larks,” and incidentally shell out large 
numbers of eggs all winter, ignorant of 
the fact that they can “do no good” 
until they have a city flat to live in. 
Regarding the building of large poul¬ 
try houses, there are two sides to the 
question. How much larger is a house 
100 feet long, than five, each 20 feet long? 
Or how much difference does it make to 
the hens whether their houses are 
strung around, dropped down in fence 
corners and in inconvenient places, or 
all placed side by side with an alley-way 
under cover by which 100 feet of travel 
accomplishes as much work as 500 feet 
of mud, cold and exposure ? j. 
WHAT PIG TO FATTEN? 
CROSS BREEDING ; WHICH SEX FOR SIZE ? 
Just offer a grade and a purebred hog 
at a public auction. If both are bar- 
rows and good hogs, the bids would 
undoubtedly be the same. Of course, 
the most profitable hog is the one that 
not only feeds best, but has a constitu¬ 
tion. The strange and costly fatality 
among hogs has caused feeders to feel a 
special regari for vitality, not only as 
some protection from swine disease, but 
as an assurance that more pigs will live 
and grow right off, with fewer runts, and 
that the mature hog will carry himself 
well to the scales and not get stiff and 
sore and not break down as a “crip.” At 
the Indiana Driving Club a successful 
breeder said that it had been the prac¬ 
tice in breeding horses for speed, to in¬ 
breed repeatedly ; but, that, to insure 
constitution, they occasionally dip out 
into a good strain of high-bred competi¬ 
tors ; then right back to inbreeding 
again. 
Last summer I bought three purebred 
young sows. That fall I had my first 
experience with cholera. I lost some 15 
pigs out of 50; but the hogs of the mixed 
herd would lose a meal or two and re¬ 
cover, while those beautiful sows would 
be drowsy a day or two and die—showing 
scarcely any resistance to the disease. 
As a neighbor said of sheep: “Oh! I 
like steers ; sheep are so much like 
rabbits, you point your finger at them 
and they die.” For this reason, farmers 
prefer securing a cross out of any par¬ 
ticular strain, a thing which the special 
breeder dare not do. If you ask a bunch 
of feeders, as you meet them on the 
street, how they like a cross between 
the Poland-China and Berkshire, they 
unanimously assent and say it’s a mighty 
good cross and a safe thing. 
It is more convenient and practical to 
change one male than all of one's sows, 
and we are compelled to change the 
male often if we keep any of his sow 
pigs. Whether on this account or not, 
for obtaining special characteristics, 
farmers depend much more on the male 
than on the sow. and since he brings 
new blood into the whole herd they 
naturally want him to be very mascu¬ 
line and pronounced in his character¬ 
istics, and try to select one that will 
emphasize any known deficiency in the 
sows. The “ coarser, more vigorous 
sows ” are the best breeders and sucklers. 
If the sow is too fine boned the pigs will 
be fewer and smaller and a greater num¬ 
ber will be born dead. 1 think the de¬ 
cided majority of farmers in this section 
prefer the larger animal to be the boar. 
My brother once owned a boar that 
got what we call China pigs—little band- 
box fellows that fattened easily, were 
chubby and fine boned, but could not 
walk on the scales, and when weighed 
were never large enough to turn much 
feed into money. A sow that will raise 
eight pigs, that mature readily, eating 
lots of grass, into 275-pound hogs, is 
much more profitable than one whose 
litters are small making it necessary 
to keep twice the sows to get pigs 
enough to market one’s crops. 
It was once considered a fault of the 
white and red hogs that they would not 
fatten down under a year old. But they 
have since been so “highly refined” 
that they will fatten at any time. One 
can have a good-sized well-fattened hog 
in the late fall from a February pig. A 
hog with large frame and digestion is a 
more profitable grazer than smaller ones. 
The different breeds of hogs have all 
been competing at fairs and have been 
on the farm till they are rid of their 
objectionable characteristics, and it is 
now mainly a matter of fancy which 
one selects. Popular practice among 
successful growers of hogs for market, 
is occasionally to bring fresh blood into 
the strain. 
There is no reason why hogs with the 
larger range of the farm and great 
variety of food may not. with equal 
judgment in breeding, feeding and care, 
constantly improve as well as when in 
the hands of the professional breeder. 
An expert breeder is one who pays 
special attention to breeding for desir¬ 
able characteristics. He is simply an 
informed breeder. Our denser popula¬ 
tion and increasing competition are in¬ 
ducing farmers to become experts in 
their various lines of management. Some 
/, ears ago the country was becoming 
stocked with improved hogs. But now 
eligible stock is so plenty that farmers 
buy far oftener of neighbors to secure a 
change than of profesional breeders. 
Central Indiana. e. ii. collins. 
Keep up that rasping Cough at the peril of 
breaking down your Lungs and Throat, rather let 
the afflicted immediately resort to Dr. D. Jayne’s Ex¬ 
pectorant, which cures all Coughs and Colds, and 
ameliorates all Lung Complaints and Throat-ails.— 
Adv. 
A peculiar operat ion 
in manufacturing Bowker’s An¬ 
imal Meal gives it a certain 
superiority over ordinary cooked 
bone and meat foods for poul¬ 
try. 
People who use it and have 
compared it with other foods 
claimed to be “just as good as 
Bowker’s” have noticed this, 
j and for this reason, among 
others, always insist on using 
nothing but Bowker’s Animal 
Meal to make hens lay and keep 
them in good “ show condition ” 
all the year round. 
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Makes hens lay; 
Makes chickens grow. 
Enough for io hens 3 mos., $ 1 . 00 . 
4 times as much, $ 2 . 25 . 
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CLOTHILDE H. H. B. 1308. 
Milk record 26.021 pounds 2 ounces in a year. But¬ 
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CHE8HIRES! Th iSt« 
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C HESTER YVII ITES-Haveyou been disappointed 
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^UCOUIDCQ Sows with pigs; Service 
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Gheshires from Foundation Herd 
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