place and covers them with leaves, if it is 
possible to do so, when she goes from the 
nest. When undisturbed, a sow will uot leave 
her young for a day or two; but remains in 
the bed with them, without seeking food. It 
is best to remember this fact, and keep away 
from a sow, when the young are born, for at 
least 24 hours, provided there are no signs of 
trouble. The next 2-t hours no food is required 
other than a warm drink with a little bran 
stirred in it. This swill should be increased by 
a little each oay, and after three days some 
solid food may be given, and after a week all 
she will eat, provided there is a full litter of 
pigs, and there arenoaignsof “cake"’ or rever 
in the udder. Occasionally a sow is peculiar 
and does not have any milk when the pigs are 
boru. and it does not come nntil the^teats 
are tugged at by the little pigs, aud the glands 
excited to do their work. In such cases the 
sow should have pleuty of warm slops, with a 
little milk added, to induce a free secretion of 
her own milk. 
A very little bed¬ 
ding is best, as much 
straw entangles the 
pigs, and makes the 
sow uneasy. [We have 
tried almost every¬ 
thing in the way of 
bedding from coarse 
straw to leaves, saw¬ 
dust, and muck, and 
over everything else 
chaff answers well, or 
straw should never be 
ImmSSL USed ' aQd four bushels 
pSk No other swine should 
• jjip^ jjjfel* Onj and get 
We also show, at Fig. 82, a very good form 
of coop made of shoe-box lumber and having 
for the front, upright slats for the lower part 
and wire netting for the upper part. This is 
light and very easily moved from place to 
place. 
dozen uot hatched until June or July. Nor 
is there the least difficulty in getting early 
chicks hatched. The trouble comes in rear- 
iug them amid the snow squalls, cold rains 
aud pierciug winds. It is a piteous sight to 
see the helpless little thiugs “peeping” around 
half frozeu, and nine out of ten always give 
up the unequal contest, and sleep in the grave 
of chickenhood. 
Years ago we devised a coop in which the 
youngest chicks were perfectly comfortable 
and 0 s lively as crickets. This we show at 
Fig. 81. It was 30 inches wide, four feet long, 
frame; A. an 1 B. are girths corresponding to 
same figures in Fig. 4. D. i; the studding 
between the floor aud the stable; F. the door, 
and H. the opening through which fedder 
is shoved to the stocK. This opening is cov¬ 
ered by a door huug at the upper side. Fig. 
<} shows a side of the barn and the manner of 
bracing with the 2x4 pieces. 
For a balloon barn frame, sills eight by 
eight inches are large enough. The corner 
posts aud the barn floor posts should be six by 
six; the other posts on the outside five by six 
(or have them all six by six). Let them stand 
the widest way towards the center. The four 
corner posts must be put flush with the sills on 
the outsides. Put the middle posts, and all 
studding, two inches iu on the sills, so that the 
two by four that is spiked on for bracing will 
come out flush with the sills. The posts, stud¬ 
ding and bracing should be nailed to the sills, 
as this mode of fastening affords a better sup¬ 
port to the barn, and is stronger than tenon¬ 
ing. Spike the foot of the posts with four 
twenty-penny nails, 
one on each side. 
For plate, spike a two- s 
by-eigbt timber flat¬ 
wise on top of plate 
and sluds. matching j * 
at the center of the L '4 
posts; then spike a l Jjl 
two by six piece on 
top of that, breaking 
joints over the two-by- ^ 
eight The beams on /JB 
the outside bents at / Jp* 
the ends will be let in 
to the posts, and the . 
studs run up inside 
and be spiked to the 
beams. There must S/, Ah 
Vie two beams two by £j/k'f jjjkl 
eight on each side of f M WNll ! U 
the posts, from the ///// if pi 
he^V the outside ilM 
posts, fastened by two M / I , MJ Ml 
one-half-inch screw H '(! 11 1 
bolts with forelocks. Mi'll| ( |||| P 
The beams above the ■(IjU MW) (I 
barn floor should be llMwri I'l 
2 >^xl 0 also fastened ■l|iH\ |f| l l|//|lW 
with two two-inch ^^KuiiT 11 M j l 
screw bolts. All of juLVif* 
the beams should be 
let into the posts about 
three quarters of an 
inch. The barn floor 
girts on the bay and 
stable side, must be 
lei into the posts a 
little and spiked to the 
top of the studs. The 
girt on the back side 
over the stable, should 
be gaiued into the 
posts two inches, and 
let into the studs one 
inch and spiked to 
them. The short 
braces from the heads - 
of the posts to the 
beams and plates need 
only be cut to tit, and 
nailed to them firmly. 
The plank for the j] 
rafters to rest on at 
the head of purlin 
posts, is two by eight 
on the floor side, and •' - 
two by six on the bac 
side, with the top edge 
DORKING FOWLS 
We give this week, at Fig. 77, the portrait 
of a colored Dorking cockerel, re-engraved 
from the London Live Stock Journal. This 
cockerel has received two prize cups and a 
medal; offered at different shows in England. 
The Dorkings, while not quite as hardy as the 
hardiest, are a valuable breed of fowls. They 
are good layers, make good, careful mothers, 
and as chicks are quick to mature. They are 
especially valued for the delicacy of their 
flesh; the breast is broad and deep, and gives 
a large quantity of juicy meat. The fowls 
weigh as high as 10 pounds, live weight; they 
are favorites in England, where the breed 
Fig. 81. 
eight inches high at the front, 12 at the rear 
beveled, so that the 
rafters will lit, and 
match midway of the 
posts, with two bolts through the ends of euch 
and a piece of board some four feet long 
nailed across the joints. One rafter must be 
spiked to the inside plank aud the next one 
to the outside, and put a piece of plank be¬ 
tween them iu two places, aud spike through 
them. This will prevent their suggiug. The 
upper or purlin beams are only two by six. 
one on each side of each post, let into the post 
about one inch, and fastened with screw bolts. 
All of the bolts must have forelocks. 
It is far bi tter aud handier to have a space 
about 15 inches wide iu front of the cattle 
aud shove the bay up to thorn through it. 
They will not waste as much us they will in u 
tight manger. Above that space must be 
boarded up about four feet high. There must 
be a board or door to turn down when the 
opening is not in use. a. w. grant. 
TWO CONVENIENT CHICKEN COOPS. 
One chicken hatched in February or March 
fs worth, as an egg-producer uext Winter, a 
DORKING COCKEREL. (Re-eugraved from the London Live Stock Journal.) Fig. SO. 
aud 24 at the highest point. It was made 
from the lumber of u couple of shoe boxes. 
The part from the ridge to the rear 
had a floor, aud was separated from the front 
by slats, like auy CTOp, confiniug the hen, 
while the chicks could pass between. Over 
the l'rout port we plueed a glazed sash, tilting 
tightly, so as to exclude all wiods. In these 
coops we have reared chicks hatched the very 
first day of February, by placing a heated 
brick iu the front part early on the coldest 
mornings. One can use any old sash ho may 
happen to have, by merely cutting ehaunels 
through the cross bars to allow the water to 
readily run off, when it happens to rain. 
After the weather has become warm aud 
settled, the sash aud the front, which is 
Fig. 82. 
hooked n, can be readily removed aud put 
away, and there is a first-class coop. 
I originated. Iu color the cockerel shown is 
black and silvery-white—a very handsome 
fowl. 
(l!)C £uiinf4)cui. 
PIG LUCK. 
COL. F. D. CURTIS. 
I __________ 
A great many persons talk about luck 
with their pigs. This is all nonsense, so far as 
any principle is concerned. One man may 
take risks and uot lose as much as another 
who runs the same chances; but it is uot auy 
difference in the men that makes the gain or 
loss, but some circumstance or condition con¬ 
nected with the treatment of the animals. It 
is these circumstances and couditious which 
need close and prompt atteutiou. if there is to 
be assurance of success, uot risk of luck, iu 
breeding pigs. The mother must be fitted for 
the severe labor aud excitement connected 
with parturition,by buving cooling and slight¬ 
ly laxative foods, and at the same time, as her 
instincts demand it, she should be put into a 
quiet and comfortable place with no disturb¬ 
ing surroundings. In a state of nature, the 
sow ulways hides her young iu a secluded 
pigs, doing too little 
and doing too much 
__are both mistakes. 
PmnoUgknl 
WRIGHT’S FAVORITE APPLE. 
One of the very finest flavored apples, and a 
very long keeper, is an unnamed seedling 
growing in the garden of a farmer near the 
town of Highland, Macon Co,, N. C.—Mr. 
Badak Wright, whose farm is on an elevated 
ridge and whose orchard Is iu an exposed situ¬ 
ation, which is the most favorable for grow¬ 
ing sound, high-flavored and long-keeping 
apples. Mr. Wright is a native of Tenuessee 
and is a very enterprising, careful, industri¬ 
ous and intelligent farmer. This apple is his 
favorite variety out of his whole orchard, and 
ou account of this it has been uarned Wright’s 
Favorite, a name which it and ho both justly 
deserve. The tree is vigorous aud hardy. 
The apple, shown at Fig. 78, is above medi¬ 
um in size, aud of regular shape: stem short, 
quite thick, a little curved aud quite likely to 
have the flesh united with it on one side, giv¬ 
ing the cavity a quite irregular form, and it is 
not deep; calyx medium in size, quite open, in 
a deep, regular, couical basin; color, when 
first ripe, a deep greeu, chaugiog to a yellow¬ 
ish, waxy greeu when edible, and quite 
