NEW YORK, JANUARY 8, 1887 
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, In the year 1887, by the Rcraj. New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
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which is also floored, 8 by 12. These doors 
can be shut in case of storms, so that the pens, 
which are abundantly supplied with straw, 
can be kept perfectly dry and warm. In the 
front wall of each pen is a swinging door on a 
vertical hinge, so that feed can be poured into 
the trough without any annoyance. In one 
end of the building are bins of ground rye and 
oats, ground anti shelled corn, with barrels of 
milk, in which the feed is mixed. The Super¬ 
intendent says the way is to give a pig all it 
can cut from the start. Seven pigs are allow¬ 
ed to each pen, and they are all selected of 
one size. The hogs all show signs of excellent 
breeding, beiug well filled out in the back, 
round and plump. 
Thirteen hundred bushelsof rye are in store 
for feeding the young spring pigs, which, mix¬ 
ed with milk from the creamery, is the best 
feed for making quick growth. 
Omaha Co., Neb. j. x. allan. 
COMFORT AND DISCOMFORT IN FEED¬ 
ING HOGS. 
Few farmers will need a word of explana¬ 
tion to mate the little drama shown at Fig. fi 
more complete. Too many have suffered in like 
manner. We have looked upon such a scene 
a dozen times. The man in the picture (Fig li) 
has been hurrying to get his chores done. It 
may be Sunday and he is thinking about driv¬ 
ing th ' "p . wagon to church, lie has the 
fee l P - the hogs all mixed when he hears his 
wife calling him in to breakfast. He catches 
up u pail of feed to hurry the work a little, 
but iu his haste catches the edge of the pail on 
the upper board of the pen and throws the 
best part of the contents over his clothes, 
down his books—any where but where he wants 
it. No wonder the dog ruus away. The 
breakfast will be a failure, and things will go 
wrong all day to pay for this little slip. It 
will be hard to And a farmer who never met 
with this accident. All know how It upsets 
the temper to feel one’s boot fill up with swill. 
Mr. M, U. C. Gardner, of Orange Co., N. Y.,says 
lie performed this operation at intervals until 
he heard of the plan shown at Fig. 7. Au old 
paint keg makes a line dipper. Tuke a 100- 
pouud keg and saw it off at the second hoop. 
A smaller one can be used entire. A 10-quart 
milk pail can be used. The handle should be 
fiiom three to four feet long. Bore a hole 
through the upper part of the keg, push the 
handle through to the bottom and wedge it iu. 
This makes a good paddle to stir up the feed 
with and there is no danger of pouring the 
feed all over your clothes. This is a good 
idea. 
FATTENING HOGS IN WINTER. 
The West Point Creamery 70 miles North¬ 
west of Omaha has 550 high-bred Poland- 
Chiua hogs crossed with Berkshire, 100 brood 
sows are being kept over and 100 bogs fed for 
market. These are April and May pigs and 
weighed au average of 175 pounds November 
1st. Of 250 head marketed last year, (he lust 
lot weighed an average of .’137 pounds,and dur¬ 
ing fall feeding increased two pounds per day. 
To show the difference between careless and 
systematic feeling with good protection, the 
Supenuboudent suys that at first they were 
running in a yard aud fully fed with car corn 
on the ground. It was found that they did 
not gain, whereas the lot should have increased 
400 pounds per day. Floored pens were made 
sufficiently large for niuo hogs each, and they 
commenced to increase ai once; ?s head fed on 
soaked corn and rye, alternating with meal and 
dry shelled corn twice a day, increased oue-nmJ- 
nine-thirtcentlis pound each. A two-year- 
old pig fed by itself, increased 1)0 pounds m 13 
days, or 4 8-13 pounds per day aud after that 
three pounds per day t ill it reached 440 pouuds. 
The last feeding was corn meal and shelled 
corn. Six bead, throe in n pen, weighed 300 
pounds each on Oct. 17, aud 340 October 80—a 
gain of three pouuds each per day: hence the 
profit of feeding in small lots, and of com¬ 
mencing to feed as early as possible in the fall. 
Corn at 50 cents per bushel, gave a return of 
81.00 a profit of .8jo pur day iu feeding 20 
bushels. Seventy-two head fed on ground 
eye aud corn, seven in a pen, put on throe 
pounds per day each. Young pigs were fed 
plenty of sweet milk or buttermilk, which 
is equally good, mixed with meal. 
Two buildings are occupied, which are 1(H) 
by 1 (, feet, with lantern roof, giving plenty of 
light and ventilation. On each side of a cen¬ 
tral alley is u row of pens sije by eight feet, 
built of two-inch pine plank, with double floors. 
A door iu the rear of each opens into a yard 
dlje ijcr1xsm.au. 
WINTER LIVE STOCK NOTES. 
Ik every farmer hus uot yet kept an account 
with his live stock, the beginning of a new 
year is a good time t<“> make a start. It is in¬ 
dispensable to know if the stock pay for their 
feed, aud which of them do aud do nok There 
are thousands of animals which are always in 
debt to their owners and are kept out of the 
profits of the better ones. The new year is a 
good time for weeding out the poor animals,and 
getting rid of them on the best terms, and so 
saving the feed they would consume. Stock are 
useful as manure makers, but it will never 
pay a farmer keep them for this sole pur¬ 
pose. The m rare must be an incidental 
profit of th> eediug; the animals must be 
made to pay a direct profit for their feeding, 
or the farmer had better be without them. 
HORSES. 
Fodder is scarce. The winter has opened 
roughly, and no one can tell how it will end. 
One should always prepare for the worst, and 
then he can uever be hurt, whatever may hap¬ 
pen. Therefore the greatest economy should 
be observed in the feeding. It is not unusual 
to see horses standing in the hay which they 
have pulled out of the racks, thus wasting a 
large portion of their food. The whole grain 
too is often largely wasted in the manure.* 
This is ruinous management. Feeding horses 
from racks is, moreover, an injurious prac¬ 
tice and erases them to breathe dust from the 
hay and udaugers the eyes. Cut food mois¬ 
tened w ith warm water is better iu every way; 
saves the hay and grain; aids digestion, and 
avoids chilling the animals. A feeding room 
—provided with au iron boiler set iu stone or 
brick-work—will be a great pleasure to 
farmer aud to the animals iw wejh Much o 
the winter's work is done here,and the farm 
should make this provision if only for his on i 
comfort. An earth floor and plastered w f ai is. 
aud ceiling aud a tall brick or terra-cotta- 
pipe chimney will be entirely safe. 
Iu shoeiug the bom's—to avoid balling of the 
snow on the feet—have the shoes worked 
down to a knife edge on the inside, and made 
to tit close to the sole. The snow and ice will 
uot then pack in the shoe. For the protection 
of the ankles use leather shields to prevent 
cutting by the calks. Movable steel calks 
which arc screwed into the shoes, are the best 
and safest provision against slipping on icy 
roads. When not required, and when the 
horses are in the stables, the calks are quickly 
removed with a wrench. They are easily 
made by a blacksmith; three iu each shoe are 
enough. Use the card iu preference to a cur¬ 
ry-comb freely, but the brush is especially 
useful and beneficial to the horse. A stiff 
