THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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SOME NEW HAMPSHIRE PIGS. 
Seeing so much In The R. N.-Y. about 
good pigs I want to tell about ours. 
They are hardly worth writing about, 
but they were certainly made at a pro¬ 
fit. We put the pigs in a pen alone 
when five weeks old, and fed them on 
best middlings scalded and raw sweet 
I apples, all they would eat, until they 
' had eaten 100 pounds, then we began to 
feed half cornmeal until December 12, 
j when we dressed them off, and they 
S weighed 213 pounds. They had eaten 
' 273 pounds of middlings at a cost of 
i $3.69, and 168^ pounds of cornmeal at 
a cost of $2.44. This Is all they had ex¬ 
cept the skim-milk from one cow after 
supplying a family of four and selling 
lyz quarts of milK every day, which 
makes $15.97 worth of pork at a cost of 
1 $6.13 for feed, besides a few apples that 
] would have rotted, as they would sell 
I for hardly enough to pay for picking up. 
j I will give up to the rest on size, but 
i everyone who saw ours pronounced 
j them fine pigs. I am not writing to tell 
! the biggest story, but to show that there 
f may be a profit in some branches of 
J farming if we look sharp for it. It is 
I nothing more than what anyone can do. 
I I am trying hogs a little to see if it 
I pays, and if so shall keep more, as it 
I does not take so much time as cows and 
I some other stock, and grows quicker. 
) South Acworth, N. H. e. n. c. 
) “ ■ . 
i Grit for Penned Fowls. 
I What Is best In the Une of grit for fowls 
in confinement? How often must It be 
given, or must it be constantly before 
them? Are oyster shells sufficient In that 
i line, or do they only supply lime? What 
I Is the value of buckwheat as a food? 
( Naples, N. Y. s. L. t. 
1 Oyster shells will serve the purpose 
of grit, although It is better to have a 
box of good sharp grit constantly before 
the hens. Very coarse sharp sand makes 
good grit, but still better is the commer¬ 
cial article sold by the poultry supply 
j houses, the “granite crystal,” or the 
I “mica crystal,” although rather expen- 
i sive, make fine teeth for the biddies. 
Buckwheat is very fattening and should 
■ never be fed alone to laying hens. It 
gives good results with wheat and oats, 
but has a tendency to make the yolks 
light colored. white & rice. 
Leg Weakness in Pullets. 
I have a flock of 130 hens and pullets. I 
have two pullets, one that commenced lay¬ 
ing in October, and the other about ready, 
that cannot walk; when they do try thev 
fali over on their heads, have no use of 
legs. What is the cause and what can I 
do for them? I have bathed their feet In 
warm water and keep them in a warm 
place from the others. t. a. w. 
White Pigeon, Mich. 
There are so many causes for leg 
1 weakness that we could not tell what is 
the matter with these pullets. It may 
j be the roosts are too high and the pul- 
I lets have injured themselves by jump- 
1 ing to the floor, or more likely R is 
j rheumatism. If the first, the remedy is 
obvious—get rid of the cause. If it is 
I spinal trouble we can offer no sugges- 
tions. If it is rheumatism, which is a 
disease quite frequent among hens, see 
that the houses are perfectly dry and 
free from draughts, and give a pinch of 
salicylate of soda in the drinking water. 
WHITE & RICE. 
[ Trouble in Churning. 
I have had trouble lately with churning. 
I We churn sometimes for four hours before 
1 the butter comes; sometimes it Is a pure 
^ white. Can you tell me what to do when 
I milk tastes of garlic? Is there any way of 
I killing it in the field? Most of our fields 
i * are full of it. Can you put anything In the 
milk to kill the taste or smell? n. w. 
North Branch, N. J. 
I Always be sure that each skimming of 
] cream is at a temperature of 50 degrees 
( before mixing with other cream. Keep 
uniformly at 50 degrees until enough is 
secured to churn. Then warm the mass 
(which must have been stirred of course 
( two or three times a day), by placing 
in a hot water bath, stirring until the 
cream is 60 to 65 degrees according to 
the lactic acid development, and hold 
practically at the same temperature un¬ 
til ripened, that is, nicely thickened. 
Then churn at the lowest temperature 
consistent with exhaustive churning; 99 
cases out of 100 where the butter does 
not come can be directly traced to in¬ 
complete and imperfect ripening. Prop¬ 
erly matured cream never fails of pro¬ 
ducing butter in from 30 to 50 minutes. 
There is no known method of freeing 
milk from garlic flavor. Frequent aera¬ 
tion while cooling will assist somewhat. 
An experience of 25 years’ handling such 
stuff warrants me in saying that the 
best use for it is pig feed. Cutting weeds 
out of the field with a hoe is the only 
sure death, or if the cows are kept away 
from them in another field until about 
June 15 the plants then become tough 
and animals will seldom eat them, 
£#• oooic* 
The Milkman and Sunday- 
Is there any place, any considerable 
town, within the realm of The R. N.-T. 
where the milkmen have Sunday to them¬ 
selves, either because It Is not customary 
to sell milk or where it Is forbidden bv 
law? At one time here the milkman made 
a late delivery of milk Saturday afternoon, 
and I never heard that In those days was 
the infant mortality any greater than now, 
and I think the mortality among the milk¬ 
men must have been less. A business 
which occupies a man day and night, and 
Sundays ought to fit him for heaven, if it 
does not leave him time for Improvement 
here. reader. 
Maine. 
R. N.-Y.—We want to hear from read¬ 
ers about this. Have any of them solv¬ 
ed the Sunday milk question? Of course 
the cows must be milked and fed on 
Sunday, but is there no way of avoid¬ 
ing deliveries? How do creamery pat¬ 
rons manage? Mr. Francisco, who sells 
“certified milk” in Montclair, N. J., has 
told us how he gave up Sunday deliv¬ 
ering and made a success of it. He said 
that he used to drive home with his 
milk wagon and meet the neighbors go¬ 
ing to church. He loved a cow too well 
to have her keep him away from church, 
so he proposed to serve his customers 
late Saturday night and let them alone 
until Monday. This plan worked well 
with him. Have others had a like ex¬ 
perience? _ 
Scratching Shed for Hens. 
Yes, we believe In scratching sheds for 
hens. Ours are open to the south and the 
sun lies in there on fair days, and the hens 
enjoy It greatly. We have curtains of bran 
sacks to let down over the front when 
snowstorms threaten; then when it clears 
the curtain Is raised and the hens have a 
dry, sunny place to scratch and exercise 
In. The fowls that have no such luxury 
mope about In the house, which grows 
damp and unpleasant. As to the cost. It 
will be enough while lumber Is as high as 
It Is now. If the shed can be placed be¬ 
tween two houses so that they will form 
the two ends, there will be that much 
saved. A good tight roof Is very essential, 
as the shed will be very damp If It leaks. 
Massachusetts. s. b, robbins. 
My experience with the scratching shed 
attached to henhouses has been limited to 
one variety, the White Leghorns. I have 
found that It pays well to house the breed¬ 
ing stock In scratching-shed houses. The 
hens are more healthy, eggs are more fer¬ 
tile and the chicks more vigorous. I pre¬ 
fer a house 12 feet wide, back wall four 
feet, front six feet In clear; double pitch 
roof, the back 10^ feet, front 514 feet, eaves 
projecting six inches. I make the sleeping 
room 7 X 12 feet, the scratching shed 10 x 12 
feet. I have found that by putting 
Swan’s extra heavy felt on studding 16 
Inches and then siding makes a house 
warm enough for this climate. The roof 
is boarded, lined with building paper, 
then shingled. Cover front of shed with 
netting. Curtains can be put on a roll. I 
prefer muslin not oiled. JOS. anthony. 
East Berlin, Pa. 
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