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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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STORIES ABOUT PIGS. 
Noting recent statements about mak¬ 
ing pig 225 days old weigh 225 pounds, 
I killed a pig on January 16 last, 192 
days old, that weighed 220 pounds dress¬ 
ed. She wa's Poland China and Berk- 
.shire, and by no means the choice pig at 
weaning time. h. d. 
Rockford, N. C. 
In Brevities, page 40, you ask: “Can 
you make a pig weigh a pound of dress¬ 
ed meat for each of 225 days of age?” I 
say yes. and to prove it I will give my 
last two years’ weights on pigs. On April 
I. 1901, I bought two Cheshires and paid 
$3 each (I did not weigh them at that 
time), and then fed until the first week 
in December, or eight months. They 
were beauties, and I guessed they would 
weigh 300 pounds apiece dressed. When 
they were thoroughly cool I weighed 
tiiem; one weighed 296 and the other 294 
pounds, which is 590 pounds of pork 
from two Spring pigs. They were fed 
on dishwater and separator milk till 
July 20; from that time I added wheat 
middlings and finished with 200 pounds 
of cornmeal. I bought two Berkshires 
.March 30, 1903, at $3 each, and fed and 
cared for them the same as the first lot. 
except that I gave them some stock food 
each feed for two months; commenced to 
feed wheat middlings July 1 and some 
small corn in November and 100 pounds 
cornmeal till December 1. Then I dress¬ 
ed them and weighed as before. One 
weighed 265 and the other 230 pounds. 
The cornmeal was added to feed of slops, 
milk and middlings. As I figure, the 
Cheshires at nine months did a little 
better than one pound a day, and the 
Rerkshires fell a little short, so I still 
say yes, but give me white pigs to work 
on, although taking an average of the 
two years it gives me a small margin to 
say yes on. t. m. x. 
Rrookton, N. Y. 
As to Billy Gormand I have forgotten 
his weight and age, but will give you 
figures of my raising. I have a sow two 
years old last Winter, Duroc Jersey 
l)urebred. In Fall of 1901 she raised six 
pigs. Spring of 1902 11, and last Fall 11; 
three litters, 28 pigs in all. First litter 
I sold three for $8, fed two which dress¬ 
ed at 165 days 209 and 211 pounds; sec¬ 
ond litter I sold nine for $24, and one at 
125 days for $16 for a brood sow. Third 
sold over nine for $26 and two left will 
weigh 200 pounds each when 200 days 
old, in all $74, besides 420 pounds pork 
at 1^2 cents, $31.50, and the one pig of 
litter. Two when 233 days old dressed 
288 pounds, besides two that would 
bring $10 each at present. I also killed 
a grade 293 days old, weighed skinned 
332 pounds, at nine cents, $29.88. An¬ 
other of same litter, a sow, raised six 
pigs I sold for $12, and when fed two 
weeks after weaning pigs 42 days after 
farrowing dressed 285 pounds at 8^4 
cents at 341 days old. How does this 
compare? I have at present two Jersey 
pigs weighing 140 and 146 pounds; two 
full 0. I. C. three days older which I 
bought to try; weigh 98 and 109 pounds. 
No more white trash for me; Berkshires 
are all right. j. k. t. 
Penn Yan, N. Y. 
Do Not Feed Dishwater. —I have 
read with considerable interest the notes 
of the Hope Farm man as they regularly 
appear, and can usually indorse what he 
has to say, but am much surprised at his 
suggestion and advice last January as to 
the use of dishwater for hogs. I am not 
a large raiser of hog®, but for years have 
been in the habit, in March, of placing 
two pigs four weeks old in a pen with 
plank floors which is under good roof 
and keeping them there until butchered 
early in November. These pigs are fed 
on wheat middlings and bran made into 
a thin slop with clean water and what 
buttermilk and skim-milk we have from 
one cow, until May, when they get cut 
clover. Orchard grass, sod, roots and all 
weeds from garden; later, refuse toma¬ 
toes, drop apples, a little corn, melons, 
pumpkins, sweet potatoes and cow peas, 
and from October 15 what corn they will 
eat up clean. The average for grade 
Berkshires for past seven years has been 
from 202 to 294 pounds dressed, but no 
dishwater goes into their troughs. With¬ 
in a radius of five miles of this city 
many people are raising hogs and de¬ 
pending on the slop, including the dish¬ 
water, from hotels and boarding houses, 
drawn out daily in barrels. The meat 
from hogs thus fed, I am told by our 
butchers, is soft, flabby and entirely un¬ 
fit for use, although often sold when 
they can get a buyer, but some butchers 
refuse absolutely to buy hogs fattened 
within five miles of town. The alkali 
from the soap used in dishwater is death 
to hogs and to substantiate this I refer 
you to experiments made at the station 
at Cornell University several years ago, 
wherein they condemned the practice of 
using dishwater in any form, and I can¬ 
not understand why anyone at this time 
can recommend its use. There are many 
scraps from the table that can profitably 
be fed to hogs, but the dishwater here 
goes in the drain or on the compost heap 
away from the d\velling. Hogs are not 
dirty animals if given an opportunity to 
keep clean, and they enjoy a bucket of 
cold water thrown over them in hot 
weather, and an occasional raking with 
an old currycomb is greatly appreciated, 
and removes the scurf which sometimes 
accumulates. Pens are cleaned every 
day. .same as horse and cow stables, and 
fresh grass, sod and earth thrown in to 
take up all moisture from the excre¬ 
ment, which adds greatly to the manure 
heap. TJce will sometimes appear, but 
a common spring-bottom oil can filled 
with kerosene will quickly fix them, be¬ 
ing easily applied and no bad results 
from its use. I am engaged in raising 
fruit with but 30 acres, which does well, 
yet had I a large farm I w'ould raise 
hogs. .7. T. 
Knoxville, Tenn. 
TREATMENT OF A HORSE. 
A writer in Harper’s Weekly recently 
'.said that a horse is a combination of 
idiot and maniac. It occurs to me that 
a good many horses might hold the same 
opinion in regard to their owners, being 
as they are the victims of all degrees of 
human ignorance and ill temper, from 
simple stupidity and ordinary irritabil¬ 
ity to extreme cruelty and insane rage. 
Once in a while we find a man who 
works his team without friction and 
with a sort of cheerful good comrade- 
sliip. There is such a difference in the 
way men speak to a horse. Take black¬ 
smiths for example; one will be con¬ 
stantly snarling at the horse in a loud 
impatient voice, while another in shoe¬ 
ing the same horse will speak but sel¬ 
dom, and then in the lowest of voices.' 
There is one type of man who would 
probably never be willfully unkind, and 
yet never would speak pleasantly to a 
horse, and his “barbaric yawp” can be 
heard all over the neighborhood. The 
disposition of a man indoors is no indi¬ 
cation of how he will treat his team. 1 
know of a man who was unendurable in 
his family, yet got along very pleasantly 
with his horses. The reverse is also 
sometimes seen. 
I have a small nephew who likes to 
ride about with me. He especially en¬ 
joys driving. Now I would like to make 
a good driver of him. It might be very 
useful to him some time to understand 
the management of a horse. But unfor¬ 
tunately I am not entirely satisfied with 
my own horsemanship, and one cannot 
impart knowledge one does not possess. 
There are some things that I have 
taught him—the rules of the road and 
about crossing car tracks. I have also 
forbidden his “fishing” or jerking the 
reins, and I have toned down his voice 
to some extent But there are other 
difficulties that I do not know how to 
meet The horse has some peculiarities 
of disposition, and she is inclined to be 
lazy. She understands me well enough, 
so that when I am driving she goes 
along quite cheerfully and at a fair gait. 
When the boy takes the reins, however, 
she usually puts back her ears, slows 
down and begins to act cranky, so that 
it is hard for the boy to keep her in the 
middle of the road. This irritates him 
and he get's very impatient. Now how 
is one to harmonize these two? The boy 
occasionally pulls grass for the horse, 
and at such times they seem on the best 
of terms, but that does not prevent the 
friction when he drives her. 
A horse is very exasperating at times 
and it takes a great deal of self-control 
to get along and never lose one’s pa¬ 
tience. Then, too, horses’ dispositions 
differ greatly. A mother gazed at her 
unruly daughter, then looked at me with 
an expression of perplexed despair and 
cried: “I don’t know what to do with 
her.” That is the way I feel about the 
horse sometimes. I have heard so much 
about women’s driving spoiling a horse 
that I don’t want to fall into any of the 
feminine errors. But how to avoid 
them, that is the question. 
SUSAX BROWX ROBBINS. 
Cob and Corn.—T he practice of grinding 
corn, cobs and all, is about played out 
around here. The farmers think that corn 
and oats ground together, say half and 
half, give better results for the dairy cow 
and young calves, but for feeding for the 
market we must all feed shelled corn. 
For young pigs we use shorts or ground 
rye and oats to make slop. h. e. w. 
Somonauk. 111. 
Draft Horses.—T he outlook in the draft 
horse market was never better, and good 
prices will continue for some years to 
come. Mares to breed from are not very 
plentiful throughout the country, and many 
of those are to old to breed. It is like start¬ 
ing at the bottom of the ladder, and the 
farmer who has a few good mares is in 
luck. Horses that weigh from 1,400 pounds 
uj), such as the market demands, are very 
scarce, and some shippers wonder where 
they will find them. Next year in many of 
the farming districts the farmers will have 
to buy to do their work instead of having 
a good horse to sell. geo. i.ang. 
Mapleton, Minn. 
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