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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 1 
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Live Stock and Dairy 
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RAISING PIGS BY HAND ; SOYBEANS. 
1. What variety of Soy beans is the earliest? 
I would like something that will mature in 
three months. I sowed 10 varieties of cow 
peas, Velvet beans and Soy beans last year. 
The Early Black Soy bean was the earliest. 
1 sowed August 1; had full-sized beans 
when frost came. 2. How and what is best 
to feed new born pigs when necessary to 
wean them when born? It often happens 
that I have more than sows can care for, 
but all attempts to raise them have failed. 
Flemington, N. J. J- p. b. 
1. At the Indiana Experiment Station 
we have tried such varieties of Soy 
beans as could be secured during the 
several years past. In 1900, when the 
weather conditions were most natural, 
we found a variety known as Early 
White to mature earliest, it being ripe 
on August 31. The plants ranged from 
18 to 24 inches high, and yielded a small 
amount of seed and forage. Another va¬ 
riety, Yellow Soy, was ripe September 
8, and yielded fairly well, and the plants 
ranged from 28 to 30 inches high. Eda- 
mane Soy was ripe September 15, and 
produced a good yield of forage, but a 
poor yield of seed, the plants ranging 
from 34 to 38 inches. In our experience 
the earliest varieties have not been the 
most desirable, because they lack forage 
and yield of crop. 
2. My personal experience has shown 
that it is difficult to raise new-born pigs 
by artificial means. Perhaps others may 
have had more success than the writer. 
Yet even in the hands of a man very 
skillful in his practical handling of 
stock, thus far I have not seen good suc¬ 
cess in raising pigs a week old when 
taken from dam. We use a convenient 
pint bottle, on which is placed an ordin¬ 
ary rubber nipple. Fresh, warm cow’s 
milk is used, and a little sugar in the 
milk will bring it up to nearer the com¬ 
position of sow’s milk than if no sugar 
is used. The milk, however, should not 
be made very sweet, and it should be 
fed at a temperature of blood heat, or 
about 98 degrees. The young pig is held 
in one hand, vertically, and it very read¬ 
ily takes to sucking the milk, and 
should be allowed to suck until ready to 
stop. These young pigs should be kept 
from drafts, in a comfortably moderate 
temperature in the cooler weather, or 
in a room free from flies in warm 
weather. They should be fed five or 
six times a day at first, and also once 
at night, and as they get older the num¬ 
ber of feeds can be reduced, and milk 
and ground grain can be placed in small 
troughs available as they desire to eat. 
Last year we had one sow that had a 
litter of 13 pigs. She had practically no 
milk, and we were forced to raise them 
by hand. The pigs nursed all right, but 
in spite of this, part of them died, and 
none of them grew with the vigor that 
we hoped for. Most of these pigs were 
strong and of good size when born, and 
they were farrowed at the best season 
of the year, in early April. If any read- 
the freakish looking ones were Houdans, 
Blue Andalusians, White-faced Black Span¬ 
ish-ghastly looking fowls, and Faverolles. 
The latter were said to be a mixture of 
Houdan, Brahma and Dorking, with enough 
Houdan to give them the grotesque, ruf¬ 
fed appearance about the head. They 
ought to possess some special merit to 
make up for their ugliness. A striking 
feature of the show is the enormous size 
of individuals of the larger breeds, show¬ 
ing what can be done by care, breeding 
and selection. It is seldom that such large 
Brahmas or Plymouth Rocks are seen in 
an ordinary poultry yard. Great attention 
is given to the Game breeds of which 43 
classes were shown. While in some speci¬ 
mens the fighting quality is exaggerated 
to such an extent that they are apparently 
good for little else, others were seen with 
enough general-purpose blood to prove a 
good addition to an ordinary flock. Where 
one does not care to have pure-bred fowls 
there is no doubt that a bit of Game blood 
will make chickens that are more lively 
and easier to raise. There were Pekin, 
Muscovy, Rouen and Indian Runner ducks, 
and two small White Call ducks, which 
have the ability to make themselves heard 
above all the hubbub of quack, cackle, gob¬ 
ble and cock-a-doodle-do. There were 52 
turkeys, including well-known and odd 
sorts, one bronze gobbler being valued at 
|100. Turkeys do not take kindly to being 
shut up in wire cages. Some appeared 
homesick, and the disposition of others was 
so soured that they were ready to fight 
their cage mates. The show of pigeons 
was very large, but they do not attract 
much attention except from fanciers. In 
the pet stock line were 100 cats, 113 rabbits 
and hares, and 64 cavies, and the canary 
and cage bird section contained 217 entries. 
Some one had sent a Red fox caged in a 
small box with wire netting over the top. 
No doubt he had a high appreciation of 
poultrv when he was at liberty, and could 
interview the farmer’s flock, but this show 
was more than he had bargained for, and 
the poor fellow’s terror was pitiful to see. 
This is what it cost to keep nine 
cows; three of these were heifers: 
Grain, $170; cornstalks, $40; corn fod¬ 
der, $85; five tons hay, $60; total, $355. 
Amount sold from said cows does not 
include manure, which was put on the 
place; 2.400 pounds of hutter, $624; 
calves, $30: milk, 730 quarts, at six 
cents, $43.80; cream, 25 quarts, at 40 
cents, $10; manure, $50. Total, $757.80. 
Cost, $355. Profit, $402.80. J. K. k. 
Elmira, N. Y. 
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