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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 30 
Live Stock and Dairy 
PLAN FOR H0GH0USE. 
Mr. Boar and His Family. 
I would like floor plans of a Winter hog- 
house, to house one service boar, four to 
six brood sows, to farrow In February and 
March, about 10 or more fattening pigs 
from August and September litters, two- 
barrel boiler, with steel Jacket, and room 
enough to butcher In If necessary. I ex¬ 
pect to build It about 13 feet high, using the 
upper story for straw, for bedding, etc. I 
want cement floors and outside of build¬ 
ing slilplap, paper, and three-quarter 
straight siding. For Summer, I will have 
small portable houses for the sows, and 
keep them on pasture, but our climate 
makes It Imperative to have them all under 
one roof from December to April, at least. 
1 am undecided whether a long, narrow 
building with feed alley along one side, or 
a shorter, wider one with the feed alley In 
the center and pens each side, would be 
better suited to my requirements. Will 
you give location of doors, best kind of 
feed troughs, etc.? t. s. 
New York. 
ANSWERED BY JOHN M. JAMISON. 
The plan, Fig. 257, explains itself as 
regards size of rooms, as the figures in¬ 
dicate this. The curved llines at the 
corners of the pens indicate the swing 
of the gates or doors when opened. As 
a start for this building I would make 
a cement or brick wall, six inches to one 
foot high, around the space to be in¬ 
closed, using it as a foundation for the 
building. At the ends of the alleyway, 
the foundation should be on a level with 
the floor of the alley. The whole should 
be doored with Portland cement. To 
Succeed well with the pigs and feeders, 
it is absolutely necessary that their beds 
and floor under them be kept dry. To 
do this, I would have the floor to the 
sleeping rooms at least two inches high¬ 
er than the feeding doors. 1 would, also, 
build on the same Jevel the door to the 
store, or butcher room. In laying the 
cement floor, I would imbed in the ce¬ 
ment. half or three-quarter-inch bolts, 
and let them extend above the floor 
about one inch, to hold in place the 
posts needed to hold the panels and 
gates in their places. This we think 
better than to have these posts set in 
holes in the cement. 
It would be quite an advantage some¬ 
times to have the partitions between 
the sows’ feeding rooms movable, so 
that the feeding rooms could be used 
for exercise. When the pigs are to be 
weaned, the sows could be condned to 
one or two nests and feeding rooms, and 
the pigs take the whole of the remainder 
of the space to use as they like, making 
it possible in this way for them to get 
needed exercise. 
The slop troughs are intended to slip 
partly under the partition into the alley, 
that the feed may be poured into them 
from the alley. The end of the trough 
across one end of the large feeding 
room for fattening pigs, also extends 
into the alley. The gates or doors are 
intended to open into the pens. I have 
made no provision for doors to the out¬ 
side, excepting at the ends of the alley. 
The side containing the sows’ nests, 
should front the south, that the pigs 
may have sun through a large window 
for each nest. 
The most serious objection to the plan 
lies in the fact that the hogs must leave 
their voidings in the feed room. But as 
nearly all the feed, I assume, will be 
fed in troughs, this is not a serious mat¬ 
ter. By making a building double the 
length of this, we could arrange an 
alleyway for them to leave their void¬ 
ings in. By using plenty of straw, or 
other litter, on the floors of the feed 
rooms, and cleaning often, they can be 
kept in good shape. 
I would suggest a yard at eaoh end of 
the alley, well littered with straw. Into 
these yards, every pleasant day, I would 
allow some of the occupants of the 
house to go for exercise, and would 
scatter some grain over the straw to 
induce exercise. 
The floor space for sleeping room for 
the feeding hogs Is calculated to accom¬ 
modate 20 hogs weighing 200 pounds 
each. They will lie more evenly over 
the floor if it is gauged to suit their 
size by the use of a partition. I like the 
inquirer’s plan for siding, also the 
'height of It. He cannot build it too 
warm, if the ventilation be perfect, and 
the hogs not allowed to bed in wet bed¬ 
ding. 
It is an excellent plan to have storage 
room for bedding. I think I have made 
the well, furnace, feed, and slaughter 
room largo enough for all needed pur¬ 
poses. The single feed room and nest 
next the store room is intention for the 
male hog. When the young pigs begin 
to take their plays, it would be a good 
plan for them to have creeps through 
the doors from the feeding floors into 
the alley. They will enjoy this liberty, 
and it will do them a great deal of good. 
FACTS ABOUT SHEEP. 
Nursing, Feeding, Pasture. 
In Joseph E. Wing’s article, page 
C50, he thinks it much better to let a 
sheep rest for a year after having one 
lamb. I had a Dorset ewe raise a pair 
of twins dropped in November, shipped 
to New York in January; she adopted a 
twin lamb at once, fitted that for mar¬ 
ket, and had a lamb in April. She was 
well fed and cared for, and I do not 
think It hurt her in the least. In the 
human family, It is not the small fam¬ 
ilies that have the best health, the chil¬ 
dren or the mothers either. I think 
some of the families described in The 
R. N.-Y. will prove what I say. 
In regard to giving away twin lambs, 
I do it many times in Winter, but I 
usually give the lamb to a sheep whose 
lamb I have just killed. I cut a piece 
of skin from under the tail of the lamb 
just killed, so I have a ring, rub it on 
the same spot of the lamb to be adopted, 
then crowd it over the lamb’s head for a 
necklace, and put the sheep and lamb 
by themselves; nearly always, they 
prove congenial.- 
Mr. Wing says, “In Summer time, 
sheep come to grief,” etc. This year has 
been the driest ever known, and most 
pasture is all burned up. I sowed corn 
in rows 28 inches apart, one bushel per 
acre; in June, I cultivated it the last 
time, and sowed rape, and intended to 
pasture the whole of it in August; but 
I had pasture enough, so I have had the 
corn cut with a binder; the rape is 18 
inches to two feet high, and now the 
lambs can fatten on that. I have over 
40 acres sown to rye, rape, flat turnips, 
etc., for the sheep to eat. The man that 
owns the farm next, to this has the same 
number of acres, and a small flock of 
sheep. Forest fires burned down the 
line fence, and now we have a Page 
fence; on his side, it is bare and brown; 
on this side, rape, tall and green. We 
stood looking at the two fields, and he 
said: “If I only had that for my sheep! 
I haven’t a mouthful on the farm for 
my sheep, when I might have had lots 
of feed.” There are thousands in the 
same boat. clark alias. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. 
Pumping Mii.k Into Cows. —The fol¬ 
lowing note appeared in the papers last 
week: 
Toronto, Sept. 8.—The directors of the 
Toronto Industrial Exhibition were en¬ 
gaged to-d.'iy on a peculiar case. A dozen 
valuable dairy cows exhibited at the show 
died early In the week, and It was suspect¬ 
ed that they had been poisoned. On In¬ 
vestigation, it was found that the cows had 
died of lung apoplexy. Now It Is believed 
that death was caused by milk being 
pumped Into their udders In order to Inflate 
them after they had been milked out clean 
by exhibition ollicers on the evening before 
judging. 
Prof. H. H. Wing makes this comment: 
“The whole thing sounds very fishy, 
and I should not be inclined to take any 
stock in it. I have never known of any¬ 
thing of the kind being done. It would 
be possible to inject milk or any other 
fluid into the udder. The Schmidt treat¬ 
ment for milk fever consists in injecting 
potassium iodide in this way, but death 
of the animal would be one of the last 
things to expect, even though mile were 
'injected in so large quantity as to cause 
severe inflammation of the udder.” 
R. N.-Y.—It is later reported that the 
cause of death was shown to be the in¬ 
jection of milk 'into the udders. The 
milk is supposed to have been stale, or 
the instrument unclean. If it is true 
that this sort of thing is practiced, it Is 
most reprehensible, and honest breed¬ 
ers should discountenance it. 
It is stated that, since July 1, 1898, 6,400 
Angora cats have been shipped out of 
Maine, to New York and Philadelphia. 
There are still remaining 1,860 breeding 
Angoras In Maine. That State seems to 
be headquarters for cat breeding. Over 
$50,W0 worth of cats were being produced 
there last year. There are said to be only 
32,500 Angora cats In the country, while 
there is a demand for 500 times as many. 
Is there not an opening In the cat busi¬ 
ness? If milk farmers who are now get¬ 
ting two cent£ a quart for their milk could 
only feed some of it to $50 Angora cats, 
they might be better off. 
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Duke of Vernon 2nd (Age two years) 
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