1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
LIVE STOCK HATTERS. 
(CONTINUED.) 
Shorts or Middlings for Pigs. 
II. .1. B., Vermilion, III. —Will It pay to buy 
shorts at 45 cents per 100 pounds to slop pigs, or 
would I better grind my 16-cent corn to feed them? 
If I slop with shorts would I better use old-pro- 
cess linseed meal at $1.25 per 100 pounds 1 If so, 
how much ? 
Ans.—I suppose that, by shorts, H. J. 
B. means what is usually called mid¬ 
dlings. I have such strong faith in their 
use, that I would not attempt to grow 
pigs without them, especially during the 
winter. The trouble with corn alone, is, 
that it does not supply the needed ele¬ 
ments for the pig to build up its system; 
it is too heating, and contains too much 
fat. The bone and muscle the system 
needs, are found in the shorts or mid¬ 
dlings. Most pig feeders feed middlings 
alone, because they are too pasty to mix 
into slop readily. In my own practice, 
I mix bran and middlings, the bran 
being equally valuable with the mid¬ 
dlings, to build up the muscular and bone 
structure. My usual practice in hand¬ 
ling the two feeds, is to buy one sack of 
middlings, and two of bran, and empty 
in a bin together; this gives about an 
equal weight of each. Shoveling out of 
the bin as needed, does all the neces¬ 
sary mixing, if the sacks have been 
emptied regularly, one of middlings to 
two of bran. I pour into troughs dry, 
and empty over it about the same amount 
in volume of dairy or kitchen slops, 
and let the pigs mix as they eat. This 
is fed twice a day, also ear corn. I have 
30 shoats that will average 75 pounds; 
they are fed one-half bushel of mid¬ 
dlings, or a little more twice a day, and 
from two to three ears of corn, each a 
day ; they have the run of a clover field 
and get some clover. Fed in this way, 
they will grind the corn properly, and 
more cheaply than the mill will do it. 
There is no profit in grinding corn for 
pigs. The grinding adds nothing to it ; 
if the pigs have this other feed with it 
they will properly masticate and digest 
it when they take it from the cob. It 
will not pay to use oil meal at the price 
named. The bran and middlings will 
give a profit from their use, besides, 
they will add to the thrift of the pigs, 
and also enable them to get more benefit 
from the corn consumed. The manner 
of feeding saves the labor usually ex¬ 
pended in mixing slop, and more than 
that, it is always fresh and sweet. The 
pigs should be fed on fields where the 
manure will not be lost. 
JOHN M. JAMISON. 
A Corn Fertilizer from Hen Manure. 
B. T. N., Elizabeth , N. ./.—Three years ago, I 
bought a 100-acre farm in central New Jersey 
which had the reputation of being one of the 
best farms in the State. After the first year, I 
decided to stock the farm fully, and now have 32 
cattle (young and old), 40 hogs and 8 horses, be¬ 
sides about 200 chickens. As we can buy western 
grain cheaper than we can raise it, I have aimed, 
as far as possible, to confine my efforts to raising 
hay and ensilage with the addition of soiling 
crops for summer feeding, and I wish to arrange 
to get the greatest possible results from such 
crops. We have removed all fences and, in order 
to work to the best advantage, we plant in rows 
the full length of the farm (north and south), 
which materially saves time in turning and also 
saves land. Last year, we had corn in three ad¬ 
joining Helds which we wish to plant again to 
corn next year. One of these Helds was sown with 
Crimson clover at the last cultivation, and the 
ground is covered completely with this beautiful 
green winter mantle. The next field was sown to 
rye (for green fodder) as soon as the corn was 
removed, and that has made a heavy growth, 
also. The third Held is uncovered, being simply 
corn stubble. I wish to remove the clover and 
rye, either for green fodder or to put in the silo 
by May 1, so as to get the land ready to plant corn 
May 10. What would you recommend as the best 
fertilizer to sow with the corn? We shall cover 
the stubble piece with barnyard manure before 
spring, and if possible, would like to use the 
same fertilizer for each piece as each row runs 
over each. How can we best use our poultry 
manure? We have about 150 bushels mixed with 
enough land plaster to keep it well. 
with green rye as spring feed or ensi¬ 
lage. If you wish to use a home mix¬ 
ture, you can make one from cotton-seed 
meal, dissolved rock, ground bone, muri¬ 
ate of potash, and nitrate of soda. You 
might use the hen manure to good ad¬ 
vantage in making a corn fertilizer. 
Crush and fine the dry manure. Yon 
may grind it if you have a mill, or crush 
it with a heavy shovel on a hard floor, 
and screen it over a wire screen with a 
fine mesh. Mix in about the following 
proportions : 400 pounds of hen manure, 
150 pounds of dissolved rock, 250 pounds 
of ground bone, 100 pounds of nitrate of 
soda, 150 pounds of muriate of potash 
and 100 pounds of plaster or dry earth 
The best way to use large quantities of 
hen manure is to crush and mix it in 
this way. We consider it better for corn 
than for any other crop. 
Curinq Hams and Bacon. 
Several Subscribers. —What is a good method of 
curing hams and bacon ? 
Ans —Several good methods are given 
both with and without brine. They differ 
principally in the different proportions 
of the ingredients used. One is, for 
every 100 pounds of meat, take eight 
pounds of salt, four ounces of saltpeter, 
1)4 pound of sugar, and four gallons of 
water. Pack the meat after it is thor¬ 
oughly cool, in a clean, sweet barrel, 
make a pickle of the above and pour 
over it when cold. Three or four weeks 
are usually long enough for it to remain 
in pickle. Some use molasses instead of 
sugar, and some use neither. After being 
sufficiently salted, take out, rinse, let 
drain for a day, and then smoke with 
cobs or hickory wood—the directions 
always specify hickory. Some salt by 
rubbing the meat daily until sufficiently 
salted without making the brine. Fine 
salt must be used in this case, while 
rock salt will do in the other. A prepa¬ 
ration is now advertised for rubbing the 
hams instead of smoking them, but we 
have had no experience with it. 
Don’t Givk up the Cows.—How is this 
for seven days ? I have been milking 
four cows ; two of them are two-year- 
olds. The amount of butter made in 
the seven days was 42 pounds, and I sold 
50 quarts of milk. My grain ration is 
two quarts of bran, two quarts of glu¬ 
cose, one pint of corn meal per cow, 
twice a day, and a bundle of corn stalks 
twice a day per cow. Is there a better 
grain ration I could give that would re¬ 
turn me more money ? If there is, tell 
me, as I would like to learn all I can 1 
don’t pretend to know it all. j. k. l. 
Elmira, N. Y. 
A constant cough wears anybody’s strength away. 
A sure remedy is found in Dr 1). Jayne’s Expectorant. 
For constipation take Jayne’s Painless Sanative 
Pills.— Adv. 
A Separator Experience 
CAN YOU NOT PROFIT BY IT? 
Norwalk, Ohio, Jan. 2, 1897. 
“The command on which hang all the Law 
and the Prophets is ‘Do unto others as you would 
have them do unto you.’ Hence, in obedience to 
that command, I wisli to inform others that after 
three months’ use of an Alpha 4 Haby’ De Laval 
Cream Separator we believe it to be a crowning 
success, and the qoal of all butter-makers. A 
trial of the 4 Haby’ is all the evidence needed in 
the case. We are now certain of nearly 7 lbs. of 
butter for each hundred pounds of milk, let the 
weather be hot or cold, dog-days or snowy holi¬ 
days. With the use of the 4 Haby’ it is less labor 
to care for the milk of ten cows than that of one 
with the hand skim-milk pan system. We feel 
under many obligations to the De Laval agent 
for calling us out of the corn Held to sell us a 
‘Baby.”’ J. S. Tilton. 
Send for “Baby” Catalogue, No. 246. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO., 
Randolph and Canal Sts., I 74 Cortlandt Street. 
CHICAGO. | NEW YORK. 
SCOTT’S ARABIAN PASTE cures caked udder 
garget, etc. Mail, 60c. Scott’s H. P. Co*, Rochester N Y 
Ans —If you wish to buy the mixed 
goods, we would suggest some standard 
brand of corn fertilizer. It will be in¬ 
teresting to observe the difference in the 
field of rye and that of Crimson clover. 
We doubt whether-you will be satisfied 
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Poland-China Swine 
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