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February 4, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
WHAT A SINGLE PIG DID. 
Susan Brown Robbins’s pigs evidently 
did not sour her temper, and if she could 
only get the cash value of the innumerable 
laughs her article must have occasioned 
she would have no trouble about her ac¬ 
counts. The writer’s experience was 
somewhat different. Having a large barn 
on a slope facing north, the back is sunny 
all day long, and there is a good dry cellar 
with large hanging doors, each having a 
window 5 x 3; a space 30 x 50 is fenced 
in outside for a chicken yard. Owing to 
illness, it was the last of June before I got 
my first pig. He was from pure Chester 
White dam by Berkshire boar. I paid 
$4.50 for him. A neighbor was glad to 
send in his swill daily, and we had a good 
deal ourselves; then we had an overplus 
of everything in the garden, and when 
frost came a large lot of sweet corn was 
spoiled for our use, but how he did enjoy 
it! Apples he had as many as he would 
eat, both sweet and sour, cooked small po¬ 
tatoes, but very little grain. In fact, until 
the last six weeks he had hardly any; then 
he got four quarts bran and two of corn- 
meal a day, with one feed of boiled pota¬ 
toes, and all the turnips and apples he 
would eat. Until then he was free of the 
hen yard, which he cultivated at least a 
foot deep. He was killed December 17, 
when cost account stood: Purchase price, 
$4.50; 100 pounds bran, $1.25; 100 pounds 
meal, $1.25; killing and cutting up, $1.50; 
a total of $8.50. He dressed 172 pounds, 
a cost under five cents per pound. If we 
had tried to raise seven the story might 
have been different. It is like keeping 
hens; a person can keep six or eight fowls 
at very small expense; the leavings of an 
ordinary family will pay for more than 
half their keep. george l. clark. 
Massachusetts. 
Experience from Virginia. 
Years ago I was overstocked; had 15 
pigs and put them in a pen 20 x 60 feet. 
As soon as clover would do to cut I com¬ 
menced on that; during the season had 
watermelons, muskmelons, cucumbers, 
squashes and tomatoes unfit to ship; these 
with cornstalks, weeds, in fact, every 
refuse was thrown into the pen. In or¬ 
der to keep it in fair condition straw, 
woods soil, etc., was added. Killing time 
the pork at market price was worth $125. 
After killing we threw the manure out on 
to a pile. A neighbor offered $1015 for it, 
which I declined, for it was worth more, 
so in this case the manure was worth 
about as much as the hogs. One hundred 
dollars’ worth of manure on a poor farm 
is an item not to be overlooked. 
Suffolk, Va. b. B. n. 
Penned Pigs That Paid. 
Susan Brown Robbins’s ‘‘pig's tale’ em¬ 
phasizes two points in hog culture; never 
try to make a profit out of inferior stock, 
nor allow any kind of pigs, be they ever 
so well bred, to have much range. A pig 
of a low-down breed, or one well bred 
that fails to show development early in life 
is a poor investment, and would be better 
got rid of as soon as possible. The first 
loss is always the better. These long¬ 
snouted, long-legged, narrow-bodied pork¬ 
ers will generally eat their heads off twice 
over before they attain 10 months of age. 
As for allowing pigs much running 
ground, I do not think any skilful pig 
farmer would recommend it. I have tried 
the experiment and am satisfied that the 
less exercise a pig has the more rapidly he 
will put on flesh, and the more tender his 
meat will be. Even a short-snouted pig- 
will develop it by constantly rooting, and 
by the exertion in doing so will toughen 
every fiber in his body. In the beginning 
of April we bought five suckling pigs from 
a neighbor. One parent was Poland China, 
the other Chester White, neither entirely 
pure. We kept them in the forepart of 
their lives in a dark pen on a cement floor; 
later on a flag-floored room with a small 
walled-in yard deeply bedded with straw. 
Their food was creamery slop largely di¬ 
luted with water. This slop costs us one- 
eighth cent per gallon. To give it body 
we had some inferior wheat ground, and 
of this threw into their trough four or 
five double handfuls on top of their slop, 
twice a day. The hogs did the mixing. 
Ground wheat or rich wheat middlings 
along with skim-milk is an ideal pig feed. 
After apples came they were given once a 
day all they would eat. They were never 
out of the pen till killed. When corn 
husking came corn was their feed, and 
slop their drink. The first two, dressed 
early in November, weighed 261 and 281 
pounds. The remainder, killed December 
13, made the total weight of the five 1,407 
pounds or an average of 281 pounds 'each, 
the heaviest running the beam up to 317 
pounds. This pork if sold would be worth 
close to $100, but we had other use for it. 
Other pig feeders around us do better than 
the foregoing. I think we have done bet¬ 
ter ourselves, but are very well satisfied. 
We have done infinitely worse, but are 
learning and think others may, so we try 
to give them encouragement. 
Chester Co., Pa. wm. t. smedley. 
WINTERING COWS ON HAY. 
Regarding the dairy question on page 1, 
my opinion is that cows in our cli¬ 
mate will come through the Winter 
in good condition on hay, if not j 
in milk. If they come to milk before 
grass they must have grain or lose in flesh 
and vitality. They should be fed what 1 
they can eat without leaving any scatter¬ 
ings, plenty of good water and what salt 
they want. They will then be in good 
condition for the coming Summer. If ex¬ 
tra help is to be hired at present prices, 
and no good market for butter or milk, 
I would rather not milk them. This prob- J 
lem each farmer must decide for himself 
on the line of profit and loss. Cows can 
surely be brought through on hay, but 
vegetables once or twice a week would be 
a great benefit. I cannot say about other 
forms of sugar, not having used them. 
I would like to ask if any dairyman has 
noticed a taint in butter from cows that 
have been fed grain during the Winter? 
It usually occurs a few weeks after they 
are turned on grass, sometimes before. I 
think there is more milk in a ton of buck¬ 
wheat shorts than any other food I have 
tried. Ground oats are good, but the but¬ 
ter is long in coming in our climate. Corn- 
meal can be mixed with the oats in the 
same proportion as for light horse feed, to 
prevent this. If all feed has to be bought 
wheat middlings are to be taken into con¬ 
sideration. I have never tried barley 
sprouts. M. A. R. 
Gabriels, N. Y. 
EGGS KEEP IN WATER GLASS. 
Our eggs were put iu water glass in July, 
when they were bringing 2.5 cents per dozen 
to private customers, and were used in Octo¬ 
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ing 35 to 40 cents ner dozen : for omelets and 
caues and custards they were as good as the 
first ones. The pound package of water glass 
that (he druggist charged me 40 cents for 
covered 6 1 /-> dozen eggs iu a stone crock. I 
shall put up double the number this season. 
Connecticut. d. f. 
In 1903 we put up 200 dozen eggs in water 
glass with complete success. The past season 
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We used them on our table all through July 
and August, and in the family since Then up 
to December 20 last, when we were tempted 
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the exception of possibly one dozen, all of the 
eggs appeared to be as good as when put up. 
\\ e laid them down iu earthen jars holding 
10 . 12 and 15 gallons, as most convenient 
sizes. Some of the material thickened like 
jelly, hut we could find no difference in the 
eggs in the jars thus jellied. T n 
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