THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1505. 
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THE HOG QUESTION DISCUSSED . 
Business With Business Pigs.—I 
was interested in the pig story of Miss 
Robbins. I have had nearly five years’ 
experience in that line on my Brookside 
Farm, and it has not resulted as hers did. 
We have a swine barn 25x81 feet with an 
ell 1(5x16; it has cement floor throughout, 
is one story save 25x25 for brood sows, 
where the straw for bedding is kept in 
the loft; this serves the double purpose 
of having the bedding handy and keeping 
the pen warm in Winter. All pens have 
cement troughs, and swinging fronts so 
that they may be fastened back while the 
feed is being placed in troughs; there is 
a faucet from which to run water in 
nearly all troughs, a room 16x16 for cook¬ 
ing feed and slaughtering, and it all cost 
about $400. We keep from 15 to 20 brood 
sows, selling the surplus pigs to neighbors 
at good prices. The farm is just at the 
outskirts of the city, and we have city 
garbage enough placed in our cooker each 
day to feed 100 all that they will eat. 
It is first thoroughly cooked, mixed with 
water and fed hot. The feed comes to 
the cooker free of cost; so that the only 
expense we have is cooking, bedding and 
labor, outside of interest on investment. 
We manage to turn off from $600 to $1,100 
per year in pigs and pork. We always try 
to have ours ready for market in August 
and March, for at those times pork brings 
the best prices, but we sell some nearly 
every month of the year. Unlike your 
editorial writer, we like to have them 
dress as near 150 as possible, and not go 
over that figure, as we get more for the 
pork if it dresses from 125 to 150. We 
also like the low, chunky fellows, because 
they are always fat and ready for market, 
so that we are ready to clean out our pens 
if a time comes, as it does sometimes in 
hot weather, when there is a shortage of 
pork in New York City, and they are will¬ 
ing to pay a good price for some that are 
nearby. If we had the long lanky kind 
they would have to be specially fitted for 
market, and would have to be sold when 
they were ready, regardless of the state of 
the market. Miss Robbins made her first 
mistake, not when she bought the pigs, 
but when she put them into a yard; prob¬ 
ably the sport she had in chasing those 
pigs cost her more (in loss of feed) than 
any other amusement that she ever had. 
We find than an 8 x 10 pen gives room 
for sufficient exercise for a pig to grow 
on, and a plentiful supply of charcoal from 
the cooker takes the place of the earth that 
they eat when on the ground. From the 
cradle to the grave none of our pigs ever 
touches the ground except the breeders. 
This cannot be successfully done without 
the charcoal, nor do I think it advisable to 
try it without the weekly use of a good 
disinfectant and daily cleaning of the pens. 
I would ask nothing better as a means of 
making a living than to be located near 
some city, with about $600 invested in a 
pork plant. Garbage can be safely fed 
(and nothing else ever fed) if it is cooked, 
and plenty of charcoal and water is given 
with it. ELLIS M. SANTEE. 
Cortland Co., N. Y. 
AYRSHIRE CATTLE. 
The attempt of the Ayrshire breeders to 
establish an advanced registry has in ils 
first entries met with as much success as 
could have been expected from so small a 
number of the breeders that entered their 
herds and we believe the few breeders who 
have put their cows on record are worthy of 
a good deal of praise for their attempt to 
give their favorite breed a standing of cer¬ 
tainty on an official basis. 
While New England has furnished the 
most, being from the herds of Messrs. Yea ton. 
Drew, Fletcher and Winslow, Probasco, of 
New Jersey; Cook, of Ohio, and Hill, of 
Minnesota, have helped to scatter the test. 
The requirement of 8,500 pounds of milk 
and 375 pounds of butter is calculated to 
round out a good dairy cow, and we found a 
good many that gave more than the required 
amount of either milk or butter, but would 
not come up to the required amount in both 
milk and butter. 
In the first volume of the advanced regis¬ 
try recently issued there are thirty-one cows 
and heifers that qualified, being from the 
herds of the above breeders. 
The average yield of the mature cows was 
6.414 pounds of milk and 532 pounds of 
butter, and for the heifers the average yield 
in the two-year form 6.815 pounds of milk 
and 311 pounds of butter in the year. 
The largest yield in the mature form was 
12.172 pounds of milk and 546 pounds of 
butter in one year. 
The largest yield in the two-year-old form 
was 8,201 pounds of milk and 403 pounds of 
butter in one year. o. m. winslow. 
Secretary. 
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