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THE RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
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EXPERIENCE WITH PICS. 
The pig tales which have appeared in 
The R. N.-Y. have been amusing, and 
perhaps useful, for they have provoked 
the writing of experiences by some, who, 
like myself, • would not have otherwise 
done so. My first experience in pig grow¬ 
ing was in the year 1903-4, and following 
are the exact figures copied from my pig 
book: 
December 9, three pigs at $2.00.$6.00 
“ 100 lbs. standard middlings 
“ 25 pounds oil meal. 1.50 
February 2, 200 lbs. standard middlings 2.20 
cartage . 10 
March 18, middlings and cartage.2.10 
March 26, one bushel corn.56 
April 30, middlings.2.25 
October 7, 100 lbs. cornraeal. 1.25 
October 20, 200 lbs. cornmeal. 2.50 
October 28, 200 lbs. cornmeal. 2.30 
November, cornmeal .57 
November 27 butchering. 1.00 
Credits. 
$22.33 
March 28, one pig.$3.50 
November 27, two hogs dressed 
at 7c . 42.00 
$45.50 
$22.33 
Profit for labor.$23.17 
You will note that on March 28 I sold 
one alive, as he was small, and I knew it 
would be a loss to feed one small pig at 
the same trough with two larger ones, 
although they were about the same age. 
The pigs were fed the separator milk from 
two cows, or most of it, as the hens had a 
share. The hogs were also fed a few 
apples, perhaps 15 bushels. My pen is 
PORK ON THE HOOF. 
only 6x8 feet, and yard is but little 
larger and very muddy. Last season I 
kept but one porker, but the profit was in 
about the same ratio. 
My next-door neighbor has a clothes¬ 
line which she brought from Canada 33 
years ago, and she had used it six or eight 
years previous to coming to the States, 
and she says it has always hung out of 
doors all these 40 years. I examined it 
this morning and there is not a spot of 
rust on it except on the tip ends, where 
it was cut or broken off. It was a piece 
of solid iron wire and galvanized. The 
raw ends show only slight traces of rust. 
Mv own wife has a cable clothesline in 
use for about six years which shows no 
sign of rust. We also have a fence built 
of plain iron wire. This fence was put 
up in 1877, and would be good to-day but 
that some of the posts have rotted off. 
The wire was not galvanized, and while 
it is rusty on the surface it is not rotten. 
Give the wire makers fits until they give 
us what we demand, and are willing to 
guarantee their goods. Farmers are will¬ 
ing to pay for honest goods, and the day 
of wholesale duping of farmers without 
equal resentment has gone by. 
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WATERCRESS UNDER CLASS. 
Last year we described the methods of a 
gardener In Illinois who grows water cress in 
low ground below a spring. It is not gener¬ 
ally known that cress is grown successfully 
under glass. II. L. Janzen, of Ontario, writes 
the Florists’ Exchange as follows: 
“The writer first saw water cress growing 
under glass in 1885 near Philadelphia, and I 
think we have been growing it more or less 
for ten or twelve years. The soil that will 
produce lettuce or radish will also grow water 
cress. As the seed is extremely fine, and the 
plants therefore very small when they first 
break through the soil, we deem it best to sow 
in flats; and as soon as the plants are large 
enough to prick out into other flats. From 
the latter we transplant to the bed or bench 
in rows four inches apart each way. The 
temperature of the lettuce house suits it 
nicely, but if given a somewhat higher tem¬ 
perature it will grow much faster. It should 
he needless to say that it requires copious 
watering. In all these years we never had a I 
complaint from anyone about its being too 
bitter. The only difficulty experienced, so 
far, is that we have never been able to keep 
the supply up to the demand. We consider 
water cress, both for the local trade and for 
shipping, about as profitable as lettuce. We 
take a number of cuttings from each plot of 
ground before it is turned under, but where 
desired it can be cleaned off with one cut¬ 
ting. The list of vegetables that lend them¬ 
selves to profitable cultivation under glass 
is none too large, and I therefore take pleas¬ 
ure in recommending water cress as a money¬ 
making greenhouse crop.” Mr. Janzen says 
he has had no experience in transplanting 
cress from the swamps on the greenhouse. 
Thick-Necked Onions. 
II. E. R. (No Address ).—I had two acres 
of big-neck onions, which are in the ground 
now. Will they be good green onions in the 
Spring, and what is the cause of their not 
ripening? I also had two acres where, in 
spots, I never had better onions, and in spots 
not fifteen feet from the good ones there 
was nothing but big-necks. On this two 
acres I put 60 loads of manure from the 
barn yard. 
Ans.— The onions on the two acres that 
were left on the ground over Winter will 
undoubtedly be a total loss. Thick-necks 
are often caused by an inferior quality of 
seed, sowing too late in the season, an 
over-supply of nitrogen, or bad drainage. 
Regarding the second plot, it is possible 
that the spots in the otherwise good piece 
might have been caused by leaving piles 
of manure remaining on the ground for a 
length of time, and the ground plowed 
when these spots were very wet. Having 
taken up a large quantity of nitrogen 
would account for the above results. It 
is much better to spread the manure and 
plow under in the Fall. 
JOHN JEANNIN, JR. 
Weight of Sweet Corn. 
W. C. L., Nantucket, Mass .—How many 
pounds should a bushel of ears of sweet corn 
weigh? How many pounds should a bushel 
of shelled sweet corn weigh? 
Ans.— We cannot give the proper 
weight of a bushel of ears of sweet corn. 
Ears of sweet corn average about 230 to 
the bushel of shelled seed. The weight of 
shelled seed averages about 44 pounds to 
the bushel. The legal weights of ordinary 
corn are 70 pounds in the ear in most 
States, 68 pounds in Ohio and Indiana. 
Shelled corn, 56 pounds in most States, 58 
pounds in New York, and 52 pounds in 
California. 
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