1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
899 
THE BREEDS OF HOGS. 
I read with interest the discussion on 
pages 806 and 807 on breeds of hogs, and 
am not a little surprised at some points 
urged by different writers, both for and 
against different breeds. Personally, 1 
prefer the Chester White, but I do not 
think that I am so absorbed in this breed 
that I cannot see good points in the other 
breeds of hogs. I would say to Arthur C. 
Adams that the judges of the Inter¬ 
national Fat Stock Show at Chicago in 
1901, and at least once since, do not carry 
out his conclusion that the Chester Whites 
and the Duroc Jerseys are coarse, flabby, 
rough hogs, and that they make a poor 
quality of meat, since five Chester White 
barrows won first prize over all other 
breeds both as live hogs and also after 
they were dressed in that year at that 
great show, and I remember that since 
that a Chester White carcass won sweep- 
stakes prize over all other breeds. The 
Duroc Jerseys have won over the Poland 
Chinas once or twice at least. As to the 
hustling disposition, the treatment and 
breeding of the hogs has much to do with 
that. I have read and heard much of the 
lazy disposition of the Chester White, and 
yet I find that my Chester Whites have 
energy enough. They are of a gentle dis¬ 
position, not troublesome, but have plenty 
of energy. There are good individuals in 
all breeds, and there are inferior animals 
in all breeds. It is all right to have a. 
prefe'rence, but it is certainly not best to 
rely too much on the breed without con¬ 
sidering the breeding. The show records 
are sufficient evidence of the superiority of 
all of the standard breeds over common 
stock, and they also show that the breed¬ 
ing has much to do, since some shows 
give championship to one breed and others 
to another. It is not quite safe to stake 
too much on a favorite breed as being su¬ 
perior to all others. A. j. legg. 
West Virginia. 
TARRED PAPER FOR HENHOUSE. 
I am thinking of building a poultry house, 
and desire to use cheap tarred paper under¬ 
neath the weatherboarding to insure warmth, 
and as a preventive against mites, lice. etc. 
Will the creosote contained in the manu¬ 
facture of paper be injurious to health of 
fowls? J. s. H. 
Mt. Sidney, Va. 
Not in the least degree. I have used it 
years ago to line the inside of poultry 
houses without any ill effects; in fact, I 
rather thought it healthful. Lice will not 
go on the paper until it has become dry 
and inodorous, which will take six months 
or more. But I found by experience that 
tarred paper will not do to cover celery. 
I raised some of the finest and largest 
celery I ever saw; it was 254 feet high. 
I dug a sloping trench in a side hill, filled 
it with the celery, covered the celery with 
some of this tarred paper that was old 
and dry, put a lot of leaves on that and 
boards on the leaves. In midwinter I 
opened the trench and took out some of 
the celery; it had blanched clear to the 
very top, and was delightful to look at, but 
not a mouthful could be eaten. The warm 
air had condensed on the paper, wetting it 
and then dripping down on the cel¬ 
ery, until every stalk was permeated with 
the horrible creosote taste. We had con¬ 
siderable fun with it though. Putting it 
on the table when we had company the 
first thing the guest would say was, “Why! 
what magnificent celery; did you raise it?”. 
As we assured them we did, we would all 
try hard to keep our faces straight until 
the first bite was taken, then there would 
be a roar, and explanations. I wouldn’t 
advise J. H. S. to use it for an outside 
covering, as it will crawl and pull and 
draw in the sun, and be anything but sat¬ 
isfactory. GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
CLEAN FOOD FOR POULTRY . 
SSeelng an article on page 783, by E. L. E., 
Pennsylvania, about his chickens dying with 
« disease he does not understand, I just want 
•to say this : If he will keep the bad meat 
:awa.v fjw>m them he will soon learn what the 
itrouble Is; he or anyone else who feeds such 
.stuff to hens should expect just such results. 
Besides it is not only injurious to the chick¬ 
ens, but the persons who eat the fowls or the 
eggs. That is a bad mistake to feed such 
unhealthful stuff. I keep 200 or 250 hens 
all the year ’round, and feed meat once a 
week, but cook it for them, and it is not 
spoiled meat, but fresh, and right here is an 
important matter. It is that of allowing dead 
chicks, spoiled eggs and dead hens to lie 
around the poultry houses and yards. If I 
find a dead chick I have an old pan out in the 
washhouse and I put it there, and also spoiled 
eggs the hens have failed to hatch, and as 
soon as I am through with cooking my meal 
I close the stove dampers and put them in 
the stove. There is no smell, and one never 
knows they are in the stove. They all burn 
up clean. When a hen dies we burn her out¬ 
side in the pasture; in fact, we cremate 
everything that dies on the place, we never 
bury them, as something is sure to dig them 
up. I have seen different ones go out and 
throw spoiled eggs against the outside of the 
henhouses, and leave an odor that is very 
unhealthy for the chickens. The cleaner and 
purer the food and cleaner the houses the 
healthier the hens and the better the eggs. 
I have a customer in town who has taken 
four dozen eggs every week for six years, and 
he says the eggs lie gets from us are the 
purest and best flavored he ever ate, and I 
have shipped thousands of dozens to a dealer 
in Portland, Oregon, and he says he never 
heard one complaint of his customers about 
the eggs be got from me, nor has anyone ever 
found a bad egg. Why Is it? Because we al¬ 
ways gather our eggs every day, always wash 
tfie soiled ones, and wipe them dry before we 
put them in the ease, and if we And a nest 
out and are doubtful about their being fresh 
we never put them in the case. We keep our 
houses clean, take the droppings up every 
morning while the hens eat their mash, and 
we feed the mash in troughs and always have 
the trough clean, and feed mash 3f>5 days in 
the year. Do not think anything good enough 
for your hens, as it is a great mistake if you 
expect healthy fowls and pure eggs. I have a 
sister who lives near a large salmon cannery : 
she fed her hens scraps from the cannery and 
could not eat the eggs nor the hens, and had 
to stop feeding it to them. m. f, h. 
Canby, Ore. _ 
“Kerosene for Fowls.” —The article on 
“Kerosene for Sick Fowls,” page 855, re¬ 
minds me that nearly 30 years ago C. P. 
Jordan, of New Haven, Conn., used to 
soak corn in kerosene and feed it to his 
fine flock of White Leghorn fowls. He 
would skip one meal to make them hun¬ 
gry, then fed the corn as a preventive of 
roup or disease of any kind. Mr. Jordan 
is one of the best known poultry breeders 
in Connecticut. I have not used it be¬ 
cause I have not been bothered with 
roupy fowls since coming here. My -or¬ 
dinary cure for a sick fowl is a sharp ax; 
then I turn her into fruit by planting her 
under a peach or plum tree. I really 
think though that kerosene is a good 
thing, and a handy way to use it is by 
putting, say, a tablespoonful on a pail of 
their drinking water. One reason I have 
not used it was that I always feared it 
might flavor the eggs. A small quantity 
of slaked lime diluted with plenty of 
water and mixed in the mash is a very 
wholesQme thing for fowls, particularly 
so if there is a tendency to lay soft- 
shelled eggs. GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
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