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THE RURAL NEW-YOKKER 
043 
HOGS IN AN APPLE ORCHARD. 
I was not a little interested to read 
vvnat ‘‘Reader'’ had to say on page S65, 
anc also your comment on his com¬ 
plaints. “Reader” is right in line with 
the average man who wishes to be 
known as an agriculturist, and has no 
conception of the good qualities of a 
well-bred, well-fed and well-mannered 
hog. To commence with, the hog that 
fills the above bill has no desire to root 
up the orchard, but he is simply satis¬ 
fied to eat the windfalls, and will make 
his meal largely on clover or Alfalfa, if 
they are furnished him. The well-fed, 
properly nourished hog will not root any 
more than a sheep will, but as the aver¬ 
age hog is not properly nourished it is 
with him a case of root hog or die. It 
has not been discovered by all that a 
hog enjoys a cool, clean bath as well as 
any member of the animal kingdom, and 
better than a good many of the human 
race. Now if you are going to make 
your hog profitable you must give him 
what he best enjoys, or he will not 
thrive to the fullest extent. Give him a 
good substantial concrete tub, with run¬ 
ning water, and he will keep himself as 
clean as a dairymaid, and will have no 
need of any hog wallow that disturbs 
our friend “Reader” so very much. 
Then, when you turn him out to pas¬ 
ture in the Spring, make a pen that he 
can reach readily, putting in a load of 
good wood ashes, half a bushel of salt, 
a liberal supply of sulphur and air- 
slaked lime, and let nature take its 
course. A hog has a wonderfully deli¬ 
cately organized digestion, and it of¬ 
ten gets out of repair; in fact, the stom¬ 
ach of the hog, we are told, is very 
much like the human stomach. When 
he eats something that does not digest 
readily he must have relief. It isn’t 
often found in the swill bucket, and not 
always in the clover field. He cannot 
get out and go to an apothecary shop 
same as we humans do altogether too 
often, and his only resorts are to the 
roots and coarse soil found under the 
sod. If, however, he can go and get a 
little taste of wood ashes, or what would 
be better, charcoal, season it with a 
little salt, sulphur and lime, the remedy 
is prompt and immediate, and he will 
have no desire to run his nose into the 
hard earth, neither will he do it when 
he finds that he can get relief at his 
rude but effective drug store. The itch¬ 
ing that makes the hog rub “Reader’s” 
trees would be speedily cured or pre¬ 
vented, perhaps, if the hog had an 
opportunity to get a cool, refreshing 
bath before irritation, very often 
caused by the hot rays of the sun, strik¬ 
ing the newly turned-out animal, had 
become aggravated. 
Now “Reader” does not want to talk 
to an intelligent patronage such as the 
readers of The' R. N.-Y. certainly are, 
about the filthy and offensive hog. He 
wants to remember that God endowed 
these “filthy creatures” with habits and 
inclinations more refined than those of 
any other of our domestic animals. He 
should recall the fact that a well-bred, 
well-fed, well-mannered hog, will, if al¬ 
lowed the opportunity, divide his apart¬ 
ments into a dining-room, a sleeping- 
room, and a toilet-room, and in no in¬ 
stance is he ever guilty of forgetting the 
purposes for which each one of these 
apartments were designed. Surely this 
cannot be said of any other member of 
the animal creation. Why, then, should 
“Reader” speak so disparagingly of an 
animal that by nature possesses higher 
instincts of refinement than any other 
of our farm animals? 
We do not like to say that our friend, 
the hog, possesses many points of excel¬ 
lence, not even imitated by at least some 
members of the human family, but we 
cannot help thinking that it is true just 
the same. We are fearful that “Reader” 
has an awful mean family of hogs in his 
orchard, and if so we do not wonder 
that he is disgusted with them, because 
a mean hog can be just as undesirable 
a citizen as we ever knew, and when he 
has a slough and rubs trees, etc., we 
must admit that lie most certainly be¬ 
longs to that class, but they are not all 
that kind. If “Reader” will come down 
to Maine I will show him a breeder of 
hogs who has several hundred on his 
place all the time, and if he can hear a 
squeal from any one of them, or smell 
an unpleasant odor from the 400 feet of 
hoghouse, we will certainly acknowl¬ 
edge that the hog is a filthy, dirty crea¬ 
ture, and that God never intended him 
to be even a dweller on the face of the 
earth inhabited bv the human race. 
EDWARD P. MAYO. 
THE OUTLOOK FOR BUTTER. 
There was considerably more butter placed 
in cold storage this season than last. How¬ 
ever. we expect the Fall make to he shorter, 
also a less make during the Winter than 
last year, but we believe there will be 
enough butter for all till next May, unless 
an unexpected export demand turns up, but 
for this to happen, present prices are too 
high. H. L. crown & co. 
Chicago. 
It is our opinion that there was more but¬ 
ter put into storage last Spring and Sum¬ 
mer than a year ago, and also that there 
is about the same amount of fancy butter 
as there was a year ago in storage. We 
also believe that owing to the extreme high 
price of feed for milch cows the supply of 
milk will be less this coming Winter. 
New York. gude brothers. 
The amount of butter placed in storage 
this season was far in excess of last, as the 
reports of the Associated Warehouses, which 
include all the prominent points east of the 
Mississippi will denote: The holdings on 
October 1, 190(1, were 48,977,000; 1907, 
49.r>09,000; 1908, 60.569.000. While the 
make of butter promises to he light during 
the Winter the heavy holdings will naturally 
result in moderate prices with the excep¬ 
tion of the very finest fresh grades, which 
will probably command high figures, but we 
do not look for even these grades to go 
beyond 60 cents, while medium qualities 
will range from 22 to 25 cents. 
New York. ZIMMER & dunkak. 
You have undoubtedly seen a copy of the 
last warehouse report, which to us gives as 
clear an idea of the situation as we know 
of. The published holdings in Boston, Oc¬ 
tober 17, were 288,000 packages, against 
217,000 a year ago. We do not think there 
is any doubt but that the long drought 
has seriously affected the prospects of pro¬ 
duction this Fall and Winter, and the 
make will undoubtedly be much lighter than 
heretofore. However, we have a long sur¬ 
plus to use. and present values do not 
look favorable to much exporting. 
EGGS. 
October 1, 1906.1,463,83.3 
1907 .2,031,077 
1908 .1,671,758 
Decrease September. 1908. 262,515 
BUTTER. 
October 1, 1906.48.977.429 
1907 .49.507,777 
1908 .66.569.054 
Increase, September, 1908. 2.016.660 
DEALER. 
The butter situation just at present, so 
far as price and demand are concerned, is 
pretty well strained. The amount put in 
storage this season was quite large, much 
heavier than last year, and the storage hold¬ 
ings at the present time are at least 25 per 
cent heavier than they were a year ago. and 
it is the marketing of this block of storage 
butter that is affecting the price and giv¬ 
ing us a weak market. We are looking 
for a larger make of fresh butter this Win¬ 
ter than we had last year throughout the 
dairying sections of the West, where the 
majority of butter comes from, where they 
have plenty of good feed. 
New York. .tames Rowland & co. 
Lameness in Colt. 
I have a colt four months old that went 
lame in right hind leg two weeks ago. If 
was seen doing some hard running that 
day just after a heavy rain, and has been 
lame ever since. When running now it 
shows no signs of lameness, but when od 
the trot is very lame. The trouble seems 
to he in the stifle joint as there appears to 
he a hitch or jerking, in the hind leg when 
walking or trotting. Please tell me what 
to do. e. c. 
Ohio. 
We cannot satisfactorily prescribe for 
lameness without an examination to deter¬ 
mine the exact seat and nature of the trou¬ 
ble. It would be well to place the colt in 
a box stall and there feed lightly. If the 
stifle is known to be injured simply rub it 
well with druggist’s soap liniment twice 
daily, and this and a prolonged rest may 
be all that is necessary for recovery. Other¬ 
wise better call in a graduate veterinarian 
Ay S. A. 
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