1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
70S 
LONG CHURNING. 
1 . I want to know why it takes so long 
to churn or to get the butter, and if there 
is any feed or remedy for the trouble ? I 
churn from 1% to three hours. The cow 
has been fresh three months, a large red 
cow, on Blue grass and clover pasture, al¬ 
though just now the pasture is short from 
the drought, and I feed her twice a day 
with bran and shorts or mill. stuff, and 
now once a day green sweet cornstalks; 
salt her a little in feed each morning. I 
keep the milk on cellar floor, and churn 
every second day. 2. In my answer to ques¬ 
tion about feeding motherless pigs I was 
advised to feed all the cornmeal they would 
eat up clean twice per day. Is it fed dry 
or moistened with the milk? About what 
would be a feed, and how much drink per 
day for fattening pigs? v. m. f. 
Hamilton, O. 
1. Your feeding is all right. With a 
clover and June grass pasture, sweet 
cornstalks and a mixture of bran and 
shorts, no reasonable cow should com¬ 
plain. Perhaps your trouble in churn¬ 
ing is due to imperfect ripening of the 
cream. If your cellar is cool, you 
should be able to make good butter by 
churning every third day, or every 
twice a week. Keep the cream as cool 
as possible until the last mess for that 
churning is added, when it should be 
raised to a temperature of 70 to 75 
degrees, and held there for at least 12 
hours before churning. Mix it all thor¬ 
oughly and stir often while it is ripen¬ 
ing. The cream should have a pro¬ 
nounced acid taste before it is ready 
to churn, but care should be taken 
not to overdo the ripening process. 
Skim the milk in about 36 hours after 
setting, or as soon as it begins to 
thicken in the bottom of the pans. In 
skimming remove as little of the skim- 
milk as possible—a thick cream will 
churn more easily than a thin cream. 
2. Skim-milk, thickened with a mix¬ 
ture of cornmeal and shorts—about half 
and half by weight—makes a good ra¬ 
tion for growing pigs. Stir in about 
one pound of the grain mixture for 
every three pounds of milk, and allow 
it to soak a few hours before feeding. 
In growing pigs for bacon, where a 
large proportion of lean meat is re¬ 
quired, the shorts and skim-milk alone 
make an excellent feed, especially when 
supplemented by pasture. The amount 
fed all depends upon the age and size 
of the pig. A good rule is to feed all 
that they will clean up in from five to 
10 minutes—depending somewhat upon 
the table manners of the pig—the more 
polite the pig, the longer will he be in 
cleaning up his trough. c. s. M. 
FEEDING NEW CORN TO HOGS. 
I have 41 shotes that average about 90 
or 100 pounds, which I have purchased to 
feed most of my 1908 corn to, and wish to 
begin as early as possible. The hogs are 
grazing in a wood lot that has re¬ 
cently had the timber cut off, leaving 
lots of underbrush and two swamps. They 
also have the run of an old pasture field and 
are doing all right. Will some one tell 
me the best method and how to proceed? I 
think years ago I tried feeding new corn 
and had trouble with sore teeth. How can 
I avoid this trouble? I do not know of any 
hog cholera in this county, yet I would like 
to know if there is a preventive. I am 
not on or near a stream of water. 
Licking Co., O. A. h. r. 
A. H. R. will find that his hogs will 
thrive well on the pasture they have, as 
long as there is sufficient rain to keep 
the pasture green. But if it should turn 
very dry, they will not hold their own. 
If he has any grain it will pay to feed a 
small quantity till new corn is ready. 
He can commence new c a when the 
corn begins to dent. At the start, feed 
stalk and all. A stalk and ear each 
will do to start with, less than this bet¬ 
ter than more, once a day for two or 
three days. In this stage they will 
chew up the whole of the stalk for the 
juices it contains. As the stalks harden, 
and the ears ripen, they will chew less 
of the stalks. During this process the 
amount of corn fed should be gradu¬ 
ally increased. They should be brought 
to full feed in about two weeks. I do 
not mean to have corn lie by them from 
one feed to another, but be fed in such 
a manner that they will be hungry and 
ready at feeding time. Still allow 
them the run of the cut-off timber land 
and pasture. It will be better to allow 
them this range till finished for market. 
Hauling their corn, and feeding them 
near water, would feed stalk and all, 
as long as they chew up the green 
stalks well. I never knew of another 
instance where hogs’ teeth were made 
sore by feeding new corn, and would 
charge this instance to some other cause, 
and not take it into consideration in 
future work. It will be found an ex¬ 
cellent plan to keep salt and hard wood 
ashes constantly before them. This 
will very much aid digestion. The best 
preventive of hog cholera is to keep 
the hogs in perfect condition, or as 
near so as conies within the range of 
human possibility. Rush the hogs to 
marketable condition, then if cholera 
strikes the neighborhood put them on 
the market. john m. jamison. 
CO-OPERATION IN BREEDING. 
The Guernsey Breeders’ Bulletin re¬ 
ports a meeting of the Waukesha 
(Wis.) County Guernsey Association. 
Among other papers read was one by 
R. W. Rowlands, who told how the 
members of the Association had bene¬ 
fited by cooperation: 
Three years ago the Waukesha County 
Guernsey Association was organized by 
members who possessed just a sprinkling of 
Guernsey blood in their herds. To-day they 
can boast of over 400 registered animals. 
In 1906 the sale of purebred animals, 
mostly young males, reached about $ 2 , 000 ; 
1907 showed an increase to about $4,000, 
and 1908, with only five months gone, has 
$3,500 to her credit. Besides this, there 
has been a large sale of grades, some 
selling as high as $160, and going to all 
parts of the United States. As yet no 
official tests have been made, but a number 
are about ready for it, and expect to 
start this Fall, with hopes of making some 
good records. 
Such farmers would laugh at argu¬ 
ments made to convince them that pure 
blood does not pay. They know better. 
Similar results could be obtained in 
nearly every dairy country in America 
if farmers would get together, agree 
upon the best breed of cattle for their 
purpose, buy good specimens intelli¬ 
gently and stick to the business honestly. 
PREVENTING VERMIN ON HENROOSTS. 
Is it any advantage to have hen roosts 
free from the walls of the building as a 
method of keeping lice from the fowls? 
Would it be all right to suspend the roosts 
with wire and then keep grease on the wire? 
Keeping the henhouses free from ver¬ 
min seems to be one of those trouble¬ 
some questions which bother every year 
just as soon as the hot weather begins. 
And it is one of those things that af¬ 
fect your own comfort as well as the 
hens’, for besides the fact of the loss of 
eggs and flesh, if the hens are not kept 
clean and free from vermin, it is very 
unpleasant for anyone to work among 
them. If one has only a few hens it is 
a small matter to whitewash the house 
in the Spring, and then go over the 
perches with a brush and a little kero¬ 
sene once a week, but where your hens 
are in the thousands we must get a 
quicker method, so we use our big spray 
rig and spray all our houses with lime 
and sulphur in the Spring, just as soon 
as we finish spraying the orchards. This 
so thoroughly cleans them that we pay 
no further heed for a long time, per¬ 
haps two months, but as soon as anyone 
discovers any mites under the perches 
we drive all around with another spray 
mixture consisting of five gallons of 
Scalccide to 50 of water, and thoroughly 
spray the nesting device, which consists 
of the dropping boards with the nests 
underneath and the perches resting 
above. We are very careful to get this 
oil spray into every crack, and as these 
nests and roosts hang from the roof it 
is very easily kept clean by this method, 
with only occasional sprayings. 
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