THE RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
February 18, 
HOG PASTURE IN MARYLAND. 
I read au article on rape as hog pasture 
In the issue for December 31. I have 10 
pigs to carry over Winter and will have 
20 more in April, making 30 in all. Ac¬ 
cording to your article one acre should 
feed 40. I will willingly plant two acres, 
and then corn them for six weeks next 
Fall, if the rape will carry them along 
to fattening time. What is the proper 
time to plant rape, and how, also how soon 
can it be used as a pasture? J. F. c. 
Liberty Grove, Md. 
Ilow much Dwarf Essex ratie should be 
bowu on one acre, and what would be the 
proper time to sow, for hog pasture? And 
where could one buy the seed? s. w. m. 
Smith burg, Md. 
You might sow rape in the early 
Spring, as soon as the soil can be worked 
in good order, and can turn on it prob¬ 
ably in June or July. I doubt that the 
one sowing will carry the pigs till fat¬ 
tening time, but you can sow another 
lot early in August, and that would 
carry them along pretty well. It would 
have been better had you sown Crimson 
clover last Summer, for this would be 
ready for the pigs in early Spring and 
would carry them till the rape is ready. 
Then if you sow some Whippoorwill cow 
peas the first of June they will be ready 
for the pigs after the Spring-sown rape 
is eaten. In this way you would have 
a succession of crops for the pigs 
through the season till corn-feeding time. 
The rape can be sown in rows and culti¬ 
vated and about three pounds will sow 
an acre in this way, but broadcast 1 
would use twice as much seed. The seed 
can be had from any of the leading 
seedsmen. A crop of rape sown in early 
August will run till pretty late in the 
Fall. w. F. MASSEY. 
way except by breaking the egg in a 
dish and examining it with a strong 
lens. F. T. FINCH. 
MAGIC EGG TESTER. 
tviiat about the “Magic egg tester," 
'which the makers claim will prove whether 
an egg is fertile or not? This is done by 
fastening the egg to a float which has a 
•graduated neck with degrees from one to 
■•10, and above all the figures near the top 
■two degrees marked X and the nearest one 
to tlie top is XX. The claim of the mak¬ 
ers is that only the eggs that are heavy 
enough to bring the float down when put in 
a pail of water to the marks X and XX 
are fit to hatch, and all the smaller and 
lighter ones are infertile. This is contrary 
to my experience, for 1 have always found 
that there are more infertile eggs among 
the larger than the smaller eggs, and I 
should like to have your opinion on the 
subject. F - D - J - 
New Jersey. 
Fortunately I have had some experi¬ 
ence with the Magic egg tester, having 
tested considerably more than 10,000 
eggs for hatching with two testers. This 
work was done at a time when the cir¬ 
cumstances were such that any increase 
in the per cent of hatches would have 
added a feather to my cap. Therefore 
it will readily be seen that I was very 
careful in following the directions sent 
out with the tester. Before using the 
tester 1 had always made a practice of 
incubating only those eggs which came 
very near to my idea of a perfect egg 
in size, shape and condition of shell. 
By using the Magic egg tester I found 
that the eggs which held the tester with 
X or XX on the. water line were in¬ 
variably the ones I would have consid¬ 
ered about the right size for hatching 
purposes. As the tester only selected 
the large eggs, irrespective of shape, I 
found it necessary to cull out from the 
tested eggs those which I considered 
undesirable. There being so much ex¬ 
tra labor necessary, I did not consider 
it worth while to use the tester. Fur¬ 
thermore it has been my experience 
that small eggs are usually as fertile as 
large eggs. And why not? Do not 
Hamburg eggs hatch as well as Brahma 
eggs? And yet they are much smaller. 
Of course we generally consider pullet 
eggs of any breed as inferior in com¬ 
parison with eggs laid by mature hens, 
and yet they are often more fertile. I 
have never been able to select the in¬ 
fertile eggs from the fertile ones, 
whether large or small, by the use of 
the Magic egg tester or in any other 
EXERCISE OR CONFINEMENT FOR COWS, j 
I have read the question about exer- , 
cise for cows printed on page 140. Since 1 
these cattle enjoy their liberty, are thriv¬ 
ing, and their milk yield is satisfactory, 
there would seem to be little to criticize 
in the method here described, under the 
precise conditions named. That the cat¬ 
tle are hardy I do not doubt. I have | 
visited many hundred stables, but do not 
recall seeing one where cattle could be 
made so comfortable in the adjacent 
yard as in the one here described. In 
most places that I have seen, cattle 
could not be comfortable in the yard on 
a cold, raw day in Winter. There is 
one thing that is a little indefinite here, 
that I should be glad to know, and that 
is whether O. IT. has the same ideas 
regarding a satisfactory milk yield that 
some other people might have. I do 
not wish to cast reflections upon the 
method here described, hut really I am 
inclined to think that a larger milk 
yield might be obtained' by less time 
spent out of doors. The fact, however, 
that this yard is warm, clean and shel¬ 
tered, and that the cattle are out only in 
fair weather is much in their favor. If 
I had just the conditions that this man 
has 1 might do as he does, although I 
think that is doubtful. These cows will 
probably resist disease well, hut it should 
be remembered the other man’s cows, 
which are out in a bleak yard for some 
hours a day, are not thus favored. 
Our own practice is to let the cows 
out twice a day to drink, as we have no 
way at present to water them in the 
stable. There are very few days when 
the cows are out longer than is neces¬ 
sary for them to drink, and we iet oniy 
a dozen out at a time. On very stormy 
days we may not turn out more than 
four or five at a time. On particularly 
fair days they are commonly out until 
they want to return, which is not very 
long during the real Winter weather. 
Our yard is somewhat sheltered by a 
piece of woods, hut 1 am sure it is not 
so warm as the one described by O. 
H. Our stable is well ventilated, and 
we do not let the temperature rise much 
above 40 or 45 degrees if we can avoid 
it, which, of course, we sometimes can¬ 
not do. Some dairymen whom I know 
prefer a warmer stable, and less fresh 
air than we have, and affirm that they 
can get more milk by the warmer 
stable. One of these herds which 1 have 
known, was a high producer, but later 
the cows became diseased, and many 
people regard the close confinement as 
a prominent cause of the trouble. It 
would seem to me that there is a proper 
medium in this matter, and doubtless 
that may he somewhat different for 
different people. O. H. may have it for 
his conditions, but for mine it will be 
necessary to house the cattle more. 
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