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April S, 
SUGGESTIONS FOR A HOGHOUSE. 
I would like plans for a hoghouse. I 
would like about six brood sows at present, 
and raise the pigs to fatten, so would need 
covered pens with open runs attached. 
Would also like room attached for cooker 
and feed room. I would like to build so it 
could be conveniently added to if so desired. 
Would concrete or wood be best for mate¬ 
rial? A. H. B. 
Saugerties, N. Y. 
It is a difficult matter to plan a hog¬ 
house to suit a farmer from a short 
written request without knowing the 
surroundings and circumstances govern¬ 
ing the need of such a building. It will 
hardly be possible in a swine-growing 
section to find two permanent hoghouses 
built on the same plan. Farmers it seems 
differ as much in this as they do in 
building their own homes. When it 
comes to a single or colony house great 
numbers of a single pattern can be found 
in a section of country where each far¬ 
mer grows a greater or less number of 
pigs. Further than heating water for 
mixing slop, cooking potatoes and occa¬ 
sionally warming the house at farrow¬ 
ing time, there is no need of heat. There 
is no profit in cooking grains of any 
kind. There is nothing like sunshine 
to give health to young pigs aside from 
the milk from their dams. Consequent¬ 
ly in planning a house provision should 
be made for this. It does not require a 
great space covered with sunshine to 
meet the wants of a litter of pigs. 
It is not a good plan to build a house 
so pens will be on the north side where 
the pigs can have no sunshine. If a 
house fronts the southeast more sun¬ 
shine can be had than in any other 
position. A room for a single sow and 
litter should be at least 10x5 feet, and 
besides this space allotted there should 
be an alleyway four feet wide to pass 
in front of the pens, for convenience in 
feeding and cleaning out. Thus for six 
sows we shall want a building 30x14, 
and besides this a room 10x14 feet for 
feed room and heater. When desired 
this building can be extended from the 
end of the stalls, or from the feed room. 
The most satisfactory way to build 
this is to have a cement door, sloping 
from the back towards the front, the 
front towards the southeast, the floor 
part of the pens sloping two inches in 
the 10 feet, leaving the floor of the 
alley level. If the feed room is placed 
in the center of the building the heating 
apparatus can be made use of at far¬ 
rowing time for at least two sows, and 
when the pigs are well started at a day 
or two old they can be moved to an¬ 
other stall. To get the best satisfaction 
from a building of this kind there should 
be a lot in front of each stall with a 
doorway into the alley, and a gateway 
into the stall. It is not possible to have 
the pigs do very well for a long time 
on the cement floor. They must get 
on to the ground for thrift. It will be a 
good plan to have the partitions and 
doors portable, as by taking them out 
or opening them against the walls it 
makes more room, and the pens or stall 
floors can be used as a feeding floor. 
The cement floor should be high enough 
above the ground level to allow filling 
up against the wall so the water would 
drain away from the building. There 
should be a wall a few inches higher 
than the floor around and built at same 
time the floor is built so that all is 
solid. Then the owner can put a wooden 
or cement building on top of this. It 
must be remembered that all cracks or 
holes that will admit air must be 
guarded against at the same time provi¬ 
sion is made for ventilation when needed. 
This superstructure can be such as suits 
the fancy of the owner, high enough to 
give storage room for an extra amount 
of feed or bedding, although there is 
some risk in storing the latter, on ac¬ 
count of fire in the feed room. If any 
currents are allowed for ventilation they 
should pass over the sows and pigs. 
An abundance of bedding should be 
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Ross Co., O. JOHN M. JAMISON. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS. 
Of the several dairy breeds Holsteins 
are noted for giving a great volume of 
milk, which characteristic makes them 
the ideal cow for milk dairies. Regis¬ 
tered Holstein-Friesians are outnum¬ 
bered by Jerseys, but much exceed in 
numbers any of the other breeds. In 
the State of New York statistics show 
that there are 32,OSO registered Hol¬ 
steins, 6,448 Jerseys, 2,907 Guernseys, 
and 2,065 Ayrshires, a very good show¬ 
ing for the Holsteins. Where the sale 
of milk is the main consideration, the 
Holsteins have their innings. Though 
they produce heavy yields of milk, the 
percentage of butter fat is low, and 
those interested in butter making chiefly 
prefer cows giving richer milk. While 
the percentage of butter fat is compara¬ 
tively low there is a great volume of 
this milk produced, making the total 
yield of butter ample for any particular 
cow. The picture on page 459, Fig. 155, 
shows a high-priced registered Ilolstein- 
Friesian cow having a high record for 
milk production. This animal has a well 
marked dairy conformation; wedge- 
shaped body, thin quarters and .min, 
tapering neck and a large udder and 
milk veins. We hear much lately about 
dual-purpose cows; such cows, able to 
produce calves of some promise as beef 
steers and a fair lot of milk may do 
for the general purpose farm, but for 
the specialized dairy farm the special¬ 
ized dairy cow is the most profitable 
kind, and for the milk dairy the Holstein 
fills the bill. w. e. duckwaia. 
Ohio. 
WHAT KIND OF SILAGE CORN? 
To me there was a “sort” of connect¬ 
ing link between the darkey preacher, 
“Uncle Moses,” and “What kind of sil¬ 
age corn shall we plant,” page 81, for 
the reason that the last has been an¬ 
swered to hundreds of silo men in north¬ 
east Ohio from this same point of view 
at Afton, Va. For the last five years 
10,000 or more acres of silage corn has 
been planted each year in this vicinity, 
from corn sent from Afton and Bates- 
ville, Va., and the acreage is steadily 
increasing. Some of our local dealers 
are selling as high as 1,000 bushels of 
it each year, and new customers com¬ 
ing each season. The answer to this 
popularity comes from this cause. This 
corn, naturally of a large growing, ro¬ 
bust variety, is grown on the plateaus 
of the Blue Ridge, quite 2,000 feet above 
tide level and has as short a growing 
season as our northern varieties, and 
with about the same proportion in quan¬ 
tity, as noted by Mr. Martin, page 81, 
as between Eureka and Sanford. 
Brought North and planted in northern 
Ohio with its altitude of about 1,100 
feet, it grows to very large size, pro¬ 
fusely leaved, and heavily eared if 
planted about 10 to 12 quarts per acre, 
and by September 20 is matured fully 
in all respects for the silo. Grown up 
here it is remarkably charged with 
sweetening elements, and if fed in the 
Fall as a soiling crop, is so toothsome 
that it is eaten up to the last remnant. 
About 15 years ago I chanced upon this 
high-growing, Blue Ridge corn for sil¬ 
age, and have never found its equal for 
germinating power of seed, vigor of 
growth, and profuse earing, with the re¬ 
sult as narrated in the beginning of this 
article. John gould. 
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