1911. 
'the: rura.i> new-yorker 
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BEST LOCALITY FOR HOGS. 
Will you give me your opinion as to the 
best section of the United States to raise 
hogs on a big scale for market? How do 
New York State and New Jersey compare 
with Virginia and the West? The points 
to consider are climate, plenty of good run¬ 
ning water, means of getting hogs to mar¬ 
ket ; also conditions of soil for growing Red 
clover, Essex rape, Alfalfa and corn. 
Gladstone, N. J. e. w. t. 
The inquirer asks a large question, 
that covers a large territory, and should 
be answered by some one who has a 
wider knowledge of these United States 
than the writer. I do not know that the 
hog has much choice in the matter fur¬ 
ther than to have plenty to eat and 
drink and a comfortable place to sleep. 
There are advantages in being close to 
market, as this cuts out so much of the 
cost and risk in shipment. But in such 
locations other products are more de¬ 
sirable for the farmer to grow, because 
more profitable. Where the location en¬ 
tirely favors the growing of swine on 
the large scale the risk of loss by dis¬ 
ease, if they are produced, is corre¬ 
spondingly great. This risk is the great¬ 
est factor against their production on 
a large scale in many favorable sections 
where they are now grown in limited 
numbers. 
.Before locating a swine farm for ex¬ 
tensive production many things must 
be considered. The grain producing 
capacity of the farm, the pasture facili¬ 
ties and the water conveniences, all of 
these belonging to one farm in size to 
meet the requirements, and the ambi¬ 
tion of the owner are hard to get, or a 
smaller farm on which the hogs can be 
bred and pastured located in a section 
where grain not grown on the farm can 
be bought from surrounding farmers. 
The trouble in finding an altogether de¬ 
sirable farm with living running water, 
is that the necessary spring branches 
will cut the farm into small fields that 
will make them inconvenient and costly 
to cultivate. It is a question in this 
connection whether or not tubular or 
drilled wells would not be more desir¬ 
able and satisfactory than small streams 
of running water. It is generally ad¬ 
mitted that for large production such a 
farm should be in the so-called corn 
belt, as corn is the most desirable grain 
to fatten with, but it is not necessary 
always to fatten with corn. They can 
be grown in Alfalfa countries, and fin¬ 
ished with corn or barley, one or both. 
Was it my desire to do this kind of 
meat producing on an extensive scale, I 
would hunt a locality where the mild 
weather would cut out expensive and 
costly buildings, where it would never 
be necessary to use artificial heat, and 
where corn would be more at home than 
in some sections where it is now pro¬ 
duced. While Iowa is a great corn and 
hog producing State, still it seems to 
me that on many accounts sections in 
Virginia could be found that would be 
more desirable in many respects. Good 
land must come into such a combina¬ 
tion; limestone land where clover can 
be grown in rotation as well as Alfalfa 
for permanent pasture and hay, grind¬ 
ing the hay and feeding as meal when 
the hogs cannot be pastured. New 
York and New Jersey may have locali¬ 
ties where such a scheme can be 
worked, but the labor question must be 
considered, for there is plenty of work 
about a hog farm that must be done, 
and that regularly. 
I do not know what the inquirer 
would call a large scale for this work. 
I have before me the story of a man 
in the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming 
who has 100 brood sows that are pro¬ 
ducing large litters. Alfalfa is the 
principal roughness, as pasture and 
meal. Large quantities of sugar man¬ 
gels are used, finishing with corn at 
^1.30 per 100 pounds, or barley. The 
local demand consumes all he grows 
and is calling for more. I feel sure 
that in a plan of this kind the man 
working it is the most important fac¬ 
tor. In a few miles of the writer’s 
home is a young man who owns 262 
acres of land in two farms, one con¬ 
taining 178 acres and the other 84 acres. 
He now has 46 brood sows and 310 
Spring pigs. Last year his work was 
on about the same scale and very prof¬ 
itable. While corn is comparatively 
cheap he finds it somewhat difficult to 
buy over and above what he grows 
himself, as he cannot on his area of 
land produce all he needs. Yet corn is 
grown in rotation on all the farms in 
that section, and all,, the farmers grow 
hogs in limited numbers. The work of 
this young man is generally considered 
risky, but if he escapes disease the 
profits obtained pay well for the risk 
taken. Another young man operating 
about 900 acres of land has 36 brood 
sows that produced this Spring 260 pigs. 
As I understand it, these sows are all 
kept at one plant, or at one set of build¬ 
ings, while starting their pigs. The 
hogs are used to follow cattle to a great 
extent to glean the corn that would 
otherwise be wasted. 
Ross Co., O. JOHN M. JAMISON. 
FEEDING MOLASSES TO STOCK. 
Would you advise the feeding of molasses 
for trial? I was told that it is giving good 
profit. Is it a cheap or expensive feed? 
Tittstown, N. J. w. F. 
Yes, but we would not try it until win¬ 
ter. Our experience shows that the mo¬ 
lasses -is best for old horses or animals that 
do not do well on dry Winter feed. The 
molasses is a laxative, gives the animals 
a better coat, helps digest food and en¬ 
courages them to eat coarse food which they 
would not otherwise touch. Begin with a 
pint and gradually increase. We find it 
best to chop hay or stalks, dissolve the 
molasses In water and sprinkle the liquid 
over the fodder. 
t MANGEL WURZELS FOR HOGS. 
Do hogs thrive on mangel wurzels? I 
have seen a statement from some man who 
says that he plants mangels early and be¬ 
gins to feed his hogs upon them about 
June 15, and from then on he feeds nothing 
else, and that they do well on them. Can 
you tell me if this would prove true gener¬ 
ally? Could mangel wurzels be planted 
late in the Fall? If not, how early in the 
Spring would it be safe to plant, here in 
Connecticut? H. j. i. 
Would a man thrive if fed nothing but 
beets or carrots? Mangels are good as part 
of the ration for cows, hogs or sheep, but 
you cannot expect a hog to do his best on 
those roots alone. We should feed some grain 
with the mangels. Some of the feeding 
stories which go the rounds arc ridiculous. 
Some man gets fair results by feeding roots 
or silage as part of the ration. He drops 
the other part and others get the idea that 
planted late. White or Cow-horn turnips 
the roots do it all. Mangels cannot be 
are the roots for late Summer sowing. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Fistula. 
I have a colt four years old; she has 
had something like a fistula on her neck for 
about a year. A veterinary surgeon cut it 
open and it has been running ever since. 
There seems to be a pocket that holds the 
pus, and it is running ail the time. Should 
I have this cut open again or can I cure 
it by putting medicine in this pocket? 
Pennsylvania. j. c. F. 
It will be absolutely necessary to lay 
open each pipe and pocket so that pus will 
have free vent. Then cleanse the cavities 
once daily with a large quantity of two per 
cent solution of coal tar disinfectant, and 
at once pack full of oakum saturated in a 
mixture of equal parts of turpentine and 
raw linseed oil. Twice a week swab every 
part of the wound with full strength tinc¬ 
ture of iodine. If it is a bad case the 
veterinarian should prepare autogenic bac¬ 
teria from the pus and use that in the treat¬ 
ment of the case. If there Is a pipe (sinus) 
running down back of the shoulder blade 
the ease will prove practically incurable 
unless treated by a trained veterinarian. 
A. S. A. 
Abnormal Breathing; Shoe-boil. 
1. Would you give me your opinion as to 
what could bo the matter with two cows 
which I have in my herd? Both animals 
seem to have some kind of a defect in their 
breathing systems. Wnen inhaling and ex¬ 
haling, they have great difficulty and will 
often start to cough. The animals are in 
perfect condition otherwise ; they feed and 
chew their cud the way any other animal 
would do. 2. Would you give the best and 
surest way to remove a shoe-boil about the 
size of a man’s fist on a horse? 
New Jersey. k. g. 
1. In such circumstances the first step 
should be to have the cows tested with 
tuberculin, as tuberculosis affecting the 
glands of the throat is the most likely cause 
of the difficulty in breathing. If the cows 
are affected with the disease they should be 
disposed of according to law, and until the 
test has been made the milk should not be 
used. Milk from a tuberculous cow is dan¬ 
gerous to man and animals. The affected 
animals also spread the disease to other 
cattle and hogs easily contract the disease 
from taking the milk or following tubercu¬ 
lous cattle in the feeding yards. 2. Have 
the shoe-boil removed by cutting. A •very 
smull scar will remain and the operation 
is greatly to be preferred to a i.v other 
method of treatment. a. s. a. 
Inflamed Membranes. 
I have a shepherd dog about six years 
old, has always been well. Two weeks ago 
I noticed his mouth, tongue and gums were 
inflamed, not raw, and that quantities of 
saliva and froth were constantly running 
out. I can detect no other symptoms. 
Please let me know what I can do to cure 
him. I have been giving him sulphur in 
milk and washing his mouth out with a 
strong solution of borax water. The dog 
Is fed twice a day, but seldom eats more 
than one good meal. Food consists of 
table scraps, vegetables, corn bread and 
buttermilk. Dog is tied only at night and 
has fresh water all the time. a. ii. 
Stop giving sulphur. Do . not feed but¬ 
termilk. Allow one meal a day, at night. 
Mix one teaspoonful of borax to each table¬ 
spoonful of strained honey and use freely 
in mouth two or three times a day. 
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