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THE RURAL N R W-YORKER 
April 20, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
HOW TO PUSH YOUNG PIGS. 
Permit me to suggest to the Plope 
Farm inan that if he wants to see those 
six weeks pigs swell up, stretch out, get 
big, and return 200 pounds for their 
feed without milk, let him exchange his 
corn for peas, omit the middlings, and 
mix the peas, one bushel, to two bushels 
of oats, ground together. Mix with 
greasy dishwater and clean water if 
necessary to the consistency of batter, 
then add about one-third boiled potatoes 
—mashed—into the batter, add one quart 
of salt for a barrel of the mixed feed; 
let it stand 24 hours, then commence 
to feed, and prepare another batch to 
have it ready when the first is gone. 
Give the pigs all the green stuff, grass, 
pea vines, lettuce, radish tops, mustard, 
weeds and cornstalks that they will eat, 
until about six weeks before slaughter, 
then stuff them with corn; corn ground, 
corn cooked, corn raw, corn whole, but 
corn, corn, corn, and you will have meat, 
lots of it, and the kind that is good. 
Schuylerville, N. Y. m. h. d. 
BREEDING UP A DAIRY HERD. 
Certain parts of New York State 
favor certain breeds of cattle. In cen¬ 
tral New York the Holstein-Friesian 
seems to be the favored breed ; in 
northern New York the Ayrshires and 
in southern and Eastern New York Jer¬ 
seys and Guernseys predominate. Did 
you ever notice the hen you like best 
for shape, color, habits and disposi¬ 
tion is the one that will do the best, 
give the most pleasure and pay the great¬ 
est profit? It is the same with other 
stock, especially cows. In northern 
New York 99 per cent of the milk 
produced is sold to creameries or cheese 
factories by Babcock test, and the high- 
testing, high-producing dairy is the one 
making the largest margin of profit. In 
order to cull out the boarders and find 
the profit makers the dairyman of to¬ 
day must have and use a record book 
of weights for each individual cow, and 
test regularly. 
When I bought my first dairy I had 
one large, beefy individual in the herd 
that had a high reputation as a pro¬ 
ducer. She certainly was a hummer to 
produce milk. She was of no particu¬ 
lar breed. Her build, disposition and 
general appearance denoted Durham and 
Ayrshire mixed, with Durham predom¬ 
inating. When my eyes were opened to 
the value of testing this cow happened 
to come first, and repeated tests gave 
her no higher than 2.2 per cent butter 
fat. This set me to thinking and figur¬ 
ing. The result was I decided to build 
up my scrub herd, get rid of the board¬ 
ers and work toward a larger and more 
profitable herd. For my purpose, pro¬ 
ducing milk for creamery, where high- 
testing, heavy-producing animals were 
necessary, the IIolstein-Friesian breed 
seemed the best. I therefore went to 
headquarters for a registered herd bull 
from sire and dam of known produc¬ 
tion. The product of this cross was 
so far beyond expectations that I de¬ 
cided to invest in some good registered 
cows of same breed. After some search 
five good individuals were found and 
bought. The experiment has panned out 
well, and I am glad to go to the stable 
now, proud to show the stock to any¬ 
one, and after a little shall have all my 
herd purebreds and close grades. 
I would, however, caution any friends 
contemplating a change in breed to go 
slowly. It is better and more profitable 
to grade up and learn your breed thor¬ 
oughly before you buy purebreds. You 
will then know their characteristics, 
likes and dislikes, and know how to 
handle the purebreds best for profit. It 
is always best with cows or horses, 
hens or red-headed boys and girls, or 
anything else on the farm, to raise 
thoroughbreds—handle and treat them 
as thoroughbreds and if you are nothing 
but an old scrub yourself you will be 
thinking and acting like a thoroughbred 
and pass for one. Scrub cattle well 
kept and managed are good; well-kept 
high grades are much better for pleas¬ 
ure or profit, and purebreds are best. 
I shall try the experiment this year of 
grading up my seed oats and seed pota¬ 
toes. Seed oats will all be treated for 
smut and potatoes for scab, and seed 
saved by selection before harvesting. 
Oats will be rccleaned and graded for 
next year, and only pure seed of certain 
breeding, Long’s White Tartar, will be 
used. I have found by careful records 
that grading up of any kind pays and 
pays handsomely. There are several 
dairies near me that have been graded 
up to high production and profit. To 
be a dairyman in this part of the State 
means 40 to 125 cows, and you can 
readily see one man’s work in the care 
and improvement of such a herd. The 
old-fashioned go-it-blind, inbreeding 
scrub-bull dairying days are past if 
profit is reckoned, and the sooner this 
fact is realized the sooner the average 
per cow in this State will rise from 
3,000 pounds to somewhere near our 
friend Molly’s record which, it seems 
to me, is good, showing painstaking 
care and intelligent management. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. E. c. R. 
FORM FOR A CEMENT SILO. 
An allusion in his reply to W. F. H., 
page 360, loads us to ask Mr. Van Alstyne 
if he will give explicit and detailed direc¬ 
tions for the construction of a cement 
formation for a round silo, to go down 
three feet below the surface. IIow should 
the “form” be made, how much cement and 
how much gravel would be needed for the 
foundation of an 11x24 foot stave silo. 
Waterville, Me. J. d. t. 
The simplest way to make a form for 
a foundation of cement for a round 
silo is to set a pin in the centre where 
the silo is to be, then with a cord at¬ 
tached to it, strike a circle; then short¬ 
en the cord 14 inches, and strike a 
smaller circle inside. This will allow 
for a foot wall, with two inches to 
spare for good measure. Dig the earth 
from this circular trench, and you have 
your form all ready, and no fear of the 
concrete crowding it out. It will be 
wise to extend the wall a few inches 
above the ground. • The frame for this 
may be made by setting light, bendable 
lumber around on both out and inside, 
and holding it firm with earth. Or if 
the lumber is not readily obtainable use 
tin, or even heavy pasteboard. After 
your wall has set, dig out the centre, 
and the thing is done. You will prob¬ 
ably need to finish the inside of the 
wall with a trowel. It will help 
matters if you place some heavy 
wrapping paper between the concrete 
and the inside earth. If the lime con¬ 
crete is used, the directions for pro¬ 
portions given in the article referred 
to will serve. If the ordinary cement, 
one of it to seven of coarse sand, or 
three of sand and four of gravel. In 
this may be laid plenty of rough stones. 
Above the ground I would use one to 
four. If you go above six inches, run 
a barbed fence wire a couple of times 
around for a reinforcement. Why not 
get a machine to make cement blocks, 
and build a silo that will be really per¬ 
manent? EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
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