838 
Live Stock and Dairy 
HOG NOTES. 
Many farmers provide feed and water 
for their hogs in the Summer, and think 
they have done enough. They do not 
attach enough importance to shade, and 
often they fail of best results because 
the hogs do not have access to shade 
either natural or artificial. Fig. 349, 
page 827, shows a lot of hogs in the 
shade of an apple tree on a hot, though 
partly cloudy day about noon. During 
hot weather hogs eat best late in the 
evening and early morning, and sleep 
under dense shade in the hot part of the 
day. Anything that adds to the comfort 
of live stock helps the owner financially. 
If no trees are at hand a large open 
shed is good, but the floor should be 
sprinkled to keep down dust. Fig. . 355 
THE RI_JR..A.]L, jstew-yorker 
INDIVIDUAL HOG HOUSE. FIG- 855. 
shows a good individual hoghouse that 
gave excellent results during the cold 
weather of last Winter and Spring. 
Such houses are not expensive to build, 
may be moved easily, and can be made 
sung and warm when the weather is 
cold. However cold it may get do not 
make the house airtight, or the occu¬ 
pants will smother to death over night. 
Ohio. W. E. DUCKWALL. 
A HERD OF HOLSTEIN GRADES. 
I am always interested in personal ex¬ 
periences of other dairymen, and trust 
you will think the following records of 
my herd will be of general interest. 
Seven years ago last Spring I left an 
office job to try my luck on a farm, and 
purchased in partnership with my tenant 
a good herd of registered Short-horns. 
Before the year was gone, however, I 
decided that milk production would be 
more to my taste, so we disposed of our 
herd and I started in the next year on 
my own hook with only six grade cows. 
From the very first I kept an accurate 
daily milk record of each cow, and after 
over six years’ experience am more than 
convinced of the great importance of 
weighing each cow’s milk every milk¬ 
ing. The first year I set a mark of 
6.000 pounds per cow as my aim for a 
herd record, and determined to keep no 
cow that fell below 5,000 pounds. At 
the end of the third year of dairying I 
had 16 good cows (that being the ca¬ 
pacity of my barn), besides cjuite a 
bunch of young stock of which I had 
great hopes, for in the Fall of my first 
year I had purchased a registered Hol¬ 
stein bull. I next increased the capacity 
of the barn to 38 head, and for the last 
three years have had a tenant who owns 
half the herd. This tenant, Mr. Albert 
Bruin, is one who is not afraid to buy 
whatever feed is necessary, and conse¬ 
quently the cows are always in prime 
condition. 
Year before last we had worked the 
average production up so that the 23 
head which we had the full year aver¬ 
aged 8501 pounds, the lowest being 5895 
pounds and the highest 10,657 pounds. 
For the year ending last Spring we 
made what we consider a wonderful 
record, the average for the 34 head 
which were here for the full 3 ’ear being 
9327 pounds per cow, and there was 
only one cow that gave less than 7000 
pounds, and one cow reached the high 
mark of 12,361 pounds. To state the 
records more in detail, one cow gave 
over 12,000 pounds, four others over 
11,000, seven others over 10,000, nine 
others over 9000, six others over 8000, 
six others over 7000, and one other over 
6000. Until last j ear we sold milk with¬ 
out a butter-fat test, so neglected to test 
individual cows, but the condensery 
records show a very good herd test for 
last year, the average being 3.65 per 
cent, and running from 3.4 in June to 
3.9 in December. Our milk deliveries 
to the condensery for last year totaled 
over 330,000 pounds, and we used about 
4.000 pounds on the farm besides, so tbe 
four cows which did not have a full 
year's record gave about 17,000 pounds. 
Our silos have a capacity of 250 tons, 
and we also give the cows all the hay 
they will eat in Winter (either Alfalfa, 
clover, or oats and peas). We also feed 
whatever fodder we happen to have. 
The bill for mill feeds in the Winter 
amounts to seven or eight cents per day 
per cow, according to price of feed. In 
the Summer the cows have natural pas¬ 
ture, and the mill feed is cut down ac¬ 
cording to the condition of the pasture. 
In the course of building up the herd 
we have bought quite a number of ani¬ 
mals, and the records show there have 
been 60 different cows on the place 
during the six years. The 22 which are 
gone are accounted for as follows: hive 
died (two lightning, one milk fever), 
eight sold for beef (four spoiled udders, 
two sterile, two poor producers), nine 
sold for dairy (four because of high 
price offered, five rather poor produc¬ 
ers). We still have the old bull (now 
over seven years old), as his heifers 
have all been good. We also have an¬ 
other bull, Royalton Canary Prince 
63821, whose dam recently tested 34.60 
pounds of butter in seven days, A. R. O. 
We have several registered females on 
another farm. We would like very 
much to know whether anyone else has 
as large a herd of grades as this which 
can show as good an average milk pro¬ 
duction. R. P. CLEMENT. 
Lenawee Co., Mich. 
Hog Cholera and Immune Animals. 
The practice of immunizing hogs against 
cholera is successfully practiced by a great 
many breeders, and if it is properly done 
there is no doubt of its usefulness, and 
value. There are two distinct methods of 
treatment; one being the serum-alone treat¬ 
ment. and the other the serum-simultaneous 
method. The first mentioned immunizes the 
animal for an indefinite period varying 
from three weeks in some cases to three 
months in others, while the serum-simul¬ 
taneous method, if carefully administered, 
makes the animals immune to cholera dur¬ 
ing their lifetime. The results obtained 
thus far by investigators show plainly that 
under the serum-alone treatment the farm¬ 
er is able to immunize his own herd at 
very little expense, and this treatment 
alone has resulted in the saving of about 
90 per cent of the animals treated, the 
important point being to administer the 
serum before the animals.are sick, inasmuch 
as it is a preventive rather than a cure. 
The serum cannot he safely administered 
to sows in pig without causing abortion, 
neither can the serum-simultaneous method 
be administered without the same results 
if the sows are in pig. 
As to the feasibility of using both the 
serum and the virus necessary for perma¬ 
nent immunization and treating all animals 
in the herd in this way, and advertising 
cholera-proof hogs, I could not answer de¬ 
finitely, for the practice has not been in use 
long enough to establish its practicability 
definitely. It is quite necessary that a vet¬ 
erinarian administer the virus, but with 
full instructions any farmer could admin¬ 
ister the serum, and thus obtain tempor¬ 
ary immunity. As to the cost of such 
treatment the price of serum is being ma¬ 
terially reduced, and can now be purchased ] 
for two cents per cubic centimeter. This 
would make the cost about 75 cents for a 
100 pound pig for temporary immunization 
and about double the amount for the other 
treatment. L. c. minkler. 
New Jersey. 
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You can never tell when a horse 
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Yet it is bound to happen sooner 
or later. And you can't afford to 
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Xtis a priceless liniment for 
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Get Kendall’s Spavin 
Cure at any druggist’s. 
*1 per bottle—6 for $5. 
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Permanent cure for all horse ailments. 
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GKUmOi WARRI HER 
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SALEM, OHIO 
SILOS 
The inventors of the Modern 
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