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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 10, 
A SANITARY PIGPEN. 
1 am about to put in a new pig pen 
for two pigs, and wish to have it made 
of cement, so that it can be flushed by a 
hose and water, and wish to have it con¬ 
nected by drain pipe to cesspool. I should 
also want a cement trough and a place 
for the pigs to bathe. Would you give me 
some advice? c - M - 
Brielle, N. J. 
If you 'wish a pen simpjy for raising 
and fattening two pige each year, a very 
simple building is all that is required, 
and the style may suit your own fancy. 
The essentials are a pen about eight 
feet square with a concrete floor slop¬ 
ing slightly toward a shallow gutter 
across the rear, which gutter may be 
connected through a screened outlet 
with a cesspool if desired. The walls 
of the pen should be about three feet 
high, and may well be of concrete. 
These walls may be continued by means 
of studding and boards to form the 
walls of the building, if you wish, in 
which case they should enclose a suffi¬ 
cient area to permit of a feeding alley 
about four feet wide in front of the 
pen proper, making the entire building 
and concrete floor 8x12 feet. 
The pigs should have access to a 
yard of at least equal size, and rings 
should be kept in their snouts tp pre¬ 
vent their converting this yard into a 
deep mud wallow. Pigs should not be 
compelled to sleep on concrete, and to 
avoid the necessity of this a raised, 
movable, wooden platform should be 
built of 2x4 scantlings, placed about 
one-fourth inch apart and supported 
upon the same sized timbers laid upon 
edge beneath them. If this platform 
is kept covered with litter for the pig’s 
bed it will be found that they will not 
foul it, but will use it for the purpose 
intended . Contrary to popular opinion, 
pigs are among the most cleanly of do¬ 
mestic animals, and will not sleep in 
their own filth unless compelled to. The 
feeding trough may be of iron, concrete 
or wood, the preference being in the 
order named. A shallow bathing pool 
of concrete, with gradually sloping sides, 
roughened to make a sure foothold, 
may be constructed either in pen or 
yard. It should, of course, have an 
outlet for the fouled water, and may be 
filled through a hose. A bath tub for 
the pigs is a somewhat novel idea, but 
perhaps a good one. Now, if you can 
induce them to use toilet soap all the 
requirements for cleanliness will cer¬ 
tainly be fulfilled. M. b. d. 
A Cow Ration. 
Will you give me a balanced ration for 
cows that average about 800 pounds 
apiece, and that give about 12 quarts a 
dav, on the following feeds: Timothy and 
Red clover hay mixed, malt sprouts, gluten 
feed, dried beet pulp. Would it pay to 
feed brown middlings and gluten mixed, 
instead of all gluten at $1.85, middlings, 
$1.60; beet pulp, $27 per ton; sprouts, 
$1.50 per 100. Cornstalks are fed once a 
day. D- B. v. D. 
New Jersey. 
You cannot afford to feed sprouts or 
middlings at the prices named. I would 
advise vou to make a mixture of 300 
pounds 'dried (corn) distillers’ grains or 
dried brewers’ grains. 200 pounds gluten 
feed or cotton-seed meal, 400 pounds dried 
beet pulp, and 100 pounds cornmeal. Soak 
the beet pulp about eight hours before 
feeding and mix the other ingredients with 
it after soaking. Feed of this mixture to 
each cow about one pound to three pounds 
of milk produced per day. Feed all the 
mixed hay your cows will eat twice a day 
with cut cornstalks at noon. Hay and 
silage should always be fed after milking, 
while the grain ration may be fed either 
before or after, as is most convenient. 
c. s. G. 
Peat for Feeding. * 
Our attention has been called to the 
following advertisement: 
Exclusive Selling Agents of 
Humus or Peat Mull 
(The new feed discovery) 
Price $7.50 per Ton in Car Lots 
Correspondence Solicited 
Anything in The Feed Line 
This stuff is sold to feed dealers, who are 
supposed to mix it with grain or by-prod¬ 
uct to make “compounded feed.” It seems 
more like confounded feed from the fol¬ 
lowing extract from “Science of Feeding 
Animals,” by Prof. Kellner: “Peat is also 
a worthless substance which no animal will 
touch unless it is sweetened with molasses, 
but when made into peat molasses (feed) it 
is eaten just as other mixtures of rubbish 
and molasses are.” 
Fattening Calf. 
How can I get the best results in feeding 
a calf six months old for fattening? I 
have given clover, sweet corn fodder and 
cornmeal, oil meal and oats and corn. 
J. D. H. 
The proper feed to fatten your calf de¬ 
pends to a great extent upon its size and 
ability to digest the feed eaten. If it is a 
large, strong, healthy calf I would feed 
green clover liberally, but the. calf is too 
voung to eat corn fodder, especially if it is 
ripe and dry. In addition to the green 
clover hay you should feed a mixture of 
three parts cornmeal, three parts ground 
oats, one part wheat bran and one part oil 
meal by weight. Begin to feed this grain 
mixture in very small quantities and in¬ 
crease gradually according to the require¬ 
ments of the calf. c. s. g. 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Best Way to Feed Grain. 
Which is the best or most economical 
way to feed corn to a cow, crushed, on cob, 
or shelled, ground into hominy or meal? 
1 would feed the ground corn with bran or 
beet pulp. What is the best way to feed 
corn to hogs, on the cob, shelled, soaked 
into water, sour or sweet, or dry shelled? 
Slielbyville, Del. C. L. M. 
With suitable roughage, it is best to 
shell and grind the corn into rather fine 
meal. If roughage is not plentiful, feeding 
corn and cob meal is a good way if made 
fine enough. Cornmeal may be easily 
ground fine, and gives a better digestion 
test than corn cob meal, unless the latter 
is ground as fine, which is too expensive. 
However, corn and cob meal is lighter and 
bulkier than cornmeal, and lessens the need 
of roughage somewhat. It is better to grind 
shelled corn rather fine and not merely 
crack it; the reason is obvious. Ear corn is 
the usual feed for mature hogs, but the 
best results are to be secured by feeding a 
thick slop made of cornmeal and fed sweet, 
or only slightly sour. Such a ration is 
easily eaten and digested, and being unfer¬ 
mented is quite palatable. w. E. D. 
Hillsboro, O. 
Cow Beet Questions. 
We have about five acres sowed to cow 
beets, which promise a good crop. What 
is the best time for us to harvest them, 
and is there a way to make use of the 
heads and leaves in preserving for stock 
food ? K> G - 
New Jersey. 
The best time to harvest cow beets is 
just before hard frosts appear, which is 
about November 1 in your latitude. The 
usual method is to pull the beets and exit 
the tops off and store in a frost proof cel¬ 
lar. The tops may be fed green to pigs or 
cows, but it would not be practical to try 
to preserve them, as their value is very 
small compared with that of the beets. 
C. S. G. 
Sweet Potato Vines for Fodder, 
What is the feeding value, if any, of 
sweet potato vines for hogs and cows? 
Would it pay to bale and feed with cow- 
peas, Soy beans, millet and cane, the millet 
and cane sown broadcast and cut before 
heading? tv. e. 
Blackstone, Va. 
Sweet potato vines have 7.66 per cent 
protein, 29.29 per cent nitrogen-free ex¬ 
tract and 2.11 per cent fat. This shows 
that they are fairly good feed. Hogs and 
cows will eat them when fed in moderate 
amount green, but I do not know of any 
successful attempts to cure and bale them 
as hay, and would consider them quite 
hard to cure properly, and hardly think 
that it would pay to attempt to cure them 
for baling. Their actual feeding value is 
fully as good as that of green millet or 
even of millet hay cut before heading. The 
main difficulty would be in getting them 
cured properly. w. F. M. 
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parts of floor except where the stock stand, 
which will be of cork fibre? Such blocks 
laid on end same as street work on a foun¬ 
dation cement, if good for street use, why 
not practical for stable floors? H. l. 
Mendham, N. J. 
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