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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 26, 
HOG PASTURE IN MARYLAND. 
I have an apple orchard of about five 
acres, which I have to use for a hog lot, and 
which I wish to plow and sow something 
for pasture, I have been thinking of sowing 
oats and Canada peas. If you think this all 
right, about what time should they be fit 
to turn I ho hogs upon? 1 have and expect 
to keep about 12 hogs, among which are 
three old sows and four young ones, which 
I wapt the old sows to raise two litters 
of pigs and the young sows one litter, and 
then butcher in the Fall. The pigs will be 
sold, except about six. which I shall keep to 
produce meat for my family. j. w. H. 
Maryland 
You are too far south for Canada peas 
to do much. The oats would make the 
earliest hog pasture, but cow peas 
would make much better feed, and if 
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planted in rows between the trees and 
cultivated, it would be better for the 
trees than a sown crop. Or you can 
sow Dwarf Essex rape as early as you 
can work the land. Sow in rows and 
cultivate, and then after the hogs 
have eaten the rape down you can 
sow Crimson clover to turn under 
the next Spring, if you can take the 
hogs out in the Fall. This will enable 
you to have a cover crop in Winter and 
to turn under for the' benefit of the 
trees or to pasture in the Spring with 
the hogs. But the hogs would have to 
be removed after the clover is sown. I 
have no particular objection to hogs in 
an orchard. They are about the only 
live stock I would allow there. But up 
to July I would prefer a crop that 
needs cultivation. w. f. massey. 
A HOLSTEIN BREEDER TALKS. 
We have been asked why we raise 
Holstein cattle in preference to other 
breeds, and what we claim for their 
superiority. We believe the registered 
Holstein cow possesses the greatest pow¬ 
ers of production and is the greatest 
moneymaker of any cow of any breed. 
Next in line to this distinguished Hol¬ 
land family we claim her sister, the grade 
Holstein, next in importance. Compara¬ 
tively, relatively and absolutely we be¬ 
lieve the Holstein-Friesian cow surpasses 
all other breeds for the following rea¬ 
sons : Because she possesses exceptional 
constitution and vigor and will freely 
consume the roughage of our farms and 
transmute into valuable products, milk, 
butter, veal and beef and produce the 
above commodities at the least cost. She 
thrives on the green hills of New Eng¬ 
land, New York and Ohio, the prairies 
of the Mississippi Valley, the valleys of 
Minnesota and North Dakota and the 
high bench lands of Montana, as well as 
California and Texas; in fact she will 
thrive and surpass any other dairy cow 
under the same conditions. She has the 
vitality and strength characteristic of 
the breed, and can be depended upon as 
carrying the balance on the right side of 
the ledger and netting her owner a hand¬ 
some income. She excels in milk pro¬ 
duction. Her offspring is superior for 
veal purposes, as the calves invariably 
are large at birth and develop from the 
very start. Her calves are raised with 
very little difficulty, and can be taken 
from their dams at a few days of age, 
and if reasonably fed on skim-milk and a 
little oil meal they will grow like weeds. 
One of their characteristics is the fact 
that they are not particular as to the 
quality of their food. They have great 
digestive and assimilative powers re¬ 
quired for the production of large quan¬ 
tities of milk from coarse, cheap fodder. 
The advocates of the smaller and lighter- 
yield breeds put stress on butter-fat pro¬ 
duction, and insist that the smaller Jer¬ 
seys make butter-fat more cheaply than 
do the I lolsteins. That would be import¬ 
ant, if true, but statistics prove that you 
can keep a less number of cows of the 
Fiolstein breed and produce an equal 
amount of butter fat. 
Quantity of production and persistency 
of milking during long periods are well- 
known characteristics of this breed. The 
world’s butter records for a year, for six 
months, for one month, for one week, 
for one day—each and all are held by 
Holstein cows. We do not hesitate to 
admit that the milk from a Holstein cow 
on an average contains a lower percent¬ 
age of fat than the milk of Jersey and 
Guernsey cows. But in view of their 
enormous production of milk we assert 
that they average more butter for a cow. 
and that they produce a larger amount 
in profit. Heredity is so firmly establish 
ed through her long lineage that she ifi 
able to perpetuate herself through the 
production of strong, healthy calves, and 
when for any reason her usefulness in 
the dairy is at an end she fattens readily 
and makes excellent beef. She, at this 
time will net her owner nearly double 
what one of the smaller breeds would. 
Another important factor to be taken in¬ 
to consideration with reference to the 
selection of stock is the fact that if you 
have a good Holstein, either purebred or 
grade, you have an animal that some one 
else always wants, as there is a great de¬ 
mand for high-class stock of this breed. 
The demand for Holstein cattle in all 
localities, we believe, is greater at the 
present time than ever before. If a 
breeder of Holstein cattle for any reason 
wishes to dispose of his herd or his sur¬ 
plus stock he has only to let the fact be 
known and he will experience very little 
difficulty in finding a ready purchaser. 
During our own experience we have 
shipped stock to nearly every State in 
the Union, and will state that the in¬ 
quiry for stock of superior powers of 
production, individuality and breeding 
has doubled within the past year. The 
West especially is waking up to the fact 
that there is more money in the dual- 
purpose cow than those raised for beef 
purposes alone. I would say to every 
man maintaining a dairy, either large or 
small, if you have not already adopted 
the course I would '.suggest that the very 
best money-making proposition that 
could confront you is to weed out the 
small-producing, unprofitable cows, and 
keep nothing but heavy, deep milkers, 
even if you are obliged to reduce your 
herd one half. A motto that should re¬ 
ceive due consideration by every milk 
producer is not how many cows but how 
good. FRED H. RIVENBURGH. 
New York 
“Did you remember what I told you 
about being kind to dumb animals?” 
asked the teacher. “Yes’m,” replied Jim¬ 
my Jiggs. “As soon as I got home I 
took the blanket and blue ribbon off ma’s 
pet poodle and turned him loose and let 
him -chase a cat up a tree.”—Washington 
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