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THE HURAb NEW-YORKER 
April 2, 
THAT HOG DEAL. 
The article on page 204, taken from 
the Philadelphia North American, is pre¬ 
posterous. A 225-pound hog (live 
weight) will make hams weighing from 
16 to 20 pounds each and shoulders of 
about 12 pounds each. I know, for I 
have trimmed many a one. In Cincin¬ 
nati on February 18 a 225-pound hog at 
$9.50 per 100 was worth $21.37J^. On 
the same day I could have bought both 
hams (green), 20 pounds each, at 15 
cents per pound, for $6, and both shoul¬ 
ders (green), 12 pounds each, at 12 
cents a pound, for $3. Thus you see the 
hams and shoulders of a hog worth 
$21.37^4 could be bought for $9, con¬ 
siderably less than one-half of the value 
of the hog to the grower. These are 
current prices for hogs and pork in 
Cincinnati on the day referred to, not 
imaginary prices. j. G. K. 
Cincinnati, O. 
R. N.-Y.—We have tried to trace this 
case down at Salem, N. J. The nearest 
wq can get to it is that a farmer brought 
in two pigs, each weighing about 200 
pounds. The butcher finally sold him 
the hams and shoulders of one 400- 
pound hog. At the current wholesale 
and retail prices the butcher owed the 
farmer a little less than $3. The news¬ 
paper report had it the other way. At 
about the same time in our locality in 
northern New Jersey pork brought 
about nine cents and fresh hams re¬ 
tailed at 18 and 19 cents. 
Lime Cement. 
V. R., Perryman, Md .—I read in your 
paper some time ago of a lime cement silo 
described by Edward Van Alstyne. If pos¬ 
sible would you give the instructions for 
mixing the lime and cement? 
Ans. —Take one barrel of best lime, 
slake it in a box 13 feet long, six or 
seven wide, and 10 inches or a foot high. 
After slaking, mix with it 12 barrels of 
coarse gravel free from earth; or same 
amount of broken stone. This should be 
thoroughly incorporated with the lime, 
and will call for the exercise of some 
muscle, but no skilled labor. Add to 
this one barrel of cement, and work in, 
a little at a time, as one is ready to put 
the mixture in the frame or boxes. 
Tamp it against the sides, so that the 
surface will be smooth when the boxing 
is removed. This can be filled with as 
many rough stones as will lie in it, with¬ 
out coming to the outside, or touching 
one another. This will take a little more 
time to harden than clear cement con¬ 
crete, but it is much cheaper, and be¬ 
comes as hard as stone. 
edw’d van alstyne. 
A Succession of Green Crops. 
I would like to keep four or five cows 
Ibis Summer. What would be the best to 
mow for them? I would want to keep 
them in the stable in day and turn them 
out at night. I have good rich soil. 
. Johnstown, Pa. s. t. b. 
We do not know what you have grow¬ 
ing on the farm now. If you have rye 
and wheat these crops will be the first 
to cut. The rye will be ready about the 
middle of May—the wheat later. Sow as 
early as possible oats and Canada peas, 
as we have so often advised. In two 
weeks sow more. Early in May sow 
Japanese millet, and as soon as the soil 
is warm enough begin sowing corn fod¬ 
der in drills about as thick as garden 
peas. Keep this sowing up every two 
weeks until July 4. As the oats and 
peas are cut sow Japanese millet, and as 
fodder corn is cut sow rye and wheat 
for next year. In early September sow 
a piece of barley and peas for Fall feed¬ 
ing. Cut what you need for green fod¬ 
der and cure the remainder for Winter 
feed. 
Tommy came out of a room in which 
his father was tacking down carpet. He 
was crying lustily. “Why, Tommy, what’s 
the matter?” asked his mother. “P-p-p- 
papa hit his finger with the hammer,” 
sobbed Tommy. “Well, you needn’t cry 
at a thing like that,” comforted the 
mother. “Why didn’t you laugh?” “I 
did,” sobbed Tommy, disconsolate.— 
Hou. ekeeper. 
TWO SILO QUESTIONS. 
Being obliged to remodel my silo, I should 
like to find some one who can give me 
information as to satisfaction silos which 
have been lathed and plastered are giving. 
Auburn, Me. l. w. 
The lathed and plastered silos are giv¬ 
ing excellent satisfaction. The plaster 
may have to be renewed after a time, 
particularly if the silage is very acid. 
If the old frame is strong, this is prob¬ 
ably the cheapest way to make the old 
one tight. Of course, if the silo needs 
rebuilding, the whole question of best 
type of silo comes up. See suggestions, 
in answer to other silo questions in this 
paper. 
I would like to have the experience of 
some one who has built a silo with chestnut 
lumber two by four inches thick, spiked 
together and then hooped. a. w. m. 
Milford, N. H. 
. I have never built a silo as you sug¬ 
gest, nor would I advise anyone to build 
one that way, because it is too expen¬ 
sive, and just as good results can be ob¬ 
tained, at less cost. I think a better 
plan is to use inch lumber—it may be 
chestnut, if that is more easily obtain¬ 
able—pine, or hemlock, for lining, and 
make the hoops of oak, or elm, sawed 
three inches wide, one-half inch thick, 
and six or eight feet long. These dou¬ 
bled with joints broken, two courses 
together, and sprung in shape, will 
make the hoops, to which the boards 
can be nailed. These hoops may be eight 
inches apart between the first and sec¬ 
ond course; then each set of hoops six 
inches farther apart, for the pressure 
is less as they ascend. The inside can 
then be lathed and plastered with ce¬ 
ment. This will make a strong, tight, 
durable, good-looking and inexpensive 
silo. edw’d van alstyne. 
Dangerous Gas in the Silo. 
Some time ago a pei’son inquired about 
building silo and putting part in ground. 
We are interested in the same question; 
wish to build a silo 20 feet in ground and 
eight feet out, 14 feet in diameter. This 
we wish to use this year as a silo and in 
the future as a cistern from which to 
water stock. We would take the silage out 
in a litter carrier. The only question is 
whether there is danger to the person down 
in the silo when putting the silage into the 
litter carrier and to the person who scatters 
the silage around and packs it down when 
filling the silo—we have heard there was 
danger from foul gases in a silo under¬ 
ground. h. b. s. 
Seymour, Mo. 
R. N.-Y.—With proper care there will 
be no ‘serious danger. The injury is 
done by carbonic acid gas, which being 
heavier than air, gathers in the bottom 
of a tight pit or well. Most of us know 
of cases where this gas has gathered in 
wells. A test is often made of lowering 
a lighted lantern into the well. If the 
gas is present in dangerous quantity the 
flame of the lantern is extinguished. Hot 
charcoal is sometimes dropped into these 
wells or a chain and bucket pump op¬ 
erated in them. This stirs up the air and 
mixes the gas. A few accidents have 
occurred in silos when men entered them 
in the morning before the machinery 
started. During the night the gas had 
been formed from the cut silage and it 
lay in the silo unable to drain oft'. By 
starting the machinery and throwing 
more silage in, especially if a blower is 
used, the gas is so mixed with air that 
there will be little danger. 
Seeding Oats and Peas. 
L. G. TV., Mousey, N. Y .—Will it pay me 
to put three acres in oats and Canada 
peas, paying $4.50 per day for man and 
team to do the work, and bow much seed 
would I require? Can I do anything with 
four acres of sod after cutting hay that 
will help feed two cows and a horse, as 
yield of hay is very poor? 
Ans.— It would pay us provided we 
used enough fertilizer to insure a fair 
crop—not otherwise. We sow about five 
pecks of the peas per acre and disk or 
plow them under. Then 2 l / 2 bushels of 
oats on the furrows worked under with 
Acme or tooth harrow. It will pay you 
to sprinkle the oats with the solution of 
formalin (see page 207). This will pre¬ 
vent smut and give a larger oat plant. 
You can plow the sod and plant fodder 
corn in drills, following with rye. 
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