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Live Stock and Dairy 
SOWS KILLING PIGS—WHY? 
A. S. A., in giving the answer to this 
question of “R.,” on page 281 , fails to 
give the true reason why sows kill their 
little pigs. It is not because overfed 
or underfed, or for want of exercise 
that this trouble comes. But it is sim¬ 
ply because of being improperly fed. If 
R. will next Winter put these same 
sows into warm quarters, dry and well 
ventilated, I care not how' close, and 
feed the same kind of food as described, 
together with plenty of clover or Al¬ 
falfa hay, and give in addition all the 
succulent food, mangels, turnips, car¬ 
rots, potatoes or apples, they will eat, 
I will pay five dollars for each pig they 
eat. Sows are not cannibals. When 
running in Summer pasture, eating 
plenty of succulent food, they never 
show any disposition to kill their pigs. 
But when fed only dry food, either in 
pens or barnyard, their blood becomes 
thick, their system feverish, and at far¬ 
rowing time the udder is tender; tl^ey 
have little or no milk, and when the 
youngster attempts to get food it causes 
intense pain, and the mother, thinking 
the pig the cause, kills it in frenzy. 
The owner and not the poor dumb 
brute should be blamed for the trouble. 
j. s. WOODWARD. 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKEB 
April 23, 
MORE ABOUT “DRY MASH” FEEDING. 
I am, of course, interested in Mr. A. F. 
Hunter’s article on page 377. Mr. Hunter 
starts off by assuming that I recommend 
the use of the wet mash as superior to the 
dry mash. Where did he get that notion? 
Not from my article, because the wet mash 
is not mentioned in it anywhere. Again, 
' he assumes that I am opposed to hopper 
feeding and the dry mash, under all con¬ 
ditions. Where did he get that notion? 
Once more I answer, not from my article. 
When he reads it he will And that the 
cautions and objections that are there of¬ 
fered against the hopper feeding of dry 
mash are confined to its unrestricted use 
for fowls that are a year old or older. 
Every poultry keeper of experience 
knows that growing birds, after they have 
passed the danger point as chicks, may 
be fed with the greatest liberality to their 
decided benefit; but he also knows that 
after maturity is reached most fowls tend 
to grow fat, and, in order to keep them 
healthy, their supply of food should be 
restricted. There are no fast,rules about 
this. The questions of quality and quan¬ 
tity in feeding are influenced by many 
conditions. Breed makes a difference; so 
does age, and egg-laying and free range. 
But, speaking in a general way, it is com¬ 
monly said that a ration barely sufficient 
to satisfy a growing pullet, or a young 
laying hen, may make an old hen so fat 
as to put a stop to her egg production and 
even to endanger her life. What has Mr. 
Hunter to say in his article about this 
phase of poultry feeding? Why, not a 
word. From beginning to end, except when 
lie turns his attention in my direction, he 
is occupied in giving us an account of his 
young birds; how he raises his pullets and 
what fine layers they become during the 
first year of their lives, all of which is 
interesting and instructive, but without 
the slightest bearing upon my article, 
which Mr. Hunter, nevertheless, seems to 
think he is in a position to criticise. The 
fact is he and I are not discussing the 
same topic. My communication calls at¬ 
tention to some of the risks of slovenly or 
careless feeding of yearlings and older hens. 
Experience teaches that their greatest dan¬ 
gers come through overfeeding, and, in 
my opinion, the unrestricted use of ground 
grain in hoppers tends towards overeating 
in fowls of this class. Mr. Hunter, on 
the other hand, gives his views on the 
advantages of hopper feeding and dry 
mash for growing birds and laying pullets. 
So it. is evident that, as far as my state¬ 
ments are concerned, Mr. Hunter has set 
up a man of straw, which he proceeds to 
knock to pieces in a most energetic man¬ 
ner, calling" upon me, all the while, to come 
out and defend him. lie will pardon me 
if 1 decline to respond to a summons in 
which 1 am not interested. 
Mr. Hunter says he Ms amused at my 
calling hopper feeding a lazy man’s meth¬ 
od. Well, I am obliged to him for back¬ 
ing up the statement by saying fit is 
certain that the dry-mash method cuts 
out a lot of labor.". Surely, .'everything 
that cuts out a lot of labor is most ac¬ 
ceptable to the lazy man. I am' glad he 
found the phrase amusing. " it seems to 
have impressed different people in differ¬ 
ent ways. Mr. Lord, who is quoted at 
some length by Mr. Hunter, does not ap¬ 
pear to have accepted the expression with 
the same good humor. In fact, he seems 
to resent it, and to think that I mean to 
imply that everyone who makes use of hop¬ 
per feeding is lazy. Not at all : he has 
misunderstood my meaning completely. 
Such a statement would be foolish and 
untrue. Besides, 1 use hoppers myself, 
and dry mash, too, under conditions'that 
seem to me to be suitable. 
Pennsylvania. wit. r. fisher. 
ABSORBENT FOR DAIRY BARN. 
G. D. B., Bedford Station, N. Y. — In 
Westchester Co., N. Y., straw is expensive. 
We are milking about GO cows and using 
shavings for bedding. As they are on con- * 
crete floor, it is hard to get the urine ab¬ 
sorbed without using more shavings than 
I want in the manure. I have been using 
some ground S. C. rock, but it costs about 
$13 delivered here, and oat or wheat straw 
about $15. We are making a high-grade 
milk and cannot use a very dusty material. 
Could you suggest any material as an ab¬ 
sorbent of the urine cheaper than straw 
and better than the S. C. rock at the price? 
Ans.— If you have a swamp on the 
farm you can get out black soil or muck 
and let it dry thoroughly under cover. 
This is excellent absorbent for liquids, 
but not so good for bedding. We should 
use this dry swamp muck and land 
plaster in the trenches and back of the 
cattle, and less of the shavings for bed¬ 
ding. 
Milch Goats. —I have one doe two years 
old last month which has been giving milk 
13 months, having dropped one kid at one 
year old, giving three quarts of fine milk 
per day. She will kid April 5, and is still 
giving one quart per day, having given over 
700 quarts in 13 months. I also have an¬ 
other which kidded night before last at 10 
p. m., dropping two very beautiful black, 
white and fawn doe kids, marks similar to 
the Swiss Belted cows. At her first milk¬ 
ing (this being her first kidding) one-half 
hour after kidding, she yielded two full 
quarts of milk, and to-day besides suckling 
the two kids, which remain with her day 
and night, she gave over two quarts. How 
is that for "the poor man’s cow?’’ r. s. 
Hannibal, Mo. 
Handling the Bull.—O n page 368 G. M. 
Hazard gives timely advice when he says 
“Don't.” But, if he is at all afraid of 
bull, he ought not to handle oiie. A bull 
is both wise and suspicious, and not to 
be trusted. 1 am careful not to turn my 
back on him. When 1 put in a bull some 
years ago, I asked a neighbor who had 
kept one, for pointers. lie said: “Let 
him know you are boss, and keep him 
a-kuowin’ it.” I change my bull frequent¬ 
ly. The young hull is a little easier to 
handle and perhaps a little surer. When 
he begins to use his horns, I cut them off. 
A ring is good also, if you can get hold 
of it in an emergency. My advice is, don't 
pot the.hull, don't tease him, don’t antago¬ 
nize him, let him know it is purely a matter 
of business, with all nonsense eliminated, 
and then if he gets ugly send him to the 
block. j. stout. 
Michigan. 
Another Slap 
Disk s from one 
common separator. 
Another farmer 
takes a slap at disk 
filled cream sepa¬ 
rators. Prefers a 
modern separator— 
one without con¬ 
traptions. Now 
owns The World's 
Best, a 
Sharpies Dairy Tubular 
Cream Separator 
“ South Lyon, Mich., March 10. 1910, 
The Tubular Is giving great satisfaction. 
Before buying the Tubular we had on trial 
two disk separators. Took about three 
times as long to wash them as to wash the 
Tubular. Would not take five times what 
we paid for the Tubular if we could not get 
another. Consider the difference in easy 
washing, alone, a whole lot. Disks are the 
meanest things to clean we ever attempted 
to wash. Made a teat of the skim milk and 
found Tubular skimmed closest—also had 
best method of oiling and saving oil 
W. F. HUGENT.” 
Tubular sales exceed 
most, if not all, others 
combined. Probably 
replace more common 
separators than any i 
one maker of suchf 
machines sells. World's® 
biggest separator fac- 
tory. Write for cata¬ 
logue No. i53 
30 
tfr,s 
Only piece 
inside 
Dairy Tub¬ 
ular bowl. 
d THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO-, 
WEST CHESTER, PA. 
Chicago, III. San Francisco, Cal. Portland, Ore, 
Toronto, Con. Winnipeg, Can. 
CHESTER WHITE & LARGE YORKSHIRE 
0 W| M C—FOR SALE : Chester White and Large York- 
O IT I 111. shire boars old enough for service : also 
young sows of both breeds that can he bred for 
Fall litters. We have the largest herd of Chester 
Whites in the East, and were awarded the Premier 
Championship for breeder and exhibitor of Largo 
Yorkshires at New York State Fair. Only the best 
animals sold for breeding purposes. Address 
HEART’S DELIGHT FARM 
C. E. Hamilton, Mgr., Cliazy, N. Y. 
(Po<j 
(ban our lowest 1910 New Butterfly price for your cream 
separator. Don’t do it, nnyway, until you have first gotten our free / 
catalog and learned how much money we can save you and why we aro 
able to naino such extremely low prices this year. You will find we aro 
the only Chicago company actually selling cream separators 
direct from our own factory. We own and control all the 
exclusive New Butterfly patents. Wo produce every cream A 
separator wo sell in our own modern shops. We own the fac- 
torv, the machinery, buildings, ground and all, and for that* 
reason wo are able, as Air. Frank Schwebel of Upper Sandusky - • 
Ohio, says, to “give more cream separator for the money than ^gfl 
any other house in America.” 
-no other cream separator “with 
the New Butterfly in close skimming, light running, easy 
cleaning, convenience, durability and price. Wo can refer 
you to thousands of satisfied users all over the United States. 
Some of them may bo in your own neighborhood. Get our 
tree lhlO catalog and rend what, we say and what others 
have written us voluntarily after using tho New Butterfly. 
_hpro ure tt farar exclusive features that make the 
11CIC <txc «* New Butterfly tho BEST cream 
separator on earth—easily cleaned aluminum skimming de¬ 
vice complete in one piece, light weight bowl, vertical gear 
shafts, frictionless pivot ball bearings, easily cleaned open 
milk and cream spouts, indestructible self draining tank, 
self draining bowl and many other advantages, all of which 
are fully described in our handsomely illustrated 1910 
catalog. Send for a free copy today. Address tho makers, 
ALBAUGH-DOVER CO. 
2111 Marshall Boulevard, CHICAGO, ILL. 
“Bestov” Milk Cooler 
The most economical cooler made. Cools 
and aerates milk quickly, and to within two 
degrees of the water temperature. All parts 
touched by the milk 
are copper or brass, 
tin coated,and easily 
taken apart for 
cleaning. Thor¬ 
oughly well-made 
and durable. It is 
very reasonable In 
price. Send for 
catalogue H, de¬ 
scribing, with 
prices, everything 
for the dairy. 
DAIRYMENS 
SUPPLY CO. 
Philadelphia and 
Lantdowno, Pa. 
Bigger Milk 
and Butter Prices 
That’s it! Instead of average 
market prices, you i: ight as well 
tie getting fancy prices for milk, 
cream and butter. Strain, cool and 
aerate your milk right after 
milking. It pays. You can do it 
quickly, easily and cheaply 
with a Champion Milk -- 
Cooler-Aerutor. You oan’tdoit any other way. 
I A postal sent us to-day brings full explanation] 
of this pi oposition. If Champions” weren't 
fine profit-pay ers forfarmers, thousands would 
not now be using them. Nor could we let the 
Champion out on free trial as we do. Rush 
your name in for free hooks and learn the 
bfg-puy Ing way fo market dairy products.^ 
CHAMPION MII.K COOLER CO., 
11th St. Cortland, N. Y. 
Suffolk Punch 
STALLIONS 
W E have for sale a choice lot of 
Stallions, some that can work 
in any spot or place, gentle and good 
breeders. Also young mares, etc. 
The Suffolk is the oldest, hardiest, 
and most docile of all draft breeds. 
We are IMPORTERS and BREEDERS. 
PIEDMONT FARMS 
MARSHALL. VIRGINIA. 
100 Percheron Stallions & Mares 100 
Imported and Purebred Reg¬ 
istered Stallions from $400 to 
$ 1 , 200 . 
Mares from $250 to $GOO. 
WRITE FOR ART BLOTTER. 
BURTON & CO., KENTON, OHIO 
FDR Q A I E— Imported German Coach Stallion, 
rUfl OnLL No. 989, six years old, weight 1550 
lbs.; great foal getter. Write for particulars. 
E. J. TREICHLER, Sanborn, N.Y. 
F OR SALE— Grade Clydesdale Stallion. Four 
years old. Eighteen hands. Weight over 1700. 
Broken single and an excellent specimen. Write for 
particulars. F. P. Gildersleeve, Union Springs, N.Y. 
De Kol Bull Calves 
I am offering for sale Bull Calves from one to nine 
months old. These calves are light colored and 
sired by the only living son of De Kol 2d. These 
calves trace three to five times to De Kol 2d. 
FLOYD M. PELTON, LA GRANGE, OHIO 
Hill View Ayrshires 
FOR SALE. 
BULL CALF, sired by Dairy King of Avon; dam 
Mayflower Monklnnd, who is the dtun of the cham¬ 
pion 4-year-old Ayrshire cow of the world. 
Also other animals of all ages for sale from my 
great herd of producing and show animals. All 
tuberculin tested. 
For prices and further particulars, address 
XV. W. BLAKE ARKCOLL, Faoli, Pa. 
The BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
HOLSTEIN-FKIESIANS 
are bred for largo production. Good size, Strong 
Constitution, Best- Individuality. 
If these are the kind you want write or come to 
see them. 125 to select from. Animals of both sexos 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please you. 
A special offer on some nicely bred Bull Calvks. 
A. A. CORTKLYOU, Somerville. N. J. 
REGISTERED OHIO 
HOLSTEINS - FRIESIANS. 
THE BAIVNDALK STOCK FARM 
For three years tho home of I’ietertje Hengor- 
veld’s Count De Kol. Eightyhead. Bull calves 
for sale. Address. 
CHAS. XV, HOUR, 
Wellington, Ohio, 
550 00 HOLSTEIN BULL CALF 4 mo. 
BUYS 
OLD 
Dam an A. R. O. cow—Sire has three 30-lb. sisters. 
A bargain. Address IRA S. JARVIS. Riverside 
I* ruit <v Stock Farm, Hartwiek Seminary, N. Y. 
HILL TOP FARM AYRSHIRES 
One of the Good Herds of the Breed 
The home of the Champion two-year-old heifer and 
the ex-Champion two and three year old heifers. 
Herd headed by the great A. R. sire Noxemall, 7312. 
Young Bulls for sale, of approved typo and 
backed by official records. Herd tuberculin tested. 
L. A. KEY MANN, WHEELING, W. Va. 
AYRSHIRE BULL CALVES 8W22£“ 1 SK 
P?r day, Prices right. Address 
HICKORY ISLAND FARM, Clayton, New York. 
RED 
POLLED 
CATTLE 
CHOICE STOCK OF EITHER SEX 
at SPRINGDALE FARM 
Prices reasonable 
E. J. ADAMS, Adams Basin, N. Y. 
LAUREL —REGiSTERED JERSEYS ONLY 
knuilLL Fern's Jubilee 73852, as well bred in 
F . _ __ “butter lines” as any bull in the 
ADM heads the herd. 
H n - lYl . „„...„ S T. OCK FOR SALE. 
J. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton, N. T. 
You Han’t Affnrri A Gnuie ' " l|o, < i can sen 
I UU uail 1 HIIUIU you a leg. Jersey hull, best 
,v l 1 ready for service at farmer s price. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
JERSEYS 
—Combination and Golden Lad; for 
sale, 1 cow, 12 heifers, 0 bulls. 
S. K. NIVIN, Landenburg, Pa. 
/"'JEDAR CLIFF STOCK FARM offers for 
sale four Aberdeen Angus Cattle, forty 
Shropshire Sheep, six- Angora Goats; all regis¬ 
tered. Also one high grade Percheron Stallion 
two years old, Belgian Hares and S. C. White 
Leghorn Chickens. Janies S. Morse, Levanna N If 
ILK PRODUCERS for New York City market 
. " desiring information how to form branches 
of the Dairymen s League, write to the Secrotary. 
ALBERT MANNING, Otisville. N. Y. 
C HESHIRE PIGS— Thoroughbred Cornell Agricultural 
College strain—a few hoar and sow pigs ready 
May 1st. E. J. Hallook, Riverhead, L. I., N. Y. 
nilPflPQ THK BIG * I)EE1> fellows 
UUIIVVO that grow and mature quickly. 
Pigs and Gilts for sale at all times. Address 
SHENaNGO RIVER FARMS, Transfer, Pa. 
TIINIQ SHFFP~ (;et !l start now with this very 
I UnlJ vIlKr hardy and money-making breed' 
Prices reasonable,forbothsexes. 
J. N. MAC PHERSON, Pine View Farm, Scottsville, N. V. 
T WO Half-blood Toggenburg Kids. Buck 
and Doe. Well marked. Sire pure bred, excellent 
milking dam.E. N. BARRETT, Bedford Hills, N.Y. 
COON AND FOX HOUNDS. 
Pedigreed Walker, July and Birdsong strains 
sent on ten days’ trial. 
R. F. JOHNSON, Assumption, Ill. 
PHI I IF D| | DC—From imported stock. Fomales 
UULLlLrUIO cheap. Nelson Bros.. Grove City, Pa. 
CCOTCH COLLIES, Spayed Fomales. two to 
13 eight mos. Circ. SILAS DECKER. Montrose Pa. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES, - 
in Connecticut. Sows bred for April litters all sold. 
Have 4 sows bred to farrow in July; late, to ser¬ 
vice of Watson's Masterpiece. Will book orders 
for March and April pigs now. Send for new 
Booklet. J. E. WATSON, Proprietor, Marbledale, Conn. 
L AHCiI. lil.KKSIllltl.S AT llHillWOOD—Bred sown engaged, 
except lor Juno and July furrowing. Wo after selected sows 
to furrow then, bred to our herd boars. Pigs, all ages, for sale, 
of the usual High wood size and quality. -too registered Berk- 
shlres in herd} 600 sold in 1900. Write for booklet. 
11. C. & 11. 11. HAUPKNDING, Dundee, N.Y. 
Kalorama Farm Berkshires. 
Sei’vice Boars all sold. 
Bred Sows all sold. 
Fall Pii^s all sold. 
Am now taking orders for Spring Pigs, April and 
May delivery. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan, N.Y. 
