1914 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
541 
A HOGHOUSE. 
Will you give us plan for hogpen about 
16x10 feet, with partitions, feeding 
troughs, etc., where the fattening ani¬ 
mals can be separated from the small 
pigs? G. A. H. 
North East, Pa. 
In building such a house the point is 
to select a plot of ground sloping away 
from the building. In any case place 
your building adjacent to a driveway for 
convenience in feeding the animals and 
cleaning the house; also for loading and 
unloading the ho B s brought in or shipped 
out. Building should be 16x12 feet 
rather than 10 feet in width, to allow for 
hallway and space occupied by feed 
trough, this will leave 8x8 feet clear in 
each pen, small enough for a large hog. 
First dig a trench two feet deep and 
15 inches wide and fill with concrete for 
foundation; make the back wall of con¬ 
crete 16 feet long, eight feet high and 
eight inches thick. In setting up form 
cut four 2x4’s a little longer than the 
height of wall, driving 30-penny nails 
every two feet on one side of 2x4, and 
say three nails on the narrow side of 
2x4 ; put these inside of form at corners 
instead of outside. The cement will 
harden around nail heads and hold in 
place after form is taken down. These 
are posts to nail siding on. Embed a 
line of 2x4’s at top in same manner for 
a plate to which the rafters are nailed. 
As feeding and cleaning will be done 
from hallway, front posts need not be 
over 5^4 feet, a door three feet wide 
enters hallway from the end. Place a 
window in each end for light; doors 
entering house from yards can be 2x4 
feet or 2x3 feet in cold climate. 
Run a sill the length of house and 
three feet from north wall, this is to sup¬ 
port the partition separating hallway 
from pen. Run a similar sill along to 
support building, but two inches lower 
than one supporting partition in hall¬ 
way, this is to carry the liquids to front 
of house and keep beds dry. Cement the 
space between these two sills after house 
is completed, and lay boards on the four 
feet of pen opposite gate' that opens into 
hallway. Do this while cement is soft; 
this is for beds. Next cement the portion 
of pen between the trough and doors, 
make this cement flush with the boards 
under bed and leave slightly concave, 
which will carry liquids out of door. 
Troughs should be of cement eight inches 
deep, two feet wide and three feet long 
inside measure; this allows a thickness 
of six inches for ends and fills four feet 
of space along hallway; trough projects 
six inches into hallway for convenience 
in pouring swill in through, and 18 
inches in pen where the hogs take it out. 
The gate occupies the other four feet 
along hallway, and should swing away 
from door at entrance. The boards and 
2x4’s intended for the roof can be used 
for frame on cement wall if care is taken 
in driving nails to leave room to pull 
them out. I am using asbestos coated 
paper on roof and it saves the trouble of 
recoating at regular intervals. If this 
house is to be used at farrowing time, 
run a 2x6 around the back of each pen, 
leaving eight inches clear above floor; 
attach same to bottom of gate, nothing 
beneath in front of trough; the pigs run 
under this when small. 
GEORGE E. HOWELL. 
Give Us a New Dog Tax. 
As to dog tax law and its abuse, would 
it not be well to have the New York State 
Legislature pass a bill to compel every 
individual to pay the tax on every dog 
owned or harbored by him or her as the 
case may be? Should not this law be 
uniform in every town in the State? 
Islip, Suffolk Co., does not enforce a 
dog tax. Smithtown, adjoining, does en¬ 
force it as far as possible. One man I 
know who lives in Smithtown where a 
road divides the two towns, moved his 
dog house over the road. lie is exempt. 
Why should club men have any more 
leeway than any other man? Are not men 
who belong to these clubs just as able 
to pay a tax as a neighbor? Many 
sporting men hire their dogs kept in the 
country; they in most cases pay no tax 
in the town where they are kept. Many 
of these men claim to pay their tax in 
the city. Do they? Their dogs never see 
the city after they are brought here. 
Should not these men be compelled to 
show receipts for their tax? A good dog, 
one that stays at home, is a valuable 
piece of property, but a dog that is al¬ 
lowed to run at large is a nuisance of the 
meanest kind. Not long since I had a 
dog 12 years old, that thought more of 
the neighbors’ eggs than he did of fresh 
meat. Result, I had to put him on a 
trolley and keep him there most of the 
time. This same dog was the best watch¬ 
dog at night, I ever saw, but he was a 
decided nuisance for nil that. My ex¬ 
perience is that the poorer the family 
who pay no tax, and some who do, keep 
the greatest number of dogs, for their 
neighbors to feed. Give us a uniform 
law to tax every dog and leave no loop¬ 
hole to evade this ta*. f. e. n. 
Brentwood, L. I. 
Harness Oil. — I have kept watch 
through the columns of The R. N.-Y. for 
some time for an article on oiling har¬ 
nesses. We have always in the past used 
what was supposed to be pure neat’s foot 
oil with a little lamp black to color. 
Some claim that this preparation makes 
the leather too soft, causing it to stretch 
and break the stitching when it comes to 
a strain. There are several kinds of pre¬ 
pared harness oils on the market. Have 
any of our Rural families had any ex¬ 
perience with these? I have several sets 
of harness to oil, so am interested. 
Clifton Springs, N. Y. G. w. s. 
THE SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE 
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 
trains students in all lines of veterinary work Fa¬ 
cilities unexcelled. For catalogue, address LOUIS A. 
KLEIN, Dean, Dept.E, 39th St.SWoodland flv., Philadelphia.Pa. 
Pure Feeding Molasses 
We are first hands and can quote yon absolutely 
bottom prices, delivered your station, in lots of 
anywhere from one barrel to a trainload. 
THE MEADER-ATLAS CO. 
N. Y* Office, 107 Hudson Street. Now York City 
CONTRACTION 
THE EVERIT 
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SPOT! 
ALWAYS STARTS HERE 
We have a natural scientific Cure for this 
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A book which tells you how and why. 
COMPANY Wellsville, N. Y. 
{-Feeding Molasses-; 
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I WftTTI E? & COMPANY. Box 15, Litchfield, Michigan. | 
Chr. Hansen’s 
Rennet Tablets 
for cheese making on the farm. CHEESE 
COLOR TABLETS and DANISH 
BUTTER COLOR are the 
STANDARD OF THE WORLD 
For full information write to headquarters 
Chr. Hansen’s Laboratory, ’n 
PERFECTION STABLE 
EQUIPMENTS SK 
Days’ trial. S. C. SWIFT MFG. 
COMPANY, Box A, Cuba, N. Y. 
“New Modern” Watering Basin-, 
All dairymen sav that cows 
•applied with fresh waterprive 
5 to 10 per cent more milk. 
Therefore our watering device 
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Our “New Modern" Swing 
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69 Main St., Attica, Now York 
■ ■ Everything for the Bam.”- 
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IXXi PUPPY, by Oh amnion Soudan Swiveller. 
Fine specimen. MAPLEWOOD FARM, Cheshire. Connecticut 
DiV.IR.Y CA.TTLE 
JERSEY BULL-Two Years Old 
Descendant of Golden Ferns Lad. 
OLIVEDALE FARM, - Hillsdale, New York 
FOR PRODUCTION Registered Jersey hull 
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IFPQFVQ HEIFER niul BULL CALVES. SGO to 5100 
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OAK WOOD FARM, R. F. D. 3. Newburgh, New York 
SHEEP 
sale” Twenty-Five (25) Reg. Hampshire Ewes 
with tine lambs by their side. 
II AS LETT BUDS., - Seneca, New York 
R°E R G S i fl s L TlR"ED Hampshire Down Yearling Ewes 
born in Jan. &Feb.,1913. Wm. C. Whipple, Purchast, N V- 
Look Beyond the Price! 
Lowest priced does not always mean cheapest. Don’t 
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Is a horse cheap that can’t work? Is a tree cheap 
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small yield? 
Some things are “dear at any price.” When it comes 
to feed for your cows, the saving of a few cents on a 
bag may lose you three times as much in the value of 
milk produced. Look beyond the price tag. You feed 
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cheap feed does not produce the milk it’s a dear feed. 
is one of the highest-priced daily feeds made, yet it’s the cheapest 
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It will cost you, on an average, 20 cents per bag more than other 
feeds. That means 2 cents a day per cow if you use 10 lbs. daily. 
One additional pint of milk per day is all you need to make up that 
difference. 
Cut out the “too high-priced talk.” Small feed bills often mean 
small milk checks. Profits are what count—and we guarantee 
better profits from Larro-feed than from any other feed you can use. 
If you believe in spending an extra dollar to get back two, you’ll 
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A one-minute change 
i—and the HINMAN MILKER is at work again 
The operator is weighing and recording each cow’s 
milk. No time is lost changing and adjusting the 
machine. It’s so simple—light—and easily handled. 
The operator is milking from 20 to 25 cows 
per hour and doing a thorough job. Noth¬ 
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