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PORK PRODUCTION FOR THE EAST. 
How to Make Hogs Pay. 
Part III. 
Grain Rations. — Tbe following 
named feeds are standard when it comes 
to feeding hogs. Corn, barley, Alfalfa 
hay, digester tankage, red dog Horn-, 
wheat bran and oil meal. This does not 
include waste products, 
feeds that may be used 
successful feeding. The 
tious are useful: 
For brood sows before and after far¬ 
rowing, eorumeal 100 pounds, digester 
tankage 12 pounds, wheat bran 10 
pounds, oil meal four pounds, bone meal 
two pounds. To be fed in such quantities 
as would maintain a vigorous active ap¬ 
pearance. A safe rule is to permit the 
brood sows to gain one-half pound daily 
from tbe time they are bred until farrow¬ 
ing time, gradually increasing the feed 
after farrowing, as the pigs demand more 
milk, until the brood sow is on full feed, 
all she will eat with relish. 
For young pigs before weaning: Red 
dog flour 100 pounds, crushed seed oats 
100 pounds, digester tankage 10 pounds. 
Fed in such quantities as the pigs will 
clean up readily at three feedings per¬ 
iods. This may be supplemented with a 
small amount of soaked shelled corn. 
For pigs weaned until weighing 50 
pounds: Soaked shelled corn or ear corn 
100 pounds, red dog flour 50 pounds, 
3. In case no green forage is available, 
a small amount of tankage should be 
fed in the form of a thin slop; five per 
cent, of estimated corn consumed. 
4. The pigs should gradually be ac¬ 
customed to green corn by cutting and 
feeding small amounts while in dry yards 
or pasture, else let in field for part days 
only at the outset. 
5. The ears should be well glazed, and 
the stalks show evidence of partial ma¬ 
turity before the animals are let into the 
field; furthermore, the pigs should be 
taken out of tbe corn field on wet days 
and during muddy weather. 
G. The hogs will gather the corn as 
clean as the average man at much less 
cost. Shotes weighing about 125 pounds 
are best suited for such feeding. Old 
sows are more wasteful. 
FREDERICK C. HINKLER. 
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY NOTES. 
red dog 
age 10 
months 
pounds, 
flour 25 
pounds, 
to one 
digester 
quantities as 
with relish, 
grinding corn 
red dog flour 
or skim-milk, 
use of Alfalfa 
wheat bran 15 pounds, digester tankage 
10 pounds, skim-milk, four pounds of 
milk for each one pound of grain fed. 
For market pigs, first period, three to 
six months of age: Cornmoal 120 pounds, 
pounds, digester tank- 
Second period, six 
year: Ear corn 100 
tankage five pounds. 
This mixture should be fed to the animals 
intended for fattening purposes in such 
they will eat and clean up 
There is no advantage in 
for swine. The tankage or 
can be mixed with water 
and fed as a thin slop. The 
rape or clover pasture will 
materially cheapen grains during early 
growing and fattening periods. Soaked 
shelled corn and 5% of tankage added 
makes a fine feed for suckling pigs when 
fed in small quantities. 
Alfalfa For Swine. —The use of Al¬ 
falfa has practically revolutionized the 
swine industry, and it can be fed either 
as a green forage after it is two years 
old, or fed in the form of Alfalfa hay to 
growing an.mals, and especially to brood 
sows. The following precautions, how¬ 
ever, should guide its use: 
3. Alfalfa can safely be pastured with 
a limited number of swine, provided the 
animals are not allowed to crop the 
plants closely. 
2. At least two cuttings for hay should 
be made during the season; the appear¬ 
ance of the crown shoots and blossoms 
suggesting the appropriate time. 
3. The animals should be turned in at 
the outset, when the pla. ts are from 
seven to nine inches high, and never al¬ 
lowed to make the field look like a 
ular pastured area. 
4. Four brood sows with average lit¬ 
ters may be allowed per acre at the out¬ 
set. provided they are liberally fed a 
grain mixture and the number reduced 
as unfavorable conditions appear. 
5. The period from May 3 to October 
3. suggests the safe limits of the pastur¬ 
ing season ; however, with due regard to 
season conditions, Fall sows with litters 
may be turned in for part days up to 
November 1st. The crop winters strong¬ 
er if the plants are left about seven 
inches high. 
G. If shotes intended for fattening or 
gilts for breeding purposes are utilized, 
a safe guide is suggested of one ton 
of live weight per acre. With ear corn 
and tankage, supplementing the forage, 
gains and growth will be most econom¬ 
ical. 
7. Rased upon value of the pork pro¬ 
duced, the labor saved, the amount of 
fertility added and distributed, and the 
health and type of the Alfalfa pastured 
pig, this practically supplies the means 
of obtaining by far the greatest income 
from an acre of this famous forage and 
hay crop. 
Swine may be used to harvest the corn 
crop to advantage, provided the follow¬ 
ing points are given attention : 
3. Enough animals should be turned 
into a field to clean up all corn in about 
20 days, or approximately 20 325-pound 
shotes per acre. 
2. Rape, clover or a combination mix¬ 
ture should be seeded in the corn at time 
of last cultivation to furnish variety and 
supply needed protein. Four pounds of 
rape and eight pounds of clover make a 
good mixture. 
reg- 
The most unique cooperative associa¬ 
tion recently organized in this State is 
the Newlots Cooperative Pasteurizing 
Company. Samuel Fish is president of 
this Company, and B. M. Gordon secre¬ 
tary and treasurer. They have sub¬ 
scribed and paid in on account of stock 
$3,500 of their $30,000 capitalization. 
This creamery is located in Greater New 
York, and it has seven original members, 
who have purchased this stock, and are 
building this pasteurizing plant; they 
own G29 cows. That men are engaged in 
the dairy business within Greater New 
York is in itself a remarkable fact. 
These men are all foreigners, and are 
making money; in fact they seem to be 
making more money than are the dairy¬ 
men located in the most fertile valleys of 
this State. The cooperative form of organi¬ 
zation appeals to these men very strong¬ 
ly, and they are anxious to take advan¬ 
tage of the new cooperative laws recently 
enacted. 
At ITurleyville, the Jewish farmers of 
that neighborhood have organized a co¬ 
operative creamery. This creamery is 
financed entirely by the Jewish farmers 
of that locality. They have purchased a 
site and built a model creamery in all 
respects; Louis Rillowitz is the manager. 
It is making a high-class, unsalted but¬ 
ter, and is making sales directly to the 
consumers in New York City. One of 
the newest features of their selling cam¬ 
paign is the division of the net profits of 
the creamery with the purchasers of their 
product. Each eight-ounce package of 
butter is wrapped in a paper, which at 
the end of the year is computed by the 
managers of the creamery to entitle the 
purchaser to share in the profits of the 
creamery. The stock-holders and mem¬ 
bers of this cooperative creamery receive 
50 per cent, of the net profit; the employ¬ 
ees 25 per cent, and the consumers of the 
butter 25 per cent. 
A very enthusiastic meeting of farm¬ 
ers in the town of Whitehall was held 
April 30, at the Grange Hall in that 
village, where final steps were taken for 
the organization of the Whitehall Co¬ 
operative Company. Fully one-lialf of 
the farmers of the town were present at 
this meeting. Officers were elected; ar¬ 
ticles of incorporation were drawn up 
and signed, and the book for stock sub¬ 
scriptions was opened. This company 
will be incorporated with $1,000 capital 
stock, and $500 was paid in to the treas¬ 
urer during this meeting. All of the sub¬ 
scribers have agreed to take five shares 
of stock at $5 each in this company, so 
that it may have ample capital with 
which to do a purchasing business. These 
farmers are almost all engaged in dairy¬ 
ing, and through this new cooperative 
company i tend to buy all of their farm 
supplies. The local prices of the com¬ 
mercial kinds of feeds in Whitehall are 
extremely high, and by combining their 
orders these farmers are assured at the i 
start of a saving of from $3 to $7 a ton 
on the feeds they use. For the first year 
the secretary, Edward D. Adams, is to 
perform the services of manager. 
The South Shore Growers’ and Ship- ; 
pers’ Association, located at Dunkirk, N. 
Y., which has a membership of 700, the 
Chautauqua and Erie Grape Company (a 
company which markets about one-fourt-h 
of the Chautauqua County grape belt 
crop) and, the Keystone Grape Com¬ 
pany of North East, Penna. are about to 
organize a large cooperative company. 
Nearly all of the farmers in this locality, 
bankers, and merchants in general, are 
deeply interested in this movement. The 
Bureau of Cooperation in the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture has received several 
letters from bankers and business men in 
this locality urging the formation of some 
such large cooperative company to assist 
in marketing more directly not only the 
grapes of the Chautauqua and Erie fruit 
belt, but all sorts of farm produce. A 
large meeting was called at Westfield on 
April 31. at which the tentative by-laws 
were carefully gone over with the assist¬ 
ance of the Superintendent of Coopera¬ 
tion and a. committee was appointed with 
one member from each township whose 
duty was to solicit stock subscriptions. 
George E. Pierce, of North East, Penna., 
L. It. Dean, of Brockton, S. J. Cook, of 
Sheridan, Mr. W. N. Slauson, of Silver 
Creek and Fred Johnson of Westfield are 
members of this committee. It is hoped 
that before the next meeting, which is 
called on April 25, this committee will 
be able to secure the necessary stock 
subscriptions, and the membership in 
the company of at least 50 per cent, of 
the entire number of grape growers in the 
Chautauqua grape belt. 
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