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THE HOTHOUSE LAMB. 
I T is time now to begin to have a talk 
about the hothouse lamb. Those who 
know how to produce this expensive mor¬ 
sel of food have a good business which 
prospers from year to year. The picture 
shown on this page was sent us by J. J. 
Ross & Sons, of Delaware. The little 
lambs shown in the picture were hand- 
fed, the smaller one being the smallest 
of triplets, and the other being deserted 
by its mother. The grandchildren of the 
senior Mr. Ross took delight in feeding 
these little lambs, and they prospered 
abundantly at tin 1 business. Delaware 
is making a good record at the lamb busi¬ 
ness. The mild weather, and the abund¬ 
ance of cheap fodder, give a good oppor¬ 
tunity for those who know how. It has 
often been suggested that this raising of 
hothouse lambs would prove a good busi¬ 
ness for women, and a small Hock of 
ewes properly handled would give a nice 
income, with probably a more agreeable 
work than that <>f running a dairy herd. 
The objection which we have had urged 
$70 each. Owing to lack of help many 
men are selling their dairy cows and go¬ 
ing in beef raising. We have been breed¬ 
ing Jerseys for 20 years, but for the 
above reason have quit the dairy business 
and many others are doing the same, but 
all farmers here grow cattle or mules. 
You never pass a farm without some line 
of live stock, and the quality is being 
steadily improved. It is the exception 
to find a farmer who will use a grade 
sire of any kind, horses, hogs or cattle. 
We are having plenty of rain and pas¬ 
tures are extra good. All lines of stock 
are doing well. The beef raisers are 
feeling good at the outlook for this Fall’s 
sales, but as most of them depend on 
buying to replace, they are finding it hard 
to buy suitable stockers to carry over. 
Since selling our dairy cows we purpose 
to grow beef, pork and mules, and all 
our farmers are trying to carry the maxi¬ 
mum of live stock of some sort, especially 
beef cattle. The black Angus seem to 
have the lead in popularity just now. 
This region has as many good Jersey cat¬ 
tle as any equal extent of country I know 
of. There is a market here in Eastern 
Tennessee for all the dairy output at the 
prices mentioned. Cows are in good de¬ 
mand at fair prices as buyers from Illi- 
LAMB BROUGHT UU BY HAND. 
against lamb-raising for women, is the 
fact that whoever raises these little creat¬ 
ures gets to love them so that it is al¬ 
most like breaking home ties to see the 
fat little creatures finally go to the 
slaughter. It is quite a problem some¬ 
times to alvise women as to the best kind 
of stock for them to raise in case they 
take up stock breeding in any way. Most 
of them appear to take poultry of some 
favorite breed as best suited to their cap¬ 
acity. Several women that we know 
have done v< r.y well with pigs, and we 
have a number of readers who tell us taat 
their milch goats are quite satisfactory as 
money makers. Several of our women 
readers, however, are actually raising 
lambs for sale, and we would like to hear 
fioin them rrgard'ng the profit in their 
enterprise. 
„IVE STOCK IN EAST TENNESSEE. 
HE country adjacent to the line of 
railroad from Knoxville to Chat¬ 
tanooga is specially adapted to dairy 
farming, and has for years been the best 
dairy section of the South. Upper East¬ 
ern Tennessee is coming to the front along 
dairy lines rapidly. The milk within 
hauling distance of railroad has been 
shipped to Knoxville and Chattanooga 
and then retailed and made into ice 
cream. Nearly every village and hamlet 
along our railroad lias a knitting mill or 
woolen mill, and many of them two or 
more, hence the ice cream trade is some¬ 
thing immense, and we have a good mar¬ 
ket for all our milk or cream. It is all 
sold by fat test. We get 40 cents per 
pound for fat in milk from April to Sep¬ 
tember and 45 cents the remainder of 
year, BO cents per pound in cream. Prob¬ 
ably a majority sell cream. Farther back 
from railroad many men keep large herds 
and make butter. 
The dairy cattle are almost exclusively 
Jerseys and Jersey grades; we have many 
very fine herds of registered Jerseys. The 
demand for good dairy cows is very sat¬ 
isfactory. I sold a carload of registered 
cows a few weeks ago at $125 per head. 
Well-bred unrecorded cows bring $50 to 
nois, Indiana and Ohio come here each 
year to replenish their herds. While 
some of us are going out of the busi¬ 
ness for lack of help, others who have the 
help are going in, as it is fairly profit¬ 
able and builds up our lands rapidly. As 
a whole the stock growers of all kinds are 
feeling enthusiastic, and are all trying 
to do a little better each year. 
I-oiidon, Tenn. c. L. G. 
Hog Growing on the Pacific Coast. 
AM on a small farm of 10 acres. I 
expect to keep 20 brood sows. Is that 
too many to keep on a small farm? I 
can dispose of all pigs at six to eight 
weeks old, for $3.50 to $4 apiece. I can 
raise potatoes and root crop to make 
about two-thirds of my feed bill. The 
other third I shall have to buy, which 
will average about $50 a ton for wheat, 
corn, oats, barley, and Alfalfa meal. 
Would a silo in my case be a good invest¬ 
ment for me and what size would it re¬ 
quire for 20 hogs? What is the best 
mixture for brood sows if I built silo? 
Washington. w. t. j. 
Twenty brood sows should produce you 
at least 240 pigs a year, which at $3.50 
or $4 each, at two months old would fig¬ 
ure close to $1,000. Ten acres should 
keep the 20 brood sows easily. But you 
may find it more profitable to keep a few 
head of good cows along with the hogs, 
as you undoubtedly will find it more 
profitable to feed most of the mill feed to 
the cows and keep your pigs growing with 
the skim-milk. A few head of well-bred 
Jerseys would be just the thing on such a 
hog ranch. As for a silo for storing hog 
feed I believe it would be very good, al¬ 
though we have not fed silage to our hogs 
to any great extent. For such a place 
I would not advise a silo over eight feet 
across, but put them up as high as you 
can. As for a mixture for the silo, we 
are growing less stalks and more ears. 
Much of the corn we grow for the silo is 
sweet corn, especially when we mix it 
with sunflowers. We tried sunflowers 
last year for the first time and were well 
pleased with it. The cows would not 
eat so much of it, but seemed to do as 
well as, or better than, they did on corn 
straight and kept up in better flesh. Yes, 
SANITATION 
would have saved a great many 
of the 7,420,912hogs valued 
at $59,455,700.00 lost in 
United States during 1913 from 
HOG CHOLERA 
You can make your hog 
pens sanitary if you use 
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