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O ne man and the Aspinwall plant 5 to 8 acres of 
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Profitable for the large or small, grower. Plants 
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POTATOES BRIDGE THE GAP 
Potatoes can help you to become a fruit grower, 
especially if you have but limited capital. Potatoes 
among the stumps on newly cleared land will bridge the 
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Crop Rotation for Hog Pasture. 
I AM about to buy a farm in Virginia 
or North Carolina, and wish to spe¬ 
cialize in the raising of hogs. I wish 
to raise, for the hogs, as much of their 
food as possible, and feed them in pas¬ 
turage, in other words let them feed 
themselves by turning them into the var¬ 
ious lots. Can you give me a good ro¬ 
tation to follow so that I may have green 
fodder growing a good part of the time? 
I have had in mind laying out the farm 
to corn, Essex rape, Alfalfa, and cow 
peas, and rotating these as required, with 
the possible addition of vetch. Assum¬ 
ing there were about 15 acres in each 
of the above, about how many hogs could 
I maintain on a farm so laid out? 
II. G. WAKING. 
Assuming that you buy in North Caro¬ 
lina or Southern Virginia I would advise 
the fencing of four lots of size suited to 
the number of hogs you expect to feed. 
As to the time for beginning, that will 
of course depend on when you get posses¬ 
sion of the farm. But assuming that 
you take charge early in Spring you can 
sow a lot in March in Dwarf Essex rape, 
and after the middle of May sow an¬ 
other lot in early cow peas, like the 
New Era or the Grout, and the two re¬ 
maining lots in Whippoorwill and Black 
peas. By the time the rape is eaten, 
the early peas will be ready to turn on, 
and the rape lot can be planted in sweet 
potatoes. Then as fast as the pea lots 
are eaten down in succession sow them 
to rape and Crimson clover. The rape 
will run the hogs well through the 
Winter, and they can be taken off in 
time for the clover to come on in the 
Spring, to be eaten in succession and 
followed by peas or Soy beans, and the 
sweet potatoes will keep the hogs busy 
in the Fall till time to finish on corn. 
It is merely a matter of watching the 
chances for a constant succession. Peas 
can be sown from May 20 to July 20, 
and the varieties named come in regu¬ 
lar succession. How many hogs you 
could maintain I could not say unless 
I was perfectly familiar with the fertil¬ 
ity of the proposed farm. But by keep¬ 
ing up a succession of crops somewhat 
after that suggested, seasons of course 
making some difference, you will find 
that the capacity of the land for feed¬ 
ing will increase. The grain crops should 
be grown on a separate rotation. Of 
course, with some soil sufficiently fertile 
you can establish a field in Alfalfa which 
will come in as a constant resource when 
the special lots are not ready to turn on. 
But, as I have said, it is largely a mat¬ 
ter of watching the chances to get in one 
crop after another to keep the hogs busy 
all the time. w. F. massey. 
Grain With Silage. 
I HAVE fairly good silage of flint corn 
mixed with Learning, and would like 
a grain ration to feed cows, as I 
sell milk to a dealer to peddle. I 
desire to use malt sprouts and want a 
ration that will give a large flow of good 
milk. My cows are grade Holstein. 
New York. W. A. P. 
The following mixture should give good 
results: Malt sprouts four pounds, wheat 
bran two pounds, cornmeal one pound 
and cottonseed meal two pounds. I’eed 
one mund of the mixture to 3% or four 
pounds of milk. C. L. M. 
Feeding Fall Pigs. 
C AN you tell me what to add to a ra¬ 
tion of skim-milk and corn for the 
most profitable feeding of Fall pigs 
intended for killing in the Spring, and 
how much to feed them? 2. Also what 
grain and how much for a brood sow. 3. 
What is the cheapest ration, or rather the 
most profitable, considering results, for 
cows, the roughage being silage and dry 
corn stalks or silage and hay. E. S. B. 
Connecticut. 
1. I believe that if one-third to one- 
half the grain ration is middlings, the rest 
corn, better results will he obtained than 
by feeding corn alone. I cannot say how 
much to feed, except that the pigs should 
have only what they will clean up three 
times a day and always have a good ap¬ 
petite for the next meal. 
2. A good grain ration for a brood sow 
is one part wheat bran, three parts mid¬ 
dlings and one part cornmeal (by 
weight). Some succulent food like ap¬ 
ples. roots or potatoes is desirable, also 
plentv of exercise. 
3. A good dairy ration from the feeds 
you mention is bran, two pounds, cot¬ 
tonseed meal four pounds and cornmeal 
one pound. C. L. M. 
Corn for the Silo. 
O N page 108, C. B. M„ asks some sil¬ 
age questions. Our experience is in 
preference of corn well eared. One 
year we had to wait for the engine un¬ 
til the corn was fit for husking, and we 
February <j, 
were afraid it would not keep in the silo, 
so we pulled off two wagonloads of ears, 
and put that fodder in the bottom of the 
silo. When we came to feed the silage 
without corn in it we had to supply as 
much feed as we had taken out, so lost 
the time of taking off the ears. Corn that 
is fit for husking will keep, but does not 
pack as well as that which is green. 
If too green it works in well, but is not 
as good feed. We want to put it into the 
silo when we would cut it for shocking 
in two days later. Corn not well eared 
does not pack well in the silo. Even 
when I trod the silage, mixing the corn 
from the center with the leaves and husks 
and treading the outside firmly, that in 
the center with the most corn is in far 
the best condition, which means as bright 
as new. My young calves are very fond 
of it. We grow our corn in hills, three 
feet six inches each way, leaving three 
stalks in each hill. The check row is a 
necessity with us, as our land is foul 
with foxtail grass. By use of manure 
and phosphate, this plan will give us a 
yield of from 70 to 100 bushels of shelled 
corn per acre. It would be easy to re¬ 
duce the ear corn by having it stand 
thicker on the ground, but we would also 
reduce the weight per acre, and such 
slender stalks are very hard to load on a 
wagon, as they will break in the middle. 
With the shorter corns of the North, 
probably four or five stalks or that pro¬ 
portion in rows, might give ears enough, 
but for us it has not worked well. Our 
horsetooth corn ears very heavily and 
grows 14 feet high. A. E. rittenhouse. 
Delaware. 
Ration for Cow. 
1 WANT a balanced ration for my cow, 
composed of the following grains. 
How many pounds should I feed per 
day? For roughage I am feeding Tim¬ 
othy hay and cornstalks. Corn and cob 
meal, wheat middlings, wheat bran, brew¬ 
ers’ grains, cottonseed meal, dried beet 
pulp. C. G. B. 
Vineland, N. J. 
Feed corn and cob meal, one pound, 
wheat bran, one pound, brewers’ grains, 
three pounds, and cottonseed meal, two 
pounds. As you have no succulent feed I 
think it would be advisable to add a 
pound of dried beet pulp soaked for sev¬ 
eral hours before feeding in what water 
it will absorb. Mix the other grains with 
the soaked beet pulp. Give one pound of 
grain to three or four pounds of milk. It 
is better to divide the daily grain ration 
into two or three feeds than to feed all at 
once. c. L. m. 
Why the Cows Shrink. 
I N regard to the article written by mo 
and published on page 76, entitled. 
“Why Do Cows Shrink?” will say that 
about two weeks ago I began supplemen¬ 
ting my ration of union grains and mid¬ 
dlings with two quarts of cob meal daily 
per cow, and have had a substantial in¬ 
crease in flow of milk from three to five 
pounds per cow. A. B. Roberts. 
Connecticut. 
I should like to give my opinion re¬ 
garding the shrink in milk, page 76. As 
the feed seems to me all that could ho 
desired, I should say it was due to one of 
three things: 1. The lack of one ounce cf 
salt per day. 2. The use of a dog to 
worry them. 3. Last but not least, an 
attendant who is nervous and loud in 
the barn. This is my experience. 
New York. MRS. L. b. i. 
Shrink In Milk. —Tell A. B. Rob¬ 
erts of Connecticut, page 76, to feed his 
cows a pint of feed molasses twice a day, 
and his cows will come hack, and hold 
up for quite awhile. This molasses comes 
in barrels of about 58 gallons. Take out 
two-thirds of the head and use a galvan¬ 
ized dipper with a six-inch handle and 
a strong eight or 10-quart pail in feeding 
it to the cows. He can guess at the 
quantity and watch the results. If too 
laxative feed only once a day. A. E. R. 
“The Kansas tenant farmer must have 
a long lease before he will change from 
tenant farmer to live stock producer,” 
Prof. W. A. Cochel of the Kansas State 
College says. “The present deficiency in 
the supply of beef is largely due to the 
decreased capacity of the pastures. In 
a four-year period beginning in 1910 
there has been an increase of 72 per cent, 
in the acreage necessary to support a 
steer, and an increase of 31 per cent, 
in cost of renting land for a steer. There 
has also been a decrease of 24 per cent, 
in the owner’s income for an acre. Dur¬ 
ing the past 30 years there has been con¬ 
stant increase in cattle values, and in¬ 
dications in Kansas and elsewhere prom¬ 
ise profitable beef production in the next 
few years. The drawback to cattle feed¬ 
ing is inability of farmer to secure money 
on breeding cattle.” 
A traveller visiting a large factory 
made a bet with the manager _ that he 
would pick out all the married men 
among the employees. Accordingly lie 
stationed himself at the door as they 
came back from dinner, and mentioned 
all those whom he believed to be mar¬ 
ried, and in almost every case he was 
right. “How do you do it?” asked the 
manager, in amazement. “Oh, it’s quite 
simple.” said the traveller, “quite sim¬ 
ple. The married men all wipe their 
feet on the mat; the single men don’t. 
—Credit Lost. 
