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FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Fattening Hogs in Maryland. 
H OW many pigs could T profitably fat¬ 
ten from March to December in a 
five-acre mixed orchard in Mary¬ 
land. now in Scarlet clover? I have 500 
bushels corn on hand. What should I 
sow for rotation grazing besides cow peas, 
using movable fencing? What protein 
foodstuff to buy during growing period be¬ 
fore feeding corn and cow peas at finish¬ 
ing time? jr. a. p. 
An area of five acres now in Crimson 
clover should support 10 brood sows and 
their litters. When the Crimson clover 
is exhausted by pasturing, it would be 
well to put in some rape and Soy beans, 
or some rape and Sweet clover, aiming 
to pasture this forage crop when it is 
nine inches high, and then not too severe¬ 
ly. The corn might be supplemented with 
10 per cent of digester tankage. It would 
be well to use some middlings in addition 
for the young pigs and the brood sows 
during their nursing period. We have 
determined that one acre of forage crops 
will support, under average conditions, 
approximately a ton of live weight pork 
per acre, provided this was supplemented 
with a grain ration, preferably corn with 
some tankage, or with ear corn with a 
small amount of linseed meal fed in the 
form of a thin slop. F. c. M. 
Winter Feed For Oxen. 
I AM feeding this Winter a few work 
oxen on wheat straw, $8 per ton, 
. wheat bran, $27 per ton, and mo¬ 
lasses, 10 x /-2 cents a gallon. What propor¬ 
tion of each ought. I to feed? I can buy 
corn shucks at 75 cents per hundred. 
Would that be cheaper than the straw at 
40 cents per hundred? J. s. w. 
Amherst, Va. 
Wheat bran at $27 per ton is the most 
expensive element in the ration suggested. 
Certainly cottonseed meal as a source of 
protein could replace the bran at one- 
half the cost, and would undoubtedly in¬ 
crease the energy units. A mixture of 
equal parts of corn and molasses with 25 
per cent, of cottonseed meal added would 
be the best propc ions to use. If the 
wheat straw was nicely cured and bright 
it might be used as roughage, but I would 
prefer cornstalks for such feeding. I 
would eliminate the bran entirely, and 
while it. might be necessary to reduce the 
amount of molasses used if the ration 
suggested was too laxative, otherwise it 
would be serviceable and economical. 
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Dressing Percentage of Pork; Pigs on 
Shares. 
W HAT proportion of a dressed hog is 
bone, In other words, assuming a 
Spring pig weighs 200 pounds dress¬ 
ed in the Fall, and the head and feet are 
cut off, how much sausage will the car¬ 
cass make if all used for that purpose? 
2. I also hiive this proposition put to 
me: A friend wants to purchase a sow 
(with pig) and wants me to keep her 
(feed and care), and raise the little pigs, 
he to receive his portion one year hence ; 
what percentage of the litter should he re¬ 
ceive? 3. What may be planted with oats 
that will not interfere with the oats at 
harvest time, but will then grow and be a 
sufficient growth to turn under for wheat 
the following Fall? Soil is sandy. 
Millstone, N. .1. i,. it. 11 . 
1. The dressing percentage of pigs 
varies from 70 to SO per cent, of their 
live weight. An animal in prime condi¬ 
tion will often dress out as much as 84 
per cent, of edible pork. You must re¬ 
member, however, that there is something 
other than bone and the feet that are waste 
products, since the intestines and other 
organs not used for food would have to be 
determined. It would not be wise to use 
all of the pig’s carcass for sausage. The 
hams and loins would ne worth more in 
themselves, and the general practice is to 
utilize for sausage the less valuable cuts 
of the carcass and trimmings. 2. It would 
setm that if party No. 1 furnished a bred 
sow, and party No. 2 fed and cared for 
same, and fitted the pigs for market in 
the Fall, when the animal was ready for 
the market, party No. l would he entitled 
to have the bred sow returned to him, 
and in addition should have one-half of 
the selling value of the pigs marketed. 
3. I would suggest the use of oats and 
Canada field peas as a mixture to be 
seeded for early planting, and would 
broadcast at the same time six pounds of 
rape seed per acre. When the oats and 
peas are harvested the rape might furnish 
some forage for late Summer or early 
Fall feeding. f. c. m. 
every year you use a 
Cream Separator 
N O other machine or implement used on the farm re¬ 
ceives anywhere near such constant use, nor is there 
any other farm machine or equipment with which quality of 
work means so much and first cost means so little. 
If the separator runs hard, gets out of order or isn’t 
easy to wash, it’s a constant bother, and it only takes a very 
little loss of cream at each separation, when multiplied 730 
times, to run into a good deal of money, very soon more than 
the original cost of the machine. But no matter how small 
the loss, it is too big a handicap for any cow owner to try to 
work with. 
As a matter of fact, the men who know most about 
cream separators, the creamerymen, long ago came to the 
conclusion that the De Laval was the only machine they 
could afford to use. That’s why 98% of the cream separa¬ 
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You don’t have to experiment with cream separators 
any more because the men who are best able to judge as to 
the merits of the cream separator have already done that for 
you, and the result of their conclusion is evidenced by the 
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milk plants and the fact that over 1,750,000 farm and dairy 
size De Lavals—more than all other makes combined—are 
in daily use. 
The nearest De Laval agent will be glad to set up a machine 
for you and arrange for payment of same as is most con¬ 
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