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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 24, 1915. 
Breeding Pigs Akin. 
Will you give advice regarding breed¬ 
ing of pigs that are related? I ordered a 
trio of pigs (registered Yorkshires) 
which were to be not akin. When I re¬ 
ceived the registry papers I found that 
boar was half brother to the sows, and 
then wrote to breeder, who said that it 
was all right and that .the best breed¬ 
ers were doing such line breeding. Will 
yen advise me? S. H. c. 
Smithville Flats, N. Y. 
I would not advise you to mate half- 
brother and sister. While inbreeding has 
been practiced by a great many swine 
breeders, it is doubtful if the best re¬ 
sults have been obtained where animals 
of this relationship have been mated. It 
is not objectionable to use a sire on his 
grand-daughter, but where half-brother 
and sister are mated one is very apt to 
get not only small litters, with weak pigs, 
but individuals lacking in sturdiness, and 
often they do not gain rapidly or econom¬ 
ically when placed on proper rations. 
Two years ago we mated a half-brother 
and sister experimentally, and out of a 
litter of seven pigs, six of them were to¬ 
tally blind, and the seventh one was not 
normal. We repeated the practice the 
next year in one or two cases, and the 
results were anything but satisfactory. 
Inbreeding has a tendency to decrease 
the size, weaken constitutional vigor and 
impair the usefulness of breeding animals, 
and its continued practice, unless there 
is a definite object in view, is not recom¬ 
mended. Certainly the average farmer 
who is producing swine for pork products 
cannot afford to take the chances that 
prevail when this practice is in vogue. 
F. C. M. 
Skim Milk for Colts. 
Noting your remarks on feeding skim- 
milk to colts, I will give what little ex¬ 
perience I have had. About 25 years 
ago I bought two four-months-old colts, 
taking them from their dams. I began 
feeding them oats, oil meal, grass and 
liay, also about 2% to three gallons skim- 
milk per day for each colt. This skim- 
milk feed was continued through the 
Fall and Winter until the colts were 
turned out to pasture at about 
one year old. These colts made 
a wonderful growth, and certainly had 
r.o lack- of vim and substance. They 
were sired by an 1150-pound trotting- 
bred sire, but neither of the dams was 
very highly bred. They developed good 
carriage gaits, either could pull a bug¬ 
gy, or both together at about a 3:30 
gait, and go 15 or 20 miles in mud three 
inches deep, and come home fresh. One, 
the filly, was kept on the farm several 
years as a carriage, work, and brood 
mare, and was good everywhere. The 
ether, a gelding, was mated with a horse 
a year older than he and at four years 
for the Fall after) the team sold in New 
York City for $2,200, rather unusual, at 
least in those days, to send a four-year- 
old to such a market, but this colt 
showed a development of mouth and gen 
eral appearance one year in advance of 
his age from a two-year-old. This team 
having no speed sold of course on their 
merits as a carriage team. I should not 
hesitate to feed any colt a reasonable 
amount of skim-milk and should expect 
only good results. Arthur l. reeve. 
Ohio. 
Self Feeding Hogs. 
Can you tell me all about dry-feeding 
logs? It seems to me that feeding swill 
is wasteful, and makes pen unsanitary. 
As the food is consumed in about two 
minutes the small ones do not get their 
share. Clean drink and clean dry feed 
before them at all times would give them 
all the same chance. Am I right? If so 
please suggest two or three economical 
balanced rations. H. n. b. 
Bath, Mich. 
The use of the self-feeder is gaining in 
popularity among pork producers. It is 
clearly evident that it is not a wasteful 
practice, as originally claimed, but rather 
where pigs have access to dry feed at will 
their gains are economical and rapid. At 
the Iowa Experiment Station for the past 
few years extensive investigational work 
has been conducted in comparing the self- 
feeder with the old method of feeding by 
baud, and even where dry feed is fed by 
means of the self-feeder and the same 
feed fed dry by hand. I believe that it is 
true the self-feeder has produced pork most 
economically. We are installing a num¬ 
ber of self-feeders at the Station here, 
and hope to have comparative data with¬ 
in a short time that will be of service in 
explaining the usefulness of this prac¬ 
tice. Where any forage crop is used, 
and this is supplemented by means of 
corn, tankage and middlings, I firmly be¬ 
lieve that the pigs will gain with the most 
economy where they have free access to 
the self-feeders. II. D. B. suggests that 
v> ben pigs are fed slop, they eat it rapid¬ 
ly and in quantities greater than their 
system demands. I might add that where 
self-feeders are in use groups of pigs 
seem more uniform because they are well 
able to obtain what feed they waut with¬ 
out opposition and competition. A pig is 
a pretty good judge as to what he wants, 
and if I judge correctly from our experi¬ 
ence with the feeders, it will tend to 
change materially some of the scientific 
data that has guided us in determining 
balanced rations. I believe that the self- 
feeder is useful, practical, and that they 
will come into general use in swine pro¬ 
duction. The dry mash has proven its 
worth iu the feeding of poultry, and I 
feel sure that it will prove equally as 
economical iu the feeding of swine. 
Where the self-feeder is in use a good 
ration would be shelled corn, wheat mid¬ 
flings and tankage. This w'ould require 
a self-feeder with three compartments, or 
two self-feeders, one to be used for the 
shelled corn, and the other divided and 
used for the middlings and tankage. It 
is my observation that the shelled corn 
is more practical to use with the self- 
feeders than the ear corn. 
N, J. Exp. Station. f. c. minkleb. 
About Milch Goats. 
I noticed the article “Keeping a Few 
Sheep” by M. P. L., on page 835. I 
have had some experience in keeping 
milch goats, and know that M. P. E. has 
been misinformed as to the milk being 
“strong,” as it has less taste—at least no 
more than cow’s milk, provided the goat 
is fed the same as the cow. Of course 
if the goat is fed on garbage it will taste, 
the same applies to the flesh, but if fed 
the same as sheep, grass and grain, will 
taste more like lamb. If fed on leaves, 
twigs, etc., and given range in woods it 
will taste more like deer. If the goat 
is tied so it will not have too large a 
range at one time it will clear all fence 
corners and along the fences. My ex¬ 
perience has been that -some goats can 
stand more heat than others; however, 
1 think they are better if tied in the 
shade during the middle of the day, and 
ieft out all night, and they are less apt 
to be troubled by dogs than sheep are, 
especially if the goat has horns. The 
best way to tie them is to take a rope 
or wire 10 or 15 feet long, attaching each 
end to a stake, fence post or tree, having 
a ring on the rope. To this attach a 
rope or chain about four feet long with 
a swivel on it. Most goats will kill most 
all weeds if kept tied iu the same place 
two or three days. The main trouble will 
be in getting a good milch goat, as own¬ 
ers of the good ones will not sell, about 
the only way is to breed up from native 
or grade does. A good doe should give 
from two to four quarts a day. 
Maryland. R. E. N. 
Trouble With “Stringy” Milk. 
Every year at this time we have many 
letters about “ropy” milk or cream. 
Complaints come from people who say 
that their milk is properly handled and 
the cows are well fed and kept clean, 
yet after standing for a while, even in 
a cool place, the milk or cream becomes 
ropy or stringy ,with the most disgusting 
appearance. Some people attribute this 
to the cow or the way she is fed. but iu 
most cases a peculiar germ causes the 
trouble. This germ is usually found on 
some of the utensils used in handling the 
milk. The seam at the top of the pail 
or pan is a favorite place for this rascal, 
and the dishcloth or even the towels used 
in cleaning the pans or pails will often 
be found harboring the germ. Many peo¬ 
ple who have this trouble iu the milk feel 
rather insulted when told that germs may 
be found on their dairy utensils, for they 
are- sure that the utmost cleanliness is 
observed. In most cases, however, that 
have been reported to us the trouble has 
disappeared, after a thorough boiling of 
everything that touches the milk- or cow 
except the human hands. The stable 
should be clean too, and whitewashed if 
possible, and the cows brushed or wiped 
off before milking. The milkpails and 
pans, the cloths used in the dairy, in fact 
everything that touches the milk should 
be boiled for half an hour after cleaning 
and then exposed to strong sunlight if 
possible. This treatment destroys the 
germ and iu most cases the trouble will 
disappear in a week following this thor¬ 
ough boiling of the utensils. The germ 
is sometimes kept alive in unexpected 
places. In one case reported to us it 
seemed impossible to get rid of this germ, 
and it was finally traced to a sink drain 
which was used to carry away the water 
used in washing the pails. It appeared 
that after boiling and scalding the pails 
it had been the family practice to rinse 
them out with cold water at a well not 
far from this sink drain, and a scientific 
investigation showed that these germs 
had worked from the drain into the well, 
and that even after the boiling, the rins¬ 
ing with cold water still kept the germ 
alive so that it affected the milk. Boil¬ 
ing and sunning are the two things most 
necessary in correcting this trouble. 
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The Champion Dairy Cow. 
Three world’s dairy records have been 
established in 11)15. The Holstein cow 
Finderne Pride Johanna Rue, owned by 
the Somerset Holstein Breeders’ Com¬ 
pany of New Jersey, now stands head 
and shoulders above all other dairy cows, 
with production of 1470.58 pounds of 
butter in a year. Her picture was given 
last week. She surpassed her stable 
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world’s champion by over 75 pounds of 
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pounds butter, her test was 4.57. A half 
Century ago a large sum was offered for 
the cow which would produce 300 pounds 
ot butter in a year. No dairyman claimed 
thf offer and it was even considered a 
dairy impossibility to produce this cow. 
Breeding, feeding and brains have shown 
the fallacy in the contention a decade 
ago that there would never be a thousand- 
pound cow. The upward limit is not in 
sight, and if this race for championships 
means nothing more to the average farm¬ 
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not afford to be content with ordinary 
stock, when better is being developed 
and may be secured. The long distance 
cow is the one which will put cash in 
the dairyman’s poeketbook. and this is 
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Johanna Rue’s persistent work. In her 
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after the time she freshened, she pro¬ 
duced 22.525 pounds fat from 484.3 milk. 
Ir the final week of her test she did the 
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pounds milk. 
Finderne Pride Johanna Rue freshened 
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son of Sarcastic Lad and Johanna Rue 
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Johanna Rue 3d’s Lad had 48 A. R. O. 
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pounds. The dam of Finderne Pride 
Johanna Rue is Joudine Pride, daughter 
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