THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1301 
Pig Raising for Women 
This group of pigs represents the first 
litter from a sow one year old. With 
good management, raising pigs is a pro¬ 
fitable business, provided skim-milk and 
other food stuffs are raised on the farm. 
Pigs at the age of four weeks sell for 
$5 to $6 each. The weaning period is 
a critical one in the pig’s life; many are 
weaned too young. Pigs that have 
learned to eat freely can be weaned safe¬ 
ly earlier than those that have never 
been given a feeding pen of their own. In 
all cases circumstances will have to gov¬ 
ern to a great extent tile age at which 
the pigs are weaned. Where the litters 
are large it is a good plan to take away 
oue-lialf the pigs, leaving the weaker ones 
with the mother for a short time. The 
sow’s udder will dry up in perfect con¬ 
dition. and the weaker pigs will be given 
a good start. If they are in a field by 
themselves, and have a chance to eat their 
meals without being knocked around by 
the larger pigs they will do better. I 
deroga, has become famous on account 
of the conference held there each year 
under the auspices of various missionary 
societies. The location and spacious 
grounds are well-nigh ideal for such an 
event and it is evident the children are 
having the time of their lives. Both 
the native children and city visitors, who 
are numerous in this vicinity, are in¬ 
vited without distinction, and it will be 
noted that a number of the parents are 
present to look after the little ones. Re¬ 
freshments consisting of sandwiches, 
cake, ice cream and lemonade were served 
in such abundance that even seventy 
romping boys and girls could not ex¬ 
haust the supply. The ice cream was 
served in cones which necessitated neith¬ 
er dishes nor spoons. The host of the 
party, Mr. Wilson, is at the extreme 
right of the picture. This “treat” of 
Mr. Wilson’s to the children of the neigh¬ 
borhood might well be emulated in other 
places. We venture to say his joy was 
no less than that of the boys and girls 
who romped over his lawn at will. Mr. 
Wilson has passed the “three score and 
A Group of Lively Mortgage Lifters. 
am in favor of turning swine out to pas¬ 
ture, letting the pigs, if a small litter, 
run with the sow. She will attend to the 
weaning. Then you can place them in a 
yard by themselves. During hot weath¬ 
er, shade and good drinking water are 
essential, and will add many pounds to 
each one’s growth during the Summer. 
When the weaning period has passed 
we wish to grow and fatten them for a 
high market price. It is very important 
to give a well-balanced ration, as no one 
food has all the elements necessary for 
the most economical production of pork. 
In my grandfather’s day pigs were turned 
out to pasture and got their own living, 
coming in fat during the Fall. One 
Spring we turned a pig into a small or¬ 
chard. We fed milk, some waste from 
the table, small potatoes and one bag 
of cornmeal. Piggie picked up the sweet 
apples and looked at the sour ones. We 
gave plenty of water. In the Fall we 
had a nice large fat hog. 
Any farm woman might start on a 
small scale to pork raising. I know a 
woman over SO years old who always feeds 
the pigs. She said “I like to see them 
grow.” Last year we had an early frost, 
and much soft corn was fed to the swine. 
A pig several weeks old can from that 
age be raised without milk, it has been 
proven. The feed was soft corn, pota¬ 
toes, apples, cornmeal, bran and plenty 
of water. mbs. ii. ii. chambeixlix. 
Vermont. 
R. N.-Y.—In many neighborhoods 
there is a good demand for little pigs— 
just weaned or a little older. People 
buy them. to feed for a home supply of 
pork. There is usually more money in 
selling the little pigs in such neighbor¬ 
hoods than in making pork. A good sow 
can be made to turn off $50 worth of pigs 
a year, and with a good orchard and pas¬ 
ture run the cost of keeping the sow is 
very small. 
Happy Childrens’ Party. 
The picture shown on page 1297 was 
taken on the occasion of the third 
annual “Children’s Party” at the resi¬ 
dence of Mr. J. J. Wilson, Silver 
Bay, N. Y., overlooking Lake George. 
This charming spot on the west 
bank of the lake and only a short dis¬ 
tance from the historic grounds of Ticon- 
ten” mark, and yet he is young in spirit 
and comparatively so in body—perhaps 
his love for children and keen desire to 
make them happy keep him from grow¬ 
ing old. That the affection is recipro¬ 
cated is evident to anyone going about 
the neighborhood in his company. And 
we might add that we have reasons to 
know that the children are not the only 
ones who are beneficiaries of generous , 
character—any worthy appeal for help 
has" never found in him a deaf ear. The 
world is truly better that such a man has 
lived in it. 
School Teacher’s Apple Orchard 
Like An Endowment Policy 
(Continued from page 1297.) 
barrel for the fruit 2% and larger. He 
to pick and not to be required to pick 
the small fruit, so many of the Gano 
were left on the trees and hung there 
through the Winter. I received only 
$100 which left the orchard in debt to 
me $75. 
A Good Ckop. —This year the crop is 
good; I estimate 700 to S00 barrels, 
mostly Baldwins. We have had so much 
rain that the fruit is fine. Dealex-s who 
have been to look at it say it is the fin¬ 
est in the country. Commissioner Dil¬ 
lon's auction opened a way to sell, but if 
I insisted on selling in the orchard I J 
would still have but the one possible | 
buyer as he was the only dealer who had j 
a picking and packing outfit, and I for- J 
saw that all the other bidders would ! 
want to buy f.o.b. So I said I would pay ! 
a dollar a barrel to anyone who would j 
contract to pick, pack, furnish barrels j 
and cart to station. A neighbor who had ! 
some experience in packing for the apple | 
buyers in previous years took the con- j 
tract. So at the auction my apples were j 
put up “by the barrel f.o.b., A grade [ 
only,” and sold for $3.05. That will net ! 
me $2.05 per barrel. They were bought , 
by the same dealer who bought the or- | 
chard in 1913, and who wanted to buy j 
it that way this year. He would make j 
no offer before the auction but wanted 
me to set a price, which I could not do. 
Now he says he would have given me 
$1,000 for the fruit in the orchard. He 
thinks I have over-estimated the number 
of barrels. It remains to be seen who is 
right and which way of selling is best. 
Trials With Spraying. —This ac¬ 
count would scarcely be complete with¬ 
out some record -of my tribulations over 
the spraying. The first four years I did 
not spray. Then San ,Tos6 scale became 
quite noticeable, and I knew that if I did 
not spray for that my orchard would be 
ruined; also if I wanted good fruit the 
blossoms must be sprayed for Codling 
moth. Spraying was new work in the 
neighborhood; everyone disliked it. It 
was very hard to find anyone to do it. 
I had no apparatus and did not want to 
buy until I knew what was best for me. 
For the first two years I borrowed an old 
hand pump outfit that had been discarded 
for a power sprayer, and was loaned 
about the neighborhood. Of course I 
had to wait my turn. There’s a “just 
right” time for spraying. To get the 
machine, the men and the time together 
fairly turned my hair gray. I’ve had 
boys of 10 and an old man near 80 work¬ 
ing at it. My one injunction is “put on 
plenty and touch every part of the tree.” 
Labor costs me much more than spray 
material, and better waste material than 
not have the work well done. I use lime 
and sulphur for scale, and dilute lime 
and sulphur with arsenate of lead for 
Codling moth. Next year I shall have to 
spray for red-bug also. I decided that a 
hand-pump barrel sprayer would answer 
my purpose as long as the trees are small, 
so I bought an outfit for about $20, and 
it works all right. The orchard shows 
the good result of the spray in healthy 
bark and clean fruit. 
The Wisdom ok Experience. —This 
has been a long story. I hope those who 
read it will see that they must not expect 
to get rich quick from an orchard. My 
one piece of advice is “If you do plant an 
orchard look after it yourself .” I think 
to plant an orchard is something the 
same kind of an investment as an en¬ 
dowment policy. You make your first 
investment, pay out so much every year 
for 15 years, and then you will have a 
property whose value will equal all that 
you have put in it and will yield you, 
after that, a good interest on your in¬ 
vestment. 
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