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Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 23, 191S 
He Us How 
U NTIL recently most of ns thought milking to be 
simply a matter of pull, pull, pull. Some think 
so yet. But it’s not. If you watch a calf’s tongue 
when he swallows you’ll see the difference. 
He gets his mouth full of milk—then he swallows. And 
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from tip to udder. 
That’s Nature’s provision for the prevention of con- 
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Sucking draws the blood to the tip of the teat. The 
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Live Stock Notes 
Raising a Family Pig 
I wi.sli t(» raise a pig. Wmild you tell 
nu* how to feed it? What kind of pigs 
are the he.st to grow and get bit? 
^Macuiigie, I’a. w. li. Y. 
Young (tigs, taken from their darns at 
from four to eight weeks of age, need milk 
it) give them a good start. AVithout it. 
the raising of pigs is uot a very .satisfac¬ 
tory .ir>l). Skim-milk iu what quantity 
the pig will readily eat four times daily 
will be suflieient for a time and will not 
be very expensive food. As the pig grows 
older, howevei-, such grain forids as wlieat 
middlings, ground oats, cornmeal and oil- 
meal should be added to tlie ration. The 
pig will also utilize such wa.ste iu‘'’<bu;ts 
as cull vegetables, weed.s, kitchen sloi).s, 
etc. Skiin-milk should be fed as long as 
it is available, and, if it is not available 
at a reasonable price, it is an open ques¬ 
tion how much iirofit one can find in rais¬ 
ing his own pork, A good ground grain 
ration for the growing pig may be made 
from equal parts of the first four men¬ 
tioned feeds above, with aliout five per 
cent of oil meal added to tlie whole. The 
growing jiig should not he kept fat. but 
should ho kept growing into a good frame 
upon which the fat can be added later. 
Cornmeal, hominy and ground barley, one 
or all, are the fattening and finishing 
foods. Any of the common varieties are 
suited to the family jiork barrel. M. n. D. 
Pawing Cattle ; Sheep Barn 
What hnu'd of cattle do you keep that 
will paw through six inches of snow for 
grass in Wintm ? J- c. M. 
Vermont. 
I do not think the brt>ed has much to 
do with it. I have had about all the 
jn'ineijiul breeds and their mixtures for 
fattening, and they all did it, and the 
higher they were f<“d, the more pt'f.sistent 
tluiy were to g<‘t Winter grass. Even the 
sheep went down that far, hut it got too 
deep for them, until now it is all off 
exce)»t the drifts. By smell, or remem¬ 
brance of the fi(dds, all animals know 
where the matted ])laces are, and do not 
lose much time where it is short. Mil¬ 
lions of cattle grubbed at tlu* short grass 
on the plains all AVinter, and that was all 
they had, but it often proved too big a 
Contract for them. 
A i-eader wants my idea of a barn to 
shelter 250 to 4(K) ewes. I’erhaps it will 
not fit him, hut herewith is my ideal 
after many ye.ars of study, for half that 
nuinher of ewes. In tin* fir.st jdaee it is 
a hank barn, and that may not he a bank 
locality, hut Ave have a stable of cement 
to fit such w<‘ath(‘r as avc had to go 
through the past, two months, and it is 
so it may he warm at laiiihing time, with 
windows for light and air. Our ewe barn 
is 40 by 42, set on a foundation eight 
fet't high. The doors are on the east 
and south .sides, and open on the level. 
I the latter info a shed 13 by 40, in which 
I the animals are free most of the time. 
'Phe barn above, 10 feet to the plates, 
holds more Alfalfa and clover than they 
can eat, and a granary from which a 
spout runs down to the stable. Then 
(here is a hydr.aiit in the middle of tho 
stable, connected with a ei.stern up in a 
hill, and the water is pumped to it by a 
little engine. 
’Pliere are rvell-fittiug Avindows on three 
sidi'.s Avhich are open most of the time, 
hut can be let doAvn and hooked against 
Avind or storm. March is our lambing 
month, and Avhen cold conu'S then the 
place can he shut up tight, hut the year¬ 
lings and rams have plain Aveatherboards 
AA’hieh have drii'd an inch apart. Sheep 
can stand an.v amount of cold, if kept dry, 
bnt ewes and ucav hunhs should be fixed 
against it, at the critical time of lamb¬ 
ing. Tlie size of the main stable makes 
it pretty snug for tho CAves Avhen they fill 
Uj) and the avooI gets long, hut does uot 
Avork any inconvenience Avith our plan. 
Ilefoia- lambing Ave make two hoard lanes 
along one side, four feet wide, and have 
light panels Avith Avire hinges four feet 
ai)ai't. so Ave can have a lot of jicns four 
feet s(iuar(‘. the size for a OAve and lamb. 
Iliirdh's are recommended, hut they are 
poor things compared to .substantial pens. 
AVhen a lamb conies, or if aa’O can antici¬ 
pate it. the first OAve gets a pen at the 
far end. and th-'s .'T 0 ''S on until there are 
a lot of them tenanted. As soon as a 
lamb is safely oAvued and strong, tAVO 
dnvs or less, they are turned out at the 
hack end and their place is the shed, or 
if very cold, in a racked-off place in tho 
main stable, by Avhich plan there are no 
cAves in the Avay of the ones still to 
lamb. That gives US three .sets of sheep, 
all Avhere they can get the different at¬ 
tentions they need, undisturbed. AVith a 
fcAV Avatei* buckets and a lot of pans and 
little boxes the parties in the Avards can 
he cared for so Avell, and as they are 
fit. can he let out and the others moved 
along. Sometimes a sheep and lamb are 
lifted OA’or and again Avhere it is neces¬ 
sary to keep one some time to oavu a 
lamb, or the little felloAV is AAieakly, 
they are boxed in another corner so as 
not to he in the Avay. The stable gets 
Iii-etty tight packed, if cold keeps them 
all in toAvards the last of lambing, bnt 
that helps keej) them Avarmer, and if it 
wiis larger there would be more barn 
above than needed. A barn SO by nO 
would be large enough for our (luerist 
if he could keep -100 sheej) that Avay, bnt 
it is a fine jilaii to have a shed open 
towards the east or south for the lambs 
to sun in and get n.sed to outdoors. 
Ohio. W. AV. RKYNOI.nS. 
The Ohio Corn Situation 
Here in Southern Ohio avc haA'e lots of 
frozen potatoe.s, too, for avc had our share 
of AA’inter Aveather. AA'hen temperatures 
get to 20 degree's boloAV zero or Avorse, and 
a high Aviud, things are sure; to freeze un¬ 
less unusually well protected, and it came 
before Ave Avere prejiared. AA’e have had 
eight Aveeks of the hardest AA’inter 
Aveather that CA'cn old men have never 
before exiierieiieed. Moist corn in cribs 
froze up tight, and Avhen the thaw came 
it Avas damper than Avhen put in and 
much of such com Avill mold. Seed corn 
Avill he scarce and high. Some are ad- 
A'crtising tested seed corn at .$10 and $12 
per bushel. The advertisers are hogs who 
are taking their cue from other specula¬ 
tors ; $.3 to .S.’S per bushel ought to bo a 
fair price. Clover seed is short iu Ohio, 
so the speculators boosted the price to 
$20, though good seed Avas being offered 
in the AA’est at $12 to $15. Such a con¬ 
dition Avas made po.S'sible by freight eon- 
gostioii, and the cupidity of the dealers 
did the re.st. 
AA’c are all busy testing seed corn, as 
the severe zero Aveather came before the 
corn Ave picked in November got Avell 
dried. Coj-n loft out in shocks is giving 
better tests than some crib corn, and 
those having sound old corn are fortunate. 
AA’heat came from under the suoav as good 
as evei’. but freezing Aveather since has 
not bellied its apiiearatice any. AA'heat 
is small, oAA’ing to a late .start last Fall, 
hut if the next six Aveeks treat the wheat 
as Avell as the eight just passed thi'ough 
Ave ought to Imve a good yield. 
Farmers are finding no profit in feeding 
corn to Ix'i'f steers, so are selling corn or 
planning to feed more hogs. Corn is 
Avorth $1.40 to $1.75, depending on qual¬ 
ity and moi.sture content. AA’e are IIoov- 
erizing on Avheat, hut keep Avoiidering 
Avhy Avheat flour is (5 cts*., oats 8 cts., 
rice 10 cts., hominy S cts., and even corn- 
meal 7 cts. iier lb. IMy chickens took a 
six Aveeks’ vacation during the Avorst 
Aveather, and Avith frosted combs and 
.scarcity of protein feeds I did not 
blame them. No .sod is broken yet, 
but as soon as the fro.st is out of the 
ground every jiIoav Avill be iu use.; in 
the meantime corn is being husked and 
fodder hauled. AVe luive had a real 
change iu the Aveather—being Avarm and 
cold by turns, Avith moi-e ruin than snow, 
instead of heavy snows and cold all the 
time. w. K. 1). 
Hillsboro, O. 
Proportion of Grain to Milk 
AW feed 400 Ihs. of grain a day from 
Nov. 1 to .Tune 17 to get from 108 to 240 
quarts of milk. Average about 200, so 
von .see food about pound for pound. 
Connecticut. ht-XGItaai ukos. 
TifE ToirusTONE Man (after several 
abortive suggc.stiona) : “Hoaa’ Avould sim¬ 
ply ‘Gone home’ do?” Mr.s. NeAVweeds: 
‘T gue.ss that Avould lie all right. It Avas 
always the last place he e\’er thought ot 
going.”—Melbourne Australasian. 
