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"Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 23, 3 918 
What the Curb Clamp 
Does tor STAR Stalls 
The STAR Curb Clamp has been an undying friend of every 
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—taught, tight and permanent. 
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e the women 
What Women Can the places 
Do In War lime ties. WWle the war 
lasts many of our 
women folK may have to 
assume extra burdens. On 
many dairy farms today, 
women are milKing from 15 to 
30 cows with the Perfection, 
The Perfection draws the milk 
in Nature’s Way, with a gentle suc¬ 
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followed by a period of complete 
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Miss Rosa M. Sweatt of Dixfield, Maine, 
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"I have used a Peifection Milking Machine on W. 
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"I have used your Perfection Milking Machine 
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I looked around and saw several others work and I 
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Your wife or daughter may not have to help 
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The Hog as Hired Man 
What Many of Us Must Come To 
S.vviNG IjABOR. —A s.vstoin of farming 
b.v which labor of feeding during the 
larger part of the year may be eliminated 
is to be desired. Pork production at 
irresent price.s, by the practice of hog¬ 
ging down crops seems to be the solution 
of the problem. The benefits of this prac¬ 
tice of harve.sting the corn crop are par¬ 
ticularly well known to the corn belt 
farmer. I am satisfied that hogs will 
clean up a cornfield fully as Avell as it 
can be done by hand. The fodder is re¬ 
turned to the soil, and I know one 
farmer who claims to have hogged down 
the same field for 20 yeiirs, and he claims 
to be raising better com each year. 
SucCES.STOx Crop.s. —The Department 
of Agriculture has outlined a system of 
farming in which the hogs save harvest¬ 
ing. Its plan is to divide the farm in 
five equal fields; the first field to be 
planted to corn, which is to be hogged 
off; the second field to be planted to corn 
for cutting, and in which rye is to be 
sown at second cultivation. The third 
field ju'oduces rye, which has been sown 
in the corn or the year previously, and 
is pastured early in the Spring, and from 
a period two weeks after rye is ready to 
cut uutil time to turn hogs in the corn¬ 
field. The fourlli field produces clover 
and Timothy, which is sown with rye. 
This is pastured after turning hogs from 
rye in Hjiriug until time the.v are turned 
into ripe rye. ^J'lio fifth field. Timothy 
is used for y)astur<>. !uid for hay croj). 
This ])lan does not provide oats for hor.se 
power or other farm uVe. An acre will 
maintain .about six hogs, on basis of 17 
bushels of r.ve and 00 of corn. It could 
not be put in operation this year, and 
not until :i second. I believe this plan 
is a commendable one for the corn belt, 
blit the Peuns.vhainia Station gives a 
better plan for immediate results in the 
way of pasture crops. The rotation con¬ 
sists of rye, oats and Cnuad:i field peas, 
oats and rape and field corn and rape. 
On farms where provision has not al¬ 
ready been made fur iwe, this early pas¬ 
ture cannot be provided. The College 
advise.s: “As .soon as the land can he 
worked in the Spring, sow a field to oats 
and Canada peas at the rate of IVg 
bushel of each per acre. About two 
weeks later sow a field to oats and 
rape, the oats at the rate of two bushels 
and the ra])e at the rate of five pounds 
per acre. After the danger of fro.st is 
past, sow a field in drills to field corn 
at the rate of one bushel per acre. During 
.Inly disk or plow the field that was 
sown to rye, and sow it to rape at the 
rate of about five pounds for Fall pas¬ 
ture.” 
A Su.M.MKu Rotation. —L, am of the 
opinion that the average farmer after 
little study can modify a Summer rota¬ 
tion adapted to his needs this year, and 
later plan something more definite. I 
believe a “suceotasb” crop consisting of 
corn, oats, rape, some Red clover. Sweet 
clover or one of the vetches will prove 
valuable. I am sure that raj»e alone will 
provide valuable pasturage, deitendiug on 
the locality, from perhaps .Tune 1 to No¬ 
vember, and in Michigan I have seen 
hogs pasturing a rape field early in De¬ 
cember. We have had rtipe in Ohio 
survive the ATiiiter and afford some 
Si)ring pasturage. Wiscfutsin has found 
that an acre of rape is equivalent to 
2 .0r»7 i>ounds of gi’ain. when fed with a 
grain ration, and it has produced as high 
as 20 tons of green fodder in three cut¬ 
tings. Rape should he supplemented by 
tankage, cornmeal or some nitrogenon.s 
food. Rape Avill prove an excellent main¬ 
tenance while the grain supplied goes to 
gain. It is advised to provide an :iore 
of I’ape for each 2.500 i)ouuds of grow¬ 
ing pigs to he pastured. Re sure Dwarf 
Essex, not birdseed rape is luirchased. 
Eubtiier T’i.aNvS.—111 many sections a 
more satisfactory rotation may be de¬ 
veloped in view of some of our new ac¬ 
quaintances. I intend trying them 
further and systematically and until I 
have had experience, I would neither 
commend nor condemn the practice in 
the matter of another trying out my pro¬ 
posed practice. The plan would be as 
follows: Com, rye and vetch seeded in 
corn at last crltivation. for second year 
pasturage, and Sweet clover seeded with 
rye and vetch. This will provide abund¬ 
ance of pasture the third year of the rota¬ 
tion in addition to hay. Soy beans should 
he .sown with the corn, and pumpkins are 
valuable hog feed. They will many times 
rep.'iy the farmer for the little hindrance 
the viiie.s may be when cultivating and 
seeding. This of course would require 
the liming of ground and inoculating of 
seed, which in any event is worth while, 
and not less than 150 or 200 pounds of 
acid phosphate should be used with corn 
and rye .s'eedings. I am particularly en¬ 
thusiastic over Hairy vetch as a feed 
much relished by hogs and other stock. 
I am of the opinion that with a smaller 
field of rape, and two fields, one for 
corn, another for rye and vetch, alternat¬ 
ing the fields each year, and hogging down 
the crops, a very satisfactory rotation 
could be followed. Many people believe 
that rape may b(‘ sown on poor gi’ound, 
blit I have found that it is not a vigor¬ 
ous forager, and should he planted on rich 
ground, or near biiildings. This ground 
.should he manured, the amount depending 
considerably on the fertility of the soil. 
A heavy coating worked in the top of 
the soil is' necessary. This must he sup- 
idemented by an application of acid 
phosphate at rate of possibly JlOO pounds 
to tlie acre. :iih1 to secure maximum re¬ 
sults the ground .should he limed. On 
rich soil where cabbage, tnrniiis or corn 
grow vigorously, rape would do fairly 
well without; this careful fertilization. 
In any event do not overlook the manure, 
and use the aeid ])hosph:ite, and if pos¬ 
sible, the lime. 
Oows Axi) Hogs. —I believe that the 
owner tilone may handle a much larger 
acre.-ige than heretofoi-e. Such rotation 
may be modified to allow the keeping of 
cows, and I believe in siich case an extra 
field for corn and oats should be pro¬ 
vided, and this following the larger field 
of corn which is to he hogged down, and 
by seeding the I'ye and vetch with Red 
clover, with Timothy or with Sweet 
clftver, !t hay crop may be .secured. This 
of course jintieipate.s that the farm i.s 
primarily a hog farm. w. ,t. 
Hog Raising in Florida 
Six years ago I eame from Iowa to 
Florida- without any knowledge of farm¬ 
ing or .stock raising, and located in a 
.small settlement 10 miles from railway 
station. This settlement is surrounded 
by several thousand acres of .syndicate 
land which gives worlds of free range 
for hogs and cattle the entire year. 'The 
natives here are not looking for hard 
work, so their hogs and cattle .are on 
the range the entire year. They are all 
scrub stock that have been inbred pos¬ 
sibly for years. The hogs are called 
razorbacks, and make about 90 to 100 
pounds in one year. I keep my hogs on 
Bermuda and Para grasses and they 
make nearly one-half more than the range 
Fogs. R. c. r. 
De Soto Co., Fla. 
In regard to improving the breed of 
your hogs, if you expect to let them run 
on the open free range and hunt for 
their own I'atious almost entirely I 
doubt if it is advis.able for you to trj- 
to improve the breed, but if you will 
take better care of your hogs and givf 
them sufficient^grain and forage crops I 
believe it Avill pay yon to raise a better 
bi'eed than the ordiiiai'v razorbacks. If 
you try to improve the hi-eed and allow 
them to run oir the open free range it 
will onl.v he a shoi-f time before your 
improved breeds will h(‘ hut little or no 
better than the native rjizurhack. Under 
such conditions your efforts would he en¬ 
tirely lost. Howevei', there is no Te;isi>n 
why, under the conditions in your county, 
you could not rai.se a much bettei- class 
of hogs than you have been doing. 
IVqien you can supply your hogs with 
good Rermuda and I’ara grass pastures 
practically the entire year, :ind when you 
can grow such feeds as sorghum, milo 
maize, chufas and sweet jjotatoes. there 
is no rea.sou why you could not fatten 
them for market, and in doing this you 
could h:ive your improved breeds of hogs 
double the weight of the razorbacks by 
the time they were ready for market. 
JOHN it. SCOTT. 
I'lorida Exp. Station. 
