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December 7, 1918 
CONTINENTAL VILLAGE FARM 
Registered Dairy Short Horn Bulls 
FOR SALE 
Olus. 
No. 
527,826 
Born October 
17,1916 
Chrysostom ... 
a 
527,825 
November 1,1916 
Canopus. 
a 
558,425 
January 
28,1917 
Oscawana. 
a 
558,426 
February 10,1917 
Harvey Birch... 
a 
655,198 
(( 
January 
26,1918 
Cosmo. 
i6 
697,625 
ii 
April 
8,1918 
Clinton. 
683,815 
ii 
April 
11,1918 
OLUS wa.s 
lionght in dam fr 
om D. T. 
Barnard. 
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Otis, Granville Center, Penn. All of the others were 
sired by our imported Herd Bull, 
GLENSIDE ROYAL STYLE, No. 448,917 
Present weight 2201 pounds. 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Ration for Pigs 
Is the following a good ration for pigs? 
.\lfalfa meal, cornmeal feed, mixed feed, 
bran and middlings. I feed the mixture 
made into a slop with buttermilk that I 
buy for 85 cents per 40-quart “.iug,” as 
they call it. Sometimes milk is sour, and 
again it is pretty good buttermilk, but the 
pigs seem to like it pretty well. I am 
feeding about eight pounds of the grain 
and 28 pounds of the milk a day, giving 
green stuff from the garden every day. 
cornstalks and sweet potato vines at pres¬ 
ent for au intermediate feed. Pigs are 
always hungry and looking for more. 
They w'ere May pigs and now weigh about 
150 or 100 pounds apiece. F. ir. E. 
Massachusetts. 
Yon cannot afford to buy Alfalfa meal 
for feeding market hogs. There might be 
some excuse for feeding this product to 
mature brood sows, but here again the 
hay would be far more economical. “Corn- 
meal*’ feed probably means a lot of cheap 
screenings or sweepings with which a lit- 
It is coarse and woody, irritates the in¬ 
testinal tract, and often does cause 
blotches on the skin. It is low in di¬ 
gestible nutrients, high in fiber and not 
especially palatable. I would prefer oat 
straw for horses, especially for idle horses, 
and woiild mix clover or Alfalfa hay with 
the buckwheat straw for cattle or work¬ 
ing horses. Then. too. I should include .at 
least 15 per cent of oil meal in the grain 
ration feed, in order to avoid any possible 
blood congestion. The buckwheat can be 
used for bedding and will work over into 
useful manure. 
Young Farmers and Their Live Stock 
Mr. C. Davis Miller of Maine sent us 
the little picture shown on this page. He 
says this rejiresimts two little Maine 
farmers who are just starting out in busi¬ 
ness. They certainly have their live stock 
well tamed, and that will he tlie founda¬ 
tion of good growth. The war prices for 
pork, and the difficulty of feeding the New 
England people, have made many farmers 
A Couple of TAttle Maine Farmers 
tie cornmeal has been, added. It costs 
quite as much as straight cornmeal and 
is uow’here near as useful. For pigs there 
is nothing that will compare with corn¬ 
meal, properly supplemented with some 
such protein feed as tankage or peanut 
meal. Clearly it would be more advan¬ 
tageous to buy whole or ground grain for 
feeding hogs. Bran has no jilace in any 
ration for market hogs weighing from CO 
to 250 jiounds. They do not need bulk; 
the ash can be obtained from tankage or 
Alfalfa hay. It often pays to give bran 
to brood sows just iirevious to farrowing, 
but even then ground oats are more desir¬ 
able. 
Skim-milk or buttermilk at one cent 
per quart would be very cheap feed. Even 
though it arrives “soured or acid” its 
feeding value is not impaii;ed, but the 
damage is done by feeding it sweet one 
feed and then sour the next. Hold it all 
over until it “sours” and the irregularities 
will bo dispensed with. With five or six 
pounds of milk with each pound of grain 
fed the ration wmulcj be much relished and 
I would feed the following, assuming that 
the pigs weigh over 75 pounds each: 
Corn or hominy meal. 70 pounds 
Ground oats. lu pounds 
White middlings. 15 pounds 
100 pounds 
With each pound of this grain mix five 
pounds of soured milk or buttermilk (the 
latter is to be preferred) and feed the 
pigs all they will clean up with relish. 
In addition let them have either Alfalfa 
hay in racks or Alfalfa meal (if on hand) 
during the middle of the day. 
The refuse pi’oducts would be.st be used 
in feeding the mature animals, since mar¬ 
ket pigs do not require green feeds at this 
season of the year. They should always 
evidence a willing appetite, but should 
not “always be hungry.” The morning 
feed ought to satisfy them; so had the 
evening feed. Try the above and note the 
results. Be sure to give the pigs a dry 
bed; keep charcoal and salt always be¬ 
fore them, but not mixed in the feed. May 
pigs ought to weigh from 150 to 200 
pounds by November 1, provided they 
have been well fed and constantly grow¬ 
ing. The middlings are expensive; so are 
the oats, but from the tone of the inquiry 
I take it that the pigs are small for their 
age and they will require some wheat or 
oa.t feeds. Cornmeal and buttermilk alone 
make au ideal fattening ration. 
Feeding Buckwheat Straw 
I have a lot of buckwheat. Could you 
give me any analysis of the straw? Some 
seem to think it better to feed than oat 
straw for cows, or horses; others claim 
it will give horses au itchy skin. I have 
silage and good hay, but thought with the 
high cost of feed I could lessen the feed 
bill by feeding some straw. I have plenty 
of it. G. H. 15. 
Buckwheat straw does not make a very 
useful roughage for either cows or horses. 
in that region increase the number of pigs 
on their farms. This is good work and 
good policy. New England, unfortu¬ 
nately, got to the point where she was 
producing hardly enough pork to go along* 
with her usual supply of baked beans, 
when it would be comparatively easy for 
the New England fai-mers to pnKluce at 
least two-thirds of their full supply. 
These two little farmers are certainly 
showing the way, and Ave believe that dur¬ 
ing the next year or two there Avill be a 
great increuse in the pig population of 
New England. 
Breeding for Improvement; Heater for 
Swill 
1. Having recently bought tAA'o regis¬ 
tered .Jerseys, to what strain should I 
look for further improvement after I have 
bred these tAVO for a Avhile? Can you also 
tell me Avhat young sTock from these two 
should sell for as registered stock? I 
have never handled registered stock be¬ 
fore, and have a lot to learn. 2. I have 
also bought tAVO I’egistered Berkshire pigs, 
but am not yet able to get registry papers. 
I Avould like to be able to tell something 
of their ancestors and talk intelligently 
about them. 3. Can you tell me Avhere I 
could get some sort of a lamp for 'heating 
swill kept in a large washtub (galvanized 
iron) so as to keep it from freezing, say 
at a temperature of GO to 100 degrees, 
when the temperature of outdoors was 10 
degrees beloAV zero? I Avant to get some¬ 
thing that I cau go away to my Avork 
and leave burning till I return Avithout 
running any risk of losing the insurance 
on the buildings, and that Avould not re¬ 
quire much attention, nor Avas A’ery ex¬ 
pensive to operate. I thought that pos¬ 
sibly thei-e might be some style of in¬ 
cubator lamp that Avould do it. P. ir. 
Springvalo, Me. 
1. Without additional information con¬ 
cerning age, individuality, size and condi¬ 
tion, it Avould be mere guesswork to estab¬ 
lish values on this stock at long range. 
Neither Avould it be prudent to suggest 
blood lines that Avould increase the sell¬ 
ing or productive value of the progeny. 
A purebi’ed male, descended from a family 
noted for protluction a.ud individual merit 
will increase the value of many of our 
herds, but it is not the function of this 
department to boost any particular line 
of breeding. Go to the most successful 
breeder of Jerseys iu your county, or ad¬ 
joining county, ask him to look oA’er your 
animals and advise you concerning their 
value and also concerning such additional 
specimens as yon might desire to add to 
your herd. Keep the animals growing 
and gaining in size and Aveight if they are 
immature, and if mature their daily or 
yearly production of milk or butter fat 
AA’iU guide you iu determining their pres¬ 
ent Avorth or selling value. 
2. As for the Berkshires, it would be 
but fair for the seller to give you a tabu- 
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