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‘Rf RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 7 , 1918 
Breeding for Improvement; Heater for 
Swill 
(Continued from page 1362) 
lated memorandum of the pedigrees of 
the pigs, even though he withheld the 
registration pepers until the pigs were 
pail? far. If can furnish you with the 
names and Tjutnbers of their sire and 
daiii you could easily get a line on their 
bincd lines oy addressing eithei’ the Berk¬ 
shire World, Chicago, or requesting tabu- 
lati'^ns from the American Jlei’ksliire As- 
scrciation, Springfield, Ill. Here, again, it 
is impoi’tant that the pigs gain regularly 
and reach maturity at an early age and 
in good thrift in order that their indi¬ 
viduality and other evidences of prolific 
breeding might stand out in their support. 
3. As for a lamp for heating a swill 
tub, I doubt the wisdom of this step. Hot 
water from the teakettle or reservoir 
might be more practical, as all that is 
required is to take the chill off and melt 
the ice that may be formed. Swill should 
not be allowed to stand around and 
freeze; it should be fed up, if possible, 
sweet from the kitchen, in which event 
no thawing out would be inquired. I am 
assuming that P. H. is feeding only a 
few pigs. If he has 15 or 20 it would be 
good judgment to buy a wood stove and 
cooker combined, where water could be 
heated and the kitchen refuse scalded 
over for feeding jjurposes. I know of no 
incubator lamp arrangement that would 
be either safe or efficient. Pigs do not 
require warm or hot feeds. Keep the ice 
out of the troughs and out of the feed, 
and this will Quite suffice. Feeding first 
cold drinks, then hot drinks, to pigs is a 
very dangerous practice. Give the pigs a 
dry place to sleep and they can withstand 
their feed and drink near the freezing 
point. Someone in the village may have 
an old feed cooker or heater, or the junk 
man probably can find you something 
that 'Will serve your purpose. 
nitrogenous matter, 75 per cent carbohy¬ 
drates. The feed is a waste product of a 
cracker factory. What could I afford to 
pay for a product of this kind, in com¬ 
parison with the prices now being charged 
for ordinary hog feed? O. D. o. 
New York. 
Based entirely upon analysis, the above 
feeding stuff would be worth half as much 
as cornmeal. True, its protein content is 
higher, but its moisture analysis is very 
high, and there would be danger of this 
material souring and decomposing. Mash¬ 
es from cracker factories today are far 
below standard, for so much of the wheat 
mill feed is supplemented with barley and 
oat meals that feeding values have also 
been modified. Again, this substance 
would not be especially useful for fatten¬ 
ing hogs. It would do well for maintain¬ 
ing mature animals, and would grow pigs 
well if supplemented with hominy and 
tankage. 
Whole Cottonseed Compeured With Meal 
Will you tell me the comparative value 
of whole cot''onseed and commercial dairy 
feed, or cottonseed meal for dairy cattle? 
I am in position to buy the w'hole seed 
as cheap as the meal. i. m. e. 
Virginia. 
There is a substantial difference in 
both the feeding value and the palata- 
bility of whole cottonseed ground and con¬ 
centrated dairy feed known as cottonseed 
meal. In your district, I dare say there 
would be a difference of approximately 
.$25 per ton in value, and if you could 
obtain the whole seed and grind it in 
small quantities and not utilize more than 
20 per cent of the meal in a daily ration 
your results would not be disappointing. 
It is the common practice to extract the 
oil from the cottonseed and use the resi¬ 
due for the making of the meal. If the 
whole seeds are ground the oil persists, 
the material becomes rancid, its keeping 
qualities are depi-eciated, and there are 
toxic properties that limit the usefulness 
of this material. It would be prudent to 
start feeding dairy cows small amounts of 
this material in conjunction with corn- 
meal and wheat bran, and it would be of 
doubtful wisdom to feed more than two 
pounds per day per animal. 
Geisoline Scald for Pork 
I have heard that there is a methiod of 
“scalding” hogs with gasoline. Can you 
give me details as to how to proceed? At 
the same time let me say that you are 
getting out the best farm paper in the 
country. b. S. 
Dover Plains, N. Y. 
Some time ago we had a discussion of 
this gasoline method of cleaning a hog. 
With a flame like a plumber’s torch the 
hair and rough skin can be quickly singed 
off the carcass, leaving it cleaner than 
scalding and scraping. Some of our peo¬ 
ple reported their plan of spraying gaso¬ 
line over the carcass or even pouring it 
on and then setting it on fire. Some of 
them put on too much and made a bad 
job^ Singing with the torch gave good 
satisfaction, but the great majority of 
people who butcher go right ahead with 
the old-fashioned scalding. 
Early Silage Feeding 
On page 1250 P. C. B. says that the. 
suggestion in a former number to begin 
feeing silage as soon as the silo is filled 
is directly contrai-y to the advice of his 
neighbors, who tell him not to feed before 
cold weather. H. F. J. in reply says 
that it is all right to start feeding right 
away. To quote his words: “If you 
start feeding at once there will be practi¬ 
cally no silage wasted on the surface 
layer.” This advice seems to be sup¬ 
ported by someone connected with the 
Connecticut Agricultural College who, on 
page 1246 of the same number, in an ar¬ 
ticle on the subject of covering silos, says : ' 
“The best practice is to commence feed- i 
ing as soon as the silo is filled, in which 
case there will be no loss of silage through 
decay.” 
I cannot help believing that this is bad 
advice, and that F. C. B. will do well to 
follow the warning of his neighbors, and 
if he has any roots or other succulent 
feed for his cows he will use these first 
and defer the opening of his silo till 
cold weather, or till the silage is well 
settled. I know from personal experience 
with the silo that the loose silage at the 
top of the silo will spoil very fast after 
the .silo is opened if the weather is mild, 
and that it would take at least twice the 
number of cows to eat it fast enough to 
keep it from spoiling as would be required 
in cold weather, after the silage had time 
to become somewhat solid from settling. 
When I was in the dairy business I used 
to raise about two acres of mangels each 
year to feed to the cows between pasture 
and about Christmas time, when we would 
begin on the silage. This usually left 
about six or seven feet of silage in the 
bottom of the silo when the cows were 
turned out to pasture in May. This 
silage, in ordinary seasons, came in handy 
to supplement the pasture when the dry 
w^eather of July and August came on. 
iMiunesota. j. m. drew. 
Digester Tankage 
Is there any difference between ordi¬ 
nary commercial tankage manufactured 
by packers and digester tankage? 
New York. s. v. l. 
Yes. “Tankage” represents the soft 
bones, meat scraps and fat trimmings 
from carcasses. These are cooked thor¬ 
oughly under high steam pressure. This 
separates the fat, which is I’emoved. The 
lean meat and soft bones are dried and 
pressed and then ground fine. The “di¬ 
gester” or feeding tankage represents the 
better pieces of meat and will have nP 
chemicals in it. The ordinary tankage is 
intended for fertilizer and should not be 
used for feeding. 
Pumpkins for Hogs 
Would pumpkins be suited to feeding 
pigs three months old? H. L. H. 
New York. 
Pumpkins contain about 94 per cent of 
moisture and are useful only as appetizers 
in feeding live stock. They would not be 
at all adapted to feeding pigs three 
months old, as they are too coarse and 
bulky, and do not contain enough di¬ 
gestible food nutrients. They may be 
used to advantage in maintaining mature 
animals, but they had best be used in 
feeding dairy or beef cattle rather than 
swine. If it is desired, however, to cook 
or pulp these pumpkins, a great deal of 
the moisture can be eliminated, and the 
pulp mixed with grain ration, preferably 
cornmeal or hominy meal, would be very 
much relished by the young pigs. A use¬ 
ful ration containing pulp pumpkins 
would be cornmeal 200 pound's, pulp 
pumpkins 400 pounds, digester tankage 
20 pounds. 
Temporary Silo for Immature Corn 
My corn crop has been reduced by cut¬ 
worms; the interplanting suffering from 
the excessively dry weather, did not ma¬ 
ture well. I do not have a silo. I would 
not like to lo.se the green corn, and would 
like to silage it before it is spoiled. I 
could use a concrete pit eilo in a dry 
gravel hill behind my barn, or a hollow 
tile structure which a contractor in some 
nearby village promi.sed me to erect. This 
hollow tile silo I would like to make only 
six feet high, without doors, for this 
year, but to be extended next Summer. 
Hould you give me some specifications 
regarding the hollow tile work as to foun- 
dati 9 n, diami ■;er. height, guarantee for 
leaking and spoiling, so I can protect 
myself in giving out the contract? Should 
you prefer for temporary work a concrete 
pit silo, plastered, upon driven stakes and 
wire netting? Will you give me some 
pointers? I have some very green fodder 
corn with small ears that will give a 
large amount of acidity. Could I mix 
them with green sweet corn stalks, with 
ears taken off, or cow peas not in blos- 
soin, or green string beans, late planting? 
If it can be done, give me the right pro¬ 
portion of the different layers, so I may 
not spoil the job. p. f. 
Ocean Co., N. J. 
_ I would not temporize with a concrete 
pit, nor would I attempt a hollow tile 
silo at this late date. Unless silage is 
massed under considerable pressure it 
will spoil, and, in any event, its feeding 
value would be of little if any greater 
than the cured fodder. Costs would be 
extravagant considering the fact that 
much of the construction work would 
have to be modified next year when the 
real silo Avas erected. 
The beans should be cut and cured and 
then stacked, and these, supplementing 
the corn fodder, will in the long run 
serve much better than any temporary 
or makeshift silo. Keep your money in 
the savings bank until you can go on with 
your hollow tile silo and put in a corn 
crop harvested in the proper season. 
Cracker Waste for Hoga 
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As received, 13 per cjiit moisture. 4.42 
per cen^ f.’t, 5.85 i er ctnt nitrogenous 
matter, 42 per cent carbohydrates. Dry 
basis, 7.7 per cent fats, 10.3 per cent 
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