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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 22, 1019 
HAY TOOLS 
Double Quick 
Work in Handling 
Tfour Hay Crop 
Do Two Days’ Work in One 
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men and teams in putting away your hay 
crop. They store the hay as fast as you 
can drive it up to the barn or stack—a 
few minutes’ work cleans up the biggest 
load. One man on the load, one in the 
loft or on the stack and a boy at the 
hoist, handle more hay than eight or can 
men in the old way. 
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by Unskilled help, strong enough to carry 
the heaviest loads without Straining, free 
from trouble making attachments to in¬ 
sure steady, continuous work through¬ 
out the season. 
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have—long timothy, dry short clover, alfalfa or cow 
peas. Louden Balance Grapple Fork handles them 
all equally well. Efficient even in threshed straw, 
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and drops it exactly where you want it; spreads it 
out well; cuts out half the labor in mowing it back. 
The time and labor saved in a single season 
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Questions About Pigs 
Answered By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Ration for Duroc Jersey Sows 
In a recent copy of The II. N.-Y. you 
state one cannot afford to feed middlings 
to breeding sows. Will you advise me of 
a ration for Duroc-Jersey sows where all 
grain, etc., has to be bought, one to far¬ 
row in March and one in May? I have 
plenty of rye straw for bedding, and dry, 
comfortable quarters. They have eaten 
up all my small potatoes and apples, 
specked squash and pumpkins, and now 
we must buy all their feed until Spring. 
Massachusetts. 9 i\ t. b. 
There has 1)0011 a rather unusual shake- 
up in prices of feeding stuffs during the 
past, two weeks, and it is exceedingly dif¬ 
ficult to determine much in advance which 
of the feeds would be most economical to 
purchase during the coining season. 
Wheat middlings have been selling at be¬ 
tween $00 and $70 a ton, but recently the 
price dropped to less than $50, which 
places this material on a level with the 
standard feeds, such as oats, barley and 
corn by-products. 
With the new milling regulations en¬ 
forced it is quite impossible to secure red 
dig flour possessing the quality and feed¬ 
ing value that prevailed previous to 1014, 
and recent results show that there is very 
oats or barley for feeding brood sows, 
particularly where bran is not included 
in the ration, and am willing to admit 
that they are not as economical as some 
other feeds, but am confident that they 
will make up by developing frame and 
stretch wlmt they may lack in economy. 
Make sure that the brood sows are not 
confined in small pens, for inactivity is 
very apt to interfere materially with es¬ 
sential functions incident to gestation. 
Feeding Young Pigs 
I have two pigs 10 weeks old, and 
would like to know if I am feeding for 
the best results. The feed consists of 
red dogmeal three parts, wheat middlings 
one part and Alfalfa one part, feeding 
three times a day two quarts at a feeding. 
Is a pig-sty all right without a floor but 
with plenty of hay? Do pigs eat hog 
grass? A. ir. s. 
I am inclined to believe that you could 
economize in the ration you are feeding 
to your pigs by adding cornmeal and 
ground oats with your red dog flour and 
wheat middlings. There is very little dif¬ 
ference between the red dog flour that 
you buy now and standard wheat mid¬ 
dlings, both of them being practically 
A Pen of Prize Duroc Jersey Barrows 
“FOOD TO SAVE THE WORLD” 
Uncle Sam is called upon to send 20 million tons of 
food products from this year’s harvest to feed the hungry 
people of Europe. Consequently the demand for the staple 
food crops must be far greater in 1919 than ever before. 
Even if you have plenty of barn manure to broadcast 
all your tillage, you should use a soluble ammoniated fer¬ 
tilizer in the drill to give your crops a strong, healthy 
start. In the short growing season of the North, a 
quick start and a strong growth are essential to early 
maturity and large yields. 
BRADLEY’S FERTILIZERS 
THE WORLD’S BEST BY EVERY TEST 
have maintained their reputation for big yields for more 
than half a century. They are not only highly available 
but, when used properly in suitable crop rotations, they 
also build up the fertility of the soil. 
The nitrogen is in the best chemical and organic 
combinations and is highly efficient. 
The phosphoric acid is soluble and available. None 
could be better. 
The Potash is all soluble in water. We use none 
but the best. 
Write for information. Our Agricultural Service Bureau 
will gladly aid you without charge. 
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THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL CO. 
92 STATE ST., BOSTON, or 2 RECTOR ST., NEW YORK 
Branch Offices PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE, BUFFALO, DETROIT, CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI 
little difference in the digestible nutrients 
carried by middlings, wheat bran, and 
the so-called wheat feeds. For this reason 
I have discouraged the use of middlings 
and limited the amount of bran that has 
been recommended in any ration to a rel¬ 
atively low proportion, 'believing that 
other feeds supply the necessary material 
essential for growth in more economical 
form. If you will go to your local dealer 
and secure prices on hominy meal, corn- 
meal. digester tankage, red dog flour, 
ground oats and ground barley, I shall he 
very glad to suggest a ration for you 
that would be the most economical on 
the basis of the prices quoted. 
Assuming, however, that the Duroc- 
Jersey sows are well grown and in good 
condition, a safe feed, as well as an eco¬ 
nomical one would resuit from the use of 
the following feeds in the proportion tab¬ 
ulated : 
100 lbs. of cornmeal or hominy 
50 lbs. of ground oats 
50 Tbs. of ground barley 
10 lbs. of digester tankage. 
It is not essential that the corn be 
ground into meal, as shelled corn or even 
ear corn could be used quite as well, and 
the amount of grain to feed should vary 
as weather conditions vary. Brood sows 
should gain from three-quarters of a 
pound to a pound a day in weight dur¬ 
ing their gestation period, if it is desired 
that they farrow in the best possible con¬ 
dition so as to afford abundant .stimula¬ 
tion of milk. In addition to the concen¬ 
trates identified above I would purchase 
some clover or Alfalfa hay in hales, aud 
let the sows have all of this coarser feed 
that they will clean up with relish. If 
they are not satisfied with the amount of 
grain supplied, then it would he appro¬ 
priate to cut up some of the hay and mix 
some grain with the chopped feed, in 
order that the ration might be bulky aud 
more satisfying. 
I would not use any of the so-called 
pig feeds, aud T am especially partial to 
nothing but ground bran, and it is not 
necessary to include both of them in any 
one mixture for pigs. A ration may be 
made up of equal parts corn or hominy 
meal, ground oats, and red dog flour, to 
which 10 per cent of tankage is added, or, 
provided you are fortunate enough to have 
skim-milk, this material could replace the 
tankage. 
Alfalfa is a little coarse for pigs of 
this age. and if it were mixed with the 
middlings, as you suggest, it would be 
too bulky and the pigs would not do as 
well as if they were confined to grain 
products more concentrated. Rather than 
mixing the Alfalfa hay with the mid¬ 
dlings. aud feeding it all as a kind of 
slop, as you suggest. I would feed the 
grain ration, suggested above and. in ad¬ 
dition, let the pigs have access to the 
Alfalfa, which could he supplied by means 
of slat racks, or satisfactory riggings that 
you could construct iu a protected area. 
So far as the pigpen is concerned, it is 
not necessary that it have a wooden or 
cement floor, yet you will agree that this 
is an advantage and would enable you to 
keep it cleaner and in a more sanitary 
condition. There is an advantage in giv¬ 
ing pigs a dry place to sleep, though it 
need not necessarily be warm, aud if you 
have a ground floor in your hoghouse, aud 
it is so protected as to enable you to keep 
it dry and free from drafts it will serve 
the purpose quite well. 
Tigs are natural foragers and in season 
will consume almost any kind of grass or 
forage crop. Just, what you mean by pig 
grass 1 do not know, but there is nothing 
as well suited for pasture purposes for 
swine as a mixture of oats aud dwarf 
Essex rape, utilizing a bushel of the oats 
and six pounds of rape, aud planting the 
mixture as early in the Spring as it is 
possible to get on the ground aud prop¬ 
erly prepare it for planting. 
“Necessity knows no law.” "He’d be 
right at home among the practitioners in 
my court.” said old Judge Flubdub.— 
Louisville Courier-Journal. 
