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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
April 12, 11*10 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Starting in the Hog Business 
I would appreciate some advice on en¬ 
tering; the hog-raising dnisinees. For the 
past five years I have boon conducting a 
poultry business of about 000 lions, and 
instead of enlarging my poultry plant 
would like to raise hogs to increase my in¬ 
come. The land which I ’have is covered 
with brush, quite rocky, lots of stumps, 
but well drained. T have been advised to 
raise hogs; that they would help clean 
up the land. I can use from one-half to 
about four acres, according to how many 
hogs I would raise the first year. I have 
four portable chicken coops 6x8 ft. which 
I no longer use since installing coal 
brooders. Could these be converted into 
hogliouses? I have no land cleared to 
raise feed on, except a small garden. I 
would have to buy all my feed, as I do 
for my poultry. 'Would the pigs raised 
show a profit if fed on purchased feed? 
If you think it practical to raise hogs un¬ 
der these conditions, would you give me 
more advice as to the number and*kind to 
start with, and anything else that would 
prove helpful ou entering this branch of 
farming? E. n. s. 
New York. 
You will he disappointed if you place 
much reliance on the ability of pigs to 
clean up brush land. While they are-for¬ 
agers, and take kindly to -grazing on* lux¬ 
uriant pastures, .they are not inclined to 
it occurs to me that you would best stay 
by your poultry project and carry this on 
to a successful end. Nevertheless, the 
poultry houses that you are describing, if 
they are GxS, would easily adapt them¬ 
selves for use with swine, and the colony 
house system has many advantages over 
the community house, especially where 
the latter cares for as many 'as 20 *liead. 
As to the number and kind of pies 
that you should assemble to carry out 
your plan, let it he said that you could 
maintain about 10 pigs weighing 100 lbs. 
apiece on an acre of wooded land, provid¬ 
ed the forage crop •mixture *that I have 
suggested had established itself, on onc- 
lmlf of this area. 
You should select representatives of the 
lard type rather than the bacon type, for 
the former wil mature at an earlier age 
and will adapt themselves to the rather 
unusual conditions of grazing that you 
have described. Either the Duroc Jersey, 
the Chester White, the Poland China, or 
the Berkshire would be “best suited for 
yoiir use, although let me add that the 
modern pig must have some corn in addi¬ 
tion to his forage crops if he is to gain 
A Well-bred Ayrshire Cow 
clean rough land, and, if compelled to ob¬ 
tain their livelihood under such condi¬ 
tions. they would soon lose their flesh- 
making characteristics and revert to the 
traditional razorbaek type. Sheep or 
goats would be better suited for clearing 
rough land, although one must not dis¬ 
count the 'fact that pigs will work over 
certain roots where the soil is not too 
firm, and where they can receive, some 
encouragement from nibbling away at the 
roots of certain vegetation. 
It would *be to your advantage to clear 
a small section of this field, plow early in 
the Spring, and sow it with a mixture of 
oats, Canada peas, rape and Sweet clover, 
using the following seed mixture, per 
acre: 1 *bu. oats, 1 bu. Canada field peas, 
fi lbs. Dwarf Essex rape, 8 lbs. white 
Sweet clover. Mix the oats and peas to¬ 
gether and drill them as early as possible 
in the -Spring. Then follow this seeding 
with the rape and Sweet clover. The 
field can be pastured about seven weeks 
from the date of seeding, and if the oats 
are allowed to mature and rattle of)’ they 
will reseed the ground and afford a very 
palatable feed for late Fall forage. 
In the use.of forage crops for swine it 
must he remembered that the pigs must 
not«be permitted to graze the area closely, 
for rape must have more than a growing 
point, and it is capable of assembling 
much plant food from the soil in case it 
reaches a height of seven or eight inches 
before the swine are turned into the field. 
Without the use of forage crops it will be 
absolutely impossible for you to get a new 
dollar for an old one, by following up the 
practice of buying your pigs and then 
buying all the feed for them. Unless you 
can raise a majority of the concentrates, 
especially the corn, required for feeding 
the pigs, or unless you have some by¬ 
product, such as skim-milk or buttermilk. 
the traditional pound a day necessary to 
yield a profit to his caretaker. I’igs roam¬ 
ing around in wooded area will not do 
well, and I very *11111011 doubt the wisdom 
of your undertaking pork production even 
on a small scale under the conditions that 
you have described. 
Feeding Hogs; Milk Leg 
1. I have a piece of land, about four 
acres, which I wish to use for my hogs. 
I wish to get as much off the land as 
possible, also improve it. I thought about 
sowing Sov beaus and rape; thought that 
would improve the land and hogs as much 
as anvthing, following with either Crim¬ 
son or Red clover. What is your opinion 
ou the subject? Can you give me any 
rule by which I can tell whether it is cheap¬ 
est for me to buy all wheat feed for hogs 
or corn at market price. Would not corn 
be cheaper now than wheat feed at $3 per 
cwt. ? 2. I have a horse that went into 
the stable last September in seeming per¬ 
fect condition. He had just been on pas¬ 
ture for four weeks. The next morning 
his leg (hind) was swollen from the hoof 
to the body so badly he could hardly 
walk. Iu about a week most of the swell¬ 
ing had subsided, but to this day it lias 
never quite got back to its normal size. 
I would like to trade this horse, and 
while it does not injure him it would de¬ 
duct from the‘selling price. I looked over 
his leg at the time and could see nothing 
that looked as if it might have caused the 
leg to swell. I have had people say it 
was a snake bite and it would never re¬ 
turn to normal again. Can you tell me 
something I might try to reduce his leg? 
Virginia. E. N. H. 
1. A mixture of Soy beaus and Dwarf 
Essex rape would make a suitable forage 
crop for pigs, and it would be appropri¬ 
ate to use a bushel and a peck of the Soy 
beans and abodt six pounds of the Dwarf 
Essex rape per acre. I would add 10 
pounds of white-blooming Sweet clover 
to the mixture for. later in the season, 
after the beans have matured and been 
pretty generally harvested by the pigs, 
(Continued on page l‘>(>2') 
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