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August 16, 1910 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered By Prof. F. C. M inkier 
Rye for Pigs 
Is it practicable to feed rye to pigs in 
sheaf? My idea is to stack the rye where 
it can be thrown to the pigs, let them 
clean up the grain and have the straw on 
land ready to plow in next Spring. There 
is no market for the straw any more and 
I want to save the thrashing and grind¬ 
ing and so much handling of the straw be¬ 
fore it is back on the land. Is any con¬ 
siderable amount of the rye likely to go 
through the pigs undigested? 2. What 
kind of ring is best to prevent pigs from 
rooting? Are not those which close in 
the snout likely to make it sore? Some 
years ago l remember seeing something 
advertised for cutting a piece out of mid¬ 
dle of snout, and this treatment was 
guaranteed to be a sure preventive of any 
more rooting. Something of this sort 
which would make one job of it would 
certainly be a big improvement on ring¬ 
ing. * I. H. K. 
Fairfield Co.. Conn. 
1. It is practicable to feed rye out of 
the sheaf to pigs. They will thrash it 
quite as well as a machine would do it. 
aud there would be very little waste. 
Rye in itself, however, would not make a 
balanced ration for pigs, for it is not 
particularly palatable when fed alone, 
and consequently the pigs would not con¬ 
sume enough of it to gain rapidly in 
weight. I take it that you refer to mar¬ 
ket pigs rather than to brood sows, for I 
should hesitate to attempt to Winter brood 
sows on sheaf rye. although if the stalks 
were well put up. or the maternl put in the 
mow or where there was no chance for the 
material to become ergoty, no bad results 
would follow. I would, however, feed 
some corn in conjunction with the rye. 
and some Alfalfa hay if the ration were 
intended for brood sows. Rye has been 
known to cause abortion with brood sows, 
and it has likewise been known to cause 
other disorders incident to gestation. The 
pigs would work over the straw and there 
would he many advantages in the practice 
you suggest. 
2. As to the practice of ringing. I have 
always used the ordinary Y-shaped cop¬ 
per ring that is available at any hard¬ 
ware store. The cutting device that you 
suggest has been used with good results, 
and if one is growing market pigs entirely 
and does not show his specimens at fairs, 
the deformity resulting from its use is 
not serious, even with the V-shaped in¬ 
strument which cuts a notch out of the 
nose. It is necessary to open the wound 
at least once a year, for it does not estab¬ 
lish perpetual immunity against this vice. 
Ration for Milch Cows 
Would you tell me what a ration con¬ 
sisting of equal parts of oats, buckwheat 
and corn, ground together, would need to 
balance it? This is to be used as a dairy 
feed. «>I have no silage, but feed plenty 
of pea and oat hay. or a good mixed 
clover. t. w. 
With oats, buckwheat and corn ground 
together I would add merely 30 per cent 
of gluten or 25 per cent of cottonseed 
meal. All of the grain products that you 
mention are carbohydrate carriers and 
lack the necessary protein to stimulate 
the milk flow, although if your cows are 
running on pasture the combination that 1 
you suggest ought to give you very good 
results. Gluten at the present time sup¬ 
plies protein most economically, and I 
prefer gluten to cottonseed meal to feed 
in conjunction with forage. Furthermore, 
gluten in combination with ground buck¬ 
wheat makes a mixture that is more pal¬ 
atable than prevails when cottonseed is 
introduced. 
Experience with Alfalfa Weevil 
Last year I sowed a field to oats early 
in Spring. Land was in potatoes the 
year before. I cut oats for hay when 
they became well headed. July 1 I plowed 
oat stubble and applied 1,400 lbs. of 
ground limestone per acre, then worked 
ground well with harrow. Kept ground 
harrowed weekly until August 15, when 
I seeded 100 lbs. of inoculated Alfalfa 
seed on the plot of SVj acres. I had the 
finest stand I have ever seen; it grew by 
Winter to about six inches as green as 
anyone could wish. When Spring opened 
it began to grow very rapidly, with the 
same green color, until about April 10. 
When about 10 in. tall it began to turn 
yellow in spots. I thought perhaps it 
was due to cold spell we had at that time. 
When it began to warm up I noticed it 
got worse, so I began to investigate. I 
found it to be covered with little green 
hugs with wings which have sucked all of 
the life out of the plants. I waited about 
three weeks and saw it was not going to 
grow again, so I decided to cut the dead 
stems by mowiug the whole plot. I 
thought perhaps this was the best thing 
to do. as young sprouts are shooting up. 
I have lost my main crop of Alfalfa when 
it generally produces the largest cutting. 
These bugs seem to he about gone now. 
Do you think I shall be troubled with 
them any more? Have you heard com¬ 
plaints from anyone else? It is in all 
Alfalfa in our district. Do you think I 
did the right thing by cutting it? A. 8. 
Delaware. 
Your experience with the Alfalfa wee¬ 
vil is very similar to that reported by a 
number of growers last year. Y’ou did 
exactly right. It is appropriate to cut 
the Alfalfa when the little shoots com¬ 
mence to appear at the base of the crown, 
regardless of whether the plants are two 
feet or 10 inches high. I am inclined to 
think, however, that an application of 
1,400 lbs. of ground limestone per acre 
was insufficient, and that had you dis¬ 
tributed an increased amount, say three 
or four tons of the ground limestone per 
acre, the plants would have been more 
resistant and probably would not have 
been so easily affected with the weevil or 
blight. Observation prompts the sugges¬ 
tion that certaiu seasons, owing to cli¬ 
matic conditions, are more favorable to 
the development of certain pests that an¬ 
noy leguminous plants, and if the field 
still maintains a fairly satisfactory stand 
the chances are that the roots of the 
plants were not affected, and I would con¬ 
tinue the field as a liayfield. making the 
application of acid phosphate or barnyard 
manure immediately following the cutting 
of the first or the second crop of hay. A 
number of experiments in spraying for 
this trouble have been reported, yet I am 
not sure that, any of them have given the 
results that justify the expense incident 
to such treatment. 
Harvesting Rape Seed 
I have three-fourths of an acre of 
Dwarf Essex rape that wintered and is 
now in seed pod. It was very rich 
ground aud the plants are enormous, en¬ 
tirely covering the plot. Each plant has 
hundreds of large seed pods. Would it pay 
me to cut and cure this for seed? How ripe 
should the plants be when cut? How 
shall I stack it. or shall I put it inside? 
About what will the yield be? What is 
the seed worth a pound? How can I 
thrash it? c. H. 
Millbrook, N. Y. 
It is rather uncommon for the Dwarf 
Essex rape to be permitted to seed itself 
in this district, for usually it is pro¬ 
duced as a forage crop for swine, and not 
permitted to reach the advanced stages 
of growth you have indicated. It i6 
true that certain of the plants will sur¬ 
vive the Winter and seed themselves the 
next year, yet I doubt very much if it 
would pay you to harvest the seed as in¬ 
dicated. The heads could be used, how¬ 
ever. to advantage in supplying material 
for feeding chickens, for there is nothing 
more satisfying to poultry than the seeds 
resulting from maturing plants of this 
nature. It is probable that you would 
have to thrash out the seed by means of 
the old-fashioned flail. I am unable to 
state just what the average yield of rape 
seed would be per acre. The price of 
rape seed has varied from 0 to 15c per 
lb., and it might be well for you to com¬ 
municate with some seed distributing 
concern in order to arrive at the prevail¬ 
ing price for the rape .seed grown in this 
district. 
Prolificacy of Berkshire Swine 
Prolificacy and easy fattening are two 
of the advantages claimed for the Berk¬ 
shire breed. That they are still holding 
up this reputation is shown by informa¬ 
tion coming from one of the herds that 
belong in the Berkshire County (Mass.) 
Berkshire Club. The sow, llighwood 
Mollie 57th. on Flintstone Farm, has far¬ 
rowed 64 pigs in six litters, or an aver¬ 
age of 10 2 /$ pigs to a litter. That she is 
capable of transmitting this prolificacy is 
shown by the litters of three of her daugh¬ 
ters that have farrowed 12. seven and 11 
pigs, or an average of 10 pigs to the lit¬ 
ter. No man can ask more than this. If 
he gets more pigs to the litter it is doubt¬ 
ful if they are as good as though he had 
less. W. II. McKee, the secretary of the 
club, also writes that a great many of the 
breeders in the club are averaging around 
eight pigs to the litter for their entire 
herd, and having excellent success in rais¬ 
ing them. The question of prolificacy ap¬ 
parently is not bothering these men at all. 
To show the rate of gain that Berkshires 
can make the following is written. On 
May 23 a sow weaned a litter of pigs. 
The sow was thin and as she was getting 
well along in years it was decided to fat¬ 
ten her for the butcher. In 31 days she 
gained 106 lbs. By actual weight she ate 
195 lbs. of grain mixture, consumed 30 
quarts of molasses (some that was left 
from a shipment purchased a year ago), 
and had IS quarts of skim-milk daily. 
She was fed three times a day. The total 
cost of fattening this sow was $9.03, and 
the breeder doubled his money on the 
weight the sow put on. Mr. McKee wants 
to know if there is any Duroc iu New 
England that cau beat this record. 
“I happen to know an old farmer who 
reads Shakespeare diligently.” “Does lie 
apply Shakespeare to farm life?” “Not 
directly, but he says he gets a lot of 
comfort out of reading the bard’s wise 
observations after he’s been trying to 
pound some common sense iuto the head 
of his hired man.”—Credit Lost. 
BERKSHIRES 
PROLIFIC 
BERKSHIRES 
A few Spring Pigs left. A few choice 
Sows and young Boars ready for service, 
not related and a rare chance for a 
foundation of a fine herd. 
All registered and satisfaction guaranteed 
Klarlxa Farm. 
Geo. L. Barker, Supt. Parksville, Sullivan Co., N. Y 
LARGE BERKSHIRES 
AT HIGHWOOD: 
SIZE, CONSTITUTION, PROLIFICACY Our First Consideration 
That this policy is in accord with popular demand 
is indicated by the fact that during the past twenty 
years we have sold more registered Berkshires than 
any other three breeders in the Uniied States. 
Special offering of boars and boar pigs. 
H, C. & H. B. HARPENDING, Box 15, Dundee. N. Y. 
^Choice Berkshires^ 
We have some extra nice young 
boars, sows and gilts of Masterpiece 
and Double Champion 33rd breed¬ 
ing at prices that are right. 
Webb Farms Clinton Corners, N. Y. 
Big Type BERKSHIRES 
See my herd at the Conn., New York, East¬ 
ern Exposition and Trenton Inter-State Fairs. 
Public Sale, Oct. 25, 1919—30 bears, 30 gilts 
Entire ofTorin* cholera immune. 
C. H. CARTER, Whitguern Farm, West Chester, Pa. 
Anedjo Berkshires 
Are bred for size and quality combined 
The big, mellow, easy feeding type, with neat heads, 
broad backs and E X T It A II E A V Y 11 A M 8. 
Foundation herds, service boars, brood eowsand pigs. 
H. M. TERWILLIGER.Mgr. Anedjo Farm,Webster, Mass. 
REGISTERED 
BERKSHIRES 
Epochal Strain. Aug. nnd Sept. pigs. Selected 
stock tor breeders for shipment when 8 wks. 
old. Boars, 815; Sows, 820. Service Boars. 
MIDDLEBROOK FARM. Allenhurst, N. J. 
FOR SALE 
Topstone Master 
No. 256236 
A remarkable thoroughbred Berkshire Boar— 
fifteen months old and in fine condition. 
GUSTAV VASELIUS, Breeder, Ridgefield, Conn. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES’ 
I offer February and March farrowed Boar Pigs, 
nearly ready for service, weighing 100 lbs., of the 
big tvpe, with quality; By Symboleer’s Superb 
and Duke’s Champion 22nd; registered and 
crated. They are not fat but healthy. Address 
J. E. WATSON - Marbledale, Conn. 
REGISTERED 
Berkshires 
15 Bred sows and gilts. Spring Boars and fall pigs. 
H. GIUMSHAW - North East, I’a. 
BigTypeBerkshires^!;%% b S^i!& 
farrowed May 15th. sired by 700 lb. boar & $25 for 
quick sale. Geo. M. Greene, Somerville, N. J. 
p Aa Rarlrchirnc two and three mos. old. Mas- 
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fellow breeding, SI0 to S15. Berkshire sows, bred or 
open, 550 each. Mrs. C. R. FINCH, Vienna, Va. 
Registered BERKSHIRES 
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POWELL CREEK FARMS. Mays Landing, N. J. 
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131. JxMaijJnUrn.*-. 13 thirty day s.Boars mut Sows 
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