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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January'31, 1920 
TF your seed bed is not properly 
■*- prepared, take an inventory of the 
clods—the rough stuff in the field 
—and enter every single one of them 
in your ledger as a liability. They 
are just like so many pores letting 
out that precious subsoil moisture. 
You cannot spare that stored power 
if you want bumper crops. 
International Tillage Tools put your 
seed bed in prime condition. In this de¬ 
servedly popular line of implements are 
disk harrows, spring- and peg-tooth and 
combination harrows, culti-packers, etc. 
The disk harrow, for instance, slices and 
destroys the clods until the close-knit 
covering guards every bit of subsoil 
moisture, while permitting the absorption 
of additional supplies from above. 
The 1920 International line of imple¬ 
ments for laying crop foundation is the 
most complete we have ever offered. You 
know your soil. Whatever its needs, we 
have the type of disk harrow suited to it. 
If a sandy, loose loam the two-lever type 
answers every requirement; if hard, stony 
or trashy ground, the three-lever type 
with its center-depth regulator insures a 
firm, compact seed bed. If you use a 
tractor, see our leverless tractor disk. 
Whatever your power equipment, we 
have a size that utilizes it to the best 
advantage. Ask your dealer to point out 
to you the exclusive features of each type. 
1 Let us mail you descriptive folders of 
these tillage implements so that you will 
know just a bit more about the preparing 
of Spring seed beds. With every imple¬ 
ment goes an alert, responsive and intelli¬ 
gent service. The International dealer 
will serve you direct. 
International Harvester Company 
Chicago 
or America INC. 
USA 
No farmer knows how near 
seeding perfection can be 
obtained until he has used a 
CROWN 
No Gears 
Absolute Simplicity 
Only One Lever 
The dial tells the amount 
The CROWN is the only drill that enables a farmer to sow any 
variety of large or small seeds in the exact amount desired. One 
gear runs the entire drill. 
The Crown Drill runs at slow speed (making less friction), 
and all amounts of seed are regulated by gates at the outlets of the 
runs. These gates are all attached to one rod. both on the fertilizer 
and the grain sides. One movement of the lever and the Drill is 
ready for seeding. 
Don’t bother yourself trying to figure out speeds and gears. 
Make up your mind, today, that your next drill will be a CROWN. 
That will settle your seeding question. Have your dealer show you 
the 1020 CROWN. Also write for catalog and study up this matter. 
GRAIN DRILL 
CROWN MANUFACTURING CO. 
112 Wayne Street Phelps, N. Y. 
Swine Husbandry 
By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Pasture for Hogs 
Can you tell me how many 100-lb. pigs 
an acre of good Alfalfa will pasture until 
the first frost? C. J. c. 
New Jersey. 
Alfalfa should not be pastured in the 
Spring until it is from seven to nine 
inches high. Furthermore, it should not 
be pastured until the second year, and 
even then an Alfalfa field intended for 
pasture should never present the appear¬ 
ance of a regular pastured area. Rather 
it should be clipped once or twice during 
the season with a mowing machine in 
order to make sure that all of the plants 
received the stimulus resulting from such 
cutting. 
Generally speaking, an acre of Alfalfa 
will pasture 20 pigs weighing 100 lbs. 
apiece, or their equivalent. We figure a 
ton of live weight to an acre for a field 
of Alfalfa that is two or three years old. 
Depending upon the season it often is 
necessary to take the pigs off from the 
field of Alfalfa for a week or 10 days, 
particularly if it found that the pigs are 
gnawing off the plants rather closely, or 
are severely pasturing or rooting the 
areas. Much depends upon the amount 
of rainfall and the vigor of the plants. If 
the land is rich in mineral matter and 
provided there is a sufficient amount of 
phosphoric acid and lime present in the 
soil to permit regular and rapid growth, 
and provided the stand of Alfalfa is sat¬ 
isfactory. one would be safe in calculating 
that an acre of Alfalfa would pasture a 
ton of live weight hogs to the acre. 
Keeping Pigs Growing 
On page 1836. under title “Weights of 
Small Pigs,” you say: “It is generally 
conceded that a pig should weigh 70 lbs. 
when 70 days old and that its daily gain 
from this age on should exceed a pound a 
day.” I have a litter of 10, no runts. 
They have been weaned three weeks and 
weigh from 40 to 50 lbs. each at present 
time. I am feeding war flour, which 
costs me $4 per cwt. I make a slop of it 
and feed all they will clean up three times 
a day. I would like to learn of the ra¬ 
tion thnt will make them gain a pound or 
more a day from uow ou until I butcher— 
end of March. I have no milk, but can 
get red dog middlings at $3.65 per cwt.. 
tankage, $7 per cwt.. or any other feed 
you might suggest. These pigs are kept 
in a box stall in barn, space 15 ft. square. 
They are from O. I. C. sow and Duroe 
boar. o. j. f. 
New York. 
Fall pigs intended for killing in the 
Spring must be kept gaining and grow¬ 
ing from the very moment of their arrival. 
It is. of course, more expensive to finish 
Fall pigs than obtains with Spring litters, 
for so much more of the energy must be 
utilized in keeping the pigs warm during 
cold weather. If you will make sure that 
the pigs are not infested with external 
parasites, or lice, and if they have all they 
will eat three times a day of the following 
grain ration, they ought to gain the tra¬ 
ditional pound a day after they reach a 
weight of 75 lbs. The mixture follows: 
100 lbs. of war flour (which I understand 
to be a mixture of wheat and barley), 
50 lbs. of red dog flour. 100 lbs. of corn- 
meal or shelled corn, 25 lbs. of digester 
tankage. If you do not have the grinder 
it would be quite as well to shell the corn 
and soak it for 12 hours previous to feed¬ 
ing. It then could be mixed in with your 
other chop and fed in the form of a thick 
slop. Be careful not -to dilute the feed 
too much with water. A pig .should eat 
the feed rather than drink it, and it 
should be fed in about the consistency of 
buttermilk. Keep the pigs hungry; that 
is. make them clean up their trough 
promptly at each feeding ,and do not 
under any circumstances permit slop to 
be left over in the trough or kept before 
the animals at all times. If you could 
add 15 per ceut of molasses to this mix¬ 
ture it would hasten the gains substan¬ 
tially. It is well to keep before the pigs 
such materials as ground limestone, char¬ 
coal. salt and wood ashes for the purpose 
of supplying ash or mineral matter so es¬ 
sential for the growth and normal diges¬ 
tion. Such materials, too. will go a long 
way toward preventing or eliminating so- 
called worms. f. c. w. 
Pig Ration with Garbage 
Will you advise me what would be a 
good fattening feed to go with garbage for 
two pigs four months old, and the amount 
to feed daily? g. a. k. 
Massachusetts. 
Without doubt the most economical 
source of carbohydrate at the present 
time for pig feeding consists of blackstrap 
molasses and hominy. You could buy the 
molasses in barrel lots from some Whole¬ 
sale dealer in your district, and then by 
mixing equal parts of molasses and hom¬ 
iny with your kitchen residues you would 
have a combination that would fatten tin- 
animals quickly and at a relatively low 
cost. They should be given all of the 
material that they will clean up two or 
three times a day, for it it» a pig’s busi- 
ness to eat and sleep, and if he is fed and 
forced to the full extent of his appetire 
he will gain rapidly. 
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