February 7, 10:10 
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7Ac RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Stumps removed for the 
cost of a tin of tobacco 
F. A. Rullman, Hawthorne, Fla., used Atlas 
Farm Powder and removed 980 stumps at a cost 
of about IS cents each. In describing this ex¬ 
perience Mr. Rullman writes: 
"We removed 980 stumps, of which 684 were ereen pine. 
The tap roots of the ereen stumps averaeed 11 inches In 
diameter. I used 572 pounds of Atlas Powder and it 
required two men helpers for 19 days. The cost of re- 
movinE the stumps averaeed 14 4-5 cents per stump.” 
Atlas Farm Powder takes the stumps out dean 
and breaks them into pieces that can be easily 
handled. 
Reading our book, “Better Farming with Atlas 
Farm Powder,” will enable you to blast stumps, 
make ditches, plant trees, break boulders and 
promote plant growth by subsoiling. Write 
for it today. 
ATLAS POWDER COMPANY 
Division RN2, Philadelphia, Penna. 
Dealers everywhere Magazines near you 
Seed Is Expensive 
Planet Jrs. Help Save It 
The No. 4 Planet Jr. shown here sows seed accurately 
and economically. It also takes care of the growing crops 
throughout the season, thoroughly, easily and quickly culti¬ 
vating them. The greatest possible crops are your reward 
and at the least expense of time and labor. All Planet Jr. 
Farm and Garden Implements are scientifically designed, 
made of the best material and fully guaranteed. For 
more than 45 years they have been a large factor in 
the success of the market and home gardens of 
the country. 
No. 4 Planet Jr. Combined Hill and Drill Seeder, 
Wheel-Hoe, Cultivator and Plow sows all garden 
No. 4 seeds (in hills or drills) plows, opens furrows 
and covers them, hoes and cultivates them 
h- all through the season. A 
hand machine that does the 
A work so thoroughly, 
I quickly and easily that it 
IPays for itself in a single 
season. 
No. 12 Planet Jr. Double and Single Wheel-Hoe has hoes that are 
wonderful weed killers. The plows open furrows, cover them and 
hill the growing crops. The cultivator teeth work deep or shallow. 
The leaf lifters save much time in late work when plants are large or 
leaves too low for ordinary work. Crops are straddled till 20 inches 
high, then the tool works between rows with one or two wheels. 
S. L. ALLEN & CO 
Box II97V PS 
L ? REE 72-page Catalog 
Illustrates tools doing actual 
farm and garden work and 
describes over 55 Planet Jrs. 
including Seeders, Wheel- 
Hoes, Horse-Hoes, Har- I 
rows. Orchard. Beet and I 
Pivot-Wheel Riding Culti- 1 
vators. JVrite for it 
today. S 
The Razor Back Hog 
There is a farmer living a few miles 
from here who makes a specialty of breed¬ 
ing razorback hogs, lie lets them run 
wild in his wood lot during the greater 
part of the year, and about the middle of 
November lie drives them into tlieir Win¬ 
ter quarters, which is a building and yard 
at the end of a V-shaped fence. All not 
desired to keep over Winter are then 
butchered and the dressed pork sold. One 
of the men who helped in the work last 
Fall told me that the hogs were as wild 
as wild deer, and could run and jump 
almost as well as deer. No human being 
can get near them when they are running 
wild during the Summer, and they cost 
practically nothing for their feed, and 
yet the owner tries to feed the sows a lit¬ 
tle when they are breeding. _ On butcher¬ 
ing day one unsually wild pig that heard 
the squealing of the pigs that were being 
killed jumped over a four-foot fence and 
ran off into the forest'. The men spent a 
whole hour in running the animal down 
before they caught it and roped it. Then 
they had great difficulty in killing it. A 
peculiar feature of the whole business was 
that the hog had no rod blood in its veins, 
and not a drop of red blood Avas seen 
either at) the time of killing or dressing 
the pork. There Avas a little moisture, 
and the question is, do Avild razorback 
hogs have white blood instead of red? 
Will you give your readers some infor¬ 
mation about razorback hogs? I under¬ 
stand that they are unprofitable and un¬ 
desirable to raise for pork, unless they 
are alloAved to run Avild and hustle for 
themselves. Is this true? Is their meat 
as Avholesome and desirable as the do¬ 
mestic breeds? I never saAv one that 
weighed more thau 175 lbs., and do uot 
Uiioav Avliether they can be fattened like 
other hogs or not. F. c. n. 
Columbia Co., NeAV York. 
Bo sure of it that there is nothing' 
white-blooded or Avhite-livered about a j 
razorback hog in i's state of pristine 
originality and muscularity, uor ‘Avas one l 
of them ever knoAvn to show the white 
feather in a fight. Mr. Razorback, on 
the contrary, is the reddest-blooded hog 
Ave knoAv of, for red blood means vitality 
and vigor, to say nothing of innate cus¬ 
sedness, ability to run fast, jump high 
and bite. The brave specimeu of the 
breed spoken of by F. C. D. died gamely 
upholding all of the traditions and repu¬ 
tation of its race; but its red blood had 
all been pumped into its tissues l>y tre¬ 
mendous exercise and effort, and con¬ 
gested there, so that it did not flow from 
the heart or veins. Ability of hogs to 
take on flesh and fat, or become “lard- 
baeks” instead of razorbacks. is depend¬ 
ent upon phlegmatic temperament, and 
the rail-splitter hog has none of that. 
It belongs to the speed class of its kind, 
is made to cut through the air without 
friction and has great, long, elastic mus¬ 
cles, tense tendons, high quality bpne and 
big, sound joints as necessary machinery 
for the business. One never hears of a 
razorback “breaking down” in its fet¬ 
locks or losing the power of its hind quar¬ 
ters from constipation and nervous dis¬ 
order. Nor is the razorback boar ever 
impotent or his mate lacking in prolifi¬ 
cacy. This A\-e knoAv by actual test, for 
Avhen, some years ago, certain lard breed 
sows at the Wisconsin Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station proved shy breeders or 
barren or had only two or three puny, 
weak, profitless “titman” pigs, mating 
with a razorback boar altered the case 
at once. An order was sent to Indian 
Territory for such a sire, and the ranch¬ 
man forthwith got after him Avith his 
hounds in a Avild mosquito and cactus m 
fested pasture. Soon he heard the boar 
squeal, then a cloud of dust came quickly 
drifting forward and the Avind of the hog 
was felt as he dashed past, and the dust 
of him was seen disappearing in the dis¬ 
tance. Eventually, lioAvever, he was 
rounded up, crated and dispatched to 
Madison. Minted Avith him every pam¬ 
pered, phlegmatic soav immediately cou- 
ceived, aud iu clue course brought forth a 
big litter of pep-endoAved pigs that in¬ 
stantly were up, sucking, chasing around 
and squealing merrily in red-blooded joy 
of living. They had long, poAverful ar¬ 
tesian well-digging snouts, like their sire, 
but enough of the fat-producing ability of 
their dams to feed fairly well. The com¬ 
bination, therefore, has some merits, but 
the razorback is not and never will be 
a profitable producer of flesh and fat 
when confined iu a pen. yard or small area 
of land. He is not bred or built that way 
and fat would be a burden to him could 
When yon write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
it be put on. But he is a “he” beast, and 
had red blood, brawn, bristles and brav¬ 
ery which, however, are his chief attrib¬ 
utes, aud they do not fit Avell into modern 
domestication on the farm, A. S. A. 
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Hired men are scarce! Wages are 
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No matter whether you have six 
cows, or a hundred, you should 
have all the facts about this new 
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United fngfcs 
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