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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 6, 1920 
A Spring Conditioner and 
Worm Expeller . 
Spring Is Here* Soon the litters of pigs will be coming, the calves, the lambs and 
the colts will be dropped. Feed your brood sows Dr. Hess Stock Tonic before and after 
farrowing. It makes the bowels active, relieves constipation, promotes good health and 
good digestion which means healthy pigs and a mother with a milk supply to nourish. 
Condition your cows for calving by feeding Dr. Hess Stock Tonic before freshing. 
Then feed it regularly to increase the flow of milk. It lengthens the milking period. 
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Give your brood mares a course of Dr. Hess Stock Tonic. And your work horses. 
It puts your team in fine fettle. You cannot afford to plow, har¬ 
row, sow, mow, reap or team with a team out of sorts, low in spirits, 
rough in hair, blood out of order, or full of worms. 
Dr. Hess Stock Tonic is good for sheep—espe¬ 
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for every sheep. Feed as directed and see the good 
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Except in the far West, South and Canada 
Smaller packages in proportion 
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Swine Husbandry 
By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding Market Pigs 
1. We have 21 young pigs we are rais¬ 
ing for market, ranging in weight from 
30 to 70 lbs. Are feeding them milkoline, 
with four pares water and butter¬ 
milk one part. They will not drink the 
mixed milkoline without the buttermilk 
added. They have all the corn meal and 
Alfalfa hay they will eat and mangel 
beets at noon. We have an abundance 
of Alfalfa leaves. Could these be profit¬ 
ably added to the corn meal. Is the meal 
alone too heavy for young pigs? Would 
the addition of middlings or ground oats 
improve, the feed any, and in what pro¬ 
portion in weight or measure? 2. Would 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic for plumping 
horses be at all dangerous to the horses, 
and would a three weeks’ treatment show 
any marked results? w. K. 
New York. 
1. Young pigs weighing between 30 and 
70 lbs. could not utilize to advantage the 
increased amounts of Alfalfa as you have 
suggested. Youngsters of this age require 
concentrated feed, and any attempt to 
prevail upon them to consume the Alfalfa 
leaves would be disappointing. If the 
leaves could be steeped and thus made 
more concentrated they might constitute 
as much as 10 or 15 per cent of the l’ation 
by weight. It is probable that you are 
adding too much water to the skimmed 
milk powder. Various results have boon 
t reported from the use of this material, 
and it is my opinion that the milk pow¬ 
der plus water comes about as near sub¬ 
stituting for milk as docs dry hay mois¬ 
tened with water equal natural grass for 
succulence. I would suggest that you 
mix six parts of corn with three parts 
of molasses, and add one pint of digester 
tankage or meat meal and that you feed 
not more than 4 or 5 lbs. of the diluted 
milkoline with 1 lb. of this mixture. Let 
the Alfalfa leaves be available as a sup¬ 
plement to this feed rather than mix 
them together. Alfalfa, particularly for 
young pigs, would best be fed from racks 
rather than mixed with a ration, for the 
reason that they are apt to make the 
combination too bulky. 
2. Fowler’s Solution of Arsenic is in¬ 
tended as a tonic for horses, and if fed 
as directed by your veterinarian it would 
be very likely to make an improvement 
in his condition at the end of three weeks. 
Of course it is the feed fed rather than 
the tonic that sticks to his ribs. 
“Large English Black” Hog 
Can you give me any information as 
to breeders in America of a purebred 
English hog known as the “Large English 
Black”? A sow of this type which I 
understand is very valuable has been for¬ 
warded to me. and I am very anxious to 
get in touch with stockmen carrying this 
strain. Will it have any effect on her 
future progeny if I cross her until I can 
obtain a purebred boar. B. R. F. 
Massachusetts. 
The type of hog that you inquire con¬ 
cerning is known as the “Large English 
Black,” and is not extensively produced 
in this country. I know of a number of 
breeders in the South that have used this 
breed of swine with varying degrees of 
success, it being evident that they are 
noted for their proflicacy and their splen¬ 
did grazing qualities. Several years ago 
we had two of these sows at the New 
Jersey Experiment Station. They al¬ 
ways yielded exceptionally large litters, 
the pigs were growthy and the dams par¬ 
ticularly heavy milkers. We mated the 
sows with a Berkshire, the second season 
with a Yorkshire, and the next, season 
with Duroc-.Tersey, and in each instance 
they produced pigs of exceptional feeding 
qualities. The Puroc and Yorkshire 
crosses gave us the best feeding pigs. If 
you will address a communication to E. 
B. White at Leesburg, Va., it is possible 
that he can give you the names of breed¬ 
ers of this type in that section. The two 
sows that we had at the station were ob¬ 
tained from this district. 
As to whether any ill results would 
follow the mating of this brood sow to a 
boar of this breed until it would he 
possible for you to obtain a male of the 
same breed, I would say that no injurious 
effects would follow this practice, and I 
would suggest that if she were bred to 
either a Berkshire, a Yorkshire or a 
Duroc-.Tersey you would obtain some use¬ 
ful pigs. 
