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American Agriculturist, March 1, 1924 
A Well-built Stave Silo 
at a Low Price 
If you want a good, substan¬ 
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new low prices. 
Built of selected tongue and 
grooved stock and bound with steel 
rods. Doors close tight, open easily. 
Convenient door-front ladder. 
The result of many years of silo 
making experience. 
Built by the makers 
of the famous Craine 
Triple Wall Silos. 
Write now 
for literature 
CRAINE SILO 
COMPANY, INC. 
Box 180 , Norwich, N.Y. 
CANESEED $1.00 
Sudan $4.00; 
Millet $1.00; 
Kentucky 
Blue Grass $3.50. Other field seeds at big sav¬ 
ings. 5% discount on 5 bushel orders. We buy 
in harlots at big .savings winch we pass on to the 
consumer. Guarantee satisfaction or money back. 
Order directly from ad or write for samples. 
MEIER GRAIN & PRODUCE CO., 
Dept. A,_Salina, Kans. 
T p AC THRArm Chewing5 lbs. S1.75; Ten 
LLAr 1 53.00; Smoking 5 lbs. 
SI.25; Ten S2.00; pipe and recipe free, pay when received. 
COOPERATIVE FARMERS, PADUCAH. KENTUCKY 
CATTLE 
17 C GRADE HOLSTEINS P O L 
1/0 AND GUERNSEYS TOF 0316 
30 head ready to freshen, ioo head due to 
freshen during March, April and May. All 
large, young, fine individuals that are heavy 
producers. Price right. Will tuberculin test. 
A. F. SAUNDERS, Cortland, N.Y. 
HOLSTEIN BULLS for Sale 
Sons of 
DUTCHLAND C0LANTHA SIR INKA 
FISHKILL FARMS, Hopewell Junction, N. Y. 
HENRY MORGENTHAU, Jr., Owner 
T | ¥ O Tr 1 ¥7 f TVJ C Extra fine lot registered 
El VJ JL-sO A JL-.J.IN kJ cows fresh or soon due. 
10 registered heifers soon due. 20 registered heifers 
ready to breed. 4 high record service bulls. 
J. A. LEACH CORTLAND, N. Y. 
' / SWINE _ 
PIGS FOR SALE 
Yorkshire and Chester White cross and Chester and 
Berkshire cross, pigs 6 to 7 weeks old S5 each; 7 to 8 weeks 
old, S5.50 each; 8 to 9 weeks old, S6 each. Pure bred 
Yorkshire 6 to 8 weeks boars or sows S7 each; Chester 
White sows or boars 6 to 8 weeks old, S7 each, and pure 
bred Berkshire boars or sows 6 to 7 weeks old, S7 each. 
Boars are no relation to the sows. J Will ship from 
1 to 50 C. O. D. to you on approval. 
388 Salem St. 
WALTER LUX 
Woburn, Mass. 
REGISTERED O.I.C. 
AND CHESTER WHITE PIGS. 
E. P. ROGERS, WATVILLE, N. T. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES AT HIGHWOOD 
Grand champion breeding;. Largest herd in America. Free booklet. 
HARPENDING Box 10 DUNDEE, N. Y. 
Ohio Improved Chesters American 
Swine.” PINECREST FARMS, Pine Valley, N. Y. 
TURKEYS 
ROOK ORDERS for hatching eggs from Large 
URULM Northern Raised Mammoth 
Bronze Turkeys. $6.00 a dozen; $45.00 a hundred. 
Warrant satisfaction and safe arrival. 
JAMES J. CUMMINGS PLYMOUTH, N. H. 
Tlirlrovo Mammoth Bronze. Champion ‘‘Goldbank” 
1 UI1VC J sire, first prize Madison Square Garden. Part¬ 
ridge Plymouth Rock Cockerels. Mist IdaChumbIey,l)i-aper,Va. 
DUCKLINGS 
SPECIAL PRICES- 
L on turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas, hares and dogs. 
Hatching eggs. Catalog free. Write your wants. 
H- H. FREED TELFORD, PA. 
D ay-old Pekins of giant frame for rapid 
growth. Indian Ruriners of best 
UuLnLINGs laying strain. Catalog free. 
WAYNE CO DUCK FARM, CLYDE, N.Y. 
P 
ERFFCT^ DUCKLINGS 
EGGS AND DRAKES 
Price List Free 
Roy Pardee, Islip, N.Y. 
LARCF CTOC If fine Poultry, Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Guin- 
4 eaS( Bantams,Collies, Pigeons,Chicks, Stock, 
eggs,low; catalog. PIOJSEEB FARMS, Telford, Pennsylvania. 
Spring Care in the Piggery 
C AREFUL feeding and management 
of the sow before farrowing and later 
care of the litter will give pigs a good 
start in development and insure favorable 
growth. Provide for sufficient- exercise 
out-of-doors, but do not neglect to pro¬ 
tect them against cold rains. Provide 
clean, warm, dry and comfortable quar¬ 
ters. Clean quarters are appreciated 
even by pigs. 
Oil meal in the ration will help fit the 
sow for farrowing. A box containing 
ashes, ground limestone, and salt with a 
little sulphur added, will provide a con¬ 
diment and conditioner that may mean 
the difference between % good and an un¬ 
successful litter of young pigs. 
TON-LITTERS IN NEW YORK 
I am enclosing for your interest a letter which came to 
my desk some time ago from a student who had had no 
previous experience with swine except that which he got 
as a farm boy on a mixed farm. He took short course in 
swine in the winter, 1922-23, and at once became inter¬ 
ested in the possibilities. 
I thought it might be of interest to you because, so far 
as I know, it is an outstanding success with hogs this far 
East. It also shows the possibilities, not only in so far 
as the training of students is concerned, but in the rearing 
of swine as well.—R. B. Hinman, New York State College 
of Agriculture. 
A FTER reading considerable about the 
ton-litter contest in some of the 
western hog States, I thought it funny if 
hogs would not grow in New York State 
too. So I had a little contest all of my 
Gwn this year. 
On April 6th a grade Chester-White 
sow bred to a good Chester W T hite boar 
The above photograph is that of a ton litter 
of registered Berkshires grown out and fed 
under ordinary New York State farm 
conditions. There were eleven in the litter 
all raised, sired by Highwood Rival 572nd 
306658 and out of Donna of Kalorama 
245545. The litter was bred by H. C. & 
H. B. Harpending of Dundee, N, Y., and 
fed by Ross Huson of Dresden, N. Y. Both 
the dam and grand dam of the litter have 
farrowing averages of over twelve covering 
six or eight litters each. These pigs ran in 
an orchard from birth and were fed corn, 
oats and barley, with house slops, including 
some skim milk,, during the early part of the 
feeding period. They were in just hard 
breeding condition when weighed. They 
were farrowed May 18, 1923, and weighed 
Nov, 17, 1923, 2,364 pounds. 
farrowed 12 pigs. One was killed by the 
sow and the other eleven I decided were 
good enough to make a ton of pork in 
six months. 
They received but a limited amount of 
skimmilk and all the boughten feed fed 
was 200 lbs. of wheat middlings to start 
the pigs with. They were soon changed to 
a ration of ground oats, barley and corn 
and later to ground barley and ear corn. 
They ran to water and in alfalfa pasture 
all summer. 
On October Cth the eleven pigs weighed 
exactly 2120 lbs. The lightest one 180 
and the heaviest 205.— William Brahm, 
Ontario County, N. Y. (Winter Course, 
1922-23.) 
HOW MANY LITTERS? 
Ernest Cordeal 
S OME hog raisers hold on to the same 
sows year after year until they die of 
old age, others fatten out the females 
after they have had two or three litters 
and experience would indicate that the 
latter usually make the greater profit on 
their investment. 
If gilts are not bred until they are about 
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