THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
Thursday, April 22, 1909.
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LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY.
Two Acres Soy Beans and Peanuts Will
'4tMake:YbU''296QO: Pounds of Meat,
Try a Two-Acre Patch as Mr. Moye Suggests Other Rules for
Cheap Pork Don't Overlook the Water Supply.
OUBTLESS the recent "Hog
Special" give nearly all the
information to the novice
necessary to successful hog raising,
but I have observed that it is very
easy to forget and that it is only
when a proposition is iterated and
reiterated that people profit much
by what they read. Another word,
therefore, may not be out of order.
First, of All, Provide Water; Then
Pasturage.
For the best success one should
have a pasture with running water
in it for drinking and bathing pur
poses. Of course, this is sometimes
impossible, then a well should be
dug in the pasture. If one trusts
to carrying water to even a few hogs
a hundred yards or so, sometimes
the hogs will be thirsty, and except
right after a rain there will be no
water to wallow in which seems to
be a necessity for hogs in warm
weather and fly time.
The better the grass and the more
clover, the less other feed the hogs
will need to keep them growing, and
a hog that is not -adding to his
stature daily is not paying for what
he eats.
Shorts to Supplement the Pasture.
This pasture should be supple
mented by a daily ration of corn
and some kind of slops milk is
best. Dishwater in which bran or
shorts has been mixed is good. About
a pint of shorts for each 3-months-old
hog is about right. I
Besides the permanent pasture,
pigs, at least, should have the run
of a lot in which some young grass
like crabgrass or billion-dollar grass
grows, or collards or turnips or rape.
I am trying rape this year. Last
year my pigs ran in my cotton patch
and did not appreciably injure, the
cotton. If hogs are confined in an
enclosure without green substance,
then turned in a cotton patch they
will devour the cotton just as greed
ily as they would cabbage. , I '
- Later I find sorghum cut and fed
a profitable crop when it can be
planted near the pasture. Soja beans
make a good soiling crop. Hogs are
fond of them as soon as they will
begin to blossom; at this stage of
the plant they will eat practically all
of it. Still they furnish more nutri
ment when the seed are about ripe.
From my experience last year I think
soja beans preferable to potatoes or
peanuts, though a combination of
peanuts and soja beans is fine.
Try Two Acres This Way.
If the hogs are six months old,
one acre in peanuts and soja beans
should fatten a thousand pounds of
meat. So if you want to fatten two
thousand pounds of meat, plant two
acres of soja beans in rows six feet
1 apart, planting the beans two in a
hill a
foot and a half apart, and
plant Wilmington peanuts between
the rows of beans. If you fertilize
the beans and peanuts, .these two
acres may even do better than I sug
gest. Have a wire fence ( 3 ji inches
high will answer) and fence ; off
about what the hogs will eat in a
week. Then move the fence and
give them another week's j rations.
The hogs will do beter if they can
also have the run of your permanent
pasture. These hogs will be ready
to slaughter after one week's con
finement upon corn, and the Jard .and
meat will be firm and good.
A. J. MOYE.
Pitt Co., N. C.
A POPULAR ERROR.
Cramps Often Confused With Kidney
Trouble.
In the handling of live stpck ! do
not know of a mistake so common
among all classes of men, asde from
the veterinarian, as the one 'con
nected with the common jcolic of
the horse. Scarcely without exception
when the horse is cramping from
colic, he is thought to hae some
thing the matter with his Ikidneys.
Cramps in intestines from accum
ulation of gases or some irritating
food cause him. to stretch himself
with the fore and hind' feet wide
apart. No doubt this gives some re
lief by tightening the muscles across
the abdomen. It is not an indication
! of any fault with either the kidneys
or the bladder. It is a physiological
fact that spasm in the bowels acts
reflexly upon the bladder,! making
this latter organ inoperative for the
time being. The remedy in almost
every case, is nitre, or some remedy
directly to relieve the bladder or the
kidneys. The correct remedy would
be to give a purge to remove the ir
ritating substance from the bowels,
and anodynes to relieve the pain. The
bladder, except in long protracted
colic or inflammation of the bowels,
will take care of itself. Diseases of
the kidneys are quite rare in the
horse, and when they do appear sel
dom come with an acute attack.
Remember, if the horse is rolling
on the ground, getting up and lying
down, bloated, and stretching himself
out, the chances are a hundred to
one that it is colic, or some other
disease, and no fault whatever with
the bladder, although his actions
might indicate a distention of that
organ. GEO. H. GLOVER.
Colorado Agricultural College.
DR. W. G. CHRISMAN, NORTH
CAROLINA'S NEW VETERINA
RIAN. Dr. W. G. Chrisman has been
appointed State Veteranian of
North Carolina, succeeding Dr.
Tait Butler. Dr. Chrisman is a
young man, who has had notable suc
cess in his profession, and comes
highly recommended. He is a gradu
ate of the University of Virginia,
and has for some time been connect
ed with the pure food work
in that State. He is also said to
have done, excellent work in fighting
the Texas fever tick, a work which
is of pressing importance in this, as
in all other Southern States.
If all the cottonseed meal that is
produced in the South could be fed
to well-bred live-stock, the manure
carefully saved and applied to the
land, it would require no prophet to
foretell the results. In a very few
years the South would be one of the
richest agricultural sections, of the
United States, with the productive
power of every acre doubled. -Prof.
E. It. Lloyd. ...
A LITTLE TALK dm MSCS
We have often called attention to the fact that Tubular
Cream Separators are entirely different from other cream
separators, are in a different class, built on scientific principles;
built to wear; built to skim clean; built to give general satisfaction;
which means built without discs, and without the wabbling disc
bowl, the difficulties in keeping the bowl in balance and the
uncleanable, cream tainting features of the common disc bowl.
The Universal Prestige of
Tubular Separators
is largely due to the entire absence of the objection
able features common to all disc separators, and this
in connection with perfect mechanical construction,
and exclusive conveniences found only in Tubular
Separators, is sufficient reason for the sale of Tubu
lars so far exceeding those of any two competitors.
IT'S THE NATURAL RESULT.
We Have Made This Statement Often
All "bucket bowl" or "disc" separators built by our numer
ous competitors, old and" new, are in the same class; have the
same characteristics, whether good or bad, and one is just about
as bad as another. Now comes our old "disky" competitor and
advertises a patent infringement suit against a catalogue house
separator which has been built and sold for a number of years.
Our old friend seems to have just discovered that we were right
when we said the catalogue house disc separators were just the
same as his disc separator. He now admits that the catalogue
house separator is identical with his disky construction and asks
the United States Circuit Court to make the other fellow stop
building them and his agents stop selling them. Our old friend
is in bad straits; he has worked every scheme imaginable to bol
ster up the reputation of his very common "disc" machine, he
has gone the limit in questionable advertising, he has employed a
small army of salesmen j to bluff the game through, and now he
has had to ask the Court to help him out of his trouble. The
real trouble is that the fanner has found out what our disky friend
now admits; the catalogue house separator is as good as the
old disc separator and the jfarmer is wise enough to buy the one
that he can buy the cheapest. Anybody can build a disc separator
cheap, and if the farmer o: dairyman is willing to endure the in
conveniences of a disc separator he should buy one that is sold
cheap. Several of the new disc separators are more modern,
more convenient, and more satisfactory than the much advertised
"old original" and sell for!, half the price. No wonder our old
friend needs help. J
If a farmer or dairyman appreciates convenience, safety,
economy, durability, perfect skimming, easy running and freedom
from repair bills he shoulcj buy a Tubular, and that is what
most farmers are doing. For full information write; for
catalogue No. 283. I I
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