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Show The Feeding Floor. Tho hog is tho cleanest domcstlo anlmnl we havo nnd If ho Is properly cared for thero will not bo ono par- , tlclo ot droppings or urlno In that j hoghouse, says John Cowlno. They 1 will set ono corner off Into a kind ' of closet nnd thoy will go back and ' forward to that. Give them Just room enough to Ho down and no moro. It is an advantage to havo your hoghouse divided off Into pens. It you haven't enough hogB to fill up your hoghouso shut off part of tho spaco; glvo them Just enough room to occupy and no moro. After you havo fed them clean tho feeding floor. Whnt would you think of your wlfo if sho let tho dishes sot on tho tablo from ono morning to another? Suppose the supper was served on the same dishes. You would say to yourself your-self that you wished you had not married that woman. I would no moro think of feeding my hogs on a feeding feed-ing floor that had not been cleaned Immediately after tho last meal than I would of eating my dinner off the breakfast dishes without washing. I havo dono It for thirty years. It Is a small matter. Wo have a wooden hoo mado out of a 2xG three feot In longth; hnvo an old saw for the ft lower edgo. This Is wldo enough to N' sweep off three or four feet at a time. If your floor Is smooth and if you can do it immediately after feeding you can clean it off as clean as if Bwept By having tho floor three feet high on ono side you con clean it off month after month and tho refuse will not pile up on you. No matter how wet or muddy it Is, if your hogs are confined In this building their feed is always clean. Feed your hogs corn and water. I would add a few oats and perhaps a basket or two of raw potatoes once a week, but my malti feed would be corn and cold water. Crates for Fruit Packing. In tho gathering of fruit, especially of fruits that brulso easily, like-peaches, like-peaches, pears and plums, It Is advisable ad-visable to havo a strongly built rigid crate. Baskets aro qulto generally used, and wo see pictures of men carrying bushel baskets heaped up, holding thorn by tho two handles. This Is consldcrol by tho best packers-detrimental packers-detrimental to tho fruit, which should be rubbod together as Ilttlo as possible. possi-ble. Thoro is somo "glvo" about all baskets, nnd a basket on tho ground full of apples does not rotaln its shape-entirely shape-entirely whon lifted from tho ground. Tho apples aro pushed togcthor opposite op-posite tho handlos and nro shifted moro or less In tho other parts of tho . basket. In a greater degroe bags jJtH causo tho bruising of fruit A two- bushel bag Is filled and is generally lifted by tho mlddlo. This forces-tho forces-tho npplos very closely together In tho two ends of tho bag, and they roll back again when tho bag Is sot down. Ono Michigan packing houso has mado a picking crato that will hold a little moro than a bushel. It l rectangular and composed of slats. Caro Is taken to havo tho slats on tho bottom closo together, so that tho fruit will not project below tho slats and rocclvo bruises whon tho crate-Is crate-Is sot down. This crato will largely tako tho placo ot tho othor rocoptaclos-used rocoptaclos-used In picking and delivering fruit Young Pigs. Prof. It. S. Shaw says that In Montana Mon-tana young pigs should have constant access to forago grounds in tho summer sum-mer season, and sheltered yards in the-winter. the-winter. When four weeks old thoy will tako n Ilttlo Bwoet skim milk, to which somo shorts or middlings may bo gradually added, and later somo ground wheat. A light grain ration should bo supplltd tho young growing pig in addition lo tho fornga throughout tho forago season but mny bo entlroly cut off as soon as tho pigs reach tho pea or grain stubblo fields. During tho winter season tho shotes should have access to stacked alfalfa, clover, or peas, from which they will socuro a largo amount of food. Sugar - beots should also be supplied. vjH Effects of toss of Pigs. I From Farmers' Itovlow: Our owa I experience with spring pigs this year I was satisfactory. From four sows I ono with her flrst Httor and two with I tholr second litter wo raised thirty- I three thrifty pigs, They now average I more than 100 pounds each, and half I of this was mado from pasturo, part I rapo that wintered. But complaint I was qulto general this spring of loss I of pigs, oven from farmers that care I well for their stock. So, notwithstanding notwith-standing tho stimulus of hltjh prices toward Increased production, this county will not market moro hogs this year than last P. F. Nyo, Elkhart County, Indiana. ' I New Namo for Teats. ' Tho girl who oxprcssed so much sympathy for tho poor farmer bocause i of his cold Job In harvesting his win- ? tor wheat Is equal In ngrlcultnra. j knowlodgo to tho ono who expressed a. desire to boo a field of tobacco wher j It wns Just plugging out But th damsel who naked which cow gave tho roost buttermilk' Is entitled to the I wholo bakory. A girl on hor return i , from tho country who was asked if 1 'j t, she over saw any one milk a cow re- Xs 5f piled: "Oh, jos, Indeed 1 hnvo; It Jjet "' tickled mo to death to seo uncle Jorfc. $v two of tho faucets nt the snuio time.- '' ! --! Index. v f |
