HOG, BARN AND PEN.
' This Plan, Furuiiscd by J. N. Hilton.
:11: Illinois Farmer, Recently
Won a Prize. "
I raise a good many hogs, and I find
the most convenient plan to be as fol-
lows: Barn to be 16 feet wide and eight
feet high; length, as needed‘ by the
builder. A passageway 31/3 feet through
the middle of barn, between the. pens.
Pens tobe six feet long by five feet in
width. Born to be floored throughout.
Partitions between pens to be, set in
grooves so they can be slipped out at
will when it is desired to have the pens;
larger, or to make a. floor large enough
to feed a bunch of hogs on,.if'desired.
I find it much more convenient to have
these partitions to slip out rather than
A MODEL HOG BARN.
on hinges, as‘my can then be slipped
out, laid up 0 erhea'd and you have a
good and convenient feeding floor. _
Each of the pens should have a small
door to open into the inside passage—
way for convenience; in changing brood
sows or pigs from one pen to another,
as I find it more convenient to make
these changes on the inside than on
the outside, especially in bad weather;
also, the passageway is always ready
for use, and no time lost in climbing
around outside to open and shut doOrs.
Each pen should have a. small out—
side door with an outside pen, same
. width as inside pen, and about eight
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INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT.
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feet. deep, for sows and pigs to go out
in nice weather. The. outside doors
to be fitted closely to keep out cold. .A
small window should be set high in
each inside pen to admit light and sun-
shine. ' I
At one end of barn, the. end the cold
wind comes from, I have acorncrib, so
I can pass out of passageway in barn
into crib to get corn for feeding. At
one end a hydrant with pipe laid from
elevated tank for watering, mixing
slop,.cleaning floors, etc. ,
Above the square in the barn make
a small loft and store some straw, when'
the straw is fresh and dry, to use for
bedding brood sows. I also have one
pen‘at one end made into a. bin for
ground feed, to mix for sows with little
’pigs.- A? movable chute placed at end
of passageway,and hogs, many or few,
can be let into the passageway and
loaded with<easc.—National Rural.
.When an Animal In Ripe.
How shall we know when an animal
is ripe? An experienced eye and hand
can tell this, says the Stockman. When
a- steer is fully ripe. his flesh is firm.
' When the finger tips are pressed
against the muscles of the animal there
is less of yielding and softness than in
the half-finished animal. The shoulder
blade, the loin and the pin bone will
have an appearance of plumpness all
over them. The weigh scales will also
tell a. tale. When the steer is not ripe
he should go on making the usual gains.
When he is ripe the gains will drop.
When a beast. therefore, that has been
gaining two or three pounds a day
drops down 10 one pound a d.ay,.and his
appetite is still good, begin to examine
him for ripeness. It. is one ‘of the eu-
rious thi: gs about-‘the animal economy
that a rattle beast will go on and eat
after he is ripe; but he will not make
a corresponding increase in weight.
It is a curious question as to what be-
comes of the. food. -
y The Weaning of Colts.
A spring colt ought to be weaned be—
fr-ge the pastures become'scanty of
herbage. At the same time it should
he used to taking a little grain twice
a day while it is still running at pas— ‘
ture. The oat is. of course, the lies:
grain for colts. as it is also for. the
horse. It does not take much oats or
meal to keep a young colt thriftily
growing during its first winter. If oats
and'corn are ground together. with-
out :the cob, and some wheat bran is
added, it will, in most cases, make a
better ration fed with cut hay than
could be got from feeding oats alone.
No corn and cob meal should be fed to.
young colts, or, in fact, to any young
animal. The cob is extremely hard to:
digest, and, at least for all young stock,'.
has not enough nutrition to compen-
sate for the danger from using it.
Feeding Oats and Corn.
Oats in the bundle and corn in the
shock are being fed more generally the .
present winter than ever before, and
nowhere have we heard of any but the
best results from this kind of feeding.
The variety is all sufficient, the grain
is ample, and With this feed a large I ways be selected in market quickly
amountof straw, particularly oat straw,
can be economically consumed.
kind of. prairie grass of course fits in
nicely where it can be had.———Da.kota
Farmer. , ‘- '
If a wealthy business man loses
money on a farm it is all right —-the
literacy goes back where itcame from.
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'NEW CHICKEN FEED.
Worn-Out Houses Stewed Down into
“Cake" for Use in California
' Poultry lord's.
Over a thousand horses have in the
last few months been sent out of Sim
Jose and converted into chicken feed.
Horses have never been so cheap since
the Americans came into California as
during the last 12 months. There were
two reasons for this—namely: one the
great number raised on the big ranches
and the other the: scarcity of feed.
There are always old and wornout
horses. .
Peta-luma is a greatchicken raising
center. This industry is carried. on
there to a. greater extent than at any
other point in the state.
growth of this industry came a demand
for cheap feed for the chickens, par-
ticularly for meat. Men beg-an to cook
horseflesh and then pack it in con-
densed shape—a. sort of meat cake.
They bought the old. and worthless
horses or any other animal unfit for
‘human food. This meat busineSs
grew, and the meat cake was shipped
to various points and .sold by dealers
'in chicken supplies. It is for sale in
San Jose. .
W'ith the growth of the business
there was a larger demand for horses.
. ‘Agents were appointed at all bay cit—
,ies or near-by points to purchase the
worthless horses to.be found in the
market.
There seems to be some uncertainty
about just What- the Pe-taluma packers
paid for the animals. At all events,
there is some difficulty in ascertain.-
ing the prices. It see-ms,howe.ver, that
the scale varies. Agents pay all the
way from 25 cents to $3.50, the latter
price only for large,heavy horses. Of
course, they always buy them ascheap:
ly as possible, but it appears they
never let a: reasonably large horse go
away until they had bid to three dol-
lars.
When a bunch of animals have been
secured they are taken to Petaluma
and delivered. There the skins are
taken off and sold to the tann-ers, the
bones are preserved and sold to man-
ufacturers of fertilizers, and the meat
cooked and pressed into “cake’_’ for the
chickens. ‘ .
One dealer on North Market street
in this city says he has sent'550 horses
to Petaluma. during the last few
months, and he knows that over 1,000
have been sent during the same months
to the same placb.—San Jose (0211.)
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EXCELLENT BROODER.
\Vherever Chicks Are Raised by
\Vholesale One of These Devices Is
Virtually Indispensable.
One of the principal things in keeping
chicks alive in brooders is the heating,
and keeping of them clean. The brood-
er portrayed below has been success-
fully usedseveral'years, is heated with
an oil gas stove and hasa hot water cir-
culat-ion.
The oil gas stove is at g, water tank
f and the hot water pipes h h are so laid
as to allow of outflow and return of
water. The hot water pipes are di-
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-HOMEMADE BROODER.
rectly below the sawdust-covered top
2. Dimensions are four feet in rear,
eight feetin front. and 12 feet. for length
of roof, including eaves, while the full
length of the floor space is 12 feet.
The windows, (1, open out for ventila-
tion and are eight feet. long; the win-
dows (c) are three feetlongand open in.
The covers of the coops consist of light.
frames with 11/2, inch netting. A door
closes off either c00p during cold
weather, to keep the heat in either one
coop. The tops of the br-ooders (e),
over the hot water pipes, are covered
with a- good coat of sawdust to keep in
the heat. Besides the door at the sides
of the brooder, there is a. heavy fringe
to keep in the heat.-——-E. N. Spaulding,
in Farm and Home.
AMONG THE POULTRY.
Ground bone or bone meal is one of
the best ways of supplying lime .to the
than a black plumaged one. -
Hamburgs, Leghorns. Black Spanish.
Game, Hardins and Andalusians re—
quire a. high fence to keep them under
control. - '
Have the nests so that a hen can
walk in on them and not so deep that
the hen will be obliged to jump dowu
upon them. '
If the hens are allowed to lay soft-
shelled eggs they soon contract the
habit of eating them. and this makes
them worthless.
The food for young chickens should
never be leppy,- hence when meal is
soaked in milk it should be squeezed
sufficiently dry to be crumbly.
While a very fat hen will nearly al-
such a one is uot‘always the best, as
lean meat is the most desirable.
It is not a good plan ,to feed pepper
to poultrytoo often. Warm foods tends
to have the same stimulating effect
without preserving ~lhe
qualities of that condiment—Western
Fruit Grower.
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' ,MANURE EXPERIENCE.
An Old and Universal‘ly Accepted
Theory Asmiled by a Success-
ful Farmer. '
There is quite a good deal in the
agricultural papers about. handling
manure, and when and how to apply it.
'I have been a. farmfr a good many
years and have practiced drawing ma-
nure from the stable as fast. as it. is
made through the winter until the
ground broke up in the spring. What
was made after that lay in heaps in
the yard until fall, and then was
.hauled on to the next year’s corn
ground and spread as- it was drawn.
Some writers claim that- manure ex-
posed to the sun and rain will lose a
large portion of its value if left in that.
condition any length of time. Now I
am going to dispute the truth of their
theory, but if any of those writers will
take the trouble to visit me next sum-
mer I will take them to my corn field
and they can see for themselves the dif-
ference between the winter and fall
drawn in the growing corn; And I
have another plainer proof, if possible,
that manure will not lose its strength
'to the extent that some writers claim.
When I came on the farm I now own
44 years ago it had been worked on
shares for a number of years. The man
had kept- no stock, except. a team and
a cow or two on the place. He did his
threshing and threw .t-he straw out of
the barn,without. stacking it, and this
'he did year after year. When I came to
the place there was a big pile of straw
that had lain some of it for years ex-
posed to all sorts of weather, and it
looked as if there were no strength in.
it, and I did not think there was, but-
we wanted it away from the barn, and
we drew it on apiece of ground that we
had mowed, which did not-yield 300
pounds of hay to the acre. When we
went to work at. the‘stuffi it was all
dried in chunks 'as big as one’s hat,
and we couldn’t get it. to piece-s, but did
the best we could. It- didn’t make any
difierence, as we thought it was of no
account, but we drew it. all out. and put
on the the above named piece of
ground. This was in the fall, and now
for the result. The next. spring when
the ground-settled and the grass began
to grow we began to see the effect of
the old dried-up straw, and when we
mowed itwe found groSs as big as could
stand and as thick as hairs on a dog,
while the rest of the field remained as
it. was. I am not going to theorize or
explain anything about it, I merely give:
facts and leave it for others to talk
about—T. Drew, in National Stock.
man.
UNIQUE PICKET FENCE.
One That Can Be Put Up Rapidly and
tV-ili. Prove to Be Sheep and '
Dog Proof.
(The out shows a way of making a
picket fence that is at once strong and
cheap. No heavy rails are needed. Two
narrow strips of board at top and- bot‘
tom hold the pickets securely nailed
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STRONG PICKET FENCE.
between them. The strips are “let in”
to the posts. For a sheep fence this
mode of construction has great advan-
tages. The pickets can. be a foot wide.
-—'—ord«inary boards sawed’ into picket
lengths, and the- strips three inches
wide. Such a fence can rapidly be put-
up and will prove very inexpensive and
strictly sheep and dog proOf.—Oran=ge
Judd Farmer. ,
Concentrating the Manure.
Very few farmers have enough stable
manure to fertilize all their land as
they would like. The best thing for
such farmers to do is to apply this
stable manure mainly to the crOps on
which they expectflto put most of their
labor. It does not pay to plant,.culti-
vate and hoe poor land. Every addi—
tion of manure makes the labor more
eflective, and therefore more profita-
ble. With mineral fertilizers it is dif-
ferent. These. are usually applied to
grain crops, for which dressings of 150
to 250 pounds per acre are usually suf-
ficient for- the crop, besides leaving
some to be taken by the clover after it.
These mineral fertilizers so soon be-
come insoluble in, the soil that it does
not pay to app-1y them in large amounts.
A small quantity each year, sufficient
to make the crop it is applied, to, is
much better.~—-—American Cultivator.
When to Sow Grass Seed.
It is better to sow grass seed in the
fall on well prepared ground,harrow—
ing the seed in with asmoothing har-
row, then to sow it on grain, as the.
grain crop deprives the grass of nour-
ishment and interferes with its prog-
ress-=to.a. certain. extent. Old pastures
may be scratched over with a spike—
tooth barrow and seeded, rolling the
field after seeding. It should be the.
rule never to allow cattle on a pasture
"that. is being renewed, as the tramping
of the ground packs the soil and in-
jures the grass—Journal of Agricul?
ture.
Destroying Canada 'i‘inistles.
W. M. Duncan, a student of tlreAg—
ricult-ural college, Pullman, Wash., has
been employed to follow up certain
railway lines in eastern Washington
for the purpose of destroying the Can-
ada thistles. Where the patches «are
small he hoes them out. himself. and
where extensive plots of the weed are
found the proper officials of the rail-
way company are informed and men
This is
right direction. -
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Two more bodies have been recovered
from the Windsor hotel ruins.
It is reported in Peking that Li Hung
Chang is about to return to power.
Professor Gustave W'iedemann. pro-
Eessor of physics and chemistry, died at
Leapsic.
The Second United States infantry
has Leen'ordered from Anniston, Ala.,
to‘Cuba.
Professor R. W. W‘Ood of Madison.
Wis... has succeeded in photographing
sound waves. ' ‘
Six more regiments of regulars have
been ordered to leave this country for
the Philippines and one for Cuba.
Little Gerald Lapiner, who was ab-
ducted from Chicago,xreturned home
with his mother. The kidnapers will be
prosecuted.
The United States has decided to de-
mand reparation and indemnity from
Honduras for the killing of Mr. Pears,
an American, by a sentry.
N0 Cornplnint F1701“ Manila. ’l‘roops.
W'ASHINGTON, March 25.—Mail re-
ports have been received from Manila
by the subsistence bureau of the war
department saying that the-'supplies
sent from the United States, including
all kinds of vegetables. arrived in 'good
condition. There is little or. no com-
plaint among the troops, says the re-
port, the men having something else to
think about. A large number of 'sam-
pie bills ofiare were gathered from
among the troops, one of which is given '
as a sample, as follows: Breakfast—
Beans, oatmeal, salmon, sugar, bread
and tea. Dinner—Beefsteak. bean gra-
vy, potatoes, stewed onions, sugar,
Dread and tea. Supper—Boiled beef, rice
soup, potato salad, sugar, bread and
tea. '
GREAT EXCII‘EMEN .. IN TOWN
Over the remarkable cur3s b' the
grandest specific of then e Bacon’s
Celery King, h’w1ch acts as a natural
laxative, stimulates he d.gestive or-
gans, regulates the ver and k idneys
and is nature's great heale; ani health
renewer. you , ve Kidney Liver
and Blood Disorder do u it delay but
call at our store for a free t-ria pack-
age. Edward P. Weed, Norwalk Mrs.
Scott Williamson. Darien.
When you awake
more tired than when you went to bed,
With an unpleasant taste in the mouth,
your tongue coated and dry, and having
no_appet1te for breakfast, you are suf-
fering from Dyspepsia.“
. Numbers of people are suffering ser-
loplsly from thilsK complaint and its result,
w en one pac age of U. S. ARMY &
NAVY TABLETS will bring about a
prompt cure. A few doses will do more
, for a Weak or Sour Stomach than a pro-
longed conrsc of any other medicine.
Nothing can be usedwith so much cer~
tamty 1n pbstinat'e cases of Constipation.
These tablets are the outcome of years
of study. and are compounded of the
finest drugs only, purely vegetable,they
do not gripe, produce no reaction. Take
mEEbstitute. 10 CEN TS PER PACK.
If you cannot get them at your drug
store; scnd 10 cts. for a package of 12
to the U. S. ARMY & NAVY TAB-
LET CO., 17 EAST 14TH $1.an YORK.
Sherman on the Chicago.
SANTIAGO,Cuba, March 25.—Ex-Sec-
retary Sherman was transferred from
the Paris to the cruiser Chicago yester-
day. His condition was not perceptibly
changed from that of Thursday. Dr.
Graft of the Paris, who examined Mr.
Sherman after he was transferred to
the Chicago, says both'lun‘gs are prac— ,
tically clear- and that the patient is do-
ing well. He praises the“ manner in
which the transfer ”was Conducted un-
der the direction or. Chief Officer Beck-
with, who did not le'a‘Ve until he saw Mr.
Sherman comfortably installed in the°
captain's cabin.
Astoria. Gas mu Dedd.
ALBANY, March 25.—The Astoria.
light, heat and power bill is regarded as
so dead that it can never be brought
up again, hecauae the senate, by a. vote
of 34 to 11, refused to disagree with the
adverse report of the committee on mis-
cellaneous corporations and then, by a
vote of 12 to.32, defeated a. motion to
reconsider the vote~ and lay on the ta-
ble. In parliamentary practice the de—
feat of this last motion means the driv-
ing of the nails into the coffin of the
Astoria: bill.
d rial—Isms MOTHERS.
Bariicriarly Need a Tonic Reconstructar.
The Makers Life and Child’s Health
Depends on Proper Nourishment.
Vinol, Wine of Cod Liver (Oil, Helps
Nourish LikeNothing 'Else. We
Guarantee Its Action.
Women who are nursing babies need Vinol.
Their strength and entire energies are taxed
to the utmost at this critical tune. .
Vinol, the modern rebuilder, \viil enable
them to obtain not only sufficient llOUi‘lSll-
meat to maintain their own strength. but Will
enabletheui to get the necessary elements to
insure that the milk which they give to the
baby will contain all that the little one needs
in order that he may thrive and grow. .
We guarantee the action of Vinol and will
refund the money to anyone who iS not sans.
tied with thegood resultsdhat are. obtained by
its use. Remember Vinol tastes delicrous.
PLAISTED‘S drug storer 43 Washing
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DECEMBER 4, 1898.
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FOR NEW‘ YORK -— Accommodation
trains at 9.36, 11:40 a. m., 1.11, 3.04, 4.07,
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press 4.55, 5.45 a. m.
FOR NEW HAVEN AND THE EAST-
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of Garcia and EX-Senator Brice and the alarming in-
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