The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-05

land, 1901.
Cleaning HOghOuses.
Arrange the picpens so that they
can be cleaned easily and supplied
with fresh bedding. A hoghouse
should be cleaned every day, otherwise
it will soon become filthy and harbor
disease germs. If this is properly at
tended to. it is no more work to clean
the pigpen every morning than it is to
clean the horse stable.
A Bonr For Breeding.
In selecting boar for breeding pur
poses we should try to get one from
prolific SOW. and. if possible, an old
SOW that has made Il good record for
large filters and good thrifty pigs. says
American Cultivator. This will usually
produce mere and better pigs than
boar from Il young SOW or one or
small litter though the latter may be
the better locking animal owing to its
getting more milk when young. While
the boar may be used for service at
eight months old. it should be to only
limited extent. and the yearing boar
OF OluoT VIII uSu'lHs SSt tiS StiOHSSSe
pigs and the greater number. The SOW
should be long bodied and not too
coarse in the bone or bristles. lest she
fail to prove good mixer, and should
be quiet and gentle. Do not keep
changing from one breed to another
until there is no telling what Is the
original breed. Such mongrels usually
have the faults of all the breeds and
lack their good qualities The more
nearly pure bred the male the better,
as with other stock.
One Long House In New jersey.
Arthur ]. Collins Of Moorestown, n.
j., says | have hoghOuse 80 feet
long IL feet wide. An alley four feet
wide runs the entire length Of it. The
pens are s by 10 and 3 by IL feet.
which make them large enough for
SOW and pigs or four or five pigs four
to five months old. | have u large
boiler with feed and water in one end.
The trOuEhs extend in the alley lit
tie, SO you see man can soon feed
the entire lot. while If the hogs were
In different pens it would take some
time. Each pen has II door lone that
lifts up) to the alley, SO with small
gate (movable) in the alley can
change hog from one pen to another
very easily. | would not want lot OF
hogpens. The long, large house Is
kept very clean and well whitewashed.
This is not always the case with lot
Of small houses.
Bacon Blood.
It Is very likely that before another
year light hogs will be ut the top OF the
heap again. and we may then near
mere about the bacon hog. There are
bacon hogs and bacon hogs. The en-
IRENE Canadian type of iorksllires, for
example, is so far removed from the
American type that ii Is hard to Deiieve
them to have had Il common origin.
And the American farmer will do well
If he decides that a bacon cross woulu
improve his swine to stick to the Amer
lean type. says National Stocknan.
These long. lofty and coarse Canadian
hogs are doubtless all right for Cana
da's bacon factories. but they are not
for an American hog market. They
will grade rs rOughs and sell accord
ingly or at least fall short of the prices
paid for good killing hogs Of the types
preferred here. The market should
control the type of hog to very large
degree, and our markets do not want
the Canadian type.
Can't Fool Him.
It's no use. boys, you can't fool the
farmer. He will come to your sale,
take lunch with you. buy your good
pigs or make tie other fellow pay well
fer them. but he just don't need. don't
want. won't look at nor have as gift
your scrub boar pig. ! hope the Lore
will bless hi::: as he so well Deserves
Colonel McCracken in American
Swineherd.