The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-01

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corn. II is merely corn that has been
taken from the field and chopped up
into shreds by machine. dumped into
huge tank and allowed, by means of
the alcohol that is in the kernal of
corn. to become picked. In case the
corn is too dry, little water is
turned into It. helping to form the
alcohol. The very tall tank that holds
this insilage looks like big town
stand pipe for the water works sys.
TEN, and II contained at the beginning
Oh last winter 1870 tons, or the product
from 100 acres of ground
The barn is supplied with city water
and within reach of every animal
there is a small tank constantly filled
by selfhling device with fresh
water, so that the dumb brutes may
always satisfy their thirst
In this way, by giving exercise
| through means of the swinging stan.
Chions, wholesome food that has been
picked and fresh water, 1t is possible
to keep the COWS indoors for a month
at time without showing the slightest
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severe storms of winter 1t is unneces
sary to have single hoof out of the
barn.
Keeping the Barn In Order.
A man is employed to do nothing
else but keep the barn in order, and
he does 1t as neatly as any housewife
in her parlor. Running the full length
I.g oil
between all stalls, are culverts that
have been made in the cement floors,
and into these culverts, which lead
to a cistern outside, all waste matter
| is washed by means of a hose several
times day. 1t is a sort of sewerage
system in the stable, and emptying in
to a cistern, is pumped out by means
of a huge pump, into wagons, and is
hauled over the fields to be used as a
fertilizer, so that not even the waste
is wasted For the winter time when
there is a vast amount of straw bed.
ding used, there is an automatic car
rier that runs on overhead cables, and
dumps its load into wagons that carry
the ola straw OH the 1arm.
Yards and Pens of Pigs.
The pig pens and their yards form
another interesting feature of this
Rome Miller farm. Manager Wolcott
believes in cleanliness first of all as
a preventive of disease among swine.
And so these pig pens are made of
concrete cement with throughs that
incline away from the yards, and by
means of city water the pens are kept
Immediately clean all of the time.
BY a scientific slant in the ground, the
water from a rain is always drained
away so that two hours after a storm
the yards are dry and there is no mud
for wallowing. The sheds and box
stalls for these thoroughbred swine
are kept warm by being well built and
by the heat of the bodies of the ami
mails. Double windows keep out the
cold and in the coldest winter weather
these sheds of swine are as warm as
the warmest house. Swinging doors
let the little pigs run in and out at
will
The Breeds.
Manager Wolcott believes that the
time is coming when the farmers of
Nebraska will favor more and more
the crossing of the Yorkshire and Pol
and-China breeds, thus producing an
animal with a long body and bacon
form, which is the form that packers
are said to perfer. He is crossing
these kinds at the Junction farm, and
has excellent results. One mother
had a litter of fifteen little pigs and
the average of litters to live is eight
and nine. At this farm 800 little pigs
are raised and sold each year, and
their feed, coming from the hotei
kitchens, makes their keeping a mat.
ter of but little expense. All of the
animals on the place are pure bloOded
Their Health.
Disease has been kept from these
pens thus far. Manager Wolcott lays
the fact to the care of the herds. Every
two weeks each pen is disinfected
charcoal is fed once a week, there is
fresh water everywhere about the
yards and the animals are within the
reach of alfalfa.
| Whole Farm Complete.
The whole dairy farm is a complete
one. Inc big barn has loft in which
( seventy-five tons of hay are kept
/ There is a machine shed, grain room
, calf room Tin which the calves are
graded into pens according to their
, sizes), harness room and milk room
{ and two cottages in which the farm
hands reside.
< Manager Wolcott is making constant
5 improvements, and keeps so abreast
5 of the times that no other barn in the
4 state is apt to overtake this one in
' Norfolk.