The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-11-13

We visited the station called Darl-
ington last Tuesday on account Of the
official opening to entry Of 1884
acres Of Carey land under The Hous-
ton ditch, and in company with M. l.
Church, register of the State Land
Board and Honorable Wayne Darl-
ington, the promoter of the project,
we visited the Darlington estate to
see what the gentleman raises. :,
He has $500 acres of choice land
lying on both sides of the railroad
and he first took us to the Piggery in
course of construction near the track.
On the way we passed a co-opera-
tive creamery which is idle because
not enough cream is produced in the
locality to make it profitable.
The Piggery is situated at the edge
of pasture, and is designed as
hospital for sows at farrowing time.
The supply house is 2Ox24 feet and
two stories high. On the ground
floor are a gasoline engine, a feed
grinder, cooking and heating plant,
an alfalfa grinder and well with a
pump to connect with the engine.
The we'll is large and shallow and is
to be walled with cement in connec-
ton with the concrete floor of the
room.
The pens are in two rows extend
ing in two directions from the build
ing for a distance of 140 feet total.
The pens have cement floors sloping
to the gutter, which is in the hallway
running through the middle. The
building is of reinforced concrete
with four-inch walls, iron roofing
with four-inch air space, lined on
the lower side with lumber and stuff
ed with straw. Each pen has galvan-
ized iron drinking trough and feed
box. Hot water pipes extend along
the rear walls of the pens and cold
water pipes at the front supply the
drinking troughs by faucets. A door
at the rear allows the SOW to go out.
into the yard when opened, and
door at the front allows her to be
taken in and out via the hall. An
overhead trolley carries large
bucket from the cooker to the rows
of feed boxes, and the second floor OF
the building contains the grain bins
and water tank, from which grain is
drawn through chutes into the cook
ers, and a hose attached to a tap in
the hall is used to hose out all the
pens and the cutters.
The hospital is designed to afford
privacy and dry warm place for the
mother pig until her babies are old
enough to occupy pen in the out
door sheds. The hospital will &C
commodate AZ sows at time, or
herd of 400 sows during the year.
Everything is simplified SO that one
man can take care of the herd
Half a mile from the station is Mr..
Darlington's house, II rooms count
ing the cellar, and all heated by fur
mace and lighted by acetylene gas.
It takes about two cars of coal a year
to run the farm, and it costs about
81 month for lighting.
Mr.. Darlington has houses for
starting early plants and for the in
cubators that hatch the fowls. A
heating plant with hot water pipes
furnishes heat the full length of the
brooders that have pens for 1000
chicks. and they can stand under
cover by the hot pipes or run about
in the cooler air of the building it.
self.
There are many buildings for diff
ferent classes of fowls, the newer
ones being built of concrete. The
turkey houses are we'll ventilated, a
large pannel being left open, but
screened.
When the chicks are taken out OF
the brooder house they are placed In
"colony houses" in thep asture and
each colony of chicks forms an at
tachment for it's own little house or
coop, and rests and roosts there.
He raises White Plymouth ROCKS
chiefly, Mammoth Bronze turkeys
Mammoth Pekin ducks and China
geese. He has 200 turkeys that have