Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-15
Snowman IS LARGE
RAISER Of HOGS
Owns Largest HOg-Raisiug Farm
in Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM H. HARDER.
Manager Of The Myrkle- Harder Stock
Company PLAYING This Week at
Colonial Theatre.

cdlturlIst and nOg riser OF much
prominence in the State of Pennsyl-
vania. The following from the Potts
town, Pa, Daily News of August l6.
tells Of his success:
During the present summer
| large number Of city folks have visit
ed the Harder Stock Farm at Cedar
vile, Chester county, and have great
| ly enjoyed roaming over the vast
farm, but they have not evinced the
interest in the farm that the farmers
of NOrtht IN Chester county and for
some miles around have shown, and
still show.
Daily the farmers have called at
the farm and witI each visit their
interest seems greater. This is be-
cause the owner, W. H. Harder, of
the Myrkle-Harder Stock Company,
ha taken TO raising pigs in sanitary
way and is making experiments
which will prove of value to every
farmer whose good fortune it will be
to learn of his methods.
"This is the second summer for
Mr.. Harder on the farm, which was
known far and wide for years as the
Brooke farm and which he purchased
last summer from j. P. Gauss. AL
though me mber of the theatrical
pre- fession, Mr. Harder has of late
been much interested in agricultural
pursuits and his ambition has been to
own a farm of his own in which he
could spend the time between sea-
sons.
he likes the country hereabouts
and when it was told him that he
could buy the Gauss farm he made
arrangements for its purchase. He
at once set to work to make the farm
mode one, beginning first with the
house on the premises, which he had
remodeled, on it's interior, and i'm
proved on the exterior. Then he turn
ed attention to improving the land
and finally to plans for making the
farm more valuable as stock pro-
Queer Hogs became his hobby, and he
has since applied scientific methods
to their raising with the result that
he is conceded to have some of the
fine st hogs which have ever been
raised on Che ster county soil
1.-Two monster pens shelter these
hogs and they are kept in stalls which
accommodate from three to FIVE. In
all he has over 400 hogs. They are
of the Yorkshire breed His pens
are thoroughly sanitary and he FIRE
uuently disinfects them. Fresh air
is emphasized by numerous opeh
Windows in the pens. The pens are
100 and 1876 feet in length and about
l5 feet in width. The various stalls
are of good size and afford their occu
PANTS plenty of room. They are kept
thoroughly clean. And the hogs
themselves can be found on any day
one would visit the farm to he mar
wells of cleanliness. This is because
they have been educated to keeping
themselves clean bv being kept in
clean pens, and having a particular
place provided for them in whish to
wallow if they must.
But surprising as the statement
may be, very few of the big or little
fellows choose to live this way. And
herein lies the cause of the interest
of the farmers who are neighbors of
MIR. Harder. The question of keep
ing pigs clean and 'presentable' has
| always been one causing the raisers
much concern. They have always
/ feared to keep the pens as clean as it
is possible to make them, as the gen.
| eral superstition is that pigs bsiug
pigs, like to wallow in the filth.
| Furthermore, this has been supposed
| to be conducive to their growth
| Mr.. Harder's recent experiments dis
prove this and the farmers who have
visited the Harder stock farm are
sitting up and taking notice.
"Iron troughs which can be clean
ed without going into the stalls and
/ easily kept 90, have been installed
by Mr., Harder. Cement floors are
used in the outer pens, just off from
1 the stalls and to which entrance is
/ gained through an open door. Mr.
l Harder makes the boast which few
Il farmers with years of experience can
make, that he has lost fewer hogs
from disease than any raiser of hogs
in the State. And he can substan-
tiatt this assertion. Out of thirty
which suffered a cholera attack he
lost but four. These hogs were not
the ones that had been kept in the
sanitary pens, but which were left
to run outside. He had made study
OF their physical make up, their
natures and peculiarities with the re-
suit that he now knows pretty near
ly how TO treat every disease with
which they might be affected.
dr. Harder treats his hogs IN
cases of illness much like one would
treat human being. Castor oil and
charcoal are the two only remedies
which he uses. He has had a small
building erected near the pen which
he terms hospital. Here the sick
hogs are taken and kept until they
are well. His hogs show good daily
gaiRs in weight. Each week they
are weighed and the progress they
are making is noted and compared
with the week previous. They in
variably show a decided gain even
down to the little srunts which are
as we'll cared for as the prize hogs, of
which Mr.. Harder has several.
"A modern slaughter house is too,
another interesting place to visit on
the farm. A noticeable thing is the
absence of stencil Of any kind so
disagreeable about the average pig
pen wht Their it be in the re sr yard of
! 3 private owner in town or on the
ltarm. During the hottest DAYS of
-. r,ar sta F0ale - a.. HI.