East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-03-09
NEWS OF FARM AND RANGE
MODEL HOG AND COW
BARNS AT HOSPITAL
DUROC JERSEY HOGS WILL SUP
PLANT POLAND CHINAS
IN FUTURE.

PLANT POLAND CHINAS
IN FUTURE.
Institution Now Has 80 Milk Cows
Room in Barn for 54-Barns Equip
ped With Septic Tanks and Electric
Lights.
The new hog and dairy barns at the
Eastern Oregon state. hospital have
just beenf completed and will proba-
bly, be received within the next few
days. These barns are models. the
best that Is known inttheir line, abso-
lutely modern. The inside dimensions
of the hog barn are 30xS0, Of which
a room 15x30 at the east end is par
titioned off to be used for killing
pen. A feed vat and scalder will also
be installed in this room. The main
part is divided into sixteen compart-
rhents. eight on each side of the pas
sageway which is about eight feet
wide. The entire floor is of cement
with the floor in each compartment
divided and one half covered with a
temporary wooden floor. The pigs
will do better sleeping on the wooden
bed on account OF its warmth and
dryness. The partitions between the
compartments are wire and steel The
concrete troughs are low and separ-
ated every foot with small rounded
steel in order TO permit as even dis
tribution of food as is possible. This
is big advantage over the solid
style Of partition for the reason that
1t would be impossible for the larger
hogs TO corner little pig and crush
II in the trough. These troughs are
capped at the top with angle iron to
prevent grinding it off and chipping
It when feeding. The yard around
this barn is probably the most ideal
running ground in the state. With
plenty of grass and shade this yard
has been cleared ,of all underbrush
and the cottonwoods trimmed up 20
feet. Two springs furnish pure run.
ming water all the. year In this yard
are placed several sectional pens
which can be easily and quickly set up
or removed to be used at farrowing
time. About hundred and fifty
pigs were purchased last fall, being
dressed through the winter for food
for the institution till at present there
are left only about fifty head, mostly
brood sows, and a number of little
pigs. With the completion of the
new barn and the general improve
ment of caring facilities that have
I 49, n.
erage of about $50 pigs will be main
tanned. Poland Chinas have been the
pigs bred so far but Superintendent
! McNary will begin as soon as possible
I TO secure Duroc Jerseys as he is OF
| the opinion that they are a better hog
TO False in this section. In this opin-
| ion he comedies with a number of the
most successful hog breeders of Una.
| tilla county. They are agreeing that
the red hog is more prolific. is bet.
| ter hustler and gains its first zoe
pounds much quicker than the black
DR.. McNary made a hog deal las
winter that was probably the cham
| pion deal of this locality. He secur
! ed 40 hogs at a sale at an averag,
|
| killed during the winter and dressed
| to an average of little more than 80,
pounds each. an increase to about $3
each and they received no feed ex
cept what was produced on the plac
until about two weeks before kllinl
time.
The immense COW barn 40x120 fee
is equipped with stantions for 54 mill
cows and number of box stalls oil
the main floor. The entire floor an,
managers are of concrete and tn
stantions are metal pipe. equippe
with metal water buckets. AS in tn
hog barn the beds are. of temporar
wooden cleats which can be remove
in a few minutes. overhead lite
carriers are Installed. On the side o
the bern are two silos with a capacit
of 100 tons each. These are connect
ed to the main barn by the mill fee
bins. Two rooms on the west are t
be used as cooling room and plac
for the men to keep spare clothes an
personal effects. A boiler will be In
stalled and hot water will be on han
at all times. together with orders I
use II plentifully. No one yet has risk
ed his reputation by estimating no
much hay the NOV will store but |
is safe to estimate It will store so
tons without crowding. This will b
filled with chopped alfalfa. In tn
main building Of the institution on
of the best equipped milk carin
rooms In the state is situated alon
with an excellent cold storage plan,
Thirty milk cows are being kept a
present and the number will be in
creased to about IS or 80 as soon a
possible. Both the hog and COW barn
are equipped with modern septi
tanks. ample hose to furnish sufficien
fire protection and lighted with elec
tricity.
Last year sufficient alfalfa was pro
| duced on the hospital farm to suppl