El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-08

. are Is log buildings on the farm and
J most Of them are devoted TO pigs
Chicken Billy started into the hog
! business with Il sucking pigs. the
| most Of which had taken prizes at
! the agricultural fair at Vancouver He
I bought them there and shipped them
I into the Klondike and they cost him
$50 apiece. or $50 in all They arrived
/ in good shape and are nov fun grown
| hogs. They are DurOc-eJrseys. Berk-
shires and Torkshires-
He keeps them for breeding only He
I has already had a number OF filters
and sold them at great profit. He
gets from SIS to SIS for each pig when
it is six weeks OF age-that is. ready
for weaving. He sold 100 last year.
Liked By HIS Hogs.
went with Billy from pen to pen to
examine the stock. It is said that a
man may be known by the way animals
act in his presence. If they like him
he is to be trusted il not he Is good
man to watch If this is so, Chicken
Billy is fitted TO sprout angels wings
His hogs seem to love him He talks
10 them as though they were human He
speaks and they viii lie down and turn
over just like pet dogs One of his
biggest boars does tricks.
was especially interested in the
babies OF the hog pens. The young
are Of all ages from little red piggies
as big as a kitten to lusty black Berk-
During the winter the pigs are fed
upon potatoes and grain. The food is
cooked and served red hot morning and
evening
In taking care Of the animals Billy
saves every bit OF manure The soil
Of the Yukon needs fertiliziug and this
by-product is worth about S37 per hog
pre- annum- Such fertilizer in the
United States Billy says is not worth
more than So.
Leaving the pigs we went TO the
farmhouse This is a log cabin Of two
rooms and kitchen. The earth is
banked Up around the outside TO keep
as a heating plant in the winter We
washed our hands in a tin basin out
side the door and then went in TO
dinner The meal was delicious. We
they were <ried with ham cooked in
a gravy that made the meat fairly
melt in our mouths. We had mealy
potatoes grown in the Yukon as sweet Z
as any that ever ever came out of {
Ireland, although they had been har- I
vested more than a year We had I
good bread made by Billy's hired man.
and all the green cucumbers We could I
cacy in this part Of the world. Those .
on Billy's table were cut into slices !
and served in a large vegetable dish. (
BUIy's Potato Parm.
After dinner we took a skiff and
sailed from the island TO Billy's po-
-atO farm on the mainland. The farm
IS right on the banks Of the Yukon,
and the ten-thousand-doIla- crop is
within a stones throw OF the river.
The field is a half a mile fin length
and of such a width that IL makes al
.ogether seventeen acres
The farmhouse stands in the center Z
y it. 1t has a log cabin with a great
cellar unde- IL where the potatoes {
re stored until ready for market. The
thermometer here falls az times during
he winter TO 20 degrees below zero. I
tut the cellar is so made that the pO-
atoes do not freeze. The walls are
urred out and made double The
loard floors under the tubers are ven
Hated and there is a dead air space
where there IS any danger of frost.
7he' potatoes are kept in large bins.
ach holding hundreds of bushels. 7
Ound some Of last years crop still