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MANY HOG HOUSES DEFICIENT
IN SUNSHINE AND VENTILATION
No Building on Farm Pays for Itself so Quickly and Is
Responsible to Great Extent for Small or Large
Litters — Ingenious Method of Outside
Pens Shown in Illustration.
K Well-Built and Well Arranged Hog House, Showing Arrangement of Out
side Pens.
J (By J. A. WARREN, Formerly Assistant
> Agriculturist, United States Depart
ment o£ Agriculture.)
On the average, the hog house is
the poorest building on the farm and
the least adapted to the purpose for
■which it was intended. Good barns
may be seen on a large proportion of
the farms, but are generally hard to
find. It is economy to put up first the
buildings that will help most to make
money. A large portion of the farm
ers recognize this and build a good
barn before putting up a good house,
saying “the barn will help build the
house but the house will never help
building the barn.” This principle
seems to be lost sight of when it
comes to the hog house, yet no other
building on the farm pays for itself so
quickly. Unpublished data collected
by the writer show that good hog men
average about seven pigs raised to the
litter and many surpass this record.
The same data indicate that the gen
eral average raised on the farm does
not exceed four pigs to the litter. This
wide difference is very largely duo to
the housing.
Many houses which cost enough to
be good are thoroughly unfit for the
purpose because the sun cannot shine
into the pens. Nearly every large hog
house is deficient in either sunshine or
■ ventilation, or in both.
The illustration shows a house built
by one of the most prominent Duroc
breeders after careful study. It is a
most serviceable structure and one of
the beat the writer has ever seen. It
is one of the few hog houses that
have proved so satisfactory that the
owners are willing to duplicate them.
This house has been copied by a num
ber of farmers in the vicinity, some of
■whom, however, have made the mis
take of building a longer house and
not making provision for outside pens
for the extra inside pens.
The walls are sheathed, papered,
and sided. The roof is shingled. The
outside floors on the east, west, and
south are 6 feet wide. This house is
CRY OF “BACK
TO THE LAND”
Experts Studying Oat Problem of
Why So Many City Bred
Men Make Failure
at Farming.
(By PROF. J. W. SPILLMAN.)
A special study of the equipment,
management and income of a large
number of small fruit and truck
farms, many of them run by people
-who have recently come from the
city, is being made by the office of
farm management of the United States
department of agriculture.
This study has given us somewhat
a new point of view. In general these
small farmers are not successful.
This fact has led us to study the ques
tion more closely, and as a result a
scheme for the management of a 40-
acre farm is outlined which seems to
be practicable.
The diagram shows a convenient
scheme for subdividing forty acres to
fit it for the cropping-system outlined.
It will be observed that the forty acres
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Forty-Acre Farm Subdivided Into
Eight Five-Acre Traces. This Shows
a Convenient Method of Subdivision
Which Gives Access to All the
Fields Without Wasting Much Land
in Roads. Length of Lines Given In
Rods.'
are divided into eight five-acre tracts.
One of these is set aside for what
may be called the “homestead.” These
five acres are at the center on one
side, and It is supposed that a public
road passes this side of the tract.
Os these fl T e acres, half an acre is
utilized for the house and yard and
the barn and barn lot. This space is
22 by 36 feet and contains ten pens.
It was built north of Omaha in 1905
and cost, complete, including labor,
$275, or $27.50 a pen. This includes
the outside floor and pens.
The gates across the alley all lift
off their hinges so they can be remov
ed or replaced in a moment. This ar
rangement makes it very convenient
in sorting hogs to change them from
one pen to another or to make extra
pens when crowded. When swung
across the alley the free ends of the
gates fasten with common house-door
bolts. By putting these on so the
knobs turn up instead of down, the
owner finds that hogs can not open
them. If the knobs turned down the
hogs could open them readily. The
fronts of the pens next the alley are
all loose panels which lift out. In this
way the whole house can be made into
one large room in a few, minutes, noth
ing but the pen partitions being left
in place.
The inside pens are 7 by 8 feet, ex
cept the middle one on each side,
'..hich is Bby 8 feet. (The pens are
irregular in width because the lumber
cut this way to better advantage.).
The hog doors are 22% by 31 inches in
the clear. The large doors are 3 by 6
feet, divided in the middle. The upper
windows each contain four 12 by 14
inch lights and are set solid and close
together. The lower windows each
contain four 10 by 12 inch lights.
The most striking feature of this
house is the ingenious way in which
outside pens have been provided with
out having them on the north side.
The ventilators are 6 by 6 inches
inside. The lower ends are 2 feet
above the floor and the upper ends
just above the comb of the roof. The
south rafters are extended to meet the
north rafters so that no studding are
needed under the south edge of the
north roof. Whether this gives any
advantage is doubtful. The sunshine
will strike the floor in all pens several
hours a day after March 1.
ample for what we have in view. One
half acre is devoted to garden, one
p and a half acres to orchard and the
remaining two acres to a paddock,
Into which to turn the stock for ex
ercise.
* By judicious management these two
acres can also be made to furnish
some pasture and some soiling-crops.
The other seven five-acre tracts are
to be devoted to a seven year rotation.
When this rotation is in full swing,
’ the crops on the farm for a given year
’ are as follows: Field A, potatoes; field
B, three acres of cabbage and two
' acres of onions; field C, corn; field D,
; cow-peas, field E, corn; fieldF, clover;
, field G, clover.
The next year each of these crops
would move to another field as fol
; lows: The potatoes would go to field
G, which was in clover the year be
fore. The cabbage and onions next
year would go to field A. The corn
' on field C would go the next year to
’ field B. Cow-peas in field D would go
the next year to field C. The corn in
field E would go to D, while E would
be sown in clover and F in clover.
The next year each crop would
move to another field in the same
manner, so that each year potatoes
are sown after second-year clover,
cabbage and onions are planted after
potatoes, etc. Commercial fertilizers
would be required for the potatoes,
cabbages and onions.
The potatoes, cabbage and onions
on this farm would form the market
crops. The two fields of corn., the
field of cow-peas and the first year’s
seeding of clover would furnish 20
ac^es of forage for the live stock,
while the second year clover would
furnish pasture for the live stock dur
ing the summer.
On each of the two cornfields some
winter grain, such as wheat, rye, etc.,
could be sown early in August at the
time when the corn is laid by, that is,
when cultivation of the corn ceases.
This wheat would furnish fall and
winter pasture for the live stock.
In the cornfield, which is to be fol
lowed by clover, the wheat would be
turned under early in the spring in
preparation for sowing the clover. In
the cornfield, which is. to be followed
by cow-peas the wheat could remain
until the second year clover field is
ready to turn the stock on, at which
time it might be plowed up and sown
to cow-peas. We thus have pasture
during the whole year in sections
where the seasons permit winte
pasturing.
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RETIRED GEORGIA PLANTER’S
ADVICE TO KIDNEY SUFFERERS
Regarding the wonderful curative
merits of your Swamp-Root, I cannot
say too much. After suffering severe
ly for three years or more with se
vere pains caused by weak kidneys, 1
was finally induced to try Swamp-Root
through a testimonial I read In one of
the newspapers. I was In such a con
dition that I was obliged to arise from
my bed six or eight times every night
I purchased a fifty-cent bottle aad be
fore it was used I felt so much relief
that I purchased a one-dollar bottle
and by the time this was taken the old
pains had left my back and I could
sleep the whole night through. I am
a retired planter, 70 years of age, and
owing to Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, 1
am in the best of health and feel like
a boy. I am always glad to recom
mend Swamp-Root to those who are
in need of it.
Sincerely yours,
C. E. USSERY,
Bowersville, Ga.
Personally appeared before me, this
Sth of September, 1909, C. E. Ussery,
who subscribed the above statement
and made oath that the same is true
in substance and in fact.
T. H. McLANE,
Notary Public.
Letter to
Dr. Kilmer A Co.
Binghamton, X. T.
' Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You
Send to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham
ton, N, Y., for a sample bottle. It will I
1 convince anyone. You will also re-1
ceive a booklet of valuable Informa-1
tion, telling all about the kidneys and j
bladder. When writing, be sure and
mention this paper. Regular fifty-cent
and one-dollar size bottles for sale at
all drug stores.
BIG DIFFERENCE.
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SB
First Passenger (in street car) —I
wish you’d get off at the next corner.
! Second Passenger—Off the car?
1 First Passenger —No; off my foot
Dubious Compliment.
i Tom Purdie, an old man-servant in
Sir Walter Scott’s household, used to
1 talk of the famous “Waverley Nov
। els” as “our books,” and said that the
। reading of them was the greatest com.
> fort to him.
। “Whenever I am off my sleep,” he
confided to Mr. James Skene, the au
' thor of "Memories of Sir Walter
Scott,” “I have only to take one of the
novels, and before I have read two
pages it Is sure to send me asleep."
BABY’S HAIR ALL CAME OUT
“When my first baby was six months
old he broke out on his head with little
bumps. They would dry up and leave ,
a scale. Then It would break out
again and it spread all over his head.
All the hair came out and his head :
was scaly all over. Then his face
broke out all over in red bumps and
It kept spreading until it was on his
hands and arms. I bought several
boxes of ointment, gave him blood !
medicine, and had two doctors to treat
him, but he got worse all the time.
He had it about six months when a
friend told me about Cuticura. I sent 1
and got a bottle of Cuticura Resolvent, ।
a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of 1
Cuticura Ointment. In three days <
after using them he began to im
prove. He began to take long naps ;
and to stop scratching his head. After
taking two bottles of Resolvent, two
boxes of Ointment and three cakes of
Soap he was sound and well, and never
had any breaking out of ary kind. His
hair came out in little curls all over
his head. I don’t think anything else '
would have cured him except Cuti
cura.
"I have bought Cuticura Ointment ]
and Cuticura Soap several times since j
to use for cuts and sores and have !
never known them to fail to cure what
I put them on. Cuticura Soap is the
best that I have ever used for toilet i '
purposes.” (Signed) Mrs. F. E. Har
mon, R. F. D. 2, Atoka, Tenn., Sept. ;
10, 1910. Although Cuticura Soap and
Ointment are sold everywhere, a sam- s
pie of each, with 32-page book, will I
be mailed free on application to “Cuti
cura,” Dept L, Boston.
An old bachelor will stay out till 2
a. m. if he wants to, but he misses the
fun of trying to sueak upstairs with
his shoes off. ;
Mrs. Winslow's etooth tn* Byrap for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inQamnis ’
Hon, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle
Work Is better for most people than
most people are for work. '
Death Lurks In A Weak Heart I
Y»w»Ja ttatlartag arwoak, naa “WiOVMIC.” «tada by Van Yleet-MamfloW Drug Co.. Memphte, Tana. Prtea >l.OO
NOT ALTOGETHER HIS FAULT
Verdict Brought In by Jury Certainly
Was Not Flattering to the
Accused.
A Wheeling (W. Va.) lawyer says
that he has heard many queer ver
dicts in his time, but tbe quaintest of
these was that brought in not long
ago by a jury of mountaineers in a
sparsely settled part of that state.
This was the first case for the ma
jority of the jury, and they sat for
hours arguing and disputing over it In
the bare little room at the rear of the
court room. At last they straggled
back to their places, and the foreman,
a lean, gaunt fellow, with a superla
tively solemn expression, voiced the
general opinion:
“The jury don’t think that he done
It, for we allow he wa’n’t there, but
we think he would have done It es
he’d had the chanst.” —Harper's Mag
azine.
Real Woman-Hater.
A will of a confirmed woman-hater,
writes Virgil M. Harris In “Ancient
Curios and Famous Wills,” Is that of
a rich old bachelor who had endured
much from attempts made by his
family to put him under the yoke of
matrimony, and who wrote: "I beg
that my executors will see that I am
buried where there is no woman in
terred, either to the right or to the
left of me. Should this not be prac
. ticable in the ordinary course of
| things, I direct that they purchase
I three graves, and bury me in the mid
| die one of the three, leaving the two
! others unoccupied.”
An Old Field Weed.
Many seeing that old field weed, the
mullein stalk, never consider the good
it is accomplishing in curing lung
troubles. It presents in Taylor’s
Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and
Mullein the finest known remedy for
coughs, croup, colds, consumption,
Whooping Cough, etc.
At druggists, 25c, 50c. and SI.OO a
bottle.
Triffe Wobbly.
“I'm going to blow out my brains,”
said he.
"Well,” she said after a moment’s
reflection, "perhaps they’ll stand a lit
tle inflation, Horace. They've al
ways struck me as being a trifle wob
bly.”—Harper’s Weekly.
THE DREWFTL DISEASE MALARIA
quickly cured by that wonderful remedy
Elixir Bnbek.
"The result has been an absolute cure
to me, and it affords me the greatest
pleasure to recommend ‘Babek’ to all
who are suffering from that dreadful
disease known as malaria."—Clarence
Elmo Ergood.
Don’t suffer from chills & fever, ague ■
or grippe when you can get prompt re- :
lief.
Elixir Babek. 50 cents, all druggists. 1
or Kloczewski & Co., Washington, D. C.
Cutlery.
“That politician used to have a
knife up his sleeve for you.”
“Yes,” replied ’ Senator Sorghum.
“But I have observed him at luncheon |
and his knife is not going to do me
any harm. He’s too busy eating with
it”
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of i
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for I
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the /"iff
Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletchers Cas tor ia
Who Could Doubt It?
Artist (angrily)—No; I don’t want
a model. 1 only paint flowers or i
fruit.
Model (smilingly)—-Oh, that's all
right. Every one says I’m a peach.
TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA
AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM
Tako the Old standard GRO ’ KS TASTELESS
CHILL TONIC. Yo no what you arc ta.’dng
Tho f »mv.lu Is jlair.l printed 0.. e ery bottle,
show! it is simply Quinine and Ifol in a tasteless
form, an ’, the most effectual form. For grown
people and children. 50 cent*
Write it on your heart that every
day is the best day of the year. No
man has learned anything rightly, un
til he knows that every day is dooms
day.—Emerson.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES
Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can
dye any garment without ripping apart. Write for free booklet —How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONROE DRUG COMPANY, Qoi»cy, HL
• Man of the Present.
“A man has to be up-to-date to do '
anything nowadays.”
“Yes,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax. I
"When I talk to an investigating com- |
mittee I find it desirable not to dwell j
needlessly on the past.”
For COLDS and GRIP
nicks’ Capudine is the best remedy—re
Heves the aching and feverishness —cures the ,
Cold and restores normal conditions. It’s
liquid-- effects immediately. 10c., 25e., and 50c.
At drug stores.
We are here on earth to learn to
give and not to grasp. We gain most
by giving most. —John H. Denison.
FILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS _
Tovrdmcgist will relunil money if PAW OINT
MLNT lans to cure ant ea*e ot Itching, Band,
Bleed.ng or Protruding In lea in 6to Udays. 50c.
Marriage separates a bachelor from
a lot of illusions.
ITCH, ITCH relieved in SO minutes by
Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion. At Druggists.
A woman wants protection, but fa
vors free speech.
May Be Plans of Famous Ship.
Great interest has ‘been aroused in
Australia of the discovery of some old
ships’ plans, believed to be those of
the barque Endeavor in which Captain
Cook discovered Australia, which are
now in the possession of the Austra
lasian Pioneers’ club. The plans have
apparently been in Sydney for a long
time. They belonged to Mr. Cum
mings, a blacksmith, who received
them and other charts and diagrams
from a Mr. Korff, a naval contractor,
said to be descended from a ship
wright who sailed with Captain Cook.
A Poor Weak Woman
As she is termed, will endure bravely and patiently
agonies which a strong man would Jive way under. ,
The fact is women are more patient than they ought '
to be under such troubles.
Every woman ought to know that she may obtain
the most experienced medical advice free 0/ charge
•nd in absolute confidence and privacy by writing to
the World’s Dispensary Medical Association, R. V.
Pierce, M. D., President, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce
has been chief consulting physician of the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y., for
many years and has had a wider practical experience
in tbe treatment of women's diseases than any other physician in this country.
His medicines are world-famous for their astonishing efficacy.
The most perfect remedy ever devised for weak and deli*
pate women ia Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription,
IT MAKES WEAK WOMEN STRONG,
SICK WOMEN WELL.
The many and varied symptoms of woman’s peculiar ailments are fully set
forth in Plain English in the People’s Medical Adviser (1008 pages), a newly
revised and up-to-date Edition of which, cloth-bound, will be mailed free on
receipt of 31 one-cent stamps to pay cost of mailing only. Address as above.
hALTIMORE IS COMING TO THE FRONT
The Baltimore Bargain House Completes
Mammoth Structure
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The New 12-story Baltimore Bargain House Building, Baltimore, Md.
The Baltimore Bargain House has
just completed a 12-story building,
। which covers one-third of an im
mense city block, with an estimated
floor space of 240,000 square feet.
The site Is the corner of Baltimore
and Liberty Streets and running
back to Garrett Street.
This building, added to the adjoin-
I Ing buildings which the B. B. H.
; Salesrooms now occupy, extends over
almost 85 per cent, of the entire
block.
All combined the B. B. H. build
ings cover almost three large city
blocks. This includes the building
mentioned above and their big Fay
ette Street building, their Clothing
Factory, their Warehouse at Scott,
Stockholm and Wicomico Streets
(which in itself takes up an entire
| block), and other buildings about the
city of Baltimore.
In 1911 the Sales of the B. B. H.
amounted to $13,345,789.55. This
statement was sworn to before a No
tary before being published.
This makes them the Fourth Larg
est Wholesale House in any one city
doing business throughout the United
States.
Taking into consideration that
they have No Traveling Salesmen,
they sell MORE Goods than any
other Wholesale House in America,
in any one city, without the aid of
Drummers.
^^RB^Froe to You—My Sisto*
FREE TO YOU and Every Sister
Suffering from Woman's Ailments
jS.asH^HKEEI ' \ Ir-swo-M.
iknow woman's Suoorla£S.
! have found the euro.
‘ \SB®HK 1 w.Jms. . fneo: asy charge. my horn* treatment with
« ifn’’ iastru.:.o-.s to any suffer?r from wonana a.u»ents. 1
-' • Wf-'' i want 1 ' t? ■ ■ , * about thia cure—you. my reader. for
' your daughter. your mother, or your sister. I
w ar.i to tell you tow to cure yourselves at home withou
v ;'J the he of a doctor. Men cannot understand women’s suf*
fe Wiiat we ^3»n know from axpartanc* wo know
kjOEgjSE&y / better than any doctor.
/ I know that my borne treatment I* a safe and ■nraesra
v '^x^ ' Z for Leucorrtooeo or Whitish Discharge, Ulceration. Dia*
X 5 Sr placement or Falling at the Womb, Profuse, Scanty ar
V-M\ < v jF painful Periods, Uterine or Ovarian Tumors or Gr>wths|
■ JKsF * aleo P3‘"® <n <h* bead, back and bowels, ti a a ring down
X- •• \X feelings, nervousness, creeping feeling up the spine*
X? me I anc holy, deal .-a to cry, bet flashes, weariness, kMMqp
W . .- ' and bladder troubles where caused by woakaosooe
^^*7 fur peculiar to our se*.
f Wairf so Storf You • Comp/efo Tan Ds^’ Troafsnanf EnUr^rrun
to prove to you that you can cure yourself st home easily, quieklv
aothiag to give tie treatment a complete tr.al; and if vou should wish to contmu*» ?£ "“I
ets a week or less than 2 eta. a day. It will not intertore with your work or occupauon. lust seuu me year
mim. and addreu, tell tne how you seller if you wish, and I wiii send you ^.wnei^«s-S^w«?Mmolc<f
fr«. in plain wrapper, by return mail. I will alsownd you free olcoat. my book 'WOMAKt OWN MUPKAL
ADVISER” with explanatory iliuatrationa showing why women suffer, and how they can easl^ euro therMclve.
at home. Every woman should have it and learn to think ror haesalf. Then when tho doctor aaya- Yoa
must have an operation,” you can decide for vourse’f. Thoostnas of women have cured tnemsesves witn my
homa remedy. It cures all, old or youns. To naotKor. ot pAUGKTras. I will explain a aimrlohomo meat
men t which speedily and effectually cures Leucorrhoea. ureen-Sickneaa and Bunful or Irregular MenatxuaiMia I*
Young Ladins. Flmnpness and health always result from its use. „w__.
Wherever you live. I can refer you to ladies is your own locality who know and wiUgladly tell aoyr snffmw
that this Heme Treatment really curesail women's dieew.ee and makes wnmmiwell. slrnng. plump and robust,
lust ecad me your address, and the free ten days' treetinent is routs, also the beolu'T’ua is no C. 0. U
scheme. All letters are kept confidential and are never sold to other parsons. Write today, as you may net aM
this offer again* Address _ _ J
MRS. M. SUMMERS, BOX 17 - - . NOTRE DAME, IND., U. S. A.
mmet i» TUftaa.
w, tell ym tww sit \
pay bMtprisaa Write ■
for weekly ptiw Hte
and ref araneaa.
M.SABEL & SONS
LOUIH TILLS, IT. —„ ___
Dealert In Furs. Mex,!—! Ft J RS
Ketebllabed 18M. * 1
GET WILLET’S SEED CATALOG
Leaders in Cotton Planting Seed; Forage Meta
— cow peas. Soy beans, Velvet beans. Peer
nuts, Sorghums, Cbufas, Artichokes, Corn*
Millets. WILLETT SEED CO., AUGUSTA, GA*
.
W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. *
s As before stated, the main busF
ness of the B. B. H. is located at the
- corner of Baltimore and Liberty
1 Streets, running through to Fayette
Street, which is considered the best
> location in Baltimore.
j The special feature of their New
Building is the improved mechanical
- devices for handling their immense
. volume of business, which they
r claim will reduce their expense of
J handling the business materially In
comparison to what it costs their
- competitors today to handle their
' business with laborers.
I They attribute the biggest part of
- their success in business to the fact
; that they have always handled their
. business more economically than any
i Other House and thereby they have
’ i been enabled to live up to their fa
‘ mous motto, “MORE GOODS FOR
SAME MONEY—SAME GOODS FOR
: LESS MONEY.”
’ The architecture of the building
and the magnificence of its interior
finish make it one of the handsomest
Wholesale Houses in America.
I We congratulate Baltimore and the
Baltimore Bargain House upon ita
wonderful achievement We look
’ upon Baltimore as the chief South
ern City and we are proud of her
: । and anything she does in the way of
| expansion in the line of business.
