MODEL DAIRY FRAM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 92, 11 January 1908, Page 3

MODEL DAIRY FRAM.

/SOME OPERATIONS ■ IN PIGS ' . The Jarni: - <?f .the '.Donald; family . "Feather-, .•ton, is possibly, ono; of the 'iriost fpmplcte of its, kinS.ife. the- Dottoimbxi •X'iirrffies our rapi. ';,:. It.. comprises .five dairies va'nd?' a? "iia'ch dairy ' ha&;a; herd of/120 cows..! , The p'is .Soctlon. ;. : Sorne ,distance from,-the. factory. is the pig farm; and ! toalf'-ji'adclockywhere'-' are fed; daily from'-'thb factory 600 pigs arid-90 calves. The pigs, with tho fixceptioii. of the stud animals; which . (line. luxuriously on M butter milk, are fed'-in- : the; summer on boiled skimmed milk. In'the winter I the■,diet' is boiled' barley'and milk,' and turnips, rape; and'peas. "The , calves have boiled: skimmed milk, with the addition boiled ground oats.' Both pigs rnd calveslhrire on .the;diijt. 'It would appear; "that i'no'by-prqduct from ''the': butter iactbry'is wasted.The breed of pigs is Berkshire,' which has always' given the best results to the-Donalds'; as 'J)roducing"a.'good, feggy': animal/ excelent. for In addition, -the ■ Berkshire" has been' the quickest fattener; v ' - ' . ' Croat; Drinkers. , ' • ■'These.-pigs and, calves drink six' tons of milk, -or its equivalent ,every • day. The man-, 'i?er,'._in -which they .are ;fed . 'and : housed" is interesting. 'LA*stcel' tramline irons*down, .be-. twecn. the row's.of which are about thirty-six'f&et:apart, and.by the calf. shed. Tho.'jnilk is conveyed in~V-big receptacle, placed upon a ■ truck, "and drawn b ( v a horse, and the driver empties-out his liquid load tb'his. squealing customers asi be passes along the :road. ./.Every sow;'with'her'family, has a bouse to;herself.•• :' /• * .. ..■ ' .. ■ Ready, for, Market. , , :The pigs are' usually.-k^pt^tiirthey : a're.four months old, rfnd weighing about'l4o pounds, When they are sold. About 450 are.turned' off:'the farm every year. . Amongst tlie noticeable; contrivances on the farm are a pig-ringing apparatus, -moveable, .the• head of-which iS| like th'at \of a ■ cow bail, and a wooden fixing for ■ holding jiigs which arc to be cut. This receptacle is shaped some-thing-like a wooden .horse for sawing wood, except' that-the ,top, which' holds tho pig, slopes away to a corner, and possesses a strap which holds the .pig ,firmly in. position. Air. Donald's 'two men can-put through 200 pigs;, a day. , New Dairy Stock. ;;Mr! Donald imported'some Danish bulls e'omo ' months'; ago, and their progeny crossed with . Jerseys :■ and "other cows', are now'making-their appearance. ■