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FARMER AXI) PLANTE^
HOG NATURE AND ITS NEEDS.
ilattrr* to l»e Con Hide red in the
RnluiKK of an Important Por
tion of. Oar Meat Supply.
The hog can hardly be classed as an
attractive animal in name, nature or
appearance, but it has put more
I struggling farmers and stockmen on
their financial feet than any other
domestic animal raised in our coun
try.
The nature and '.veil-being of tha
hog are less understood, and consid
ered, too, than is the ease with other
stock, resulting from the mistaken
idea that the hog can endure all kinds
■Jk- of treatment, and yet thrive. Very
few of the. millions annually raised
are spoiled with kindness, but much
hT- the greater proportion have too much
I of the “root, hog, or die” treatment.
The greatest, foes to the well-being
I of the hog in the more northern por
tions of our country are cold and
dampness. The hog and human fami
lies are cpiite similar in at least one
t respect, which is their need oi
warmth and a' dry, comfortable bed
when at rest. The hog, coming orig
inally from a hot climate, is still a*
-^unprotected by his scant, bristly cov
ering as ever. In fact, the heist'es
have been bred off instead of cn
there now being' but little betweer
his skin and the weather on a well
bred hog.
/ The few hogs previously referred tc
> that are too carefully coddled anc
cared for are apt to be found among
breeding stock. The brood sow anc
boar should above all others be re
quired to take plenty of outdoor ex
ercise, to insure hardiness and vital
itv, so essential for transmission tc
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of physical condition it is not neces
gary to expose them, to storms anc
compel them to root op acres o:
ground to secure their living, but ii
is quite necessary that they spend c
I,)i i.iiju r<jiciderable.portion of each daj
“rustlirrg” for a part of their food in
stead of becoming fat and flabby ir
closely-confining, ill-smelling pens.
Like man, the hearty hog cares lit
tie for cold and stormy weather whih
be is in motion, feeding and exereis
ing, but liis bed must be dry and pro
tected from drafts and cold, or tht
effects will be rheumatism, chills
fever and general unthriftiness, i
not serious disease itself.
Many swine breeders and feeder?
are aware that it is possible to grou
young, well-bred, healthy pigs to f
live weight of two hundred and flft.i
to three hundred pounds at an age o
six or seven months by intensive feed
ing, the best of care and close con
finement; but if the growth-forcing i?
continued much longer, there is a re
I|T -^Sftffmi-nnd liability to disease thai
will interfere with 1he profit. Kvei
. by this method of feeding for earl\
maturity the. chances for success art
A much surer when the sticking pig?
and breeding sows have been allowec
unlimited exercise, thereby laying ii
a reserve stock of bone and nervi
k force, to help carry them through tin
™ strain of heavy feeding and close eon
finement later on.
During the cold winters and ho
summers of the northern and middh
sections of our country the hog re
quires protection from both extreme?
to obtain the best results. The prac
tiee of piling up to obtain warmtl
where numbers run together is re
sponsible for much injury and dis
' case by the overheating resulting
There is often quite as much loss oc
casioned by lack of protection fron
summer heat as from winter cold. Th<
hog in a state of nature will enmj
near a water course or bog hole dur
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occasion requires, lie will cool anc
cleanse himself, and at the same tim<
provide himself with a fly screen o
mini.
'J’he writer has found that a hoj
run containing such natural or arti
ficial wallows of pure water and un
contaminated mud makes a very para
dise for hogs during hot summei
days, and increases the thrift, growtl
,4nd profits materially. Especially an
(—«^tlie breeding sows that are to far
/'tow during the heated season bent1
fitecl by clean, fresh wallows. Man.
valuable animals and their litters an
lost every year before and at farrow
ing time that might easily be savei
if cool, clean wallows were witliii
.Wtheir reach.
Jj The importance of feeding am
breeding of swine is not to be under
estimated, but their housing and com
■ i,m l “are of even greater importance
since the expense for the first goei
for naught unless their physical com
fort is also provided for.—ii. F. VV
Thompson, in Farm and Fireside.
THE SELECTION OF SEEDS.
Proper Selection of Seed* One of tin
MonI Important Factor* in the
Securing of Good Crop*.
A seed is that part which is sep
arated from a plant for the piirposi
'' Of propagating the species fron
which it came. This it does faithful
Jy with a natural liability to varia
t'ion, too slight to take it out of tin
species, but sometimes sufficient t<
\ give rise to a different variety. Thii
tendency to variation is the basis o
Improvements in plants of all kinds
I Man, finding a variety varying in ;
I desirable manner, may propagati
' from the variation, and find stil
greater variation in the same direc
|j*—' ' tion, and continue the process unti
a new and improved variety is estab
lished which will reproduce it.sel
with us little variation as the orig
inal plant. In this way many thou
Bands of improved varieties have beet
produced to bless mankind. This ini
provement has been more conspicu
©us iu fruits and vegetables tliau ii
I staple crops, simply because more
skill and more scientific knowledge
has been available in the ranks of
horticulturists than among agricul
turalists. But in recent years scientific
plant breeding has been applied to
staple crops, and new and improved
varieties have resulted. Some varie
ties possess one prominent character
istic and some another. Some have
been bred for deep rooting and
drought resisting qualities; some for
early maturity; some for resistance
to cold; some for increased yield per
acre, and some for superiority as
food for man or beast, or for fineness
of fiber or durability of texture. The
Illinois experiment station has suc
ceeded in breeding corn up to a con
tent of 14.12 per cent, of protein,
where the normal amount is 10.2 per
cent., thus in a measure overcoming
the one-sided nutritive value of this
king of grains, and proportionately
i creasing its value. This is only one
instance of what can be done and
what has been done. But farmers
have been slow to profit by this im
portant work, trusting to the trite
adage that “like produces like.” That
corn, cotton, wheat and oats will pro
duce corn, cotton, wheat and oats.
While it is true that corn can never
be made to produce oats, nor cotton
seed to produce wheat, it is a fact
well known to the best farmers t..at
well bred and carefully-selected seeds
of any kind wi.. produce better prod
ucts than those taken at random
from erib or bin. For best results
it is as necessary that seed be care
fully selected for producing crops as
that seed be carefully selected in
growing domestic animals. The same
laws govern and similar results fol
low ,n either case. Many farmers who
would not permit a scrub bull,
stallion, boar, buck or cock to
eat his grass or live in an en
tire condition on his premises,
will plant any sort of seed, if it
only seems sound and of fair size. It
is now time to be selecting seed for
spring planting. The cribs, bins or
seed-pens are not the proper place at
which to nuiKe me selection, vin) no
so careful as to the brand of garden
seed, as all farmers are, and so care
less as to field seeds? Some farmers
can improve their own seeds, but a
1 large majority do not possess the
technical skid and patience necessary
to do so, and of those who could if
they would not one in fifty do so, pre
1 f rring to get seeds from those who
have devoted years of study and much
scientific knowledge to the work.
However the matter may be in each
individual ease, the best seeds should
be secured and planted and cultivated
in the best manner, in no other way
can the best crops be secured.Texas
Farm and Ranch.
Selecting Seed Corn.
The best way to select seed corn is
in tlie ear, for the conformation of
the ear is as important as that of the
kernel. Long, close-fitting kernels
are wanted. So also are ears well
i filled at the ends and as nearly as
! possible cylindrical in form, which
gives a larger per cent, of normal
sized kernels, for as the taper in
- creases the length and size of the ker
nels decrease. Seedsmen rarely ship
seed corn long distances in the ear,
but when they do they ship better
■ corn than that which is shelled. This
advice, therefore, applies to home se
i lection of seed rather than to that
• shipped in from long distances. Just
i now our seed stores are daily crowd
■ ed with farmers who are buying seed
■ corn, and some of them are making
. bad selections, basing their choice on
■ the size and color .if the kernels,
t without knowing anything of the va
- rieties they examine.—Farm und
» Ranch.
HERE AND THERE.
. —The farmers of the six states, Vir
’ ginia. North Carolina, South Carolii a,
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, use
- annually $30,000,000 worth of commer
. cial fertilizers.
—Why not try a small patch of rape
. this spring for grazing for the pigs?
■ You may want more of it next year,
i It comes highly recommended by
■ some who have tried it.
—Many a good cow shows up badly
. because she has had a stingy, ig
r norant. scrub owner, and redeems
. herself when given a fair chance.
. When you must buy, if you will buy,
I buy this last kind.
l —The cow makes milk as a func
tion of her economy. Just how she
1 does it is not yet settled, but it is
. settled beyond any need of experi
. ment that to do it she must have
plenty of digestible food.
\ —There is no better egg-producing
. food that a combination of oats, bran,
corn, green stuff and insects with the
average waste of the average kitchen
or diary. And you don’t have to pay
five cents per pound for any of these.
—Southern game birds, like the
! southern race horses, have done much
to add to the glory of the south, even
as the grace and beauty of the south
ern women has made the southland
synonymous of feminine loveliness.
; —The readiest means for improving
1 old worn out farms are cattle, le
' games and the knowledge necessary
for their proper use. Many a young
: man would do well to invest in this
’ sort of property, as it is usually
j cheap.
—Raising sheep is very much like
raising any other kind of stock. The
1 best plan is to secure the best stock
you can. If you can’t.buy any but
1 scrub ewes, buy fewer of them and
’ use the money thus saved to buy a
1 pure-bred buck.
—In the southwest it is easily possi
ble to have fruit fresh from the tree
' or vine for seven months in the year.
For the remaining five months—from
1 November until March inclusive, wa
' can get along on the same fruit*
canned at home, and in fur own kiteb
1 eu*.
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Lesson in American Historn inFiizzie
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DOVER TAVERN WHERE FORT DONELSON WAS SURRENDERED.
Kind Gen. Buckner.
On February 13, 1SC2, Gen. Grant arrived before Fort Donelson with
an army of some 20,000 men. The investment of the place was practically
completed on the 14th. One of the inspiring incidents at Donelson was
the charge of the brigade composed of the Seventeenth, Forty-eighth and
Forty-ninth Illinois regiments against Maney’s battery. Time after time
they climbed the hill, only to be driven back when success seemed assured
by a galling infantry fire. Severe fighting continued throughout the 14th
and 13th, and it was not until Gen. Floyd had telegraphed his chief, Gen.
Johnson, that the victory was with the confederates that the mistake was
discovered. Gen. Grant announced as his terms “unconditional surrender,”
and these were accepted by Gen. Buckner at Dover Tavern, where the sur
render occurred, on the 10th of February, 1862.
PITH AND POINT.
Prejudice roosts on a pfrcli from
which facts are barred.—Chicago
Daily News.
When you abuse your rival, people
think you are getting the worst of
it; you are really abusing yourself,
and praising your rival.—Atchison
Globe.
Disqualified. — Front-row — “That
leading man doesn't look like an act
or.’’ Parquette—“No. and what’s more,
he doesn't act like one.’’—Chicago
Daly News.
All He Got.—Barnes Tormer—“I’m
an actor, sir, and I want to know if
you won't give me a benefit?’ Man
ager—“Yes: I’ll give you the benefit
of the doubt.”—Detroit Free Press.
Why She Slept. — Housekeeper—
“You said that at Mrs. Workhard's
vou always got up in the morning
without calling.” New Girl—“Yes’m.”
“You have not done that here.”
“No’m. You see, at Mrs. Workhard’s
the smell of the eookin always waked
me.”—N. Y. Weekly.
Entitled to Respect.—“Who’s de ole
guy w’at just went by?” asked the
telegraph messenger. “De ole guy
wid de dinky whiskers?” replied the
office boy; “aw. lie’s de owner of de
paper.” “An’ who’s de guy wid ’im?”
“Sh! Don't git gay. He ain’t no guy;
dat’s de sportin’ editor.”—Catholic
Standard.
Warning.—“The first time I met
her,” remarked the studious man,
“she did not seem to be a ready con
versationalist. But the next time she
impressed me as a wonderfully ■well
informed woman.” “In that case,
answered Miss Cayenne, “1 feel it my
ft ill v to warn vou. If she went to
the trouble to read upon topics in
which you are interested, there is no
doubt that her intentions are seri
ous.”—Washington Star.
HIS REMARKABLE SHOT.
Entitled Him to the Championship
Over lllackblrd-Kllle.rs of
the World.
‘‘Speaking of remarkable shots,”
said the man from one of the near-by
parishes, relates the Aew Orleans
Times-Demoerat, ‘‘in me you be
hold the man who holds the
blackbird championship of the
world, and while the fact is not gener
ally known, there are a few men in my
parish who can testify to the truthful
ness of my story. This expert shoot
ing you see on the stage, the mirror
trick, shooting backward, breaking
clay pigeons and balls; circus shooting,
wild west shooting and all that kind of
thing, is childishness in comparison
with my record. One evening several
years ago I slipped over the levee up in
my parish to shoot at a drove of black
birds which I found feeding in the rice
field. The birds were scattered over
au acre of ground. Just as an experi
ment I gave the gun a swing as 1 fired
both barrels, covering in the range of
of the swing the whole area covered by
the birds. I was in close shooting
range. To my surprise only a few
birds attempted to fly away, and these
few fell a short distance from where
they started. Others hopped around
in a stunned sort of fashion. I never
saw as many dead blackbirds in my
life. 1 thought 1 was dreaming at first
Several friends came along and I in
vited them to help themselves. I do
not know how many sacks 1 filled with
birds, and I would actually be ashamed
to guess at the number 1 killed. The
gun was heavily loaded, and the birds
were grouped in a basin which was al
most the shape of a bowl, because of n
sharp bend in the levee line. Many ot
the birds were not wounded, or bruised
in any way, so I figured that the fear
ful slaughter was mainly due to con
cussion.” “Leinme smoke that pipe
awhile,” said the man on the other side
of the table, and the members began
to talk of other things.
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PROVING HIS COURAGE.
George Junt Aclied to Get nt Thone
llurglnrM, lint I.et His Wife
Itestraiu Him.
She thought she heard somebody
moving about downstairs, and so she
waked him up.
“What is it?” he asked, relates El
liott Flower, in Brooklyn Eagle.
“Burglars, 1 think,” she answered.
Now, he hadn't lost any burglars,
and he don't care to find any. Still, a
man must prove his courage in such
circumstances if he is to maintain his
prestige in the family.
“I’ll make sure,” he said, as he
climbed out of bed.
In pajamas and slippers he sneaked
out into the hall and listened at the
top of the stairs. Yes; there surely
was some one down there. He put his
ear to the speaking tube that com
municated with the kitchen and he
could hear them talking. Evidently
they had just got through a kitchen
window and were about to proceed to
the dining-room for the silver.
“I can surprise them,” he thought,
“but, if 1 do, what will happen to me?
Housebreakers, when cornered, are al
ways desperate, but—they avoid trou
ble when the3- can.”
Happy thought! There was a whis
tle at the other end of the speaking
tube. He put his mouth to the tube
and blew. Then he rushed back to his
room.
“My trousers, quick!” he cried, “and
m3' revolver!”
“But, George,” his wife urged, “there
ma3r be more than one.”
“There are several,” he returned,
valiantly, out i u get tnem.
“And 1 heard one of them whistle,”
she persisted.
"So much the more reason for hur
ry,” he asserted. “He’s signaling to
the other members of the gang that
the coast is clear. If I’m quick I can
get them all.”
She pleaded with him not to go, but
he was determined. No burglar who
ever lived could deter him—not after
he had frightened tlie life out of the
aforesaid burglar by whistling down a
tube. However, he did let his wife
detain him until he was reasonably
sure that the coast was clear.
Then lie went down, while she wait
ed anxiously at the head of the stairs.
“They’ve gone.” he announced, dis
gustedly, "and it’s all your fault. If
you hadn’t hung onto me I’d have got
them sure. Why in thunder can’t you
have a little sense and a little nerve?”
But, in the language of the day, he
“made good.” His wife now considers
him about the bravest man that ever
lived.
Terrible Paranlten of Egrpt.
Two parasitic worms, bilharzia and
ankylostomum, work terrible havoc
among natives of Egypt. How these
parasites reach the intestines has been
a matter of much speculation, but
Prof. Looss,accidentally infecting him
self with ankylostomiasis by allowing
•t drop of water to rest on his hand,
has been able to prove that the larvae
of one species at least enters the body
through the skin. As the same is
doubtless true of bilharzia, simple
wading in the infected Nile explains
the prevalence of two dread diseases,
—Medical Journal.
Why She Left.
“See here,” said the manager of the
bird store, angrily, “what did you say
to that woman that made her leave in
such a huff?"
“I merely declined to give her a sam
ple feather from one of the parrots'
tails, sir,” replied the clerk, respect
fully.—Syracuse Herald.
What They Waut.
It is easy to tell how much money
young married people need. But tc
tell how much they want would taa
the multiplication table. — Cbieagc
Journal.
—
W. Lindley Pmsa. L. T. Slaydbn Vice Pbes. E. V. Holt Cashier/
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