, 1860-11-08

fsnce-eoruers. We venture to ray that thers
would ba falling of In number 0f naaes thu
second year; but what an immense array OF
names soma counties would furnIshf They
world aeastituto = minority Of farmsts.
= STOCK.
sKA1oNABLE HINTS.
= 1F1afsria0 Ucgz-Ncarly half the food wasted
on hogs In winter might be saved By observing
= few simple rules. First, keep stock hogs
penned up during the cold weather. Secondly,
give them dry fresh straw ones aweek, aud
keep then, scrupnlousiy clean. Thirdly, feed
them regularly t.c.ee day-fnornins and even
irg. Fourthly, do not put more than ten in
one apartment. Fiftk1y, feed one car Of corl
per hog each time and do not give them much
sloP-jnst enough for drink Si1ttly, do not,
under my circumstance, let their pen take in
yet: ret: BY observing these rules, hogs viii he
Kept In good condition Ill winter; they will
be ont Of mischief: they will be ten times
more comfortable than Il prowling about tho
osrnyard T. and neighoors will have NO com-
plants to otter.
Stall Fesding-Ve1y careless farmers let
their cattle run at 1aF5e oil winter about ten
tore grass time- Halt careful farmers pro-
vttt. sheds for their G tile At nights; but fcel
III the open ya11s-such animals live, but cn1ue
ont lean in the spring. uardy etccrs and hcif-
eFs may be treated in this way; provided, their
owncEs have an abundance OF Lay aud corn,
AoA AAC "1AaAuss ~ LEU UuG tulEI IlpIc
necessary. 4 dairy farmer in Western New
York used to winter his COWS in open aheda.
Lately he has kcrt them in warm stalls, ffoua
October till April; permitting them range
through the sheds in day time. They now
Keep i. better order, give more milk, and con.
any man disputes this fact, let hin, Try the
thin! foE himself 4 New England stock rais-
er tried an experiment on Steers. The follow
ing arc his own words TO 1t: Five fatttng cat
tie were Kept In winter in warm single stalls !;
live others, OF the same weight anl condition,
were Kept il = sheltered inslo.urs. The Litter
ate daily 13A lbs OF food, white the former atc
but IL lbs. At the end of april, the beef of
tho stall-cnclosed cattle weighed j: 4l3 li,s., tai
low, SIT It's: while the yartl-tcJ cattle'k beef
weighed S,.l6 lbs, tallow, sos lbs.
Eur,y itrk.-iriccs Of poskalc usually high
es in december tl4au in November. But it Is
Questionable whether II pays in the end to tat
ten lat: In the Season. The following, expert
ulents by q celebrated hog raiser In Ohio will
| clearly present the snhj:ct o our rvadcr;: One
| year Le wcis slleG !. uunlucr vi Aogs un Tie 1uth
| Of September, and turned them into q forty
acre corn Held. Tn the ed 0clok4r he took
! them out, weighed them, and. estimating the
crop al fvrty bushels per acrr and thcp pork at
| four c.nta ! pound, he had made forty cents
per bushel. He next placed In covered nenA
| one hundred hogs averaging two hundred
pounds, aud fud them Ill they would eat Of
corn an1 Cob ground together and steamed.
They were III nine pens, and were fed flye
times daily. At the end Of four weeks they
were taken out and again weighed, vi hen, rick
oning ~ lbs. OF corn and cob ~ euuul to
busleI OF corn, and the pork Us heture the
hogs paid S0 cents bushel for the corn The
weather WIS warm for the season. The same
experiment vas again tried, lhe hoEs being
taken ont and weighed once : week The Hrst
and second weeks In November The corn
brought u ccnts-the weather being culd. The
third week it brought 10 cents; the fourth week.
| only .B c.nts-thc weather continually crow
ing colder Still another lot or ho.s was fed
through December, which gave only o6 ccnts
temperature was At zero, and then tilc hogs
only gained enough to pay J'ss cents bushrI
Tor the com, and alaerwaTd, when tie mercury
went down to ten degrees below zcru. the hogs
only heiI Ltsir oten- Now, these trials would
lead to the Inference that, in general. it is not
very profitable to feed hogs later than the
middle Of November, and that grinding aud
stcamin@ is the most profitable why. 1t is
very well known that hogs gain much faster in
mild weather than in severe cold. The sub
| jcct Is worthy Of careful attention.
House your Canie.-Farmers. 10, please, for
your Own best interests, shelter your cattlo
b.fore winter sets in. Commence earlv to pnt
them in the stalls for thu night a;1d feed them
there, In preference to feeding in the yard o7
AROUND SOME stack in distant field Cattle
will run over hay on the ground aud waste
much Of it. Stacking ut best il but poor
method. for it will not take much cyrherin..
10 show that the wastc in saviu: anu leediu:::
out Vi doors will soon pay l07 comfortable
burns and feeding stalls. You will lind i. bad
ecolo1uy to let theEa range through meadow,
fell, orchard and wood, until compelled 10
come home by the tAick-lallins SNOW. You
may. it Is srur, have Jour 1uow aud sucks un-
touchcd-but the cold. trvst-b;tten grass has
afforded so little nourish1nent that your stock
has already lust flesh.