Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-02-27
agricultural.
Raise Your Own Figs.

Few farmers, prot ably, are aware of the i'm
mense losses that are sustained by those who
make Practice Oi buying their pigs the
pubic market from drovers. This SUB
Ject WAS up before the State Board OF AgrIcul-
ture at lts late meeting, and the facts brought
out there, by the 81 temeDts OF members from
many parts OF the State, were not little aston
IshIng, might almost say startling They
show that however healthy pIss may be, when
they are fist taken from the iarms vi the W lest,
the Infection the cars in which they are
transported, and the pens INTO which they are
turned on their val, almost invariably leads
TO the - hog cholera" VIII Ich soon carries off a
very large percentage OF them, and in any
&c the whole herd.
There is no mIstakIng the serious character
and extent OF these loss 8. One drUver Doug ht
i've tons of live pigs 1T Brighton market and
started them up through Waltham, Lincoln and
Concord, selling on the way, and before he
reached GroEon, nearly every pig with which be
started dead, and host Ut Others many of
them splendid hogs well fattened, had taken the
disease from the drove pigs and died, and were
planted or louDd their way into Boston market
We could give long list OF cases in many
parts OF the State oil Just such losses. There
are many neighbort0ods where this thing liz well
understood, and wh-re not pig from the BrIgh-
ton market could De given away. Let drover
attempt 70 take drove OF sEIoe into them, ike
would get has walking ticket very quickly.
But there may be otner sections which have
not yet got - bItten,' and IL Is 10 them
that We feel 1t our duty to rs!;e this note Of
warning. We tell you the CARS are injected,
and this Injection surely conveyed 70 the
healthy pigs which put into them the
sun is 10 rise And pig thus infected is equal
Iy sure TO convery the disease To healthy hogs
with which he is brought in contact. The dig
ease when thus conveyed, is almost certain death.
We are sorry 30 inJure any drovers legitimate
business, but Il Is our duty to put the read rs
OF the Ploughn"aH upon their guard. 1t any
honest neIghbor offers you a pig or two at iii
teen or eighteen cents pound. and 3 drover
oilers you his for ten. take the former. Ii will
be cheaper Ill the end
We fully concur IN the following recommen-
datIOn OF the State Board, adopted after a full
hearing OF vast number OF sturdy and almost
startling facts, OF which there be No rea
sonable doubt
Voted, = That the State Board Of Agricnl-
ture, IN view Of The losses incurred by the dis
ease known the g hog cholera" and of the
information gathered from all parts OF the State,
OF the great extent of these losses, and VI It's
g.eat contaglousness, not only from diseased
AOgs, Tut from pens which they have been
kept, recommend 10 the farmers Of Massachu-
sests that they raise swine Tor their USE,
and Tor the market.
'oteo, ihdt Inc raising OF hogs iOr the mar
ket, Is OF Itself, IN our opinion, OF the most
profitable sources OF revenue to the farmer"
w hen they are raised Tor market, one
would send them TO Brighton, of course, to be
put into any pens previously occupied by pigs,
an which case they would be just the pigs 10
carry the Infection and scatter it broadcast
along the public highways throughout the eoun-
try Either raise and iatteu them to turn IN TO
pork, or 10 sell to some neghbor who happens
20 want 10 buy.
10 this way the disease can, in time, be got
rid Of. To buy in 8 place known to be absolute
ly tIee from disease Is a sure cure, and We know
OF no othef Many remedies have been suggest
ed and some OF them may be good, but our
mode is sure, and that is neTer buy d pig that
has been In drove, or of which there Is TIE
slightest doubt OF suspicion.
We say again ana most emphatieally. RAISE
YOUR OWN PICS !-Ploughnian.