Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-02

nomical manure and will find ready
and steady sale. Mass. Ploughman.
WINTERING STOCK Hoes. = First
provide shelter on ground high enough
to afford good drainage; this is i'm
pOrtant to the animals health. 1t
should be kept dry and clean. Store
hogs, especially shoats, really ought
to have warm apartments during cold
weather. Their thin coats OF hair
affords them but little protection
hence the Importance of warm pig
styes, we'll Uttered with dry straw, and
so tight that cold winds will not blow
directly on them. 1t is far more eco
nomical to keep the animals warm in
snug and well ventilated piggery
than by extra feed, and this will pro
mote faster growth, if they are kept
comfortably warm by good building.
Their food should be cooked, but
not be given warmer than blood heat.
The stock hog will be the better for
some vegetable food through the win
ter; this may be prepared by cutting
hay an inch in length, and steaming
or boiling it with meal or wheat bran.
This steaming process restores the
juices of the plant, and makes 1t al
most as palatable as grass, and will
be eaten readily III connection with
the corn meal. TO feed cora without
being cooked is a great waste, and to
feed on the cob is a still greater.
We are aware that many intelli-
gent farmers, who know this, will con.
tinue to feed corn either whole grain,
ed, she lied, or on the cob, from force
of habit. There is always a great
struggle in breaking up old habits
and adopting new, even after the
judgment is convinced in favor Of
the latter; but, as continual rubbing
will wear out old marks, so will con.
tinual admonition with a better pros.
pect in view, wear out old habit )
therefore we continue to urge the i'm
proved method with the greater per
tinacity.
Glover chaif, either steamed or boil
ed with corn meal or bran. is excel
lent food for stock hogs during the
winter. A little linseed cake mixeC
with either of the above preparations
two or three times a week, will kcel
the skin clean and improve the am
mails health. In winter, hogs are very
often troubled with mango if not wei
cared for.
AS there may be some of your read
ers who have swine troubled with thi.
disease, there. Is no doubt that i
would be a qualification aud advan
tage to them to know 6y what mean,
they could clean the skins of theiI
pOrkers of this troublesome disease
In my experience, | have found y0un.
pigs more subject to it GhaU lat4c
ones, and they are more subject to i
in cold weather, than IN warm.
believe it is brought Oil them by i'm
proper food. | think Il might say
know that corn and corn slOp, fed t
them, is fruitful cause OF mango
The remedy that have adopted is t.
feed with oats, sometimes dry, a
other times scald them-sav pour boil
ing water on the oats three or lou
times before | give it to them. | ais
have corn and oats ground together
AMI pour boiling water on the mea
just before | feed them. BY thi
means | furnish them with warm slop
Pigs that are fed with this will 500
get clear OF the disea Z, but they mus
be fed with this kind Of feed unit
they get clear of the disease, whic
they will do in a reasonable time. I
young NANCY pig, fed with this kin,
of warm slop, will soon begin to thrive
and get well.
Hogs, as general thing, will grow
thrive and fatten well confined, in no
too close pens, all their days, if til
sly is kept clean and we'll ventilated
with occasional throwing to them
little charcoal, ashes, old lime, rotte
wood, mortar, sods of fresh eartf
Such things they seem to need all
and relish very much it helps to kee
their stomachs in tone.
With many Of our best farmers tn
pig is not considered in the light 0
the worker, as we'll as a gentIema
at leisure, and his snOut is turned int
a farm implement Of very great value
As diSintegrator of sods, it excel
both the pillow and harrow. The st
should be mainly covered, with a
exception of a small yard where til
animals may have the sun and TAX
exercise. The covered and uncove
ed should be kept abundantly suppl
ed with muck, or coarse sods, whic
are reduced to fine powder in a shol
time. Sometimes the sty might be
a part of the barn cellar, beneath tn
stables. and the pigs made to do til
work of composing the stable manul
with muck and loan. 1t can be don
in this way much more thorough
than with the fork and shoYel.-Stoc
Journal.
ONIONS FOR POULTRY.-Arthur
Howard of Belchertown, writes to tt
PlOughman: 1t is a fact well know
to owners of poultry that the occj
sional use of onions to- be mixed an
fed to poultry with their other feed
one of the surest ways of keeping
yard of poultry in health.
| am afraid it has not received til
attention and use that its merits rea
ly demand. | am well satisfied tia
the use of this vegetable would pr,
vent three-fourths of the diseases tia
poultry yard is subject to. NJ
that it is cure at all, after diseaS
has once secured hold, but | know
have cured cases of most severe rou
by its use, after standard remedi,
had failed. | became convinced tn;
an article like this would cure. I'll
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