The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-06-09

the milk simmer. Inc pau ~ lueu
placed on the milk shelf for twenty.
four hours longer, when the cream Is
SKINNED ofE-thick as Heather
apron This is the English method of
procedure.
Hogs IN SUMMER.
Summer is the time to make pork;
making it in winter is much like run
ming a boat against wind and tide; !.
requires too much food to keep up the
animal heat. II hogs have plenty of
grass in summer, and about half the
corn they will eat, they will fatten rap.
idlv: and my beliefs that three pounds
of pork can be made from less grain in
this way than one pound can be In cold
weather with hog In close pen. The
grass is cooling and loosening, and
counteracts the feverish properties OF
the corn.
Hogs will never melt in summer,
however fat, IL they have access to wat
er and mud to lie in. Mud il very bad
for hogs IN cool or cold weather. 1t abb
serbs too much animal heat. Milk is a
very cooling drink and almost indis-
pensable to raising young pigs. But
very little corn and no corn meal
should be fed to young pigs before they
are four months old. The effects of
corn and raw corn meal on young pigs
are these: The pigs at first will be cos
tive, then they will scour. They Will
can rub against, they will rub their
hair off. Their skin will have red
and dry appearance. a dry, black
scurf will begin to form on them; and
the more of corn meal they eat the
poorer they will get. The best thing
that can be done for pig In this condi-
ton is to give him thorough washing
in warm rain water, or sour milk Is best /.
Coarse flour or middlings from rye
or wheat, when made into thin drink
able slop with milk, Is the best feed
for young pigs, except bread and milk.
Bread is good for young pigs because
1t is leavened. Food has to terment be.
fore it will digest, and II fed to young
pig before fermented, 1t will overtask
his stomach and spoil him. Lettuce is
good for young pigs. 1t will stop the
scours in them. The middlings should
be put with the milk at night, after the
feeding has been done, and allowed to
be in the milk through the night, new
er allowing the swill tub to get quite
empty, always leaving little in the
bottom for yeast. The swill should
never be permitted to get stale.
SIop feed should be fed often, and
never more fed at time than will be
larger hogs than dry feed. After the
pigs get to be three or four months old
their food can be made stronger, but q
pig will not bear much strong food un-
til he begins to change from pig to
hog, which will be known by his voice.
In the West where hogs are raised on a
large scale, but one litter should be rals-
ed from a SOW in year, and the so W
should have them in the month OF May
or June. The sows should run to
grass, and may be fed on corn. The
pigs should suck them as long as they
will. In this way the pigs require but
little care, and they get age SO that they
will winter we'll IN
POTATO BUGS.
The Flint (Mich.) Globe says: AT
this date last year, potatoes were worth
in this market about ninety cents per
bushel, for the same quality as now
sell at from thirty to forty cents, which
is certainly singular fact, considering
that during last summer our State ex-
changes were filled with the most dole
| full accounts of the devastation OF the
bugs, and predictions of a short crop
| and high prices. We hear again this
spring that the pillow Is resurrecting
millions of the little varmints from
| their winter slumbers, and the same
fears are expressed that they will en-
tirely destroy the crop the coming sea-
son. But if the past Is any criterion to
go by, we should say the more bugs the
| more potatoes -....-
LEAKY TEATs IN COWS.
y. c. of Columbus, Ohio, writes: Il
have a valuable COW that loses her
milk; at times it runs from her in
streams. viii you give me remedy1'
A1StOer.-Milk three times day, say
at five in the morning, at noon. and at
| eight in the evening. II this does not
stop 1t, have little colIodfon (Which is
gun cotton dissolved in ether) to be had
Of all druggists or photographers, and
put a drop upon the end of each teat
after milking, being careful not to
touch a sore spot or the COW will kick.
The hole need not be covered except in
extreme cases, for little ring OF col
lodion will shrink in drying and draw
the hole together. american A0TIcHt-
tw1'iSt.
PURE o1sTERN WATER.
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