The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1870-09-09
Iron the American Aerieul,uristl
Walks aud Talks On the Farm.

W Ill YOU picase tell iuc tAOuSu nc hv
RIcuI-rrR'sT. why SO many sows die tar
rowing. and what is best TO do for then
10 prevent its occurrence! As many a.
a half dozen have died i'm this immedi
ate ncighborhood, although they seemed
As healthy rs usual. And a gentleman
from Canada writes me that there has
been an unusual mortality among pigs
hi. season al through 'ths Province,
Tke wonder 10 me is. not that so many
pigs die. but that so many survive the
wrctched treatment that they receive.
But must be careful what ] say OH this
point, for | have Just received letter
from a Doctor in Tennessee, ensuing
me very severely for saying that WAS
mot sorry that hog cholera and other
fatal diseases are OH the increase And
indeed must say that ] rather regret
making such a remark. Nc one has a
keener sympathy for farmer who loses
an animal than have. !. myself. have
lost too many horses. cattle, and sheep,
not to know how sad a thing il is 10 see
any of our domestic animals die. IL is
not merely the money loss. severe as that
sometimes is: and the pain is greatly ag-
gravated by the feeling that something
has been neglected that might have
warded of the disease or prevented the
accident. So when ! wrote the afro
cious sentiment that the Doctor quotes, l
did not really mean what | said. ] fan
CIV that Just AZ that moment Whit of
air from a dirty hog pen must have
reached me. or some wretchcd, half
starved, mongrel SOW must have got in
to the garden or snapped UP a whole
coop Of chickens. No, lam not glad that
diseases are or the increase. but l shall
certainly be very glad if they produce
q change in our management of pigs.
This Tennessee Doctor says that the dis
ease is not inherited. which l am very
glad to hear: and that it is not caused
by high feeding nor low feeding, but
simply and solely by compelling or al
lowing the pigs TO sleep week after week
and month after month in the same bed
with no change of bedding. He thinks
little. can be done to cure the disease. but
much to prevent it. 'The old BEDS he
saws, ''should be DESTROYED and new ores
made occasionally. Throw line into
their beds once 9 week. Give them sui
phur and lime in their food once q week.
These remedies with sufficiency of feed.
we'll administered. will suffice to keep
them healthy.--After all, the Doctor
and do not differ essentially. What |
recommended was TO keep the pigs them
selves clean, the pens, bedding and
troughs clean, TO give them what ashes,
salt, supcrphosphate, or sulphur they
will eat of their own accord, to let them
have the run of clover pasture, with
access to fresh water at all times. Or III
necessarily confined, let the pens be-
large and we'll ventilated. and cleaned
out every day, using plenty of that
cheapest and best of all disinfectants.
dry earth. Cleanliness with proper food
and regular feeding, would do more to
prevent diseases than all the medicinel
in the world.
Nv Diehl wheat turned out better than
/ expected. Ii was thin on the ground
and the straw was short, and ii looked
as though it would not yield over POI
bushels per acre. We thra shed as wei
drew il in from the field. We comment
ced at ten minutes to three r. NJ, and
Nv night had the whole field of ten acres
thrashed. We had 276 bushels. and thereI
are the second rakings still to thrash,
which will probably bring the yield upI
to 90 bushels per acre. The field is thel
one | '.fall-fallowed- in the autumn of
1868. II was sown to spring barley in,
1869, and yielded about SO bushels per
acre. 1t was then plowcd and sown to
winter wheat without any manure. It'll
was in fine order, but the heavy growth
of barley straw in the wet season OF $50,
took the lions share of the plant-food.
available by the following, and
left the soil too poor for good crop of
wheat. All that was needed 10 havel
given me 40 or 80 bushels per acre wasl
n little manure. The season. the variety
Of wheat, and the mechanical condition
of the land were all capable Of produc-l
ing such crop, and 1 shall moi be satis-
fed until get my land rich enough toi
average 40 bushels in good season.
When you have force enough, and thcl
grain is dry enough to grind. thrashing
wheat as drawn in from the field. is, II
think, much the better plan. II you
have barn room enough, thrash outsidcl
and put the straw in the barn. 1 could
not have put that wheat into stack orl
into the barn any faster than we drew III
70 the machine, and there is consequent
" no greater risk from the weather. III
. shower comes on, you are stopped Just
- ene ctually in the one case as in thel
other. 1t requires two teams and threeI
wagons one wagon at the machine, onel
going back and forth, and one IL the|
1ield-one man TO pitch, two TO load, and|
one to unload. And in thrashing from