Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-31
farm, Garden and Household.
Ringing Hogs.

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ing hogs to prevent their roofing.
Please tell me the method You would
adopt. About five weeks ago I turned
seven shoats and pigs on good piece
of sod. 1procured from timer about
a yard of wire about the size of a knit
ting-needle, and out il into pieces about
four inches long then 1 took an awl
and made hole through the snout, ran
the wire through, bent it round a small
iron rod so as to make ring about an
inch in diameter; twisted the ends and
filed them of. They have all gotten the
rings out but one. They managed to
work them through the gristle, in sew
eral cases tearing them out, and now are
roofing as much as ever. What kind of
rings do you use? Are there rings
made especially for this purpose, and if
so, where can they be gottenS
Z. ID. Curtis-phe rings Of our cor
respondent were too large in diameter,
and the wire too small. The ring should
be Just large enough to clear the edge
of the hogs snout, and no larger. or
they will catch fast and tear out as his
did. Small wire will cut through the
gristle much sooner and easier than
larger Another thing, the twist of the
ring must not be long, or it will catch
last and hinder the pig from eating. A
better material than wire is to have
blacksmith make the rings out of rail-
road iron, with hole punched in one
end and the other pointed to pass
through it and fasten with twist. The
iron should be tiattened and put through
the snout with the flat side crosswise.
This sort Of ring will not tear out easily.
Insert the rings at the bottom or base
of the rim around the snout, and they
wifi hold much longer. Heat the wire
before using, and it will bend and twist
much better.
Planting and Cultivatlng Potatoes,
D. H. Buckley, Williamstown, Mass
writes as follows to the Farmers Club:
AS it is about planting time again, I
wish to speak word in favor of the
potato, that they may have an equal
chance with other vegetables, when
they are found on the table of the high
ana low, the rich and the poor all are
alike lovers of tho potato, and are de.
pendent on them for food, as we'll as to
help make up the variety. At planting
they are not to have an equal chance
but the ground for them must be mt
on some out-of-the-way place, not fit
Tor any other crop, and a great favor is
done to the potato when they get that
attention, even of the smallest. and
those that are unfit for any other mr.
pose are used for planting, and then
get one hoelGg, and at digging-time far
mers are mad that they have no fine
potatoes, when, if they would give them
inc attention and chance that other
crops get, they would find their potato
crop much more profitable and more
palatable when they come to the table
! manure my sward land we'll with Sta
ole manure, spread as early as the
ground is fit, and pillow deep and harrow
well. With selected seed I take nv
potato planter, which marks the ground
and the drops, and covers all at one
motion as fast us the horses can travel
AS soon as they are up to be seen in the
rows, plaster and hoe after cultivation /:
at the next hoeing, / use the wing pillow,
ana roll the turrow up to the potato, so
that the hoe is but little used. I never
tailed OF good crop of potatoes. If I
md any potatoes are going to rot. I
Just drop that variety as if it was hot.
SYSTEMATICALLY "a soon 90 bPo H. nod
ond time, and get a GOOD cronN from ron
100 to $50 bushels ner AGRA T,as+ ,,oa+
Ihad, on three acres Of Land I 00o h. s%-
els of potoes. and 650 hISbai0 &c e - 20,
nlps, with tops for feeding green, which
consider about equal to the turnip.
Lime for Fowls.
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