The Lake County star., 1874-12-31
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


FEEDING FOR PRoFIT.-The feeding
of pig through winter keeps him alive.
There Is no growth, or very little. The
feed is therefore no better than wasted,
and it cannot pay to feed a pig over win
ter to make an additional amount of
pork. A March pig that will weigh 200
to 250 pounds at nine months old, is the
most profitable one that can be fed.
And well-bred pig can be made to
weigh-that amount by constant good
feeding. One of our most experienced
farmers says he has fed pigs to this weight
and kept their mates over to the next
year, when the latter made no more than
500pounds or less. If nine months feed
of a young pig makes 200 pounds of pork,
it cannot pay to feed full-grown pig
that needs twice the food, twelve months
to make the same quantity.
TREATMENT OF PLANTs.-Jack frost
often steals his way into the house and
makes sad work among the pet plants
which have been so carefully tended and
no greatly treasured. If such a mishap
occurs, an exchange says: Don't hurry
them into a warm room, to thaw out by
the side of a stove, as you would frost
bitten chicken. Let them remain where
they were frozen; close the window shut
ters or drop the curtains, so as to make
the room quite dark; then sprinkle the
plants with cold water direct from the
cistern and wait for the result. Do not
allow the room to become warmer than
forty-seven degrees for twenty-four hours.
If a few drops of spirits of camphor are
thrown into the dish of water before
sprinkling, it will be all the better.
Plants treated in this way though frozen
30 badly that the water will freeze in
drops on the leaves when sprinkled, yet
by keeping the room dark AND cool for
entire day, they will come out un-
harmed"
Ten RULES FOR FARMERs.-We ask
all our farmer friends to read, and prac-
tice the following rules for one year, and
then tell US whether they are sound:
l. Take good papers and read them.
2. Keep an account of farm opera
tions.
3. Do not leave implements scattered
over the farm, exposed to snow, rain and
heat.
4. Repair tools and buildings at
proper time and do not suffer subse-
quent three-fold expenditure of time and
money.
s. Use money judiciously, and do not
attend auction sales to purchase all kinds
of trumpery because it is cheap.
6. See that fences are well repaired,
and cattle not grazing in the meadow, or
grain fields.
7. Do not refuse to make correct exper-
ments, in a small way, of many new
things.
8. Plant fruit trees well, care for them
and of course get good crops.
9. Practice economy by giving stock
shelter during the winter; also good food,
taking out all that is unsOund, half rot
ten or mOuldy.
10. Do not keep tribes of cats or snarl-
ing dogs around the premises, who. eat
more in month than they are worth in
lifetime.
WHAT THE FARMER SAVES BY Buy
ING FOR CAsH.-H. w. Dong, a Master
of a Florida Grange, has been talking
sense on this subject in this wise:
If we adopt cash system our mer
chants can furnish us our supplies at a
profit of twenty-five per cent; and sup
posing that we purchase our annual sup
plies in twelve equal instalments, our
merchants could operate upon one-tweltth
of the capital required under the pres
ent system. If we take the farmer who
purchases $1,000 worth of sup
plies annually from his merchant, who
makes profit of fifty per cent. by pay
ing cash for his supplies, at a profit of
twenty-five per cent. to his merchant,
we find that after adding interest to his
purchase money that his supplies for one
year cost him $S69.44, which is an annual
saving of $133.19.
A farmer dealing upon the above spec
flied basis can purchase seventy-five per
cent. of his supplies direct from the pro-
ducer at as low rates as his merchant
does, which amounts to $500 per annum.
The saving of twenty-five per cent. per
annum on that amounts to $l,085. BY
recapitulating this calculation, we find
that the farmer dealing under the pres
ent system has lost during the past seven
years the sum of $2,S93.32. BY paying
cash at profit of twenty-five per cent.
will save 81, 1879. By buying seventy
five per cent. of his supplies direct from
the producer, will in seven years save
$1.085. Amount total of lossess in seven
years, $5,111.51. Thus it is shown that
the farmer, who had the capacity to esti-
mate his ability to meet his liabilities
when due and who needed annually one
thousand dollars worth of supplies,
which cost the merchant six hundred
and sixty dollars and sixty-six and two
thirds cents, has actually lost during the
past seven years the sum of $5,11l.51.
Household Helps.