The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-22

stronger assimilation Of the food, ana con-
~sequently a saving, the nutrition being NOT
in proportion with the quantity
but rather OF that digested; a part also Is
found in the dung, which will acquire an
extra value by it; the milk also being OF =
better quality, and il imparts to the outcnefs
meat a very appreciable flavor. Insi Oh
sheep said to be pre-salted has no other
cause.
FEEDING FOR PRoFIr.-The feeding OF a
pig through winter keeps him alive. There
is no growth, or very little. The feed is
therefore, no better than wasted, and 1t
can not pay to feed a pig over winter to
make an additional amount of pork. A
March pig, that will weigh 200 to $50 pounds
at nine months old, is the most prontaDie
one that can be fed. And a we'll bred pig
can be made to weigh this 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 5OO
pounds or less. If nine months feed OF a
young pig makes 200 pounds o! pork, 1t can
not pay to iced a full grown pig, that needs
twice the feed, twelve months TO make the
same quantity.
A fact which can not be too frequently
impressed on the mind, says The Science OF
Health, is "that the psrnicious habit OF
breathing through the mouth while sleep
Ing or walking is very hurtful. There are
many persons who sleep with the mouth
open, and do not know it. They may 20 To
sleep with it closed, and awake with II
closed, but il the mouth is dry and parched
on waking, it is a sign that it has been open
during sleep. Snoring is another sure sign.
This habit should be overcome. At all times,
except when eating, drinking, or speaking,
keep the mouth firmly closed, and breath
through the nostrils, and retire with a hrm
| daforminafinn To cOnnnar- The nOStrlls are
the proper breathing apparatus-not the
mouth. A man may inhale poisonous gases
through the mouth without being aware OF
it, but not through the nose"
CORN AND HoGs.-From carefully con-
Quoted experiments, by different persons, ii
. has been ascertained that one bushel of corn
will make a little over ten and one-half
pounds of pork, gross. Taking the result
as a basis, the following deductions are
made, which all our farmers would do well
TO lay by for a convenient reference:
When corn sells for 15X cents per bushel,
pork costs IL cents a pound.
When corn costs IL cents per bushel, pork
costs 2 cents a pound.
When corn costs % cents per bushel, pork
costs 3 cents a pound.
When corn costs SO cents per bushel, pork
!, costs cents a pound.
When corn costs 90 cents per bushel, pork
!, costs 5 cents a pound.
The following statement shows what the
farmer realizes on his corn when in the form
| of pork:
When pork sells for 8 cents per pound it
brings % cents per bushel in corn.
When pork sells tor 4 cents per pound 1t
brings 80 cents per bushel in corn.
When pork sells for 5 cents per pound il
q brings 40 cents per bushel in corn.@Jour-
. nal of Agriculture.
I PEARS On QUINCEs.-We think a majority
3 of fruit men in Southern Ohio, Southern In
> diana, and in kentucky, who have had ex'
perience in dwarf pears, regret to-day that
n they had not planted out standard pears in
stead. And yet there are advantages in
/ growing pears on the ounce on account o.
earlier f%ruittulness. The question ther
Z arises, how can it be done in the best man.
Der2 We are to remember that the quinct
delights in a moist soil. Ounce roots do no
d run so deeply in the earth, or ramble so IA
as pear roots in searching after moisture
Therefore, when pear trees with ounce bot
toms are planted on dry soils, success Cal
scarcely be expected. That is, unless the sol
y is trenched and mixed with stiff clay anC
d straw, or forest leaves. And then, eacl
n season after the heavy spring rains, the sur
face soil should also be thoroughly mulched
81 that the moisture in the ground may b
retained. On rich clayey soils, not NATURAL,
dry, and properly trenched and mulched
- dwarf pears will usually be found to do well
II cincinnati Gazette.
- SUGAR BEETs FOR SwINE.-An expert
ment was recently made in New Hampshir
le upon a Suffolk pig, wherein sugar beet
Is were largely employed in fattening. TIL
animal was about a year old, and the feed
GO ing on boiled sugar beets, tops and root
began on the 10th of August, and was cor
ID tinued three times a day until the first
y October, after which ground feed was giver
r consisting OF two parts corn and one {
sp oats, three times a day, till the animal wa
Ia slaughtered, the meal being nike
r with cold water. The result was, o
<. the 10th of August, when the sugar bee
er feeding was begun, that the weight was sc
g. pounds; September 1, $50 pounds Octobe
az l, $50 pounds; November l, 500 pound
In This is the substance OF the statement givel
by which we perceive that the increase ii
is last of August, when fed on boiled sugs
"a beets, was at the rate of two pounds per da,
- The same rate of increase in the same Toe
30 continued through September. When fe
d, on ground corn and oats, made into col
I'd slop, the gain for the next so days was lie:
e. than a pound and a half per day.
m FRESH BEEF FOR FARMERS FAMILIES
RIO correspondent of the Indiana Farmer stat.
ne that the way they manage matters in Parl
n county, Ind, is as follows: Eight of
a form a company and enter into the folloy
~ ing (verbal) agreement: Each one
,st furnish, dress and distribute one small bee
lal to weigh about 300 pounds; thus each Oh
has furnished at his door from thirty-tive
forty-ive pounds of fresh beef ea'
= week. We cast lots to see wi
" shall kill the first beef. No. l killt
ng first this year. No. 2 will kill first e.
ID year, and so on. We enter each mans u
in a book in the order in which they a
. drawn, and under each name the kind
lat on. gett;no the diTarent narts of the be
his duri1C the season. If one of the sbar
ole boIdars has a small fanoiIv he can oct
is nnrfnar ord di,ridn 70 rniI thnrnanIraa M