The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
EARN AWE PRESIDE.

The NEAT HABITS OF SwINE.-It is a
prevalent belief with the majority of
people, says the New York Herald, that
swine are filthy animals, but no impress
sion is more erroneous. The truth is,
there is no other domestic animal that is
naturally SO neat and clean in its habits
as swine. The reason why swine have
had the odious reputation fixed upon the
race as being Gas filthy as swine," con-
sists in the fact that these animals are
usually confined in small pens or filthy
yards, where it is impossible for any ami
NAL to keep clean. Let swine have the
advantage of a spacious yard, and every
animal will deposit its faecal matter near
some corner. A sow having a large
brood of pigs will soon teach every one
to keep the feeding and sleeping apart
ments free from all droppings by going
to some distant corner to cast out all
fecal matter. Horses, mules, neat cat
tie, and sheep will not do this. They
will all drop their ordure and urine
where they feed and where they are
accustomed to lie down, until the floor
is literally covered with filth. Profess
sor Law, when alluding to the filthy
manner in which swine are kept, says it
is here that the pork raisers are most
frequently at fault. Fifty or a hundred
pigs are allowed to crowd together in a
filthy manur heap, a rotten straw stack,
or under a barn subjected to the dropping
of other animals, as we'll as their own
products. Their feeding troughs and
drinking water are SO supplied that they
can get into them with their dirty feet,
and they must devour the most obnox-
ious matter or starve. If, under this
abuse, disease is developed, the healthy
are left with the sick, as they will all
have it, anyway" and the result is usu-
ally a clean sweep. Hence, to avoid all
disease, and especially hog cholera, swine
must be kept clean. Protect them from
the hot, reeking bed of and close
sleeping place, where the emanations
from decomposing dung, urine, straw and
other organic matter are added to. those
of their own skins and lungs when hud-
died together in great numbers. See
that both food and water are clean, in the
sense of being free from disease germs
and from the microscopic particles of
decomposing organic matter, which with
I in the system, as well as outside of it,
furnish appropriate food for the disease,
poison and favor its increase, while they
depress the vital powers and lessen the
chances of the virus being thrown of.
No less important is the purity Of the
air, since the delicate membrane of the
5 lungs, perhaps more than any other, fur
nishes an easy mode of entrance for any
. injurious external matter.
Finally, purity of the blood can only
. be maintained by a healthy functiona
;. activity of all the vital organs, which in
+ sures the perfect elaboration of every
It plastic constituent of the blood and thu
excretion of all waste matters that hav,
!, already served their purpose in the sys
tenn. By perfect cleanliness the poison
: even if generated or introduced, will b,
! virtually starved out as surely as an ar
mXin a closely besieged fortress. Blu
it will be observed that this implies tn
separation of sound from diseased ami
mails, and the free use of disinfectant
(solutions of sulphate of iron and chlor
ide of lime, fumes of burning sulphur
= etc. to purify the air and other surround
ing objects, as well as the simple clear
o ing away of filth.
WHAT IT PAYS TO Do Coleman
Rural World: 1t pays to manage tn
is farm with economy, and this is brough
L about, not so much by economizing il
one important particular, as in many.
- will pay to keep the fence orners cleaE
,e SO that the grass will grow in them, an
SO that your neighbor will not take o.
a, tense because of the thistles and othe
to foul seeds that you allow to mature an
find their way into his cleanly keI
fields. 1t will pay to build cheap gate
- as they will saw enough valuable tim
in the busy season of the year to pay e1
lie penses of constructing them many time
lie over. 1t will always pay to have WOO
in and water handy and near the kitchen
at 1t will pay to build the dwelling hous
with the view of saving steps.
a. In constructing and ~remodeling the
at houses, farmers would do well to consu
ne their wives, for they would suggest ide,
ed by which the home could be made mol
he convenient. 1t will pay to use mol
paint, indoors and out. 1t will do to el
Cd courage the children. Give them an o
a. c~asional day for recreation. Give tt
av boys a colt or calf to raise, and let the
ne have the money it is sold for, to inve
tx in some way that meets your approve
Id 1t will pay to make home SO attract,
1t that it will always be pleasant for tt
at man to think over his boyhood days.
pleasant home will make better boys ar
~, better men. 1t will pay to supply IL
house with an abundance of good readir
5: matter, such as agricultural papers, ett
IN and as good a library as one can afor
1t will pay to plant and cultivate fru
~ trees of all kinds. Plenty of good fri
ZEE promotes health and longevity. Final
On it will pay to do all things we ha,
re- enumerated, and an hundred others tn
ID are now neglected which many of
lr. would do if we could only take time
think.
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he Household Helps.
id WASHINGTON PE.-One cup sug
at tablespoonful.butter, two eggs, four tabl
as ~spoonfuls sweet milk. one-haIf teasnoo