The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-13

bonner, of the n. Y. Ledger. has
bought the 4-year old roam geldinp
Keen JIM" which recently made
2.264, 2.24! and 2.265. in three straight
meats. winning the title of the fastest
4-year old in the world.
The land owners of Kansas have
put into service the tenant-.'share"
system. which has long been common
III North Carolina. though the North
ern papers speak of it as the s.newest
industrial feature in the world"
Large tracts of prairie are plowed.
seeded and harvested by the poorer
emlgrants at a stipulated sum-, or
share, pei acre, paid to the owner.
The fees in the Swazev case
claimed by Messrs. Brewster. of Phila-
delphla. were only the small sum of
$1,000, 600. The claim being referred,
they We're allowed 500. 900. besides the
referees expenses. The Neus appo-
sltely suggests that Messrs Brewster be
asked If they will take tie railroad as
part pay, and what time they will
grant on the remainder.
1t Is something new for editors to
oHer premiums at Fairs, for they are
supposed to no more than their share
III free advertising, &c. But it goes
to show that the craft is willing to
practice It's own precepts in
ing such associations. Brother Bonitz.
of the Messenger, makes a really liberal
of1er OF 10 subscriptions, an IS album,
anu a 70 cook-stove, to young ladies
who shall compete for best sewing and
bread-maklng at Sampson County
Fair. If he We're not the halloween
of a pretty fair of junior Messengers.
We should suspect him of designs
on the fair sex.
Bro. Mcdowell, of the Home. has
been presented with a fine Chester
white pig. by a stock raiser in Penn
S~yivanla. He has named the little
carpet-bagger Young Granger" and
says he differs from "many of our
breeds whose shouts seem formed for
the express purpose of drinking but
termilk from a jug" Apropos the
same subject, he writes With the
cold weather, the squeals of butchered
hogs, and the odor of sausage meat
and rended lard pervade the land.
The boy who will not get up before
day to watch the killing Of the fatten-
ing hogs and take part in the scalding
and warm himself by the big log and
rock fire. is too trifiing to raise. If he
is too lazy to get up at hog killing
time, there is no hope for him."
1t is we'll that Mahometan belief
does not prevail in this country, else
we might be over-run by wild swine.
Few persons can imagine the rapidity
with which the hog increases under
o~rdinarially favorable circumstances.
Marshal Vauban estimated that the
progeny of a common SOW in ten years.
assuming six pigs at a litter. would re-
suit in a herd of 6,434. $50. This will
accoun for the fact that III country
| continues we'll Sto1hNN WIN
Notwithstanding the enormous guam
titles consumed from year to year.
We learn from an official statement
that from March to November of the
present year no less than ? ,539, 300 hogs
were slaughtered by the packers Of
the Western States. Yet this was on
lv a dip in the dish of National hog
Staying.
"A French agricultural journal, the
Busse Cour, describes the result of
some experiments in potato-growing
recently conducted by scientific men
in Germany. in which it is demonstra-
ted that the eyes at the top of the
potato produce a much more vigorous
offspring than those in the lower part,
and the consequence is that those az
riculturists who cut their potatoes in
half before planting them are not
we'll advised in cutting them vertical
". but should always divide them
horizontally, planting the upper half
and using the other as food for cattle.
But the best plan of all is to plant the
tuber whole, cutting out, nevertheless,
all the '.eyes" except those IN he top
part. We publish the foregoing for
what it is worth.
Bad Policy.