Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-01-11

farmer keeps pigs principally tor the pu,-
,ose of turning his whey and skinned milk
TO good account. The grain-2ro"l's i"i"'-
ers, in the older settled parts OF the country
keen MOS to consume the Stops or the louse'
and to pick up scattered gram afoa'io t'e
barns and on the stubbles, ana 10 CONSUME
and turn into pork, small potatoes, ana
manv other articles that would otherwise
be wasted. At the West, where corn Is cheap
and the expense of sending it to Market
very great, pigs are kept for the purpose OF
spacking fourteen bushels OF corn lh'o IL
three bushel barrel" In the vicinity OF the
Atlantic cities, pigs are kept, or might NC
kent. for the purpose of manufacturing out
of purchased food, nice, fresh pork ana
rich. valuable manure. And, indeed, IN an
sections where pigs are kept, the value o.
the manure should be taken into consluera-
ton.
There is probably no more profitable
breed of swine il any country than the
Chester Whites, if the profit is calculated
upon the amount of meat produced from the
food consumed. They are also q breed that
can be fattened at any age, or, if kept, VIII
attain great weight. In breeding, we should
recommend a careful selection OF boar anu
sow. The boar should be less rather than
larger than the sow, and more compact IN
form: the SOW should have a broad, deep
chest, broad loin, large ham, good length OF
body, and fine bone. Keep from breeding
in and in. Always avoid letting your sows
have pigs until one year old, as we are sat
isfied that allowing sows to breed too young,
not only checks their own growth and Wig
or, but that Of their progeny also. We pre-
fer a boar one year old, or older, to breed
from, and think both continue to do better
for raising fine, large pigs until four to six
years old, unless the SOW gets too heavy ana
fat. 1t she proves a good mixer let her
raise two filters per year. We speak OF her
being a good mixer. This is as essential in
a breeding SOW as in a good mare. Such an
animal will raise better pigs, and, OF course,
her progeny will be better hogs for market.
a herd of common hogs may be quickly
and cheaply improved, by Introducing a
boar of any good breed, but of pure blood,
selecting a new one, not a near relation, but
of the same breed each year. Such a course
will give the herd all the characteristics OF
that breed in a few years but, il each year
a new breed is selected, thus changing year
ly, the attempted improvement will prove Il
failure ultimately. In and in" breeding
is another and fatal error in perpetuating
our best varieties, as no animal shows de-
teroration from that cause as soon as the
hog.
Farmers who desire to succeed in produc-
ing stock of any kind must make themselves
familiar with the unalterable laws of pro-
ere; ton and transmission, for they hold
good from the highest order of intelligence
that exercise dominion over the beasts of
the field to the lowest quadrupeds. There
fore, be wise to select the boar pigs for rails
pure-bred stock, for they possess the inner
ent power to transmit excellent points to
their oifspring.-An. Stock Journal.
HINTS 0 HORsE-OWNERs.-If a colt is
never allowed to get All advantage, it will
never know that it possesses a power that
man cannot control; and if made familiar
with strange objects, it will not be skittish
and nervous If Il horse is made accustomed
from his early days to have objects hit him
on the heels, back, and hips, he will pay nc
attention to the giving out OF a harness or OF
a wagon running against him at an unex.
pected moment. We once saw an aged la
dy drive a h~igll-spirited horse, attached to !.