The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-11
FARM AND HOME.
Facts Gathered for Rural Readers and
for the Family.
A GOOD HOG PASTURE.

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A GOOD HOG PASTURE.
Many farmers seem never to have learned
or to have forgotten that the hog is grazing
animal, and that il can be kept cheaper and
in better condition dueing half the year on
grass and other green crops than on any other
kind of food. They keep their hogs in pens,
though they have great desire to get them
out and feed them on corn, which requires
a large amount of labor to raise, when the
hogs show marked preference Tor grass That
grows without cultivation. A hog is as much
entitled to grass during the summer as COW
is and will profit quite as much from 1T. AS
dairyman studies how to have good pas
ture for his mich cows, so raiser OF hogs
should study how to have good pasture for
his breeding and stock hogs. Too many FAR
mers-give very little attention to the food
their hogs receive till it comes time to COM
mence fattening then, when they are i'm
patient to stuff them with all they can de-
YOURS They seem 10 think that ii is only
necessary to give them enough to keep them
alive up to that time.
A good hog pasture should contain an
acre Of land for every five hogs, taking them
as they come. Clover will produce the most
food and the kind of green food that is best
relshed by swine. If il does not come for
ward very early in the spring. and as 1t is
liable to suffer from the protracted drought
that usually occurs in midsummer, hog
pasture should
true grasses Orchard green is highly praised
by those who have raised it for hog pastur-
age. 1t starts early. grows till late in the
season. bears frequent groupings, while 1t is
exceedingly tender. In Kentucky blue
grass Is the favorite grass for hog pasturage,
as it is we'll adapted to the soil and climate.
Glover does not do we'll in the south, owing
to the open winters and the extreme heat
duringsummer. A hog pasture should be
sown so that the grass will be cut one year
before the hogs are turned in, so as to insure
a tolerably strong soil.
EGGs-How INCREASED.
II an increase of eggs be desired in the
poultry yard, before large sums of money
are expended in the purchase OF everlasting
layers, we would recommend the system OF
keeping no hens after their first or at least
their second year. Early pullets give the
increase and the only wonder is that peo-
pie persist as they do in keeping up a stock
of old hens, which lay one day and stop
three, instead OF laying three days and stop
ping one. In some parts OF England 1t Is
the invariable rule to keep the .pullets
a great deal "a surprising work,
eggs. but not when the old hens are con-
cerned. They may put on fat but they can
not put down eggs. Their tale is told, their
work is done. Nothing remains to be done
give them a smell of the kitchen fire, and
the sooner they get that the better. OF
course there are some old favorites whose
lives ought to be spared as long as they can
send forth the representatives. Judicious
mating 10y which we mean the advantage OF
a comparatively youthful cockrel) may be
the means of even exhibition poultry making
their appearance from the good old hen and
upon which we have the exception 10 the
rule.
CABBAGE CULTURE.
The question is of frequent occurrence,
saws Landreths Rural Register, why can not
private families have head cabbage as early
as he market gardeners? Simply because
of imperfect culture and insufficient ma
nuring. The market gardener feeds his
cabbage crop without stint, and with the
rankest food; freque ntly plows in the ma
nure in the autumn, turns 1T up In the
spring and thoroughly Incorporates it with
the soil-piants early, cultivates deeply, not
simply tickling the surface with a hand hoe,
but uses the pillow and the horse hoe; that
can not always be done in the comparative
ly small family garden, but the spade can
be used, and that is the next best thing
Use it freely, dig deeply, and the result will
surprise those who have heretofore relied
upon the hoe alone.
HOG CHOLERA.
once firmly seated, can be cured, but we un-
hestatingly affirm that if prompt measures
are taken when the disease first appears in
the herd, a large majority of the hogs may
be saved. We say hogs knowing that young
pigs, when taken sick from any cause, can
only be saved by miracle. AS soon as the
disease shows itself in the herd, attention to
the following particulars as Imperative:
l. Remove the sick animals from the pen
to comfortable quarters and provide the
u.erd with fresh bedding and ample protec-
x;On from the weather.
q Avoid feeding corn Ia any form. Feed
the sick animals with milk exclusively, or
milk mixed with little milldlings, and the
entire herd with shorts, middlings, ground
oats or rye. IL the food car be cooked, so
much the better.
s. Let the entire herd have ready access TO
pnre water, and keep constantly in the yard
pile of charcoal and ashes
4. Keep in mind constantly this general
truth the hog is a cleanly brute which en-
lows and pays for clean quarters, and es-
peciaiiy his nature, no less than mans, de-
mands proper supply of heterogeneous foods.
Only q week ago we heard a careful farmer
and we'll known Berkshire breeder assert
that after much experience, he had no long
er any dread of the hog cholera. for he could
cure IL with new milk.-Professor Shelton.
The Househesper.
ABOUT swEEPISs..
0Nothing seems more rare than to find a
person who understands the philosophy of
sweeping properly. Almost every one, on
beginning to sweep, opens doors and win
dovs, with the avowed object of letting the
dust blow out" OF course some dust blows
out, but at the same time more dirt is raised
mp in the air from the floor, and carried
into every crevice hitherto cleaned, perhaps.
That this IL wrong all well trained house
keepers know. The air should be kept as
still as pssS.bIs, an &c 5Icom moved near