The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-07
FARM, GAR.DEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hints s.nd Information of an Agrieui-
f,nraI and Domestic Character.
now TO KEEP HOGS HEALTHY.

HOW TO KEEP HOGS HEALTHY.
Correspondence Colman's Rural World.l
About five millions of hogs were slaugh-
tered the season that has just closed. ms
is about one hundred and twenty thousand
head more than were slaughtered IN 1910.
Probably no farming business is paying pet
ter than at the present time than raising
hogs. 1t behooyes farmers to begin now to
make arrangements to produce good lou
of hogs for fatten5ng purposes Tor the iall OF
1871 1t will pay TO get good hogs, to take
good care of them, and use ev-
cry precaution to keep them in perfect
health. If one has scrawny, ,ickly pigs or
hogs hanging around the premises ne should
knock them in the head-for they will in
feet the balance-or have a hospital in
which they can be put and fed and medi-
Gated separately from the balance; and keep
them there till they become thrifty. We
have no doubt that hundreds of thousands
of hogs that have died the past season might
have been saved if few sickly, scrawny,
fore they contaminated the rest. The
very moment farmer discovers
ANYTHING the matter with the pig or hog on
his premises, he should kill it or separate it
from the herd. If this practice Is followed,
there will be very little loss by hog cholera,
so called, or any other disease. Whatever
the disease is that has carried off our hogs,
it is as contagious as the measles or small
pox, and the very first symptoms OF any
thing wrong with single animal should in
duce the farmer to use the greatest vigilance
to keep unhealthy hogs away from the bal
ance of the herd.
TOMATO CULTURE.
A correspondent of the Fruit Record
writes: mot long since was reading an ar
ticle on this subject in a very noted work on
Garden Culture in which he says not to
have the ground rich, for says he, the
plant will vine too much and not fruit
Nv experience has been the reverse. My
plan of cultivation is as follows: plough
or spade my ground deep, pulyerize 1t thor
oughly. first having it very rich lay off four
feet each way, and with a shovel throw out
the earth to a depth of one foot, which
fill with a compost of hen ma
nure, unleached ashes and surface SOIL
putting about an inch of soil on top; pro-
cure stakes four feet long and drive down
near the edge of the hole; set plants in CEN
ter of holes, which should be one foot in di-
ameter. AS thu plants grow tie them TO
stakes Now the main thing is TO stir the
soil and pinch out all laterals or suckers,
like tobacco raisers do tobacco. When plants
get to top of stakes pinch out the tops-be
sure to keep them well tied to stakes. If
those who are in the habit of reserYing their
poor soil for tomatoes will once pursue this
plan, they will not only be convinced that
it is a good one, but will never after plant
tomatoes in poor soil"
COWS AND MILK.
The art of feeding our cows so as to pro-
duce the greatest quantity and the best
duality of milk is neither understood nor
practiced generally. An experienced writer
who says that one good cow gives all the
milk that is needed in family Of eight per-
sons and from which COW was made 260
nO1ndS of bntter last wear gives q follow
ing as his treatment He says: IF you de-
sire to get large yield of rich milk give
your COW every day water slightly warm,
slightly sailed, in which bran has been stirred
at the rate of one qua TO two gallons of
water. You will find if you have not tried
this daily practice, that your cow gill give
% per cent. more milk Immediately, under
the effects of il, and she will become so at
tached to the diet as to refuse to drink clear
water unless very thirsty; but this mess she
will drink almost any time, and ask for
more. The amount of the drink necessary
is an ordinary water pail full each time,
morning, noon and night.
SUGAR OF MILK.
In Switzerland the preparation of sugar of
milk for commerce has become an impor-
tant industry, and is the source of consider
able income. In America 1t finds its way
into the swill tnb and is fed TO pigs. 1t is
tant elements of milk but few persons are
apprised of Its nature and the manner it
appears Ifmilk is boiled down and large
proportion of the water which it contains
allowed to evaporate, a certain portion of
the residue will finally appear as dry
solid, and OF this mass sugar constitutes
one of its chief elements in the proportion
of about one-half its weight. 1t can be elar-
flied like cane, maple or beet sugar and
crystaliZes harder than other sugars. Ii is
less saccharine, however, than any otbar
In this form il undergoes but little rhan5e
As it exists in milk, it is not only suscepti.
bic to change, but is probably the cause of
the rapid changes which milk passes
through by its rapid absorption of oxygen,
or upon its exposure to the air. and Il is also
the cause OF the rapid fermentation which
axes place.
ONION GROWING.
In an address delivered before thu Michigan
Pathological society, DIR. Gulley gives the
following: A good ordinary yield is from
500 to 600 bushels to the acre. We have
raised 2, 800 bushels on 214 acres, but it was
a remarkable season and we used a large
quantity of old manure. Taking the aver
age of the last ten years they have been a
most profitable crop yet they do not always
bring golden showers. as the following state
ment from part of last years crop shows:
account Nth eight acres of onions, gro5cn 1875
DIR.
10 1OO W
To drawing on manure, spreading,
Plowing, preparing ground and SOW
lO6 W
To cultivating and wedding. ~..... 80 o.
To harvesting and loading cars..-......... Dol 90
To 80 lbs seed at 144 OC
To freight to 70 "
To interest on value OF land............... 80 u
Total cost.......-.............. Oh OC
CIR.