The Osceola times., 1878-01-05

This will do more to rid the country Of
this plague than all the patent nostrums'
in existence. With very little outlay
Of money and time you can build agood,
com tort.ble house ier your fowls. Let
it face the south, with windows TO give
light and warmth when the sun shines
Spend an hour each day in feeding,
watering and caring for your fowls.
Remove all the droppings every day or
two, preserving them carefully in
heap; your American guane viii repay
yeu for all the care and feed you give
your fowls. Keep your house clean and
we'll ventilated and you will have 2
plentiful supply Of eggs in winter as well
a. in summer, and the time that you
spend in the care of your fowls will pay
you larger per cent. than any time you
spend on the farm.-Psuifry Rerie'c.
swine.
Having lust delivered my last lot Of
hogs. which sold for eight cents per
Mound for all those about 200 pounds and
under, and for seven cents per pound for
those above 200 pounds, and having also
bought some young ones for another year,
feel free TO write few lines on swine
In general.
II Ia astonishing how much improve
ment has been effected in the whole swine
of the country. The Berkshire breed is
the most fashionable and, as Is the case
with the shert-horn cattle. extraordinary
prices are paid for them 10 those holding
particularly fAvorite strains, and though
there Is much bordering ON the ridiculous
in the absurdly high prices, 1t Is not
altogether folly, since, beside giving
greater renown to this particular breed,
Il causes q general respect for pure bred
stock. There are several other really
good breeds. and much Of the excellence
Of the best types has been attained by
high feeding followed up through succes
five generations. BY this remark there
Is no reflection intended on high feed
ing for, on the contrary, 1t would be Of
the utmost benefit to farmers If from the
birth OF every animal on the farm they
would all feed in way to force growth
and secure the very best quality.
There il no doubt shout the Essex and
the white breeds being possessed of all
good qualities, az also the Magic and the
red breed. In relation to the last men,
toned, can remember when there were
hundreds Of thousands of the reds, or, as
they were then called, sandy pigs. They
we're decidedly much more prolific than
hogs ia general are nowadays, for It was
rare " see q sow, after her first litter,
with less than twelve or thirteen pigs.
Fifty-seven years ago my father bad
sspdy SOW killed, which weighed forty
scores, 300 pounds. Thirty.eight years
ago | was steward for large landowner,
and had young SOW slaughtered, after
she had only had two litters, and her
weight was go pounds. Her mother, a
Yorkshire white SOW, was killed pre-.
| viously, weighing S03 pounds. The
mother was nine feet long, and the
daughter not eight feet, but she was
thicker and deeper. The last mentioned
had her pigs by an Essex boar, and won
q great many premiums at agricultural
fairs from this cross, the offspring Of
which were not large when full-grown.
like the ones mentioned above, but they
came quickly TO maturity. The progeny
OF this cross between the large Yorkshire
white and the small black Essex was
very good for fsttening at any age, tor
from the age of two months they would
be only Just able to waddle about, till xt
the age OF ten months the show pigs
became totally blind from an accumula.
ticn Of fat, and we're fed with balls OF
barley-mesl put into their mouths as
they sat upon their launches.
II is very certain that 1t will not pay
TO keep pigs running around in what is
called '"st0re" condition, but which ia
often altstsrved state; for, although
they cost but little Tor food, they pay no.
thing at all for that little whereas, when
fed well from the first, they pay all the
while, and by being kept in styes they
will 80 enrich any farm with their manure
as to bring it up to bear heavy crops.
Indeed, their droppings are richer in
fertilizing properties than those Of any
other animals excepting those fed on .
great deal Of oilcake. Swine are fattened
by great p roportion Of the best tenant
farmers in England on account of the
prodiyious crops which the manure from
fsttening hogs produces. So well is this
understood there that farmer is well
satisfied il the manure is all he gains for
the trouble; that is, II the hogs when
sold make enough to pay for the feeding
the farmer thinks the manure good
profit.
The worst of hog feeding in the west
and south 10, that the cultivated land is
robbed and Impoverished by giving the
corn TO the hogs either in the woods or in
places where the manure is all lost, and
If the present generation Of western
farmers could be allowed to revisit the
earth century hence, they would find
its inhabitants at that period lamenting
the ignorance and terrible selfshness OF
themselves, the spiritual visitants, when
they were in the fesh.-.Geo. Gardner,
| in Rural Nfp Yorker.