The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-02-19

other one thing. 1t causes corns, quarter
cracks, and contracted feet. Whoever pares
or allows to be pared herse's sole, brace OF
frog, and burns the foot with Q hot shoe, or
puts clips on the shoes in front or sides is
guilty OF cruelty to the horse whose foot Is
! 50 mutiiated. No frog, no foot; no foot no
horse.
swine Raising. e
A writer in one of our Eastern exchanges
| thinks that the prevalent disease, especially
what is called ''cholera," results largely
from breeding the sows too young and feed
/ ing too much corn. He says:
The general principles, or more properly,
| the general want of principles in breeding
and rearing swine for the butcher, INDUCED
in by a majority OF breeders, has q
| two-fold tendency for evil. First, we breed
too early; a sow of two years, not under, is
sure to have strong, healthy pigs, and the
mother is able to nurse them up to six
weeks, SO as to give them start not easily
lost, even by after neglect Then, when
sow proves to be a good mother In
every particular, she should be kept busy,
two broods year for 10 years. The time
lost the first two years is amply regained al
| terward.
Next, we grow hogs of a weakly character,
with every part of their systems so delicate
| that disease is invited and perpetuated.
This condition Is brought about by
/ feeding corn constantly, the most debilitat-
ing, fever-inyiting, stunting kind OF food
ever invented for any growing animal. Give
roots until maturity, good range, and corn
only in very severe weather, and while
/ fattening.
Hog cholera is the product of weak stock
multiplied by heating food; or, in a mathe-
NAUTICAL phrase, multiply drove of hogs by
as many constant beliysful OF corn, anu you
have the constant product-hog cholera.
Let the hogs choose between roots and
corn, and you will grow nine-tenths roots to
one-tenth corn the pork crop will weigh 90
| per cent. more IN the fall, be entirely clear
of disease, and, If fa.tened quickly, will pay.
900" hree"'ns hsse'
In this cold climate" says Alexander
Hyde in the New York Times, good breed
ing is almost as essential for the comfort and
thrift OF stock as is good food: Bismarck
puts new life into man. energy into the
horse, strength into the OK, milk into the
COW, and lard into the hog, but if half the
virtue OF the food is required IN Keeping up
| animal heat, and the other half in renewing
the wastes of the body, greatly increased by
every annoying circumstance, from whence
| Is the inspiration to come to stimulate
energy or secretion of fat. Quiet
rest and refreshing sleep are essential not
only to the thrift but to the very existence
of both man and beast Experiments prove
that animals suffer fully as much from the
| want of rest and sleep as from the want of
food, and every man knows that sleep, in
order to be refreshing, must be attended
by sense OF comfort. If the sleeper is
bones from lying on ropes or hard Stats
with a thin layer of straw over them, the
comfort and refreshment is small" Farmers
should exercise great care In bed
ding their animals during the in
clement season; and even in summer the
extra manure from tying Up and bedding
cattle will more than repay the trouble and
expense, besides being better Tor the STOCK
| LII straw is two expensive, saWdust makes an
excellent substitute and has no superior as
an absorbent; and leaves, OF which every
farmer may gather largo store in the fall,
! furnish soft bed Tor his dumb friends, ana,
though not SO COCO an ABSORBENT as straw or
sawdqst, Will greatly increase the manure
foou ior
writer IN the New \ ork. Herald says; III
mems are rIgntly cared Tor tney should pay
from 2oo 10 3Vo per cent proht as layers
Iney must NOT De stinteo as 10 space, nor
100 mauy kept together- IL conHneo aio"
at least square rod to each FOWL Let the
moor OF tne men mouse De Oh dry eartn, Win
pox OF DIRT and ashes Tor their SAND oath
Keep their quarters clean by removing tdeir
oropplngs az least three tunes week: BUCK
wheat ana wheat are the best grams, al
gwen Give cooked 1000 ID various ways
every day. Mush is excellent, as
also 1resn meat and scraps from the
Kitchen. Two or three times
week give fresn bones and ground
oohes WIN gravel ana oroKen oyster ShelIs
always WITHIN reach. Apples, caoDsge, tur-
nips ana onions, raw or cooked, VIII De rel
y leo. a good Houoan men viii average
. rom Ivy 70 10y egg per year; put 20 average
that mock must nave care. felck, sour
mllk or outtermlik Is an excellent article OF
alet tnrougn the heated ssason- Inc hou.
9ans are very prohnc, and wall STAND great