The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-12-11
AGRICULTURAL.


Reply:-Clip the hair short and apply
blister composed of one part of biEiod-
ide of mercury and ten parts of simple
cerate. 1t should be applied in the
morning, and the horse tied during that
day, SO that he cannot reach to interfere
with the mouth. Towards evening tie
the horse as usual. Anoint the place
daily during a fortnight with some sweet
oil. After that time the blister may be
repeated. The horse should be tied
short only during the day of blistering.
When weather permits, he may have
liberty out doors during the day.
Rock FALLS, ILL.,, Nov. 25.
How many pounds of hog will bushel
of corn make, as hogs are commonly
managed by Illineis farmers? How many
pounds with good care and good breed?
Farmers guess all the way from seven to
ten pounds to the bushel of sixty pounds.
How much will good ripe corn shrink
from the first of December to the first of
April2 How much from the first OF Dec.
to the first of Sept. S..
Answer:-The usual estimate among
farmers is that a bushel of corn will
make ten pounds of pork, as hogs are
commonly fed in the western states. But
with a good breed and iudicious manage
ment, much better results can be obtain
ed, as has frequently been demonstrated.
AS high as twenty pounds of pork have
been obtained from bushel of corn in
| some cases, which are exceptional, but
cases are not rare where twelve pounds
have been obtained from raw corn fed in
the ear. In regard to the shrinkage of
ripe corn, SO much depends upon circum-
stances that no definite or satisfactory
answer can be given. 1t can only be APP
| proximated.
A letter appears in the London Times
| from Mr.. Thomas Scott on the demand
for wheat and the sources of supply. He
thinks that England will require at least
100000 or. to supply her wants;
France wants 100000 Or; Italy, $780,
900 Or; Belgium, Switzerland, China
and the West Indies, 100000 or. each
together 100000 Or; Austro- Hun
gary, Germany, Spain and Portugal, L.
100000 or. each-together 100000;
Holland, 10000 or. These show an
aggregate want of 37,25O,OOO or. The
estimated surplus after repeated revision
| up to the beginning of the month, are
now set down as under: United States
and Canada, "a, OO0,O00 Or; Russia, s.
100000 Or; Turkey, Egypt, India and
Australia, 100000 qu.; and Algeria,
100000 qr-together 32,2OO,OOO Or,
which is 5,050,000 or. less than is requir-
ed for ordinary consumption. This cir
| cumstance, he says, more than any of
| which we have any record, shows clearly
that the owners of wheat are in favor
able position for holding it. Three
months ago the average price of home
grown wheat was under 40s Or; now it
is 49s I'd in spite of the greatest importa-
tons during the last two months ever
known, ranging from $50, 900 to 1000
| quarters per week, which latter quantity
is at the rate of more than double our to-
tai consumption.
When to feed corn for fattening hogs.
This question has been asked and ans
wered many times, with varying results,
according to the breed, the care and at
tention, the shelter, time of year, etc.
Store hogs in healthy condition and of
good breed should lay on pound of ad-
ditional weight for every five and six
tenth pounds of merchentable corn fed to
them, and will do it on the average, with
reasonable care. When they do not do
it we think there is defect somewhere.
If the above statement, which in our
experience we have verified, be true, one
| bushei of corn-a part meal and fed as
| slop, and part, all the animal will eat
in the ear or shelled changing frequent
ly-should make ten pounds addition to
the weight. Ten bushels of corn will
then represent 100 pounds of pork. The
following conclusion is then reached: 1t
pays, when corn is worth Soc per bushel,
to convert it into pork when it sells for
50 per 100 pounds, as the manure will
abundantly pay for the care, when prop
erly saved. So when corn is 40c, pork
should sell at 81 per 100 pounds; corn at
soc, pork So; Coo, pork Sc; corn T5c,
pork should sell at $3.50. When corn is
worth $3.50, pork must sell at $15 per
100 pounds. If the pork sells for less
than is thus represented by the CORES
ponding price of corn, it is fed at loss;
if more, the advance is proft-in each
case regarding the manure as pay for the
| trouble.
Fattening is accomplished most profit
| ably as the cool weather of autumn adj
vances, the animals having plenty of
water or mud in which to roll when they
choose, with good shelter and warm
querters in which to lie. The feeding
place should be kept clean, and corn in
the ear or shelled fed night and morning,
as much as they will eat up clean, and
slop or meal at noon, with pure clean
water night and morning. The fatter
they become, the closer their quarters
may be. In the early stages of fattening
they need room for exercise, with wheat
bran, charcoal and sulphur occasionally
| to keep them in condition and increase
the size of bone and muscle, for when
| quite heavy they need only rest.
No true horseman would willingly see
the life of valuable animal imperilled
by fostering cut or sore. Where such
exists, whether upon man or beast, it is
i'll 10 l. al