The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-13
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Fat and Lean Pork.


Some of our readers may think this
a contradiction. hut it is quite possible
to grow pork with that happy me dium
of lat and lean so much relished. The
greatest obstacle 10 1t is the general
method adopted in feeding pigs. They
are fed on food merely adapted to lay
on tat, and with a scant proportion OF
albuminoids to grow the muscles or
lean meat. Pigs have thus been grown
and fattened for 50 long time that
they seem to have taken on only lean
meat enough to hold the body together.
Except when on grass, the pig Is piled
almost wholly with corn, which is ex-
cessively rich in starch and fat. Some
breeds have become so constituted that
they will fat on grass. TIE pig, in its
natural state, does not get excessiy ely
fat. but is nearly as lean as beef ami
NAL. If young pigs are fed on nitrogen
Gus food, such as skinned milk and
grass, they will be found to grow
rapidly-extend the frame and muscu-
lar system, having only fat enough to
round out the body to comely shape.
Pigs should always be full fed; but this
does not necessarily mean examining
with corn, which merely piles on the fat
till the young pig becomes diseased. 1t
is this mode OF feeding for so many hum
dred generations that has transformed
our swine into lumps of fat with few
strings ofmuscle to tie the ball together.
To reverse this work of improper feed
ing will take some time, but it can and
must be done Witness the great
change from those overgrown fat hogs
which were Dragged of years ago,
but are now seldom seen, be-
cause the market does not call for
them. We do not undervalue corn
which is the best fattening food the
American in mer possesses; but we
should be glad to have them avoid its
free Ise in feeding pigs, and sub
stitute n more nitrogenous food, such as
oats, peas, wheat, bran or middlings, a
little oil meal, decorticated cotton-seed
meal. rye. bran or barley--any of these.
Corn may be fed sparingly with clover
or skinned milk. Our Canadian neigh
bors can raise fat and lean pork with
grass, peas, barley and corn. We must
have grass diet for pigs genera 'ly, and
with this grain may be fed. Farmers
sometimes forget that the pig is grass
eating animal as much as the horse. and
needs fibrous food to keep him healthy.
Nicely cured clover is relished by pigs
in winter, especially when raised on
grass. If you want fat and lean pork
strictly corn diet must be reserved to
the last stage of feeding. simply to
harden the pork; yet little corn may
be fed all through the life of the pig
only giving these other nitrogenous
foods with it. Pork grown in this way
is reished by most people. and will al.
ways find a ready local market.
No s,,,yN x,,-f, sot, ha,, 4 h.
above has ever been discussed in our
columns. At one time lard was the
most valuable of all the hog product
but it has ceased to possess exccptiona
value, and now the desideratum in porl
production is to bring about good de-
velopment OF fesE.-Honle Weekly.
Household Hints.
New linen may be embroidered more
easily by rubbing it over with fnt
white soap; it prevents the thread fro 1
cracking.
To remove grease from wallpaper lay
several folds of blotting-paper on tn,
spot and hold hot iron near it unit
the grease is absorbed.
To take ink out of linen, dip the inl
spot in pure melted tallow, then wasl
Ouo tIC ttiIoW anu GlC lin VIII COLl'
out with it. This is said to be unfail
ing.
If brooms are wet in boiling sud
once n week they will become yer,
tough, will not cut carpet, will las
much longer and always sweep like
new broom.
To remove rust from a stove-pipe
rub il with linseed oil (a little goes
good way); build slow fire at first til
it is dry. Oil in the spring to preven
it from rusting.
T, clean brass, immerse or wash i
several times in sour milk or whey
This will brighten it without securing
1t ay then he secured with woolel
cloth dipped in ashes.
Celery and It's Cultivation.
No vegetable improves more on &C
quamtance than celery. Farmers OF
ject to its cultivation on the ground tina
there is too much labor about it, an
this was a serious objection when tn
fashion was to cultivate it in trenches
but it is found that a plow makes a.
the trench requisite for the dwarf an
medium varieties, which are reall
more crisp, solid, and hetter fiavore
than the giant. Boston marke
celery can be grown with little NOR
labor than crop of cabbages, and a
it adorns the table, tickles the palatt
and tones the stomach, it deserves
wider cultivation by farmers than
| has secured.