Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-06-10

Eat and Lean Pork.

Fat and Lean Pork.
Some of our readers may think this
n contradiction. but IL is quite possible
to grow pork with that happy me dunn
of fat and lean so much relished. The
greatest obstacle to 10 is the general
method adopted in feeding pigs. They
are fed on food merely adapted to lay
on tat, and with scant proportion OF
albuminoids TO grow the muscles or
lean meat. Pigs have thus been grown
and fattened TOR 30 long time that
they seem TO have tsken 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. The pig, in it's
natural state, does not get excessively
fat, but is nearly as lean as a 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 cramming
with corn, which merely piles on the fat
till the young pig becomes diseased. 1t
is this mode OF feeding for so many hun
dred generations that has transformed
our swine into lum ps of fat with few
strings ofmuscle TO tie the ball together.
To reverse this work OF improper feed
ing will take some time, but IL 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 "a mer possesses; but we
should be glad TO have them avoid its
free Use in feeding pigs, and sub
stitute more nitrogenous food, such as
oats, peas, wheat, bran or middlings, a
little oil meal, decorticated cotton-seed
meal. rye. bran or barley-anv 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 generally, and
with this grain may be fed. Farmers
sometimes forget that the pig is n grass
eating animal as much rs the horse, and
needs fibrous food TO keep him healthy.
Nicely cured clover is relished by pigs
grass. IF you want fat and lean pork,
a 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 nitrogcnous
foods with it. Pork grown in this way
is relished by most people. and will al
ways find a ready local market.
No more important question than the
above has ever been discussed in our
columns. At one time lard was the
most valuable of all the hog product I;
bu: il has ceased TO possess exceptional
value and now the desideratum in pork
production is to bring about a good de
velorment OF flesh. Home Weekly.
Heus,hoid HIrts.
New linen may be embroidered more
easily by rubbing ii over with fine
white soap; it prevents the thread fro n
cracking.
To remove grease from wallpaper lay
several folds of blotting- paper on the
spot and hold n hot iron near II until
the grease is absorbed.
To clean brass, immerse or wash IL
several times in sour milk or whey.
This will brighten 1t without securing.
IL ny then he secured with a wooden
cloth dipped in ashes.
To take ink out of linen, dip the ink
spot In pure melted tallow. then wash
out the tallow and the ink will come
out with IL This Is said to be unfail
ing.
II brooms are wet in boiling suds
once a week they will become very
tough. will not cut a carpet, will last
much longer and always sweep like a
new broom.
To remove rust from q stove-pipe,
rub il with linseed oil Ga little goes a
good way); build slow fire at first till
Il is dry. Oil in the spring to prevent
it from rusting.
Celery and It's Cultivation.
No vegetable improves more on ac-
quaintance than celery. Farmers OBJ
ject to its cultivation on the ground that
there is too much labor about il, and
this was n serious objection when the
fashion was to cultivate ii in trenches !;
but IL is found that a plow makes all
the trench requisite for the dwarf and
medium varieties, which are really
more crisp, solid, and better favored
celery" can be grown with little more
labor than n crop of cabbages, and as
it adorns the table. tickles the palate.
and tones the stomach, it deserves n
wider cultivation by farmers than it
has secured.