The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-18
Hay foFswine.

Few farmers are aware Of the fact that
hay is very beneficial to hogs, but it is
true, nevertheless. Swine need rough
food as well as horses, cattle OF the hu.
man race. To prepare it you should
have cutting box or %hay.cutter, and the
greener the hay the better. Gut "a short
as oa's, or shorter, and mix with bran
shorts or middlings, and feed as other
food. Hogs soon learn 10 like it and il
soaked in sWill or other slop food it is
highly relished by them. In winter use
for the hogs the same hay you feed your
horses and you win find that, while it
saves bran or other food, it pats on flesh
rapidly as anything that can be given
them. In summer the use Of hay can
be commenced as early as the grass will
do TO cut, and when run through the
~cutting-boI can be used to advantage by
soaking in fresh water until it sours.
Remedy for Chicken Cholera.
The following has been tried and
fouod eficaciou5: Blue mass, ! OF ;csy-
enne pepper, l o.; gum camphor, J or;
laudanum, l t%easpoonful. Mix well,
and make into pills of ordinary size and
give one every hour till purging ceases.
Give q t%easpoonful of brandy morning
and evening. For drink, take carbolic
acid l drachm, glycerine l o.. mix
thoroughly; add ! quart of water. OF
this mixture take two tablespoonfuls to
a gallon of water, allowing no other
drink. We give no brandy, nor any of
the mixture for drink, the pills alone
proving sufficient.
Rich Pastures.
You may keep the best Alderneys,
Durhams OF other grades, but you will
not succeed in getting a large AMOUNT Of
rich milk from poor pastures. II you
have an old WORKOUT pasture, try the
following plan: Plow in the fall and
the land with manure, which
should be spread broadcast the next
spring, and the field planted with corn.
Next season SOW with oats or barley, give
a top-dressing Of from thirty to forty
bushels Of Stacked lime to the acre, seed
down with orchard grass, timothy and
clover. The two crops will pay for the
lime, and leave you a rich pasture. All
old pastures need potash and nitre.-
Ashes spread on in the spring will fur
nish these ingredients more cheaply and
surely than any other fertilizer. Poor,
barren spots in an otherwise good pas.
lures may be made to bear my manuring
them well in the fall.
The best soil for wheat is where CT Y
predominates. A mixture of sand and
clay is the best clay for a succession of
crops, and sand for q bright, stiff straw;
but too sandy a soil is too porous for
wheat, although good spring wheat is
frequently grown on sandy soils. Muck
is not we'll adapted for the growth of
wheat, but where the land is rich wheat
will succeed on 4 variety of soils. There
is no better preparation fora wheat crop
than clover TUNED under, Nitrogen is
needed for the growth of wheat, and if
the urine of the horse or COW is applied
the growing crop early in the spring,
you may look for a good yield of grain.
DR.. Voelcker, after investigation,
found that the quantity of fertilizipg
matter left in the soil, and clover seed
had been taken of, was greater than
when two crops of clover hay had been
off when not allowed to go to seed,
and greater when two crops had been
taken off than when only one. From
this it appears that the clover plant,
while producing its seed, and afterward,
is still capable, when the character of
the soil is favorable, of bringing up to
the surface elements which increase the
fertility of the soil, and shows why a
crop Of wheat ig produced after
the clover goes to seed than when the
crop is removed for hay.