Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-11-03
Earn NOTES.


The nice point in raising pigs, says an
exchange, is to keep them growing.
This Is easily accomplished by feeding
the SOW beautifully upon nourishing
slops; but the time comes very early in
the life of the pig when it is impossible
for the SOW to supply nutriment for a
large litter as rapidly as they are ca
pable Of assimilating the food. Pre-
pare for this by providing a trough
apart from the SOW, to which the pigs
can have access, and commence by
giving them q little new sweet milk,
which they soon learn to drink greed
lily; this is gradually changed to skim
milk, then to sour milk, buttermilk or
whey, with crumbs of bread, scraps
from the kitchen table, etc. As the
pigs grow older feed corn meal cooked
into q mush and mixed with whey,
SKINNED milk, and other house slops,
and, finally, soaked corn; by which
time they are old enough to take kind
ly to grass and clover, and this, with
the soaked corn, will keep them gIow-
ing rapidly.
Prof. D. d. Bishop. an able writer on
Jersey cattle and an intelligent breeder,
says "as you draw quart after quart,
your amazement finally takes the form
of wondering how that milk gets
there, but as yoR trace out those fine,
well-de6ned milk veins you no longer
wonder; you exclaim, she is a double
harrallod n0D a ro0,,Iov ,o,,S-;,,oroa
for tactical irrigation, and she has the
three great physical requisites; ample
storage capacity, fall channels of sup
ply, and great digestive power; also
In her own physical construction and
constitution she is a perfect MAGAZINE
or vital and provocative forces, assim-
iative energy forming that well bal.
anced organization well worthy of the
richness Of the blood that courses
through her fine veins"
Southern Live Stock Journal:
There are many readers who doubt
the fact that second crop Of water
melons can be made upon the same
vine by clipping of the vines 6 or 8
inches from the main trunk after the
nrst crop Of melons have been exhaust
ed. Old man John Hall, one of the
most industrious, sensible and hon.
est colored men in this country, and
who Is an excellent farmer, has this
year raised two crops as above stated.
We saw the patch and ate some of the
melons. The vines were well worked
the second time and bore a heavy crop.
but the melons were net 80 large as the
first crop.
Rural Messenger: A flock of sheen.
like the more popular form of "securi.
ties" yield semi-annual return to the
holder. During the spring months he
clips his feecy coupons, while thcus-
and woOllen manufacturers stand ready
to cash them at sight. A few months
later another handsome return is made.
as the lamb crop is turned into money.
or passed to the account Of capital
stock" And so on, constantly aug
mentiDg, steadily paying. But here
the comparison ceases. The sheep
adds to the wealth Of the world, while
the bond but takes one man to add TO
Wiz WCoASA VI duObucIs
American Poultry Yard: The best
breed of fowls would never satisfy the
man who did not take an interest in
them. Fowls muct have care and at
tention just the same as any other live
stock. 1t is foolish and unwise to
think they can find their own living
and at the same time yield fair profit
to the owner. Good, clean, pure wa
ter and food Of reproducing and
nourishing constituents, fed regularly
and wisely, will pay the owner of the
flock, no matter what may be the breed
or pedigree.
A cockney, after dilating on the su-
periority of English over our poultry,
said he was "hastonished at the hex
emplifications of hignorance displayed
by the Hamerican people in the raising
of ems"
The Aberdeen (Miss.) Examiner says
that a greater area of rye will be
sown down in Monroe county this fall
than ever before in her history. This
is we'll.
Again we say, SOW rye. Nothing
equal to it for winter grazing. A good
rye pasture insures plenty of rich milk
and butter.
A farmer of Clyde, Allegan county,
Mich, has raised 5000 bushels of
onions on six acres of swamp land.
Fat cattle are always in good de-
mand; common stuff are a drug in the
market and do not nav for raiain0