The Red Cloud chief., 1881-02-17
Advice to shippers OF Hogs.

A CHICAGO commission salesman who
has twelve years practical experience
in handling hogs in that market, gives
the advice here condensed. which is
equally applicable to shipping hogs to
other markets also:
Ii hogs are driven to the depot the
farm dogs should be first securely
chained before starting them on the
road. Haste should. be made very
slowly in driving, They should be
started early without feeding from the
evening before, and should not show
any signs of uneasinesS, or stop fire.
quently for a resting; better by far
take n more day and handle them
safely. Overwhelming founders them at
once. or as oon as cooled down. If
the delivery be made by teams, there
should be no feeding that day; the
wagon should be bedded deeply with
dry hav or straw. and the teams move
slowly with occasional stops. that they
may rest from the jolting. When the
hogs have been collected in the ship
ping yard without having been over
heated. and are~well rested, weigh out
about 5000 TO H,0O0 pounds of heavy
hogs, according to the kind and size of
car; of mixed weights. 1900 to 10. 900
pounds; handle carefully. without more
''whoO,p and hurrah" than is necessary
to love them. Ii there are no scales
in the yard on which to weigh. count
OIL and estimate the average weight for
each car until you have your quota for
a load. then bed each car with at least
400 pounds of dry hay or straw IL
Your hogs are loaded the same day they
came from tho feed yard where they
were grown, do not feed any Nain.
Water, if thirsty. They will find the
new quarters. comfortable and all will
quietly sette down for a nap. and the
waking will not taxa place until their
arrival at the market. whether it is one
day, or n day and night, or wen two
or three DAYS. After 800 miles of con-
slant run they will be in comfortable
condition on arrival, without even q
cripple TO injure your interests. Hogs
should not be unloaded during the
colder seasons of the year oftener than
once i'm forty-eight hours, if their com
fort is only considered.-RHrai N.w
Yorker.
UNNATURAL food is the principal
cause of human degeneration. Ii is the
oldest vice. If we reflect upon the num-
Der of ruinous dietetic abuses. and their
immemorial tyranny over the larger
part of the human race. we are tempted
to eschew all symbelical interpretations
of the Paradise legend. aud TO aseribe
the fall of mankind literally and exelu-
sively 10 the eating of forbidden food.
From century TO century the same cause
has multiplied the sum of our earthly
ills. Substances which Nature never
intended for the food of man have come
to form a principal part oil our diet;
caustic spices torture q digestive or
gans; we ransack every cline for nox-
ious weeds and intoxicating fluids; from
twenty to thirty-iye per cent Of our
breadstufs are yearly wasted on the
distiilation of 8 hfe-consuming fire;
vegetable poisons. inorganic poisons,
and all kinds OF indigestible compounds
enslave our appetites. and among the
Caucasian Nations of the present age
sn nnexampled concurrence of causes
mas inside = passive submission to. that
slavery the habitual condition.-Dr. r.
u. Ospaid, tn Popular Science Monthly.