Rural and workman and "Ladies' Little Rock journal." (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1884, 1884-06-21


Indian meal and skinned milk thew will
grow rapidly until the corn is large enough
tor cutting. About the first of August, this
should be given as an additional ration. The
pigs will eat the green stalks and leaves with
the greatest relish after the ears have been
PIucked. It's an excellent appetizer, helps
the digestion of more solid food, and promotes
the thrift of the animals. Field corn may not
be quite so nutritious, but no better use can
be made of that, after the ears are in milk,
than to cut and feed it to fattening swine. It
costs much less to make pork in summer than
In cold winter weather. American Agricul-
turist.
It is not the hog that grows to the largest
size to which we should always look for the
greatest profit, for large hogs require time in
order to attain size, but the object should be
to secure stock from breeds that convert the
largest proportion of feed into flesh in the
shortest possible space of time The hog that
tulfils these expectations must be capable of
readily and rapidly digesting and assimilating
food. While much depends upon the quality
Of the food given, something depends upon
the breed also. A hog may be capable of
converting corn into pork, the cost of the pork
SO procured being but little, and yet the pro-
ductlon OF pork may be greater if the nature
OF the animal requires an extra feeding of
roots, or some other dietary food A hog will
often produce greater results from corn and
turnips than from corn alone, and cases have
been known in which an entire change of food
has given satisfaction, especially when the
feeding of corn was renewed The first de-
sideratum is to push the pig, forcing him in
growth. To do this the fattening process
must be ignored, as the bony structure Of the
animal must be attended to. In other words,
we must lay the foundation and secure the
framework before the carcass can be finished
The older the hog the slower the growth and
although an animal will increase in weight
faster at all early age than WhenY advahced,
yet theamaterials required for the production
of the excess, which is in favor Of the younger
hog, are naturally not the same as those re-
CURED for older ones Rural World.
SHEEP
This remedy for foot rot in sheep is saidto
be unfailing: Take equal parts in weight Of
red lead and pulverized blue yitriol; and
enough nitric acid to make a thick paste; after
pairing the hoof until all diseased parts will
be we'll exposed, apply with paddle. Sheep
should remain in house with dry floor twenty
four hours after being treated, unless the
weather is quite dry, when it is much better
to turn on dry, short sod; but care should be
taken to prevent sheep from crossing streams
or mud Three applications are usually
sufficient.
In many of the older portions Of the coun.
try sheep, for one reason or another, have
been crowded off the farms There are indi-
cations of a return to the wise practice Of the
fathers, when every farm had its flock. Says
Col Curtis, of the Rural New Yorker:
ASheep fit in 50 nicely upon the farm that
they can scarcely be dispensed with. They
have an advantage over other stock, mas
much as they may be made to furnish an in,