The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-10-15
OUR RURAL TOPICS.
Some Practical SSuagestions for Our
Agricultural Readers
FARMERS THE MOST hDEpENDrNr MEN.

quit the paternal acres Ior lie IN the Clues
will Go well to peru carefuly: "One of the
great problems of our day is to furnish the
young men with remunerative employment.
The professions are all overcrowded. The
shopkeepers are by far too numerous. Agencies of
all classes are so multiplied that the occupants
tread on each others toes Clerks out of en-
ployment and willing to serve for pittance are
to be reckoned by the thousands. Bookkeepers
with hungry eyes are reading the advertising
lists in the vain hope of an opening for their
applications. Collectors, messengers, door
keepers, watchmen, conductors and the great
variety of Others already expert, seeking EN-
ployment in kidred callngs, are waiting anx-
iously for someone to engage them. Every
possible form of service that can be reckoned
in the list of genteel occupations is anxiousy
sought after my multitudes who have no other
provision for their daily needs The men who
have been trying to live by their wits must go
| to work at the bench or in the field of these
the soil offers the most remuneratve employ
ment. The mass of the unemployed must seek
sustenance from the bosom of mother earth.
Land is cheap and there is a wide area that
awaits the tiller. The back may ache and the
ohlh pliSjSI III tuC Suhs but Cdu NC
made without fear of failure if the laborer
will be faithful to his calling. 1t needs less
wisdom and forethought than patient industry,
and the man with cOntented mind may eat his
harvest in peace.
FEEDING OF HOGS.
| There are some things to be learned yet in
| regard to feeding swine BEAUTIFULLY. Every
| year hundreds of thousands are lost by the
| prevalent disease called hog cholera, which is
clearly caused by errors in feeding and manage
ment or by contagiOn from hogs diseased in
this manner. 1t is common custom for feed
ers of swine to force them to consume the ex-
crement of cattle which are fed i'll the corn
fields and often diseased, and thus COM
municate disease to the hogs. A large number
of Texan and Cheroke e cattle are thus fed and
hogs always follow them. These cattle as q
rule carry the germs of anthrax fever with
them, and their excrements of whatever kind
! are virulently poisonous No wonder the hogs,
compelled to devOur this poisonous filth are
infected with cholera which is closely related
to this disease of cattle, aud die by thousands,
and not only die, but poison the land and the
water, and convey the disease to others which
devour the rotten carcases that are left to
putrefy in the streams A reform in the
method of keeping and feeding swine is indis-
pensable if the observation-disclosures of the feeding
season is to be eradicateR-Times.
kEEP A RECORD OF YOUR work.
The following susgsSaion of The Dairyman
is without doubt excellent, and if followed
faithfully could not fair to be of great use to
| every intelligent farmef:'" Every young far
mer should have a small book conveniently
placed near where there is q light, and every
night before going te bed he should write down
in it few, very few, occurrences oil the farm,
that have taken place during the past "a hours.
If he has the courage to ask the other members
4 nft hn 30. T. H.
Cured, he will be able I'd preserve some inter
esting and valuable items that would otherwise
be lost. The little items Of record will be par
| ticularly valuable when they refer to the live
stock; as for instance, births, deaths and serv-
ice, the date of cows bsing dried off, evidences
of Sickness and, if,possible, amount of milk
| given and butter made from it, Items of these
| important facts will'beread and reread with the
! deepest interest after the lapse of any consid-
cradle time, such as'siR or eight months. One
| never tires of items Of comparison. wirile they
are of the greatest educating value to young
| men. They teach the young to reason about
these things and to value tho facts in prefer
| ence to the ordinary farmers method of guess
work.
HUsK YOUR CORN AT ONCE.
The Winter comes on apace, and its ap-
proaches are often more severely felt than its
direct attacks. 1t is now time to remember
that the husking Of corn should not be delayed
until the really cold weather sets in. The
present month will see the whole corn crop of
| the United States ready for garnering into the
crib and stack, but large proportion of it will
lie out through the rains and SHOWS of NOvem-
Der and December Too many farmers are
afflicted with the disease CT procrastination-a
| most costly disorder, and which in this respect
leads every year to much discomfort, some
troublesome sickness, and occasional deaths
from exposure on the damp, cold ground during
severe weather while the belated and thor
Oughlychilled farmers husk their corn. There
! is no reason why all the corn crop should not
DO husked in October during the fine days of
this beautiful month 1t would help very much
| to preserve the fodder in good condition and
add to its ordinary value for eding.-Erchange.
THE FARMERS BATH.
In an excellent article on the advantages of
frequent bathing, Colmans Rural World has the
following: "The first means of resting is to
make ones self clean. If more farmers realized
this, not SO many Of them would leave the
| harvest or the thrashing machine, or, covered
with sweat and dust of the day. eat hearty
supper and go to bed as soon as the chores are
done, sleeping III the same sOiled undergarments
| they have worn all day They always get up
tired. Why? Resting consists of two processes
throwing Oft the effete matter of the body and
aSsimilating q new supply OF fresh material
from the blood. Now when the farmer or any
body else goes to bed with the sOiled under
clothes Of the day, with his skin covered with
a thin coat of dust and perspiratiOn, the system
| can't get rid of its effete matter, because the
pores are clogged up; while the absorbents of
| the skin actually convey back into the system
the poisonous matter once thrown of, but
| which has been allowed to stay on the skin and
clothes. 1t should be the rule of all never to
go to bed dirty. For morning bathing cold
water is the most invigorating, but the tepid
bath is the right thing for the evening when
one is tired. And, unless one has we'll
appointed bath broom in afurnace-heated house.
| we recommend the sponge bath as the quickest,
neatest and most satisfactory method"
NOTELETs
- Chicago packs more pork than all other
cities combined. Kansas, City ranking second
Cincinnati formerly, the chief pork packing
city, is now exceeded by4everal other places.
French cheese lnaksrs aim to get $50 to
5000 yearly per cow. Fine stock, great care
and specialties in mapufatture are the means.
- Currant and godseberry cuttings from new
shoots, placed in rS0h ,earth, will now root
nicely. One inch and 0ne bud are enough to
leave above ground, with four or five inches
below.
- The number ofssfee;T laughtered for NUT
ton annually in hisilhuAtry alone is roughly
estimated at about ,12,MO, 0OO and from these
the great bulk of pulled" wool comes
- Cider should only be made from perfectly
clean and sound apples,to be good. Insist on
cleanliness being practicsa at every stage of the
making Fer preserving it there should first
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