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How to Have Healthy Swine.

Carefully abstain from giving any
medicine whatever.
Keep large and small separate and not
more than ten in lot.
Feed regularly and literally variety
of Wholesome food, always some bulky
food, and let each feed be eaten up clean
before more is given.
p Give wallowing places, ashes, char
coal and salt, and plenty of exercise in
timber pasture yielding shade, roots,
nuts, acorns, etc. but no doubly soured
slops.
Provide ventilated shelters from wind,
rain and snow, but no litter. Hogs with
litter get too warm. If you wish dis
ease put yeur hogs 10 the straw pile.
Maintain cleanliness in all things.
from show herd. The offspring of i'm
mature or pampered animals is predis-
posed to disease.
Give pure water, from deep wells pro-
tected from surface water. Well water
is not freezing cold in winter nor luke
warm in summer. Water from creeks
(uuless fed by spring., ponds or pools, is
disease breed ng.
Pigs should be farrowed in early
spring and kept on only growing foods
milk, bran Stop, oats, green rye, grasses,
clover, sweet cora-until late fall; then
fatten rapidly, on corn mostly, but also
green rye, blue grass, pumpkins, boiled
potatoes and turnips with bran, steamed
clover hay, etc.--American A9ricuttur-
ist.
To Prevent Winter Killing of Wheat
Every spring when the crop reports
begin TO come in, more or less is heard
of winter killed fields of wheat. What
ever tends 10 prove this, helps to increase
the crop and the farmers profit. The
American Aariculturist gives the follow
ing upon this subject, which is worthy
of trying
The most effective and bene fetal mode
of preventing the wheat plant from
being injured or destroyed by the freez-
ing and heaving of the soil, is liberal
mulchirg, top dressing with fine manure
or compost from the barnyard, or slacKed
peat from the muck pile, to be evenly
spread over the fall sowed wheat field.
In autumn, when the ground is suifi-
ciently frozen to bear the wagon wheels,
spread just .hicll enough to have the
ground lightly covered, so that when the
soil freezes, cracks and heaves, the wheat
roots will be covered, protected, and not
torn out, but the mulch or compost will
fall into the cracks and cover the roots,
sheltering them from the effects OF the
weather. We have several times seen
fields which We're liable to freezing and
heaving. with wheat drill ed in, portions
of which were top dressed in autumn as
above directed, and on which full crop
of plump grain was secured, while on the
portion of the fields not mulched, in
every instance the crop of wheat was a
total failure, not showing straw or grain
enough to be worth harvesting. In fact,
the grain obtained from the top dressed
portions of the fields much more than
paid the cost of the operation; beside
the incidental benefits of this light
mu ching as surface manure, it was q
protection to the soil from scorching sun
rays of summer, and sheltered the Young
grass when the grain was cut off. In
fact, liberal, frequent. careful top dress
ing of fall sown grains as well as mead,
ows, is one of the most profitable and
reasonable methods for preserving fer.
tility of soils and protecting grains aud
grasses that farmers can practice, and
will be found always profitable.
The Care OF Poultry in Winter.
As the winter draws near aud the
provident farmer prepares food for hit
cattle, sheep and othe. live stock. il
will be we'll for him also to take into
consideration the wants of the poultry.
By looking around the farm many little
remnants of seeds and grain can be pu,
aside for their use. as for instance tht
seed from the sorghum stalks, the
scattered corn gathered up from the
floor of the corn crib before the new
crop is housed, and the trashy wheat
mixed with dust and chaff lett on the
granary floor when the last lag has beer
carried to mill.
During the cold weather as much Of
their food should be given to them warm
as possible: even the milk for them tc
drink should be warned. Last winter
the cook used to make mush of skim