The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-06-14

INFORMATION FOR THE HUSBAND.
MAN AND HOUSEWIFE
Some Practical Suggestions for the Farmer
Stock-BIeeder, Pouiterer, Nurseryinan,
and Housekecper.
THE FARM.
Ii.S in fONCr.

Pigs raised on clover are becoming
very profitable. for people are beginning
to appreciate the difference between the
neat of pigs raised on diet of corn,
and those which are fed clover and
grasses. Where the swine are raised
upon Il large scale for the pork factories,
it doesn't matter much what Their diet
is, SO long as they grow rapidly and
increase in weight. 1t is quantity and
lot quality that takes. The great farms
OF the West. devoted to raising pork or
the market. are largely to blame for
bringing pork into disfavor. Many
people won't eat pork. for they think It
is unclean, and liable to contain the
germs of some disease. One cannot
wonder that III s impression has gone
abroad, when Stops and dnty dish-wat"r,
with com added. are supposed to be the
diet OF the pigs, whose time, when not
eating this filthy compound, is spent in
walloWing III DIRT.
In order to raise pigs for profit il is
necessary TO feed them food that Will
improve the quality OF the pork, as we'll
az increase the quantity. In the spring
of the year the question OF raising more
swine on the farm comes up anew, and
new nett DDS Of treatment of them
should also enter into consideration.
The farmer that gets the name of rlisin &
pork OF superior quality. never lacks
tor customers who arc ready to pay good
prices for it. There are those who are
wiling to pay fancy prices for high
grade article. In this age of deception
and fraud. city consumers are never GER
tain of what they are eating. unless they
buy direct from some farmer. Many
prefer 10 buy tEeir eggs, butter, milk
vegetables, fruits and meat, direct from
the producers. FOR then they know that
they are getting II genuine article.
Farmers. living close to large cities. can
find nothing more profitable than ~stab-
fishing Il name Tor raising nothing but
the best. and then charging fair prices
for all their products.
1t Is only recently that a change and
reform in pI g raising has generally been
known by city people. They are begin
ming to understand now that some of the
pork is raised from clover, grains, and
clean food. The ordinary swill com
pound has been superseded by a diet of
milk. clover. grasses and grains. Grass
fed pigs produce superior pork. and
they run less danger Of sickness. There
would be less mortality among the
swine il they We're given the range of
fields, aud allowed to root around in
the clean soil. 1t will not always pay to
enclose lAlBe pastures lof SWINE, W
some good system of soilin9 should be
adopted They should have green food
in summer, and roots, clover hay and
silage. in winter. Corn is probably
the cheapest ration for them, but the
pork OF such hogs is always fat, and
lacking III the flavor that always charac-
terlzes the clover-fed hog. The pen and
house for the pigs should also receive
some consideration from the owner.
for the filth OF such places has much t"
do IN breeding diseases, during the hot
weather. and also in taintIng he meat
They should always have decent pen
or house. and plcuty of fresh, clean
water near them. Those who raise pigs
in the best approval WAYS viii inevitably
find profit in them, and Will find that. III
the course Of TING, as his pork becomes
we'll known, the demand Will exceed the
supply. Practical Farmcr.