The Lamar register., 1893-02-25
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
USEFUL INFORMATION ABOUT
FARMING TOPICS.
Device for Scaiding Hogs--To
Prepare Soils for Crops--Dres-
Ing Poultry for Market-.Why
Hens Don't Lay--Benefits
of Drainage--Notes
Device for scaldIng Hogs.

A Writer in the Orange Judd Far
mer, says: "The following apparatus
for scalding hogs has been used sue
cessfully in this community and is
found very convenient. Make a
trough five or six feet long and IA
inches deep, like the ordinary water.
ing trough except that one side has an
additional slope of four inches. The
side pieces project two or three inches
beyond the ends. The bottom is
covered on the outside with sheet iron
which extends part way up the sides
and over the ends. The space at the
ends OF the trough made by tacking
che sheet-iron to theproiecting boards
constituting the sides, is filled with
earth which acts as non-conductor,
keeping the end OF the trough from
burning.
Place the trough over a shallow
trench. Put earth along the sides to
close up any openings which would
allow fire to escape. Along the slop-
ing side OF the trough construct a
platform equal to it in height-an
old sled will answer very we'll. After
killing the hog lay him upon the
platform, double q 20 foot B-inch
rope, tie the loose ends together and
place the double rope under the car
cass. Run the tied ends through the
double on the opposite side, thus
forming two loops. Keep one of
these Just behind the fore legs and
the other before the hind legs.
Two men, one on either side OF the
trough, by taking hold of the
doubled ends of the rope can easily
draw the carcass into the water, let
ting it down gently to prevent splash
ing. While in the trough it can be
readily moved about so as to scald
all parts equally. To remove the hog
from the water lay the tied ends of
the rope across the platform, spread
ing them about 2 feet apart. Each
man places a foot upon one OF these
ends, pulling on the part which comes
over the carcass; the feat is easily
performed, Keep fire under the
trough to prevent the water getting
cold.
To Prepare Soils for Crops.
To prepare foul ground for corn,
says a writer in Farm, Field and Fire
side, take disk harrow and 60 over
the ground; turn the disk as much
angling as possible. Run the lister
as shallow as You can, and cover ali
the ground between the row, and run
the subsoiler about three inches over,
and drill fourteen inches apart in the
row.
Another way to prepare foul ground
for corn is to pillow the ground as early
in the spring as possible, let it lie un-
til time to plant, then go over it with
disk harr ow; turn the disks as much
angling as possible so that all weeds
that have started will be cut up; then
plant as soon as possible.
Another way prepare foul ground
for corn is to take a lister, remove the
subsoiler, and go over the ground as
soon as can in the spring, listing
about four inches deep, and three and
and one-half feet apart. Then let it
ridges with the lister, running the
lister, and follow with the drill.
My way OF preparing ground for
potatoes is to plow the ground in the
tall, then in the spring take lister
and make the place for the seed by
running burrows across the field about
tour feet apart; let the subsoiler go
about four inches below the lister.
Cover with a cultivator.
To put in oats after corn, l take
disk harrow and go oyer the ground
crosswise the way it was cultivated
last; then SOW the oats and go over it
the other way a couple OF times with
a slant-tooth harrow.
For millet or Hungarian grass, 1
plow the ground early, let it lie till
seeding time, then go over it with
disk harrow and SOW; then harrow
once.
Some Poultry Figures.
"The time has come when the in
dustries of the poultry business
should be recognized by this depart
ment," says Secretary of Agriculture
Rusk. "The poultry products of the
United States had farm value OF at
least 5000, 600, 900 last year, and no
,ess than 16, 900, 900 dozen eggs were
imported, at first cost OF more than
15 cents per dozen, or nearly 80, 5OO,-
900, while the average value OF i'm
portation during the past four years
has heen 50 o163o6 Snch facts eu-