Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-08-08
CLOVER BEST FoE HOGS,

Clover is the best crop that a man
can raise, and to handle hogs on farm
with profit you should have plenty oil
clover. The clover pasture should be so
arranged with fences so as to be in small
pastures, so as not to have too many
hogs together and that the hogs can eat
down one field; then turn them into a
fresh field and let the first field rest.
This will pay for all the extra fencing,
as hogs will not need a high or strong
fence when we'll cared for.
would suggest, says ]. p. Pressler,
of Curran, ILL.,, portable fence, such as
rails. = A pasture of twenty acres or
more of clover in one field and hogs
enough to eat it will waste and run over
good deal of it, where twenty acres in
four fields of five acres each will feed
twice as many hogs and do better, and
give a man a chance to sort his hogs ac-
cording to age and size. A bunch of
hogs Of all ages and size running in the
same pasture does not look SO we'll as
when graded. 1 regard clover as tho
king of all grass for hogs and for money
making. have now one hundred acre,
on my farm that sowed last February
in wheat, I got a good stand ard cut and
threshed 2O77 bushels of good wheat,
and pastured fifty head of horses and
cattle three months.
know of one man here that cut
crop OF clover after crop of wheat, aad
made two bushels per acre and sold it
for Sc per bushel last October. A, fos
fertilizer, Cover cannot be eau1l.ed. The
yield of corn in thus country has been
increased twenty bushels per acre by It's
Use. If a man can't make clover and
logs pay he has missed his calling, but
rou must give both your attention; il
'ou eat the clover field too bare and
cave no stubble to protect the roots
1our clover will winter kill, and If you
et your sows have their pigs in straw
Itacks. brush piles and hillsides you will
loon be at your roads end.
The poorest land sown to clover, and
few good Chester White sows we'll
Jared for, will build up the land, raise
-FOUR family and buy you a good home.
If should try to raise hogs without
rlover would want an interest in mill,
lhe other fellow to furnish the wheat
and l 60 the grinding, for to buy Iuill
Iced out here in Illinois, bran at seventy
cents per hundred and shipstuffs at eighty
cents per hundred weight, would not
want very many hogs if could not have
clover. And with good Chester White
lows and little corn and cover can
raise hogs with very little trouble.
p,ral JVorld
now TO PROTECT FLOWERS AGAINST HENS.
Every year I have had unlimited tz,b.
niatiops, trying to make hens and
flowers thrive, eide by side, amicably,
writes Sarah Rodney. But it has been
narrowing occupation, for, hike oil and
water, they do not mix well. have
tried every device under the sun for pro.
tec.ing the flowers, but hitherto it has
been in vain. Even if I succeeded in
keeping a majority of the fowls in
yard. one good, motherly hen, with a
thrifty brood, would in five minutes,
destroy q months work aud careful
watching of precious pansy. phlox OF
verbens bed.
As was not equal to banishin. the
men, struck happy inspiration aud
banished the flowers; banished all the
aunusls to the vegetable garden. II was
not quite 70 pretty oRYeniantGto to