The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-06-14

the fsrker Converted into q sert "A
foramhalatiue Lawn bright orssp
RlAdea Where fsristlss OusAe
10 GROW.

For the insignificant sum Of ten cents
the curiously inclined might have had
the privilege Of seeing recently in q
little museum way down in the French
quarter no less a curio than hoR
sporting a complete and bona fide crop
OF grass all over his body sin de place
whar dc ha'r ought to grow"
This sounds like the most preposter.
Gus thing on record, writes CORE.
spondent of the Philadelphia Times.
and so your correspondent conceived II
70 be until he came to the point Of sacri.
iicing q dime on the altar OF his In.
credulity, and beheld with his own ewes
the wonder. The animal appeared to
pc d well-grown nine or ten.months,
1shoat Of the Essex breed, with the
usual broad back, chubby neck and
short legs, but from the tip Of his nose
m the end Of his tail he was bristling
vii.h as perfect freshgreen grass as the
NEST lawn mixture is warranted to
produce. n
The exhibitor from time TO time
Clipped a stray bit Of grass from the
hogs abundant crop and passed 1t
around for inspection. i am willing "a
Stestify on oath that 1t was the genuine
rsicle and no mistake, and the more /
zedthe more the wonder grew that
nie short hog should wear SO strange a
aye, till finally my curiosity got the
better of my purse strings and i
e.iipped in with some other fellows ana (.
got the man to let us on to the fake.
Easy enough explained, 7 said the ex. !
shibitor, she began tospray the animat-
ed grass plot with small rubber bulb I
which he held constantly in his hand. |
Just step behind here and take a close
look at the hog, Mind how you handle .
him, though, or You may break him all |
up Seems to be "a pretty good thick |.
ness OF earth 'twixt him and the grass
don't there? Yes. Well, that's lust II.
Grass grows indirt and nowhere else, T
% all you've got to do is to get enough
oft to stick to o hog and he'll make Won
about as good lawn as you'd find any +,
where almost.
That's straight so far as It goes. but.
of course, there is a good deal more to
i before you can work up snch an ar.
iicle as this here. In the first place
~ have got to get the right kind of 4
siog- generally use Berkshire or an
sex, because they are good and broad
~ You can feed 'em up to be pretty
zN This is necessary, Of course, as a
slsisy hog Is not liable to hold mud or /,
iyater either for a long time. The next
'tcp Is to get the right kind Of soil.
Now, I always use dirt collected
rom ant hills, but this is an old dodge
borrowed from the East Indian iuc-
Hers, who can make q mango sprout
md grow six or seven feet in as MANI !.
minutes Scientists say that It is til
ormic acid In earth which causes see;
Q burst and the germ to develop when
'iaced therein. and this acid is freely '
w tle ant. Pour d cupful Of
ot water over handful of the insects
nd 1t will become as sour as vinegar.
s'Of course it is easy enough to get r
ayer Of soil about an inch thick caked
P on hog, and little training will
each him to keep it there all right. I 4
ut ring in this fellows nose and tie 9.
i'm up short so that he can't slsirmish "
round, and that's about all. / plant
y seed, which sprout and come IN in a
bout q weeks time, for | haven't quite m
often up to the jugglers' minute per- s,
FINANCES yet 80 there's your hog as !! IL
iEs aslife and as green as grass W
4 have several hogs which / use at II
izferent times, as it would not do to n,
eep one with his pores stopped up too W
'ng. Sometimes. too, vary the mo- M
5tony by planting small, low-erowine cc
overs instead of grass, and once / th
eyed up vagary with sprig Of smi- OF
x for the tail, little eolcus plants ci
ssking the stars and stripes on either Of
de, and razor-bact ofpansiesrunninp re
tween But that did not goyery well. Of
ne fake was too obvious, and / los. 70
ade BY it. Since then / have confined OF
yself almost entirely to grass, which in
ems to 70 somehow, perhaps owing to
tne general greenness Of the public an
or
Queen yietaria's Growing Family. wi
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