Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-06-10

water for Hogs
There Is no domestic animal that N
suffers from the lack of sufficient wafer
as the hog. This is partly because.
though hogs are cOoped up In pens and
can get nothing except what is given
them. it is supposed that the swill.
made mostly from dishwashngs, which
are generally very salt. and the milk
mixed with it, serve the hogs In place
Of drink. More than half the feyers Of
sows in parturition come from their
having too little fresh water to drink.
Salt water only aggravates thirst
Much of the bulk of milk is solid, as
any one can test by letting it curdle
Giving the hog too little water Injuries
the quality Of its pork. If swill Or
skim milk are given the animals drink
eagerly, only to find later that their
thirst Is greater than ever. Some en-
tirely fresh water should be kept In the
pens where the hogs can get at 1t to
drink, and cannot easily put their feet
in it to soil the water.-EXchange.
Calves for Veal.
While we believe under present con.
ditions in keeping for cows all the
heifer calves that promise to be good
mixers, there are many even among the
heifers that show by thick necks and
other signs that they are better for
meat than for milk. Nine-tenths OF the
male calves should also he fattened and
killed, 1t takes so much milk to prop
erly raise or fatten a calf that many
will not do it. Yet If fed with part skim
milk and partly with porridge made
of oatmeal sifted. the calf can be fat
tened until it is two. three or four
months old with profit for all the ieed
given. Most calves are killed too
young. Their veal is not good by law
until it is four weeks old. 1t is better
still when it is eight or ten weeks DID,
il it has been fed SO as to keep growing
American Cultivator.
Why Potatoes Stain.
Every farmer who cuts potatoes ioF
seed, and also every housewife WIN
removes the skin by peeling then''
knows that the potato juice is sure "
stain hands, and to rust knives or one'
metal which comes in contact VIII IT.
This Is on account of the potash III tn'
potato, which is more than in an! o!ne'
root. Wetting the hands ana NOUN,
them in the fumes of burning suipn"
is quick and effective way 10 piea'.
them white. The bleaching power '"
sulphur fumes is we'll known nu'
care should be taken not to prea.n'
them, as they are very injurious ' ~.
NAV be due to the fact that II - Wv
oxygen Of the air which turns ploo'
bright red by rusting the IRON "n -,
blood ought to contain. II Tunes
sulphur are mixed with air as II kos' =,
the lungs, they may dissolve SON, J
the red or iron corpuscles OF tle wv
on which Its healthfulness depeno''
Graduating Currant Worms
The currant worm is SLOW aa. sho.
and seldom leaves the clump oi 'u -on
where it was born and pfeu' .toce.
when it gets into the moth SS
Where they are once eradica"u M
farm some years of exemption ina Zion.
hoped for, even when the pest noe
tiful a few miles away. sun M soou
Of hellebore every spring, just - I'd ~
as the currant leaves appear ,a,sotla
newing it after every RAN, - az ,,tr,,ds
It Is far better to head of the ~ usn
before the damage is done than ~ hsne.
until currant bushes are str'pp =, the
In the latter case probably sons y s,ase
worms have gone into the pupa 20 vpl
before the poison is applied 90"
be on hand another spring.
FEATURING orchard Grs':' ..,liee
Orchard grass can be pastuleu .ot. run
than most other grasses. as us ~ -r,ss
mostly near the surface. I'M, .,asely.
needs to be eaten down pretty esx
for it is not only more produ' asr 70
thus pastured. but that Is .ne .hoodns
prevent the seed stalks from ~ poof
up. Then the grass soon become m.iply
in quality. as the seed stalks ~, svr.ti,ds
woody fiber, and have Coupe