The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-03-15

working all alive with embryonic ba-
con? Just my COMPOUNDED luck!
The white man who has to work for
living and who deliberately owns
and supports pointer dog, even one
of the masculine turn of mind, ought
to be reasoned with first and then dis
ciplined. But when you have a dog, be
it masculine, feminine, or neuter, and
when the wife and children become
very fond of that -.asculine, feminine,
or neuter pointer Jog, what are you
going to do about it? Kill it? Who
would kill an affectionate watch dog
of any sort of gender? No merciful
man. But what am l to do? "Flirt''
is pretty dog, very intelligent, and
delightful hunter. She is one of the
most affectiOnate things that ever
slept on a mans back porch or wor-
ried the vagrant raZOrback-but, when
in the course of eight months she calls
upon you to assume the ownership Of
thirty-two small dogs-and that is
just what Flirt has done-I fear the
camel's back will break. l am in a
quandary. 1 could have philosophy
cally endured the loss Of the looked
for pigs and put it down to pure bad
luck, but this last misfortune is be-
yond the confines Of luck. 1t is real
diabolism. Something must be done
and that right soon. Some irreverent
neighbor suggested the possibilities of
a sausage factory" but l never in
du1ge in mysteries, and since the dis
appearance of Mr.. Leutgert's wife in a
sausage mill at Chicago. fight very
shy of questionable delicacies. Seal
ed proposals for a dog which adds
thirty-two other dogs to the worlds
canine population in eight months will
be received at this farm until the next
dog days." or I will take $25 cash
for the outfit and ask no questions
If anybody thinks the price too great,
bid dollar and throw in an old suit
of clothes that will do to wear on pic
mic occasions or during the rainy po-
tato planting season. AS things are
now getting so multitudinOus and
times are so hard I must get rid of
that dog.
But to return to the hog. Dog-gone
the dog anyhOwD
The late John D. Leitner, of Marion
county, once told me that a SOW ex>
pecting to become a mother should
never be fed on sweet potatOes-that
she would lose her pigs. would like
to know the experience of any Of our
hog raisers in Florida on that point.
Mr.. Leitner was a first class farmer
and one of the most successful men
[ ever knew in hog-raising.
There is money in hogs I am sure,
but have never been alb to extract
it very freely. The woods in this re-
gion are infested with razorbacks, but
l-ere is generally so little in our fields
to attract hogs that they prefer to re-
main outside IN the palmetto.
1t is so easy to sit up in pleasant
office and tell all about hog raising,
and the raising Of hog feed, that l
would like long time contract on
that line, but the man who embodies
all those ideas into practical pork
must get up early, and work late. l
intend to raise hogs successfully or
perish under an overload of ill luck.
[ can raise dogs. In fact, so far, l
have not been able to keep from rails
ing them, although l have drowned
multitudes of them and given away
yet other multitudes. Indeed l have
made quite reputation for liberality
by giving dogs away right and left. l
go out of my way to get acquainted
with people just to give them a dog.
[ have reserved one for each of our
great fighting admirals and a pair Of
pointers for Hobson. If brave old
Cervera wants one he shall have it.