Evening journal., 1901-12-07
AGRICULTURAL HINTS AND HELPS
What the Farmers Are Doing and How They
Are Doing 1t
Are Doing 1t

the past month turkeys have sold in
New York as low as l2ihc. per pound
and as high as 2ic.. the best quality
at the higher price being least plent-
ful and most in demand. Fresh laid /
eggs have been in great demand-notl
enough 10 supply the market; all The |
shortages are In the best qualities. |
Take a hint from this. and I'm the fu- /
ture produce only the best. for therein |
lies the paying profit in poultry and !
poultry products
Keep the pigs on the ground as much 4
as possible. During the summer they
should always run at pasture In the
winter let them out on all fine days.
Store hogs need not be closely |
housed. Build small sleeping pen
In the open lot Have only one open |
ing, the door, and over this hang
piece OF carpet Feed the pigs in
roughs, on on a platform in the Opeu
neld quite distance from the pen. 80 i
that the hogs viii have to hustle back
and forth from the pen TO the trough. |
The rear half Of a hog Is worth |
lnrty per cent more THAN the front
half.
A hog that Is straight ON the back
Will have good hams
In the East pigs can be slaughtered |
any time after cold weather sets in !
until April. In tho West. Whore cold
storage is used pigs can be slaughter
ed at all times Of the year.
There rs great economy i'm feeding
young over feeding ola pigs. Hence
we find IL better to have two litters
per year, and kill at nine to ten mouthsl
old.
To pay pigs must be grown cheaply.
we must force growth, not fat. Whilel
young AMID This on THE cheapest foods
possible. Let the pigs run In THE pas-
turei or II 1t is winter, give them
clover nay, vegetables, potatoes amid
the Ike, cooked and mixed with mid
luhngs into sucCulent mess. Give
them skim milk II you have it; and
mlddlings are always an oconom ical
feed
We know Of no problem of more
lserious concern to farmers than tme
scarcity of farm laborers. and each
lyear seems to increase their difficulty
tn this respect. And this applies to-
indoor help quite as mudh. or more
lNAAtAA NNA4NOis AMfIk are IlNI N0UuEIl
imen TO go around. and as for house
hold workers there is a real famine
This state of affairs is largely account
cd for from THE fact that much of the
rural population Is surely and steadily
ldrained off TO the cities and towns,
where larger wages are paid and where
there is more going on" TO amuse
and interest
2 The farmer who sticks TO hogs
3 through all the fluctuations of markets
is a winner If he be wise enough 20
' have good, purely-bred swine and
feed them literally and give them
r proper care. he is much more than
I simply q winner The average farmer
j pays but little attention TO the matter
S of purity of blood in his swine, how
, ever. and the good results this class
Of breeders are able to produce by an
/. entire disregard OF all laws Of proper
3 mating and wise feeding, are but
8 another evidence OF the goodness of
p the lowly swine is their determination
e to return good for evil. In fact. the
p phenomenal performance of swine in
p the matter of the multiplication of
p their kind have often shaken the foun-
3 dations Of my notions I'm breeding.
i / have seen a man take "A slab-sided
@ SOW Of many colors and points, and
breed her TO a boar possessing no
T more distinctive breed characteristics
~ than the female. The feed of The fu-
q ture mother consisted largely OF ear
q corn. water or "slop." imaginary
j., grass and actual weeds in some back
r lot or old orchard; and in four months
y this slab-sided old specimen of animal
s tanacity has ileshed up and rounded
e out into a passable individual and the
y grunting mother of twelve or fourteen
=; beautiful little pigs And at the same
a public sale. at which / have seen pret-
ty good-lookihg cows sell for S35 tc
a $40 ! have seen that multimOther OF
l. a sow and her pigs knocked down al
ID $40 or over. and heard the regretfu
le autioneer bewail that she was giver
le away have seen this mother II
le swineland repeat her maternal act si'
st months later. by which time her for
ct mer family of twelve have grown int
er / 800 pounds OF hogs, worth from 81
e. to 500.