Bismarck daily tribune., 1901-01-22
CHARCOAL OR SWINE,

rs rs CHARCOAL F OR SWINE. "a.
Give the Hog Chance to Doctor
Himself. 8 # ss si# $5
Dr. sGalen Wilson, the noted veterina-
:ry writer, ,4in q recent issue Of the New
York Weekly. Tribune gives the follow
ing on the care Of swine n. .5s
From personal use when kept swine.
and from; a mpltitude Of estimony.
since I know It to be advisable to give
fattening hogs access TO charcoal.
Feeding swine concen entrated foods
largely and usually at times to excess
upsets or disarranges their digestive.
apparatus, causing stomach and bowel
difficulties. with their multifarious at
tending evils. Alternate constipat ton
and diarrhea are very apt to occur and
weaken the digestive organs, giving
easy opportunity for all sorts Of inter
nal parasites to get in their destructive
work. Charcoal seems to absorb sor
neutralize the gases from fermenting
sour food in the stomach 4 and expels
any troublesome forms that may have
found lodgment there. Theod dore Louis
Of Wisconsin Is one Of the best authori-
ties on swine ID America, and he would
no more be without charcoal ia HIS fat
tening pens or feed lots than he would
be without bread on his own table. He
never has any sick hogs. He keeps
continually accessible to his swine g..
charcoal self feeder which is q box.
with q trough at the base SO construct
ed that only little Of the coal can
drop down at "a time and this only as
fast as that exposed lis removed. Any
one handy with tools can make one:
from this descript ion. Ii no self feed
ser is mad then give the animals daily
on q floor as much chSas they seem to eat
$greedily. But charcoal from wood is.
not often to 3 be had now when the
country Isl so nearly and generally
cleared of its timber, vet coal from
corncobs is just as good. 7gs. 81. 81.
Nearly every farmer has the cobe,
and II is easy to make them into coal
To do it make a pit In the ground four
or five feet deep, about l8 inches, in
diameter Mt the bottom and fvesfeet
3sat the top. Have a sheet iron cover
made large enough to cover the pit and:
project six inches over the edges. Start
"a fire In the bottom with shaTings and
add BY degrees q bushel OF more Of
Scobs and let them get well aglow.
Then add three or four bushels more
and when wei on fire add more, ana SO
on until the pit is rounding full. Should
the cobs burn faster on one side than
\ the other lift the eobs to the side that
B Is burning least with a sflarpened
pole. Get some iron rod long enough
to lay across the center OF the hole to
& keep the iron cover from sagging.
\ When al the Scobs are well blazing COW
er the pit with the sheet iron and press
fresh earth all around the edges to
h keep the pit air light. # Leave the pit SO
until the next day, when the charcoal
can be aiken out and there will be
about ten bushels. If one wants to
know # now Whet ether his hogs need char
coal or not let him get q handful OF
coal from among any wood ashes ana
place It before his swine. Should they;
eat II readily Ii viii be- sure indi-
cation that they require it to correct
something that Is Interfering with their
digestion and the owner would con.
serve his own interests as well as pro-
mote the we'll re of bis hogs BY get
/ ting 4 hustle on him, and providing
them With the needfm charcoal. If
that is ifEpos BILE, or soft coal more
nient, crack up some OF that into
fine pieces and 81 We them 1T seems to
answer the safe purpose. 5 Where
soft coal is plentiful end cheap some
swine eders provide II regularly for
their animals. AT the mouth of d small
vein of soft coal by the roadside III the
soft coal region of Pennsylvania, being
mined by any farm neighbors who
might need II, have seen swine Dfcki
up waste pieces of coal and crack them
asg other swine were cracking hickory
nuts that ten from an ADJACENT tree.
Nature is the best doctor Furnish
coal ana give tile hog d chance to doc
Tor himself. S5'S5
SAVED HIS LEG.
tSSS Danf forth of IaG Grange, Ga,
suffered Intensely for ST Il months With
htful running sore on his log, but
writes that Buck lens Arnica saIye
wholly cured 1T Id ten 4ays. For ulcers.
wounds, burns bolls pain or piles It's
tho best saiye the world Cure
Igiarante teed Only 25c. Sold by Il. C.
Rening ton. drug
Fred Khoda, 81 iillisto1, ,ind dertook
" put his srssolv "a The holster Of his
faaddle and got 4 IA bullet ID his knss
4p. He may lose his Id.