The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-01-30

The best breeding sows are the long
bodied animals
Second growth clover makes splen-
did pasturage for young pigs.
Put your confidence in good man
agement rather than in the veterina-
rian.
The pigs should have access to
box containing salt, charcoal and sui
phur
Horses will do better if given the
run of a small yard adjoining the
stable.
Cut the old canes out of the rasp-
berry patch and give the young canes
a chance to mature
Exposure TO the hot sun of the
summer is bad for hogs. Provide
some kind of shelter.
Mild cases of diarrhoea in pigs can
be relieved by feeding fresh skinned
milk thickened with wheat -four.
A great deal of fruit can be grown
on very small plot of ground if it
is well fortified and cultivated
The health of the steer requires
al nd ha a;r oil he
time and the feed at regular periods.
Don't be a pessimist Look on the
bright side of things Matters turn
out better than We think they will.
generally.
1t is a good rule to purchase new
boar as often as the sows have passed
their prime and are replaced by the
offspring of the old boar
Planting cherry trees in the fence
corners is all right, if care is given
them. but any fruit tree left to shift
for itself will not return profit.
You Will rest better after your hard
days work if you make the horses
comfortable by rubbing them down
when putting them up for the night
Free range hogs are generally more
hearty and vigorous than the penned
ones. They do well in the COW pas
ture and follow up the COWS with good
results.
An advocate of tile drainage de-
clares his experience proves that it
pays ten per cent on the investment
and will return the principal in five
years if the work is properly done.
The low-wheeled wagon has it's uses
on the farm, but remember that the
lower the wheel the more times it has
to turn to get there, and for this rea-
son the low wheeler is not a good
road wagon.
Have you been so much Interested
in the matter of your field crops as
wood lot? Don't let any kind of trees
grow there, but pick the trees which
| make the best fire-wood.
Just send a batch of vegetables
from your garden to your neighbor
who did not have time, as he said,
to plant garden. Perhaps it will
make him repent of his folly and lead
him to make good resolutions for the
year to come.
In the grading of hogs for the mar
ket reports it is the general rule that
the packing hogs are Of a class that
are of a poorer grade than the butcher
hogs, and they may include old brood
sows and all other hogs, except the
poorer classes, such as roughs boars.
and coarse stays that are heavy
enough for this class, and not good
enough for the butcher hog class.
Tenant farming may bring profit to
the tenant, but it works i'll to the farm,
nine times out of ten. To be sure,
there are good and bad tenants, but
human nature is the same everywhere.
and the farm which the man does not
own is not going to receive the care
which the owner would give it, The
tenant is interested in the farm only
to the extent of paying his rental and
realizing as large a profit as is pos
sible
Feeding and breeding are closely re
lated. Some eXperimenters have
found that when sows are fed very
sparingly or on improper kinds of food
for some time before the breeding sea
son, it is often difficult to get them to
breed and the individuals in the litters
are generally pretty irregular both
as to size and vigor On the other
hand sows that are fed bountifully
before farrowing usually breed with.
out difficulty, producing large and uni
form filters. OF course during these
experiments the sows were fed suit
able balanced ration and were given
plenty of exercise.