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To Make Pig Pork. Among the many radical changesin farm management during the last quar- ter of a century there are few that have brought the farmer greater profit than that. of marketing pigs at six or seven months old, instead of keeping them three times as long, says Waldo F. Brown in Practical Farmer. The best market demand at present is for good fat pigs, and they command the highest price. It has been demonstrated over and over, time and again, that the cost per pound increa~es with the age of the pig, and so it is in the line of economy to push the pigs from the start and sell early. I have no data to determine ex- actly what the saving is, but I venture the assertion that a ton of pork can be made from pigs six or seVen months old for one third less money than from ma- ture hogs. Probably the best reason I can give for this is, that in adding 100 pounds to the weight of a pig after it reaches 200 pounds, you must furnish “ food of support” to repair the waste of the 200 pounds while adding the ex- tra weight. Again, the gain in the first case is made up of growth as well as fat toa much greater extent than when hogs near maturity are fed. The risk of‘loss from disease is reduced at least in proportion to the shortest time the hogs are fed, and I believe even more than this, for I find it easier to keep young growing hogs thrifty than those oi mature growing age. There is also a saving of labor, as every farmer knows that there is a large amount of work in feeding hogs that must be attended to every day, and it is much easier to feed 200 days than 400. How ought we to manage to get pigs ready for market at the age mentioned ? First. We should breed from mature mothers. There is less danger of losing a litter with ma- ture sows, that have been tested, and the pigs are larger at birth, and the mothers will suckle better, and will rear larger litters and more uniform in size and quality. Every farmer knows that a two-year-old heifer is about a half cow for the dairy, and so a sow bred at eight months old, to come in at twelve, as used to be the universal custom. could not produce the large, healthy pigs that a mother from two to five years old will. For another reason, the pigs from a ma- ture sow will cost less, and that is that two ‘litters a year can be raised from her, and so the sow kept earning money the entire year, instead of' being fed six months at no profit. I write from an experience of twenty years in breeding for two litters, and say that with good cave the sow can be kept healthy and prolific for many years. And it makes a good deal of' difference whether five sons or ten must be kept to produce the same number of pigs. I find but little difference in the profit from spring and lab litters. I can get a little more weight at a given age on a pig born in March than one born in September or October, but my time is not so valuable in the winter and loan feed them more easily, and the chances are rather bet- ter i'or a good price in the spring than they are in the fall. How should the sows be cared for that are to be kept raising two litters a year for a series of years ? lst. They ought not to be confined for long at a time to a pen or house. There should be a grass lot for them to run in. which may be large or small, as suits your convenience. Iciu keep sowa healthy in a lot too small to furnish grass by cuttiug green food for them. There is no other stock that can be fed green food so easily in the house as hoes, and with nuts, clover, sorghum, corn and pumpkins, you em have food For about seven months of the your. and with ‘oran. beets and cull potatoes you can make a wholesome diet for the winter. I speak of these things because I know l iiy, but not exclusively, for there should i can’t see that I'm to blame for it." “ Certainly not," asserted the lawyer. a d nitrogenous, but the last six weeks of tiivir feeding corn should be fed beav- be .‘Ollle more bulky and loosening food gin-n with it. I give as great a variety 0. loud as I can during the period that 5 tiwy are making bone and muscle, but l d--pend upon bran for the bulk of the loud, but use either milk, ecoked pota- l toes. vil meal or wheat middlings to make the bran slops palatable, and it - all of these can be used all the better. One rule which should always be ob- served is to iced only what they will eat up clean. A healthy pig should al- ways come to his feed agile and votccful, and if over-fed so that soiled food re- mains in tho troughs or on the feeding l floors, your pigs will soon lose appetite, l and are in danger of becoming diseased. l Following these methods, one need have l no fear of cholera, and may be sure of ' getting profitable growth. His Grievance. "M “Mad, sirâ€"madl I'm mad clear through i" It was evident to the lawyer that he was on the verge of securing a good slander or personal damage case, and he invited the stranger to be seated. “ Mad !” repeated the stranger, “ I’m mad enough to eat bessemer steel. I’m mad enough to push this case through if it costs me all of$l5.” “ I infer,” said the lawyer, “ that some one has wronged you.” “ Wronged me !" roared the stranger. “ He’s made a monkey of me! I tell you, sir, he's made me look like abloom- ing idiot. He’s given the people a wrong impression of my mental strength and the educational advantages of my youth, and I want to make him sweat for it.” “ Tell me about it,” said the lawyer, and we will see what can be done." “ It all hinges on my middle name," explained the stranger, “ and that name is Xerxes. deny that that is more or less of a fool name for any one to carry around at this period of the world's history, but i “Just because my parents were fool ish enough to give me that kind ofa name is no reason why everyone I meet should think he has a license to have fun with me, and I am entitled to the protection of the law, as I figure it.” “ Most assuredly.” “ Then it's a cinch I’ll get big dam' ages," said the stranger, with every cvif deuce of' satisfaction at the prospect. “ You see, my full name is John Xerxe+ Jones, but, of course, I don't use the middle name.” “ Ofcourse not.” “ Ijust write John X. Jones, and that's the way I put it on a. big petition that is being circulated." “What has that to do with your suit for damages ?" “Why, the big, lumbering idiot I want to sue came along and wrote ‘ his' above the ‘X.’ and ‘mark’ below it, and I’m either going to have him arrested or he’s going to have a case of assault and battery against me."â€"- Chicago Post. 9-. The German Language. _- Here is a story translated by the New York Critic from a Dresden paper, which illustrates the beauties of the German language : Among the l-Iottentots (Hottcntoten) the kangaroos (beutelratte) are very numerous. Some are caught and shut up in a cage (hotter) furnished with a cover (lattengittsr) which shelters them from bad weather. These cages are therefore called in German lattengitterwctterkotter; and tho kangaroo, once imprisoned, takes the name of lattcngitterwetterkottcrbeu- New, I am not going to. i “2 2 aw; _____â€"_â€"â€"â€"__.â€"â€"-._.â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€" mszacb . A of Games. 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I fit Price from PRINTING- Prices reasonable. SWWWWWW ease: If you did not get one of the last PRESENTS GWEN AWAY of" that it is absolutely necessary that the telratte. brood sow should be fed liberally. and Now, one day an assassin (attentae- that it will not do to feed her on corn tcr) was arrested, who had killed the exclusively. for the brood sow should i llnttcntot mother (Hottentotenmutter) never be made l‘at, neither should she l of two children, one of whom was a over he allowed to get very poor. There l stammerer (strottcrtrottel). is one period of six or eight weeks in ‘ The mother, in German. is designated wh'eh your sow can hardly be overfed, l bv the word lIottentotenstrottertrottel- stud that is from the time her pigs] uiutter, from which it follows the as- are two weeks old until they ai-czsassiu takes the name Hottcntotenstrot- weaned. The time of greatest caution tertrottelmutterattentaeter. in fee-ling the sow is the first ten days ‘ The assassin was shut up in one of after t'arrowing. Ovt‘rf‘eeding with corn 3 the sieve mentioned kangaroo cagesâ€"to before the sow regains her normal cnn- ' wit, a beutelrattelnttengitterwottcrkot- iiitiou often produces fever. and causes tarâ€"from which he shortly escaped. he sow to dry up and the pigs to starve Fortunately, he soon fell into the to death. Food with slop at first. made ! hands of a Hottentot, who wentjoyously from bran and oil meal, with abiut a I to the mayor of the village. .piart oi‘ the oil meal to a peek of bran. “I have caught the attontacter," he CON Ma flied. and increase uraduaily. “Which one ?" asked the mayor, Call and see them anyway, at W. L. ROBSON’S. 0100990960 Furniture, Doors, Sash, -â€"â€"-AND--â€"- :inv amount of food and turn it into milk without danger of indigestion. Got the pigs to eating as soon as possible. Before they are four Weeks old they “The attentaetcrlattengitterwetter- kottcrbeutclratte," replied the native --who seems to have been something of a linguist. UNDERTAKING, When the sow is all right she will eat ‘ “ we have several." " Of which attentaeter are you speak- ing ?" " Of the Hottentotenatrottertrottel- mutterattentaeter,” he stammered. “ Then," said the mayor, “ why did will begin to eat eorn with the mother, and now a part of the pen should be' pirtitioned oil' so that the pigs can run in and out but the mother Cannot, and , you can soon torch them to drink milk fr. m a shalfnw trough and to eat corn. you not say at once that you had caught Return “L‘Jnln! they should be eating, the llottentotenstrottertrottelmattcrat- so much that they will not nurse the l toutaetcrlattcngittcrwetterkotterbeutel- mother at all. Until the pigs are live i ratte 7" months old their food nimnil be bulky l in three days begin giving one car of announced. 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