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Show SCRUB FARMERS. Aurllcr In Colman'8 Rural World slics up sciub farmers and breeders pretty I In tho following "A few weeks ngo I was looking: at somo hoes, tho property of a young breed-'ho breed-'ho lias started out ' to show" men of oxpcrlenco how to do It. Now, I am not 'Un n, and am about as strongly prejudiced against hogs as John Randolph iaif mat sheep, but six or eight weeks it year spent with scientific hog--der has taught mc a few things. The young man had a 'registered tho-Ihbi tho-Ihbi d now In a 0x8 pen with a mud bottom. She vvus duo to fairow In three k nd v as eating corn from under three Inches of water In a box tiough, oh t ot tho water being to keep the blankcty-dashed hens fiom getting1 tho I 1 uggcalcd that perhaps a feed or two ot bran would do the bow good, nnd 'Informed thut nlie was gittlng n teaspoonful of Dr. Cheatem's patented hog 4 once a day, and that ho would probably have ten pigs worth 5 each. I silnco lenrned that she had one-tenth of ten pigs, nnd It died, nvery word ila hog story la truth, friends, and I very much doubt wh her John Jamison, oLewls, Dr. lilting nnd Judge Trost could have taught u it young man uny- "ln tho past twelve jears of Institute work I have visited many of the heat Jn breeders of lino stock, and in every ease I havo found tho most successful 'to bo the men who bought nnd lead tho books nnd papers bearing upon this ftMlon, and whenever I found a man who Inclined to sneer at books, ut farm rs nd ut tin) agricultural college or experiment station nnd Its work. I found t man's herds and (locks lacking In something. D lit ytnifl ugo n man took it noted cxpeit Judgo and mjself six miles to o his herd, und ho put In all the tlino on the road In making fun of farm and papers Ills objoct etas to get our recommendation of a herd of Bcrub 'Mill J he failed to do It. II' also fulled In business as a breeder after he hnd nd d u lortune, and now cams a living as clerk of a second-dnss hotel. n from htm lived n jaung mnn who worked his way through a farm l and vote Unary college This man Is now the manager of a largo estate, t' prlvllego of practicing his piofcsslon, a privilege worth perhaps 13000 a I in d this morning that tho oung man who took most of tho piemiums poultiy show has ntout every book on poultry that he could hear of, and it Mat llvo chicken papers. Ho sold four cockerels at ". to HO each, and 1 . foi om piimlum bird One man had every entry disqualified and he "h Judgo Mid not know n good bird fiom a bad one.' C. D. IiON. lillzlLsport. O., Dec. 22, IV ' |