| Show DIFFICULT TO MANAGE HOGS Simple and Practical Method Is tc Decoy Them by Means of Corn Attached to String < nv A J LONG > Hogs when they are Inclined to be contrary are about the most dlfllcult animals to manage when changing from ono placo to another Especially Is this tlio case when wo undertake to drive thorn i they will huddle up and turn their heads outward and refuse to go without trouble Gontlo hogs that are used to being fed regularly will usually follow n person carrying a bucket but some times this plan tails and then some other plan must bo followed I have often used a largo ear of corn with n strong string two or three feet long tied to tho end of a polo flvo or sli feet long The corn is dragged along on tho ground and hogs will forget everything else and follow the corn grabbing at 1t When the hogs get too close the corn can bo raised out of their roach or else jerked from them This Is the best decoy that I have over tried for hogs and beats driving them or running them with dogs Smokers Menace to Forestry It Is estimated that tho loss to tho state from fires In Massachusetts In 1900 amounts to 230478 There were 1531 different fires and the number of acres burned over was 42SOS An alyzing these figures the state forester finds that the enrolls smoker who persists In tho habit when In wood lands or passing through the country during tho dry tlmo Is tho greatest mctinco to future forestry In Mass achusetts |
