Show agricultural AL NOTES NOTE S y FATTENING eat FAT TENiNa PIGS pios one of the he best pig breeders bleeders bre eders we know is wr W w smith the well known master of the marine meat market in detroit he has a taste for keeping the best hogs that are to be had felcan excel liim him in the fineness bf pu re bred Suf folks essex berkshires and po lands which he breeds he ife has the faculty of making the 4 1 most out of the pig lag that can be made one of his points in fattening a pig is the use of or the tile penstock to wash it clean and the curry comb to keep its a perfectly healthy T he is also particular to llave lave it fed regular c every overy ery day always at the same time to a minute he changes the food from time to time and when inq the pig has to get goit fat it is never allow lo low loa A ed d t to 0 go back one of the best kinds of food to start pigs with consists of peas or i beans mixed with the oual offal of the dairy or the buttery with a little fine cornmeal corn meal thrown in barley meal is excellent or crushed oats but no food is equal to peas for a food to start ou on both peas and corn should be steeped in water the hotter the better and I 1 allowed allowed to stand and soak up all they will we notice this is the treatment that makes smith mith so successful some of his pigs when started will gain three pounds a day and i we have seen in his talis tails emalls essex and suffolk cross eross crosses cs that would dress pounds at ten or eleven months old but one of or tiie the fattening processes was a bath with a flexible hose at least twice a week the hogs get so used to this tilis that they like it and seem to know when they are to enjoy this luxury for they will come out and lie down as quick as the water begins to play upon them 1 it is the quick fattening that pays and hogs thus treated make as profitable a return even mith with i pork at 5 to 6 cents as any part of the farm produce I 1 then again a hog bog should d have havet a dry place to lie in in fact a jo good id 0 well sheltered pen with a d dry ay iy plank under him where he eni emi ean can sleep without disturbance somewhat dark and shady with n no 0 drafts of wind penetrating through it rather low in the roof so that thai the animal heat beat lie generates will surround him with a tempera temperature temperatures ture 0 that is pleasant and when acers accustomed to be fea fed regularly there therie is no animal more punctual in its iti appearance at the trough then lie he should be fed all he will eat not an ounce more no food should remain in the trough after begets he gets through and then it shoud should bo thoroughly cleaned out J 1 1 i when put up to feed in this wise the hog does not need any exercise nor does he require space for it his whole coni comfort fort 1 is in returning to his air lair and having a good opportunity port unity undisturbed by affairs to increase in weight I 1 and ind to make an ample return to his owner for the food he has enjoyed occasionally a little sulphur a adit lit 1 1 tie tle salt a handful of ashes or a quart or so of charcoal may be put 7 in his trough but clean and such feeding Z as we have mention ed are the true secret of fattening 4 hogs bogs quickly michigan farmer t FEEDING SWINE 1 avoid foul feeding 2 do not omit adding 0 salt ili iii moderate quantities to the mess given you will find it to your ac count in attending to this 3 feed at regular intervals 11 4 cleanse the trough previous to feeding 5 do not overfeed over feed give only as much as will be consumed oona eona umed at the i meal 6 vary yo your ur bill of fare var vi lety fety will create or at all evenn on crease appetite and it is furt iter lier most conducive to henith health hei hel lh let your variations be guided guidea by the state of the dung cast this tilis should be of medium consistency jand and of ak a grey gres rey res 1 ish brown color it hard increase the quantity of bran and succulent roots if too liquid diminish dimini or dispense despen e with bran and let the tho mess be firmer eryou if you add a portion of corn that which is injured and thus rendered unfit for other pur poses pokes will answer well 7 feed your jour stock separately iu classes according accord lug ipg to their condition keep sows bows in young by them themselves selvas stores by the themselves melves and bacon hogsand hogs and pori ers by bv themselves It is not advisable to keep your stores too high in flesh tiesh for high feeding is calculated to td retard development of form and bulk it is better beffer to feed pigs intended to be cut up for bacon bacan loosely loosely and not top abundantly until they havo have attained their ali fuli full stature you can bring them into the highest possible condition in an inconceivably short space of time timp 8 do not regret the loss loss or scarcity of or potatoes so far as swine swine fee needing feeding is concerned its loss has been t the means 0 of f stimulate ati sti stimulating mulat U t in inquiry and producing experiments ts which have resulted jn in the discovery that other othen superior luperi vegetables have been hither hitherto fo neglected te d and foolishly passed aside ado I 1 do nob not at neglect to keep I 1 r swine clean dry and mid warm theo are essentials and not a whit less jess ImPerati imperative vp than feeding for an all lri lii inferior description of food fudd will bill by their aid succeed far better than the hig highest liest freding feeding will without them and suffer meto reiterate the benefit dei del derivable liable from washing your ybur hogs I 1 all ail ahls will repay depay your trouble man mau manifold fol d 10 watch the markets so sell when you see a reasonable profit before you many diany a man luau has swamped himself by giving way to covetousness and by desiring to td realize unusual an amount of gain recollect how very fluctuating are the markets and that a certain gain is far farsbetter farj better than the risk of or loss oss osa Granite farmer t arway WITH aroas av A correspondent of the N new york T tribune writes among the the tho different ways of checking uta ute rooting p propensity in hogs bogs is to cut and p partially artl arti aily alJy detach a part of the rim of t the he snout leaving the part which is s detached adhering at the extremities and hanging over the end of the nose arnost barbarous practice and a man guilty of it should he be complained of for cruelty 7 that prominent p romi nent rim 14 feromone from one to two inches inedea lo 10 long iong ug according to the size of tile the hog and is the only part with which the animal can feel and a close observer yer yen will notice thata that a hog 0 alwa always s touches his food with that id rim before lie begins to eat therefore to cut or mutilate the rim to say my nothing of cruelty is to deprive the cre ere creature of the sense of feeling which is so essential to his improvement and will be done atthe at the expense of the corn com crib to prevent pr eventa a hog from roo rooting tingo put two wire rings ains one on each side of the prominent gristle in close closi proximity to it draw the two ends of tile the wire together leaving itin it in the tile form of an oxbow ox bow twist the ends leaving the ringa bow shaped in lathe the middle and turn the twisted ends of themire the wire up toward the eyes this leaves the rim of the nose entirely at liberty dind and should the hog attempt to root tile tiie ring rings will swill come in lu contact wit wil with tr the earth and the hog bog will immediately desu desist |