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Show HOMEMADE OILER FOR SWINE Hogs Coon Learn to Go to Posts to Scratch When Vermin Become Too Persistent. As nil farmers know, it is essential to keep lico off hogs, especially in summor time, and as that's tho farmer's farm-er's busiest season, ho is apt to neglect neg-lect his hogs, excopt to feed and slop thorn. My way is to tako two postB about flvo or six foot long, about tho slzo of usual fenco posts, put into ground about ono nnd one-half foot and braco tho tops with a ploco of scantling, says a Lexington, Miss., writer in Tho Progressive Farmor. Thon, begin about half wny of post and wrap grass ropo very tightly for about ono foot or IB Inches, tacking ropo, or, bettor still, boro two holes In post nnd slip Homemade Hog Oiler. through nnd tlo securely". Saturate this with tar and grease, axlo grease and coal oil or dip. Tho hogB will go to tho posts to scratch, when tho vermin ver-min got too poralstent, and seem to learn that it was put tiioro for that purpOBo. |