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they may become accustomed to their quarters ami should not be disturbed, 

 unless very quiet, until two or three days after the young have come. He 

 recommended chaircoal and soap for scours. Pigs while young, should be fed 

 on slops made from mill feed His main dependence in summer is clover, but 

 at the same time feeds some corn. Furnishes warm sheds aud good beds in 

 winter, but does not think best to confine them too closely. Good clean water 

 he also regards as important. Feeds in summer liberally of charcoal, ashes 

 and salt, and when fattening for market adds copperas. Practices "hogging 

 down*' corn in the fall, and believes it to be a good and economical practice; 

 hogs do well aud it saves labor. To fatten hogs in cold weather he would feed 

 cooked food once a day at least. 



At the close of the essay a lively discussion followed on the subject. 



n. J. Hendryx asked, why not feed roots in cold weather, stating that they 

 liad fed them during the recent cold weather successfully. 



F. D. Gully, of the Agricultural College, said they wintered hogs almost ex- 

 clusively on beets, but does not think cooking pays for anything but potatoes. 



Mr. Wells, in answer to a question, said he thought the cause of hog disease 

 was the want of coal and ashes. When the country was new, these were plenty 

 from natural sources, but as the country gets older, these must be supplied. 

 • Oapt. Hendryx said for years they had kept salt and ashes before their hogs 

 all the time, and before their horses and cattle as well. 



B. Hathaway keeps lime before his hogs, was led to do so from seeing his 

 hogs eat old plaster. 



J. A. Lee said he had traveled over the three southwest counties, and found 

 that there was about as many theories in regard to the hog disease as there are 

 farmers, and none of them knew anything about it. 



Elias Morris took no stock in the ash theory, — the prairie land had no ashes 

 originally. 



D. Woodman, 2d, practices ''hogging down" and believes in it, saves labor 

 and leaves land in good condition. 



The President, Mr. Beckwith, said he had observed symptoms of the disease 

 among his swine, uses as a preventive and corrective, sulphur, copperas and 

 ginger, which he puts in swill. He thinks hogs along streams much more 

 liable to the disease than on inland farms. 



Mr. Osborn, of Van Buren, controverted the idea that hogs having access 

 to a running stream would be more liable to the disease on that account. 



Mr. Barber, of Edwardsburg, keeps ashes, copperas and sulphur in a trough 

 under a shed, where his hogs can have access to it. Never lost any until this 

 year, — have now lost 125. Thinks Bcrkshires the healthiest. 



Mr. A. Fiero thought the disease was contagious and traveled like the epi- 

 zootic. 



Mr. B. Hathaway, of Little Prairie Ronde, read the following essay on 



LONG KEEPING APPLES. 



The varieties properly comprised in this list are those mainly to be relied on 

 for profit in tlie present state of our pomological experience and knowledge. 



In naming tiic few sorts that I feel safe to include under this head I shall 

 not attempt to jnit them in the order of their value, for the ratio of their value 

 is not fixed. One variety will be found most profitable in one portion of the 

 State, or county, or townsliip, and another variety taking })rccedence in other 

 localities, tliougli perliaps in the immediate neighborhood. Tlic next that can 

 be done will be to point out the peculiar characteristics of each, and the loca- 



