154 CARROLL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



C. L. HOSTETTER, 



MOUNT CABROLL, CABEOLL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



Short Horns — Hogs — Moots, Pasture, Pure Water, Good Shelter 

 and N^o Medicine The Best Cure of Hog Cholera — Berk- 

 shire Hogs and Their Management — Fish Culture. 



SHORT-HORNS. 



I am breeding thorough-bred Short-Horn cattle and Berk- 

 shire hogs ; have also experimented in raising fish in artificial 

 ponds. There can be no question but that the Short-Horns 

 are the best cattle for beef, and the grades from a thorough-bred 

 bull make the very best beef, as the awards in the show rings 

 fully demonstrate. It is not necessary to have very high grades; 

 the half bloods or three-quarter bloods from a good bull are 

 often larger than higher grades. To make cattle raising profit- 

 able in Illinois, we must raise the best, and to do that we must 

 have thorough-bred bulls ; these are facts so well established 

 to intelligent minds that they need no illustration to make 

 them more patent. 



HOGS. 



I have had much experience in the care of hogs and have 

 brought a fine lot through two years of hog cholera. I am 

 convinced that with the right kind of hogs, and with proper 

 care, Hog cholera can be avoided. This I say from two years' 

 experience. In the first place I had pure bred Berkshires. 



I do not have my breeding stock fat, nor do I breed young 

 sows before they are one year old ; neither do I breed together 

 those that are near akin. I feed as little corn as possible, and 

 graze my breeding stock on rye, blue grass and clover, at differ- 

 ent seasons of the year, letting them have the range of the 

 farm. Hogs will find many roots of weeds and worms that 

 assist greatly in keeping them in good health, and enable their 

 systems to throw off disease. On this account the Berkshires 

 are the best ; they are active, and if not too highly fed, will 



