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Fill a small bottle with the acid, putting a quill in the cork 

 like a pepper sauce bottle, and sprinkle it about in pens and 

 manure piles. It is an advantage for hogs to run with cattle, 

 in which case it is not necessary to grind the grain, as none 

 will be lost, the hogs getting what is not appropriated by the 

 cattle and which is better than steamed food. By the way, 

 steaming or cooking food, except for young pigs, does not pay 

 for the fuel used, or the trouble involved, and as a general 

 thing, good hogs will grow fast and keep fat enough without 

 having their food cooked. Forcing hogs with highly nutritious 

 cooked food weakens the system, and makes them more liable 

 to disease. Sows with pig should be well fed, and the young 

 pigs taught to eat well before they are weaned. 



"WHEN A sow FARROWS 



she should not be disturbed in any way, not even though the 

 time of feeding should go by. Let her remain quiet until she 

 gets up of her own accord. In ten years' experience I never 

 had any trouble with Berkshires when farrowing. In all your 

 operations use judgment and common sense; of these a farmer 

 needs as much or more than any business man. He should not, 

 however, make a slave of himself, but should read and associate 

 with his fellow man on all proper occasions. 



FISH 



can be easily raised and creeks stocked with better varieties 

 than they usually contain, by a very little care. It is the 

 Spring floods and mud of our creeks that cover up and wash 

 away large quantities of the spawn of fish. By making small 

 ponds, where no dirty water can run into and deposit sediment, 

 a few fish, such as you desire to raise, can be put in the 

 Winter. These will spawn in the Spring; that is, nearly all 

 kinds excepting trout and salmon. I have raised only the black 

 bass and sunfish in this way, and have a pond now full of j^oung 

 fry from bass put in a year ago. -This pond was originally 

 made for an ice pond, is only four or five feet deep, supplied 

 by a small spring, and covers about one acre. Of course it 

 would be better if it were deeper, but it is my intention only 



