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pasture. Stable tliose to be milked. Tie in stalls, like horses, 

 with rope around neck, and to the middle of mangers. 

 Bed at night with straw, when kept in over night. In Sum- 

 mer they are yarded. Brush off the cows' bag and right side 

 with a coarse brusli, before milking, not allowing any dust or 

 extraneous matter to get into the milk pail. With such milk, 

 in a dairy house with good tools, there is no trouble in 

 making the very best butter. The cows get for their Winter 

 feed, clover and timothy hay, and some corn after they have 

 gleaned the corn fields well. Sometimes add a little bran or 

 shorts with regular salting, twice a week. 



HOGS — POLAND CHINA. 



The Poland China I have had for five years, and like them 

 the best, all things considered. 



They have good clover and timothy pasture, running with 

 the cows in Summer. They are given an ear or two of corn, sows 

 and all, twice a da}-, with occasionally, for sows and young pigs, 

 oats and corn ground and made into a slop, with a little salt 

 in it for an appetizer, together with kitchen slops, nnlk from 

 the dairy, when not fed to the calves, being mixed in. Salt 

 and wood ashes are set at some seasons of the year, before them, 

 that they ma}' eat at their pleasure from troughs made of two 

 planks, 8x10 inches wide, spiked fii'mly together, and ends put 

 in of same. I fatten with corn, beginning about the first of 

 September for the Winter market and the first of August for 

 the September market, tlie liogs being kept in good thriving 

 condition all the time. I have been raising from eighty to one 

 hundred annually for some time, but shall curtail in that 

 branch of farming to about fifty or sixty, and 1 hope other^ 

 will do so, too, as the supply seems to be too great. 



COST AND PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTIONS. 



I have a number of times within my experience in 

 farming (twenty-four years), attempted to arrive at the cost of 

 wheat, corn, oats and pork, our chief productions. The prices 

 of land and labor and the seasons vary so, however, that it is 

 impossible to arrive at exact statements. But I have reached 



