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profit and health of the hog, contains eighty acres timothy and 

 blue grass. My hog house is one hundred and ten feet long 

 by eighteen wide, arranged with panels to enclose or divide 

 into twenty-eight departments, with alley in the center. The 

 pens are used for breeding sows, in the month of May. When 

 the pigs are ten days old, I turn into clover pasture. 



At the end of the hog house is the wind-mill, Avith a large 

 tank, which is always full of pure well water. I have not 

 lost a hog with cholera or diphtheria, in eleven years. To make 

 a success in raising pork, Ave must keep our stock as pure as 

 possible ; one cross does very Avell, but breeding from the cross 

 degenerates and makes an uneven lot. I prefer the Poland 

 China, using a select male, no relation. Sticking to the busi- 

 ness through low prices as well as high, I find in the end, I 

 make more money by feeding the corn, than by hauling it to 

 the market. 



OATS AND FLAX. 



In raising oats and flax-seed, I have had quite an expe- 

 rience. For oats, I plow the ground well, sow the seed before 

 harrowing, then harroAV thoroughly both ways, and if the 

 ground be lumpy, or a drouth follows sowing, I roll within 

 two or three Aveeks after the oats are up. 



Flax-seed is a good crop to raise, and a profitable one, if 

 raised on rented land, and the land is new ; but the leiise 

 must not run too long. It takes the life out of the land 

 quicker than any other crop. I have raised four crops, in all 

 about six thousand bushels, average yield eleven bushels per 

 acre, and average price one dollar and forty-five cents per 

 bushel. I sow eighteen quarts of flax and two quarts of 

 red clover seed. Tiie clover is sure to grow, producing good 

 Fall feed, and the roots are a great fertilizer, helping Avonder- 

 fully to raise a crop of corn the next season. I have raised 

 my last crop of flax; it exliausts the soil and makes it barren. 



CLYDESDALK HORSES. 



I have found it profitable to do the most of my team Avork 

 with good heavy mares, and raise a half-blooded Norman colt. 

 I I Avould prefer the Clydesdale. I raised three colts last year ; 

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