390 WASHINGTON COUNTY, KANSAS. 



As the result, my hogs are free from disease. I salt my hogs 

 the same as my cattle, adding sulphur occasionally, to keep off 

 hof^ cholera and murrain. My prairie hay is cut, and cured 

 two weeks earlier than my neighbors. I consider it more 

 nutritious than late or frosted hay. My cows are kept at 

 home, in a small herd or pasture, for home use. My young 

 cattle are sent to the herd, some ten miles away. I pay one 

 dollar per head for herding and salting, from the first of April 

 to the first of October. I then take them home and feed and 

 superintend their wintering. I separate, in feeding, my young 

 lieifers from my steers, and feed the calves by themselves. I 

 do not allow cattle and sheep to be herded together, for the 

 reason that land that has been grazed by sheep, if fed on by 

 cattle will produce catarrhal diseases, and check their growth. 

 I also insist that my cattle have pure water and plenty of it, 

 for it is as much a desideratum as feed. My prairie hay costs 

 me one dollar per ton in the rick, put up on the ground. 



HOGS. 



My^experience in growing hogs is that the best are the 

 Poland China, and large-boned Berkshires. I manage to keep 

 a hog that can be fattened at any age, and will weigh two 

 hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds when a year old. 

 Our hogs follow the cattle, and by so doing save one-quarter 

 of the corn fed. 



BEES. 



I plant buckwheat in my orchard at the second plowing 

 and try to have blossoms for my bees from Spring to Fall. 

 Thus, with the wild flowers and timber added, I have an abund- 

 ance of feed. Honey taken from the hives in the month of 

 July last, averaged fifty pounds each, and my profits from ten 

 stands this Summer were one hundred and fifty dollars, and the 

 increase on new swarms added fifty dollars more to that sum. 

 I have neither disease nor moth among my bees. I Winter them 

 out of doors under a shed facing the north, and which is pro- 

 tected by my house. It is open on the north and east, and 

 closed to the south, for there is nothing colder or more chilly 



