HOGS — HEDGES — PLOWS. 421 



Large and small hogs should be fed separately, and they 

 should also sleep separately. I have their pens cleaned every 

 da}', and furnish all the clean water they can drink. I do not 

 blame some hogs for dying with cholera. 



I have no poor breeds of hogs. The old land sharks have 

 left us, and the Berkshires are driving out all other breeds. 



A pen for hogs should be built in connection with the 

 wagon house and corn crib. The advantages are that you can 

 always feed in a dry place, there is a place for barrels for swill, 

 the pens can be cleaned in bad weather, the pens will be dry, 

 and the hogs will have plenty of air. The doors out of the 

 pens should open into different lots. If necessary, feed can be 

 cooked in the building or near it. It is but little trouble to 

 have troughs that can be turned over from feed room. A par- 

 tial floor can be made over pens, where farming tools will be 

 better off than out in the weather. The floor should slant 

 sufficiently to keep it dry. 



STONE. 



We have an abundance of all kinds of stone, common 

 limestone, magnesian limestone and sandstone in all parts of 

 our country. Where it is convenient, it is the best and cheap- 

 est fence a man can make, for when it is once up it is finished, 

 while the hedge fence continually requires work. 



HEDGES. 



For a good hedge plant I want something that does not 

 grow as tall as the Osage orange. All high growing plants 

 will drop their lower limbs, rendering the hedge open at the 

 bottom, where it should be the thickest. 



SULKY PLOWS. 



I use a sulky plow. It is excellent, as it enables me to 

 plow deeper, to turn under more rubbish, and utilizes more 

 horse power ; so that when my day's work is done I can find 

 time for work in the garden. 



In this section farmers generally are more alive to the 

 benefits of late Fall and Winter plowing than formerly. A 



