HOW TO KEEP HOGS HEALTHY. 4g7 



You now have my plan of making cheap pork. I believe that 

 with the use of artichokes in Fall and Spring and feeding lib- 

 erally with mangel wurtzel beets in Winter, when it is warm 

 enough to get them out of the pits, a little flax seed or oil meal 

 in the slops, a free use of bran and shorts in Winter, a free use 

 of soot and ashes, cleanliness in breeding and feeding quarters, 

 hogs can be raised cheap enough to pay, even at very low 

 prices, and with this care you can almost defy the cholera. 

 The hog doctor rolls up his eye that is not blind and says in a 

 confidential and wise tone, " My dear sir, just so long as you 

 follow 3'Our present course you will have very little need of my 

 services." I have found it paid me to put up a few loads of 

 after-growth clover, cured carefully, to feed to them occasion- 

 ally in Winter. In my estimation diseased conditions in the 

 hog are of slow growth, and are caused many times by want of 

 change in their diet ; generally by long continued feeding of 

 corn ; much in the same way that scurvy attacks the Northern 

 voyagers. 



I have not the least doubt that herds are often diseased 

 by the practice adopted by dealers of hauling hogs that have 

 died, along our highways, and from farm to farm. This prac- 

 tice should be stopped by law. I should certainly prosecute a 

 man that would do this for trespassing on my premises, if there 

 was any law to reach him. I allow no other hogs on my 

 premises, and buy none, except a few for breeding purposes. 

 Those I keep in quarantine until I know they are all right. A 

 respectable breed of hogs, raised in the manner indicated above 

 will not eat their pigs or act as though possessed of an evil 

 spirit. 



A healthy herd, and one that is profitable to the owner, 

 can only be secured and kept in paying condition by his 

 constant care. I say owner because I have never known 

 many men to become rich except by minding their own 

 business. 



Cheap arrangement for stacking hay in the field. Any 

 farmer can make it in a day. It is in general use here by our best 

 farmers : 



