cows AND CALVES— HOGS. 560 



cropping. Another requisite to success is to do the work in 

 season. 



cows AND CALVES. 



I raise horses, cattle, and hogs. My cattle are grade 

 Durhams. I Winter them on timothy and clover hay and corn 

 fodder, with grain enough to keep them in good condition. 

 The heifers come in at two years old, and are nearly full-grown 

 at that age. Tlic calves run wilh their mothers, save the cows 

 that I milk for family use. When I find that a cow gives an 

 extra quantity of milk, which makes better butter, I keep her 

 for use in my famil}^ The calves generally attain a weight of 

 five hundred pounds during the Summer, and are kept growing 

 through the Winter. The heifers are always fit for beef, and 

 sell well at a good price the Summer after they are two 3"ears 

 old. I have found it more profitable to raise heifers than steers, 

 and it pays better to insure the growth of young stock the first 

 year by letting the calves run with the cows, than to take 

 them off and make use of the milk for other purposes. 



My horses and cattle are all stabled, and fed and watered 

 regularly in the Winter. They all have access to the lakes for 

 water in the Summer. I have abandoned sheep raising, on 

 account of the ravages of dogs and wolves, although it is car- 

 ried on with success in some localities. 



HOGS. 



Last year pork was low, for the first time in fifteen years, 

 and at the price of corn, forty cents, it didn't pay the cost of 

 feeding. It only brought one dollar and a half to two dollars 

 and a half per hundred weight, but for several years before it 

 had brought from four to eight dollars, and it was then more 

 profitable to raise hogs than to raise cattle or wheat. My stock 

 of hogs are of the Poland China breed, crossed with Chester 

 White. I pasture them in the timber in the Summer, and feed 

 them well so as to keep them growing. About the first of 

 September, I commence fattening them by feeding them all the 

 old corn they will eat, and the scum from the sorghum juice, 

 while I am making sirup. This scum is equal to skim milk 



