HOG DISEASES — CATTLE. 601 



that the diseases known at the present time have been caused 

 by crossing the shm, long nosed hogs that we used to have with 

 the finer breeds. When people had those slim, long-nosed 

 hogs, they gave tliera more liberty than we now give ours > 

 they allowed the hogs to run at large, to go in the timber and 

 get such roots as the hog's system required to keep it healthy. 

 A farmer can keep a few hogs in close confinement, by taking 

 good care of them, giving them some slop, and feeding plenty 

 of salt and ashes ; but the more he has the more liable they 

 are to disease. 



CATTLE. 



I feed my cows and calves corn all Winter, shelling it for 

 the calves. I feed my beef cattle at two, three, and four years 

 old, taking them from the prairie about the first of October. I 

 feed snap corn Avith the husk, because it requires less work to 

 gather, and saves hay. Farmere ought to continue improving 

 their cattle, and send fine, heavy beeves to market. If they 

 ship light, scrubby beeves, they come in competition with 

 Texas cattle, and the profit on feeding is small. There are 

 several fine herds of pure Short-Horns owned in this State. 

 One is owned, in our county, by Mr. M. V. Easterday, of 

 Tecumseh. 



I keep my cows and calves all Summer in my blue grass 

 pasture. I put my 5'oung cattle in the herd, bring them home 

 about the first of October, and turn them into a good blue 

 grass and timothy pasture, Avhere they do well until I get my 

 corn out ; then I keep them on corn-stalks and hay, feeding 

 corn only in stormy weather. I let tliera have access to my 

 pasture all the time ; cattle are not- so liable to get sick from 

 dry corn fodder, if they can get some grass all the time. 



HISTORICAL AND DESCSIPTIVE. 



Johnson count}^, situated in southeastern Nebraska, is the 

 second county west of the Missouri river, and the second north 

 of the Kansas line. The Great Nemaha river runs from north- 

 west to southeast through the county, and the Atchison and 

 Nebraska railroad along its banks. The Little Nemaha river 



