752 DB. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



Bemarka. — There is not a doubt but what this is a fact — oats too light 

 alone, aud corn heavier and more heating ; but when ground together, thej 

 combine all the elements needed for making growth ; but there is not a doubt, 

 either, if they have a good patch of the artichoke to run to, named in the nexl 

 item, they will thrive equally well on much less of meal. Try them, if you 

 want a good thing for hogs, ot children, either. Most persons are fond of 

 them raw, as they have a pleasant sweetish taste. It is claimed, also, that they 

 are a good preventive against hog cholera 



Growing Hogs and Breeding Sows, Artichokes Valuable 

 for, Amount Raised to the Acre. — Prof. Johnson, the farm superin- 

 tendent of the Agricultural College of Michigan, has given a good deal of 

 attention to the artichoke as food for hogs, and thinks they are not only 

 bealthful, but that they give a certain sweetness to the pork. For fattening 

 purposes, he says, " corn will always be most valuable ; but for growing 

 fiwine, and before the fattening process begins, the artichoke furnishes excel- 

 lent food." He planted a patch near the pens, and turned the breeding sows 

 into them early in the spring, allowing them to "root, hog, or die," as suited 

 them best, but found that the artichoke furnished a succulent, juicy food for 

 the sows, just when it was most needed, and most diflScult to obtain from 

 other sources. 



Artichokes.— Amount to the Aero, Labor of Raising, Getting 

 Rid of them when desired, and Preventive of Cholera, etc.— I. 

 It is but very little labor to raise artichokes. Plant on good soil, properly 

 plowed and harrowed, then furrow it two or three feet apart as you choose, 

 and an eye dropped every few inches, and properly covered, is about all the 

 trouble ; for they grow quickly and spi-ead all over the ground so as to keep 

 down weeds, especially after the first season. They yield from 300 to 800 or 

 more bushels to the acre; the hogs dig them as wanted, and all they want, and 

 it is said by plowing them up in June, when the tops are about a foot in height, 

 they can be exterminated if desired. My father always used to have them 

 growing along the garden fence for the pleasure of us children, but sixty years 

 ago there was but little known of their value for swine, but many a one have I 

 dug for eating raw, and for mother to pickle for table use, if the other pickles 

 run out before spring. Of course the winter does not hurt them. A writer 

 speaking of the danger of frost upon the ordinary roots for stock, says: " Beets 

 endure but little frost, turnips improve with a little, carrots stand a good deal 

 of it, but parsnips, salsify, and artichokes may be left out all winter with 

 advantage." 



II. Preventive of Cholera.- Another writer says: "Where the 

 artichoke is planted largely in districts as food for hogs, the cholera has pre 

 vailed only to a very limited extent." 



Apples Good for Hogs, and Hogs Running in the Orchard 

 Destroy the i^odling Moth.— Fallen apples may be gathered and fed, 

 profitably to hogs, horses or cattle in moderation; but where one has enough 



