No. 6. A Warm Bed for Pigs. — To destroy Lice on Cattle. — <^c. 185 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 A Warm Eed for Pig?. 



To THE Editor, — I very well remember 

 a saj-ing; of an old gentleman, an excellent 

 farmer, that if you would make a hog profit- 

 able, you gliould not let him ever sec a win- 

 ter: and I think I have satisfied mj'self, that 

 spring pigs well kept and nursed, are far 

 less expensive, and yield more in return for 

 their keep than those which are fifleen or 

 eighteen months old. But there is one thing 

 quite certain ; if we prefer our store hogs 

 to come in the fall, we ought to be careful 

 to keep them through our long cold winters, 

 both warm and dry. Every observant farmer 

 knovv's that if his cattle are not siieltered 

 from the cold weather and storms, they will 

 require much more food to keep them in 

 tolerable order, than if they are kept warm 

 and comfortable. Just so it is with pigs — 

 if they are sufiered to run over your premi- 

 ses in the snow and sleet, with their legs 

 and snout as red as the gill of your gobler, 

 ■without a warm and dry bed of clean straw 

 to resort to when they choose, they will not 

 only, in all probability come out with mange 

 in the spring, but every grunt they give 

 will convince you that all the food they 

 have devoured, has been thrown away; for 

 shoats that have a cold, damp, comfortless 

 bed, will get mangy, and mangjj pigs can 

 not grow. Let any one who has a mind to 

 try the experiment, take two pigs of the 

 same litter, suffering the one to run as 

 above, and- let the other be well housed, and 

 well fed, and it W'ill be found that the supe- 

 rior growth of the latter will pay for the 

 care bestowed upon him, with good interest. 

 Hogs that arc confined, and cannot get to 

 the earth, will frequently be benefitted by 

 having a little charcoal, soft brickbats, or 

 soft wood thrown into them, and a trifling 

 quantity of brimstone mixed in their food 

 occasionally, is an excellent thing. The 

 hog h;is the credit of being a dj'rty fellow — 

 but v.'e should remember that he likes to be 

 dirty in his own way, and for his own plea- 

 sure : he neither prefers to live cold, nor in 

 filth — still less dues he choose to be half fed. 

 Dr. Franklin's man said the hog was the 

 only gentleman in England, because he alone 

 Avas exonerated from labour. If this be so, 

 surely he ought to be well fed and well 

 housed in America. I entirely believe that 

 the same amount of food that will barely 

 carry a pig through the winter with bad 

 management, will, with good, prudent treat- 

 ment, keep him growing, and in the spring 

 you have sometliing to build upon, that will 

 by and by make you a solid porker, who will 

 do credit to your stye, Essex. 



Newark, N. J. 



To Destroy Lice on Cattle. 



Grease, fat, lard, or any oily substance, 

 if applied to neat cattle infested with pedi- 

 culi, will have the desired eflect; it must 

 be applied by being well rubbed into the 

 hair on those parts where the vermin are 

 found, and repeated until they are destroyed. 

 Insects have no lungs, but breathe by spira- 

 cles or minute holes in their bodies, and if 

 these spiracles are clogged w-ith grease or 

 fat, they become sufTccated and die. Goose 

 grease, hogs' fat, pot-skimmings, will all an- 

 swer the purpose, and may be obtained in 

 any farmer's family without cost. Tobacco, 

 also, will kill these vermin on cattle, by its 

 operation on them as poison. A simple in- 

 fusion of tobacco, applied warm and rubbed 

 into the neck or dew-laps, or wherever 

 found, so as to completely wet the hairs, and 

 repeated at an interval of a few days, will 

 destroy the nits and lice in a short time and 

 at a cheap rate. The curry-comb should be 

 used after the application. — Ex. Paper. 



Mediterranean Wheat. — The very gi eat 

 advantages of this wheat, over any now used 

 by our farmers, is becoming every year more 

 apparent. Besides its superior yield, it is 

 safer from tlie ravages of tlie fly and injury 

 from rust, by its more vigorous and rapid 

 grov.-th. 



We have received a statement from Mr. 

 Mansfield B. Brown, of the yield of his last 

 year's crop. The average yield from a field 

 of 23 acres, was 35 bushels to the acre. The 

 wheat weighed G4 lbs. to the bushel. From 

 158 lbs. which he took to the mill, he re- 

 ceived 120 lbs. of superfine flour, after pay- 

 ing toll. If our recollection serves us right, 

 the most of it was cut early, and before it 

 was fully ripe. — Piilsliirg Avicrican. 



A Fact for the Curiois — A. W. Palm- 

 er, of Cheam, in Surrey, England, tried a 

 very striking experiment respecting the pro- 

 duction of wheat. In July, 1841, he put 

 one grain of wheat into a common garden 

 pot; in August he divided it into four plants, 

 and in three weeks again divided these into 

 twelve plants; in September, these twelve 

 were divided into thirty-two, which in No- 

 vember were divided into fifty; and he then 

 placed them in the open ground. In July, 

 of 1812, twelve of them had failed, but the 

 remainder of them were healthy. On the 

 19th of August they were cut down, and 

 counted 1972 stems, with an average of 50 

 grains to the stem. — giving thus the in- 

 crease of 98,600 grains. — Soulh Western 

 Farmer. 



