greatly injured, but at the same time the dehcate flavor of the dis- 

 eased fat is all the more brought forward. 



If now any one complains that this is no photograph, but an 

 artistic sketch and highly colored in some respects, it is certainly 

 safe to say that fully one half the hogs in New England are no 

 better off than in the character just given them. 



But the farmer says : " What shall I do ? It costs but little to 

 raise hogs ; they help greatly to work over manure, and furnish 

 food for my family for a large part of the year. I can't afford to live 

 unless I raise hogs." The answer to this is somewhat radical with 

 present information on the subject, but it points to an end which 

 the laws of God compel us to consider, and this is to use none of 

 this " unclean " animal for food, but in place of it use much more 

 the natural ripe cooked and uncooked fruits of the earth. Per- 

 haps you must have one or two hogs to use up certain kinds of 

 refuse and to turn over the excrements of the barn -yard. Very 

 well, do it. But make your pig pen at least three times the dis- 

 tance from the top of your well of drinking water that it is from 

 the top to the bottom of the well. Then make or have a shed 

 near by, where a quantity of dry loam can be constantly kept, and 

 daily (during summer and early autumn), let enough of this loam 

 be " cast before the swine " to absorb e\erything like liquid or 

 moist manure and filth. This, with an occasional removal of all 

 the contents of the pig pen to the compost heap, and you have 

 the best antidote to one of the farmer's poisons. " But what shall 

 be done with the pig ?" Why, at any time you please, kill him. 

 •' And what then ?" Don't carefully scrape, scald, clean and put 

 inside of salt in barrels down in your cellar his worthless carcass, 

 but cut him into inch pieces, bones and all, and put a large bucket 

 full of them down deep among the roots of your grape vines. 

 Give every pear and apple tree a good dinner of the same. Feed 

 currants and gooseberries also, and if you get more than you can 

 us in this way, prepare holes on your ground with this fertilizer, 

 where you can plant next year some more fruit trees. 



Oh, if we only would increase the use of home raised fruit in our 

 food ! Use it ripe, cooked and uncooked, a great deal more than 

 we now do ! If we only would substitute for fried salt pork, 

 sopped bread, boiled pork, doughnuts, and the everlasting pie 



