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was  done  by  making  a  loose  shoe  of  a 
bit  of  old  blanket,  wearing  this  in  place 
of  tbe  regular  shoe,  placing  a  piece  of 
wood  for  the  foot  to  rest  on  and  keep¬ 
ing  the  foot  in  the  oven  15  to  20  min¬ 
utes  daily.  It  got.  pretty  hot,  naturally. 
Hot  and  cold  douche  will  take  down 
swelling  and  can  he  managed  easily  in 
bathroom  or  kitchen.  It  consists  in  al¬ 
ternately  pouring  water  as  hot  and  as 
cold  as  can  he  borne  over  the  part  for 
15  minutes.  Any  physician  can  tell  you 
if  your  case  needs  this. 
Massage  or  rubbing  helps  some,  but 
my  specialist  says  where  there  is  inflam¬ 
mation,  it.  may  only  irritate.  Sister  was 
carefully  instructed  to  rub  with  the  fin¬ 
ger  tips  in  spiral  motion  downward,  dig¬ 
ging  in  with  the  fingertips  somewhat ; 
then  to  hit  the  part  lightly  with  the  side 
of  the  hand,  holding  the  fingers  and 
wrist  loose.  A  nurse  I  met  later  was 
taught  to  rub  upwards.  I  think  the  vir¬ 
tue  lies  in  the  rubbing,  not  the  way  it  is 
done, 
One  specialist  uses  a  liniment  of  alco¬ 
hol,  ammonia  and  chloroform  that  is  cool¬ 
ing  ami  pleasant  to  use.  Another  has 
just  declared  that,  personal  cleanliness  is 
the  best  safeguard  against  rheumatism, 
this  includes  the  care  of  the  teeth.  He 
says  rheumatism  is  a  germ  disease  and 
would  not  develop  i.u  damp  weather  if 
no  germs  were  in  the  system.  Most  doc¬ 
tors  give  in)  cause  for  this  ailment. 
Lastly,  my  specialist  gave  this  advice 
to  one  able  to  walk.  “Do  anything  that 
is  necessary  in  your  business,  but  noth¬ 
ing  foolish  for  your  own  pleasure,  then 
you  are  going  backward  instead  of  for¬ 
ward  on  the  road  to  health.” 
A  Little-known  Industry 
When  I  got  home  from  work  late 
tin1  other  night  my  family  had  increased 
from  12  to  10,  Oh  no.  nothing  out  of 
the  ordinary,  but  I  have  taken  up  the 
raising  of  guinea  pigs  as  a  hobby  and 
for  profit.  The  seven  referred  to  were 
certainly  little  beauties,  three  by  one 
mother  and  four  by  another.  The  mothers 
are  just  alike,  black  with  a  little  red. 
The  three  young  were  all  like  the 
mothers;  the  litter  of  four  were  radically 
different  from  the  three  and  from  each 
other.  They  were  variously  marked  with 
black,  white  and  fawn.  I  mention  this 
to  illustrate  the  'well-known  fact  that 
cavies  have  been  bred  indiscriminately 
so  long  that  each  new  lot  is  apt  to  re¬ 
semble  a  grandmother’s  patchwork  quilt. 
My  little  boy  got  me  interested  first, 
and  I  bought  a  pair  for  him.  I  then 
commenced  to  read  up  and  talk  with 
breeders  till  I  had  a  good  live  "bug” 
myself,  Ity  purchase  I  secured  six  more 
females,  and  resolved  to  go  in  for  pigs. 
It  may  be  interesting  to  your  readers 
to  know  a  little  of  this  industry.  The 
first  question  always  is;  “Why,  what 
are  they  good  for?”  Well,  they  are  good 
for  food,  they  are  good  for  pets,  but  the 
main  use  for  them  is  in  our  great  medical 
schools  and  drug  laboratories.  Their 
blood  is  said  to  analyze  very  close  to 
human  blood,  and  the.  results  of  experi¬ 
ments  with  gui.nea  pigs  give  very  approxi¬ 
mately  wliat  the  same  experiment  would 
produce  in  the  human  system.  We  owe 
much  to  this  humble  rodent.  Diph¬ 
theria  anti-toxin  is  tested  before  being 
put  on  the  market  by  ascertaining  how 
much  of  a  certain  lot  is  necessary  to 
produce  death  to  a  guinea  pig  in  three 
days.  I  think. 
As  tin*  industry  is  new,  a  steady  de¬ 
mand  for  first-class  breeding’  stock  awaits 
the  man  who  can  produce  them;  and 
there  is  a  large  farm  in  New  York  State, 
making  a  specialty  of  the  work,  a  cavi- 
ary  it  is  called.  The  prices  for  market 
pigs  are  very  steady  to  the  breeder  who 
contracts  his  output  and  guarantees  a 
steady,  year-round  supply.  It  is  about 
50  cents  apiece  for  a  seven  to  nine-ounce 
pig,  which  means  an  age  of  from  four 
to  eight  weeks.  The  average  price  of 
breeding  stock,  mature,  is  $2  a  pair,  and 
exhibition  specimens  run  up  to  $25  each. 
Females  bring  considerably  more  than 
males. 
The  man  with  a  little  land  can  raise 
all  their  feed,  the  town  man  all  but 
the  oats,  which  is  a  main  i,tera  of  diet. 
Buying  the  oats  only  it  should  not  cost 
to  exceed  25  cents  to  keep  an  adult  cavy 
for  a  year.  Buying  everything  it  would 
run  close  to  a  dollar.  I  feed  carrots, 
oats  and  hay  in  the  morning  (cut  Al¬ 
falfa  for  hay),  cabbage  at  noon,  beets 
and  hay  at  night.  In  Summer  I  give 
green  grass  in  place  of  hay. 
A  popular  story,  “Bigs  is  rigs,”  has 
created  a  quite  general  impression  that 
if  you  buy  a  pair  of  guinea  pigs  to-day, 
to-morrow  will  see  endless  numbers  of 
them.  However,  they  do  not  increase . 
with  any  great  rapidity,  a  single  pair 
producing  about  12  young  a  year.  It 
is  best  to  allow  the  females  but  four 
litters  a  year,  though  five  is  possible. 
One  male  may  run  with  four  or  five 
females  iu  a  pen  two  feet  by  three  with 
sides  at  least  15  inches  high.  If  indoors 
there  need  be  no  top  to  the  pen.  This 
size  pen  is  sufficient  for  the  five  or  six 
pigs  and  their  young  till  weaned,  which 
is  at  the  age  of  about  three  weeks.  There 
is  comparatively  little  maternal  instinct 
to  the  mother  pigs,  and  several  litters 
coining  at  the  same  time  will  nurse  the 
several  mothers  indiscriminately,  and  the 
mothers  pay  little  or  no  attention  to 
them,  seeming  to  hold  them  on  suffer¬ 
ance  only.  The  sexes  should  be  sepa¬ 
rated  at  the  age  of  four  weeks,  and 
breeding  should  not  he  commenced  till 
the  pigs  are  at  least  four  months  old. 
Cavies  rarely  bite.  I  know  of  one  old 
two-year-old  male  pig  that  bit  his  master 
quite  severely,  but  the  boy  was  foolish 
enough  to  put  his  hand  in  front  of  the 
pig  when  it.  was  fighting  with  another 
and  was  infuriated.  It  is  seldom  they 
will  fight  one  another,  except  that  wheu 
eating  they  are  exceedingly  selfish  and 
snappy,  and  endeavor  to  get  the  food 
into  a  corner  and  eat  alone.  They  re¬ 
quire  artificial  heat  in  the  Winter  if 
breeding  is  to  be  kept  up.  but  if  not, 
well-made  tireless  hovers  will  keep  them 
sulV]\  out  of  doors.  They  are  practically 
free  from  disease,  except  pneumonia, 
caused  by  cold,  damp  quarters.  I  am 
raising  mine  in  store  boxes  under  my 
greenhouse  benches.  There  is  no  odor 
when  cleanliness  is  observed.  I  clean  the 
boxes  twice  weekly  and  put  an  inch  or 
So  of  fresh  straw  on  I  he  floor  of  each 
pen.  The  litter  must  not  he  allowed  to 
become  wet,  as  they  eat  much  of  thei.r 
bedding.  It  is  not  necessary  to  give 
guinea  pigs  water  as  long  as  they  have 
plenty  of  succulents. 
Government  Bulletin  525  gives  com¬ 
plete  statistical  details  of  this  interest¬ 
ing  work.  PAUL  L.  WARD. 
Michigan. 
Chimney  Like  an  Alcohol  “Still” 
We  have  for  two  years  or  more  been 
having  great  trouble  with  the  pipe  of  our 
kitchen  stove.  It  is  a  range  with  all  the 
usual  dampers,  and  one  in  the  pipe,  mid¬ 
way  from  the  ceiling,  but  there  is  a  con¬ 
tinual  dripping  of  fluid  creosote,  which 
has  destroyed  the  pipe,  woodwork  and 
car] let,  cannot  he  cleaned  from  anything. 
The  chimney  has  been  in  use  for  50 
years,  and  no  trouble  before.  G.  A.  R. 
In  the  great  majority  of  such  cases  re¬ 
ported  to  us  a  change  to  perfectly  dry 
fuel  has  helped.  We  think  most  of  such 
troubles  are  caused  by  using  damp  or 
green  wood.  In  a  few  cases  even  the 
use  of  perfectly  dry  fuel  did  not  help 
much.  Cur  chemist  gives  the  following 
statement  about  it.  Perhaps  some  of  our 
readers  can  help; 
“The  only  thing  you  can  do  to  that 
chimney  is  to  clean  it  out  every  so  often. 
The  thing  is  acting  as  a  condenser,  the 
same  as  the  “worm”  of  a  still,  and  you 
get  the  wood  tar  and  acid  and  a  hun¬ 
dred  other  things  “according  to  Nature” 
whenever  you  burn  wood,  for  all  of  these 
things,  with  much  water  also,  are  formed 
whenever  wood  is  burned.  The  quicker 
and  brighter  it  burns,  the  less  you  get, 
but  you  will  "feet  some  any  way.  The 
shorter  the  Hue,  the  less  trouble,  of 
course,  but.  you  cannot  avoid  some  ac¬ 
tion.  It  may  interest  you  to  know  that 
the  whole  wood  distilling  industry,  which 
gives  us  all  our  wood  alcohol,  most  of 
(lie  acetate  of  lime,  all  the  wood  tar  and 
several  very  valuable  minor  products,  is 
based  on  the  very  same  action  which 
goes  on  in  your  chimney,  but  that  is  small 
comfort  when  the  sooty  tar  water  runs 
down  the  wall.”  F.  D.  c. 
Grow  Bigger  Crops 
