r ulir 
tops. 
THE CHINESE YAM. 
The Chinese Yam is propagated from 
tubers growing ou the vine, ranging in size 
from that of a pea up to that of a hickory 
nut. They should be planted in the spring 
in rows three and e-lmli feet one way, by 
one foot the oilier way, covering them'with 
earth to the depth of two and a-ludf inches. 
The soil should be deep and well drained ; 
and as the yum grows very long it needs to 
be deeply pulverized. It ollen grows two 
feel in length, weighing several pounds—one 
yam making several meals for one family. 
The next Ihing, in order to be successful, , 
is to stir the ground once or twice during 
the summer with a double shovel plow, 
going twice to the row, keeping the weeds 
down with u hoe Where the plow cannot go. 
After the first, year Iheculturc is simply to 
keep the weeds short, using a scythe or 
hoc, just which you please. Correspondents 
writing from the different, States wish to 
know it t in* yam can be grown successfully I 
is so nearly identical, in certain points, with 
the foregoing, as to make us suspicions 
of plagiarism. But, we are satisfied it is only 
an illustration of how “great miuds run,” 
&e., and shall risk the suit. 
.-- 
ORCHARD GRASS. 
Inbnsfrial (Upirs. 
WESTERN FARM NOTES, 
BY E. W. STEWART. 
I A correspondent of the New England Fannin* in Mlcliliran. 
| Farmer, A.\Y r . Cileevkk, Khcklonviile,Mass., Michigan was once familiarly known to a 
says:—“ The more I become acquainted with New Yorker as Hie “ Far West ■” she is now 
this grass the better I like it. Not the least a near neighbor, and so enterprising in her 
among its merits is its hardiness. It stood ways that we must soon look to our laurels, 
the hot, dry weat her last summer better The settlers of the West are made up largely 
Ilian any other valuable grass with which I of the most energetic Eastern young men 
am familiar. It should he sowed thick. I "’ho on starting in a new field of labor, un- 
thiuk two bushels not too much seed for an tier new circumstances, are ready to ahan- 
acre; and it must he cut early, before it is don old routine and adopt, new modes that, 
in full bloom, to have the hay of the best promise better results. It is much easier to 
quality. On rich, moist land it is as sure to introduce improved methods into the pro¬ 
yield three crops in a year, as is red-top to gressive West than the conservative East, 
give one. Unlike clover, it never inclines The careless and expensive way of feeding 
to blossom hut once in a season ; the second animals in the open air, which necessity for 
and third crops are mostly leaves, and the » time forced the West to adopt is fast civ- 
clover hay will give the proper balance of keep after that. lie says the best feeders 
nitrogenous constituents. hold that 
Mr. 8. says his experience is that turnips Hoes Pm on clover 
will not flavor the milk if fed to the cow only in May should he fed nothing else; that if 
in the morning, soon after milking, and that yod feed grain also, the hog will not eat as 
no one can detect the taste in the batter much clover, and will not do as well as if 
under such circumstances. In that case, we left to clover alone. We ventured, modest- 
should suppose if the cow were fed iiumedi- ly> to combat this; hut in proof of his posi- 
ately previous to milking it would he less tion, he showed us a Yorkshire boar that 
likely to flavor the night’s milk, and it could had gained one hundred pounds on clover 
not affect the milk to he drawn within an "i thirty-live days, tested by the scales, 
hour. But cooking takes away the rank weighing three hundred when put out and 
flavor of the turnip, and thus prepared may four hundred pounds when brought in. We 
he fed without fear of affecting the taste of suggested that this hog had, no doubt, found 
the milk. Ilis mode of raising much grain (wheat, barley, &c.,) in gleaning; 
Swedish Turnip" hut the fact is remarkable;—nearly three 
is somewhat peculiar. The land, after being [ pounds per day on young clover. lie re- 
hoavily manured and deeply plowed, is 
ridged with a Canadian ridging plow, 
twenty-eight inches apart; plants with a 
drill, on these ridges, two rows at a time, a 
best, feed for cows in winter I ever grew. It 
is a good grass to sow in early spring with 
clover, hut without grain. Two good crops 
of leafy hay may ho counted on the first 
fpi « . • .* T'uv ivn o .il it tunc., 
. , ca - rC , S and ^pensive way of feeding roller pressing the earth upon the seeds He 
annuals m Uie open air, which necessity for finds these ridges advantageous, in enabling 
a time forced the West to adopt, is Bust giv- him easily to follow the rows with a culti- 
incr WAV lint n..1*e i r\ ... .. 1.1 i . . 
with them. In answer, I will ask, Can the ! V 0ftr > mid three crops a year afterwards, as 
common potato be successfully grown with ,0U S as 
you V If so, you can grow the yam with the tije b< 
greatest success. And to those who ask, trtke fP 
“ Is the yam troublesome after it once gets a dressing 
start on a farm? Does it spread like nox itimoviu 
ions weeds ?” 1 answer no, from the very down » 
fact that the tubers grow upon the vines; ' n a VCI 
becoming ripe in the fail they drop off, and kct ‘P il 
unless they are covered or taken euro of in il to !U 
some way, they will by spring, ho rotten, baying 
Il they did not. rot., they would have to he ^ 
planted the some as a potato, or else they ^bis lati 
would not grow. The yam should have bay. I In 
two years’ growth before being dug for use ; 80 wel1 tlj : 
they do very well at. one year, buUie small the wkole 
—being then only ton or twelve inches long. 
Cooked as the common potato, and served 
up with butter or cream, or both, and a lit¬ 
tle salt, it makes a very nice dish, almost as In the 
white as snow. of seed, f 
long as the land will carry it out. I believe 
it the best of grasses to sow w here ! intend 
10 keep the crop up l> 3 r top dressing. The 
dressing should be spread immediately after 
removing the hay, ami should he well hushed 
down ; then the new crop w ill come up, and 
in a very few days cover the ground and 
keep it from drying. I would recommend 
11 to any one who is not afraid to begin 
1 .• ... * i i . r* . 
mg way, not only to comfortable barns, hut 
to i lie most, improved and economical modes 
'*1 grinding a ml cooking as a preparation for 
feeding. Improved breeding and feeding of 
all Kinds ol farm stock are making rapid 
plugiess in Michigan. Many are beginning 
to see that wheat raising and stock raising 
may ami should go together. 
J er haps we can illustrate in no way belter 
than by some notes on 
The Farm of Col. E.lwi.i 
ncai Clinton, Mich. I his farm of 440 acres 
is on a hell ol naturally umlerdruined land 
valor while the plants are small, and with¬ 
out covering them, tints keeping the ground 
clear of weeds; and the slight elevation 
gards Poland China the best, breed, and is 
crossing these on Chester While. J rissheep 
are housed in warm sheds, and great cure 
taken to raise early and vigorous lambs, 
which, although fine wool, he is able lo dis¬ 
pose of at good nominal prices. 
Planter 
is the main dependence as a fertilizer in this 
region—is successful on clay, and never fails 
to bring clover—which is the starting point 
- i • . .. i i . • • a 
warms the soil and brings forward the plants Of everything else; hut his farm is composed 
more rapidly, besides assisting in harvesting. 
He uses a large part of his manure upon 
fifteen to twenty acres of turnips each year, 
thus enabling him to raise 800 bushels per 
acre. He estimates the cost at only six cents 
per bushel, including half the cost of the 
manure, or $10 per acre, and also the ex¬ 
pense of Jifling and housing. His method of 
ItiifvcNiiim Turnips 
ALSIKE OLOYER. 
tie sail, it makes a very nice dish, almost as In the spring of 1868,1 bought one pound 
w hile as snow. of seed, for which 1 paid $1.10; this I sowed 
Considering everything, they are just the on about fifty rods of land sowed to wheat, 
thing to depend on, as no insect works on The seed came up well, and some of the 
them, and drouth does not injure them, plants blossomed the first year. The soil 
Again, always being ready for the table or was part clay and part hemlock muck. The 
market, they will bo a grand feature lor gar- next spring it came up thick and grew about 
deners who supply the wants of cities, as three feet high on the clay, and one loot, on 
they can keep their yams until tlie potato the muck. It began to bloom the first of 
crop falls short, then bring them forward, June, and continued iu blossom until the 
always getting high prices for all they sell, middle of September. I cut for hay about 
I hey should be sold by weight, and not by two-thirds of it; the rest I cut for seed, from 
measure. 3V.vr. Cruzan. which I got twenty.eight pounds of’seed, 
We advise our readers not to get unduly which sold readily for $1 per pound. 1 have 
excited ou this yam question. Mr. Cruzan seeded since then with Alsike ami Herds- 
writes the foregoing to answer questions grass, for il does not winter kill like the red 
asked him in consequence of an article pub. clover, (for it has a fibrous root,) and is far 
lished in the Rural New-Yorker last No- better lor hay, and will cure as soon as the 
vcuibcr. Wc publish il to relieve Jiim, and other grass. The harder nml moister the 
not because we think it will pay anybody clay, the better it grows. For bee keepers, 
to cultivate these yams for market purposes. 1 consider it invaluable; lhr one acre will’ 
Jerusalem artichokes are a thousand per yield more honey than a hundred acres aeed- 
cent. more profitable iu all respects. ed to common kinds of grass. 
----- A. W. Spaulding. 
MY NEW SEEDLING POTATO --- 
^ , - FIELD NOTES. 
Editors Rural New-Yorker :—Know- - 
illg that you a I ways delight iu giving aid to How a New Hampshire Farmer Grows 
the dissemination of now and rare fruits and T ™ t G ® n ‘’. 
vegetables, 1 herewith inclose an account of ' i ’ La ' vuiw ™, Upping, N. II., in a rc- 
my new seedling Irish potato, which I have 1 ? 1>C ®? Sa " : 7" 1 " raisin S corn, 1 nl- 
liamed “Vail’s Early Malmmeon ” It is a "‘ iyS ? reftC tt P my i,lul ,!lte 5,1 t,ie fu,1 > and 
seedling of the Climax, crossed upon the p read u F on the coinpostedmanure, mtute 
Trophy tomato, and of course is a ■■ HHi- ‘ V m '. ,ck U,W my yajdti tUe lal1 
bred.” For curliness, hardiness, productive- *TT S ,l s,ighl,y ' viiu 
ness and eating qualities, it has no nearer J*}! ’ P f 0 " h !‘ iy CIll i UtJ arc la Tt during 
competitor than a dish ol' strawberries l )lcaBa,,t "Gather in winter, and nights dnr- 
smothered in Ayrshire cream. It has been T f l, !! unc r 1 ' Tins system is much 
found, by actual test, to be fifteen minutes T'. ' i!i r lU °. aiul ll,an n,iinur ‘ 
earlier than tile Early Rose In shanc it is m S ‘ n llj eliil), and tbeiVecznig and thawing of 
a cylindrical ovoid with a quadrilateral base 8pring ,llU 8trenelh of lhe 
The Colorado potato bug will not go inside !!' e 11 Ulcfiods J l, st deep enough for the 
of a ten-acre field if a ein- le hill of mv Via- f° 1U Uj e next summer. In spring lime, I put a i 
iungeon is growing therein —in fact these I'm?® 8, ™? nM of superphosphate into the . 
bugs have been seen peeping through the m, ,am ^nvellevor tailed to raise good corn. I 
cracks of the fence to ascertain whether it K SftV . mg ot c ‘ X))0Dse 1,1 bamlling over J 
was there or not, and slcedadling instanter " nun,re 111 1)11 7 B l )Wn ff liinc will almost, pay ] 
on discovering its presence; and hence it 1° 0X I peu8 ® 0t l1 '® sl, Pcrphosphat©, and I , 
may be termed bug TJio (oliowin" have always raised better corn with my tna < 
testimonials are in my possession - — Uriah ” UI ^ spread 1U lhc fal1 tlia, ‘ if spread in the 
Step wriles: "I l.a^e ,,h,avl "vimtcsl ul >«" much lo , 
such a poUlto," Bn.i.y Joxessw “ U I le of vlll ' w 10 ‘ l,c con >. 11 not for nil lUo v 
“ P "‘“ l winuTof’ju.!o e M d JuTr^ Ue aal ' " ,yme l 
me iu.itungeon. The President of the _ 11 1 
Tarrytown Potato Club writes me: “Thanks itammtct’a Norway Ont« 3 
for specimen of your Maluimeons sent l ist r . a 11 
spring. From nine hills planted I dug with p 1 ^ n °!i CCd '‘ 3ome controversy in the ti 
the aid of three neighbors, eight hundred OI{KfaRft b 0 n t BaitiSde i rs : N o r- ti 
pounds.” Others could he given bullet ". ny0i J. a ‘ kae arescvciwl thousand husli- 
these suflice. 1 have set no price on these ^ 111 Jbis county that were raised on con- a 
vegetables — considering them above all ACl > ai ’ d 1,a v c n0 ^ been called Ibr yet. The ft 
price I Tmvo co,,eluded, liowcver, like B. “‘““S' 
storm. I he surface soil, however, contains 
humus and clay enough to absorb and retain 
all the fertilizing matter applied, thus losing 
nothing by leaching. If the top soil were a 
light sand, great losses would occur by the 
sinking and leaching of the manure. Clay 
and vegetable mold absorb ammonia and 
saline matter, and form a chemical or strong 
mechanical union, retaining these fertilizers 
till taken up by the roots of plants. 
The reader will thus perceive the great 
natural advantages of this soil. Only a 
small portion of the soil of this great State 
thrown into wagons and taken to the cellar. 
He takes but one row at a time, although 
the harrow covers three; thus the harrow 
passes over each row three times. We had 
supposed the harrow would bruise them, 
but found by examining them, after the liar- 
row had passed, that they were not bruised. 
He says harvesting an acre of turnips is lit¬ 
tle more work than that of an acre of corn 
—that with fourteen men he topped, lifted 
and put in cellar 1,600 bushels in one day. 
He uses a 
Peculiar Cultivator 
largely of sand, on which plaster generally 
does well. 
The Clinton Woolen Factory 
is an enterprise of the farmers, and now lie- 
coming very successful, although it strug¬ 
gled two years with adverse circumstances 
and to build up a custom for its goods. It 
makes 7,000 yards of cloth per month, and 
lias orders ahead for its goods, ’flic farmers 
can all see the effect of manufacturing at 
their doors, upon the home market. The 
farmers of the West will yet find the best 
market for ail their farm products iu build¬ 
ing up Avestera manufactures. 
}t Siuhw-lWrtr. 
acres uf IeSSta Mr - Smith raises some sixty for turnips and beans. It consists of three 
aCieS0 .... , t0c, 'h set in an ordinary cultivator frame, 
VA . ir T . WInt 7 l "T* The front tooth is a small shovel, the two 
"siiafly follows a corn crop, side and back teeth nr© like plow cutters 
some lines a clover soil, and is fertilized p. in- bent, on a square angle, and this comes flat 
cipul y by p aster the average yield being on the earth, the cutting edge forward ; the 
am/'ml \ V ariei'r t \v C1 ‘' CU ‘ ° l thc ' v, ‘ ne two points lap by each other, thus shaving 
and ml var clies. M e saw a most lu.xuri- off all the weeds. These hack teeth may 
ant cron on the trromui m n APAlnl mu rr 1.I 1 ^ 
mil crop on the ground in November. The 
land is seeded to clover and timothy with 
wheat—one to two bushels of plaster per 
acre greatly aiding the growth of the young 
clover. Fifty acres of 
Corn 
arc raised, annually, mostly on a clover sod. 
It is planted in straight rows each way, so 
that it may he thoroughly cultivated anil the 
weeds subdued without the use of the hoe. 
Plaster is also the principal fertilizer for corn, 
and somethin's, on careful test, has doubled 
the crop. The crop of 1870 yielded fifty 
bushels per acre, of the soundest quality, 
ilis corn is all nicely shocked, while the 
stalks are yet succulent; the fodder is thus 
made valuable. Forty bushels of ears from 
shock is regarded here as a day’s work, hut 
Mr. 8. pointed out the wife of one of his 
1 , . , , • u i . " ” v " no wi v/HU 1 JlJfi 
pleasant weather m winter, and nights dur- workmen who husked sixty bushels reeeiv 
ing the next summer. This system is much ing four cents per bushel, or $2.40 per day 
Cheaper and better for the land than manur- His land is very favorable for 
n. n i.;n ...in ..... J w v/i 
run dose to the turnips. 
Ilis turnip field is sown to barley the fol¬ 
lowing spring, and seeded with clover — 
the crop of barley always being fine—the 
clover the following season yielding a 
large crop for hay and a second crop for 
seed. He has a low-land meadow a few 
miles Off, which furnishes him good stock 
hay, and is hauled in winter as wanted. 
Hi" Iinrn, 
It will he perceived that the crops on this 
farm will require a barn with large accom¬ 
modations for slock. Mr. 8. has according¬ 
ly built a barn of large dimensions —forty- 
four by one hundred and thirty feet, on a 
basement, wall eight feet high,’with posts 
twenty-four feet. long. The basement affords 
stabling for fifty-one head of cattle and twelve 
horses—a turnip cellar holding 8,000 bushels. 
The turnips are dropped through the floor 
above, rolling down a ladder of slats, to 
ESSEX HOGS. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the RURAL NEW- 
Y orker wishes to lie informed of the “ good 
and had qualities” of the Essex hog. I 
think I could inform him as to their good 
qualities; as for their bad ones, I am not 
aware of them. An experience of over fif¬ 
teen years with nearly all the improved 
breeds ol hogs, including the Essex, Suflblks, 
Chester Whites, Berksbircs, Yorkshires and 
( heshires, warrants me in saying that 1 am 
speak advisedly upon this subject. And, I 
am free to say, that after trying all the above 
named breeds, I give the preference to the 
Essex. You say, if there is any objection 
to them, ilis their size. Now, 1 think size 
should not he a criterion by which to judge 
of the merits of the hog. The question 
should he, i think, what breed of hogs will 
make the most pounds of pork from the 
same amount of feed? Judged by this 
Standard, the Essex excels any other breed 
I ever tried. They almost invariably exceed 
the estimated weight, The same sized hog, 
or the same sized piece of pork of the Essex 
will weigh more than any other kind; for 
the reason, I think, that they tire more com¬ 
pact in their form and their flesh of finer 
texture ; just as a thorough bred horse, or a 
piece of hone of a thoroughbred horse, w ill 
w eigh more than the same sized horse or 
hone, of an ordinary horse. The flesh of 
the Essex is ol very lino quality, being a 
little more inclined lo lean than the Suffolk. 
They are of a very quiet disposition and 
ing in the hill, and the freezing and thawing of 
winter and spring carry the strength of the 
manure into the sods just deep enough for the 
corn the next summer. In spring time, I put a 
large spoonful of superphosphate into the 
hill, and I have never failed lo raise good corn. 
The saving of expense in handling over 
manure in busy spring time will almost pay 
the expense of the superphosphate, and i 
have always raised better corn with my mu 
nure spread iu the fall than if spread in the 
spring, when it is often dried too much to 
lie of value to the corn, if not for all the 
future, by the hot sunshine and drying 
winds of June and Julv. 
ing four cents per bushel or 40 tier duv .i« !,• "I'pu Inongh the floor temperament, and will lat.len at any age. 
HtalaudL^vSte ^ y ' » JSTV. M ''“ 10 Tl "‘y lu*ve few ull»l ... .,U,erl,„gI 
]’«tnines , hat ht J le d,rt he remaining, ever butchered ; their food is readily assimi- 
und he usually raises r '000 to 4 non i,„ e mi uam isused lor storing wheat and other luted, and 1 find no diflleulLy in making 
hut the polalohug^has beenIkta’/tothi^ciOD mZe^n ^ ^ ^m weigh 25U lo 400 lbs., attorn ten to 
zzJot sw 1,0bu » um . 
diets that New York will he afflicted with W ai. i* Hie piincipal objection to them is their 
this scourge in 1871—tliat its rate of frivol to i„‘« c ioov «„ i.... , , „ Coior : bul llus 18 not even “skin deep/’ for 
Eastward will bring it into our State 'this exhm.sUb^ n"- T l !' C C ° l0rillfi UlUtk ' r lics htilweea lhu tiaie 
present year. Let the potato ftmncr nnk© <■ w |.i f .i. ■ . „ asunentof hisharn, skin and the cuticle or outer skin. If care 
note of this Iu bis lar«'e barn we siw i 1 eeiaes with a wind-mill (three- is taken in scalding, all black hogs can he 
horse power into a reservoir of stone and dressed as white as any white hog. It is a 
Bmum, ?.Z L t °, U \ 40m ' «*‘WhU* P'luciUe »ll L* S „l> 
li nthreshed. ... . . Oi^nbuled m pipes wherever stances absorb heat: hence, in scalding block 
flnintHlcll’a Norway Oat". 
I have noticed some controversy in the 
Rural New-Yorker about Ramsdell’s Nor¬ 
way Oafs. There are several thousand bush¬ 
els ill this county that were raised on con¬ 
tract, and have not been called for yet. The 
only reply we can get from Bamsdell is 
k OllV airont In 4,1*._ • . _ * . .. 
“ £llCCC °' 1S iU “ W - “ * blnc “ '** is 
TJ . . TUs ‘ s<0,-11 • Next in value to Hie Essex, I regard a 
le has seventy-five head of Ihorough-hred cross between the Suffolk and Yorkshire. 
Short-Horns and grades; three hundred fiue This cross and the Essex arc the only two 
wool sheep; ten horses, and forty hogs, lie breeds which lam now raising, 
is decidedly in favor ot feeding fivr early ma- Wayne Co., Mich. . 1 . s. Tim hits. 
flinty ; says beef can he made cheaiper under ___ 
than ovei twenty-four months—tiuil, he can, A isix iiomiis mattic itoav. 
usually, get 1,100 to 1,200 pounds weight ^ have a Magie hoar six and one half 
and seven cents in steers or heifers at twenty- raf,, dks old, which I am keeping for stock, 
four months—that the profit is neater at 1 Lavc "ff- 1 '.given him any extra chance; 
this neriod tlm, im,,,. 1 n- ^ 1(<uei ,lt no ground or boiled feed; all he gets is three 
show ti.ii n ,i • i 1,3 es pei’iments ears of dry corn morning nml evening, and 
• non that poik is made cheaper under one. his drink consists of dish water three times 
j r ear than over—that a hog of 200 to 300 !l da Y He weighs two hundred and fifteen 
pouuds live Weight sells better than heavier l >oimds - If any Rural reader can heat this 
that this weight can he reached n ton 7 ' vilh aUhesler white on the same feed and 
i ^ tlCIlGd til 1(11 t.O Pfirp T Alt/~V11111 lll.'O i ca l.'nmtT _TI* Cl 
X * wiibiuuou, Jiuwuver. ^ Olii* nirnnl la 4 >1,;, . , » 
K. Buss, with his Peerless, to offer a limited no ,ii,hT n i y , m oats ;IS rapldl y as 
number of ibeso M,|*» U mtobtom, editors, KSS'e™ •' NoT ‘f TT “? f.'“ 
and oilier ioipecmiioils folks, al $.500 each; i„ 0 ", J,.|| , '? kns l,cc ''' tok,l, S 
S °. 1 1 »"■ large TonZ, 52*“ 
concessions to the general public in regard 
to price. Order early, ns the supply is very 
limited. Enoch Vail, Ibrrrylown, 1871. 
Upon first reading llte foregoing, we were 
inclined to suppress it, because we feared a 
suit for infringement of copyright by the 
publisher of a potato circular whoso language 
m oats all winter, somebody must know it. 
1 suggest that 3 r ou publicly request any per¬ 
son in the United Slates, who knows of D. 
W. Ramsdell’s taking any oats according 
to contract, to communicate the fact to you 
fur publication. By so doing you will relieve 
many from lhc aeonyof s„ s „,„ ls c which ,hoy p„.p K l «unipV khmdd hc miKod S 
V °- u ' MAN , Orleans Co ., straw ami clover hay, and allowed to sft 
T., juau/i *<$, lbrfl. twelve limit's onrl clirrlol.r -- r. 
tiK r . . i*-*auu 
tinthroslied. They were very plump, smooth, wanted/ 15 ^ t1lbtn,JllLcd lu 1,,pcs " herever 
stacks ouUfdoIu/ 110 ° plants in drill’s twee- in-^ioi^bir SUCcessftl1 as a P nm P' -.o .. .. ..... 
tv-eight inches apart-bog manure is used feed threft’.ino r,r 1 • r ^ Clltl,,lg was °bs<?fved, there would be less objection, 
and a large crop the result, leaving the land wind is too tHwv^n"/'"? * C ‘’ aS t,J ° 1 * iuk ’ lo black hogs. In fact, l think their 
in line condition for win to wheat Care is th^ nunuim ca Jo n T t0 ° CO,or is a » advantage, for they are 
taken to have the bean straw in good condi snfflL.ni ,vL ' V - , "’wnevei there is not subject lo cutaneous diseases; and, as 
Uon, and aheepem U .IU. good fwT* ^ ^ ' ' 
lo eualile Mr. Smith to use the large 
amount of straw and corn fodder to advin ir„, . *“ 7° (k * 
tage, he raises 6,000 lo 10,000 bushels of ‘ Sbort head of 'horougli-hred 
T „,. uiDS hl) oi t-IIorns and grades; three hundred fiue 
All stock will eat straw and other coarse ^dcciS^ ^7 ^ IIe 
fodder with a much better relish when led ? ? ‘" g fw mrly ma ' 
upon turnips in winter. Mr H , ronoses V ’ T T b ° made clies ' per ll » der 
U Plau of feeding,'wS“ X7™ t 
turnips, mix all together ^ tovZZTT ' W "f™ Hi ^ 
ingdilTiisestliemost agreeable flavor tbromdi his ieriod tl. m . ^ir at 
the straw and stalks, and causes all to he ahoVZt n! i l H " cs |H ' rimeuts 
eaten greedily. When not cooked ,1 " that pork ,s made cheaper under one 
pulped turnips should be mixed with cut nouuds'hveTJ' t ?' 1:0 !l I,og of a0 ° t0 300 
s.nnv and dovor hay, and n,l„*ed ,o aland L, „d 
the coloring matter lies between the true 
skin and the cuticle or outer skin. If care 
is taken in scalding, all black hogs can he 
dressed as white as any white hog. It is a 
well established principle that all black sub¬ 
stances absorb heat; hence, in scalding black 
hogs, t he water should not he so hot us in 
scalding while ones. If this simple rule 
a black bog is always 
twelve horns and slightly ferment. The | 
not pay its 
Wayne Lo., Mich. .1. g, Tibbits. 
-- 
A JSix Mouths Mncri*; It oaf. 
I have a Magie hoar six and one half 
months old, which I am keeping for stock. 
I have never given him any extra chance; 
no ground or boiled feed ; all lie gets is three 
ears of dry corn morning ami evening, and 
his drink consists of dish water three times 
a (lay. He weighs two hundred and fifteen 
pounds. If any Rural reader can heat this 
with a Chester white on the same feed ami 
care, I would like to know who.—F. G. 
Sparta, Monroe Co., Ohio. 
