mended and that is artichokes, l have had 
but little experience with them but would not 
advise any one to plant them, unless it is in a 
lot where the tiogs can bo turned. If you 
start them in a field they are vory difficult to 
eradicate and will give trouble in growing fu¬ 
ture crops. In looking over this article I Bee 
I omitted to caution the farmer about allowing 
cattle to run in the field with hogs when feed¬ 
ing cut-up com. The hogs will chew up the 
husks and fiber of the stalks to get the sweet, 
and drop the cuds of fiber, and cattle eating 
them cannot digest them and a disease is pro¬ 
duced called “mail itch,” which is often fatal. 
Butler Co., Ohio. “Waldo.” 
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until in blossom. I have known hogs tnat 
were coughing and making no gain at all from 
the corn fod them, to become thrifty and all 
signs of disease disappear in a few days when 
turned on rye pasture. A second point I 
would make is this: To make cheap pork you 
must feed early. It will as a rule take double 
the food to make a pouud of pork in Decem¬ 
ber that it will in September, and unless sure 
of an advance in price there is little profit in 
feeding more than two months. Begin feeding 
cut-up corn as soon as it is fit for roasting ears. 
At this stage of growth the stalk is sweet and 
palatable, and tbo husk aud cob are sweet 
tender aud nutritious, and the hog will eat the 
larger pari of it. aud I believe that it is worth 
more for feed than the ear aloue will be when 
fully matured. Besides, this gives a gradual 
change from clover to corn, and, by the time 
the corn is so dry that the hogs refuse the stalk, 
they are prepared for a full corn diet. Some 
bulky food is of ad van rage during the entire 
period of fattening, and I have found nothing 
so cheap as pumpkins, or better; a little 
pains will be necessary to teach liogs to eat 
them, but if for a few days pumpkins are fed 
instead of corn once a day, the animals soon 
acquire a taste for them, and will eat them 
readily. There is one other point in the pro¬ 
duction of cheap pork which 1 wonder far¬ 
mers do not understand better, aud that is the 
economy in wintering hogs and cattle together. 
If a steer or cow is shut up in a yard with two 
stock hogs and fed a peck of corn a day, the 
hogs will do better, if fed one ear of corn each 
morning and night, than they would with three 
ears each without it, or in other words, two hogs 
will get two-thirds of their living following 
a well fod beef. This has been proved over 
and over again, and I have put the number of 
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the rule among the great cattle feeders of Ill¬ 
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with no other feed. On a visit to Mr. P. T. 
Jones, of Franklin Co., Indiana, some years 
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one ear of corn each twice a day, and feeding 
five bushels of corn to the cattle with which 
the hogs were. He told me that a marked 
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when he changed from feeding heavily on 
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farmers who have tried it, I am convinced 
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