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Wisconsin I had small means; earned but little each year, but I 
tried to live within that income, if but $200 a year. Now, this so¬ 
ciety pay me a much larger sum than I then earned. I live within 
that. If it was one-hall of it, I should endeavor to live within it. 
It is certainly an important lesson for every one, that whatever his 
income may be, to live within it. 
Mr. Clark: I tried a little experiment last summer, that I read 
of in some agricultural paper. I think it is very successful on a 
small scale. I had no clover-pasture for my hogs. I sowed half an 
acre of oats at the rate of three and a half bushels to the acre, and 
commenced mowing them as soon as they w r ere high enough. 
Twice or three times a day I gave the hogs all they would eat of theny 
Those that I cut first came forward and made a good crop of oats. 
I had no half acre on m} r farm that paid me any better than that 
piece of oats. I had fifteen hogs that I fed out of it; they did 
well. I don’t think I could have raised as much feed from any half 
acre on my farm as I did from sowing those oats thickly. 
Mr. Anderson": This hog-question is alwaj^s of interest to me. 
One time this year I had nearly four hundred, but I had one hun¬ 
dred and forty acres of corn killed by the frost. Of course, 1 had all 
I could in condition to sell, and sold immediately all that were fit 
for market. I am in favor of always keeping hogs fit for market. 
With breeders you cannot do so. I think the best way for one, who 
has quite a number, is to feed well, until clover conies in blossom; 
then turn them into the clover-field. Early in the spring, sow a 
field of early oats, the earliest variety. After your clover begins to • 
turn yellow, don’t wait until it is ripe; turn }mur hogs into the ear¬ 
ly oats, then into a later field if you wish to, and then into an early 
field of corn, and from that, into a later one, when they will be fit 
for market. It is the easiest way I know of to fatten hogs, and 
your land will be much improved in fertility by the process. Of 
course, this is better adapted to those who feed a large number of 
hogs than on a smaller scale. 1 concur with the deacon’s plan of 
feeding calves. I feed oats twice a day to them. I think my calves 
of one year old are as good as my neighbor’s two j^ears of age, when 
wintered at straw-stacks. Mr. Lysaght, of Sugar River, told me he 
sold four colts one year old, for $800. He couldn’t have sold those 
colts for that price if they had been of any scrub breed; they were 
half Clydesdale. I sold five colts that didn’t average quite $120 
