Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1888 — The Naked Truth. [ARTICLE]

The Naked Truth.

“Is this an undressed rehearsal, Uncle Jack?” asked Minnie, at the opera. “Land, no,” replied Uncle Jack, gluing his face to the operaglass. “The undress rehearsal is when they have their clothes on. —Robert J. Burdette. There is nothing better than the large red clover for hog pastumge. Where many hogs are kept a field should be sown with clover in the spring of the year before it is wanted, so that it is a year old before it is pastured; this should be done every year. One acre for seven head is the usual allowance. If the hogs are ringed so they will not root out the clover the pasture will last for two years, and may then be turned under for corn, with greater benefit from the clover than from twenty-five dollars’ worth of fertilizers per acre