Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1859 — Hog-Pastures. [ARTICLE]

Hog-Pastures.

It being generally understood that hogs live by -special providences’’ until it is time L> “fat" them, there is little attention to the most economical way of growing them up. t’ertain it is. that a good, easy-keeping variety will make commendable progress-on grass, and it is worthy ol investigation whether hog-raising may not be profitably curried on to n large extent in flic .Western States by ; the aid of goo J pastures and other appliances. It may be sum to calculate that a good ; sized, thrifty pig'wui gain in six months o.n grass, a hundred pounds or more. If an acre oi .grass would keep three hogs, and add a hundred pounds to the we : ght of each, that would bo twelve dollars for the acre of pasture, reckoning the 300 pounds gain at four cones rr p end. live weight. The particular point -which this pastoral letter is ambitious to iucuicattf is this: grass being a good thing an 1 protlitujble to swine, attention should he paid to tho furnishing of an abundance of it, and of thei best quality, to these animals. Ink tead of being forced to bite twice at. a short, dirty] dried and battered spear of June grass by tins-road-side before getting any off, imagine clean and comely.-Suffolk in a fresh, greed pasture just lour inches high, filling himself with evident relish. That looks like bain.— Cx. (rg/"A story is told of a doctor in the town i>f R., not a hundred miles from Vermont. The doctor constantly missed wood from his pi-le, and kept watching. As was expected, it proved to, bo the work of a near neighbor, will) soon appeared, and carefully culling out r.II 'dry wood, started off with an armful. The doctor hastily gathered up an armful of green wood, and followed, tugging as fast as he could, and just ;is the man threw down his 'armful, the doctor did the same, exclaiming:

“There!'you must, burn green wood ptfrt ;of.the tipie; I ha ve to !*’ and departed, leav- : ing the thief to his own reflections. (Qr We see that some of the leading lit—; ; entry papers'.of the east are turning their attention to the publication of the sermons i of distinguished clergymen, instead of the trashy, longwinded and silly tales of “lovt* and thunder" with which most of them fill their Co!tints. The change is a commendable one, and will be acceptable to the sensible portion of their readers, at least. Park Benjamin's Constellation —an excellent paper—is publishing Spurgeon’s semons; am! the Banner of Light is publishing those of Beecher and Chapin.