Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — Stoek Notes. [ARTICLE]

Stoek Notes.

There is an old saying that “No one lives so far from market as he who has nothing to carry to market.” In constructing hog houses with floors, it is a serious mistake to allow the air to circulate beneath the floors. We know of no more fruitful source of colds and catarrh than this. When a sow is in good condition at farrowing time there is no difficulty, by proper feeling, in having her increase in flesh while she sucks her litter. But if let run low before systematic and careful feeding begins it will be found very bard to made her increase in flesh if she has a large litter. Capt. T. V. Hills of Delaware, 0., presents some facts from his own experience relative to the use of the silo in the production of beef. Here they are in a nutshell: We find that cattle fed corn and clover ensilage $10,20 per head for their winter’s keep of 200 days, while the cost of corn and hay ration would be $16.60 per head for the same time. A New York minister has got himsel Into a rumpus by cursorily remarking that he expects to meet his dog in heaven. It should be said in mitigation that the animal may possibly be of the Skye breed. “I’m so sorry,” said Mrs. Parvenu, bidding good night to her guests after the reception, ?that the storm kept all our best people away!” Politicians are trimming to prevent being capsized.