Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1869 — Feeding Potatoes to Hogs. [ARTICLE]

Feeding Potatoes to Hogs.

An lowa - correspondent of the Wettern Rural writes that paper as follows: I didn’t like the idea of hauling my potatoes fifteen miles to market ana selling them for 25 cents per bushel, so I commonced feeding them to my fattening hogs raw. The hogs appeared to be very fond of them at first, but they soon commenced to “mince over them ,r (made their teeth sore I suppose). 1 then boiled and mushed them while hot, and put bran with them, one bucket of bran to three of potatoes, adding water enough to make a thick slop. I give them this mixture three times a day, and a little corn in the ear, at the same time. "The hogs have fattened much faster witli this feed than they did when I fed them all the raw corn they would est with bran slop to drink. I don’t think they would do better on any other kind of fuea. The pig pen is my potato,market this year. Of course it is not necessary to mush the |M>tatoes to get the hogs to cat them, but I think to mash them with bran they will do better on it—especially in wurm or mild weather—than they would if givcu alone. To Make Parer Transparent.—Artists, architects, land surveyors, and all who have occasion to make use of tracing paper in their professional duties will be glad to know that any paper capable of the transfer of a drawing in ordinary ink, pencil, or water colors, and that even a stout drawing paper, can be made as transparent as the thin, yellowish paperat present used for tracing purposes. The liquid used is benzine. If the paper be damped with pure and fresh distilled benzine it at once assumes a transparency, and permits of the tracing being made, and of ink or water colors being used on its surface without any “running.” The paper resumes its opacity as the benzine evaporates, and if the drawing is not completed, the requisite portion of the paper must be again damped with the benzine. The trans parent calico, on which indestructible tracings can be made, was a most valuable invention.and t his new discovery of the properties of the benzine will prove of further service to many branches of the art profession, in allowing the use of stiff paper where formerly only a' slight tissue could be used.— Exchange. In answer to a correspondent, the Gardener's Montldy says: “It is hard to get a lie out of the world after it once gets in. This one of lime killing sorrel we have kicked and cuffed for twenty years, and yet here he is before us again as cool and fresh as ever. TAme triU not kill sorrel. As to the lawn, we really do not know how to advise you; but we think, as it is really a strong-growing weed, if the lawn be mown regularly every two weeks, it will soon die away; no strong-growing weed will live long in a closely mown lawn.” —The Central Pacific Railroad earned $597,590, chiefly in gold in the month of September.

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