Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1871 — Keep the Small Potatoes until Spring. [ARTICLE]

Keep the Small Potatoes until Spring.

Farmers frequently feed tlieir small potatoes to fattening pigs in the fall. It would be much better to keep them until spring, and then cook them, mix them with a little meal and feed .them to suckling sows and young pigs. In the spring, before the clover is ready to turn into, we are generally short of succulent food, whereas in the autumn we have apples, pumpkins, cabbage leaves, and a variety of vegetables that will not keep Until spring. The value of potatoes as feed for stock does not lie so much in the mere nutriment they contain as in their giving tone to the stomach; and they will prove much more useful when fed out to young pigs and breeding sows in the spring, as is usual, than when fed to fattening pigs in the fall. —American Agriculturist. —Captain McArthur, of Kinston, Canada, recently had a fearful adventure on the Grand Trunk He got up from his seat and walked out to the platform when the train was near Lancaster, to find out how near he was to the station. He overbalanced himself and fell, but managed to save his life by catching the coupling, and there he hung by his arms in a position which offered him very little hope of recovering the platform above, in the one case, and a sure and awful death, were he to drop off, in the other. No one could be placed in a more agonizing position. Through his great strength, being of strong muscular power, he held himself up while the train traveled four miles, undergomg the greatest mental as well as bodily suffering. No one discovered his danger, as it was night and very dark. When his strength was exhausted, and he saw a bridge or a tunnel on the track ahead which would increase the danger of his situation, he prepared for the inevitable plunge, and, with a prayer of despair upon his lips, he let go his holdi Instant death would have followed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, but, providentially, Mr. McArthur fell, more dead than alive, into a hollow or excavation in the track. , The train passed over safely, and he . laid there unconscious from his injuries and sufler--ings for seven hours. . A blind girl, sixteen years of age, an inmate of the Blind Asylum at Jackson, Miss., learned the alphabet in raised letters in four hours, and was'able to read well in one week alter bar admission.