Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1879 — Prospect of Hogs. [ARTICLE]

Prospect of Hogs.

It is well known to our readers that we have insisted that the best results have followed a persistent and careful pursuit of one course of business. For fifteen years continuously hogs have been among the most profitable investments for the farmer. But the past nine months have necessarily disgusted and demoralized all our hog raisers. They have neglected to raise or take care of their pigs until now there is evidently an extremely short crop on hand. Stock hogs of all ages are scarce. It is evident that the spring, summer and next fall crops of fat hogs will be short. Owing to hard times, cheap corn, and the poor prospect of the future to tbe short-sighted, all the hogs which could by any possibility be f repared for market have been sold. ackers who are able are now holding on to their pork on hand for better prices, with good prospects of realizing. Shrewd men are now buying all the C\ stock hogs they can get. Even -pressed farmers, who will need large sumsto pay taxes and interest on mortgages, are selling for a trifle just the best things they have to realize on next fall. The true plan is, if a farmer has a mixed system of stock raising, let him stick to it, and not break up his arrangements for the reason that some branch of it looks bad for a season. Hog breeding and raising, pursued carefully and wisely, for the past forty years has been one of the safest and best industries: Those who have been gambling and speculating jn hogs havs frequently been swamped; jbut the man who raises his corn, raises land fattens his hogs,- generally pays his debts and has good credit There have been seasons when a man might feel like kicking a hog; but don'tao it. Feed, carefully oare for, and continuously raise hogs, and nine years out of ten you will win. This can be said of few things.— lowa Stale Register. Potatoes are best cooked in their skins, for the waste is then only 3 per cent, or half an ounce in a poujnd; whereas, if they are peeled first, it is not less than 14 per cent, or from two to.three waoes in the pound, ' -4a gushv Washington correspondent describes Gail Hamilton as “an unassuming, rosy, girlish, witty, wise, gentle, and friendly lady.” „