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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1895
Page
8
The article extols dairy farming as a steady, life filled business driven by skilled handling and clean equipment. It urges converting suitable farms to dairies, notes feeding and breeding must match, and stresses access to pure salt for cattle health and product quality.
This column discusses practical live stock care including hay sufficiency, pig feeding with rye and buckwheat, and the value of water for hogs in summer. It cites Prof Shaw on shorts versus oats, reports from Iowa on feeding peas to swine, and critiques veterinarians. A swine breeder recommends a carbolic acid and lard lice remedy, with coal oil and oil blends for housing areas.
A critique argues that forcing humans or horses to hold fixed positions is exhausting and cruel. It cites a French officer punishing soldiers by banning movement of arms and notes the pain from keeping horses' heads unnaturally high with blinders. Professor Wagner labels such treatment as ingratitude and crime.
Selecting a boar requires symmetry and breed traits. The head should be fine with a broad jowl and short face indicating aptitude to fatten. The back must be square and level with even thickness at shoulders and loins, and the hind quarters extend with short clean limbs. Hair quality and condition reveal breed suitability.
The article advises buyers to favor pedigreed, well bred hogs with strong feeding qualities. It warns that cheap pigs fail to deliver, and paying a few dollars more for a good boar yields better offspring and larger market returns. Farmers delay buying, but risk missing top pigs.
The piece argues that farmers should choose between grain and stock raising based on personal fit and local conditions. It notes some cannot profitably feed grain to stock, regardless of location, while grain success relies on soil, plowing, seeding, and crop securing. Stock raising demands constant care year round and broad, liberal management.
Jefferson extols prudent electors keeping government steady toward republicanism and warns against treacherous emissaries. The country boy is shaped by healthful influences, not by nature, and this explains notable achievements from rural youth.
Correspondence warns of a party favoring Britain and threatening independence. It laments British influence through merchants, factors, and printing presses, urges a republican government and farm-focused representatives, and calls for restraint from war with France.
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