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VOL. L1V. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JAN. 28, 1899. NO. 4 %xpcxlaxcc QzpixxXnxzuX. SANITARY MANAGEMENT OF SWINE. How do you Prevent Hoe Cholera? How Stamp It Out? 1st Premium.—It is true that many farmers ignore the fact that a hog will respond to good treatment as readily as does his favorite cow or best driving horse. Because a hog will wallow in the mud is no reason that he should be compelled to sleep and wade in it, much lesa have his feed poured out in it. One of the first requisites for health is clean quarters, and second, clean pure food. Our hog houses are built on sled runners, so that instead of having to disinfect or work at a great disadvantage in cleaning out the old beds, we simply hitch a horse to the houje draw it a few feet sprinkle the ground with air-slacked lime, replenish with good clean straw, load the old bed into a wagon, haul it away with its disease germe, if it contains any such, thug insuring healthy Bleeping quarters. These houses are made, some largo enough for one sow and litter of pigs, others large enough for from 10 to 20 fattening hogs. If disease has baen in the herd disinfectants are unsparingly used. This treatment is not only sanitary but a preventive to cholera as well. But to go further in preventing this dreaded disease, we furnish our hogs with pure water and wholesome food. By this we mean good sound corn, and slops that have not been allowed to rot in the swill barrel, an abundance of clrJvei, both winter and summer, artichokes or some equivalent succulent food and laet, but not least, the soja bean. A self-feeding box filled with ond buahel wood ashes, one bushel charcoal, one peek ealt, five pounds eulphur and one-half pound copperas ia accessible to the hoge all the time. We believe that if theee rules are followed a healthy, vigorous constitution will be the result, nnd so long as thie is the case cholera germs will find no place for lodgement. We uee further precaution by breeding nono but mature eowe theee eecuring strong healthy pige to begin with. "An ounce of preventive is worth a pound of cure," but in case the diseaso does make its appearance in our herd the infected hogs are put into a close pen where they are closely watched and cared for, while all the well hogs are taken to a paeture on the far elde of the farm. We have bten able to save eome infected animals by the uee of coal oil, soap euda and copperae, but when a hog bae the genuine cholera it is beet to give him a epeedy death. B. D. Hendricks Co. 2d Premium.—Poor Richard once eaid an ounce of prevention if worth a pound of cure. This is doubly true in the caee of so-called hog cholera. The exercise of good common senee in the sanitary management of hoge is of the utmost importance. Olean, comfortable sleeping apartments in winter without over-crowding, separation of hoga into email lota, not to exceed 30 or 40 in a lot, graded as to age and eize, shade from sun, ehelter from etorm, room for exercise and fresh wator t j drink, no muddy wallowe for bacteria breeders—and judicious feeding are among the necessary sanitary conditions to be observed for the provention of hog cholera. The first essential element, however, is to have etock of good conetitutlon. Thia can only be attained and maintained by judicious breeding and following the eanitaryrequlrementealreadystated. Keep mature hoga of both sexes for breeding purposes. If you would have pige of vigorous cOnetltutution do not feed your eowe too j strongly at farrowing time, it is better to keep them a little hungry than to overfeed until the pige are two or three weeks old. This , gives the mother hog a disposition to get out . and huetle, and unleee the weather ie extreme- j y bad tbe pigs will follow her, thus avoiding I the possibility of thumps and other ailments that are destructive to pige. After tho pigs are three or four weeks old teach them to come to eome place apart from the sowe, where you can feed them milk mixed with mill feed, slops a waste from the kitchen, and you will ba eurprieed to find how quickly they learn to hunt for something to eat and how fast they will grow. During eummer when on graee give ealt and wood ashes. Alight feed of whole wheat once or twice a week in the lato summer months improves the appetite. When I commence feeding new corn I keep on hands a eupply of soda and eulphur, which I mix, one part sulphur to two parts soda, and feed twice a week one teaspoonful to a hog. By following the plan outlined here I have not lost a hog by cholera in 12 yeare, althoughl have been surrounded with it frequently in that time. The laet time cholera attacked my herd, I had about SO head and wae feeding new corn. Ono morning I obeerved several "off their feed," (I had been ecourged two yeare before, loeing 48 out of a herd of 80) I separated the hoge, penning all that showed eymptome of dleeaee; the others I transferred to another part of tho farm and quit feeding for a few days. Of the 10 taken and penned 8 died within two days. The two others recovered and no new cases developed. Tippecanoe Co. J. A B. 3d Premium.—Sanitary management of swine is of vital importance, for beet reeulta. See that they have clean, comfortable quarters to eleep in. It mattere not whether it be a house, or hole in etraw etack, eo it ia clean and dry. Some object to straw etack, claiming they are cholera breedere. But my experience teachee me that there ie no place like a hole on the eouthside of a etrawstack, to start pigs Id cold weather; though such placee ehould be looked after every day. Don't allow pige, (or older hoge) too have too much loose etraw, clean all loose etraw out every few daye, and then pull fresh, bright etraw, and see how the little fellowe enjoy it. Don't allow too many to bed together. Feed a well- balanced ration, and don't confine hoge to a muddy pen, but let them have range of clover- field in eummer, by all means, and blue grntre paeture in winter if possible. Corn ie king, but corn alone won't do; they muet have milk slop made of middlings, clover or graes, with corn, for beet results. Slop ehould be fed everyday as made. I think the swill barrel Ib gone forever. Fresh water ehould be at hand at all times; don't compel hogs to go fifty or sixty rods, and drink out of a pond or mud- hole. Wocd aehee ari(l charcoal, with a little ealt ehould be fedreguIarly;alsoueeeomegood diainfeclant occasionally and keep tho hogs free from lice. Cholera can be prevented largely by the selection of breeding etock, and the management of tha breeding. Select a hog (male or female) ehowlng lota of coneti- tutional vigor. Breeding etock, cannot impart to their offspring what they do not possess. Preserve and assimilate this constitutional vigor, by breeding for early spring pige, one litter a year. A matured eow can not fur- nirdvtwo littere a year, and eupply conetitution sufficient to ward cff the swine plagues. The great trouble is that men are too hoggish, they want two littera a year, thereby inviting cholera into their herds, by debiliating their etock. Fall pige are moet liable to ewine plaguce, ae swine plagues are more prevalent at that time of year, and the young are more susceptible to disease. Cholera is not ae contagious ae eome think. A partition fence divided my hoge from diseased ones, tho past two summers, part of thia fenco waB smooth wire. I didn't think It a very good protection, but it proved to be sufficient. How stamp it out? Apply the above described ean- itary mansgement of swine, and you will not bo tho first in your immediate neighborhood to howl cholera. A. M. S. Hope. HEV1IW. I muet express my regret and apology to our friends who wrote some 20 letters for this department on free mail delivery and again on wido tiree. We appreciate thie great popular interest in theee questlone. But you will forgive us for not publishing more of them when you eec how full the paper waa thoee ieeues. We are glad to get thoee letters so wo can cream them, even if too crowded to print them all. The beet that I find on ewine diecaeee is given in our letters. There le much promise of relief through vaccination, but it ie not cheap enough or well enough underetood to be ueed by the public. I prophecy of a day not far off when science will wipo out cholera ae cleanly as it has emallpox. But we farmers will have to learn eome eeneo beforo that can be done. We must ubandon the silly thought that each farmer has the right to do about aa ho pleases in caee of any kind of catching disease. The ignoramus who ineiete that it is good and safe to let the herd eat its dead will have to be taught by the hard arm of the law to burn and clean up. I will only add a euggeetlon or two. The writers fay breed for vitality. In fighting hu- mau peetilenca the authorltiee clean up. It ie eetimated that it will cost $5,000,000 to put Havana in sanitary condition. Any money spent to fight Yellow Jack or any other Jack without cleaning up ie waeted. Feeding a balanced ration helps some. Dividing the herd eome. Warm quarters too. And of medicines let ue remember that common cheap lime ie the deadliest thing that can touch a cholera microbe. A microbe will forsake father and mother to take to the woode when he Beee lime or carbolic acid in the road I have no copy on the laet three topics of thie eeriee. No. 152, Feb. 4.—The winter management of breeding ewee—What are the beetmethodo? No. 153,Feb. 11.—Agricultural superstitions. —Name a number we have outgrown and a number that still have advocates. No. 154, Feb. 18 —Name one or more books or persons or events that havo greatly improved and shaped your life. No. 155, Feb. 25.—What do you mean to the people who know you—WhatdoyouBtand for? Premiuma of $1 75 cents and £0 centa will be given to 1st, 2d and 3d beet articles each week. Let copy be as practicable as poeelblc and forwarded 10 daya before publication to Lafayette. E. II. Collins. Florida Letter. Editors Indiana Farmer. Hero we are again for the winter in our far away Florida home, below the "blizzard line" since November, and time files all too fast on fairy winged feet, and in our day dreams, and listening to the song of civilization, in the rush and friction of this wonderful age, we hopo we have friende that* etill remember us kindly after our GO yeura of exercising on a farm and nureery in Indiana. We had only a few light frosts thie winter; orange trece are doing well and increasing rapidly in value Some orangee here yet. Some men eold from one to threo hundred boxes. They aro higher here than in Indiana. So many northern people here, the home demand absorbs them all. It ia very healthy; only one old man died thie winter; he had heartdisease. "Grip" never killed anybody here but one old woman, and Bhe died with the phthielc. Many peoplo are placing pine wood in their grovee to fire out Jack Frost if he gets off hie base again. The McKinney company are fencing in 10 acrea of orange trees, 25 feet high, to protect oranges and pine apples through the winter, with email fires inside. When a cold wave ia expected our flag and railroad whistles give warning. The wood costs nothing, and will not be needed after the trcee are a year or two older. Wo have new potatoes, strawberries, etc. and plenty of eour (wild) orangee arouna Lake View. You rake them off the thorny trcee with a garden rake; cut off the end and gouge in eugar. They beat lemone and you eoon forget stomach trouble, and get hungry three tlmee a day unless your digestive appa- ratue haa been disgusted with noetrums and stimulants. A good many are plowing under graes and weede to rot, out of way of eummer work, and make eafe from the firee that burn through the pine woode and keep them open, eo you can gee half a mile between trcee 100 feet high. The great white pine and cyprcea forests are dieappearing rapidly, and the lakes have gone down to 15 feet. We dig the hottom out of the wells for water, and Marlon county haa voted "dry." No more saloons or rum slaves, wrecks and wretchedness, unless some lawyer knocks out theee props, for money? We are eetting out many eorte of fruits, shrubs and flowers that wo never saw in Indiana. The climate and health are euperb, but the land ia sandy and poor, plenty of land for a dollar an acre. Y'ou could not make a living on 1,000 acres if it wae given to you. The rich hammock lands are not eo healthy. Most of the colored people want to work. They are kind- hearted and tractable, ignorant and awkward, but ae good or better than the average, considering their past condition and preeent chances. No race war here, because the whites rule, a caee of "survival of the fittest." Tho colored people keep out of the way, work and mind their own bueinees, and what they live on the Lord knowp,—somo Bweet pota- toee, fish, turtles, 'poe.'Um. They whletle, eing and hope; work all day, dance all night; come and gone to and from tho beyond, and what for? Well, it is another fad this talk about enake'e and alligators in Florida. I never saw half a dozon in all my travels. They are not around rnueh in winter, but I have a ecorpion pinned down in a box. It has 8 lege, two front ones forked. Ita long pointed tail hae a curred eting on the end; will make a man hotter than eitting on tacks. We see 8 tralne a day pass our door going to Tampa on the plant eyetem, and hear 8 more four miles away on the Florida it P. railroad. We are only 100 feet above the sea level, and in the morning my shadow ie }{ mile long. We hear tralne running five to eight miles away. We are sorry for you all when we. here of your grip, cold waves, blizzards and thinge, and wo are glad and thankful we are here where we hope you will be glad t o hear from ue again. Kindly yours for the good of all. A. 0. Hakvky. Chandler, Fla. Generous Offer to Our Next 20 Subscribers, Editors Indiana Farmer. Having taken the Farmer from its flrst number I like it and its friende. It is truthful honorable and clean, and I will denote free a copy of my "40 Florida lettere" (100 pa>;ee) to each of the next 20 new cash eub- ecribere to the Farmeb at $1 per year. The book describee "Five wintere among the palme, plnee and orange grovee of Florida," and coet me a eight of time, experience and money. A. 0. Hasvey. Chandler, Fla., Jan. 20. —In behalf of our first 20 full paid subscribers received after Saturday, Jan. 28th, we thank our good friend Harvey for his kind offer. We aseure tho fortunate subscribers that they will enjoy a eure treat in reading this 25e book. Mr. Harvey is a pleaeant and witty letter writer, and pictures the places and thinge he describes in a moet graphic and in- tereeting manner. We have one of hia spicy letters which will be publiehed aa soon as we can find room.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1899, v. 54, no. 04 (Jan. 28) |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
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Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. L1V. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JAN. 28, 1899. NO. 4 %xpcxlaxcc QzpixxXnxzuX. SANITARY MANAGEMENT OF SWINE. How do you Prevent Hoe Cholera? How Stamp It Out? 1st Premium.—It is true that many farmers ignore the fact that a hog will respond to good treatment as readily as does his favorite cow or best driving horse. Because a hog will wallow in the mud is no reason that he should be compelled to sleep and wade in it, much lesa have his feed poured out in it. One of the first requisites for health is clean quarters, and second, clean pure food. Our hog houses are built on sled runners, so that instead of having to disinfect or work at a great disadvantage in cleaning out the old beds, we simply hitch a horse to the houje draw it a few feet sprinkle the ground with air-slacked lime, replenish with good clean straw, load the old bed into a wagon, haul it away with its disease germe, if it contains any such, thug insuring healthy Bleeping quarters. These houses are made, some largo enough for one sow and litter of pigs, others large enough for from 10 to 20 fattening hogs. If disease has baen in the herd disinfectants are unsparingly used. This treatment is not only sanitary but a preventive to cholera as well. But to go further in preventing this dreaded disease, we furnish our hogs with pure water and wholesome food. By this we mean good sound corn, and slops that have not been allowed to rot in the swill barrel, an abundance of clrJvei, both winter and summer, artichokes or some equivalent succulent food and laet, but not least, the soja bean. A self-feeding box filled with ond buahel wood ashes, one bushel charcoal, one peek ealt, five pounds eulphur and one-half pound copperas ia accessible to the hoge all the time. We believe that if theee rules are followed a healthy, vigorous constitution will be the result, nnd so long as thie is the case cholera germs will find no place for lodgement. We uee further precaution by breeding nono but mature eowe theee eecuring strong healthy pige to begin with. "An ounce of preventive is worth a pound of cure," but in case the diseaso does make its appearance in our herd the infected hogs are put into a close pen where they are closely watched and cared for, while all the well hogs are taken to a paeture on the far elde of the farm. We have bten able to save eome infected animals by the uee of coal oil, soap euda and copperae, but when a hog bae the genuine cholera it is beet to give him a epeedy death. B. D. Hendricks Co. 2d Premium.—Poor Richard once eaid an ounce of prevention if worth a pound of cure. This is doubly true in the caee of so-called hog cholera. The exercise of good common senee in the sanitary management of hoge is of the utmost importance. Olean, comfortable sleeping apartments in winter without over-crowding, separation of hoga into email lota, not to exceed 30 or 40 in a lot, graded as to age and eize, shade from sun, ehelter from etorm, room for exercise and fresh wator t j drink, no muddy wallowe for bacteria breeders—and judicious feeding are among the necessary sanitary conditions to be observed for the provention of hog cholera. The first essential element, however, is to have etock of good conetitutlon. Thia can only be attained and maintained by judicious breeding and following the eanitaryrequlrementealreadystated. Keep mature hoga of both sexes for breeding purposes. If you would have pige of vigorous cOnetltutution do not feed your eowe too j strongly at farrowing time, it is better to keep them a little hungry than to overfeed until the pige are two or three weeks old. This , gives the mother hog a disposition to get out . and huetle, and unleee the weather ie extreme- j y bad tbe pigs will follow her, thus avoiding I the possibility of thumps and other ailments that are destructive to pige. After tho pigs are three or four weeks old teach them to come to eome place apart from the sowe, where you can feed them milk mixed with mill feed, slops a waste from the kitchen, and you will ba eurprieed to find how quickly they learn to hunt for something to eat and how fast they will grow. During eummer when on graee give ealt and wood ashes. Alight feed of whole wheat once or twice a week in the lato summer months improves the appetite. When I commence feeding new corn I keep on hands a eupply of soda and eulphur, which I mix, one part sulphur to two parts soda, and feed twice a week one teaspoonful to a hog. By following the plan outlined here I have not lost a hog by cholera in 12 yeare, althoughl have been surrounded with it frequently in that time. The laet time cholera attacked my herd, I had about SO head and wae feeding new corn. Ono morning I obeerved several "off their feed," (I had been ecourged two yeare before, loeing 48 out of a herd of 80) I separated the hoge, penning all that showed eymptome of dleeaee; the others I transferred to another part of tho farm and quit feeding for a few days. Of the 10 taken and penned 8 died within two days. The two others recovered and no new cases developed. Tippecanoe Co. J. A B. 3d Premium.—Sanitary management of swine is of vital importance, for beet reeulta. See that they have clean, comfortable quarters to eleep in. It mattere not whether it be a house, or hole in etraw etack, eo it ia clean and dry. Some object to straw etack, claiming they are cholera breedere. But my experience teachee me that there ie no place like a hole on the eouthside of a etrawstack, to start pigs Id cold weather; though such placee ehould be looked after every day. Don't allow pige, (or older hoge) too have too much loose etraw, clean all loose etraw out every few daye, and then pull fresh, bright etraw, and see how the little fellowe enjoy it. Don't allow too many to bed together. Feed a well- balanced ration, and don't confine hoge to a muddy pen, but let them have range of clover- field in eummer, by all means, and blue grntre paeture in winter if possible. Corn ie king, but corn alone won't do; they muet have milk slop made of middlings, clover or graes, with corn, for beet results. Slop ehould be fed everyday as made. I think the swill barrel Ib gone forever. Fresh water ehould be at hand at all times; don't compel hogs to go fifty or sixty rods, and drink out of a pond or mud- hole. Wocd aehee ari(l charcoal, with a little ealt ehould be fedreguIarly;alsoueeeomegood diainfeclant occasionally and keep tho hogs free from lice. Cholera can be prevented largely by the selection of breeding etock, and the management of tha breeding. Select a hog (male or female) ehowlng lota of coneti- tutional vigor. Breeding etock, cannot impart to their offspring what they do not possess. Preserve and assimilate this constitutional vigor, by breeding for early spring pige, one litter a year. A matured eow can not fur- nirdvtwo littere a year, and eupply conetitution sufficient to ward cff the swine plagues. The great trouble is that men are too hoggish, they want two littera a year, thereby inviting cholera into their herds, by debiliating their etock. Fall pige are moet liable to ewine plaguce, ae swine plagues are more prevalent at that time of year, and the young are more susceptible to disease. Cholera is not ae contagious ae eome think. A partition fence divided my hoge from diseased ones, tho past two summers, part of thia fenco waB smooth wire. I didn't think It a very good protection, but it proved to be sufficient. How stamp it out? Apply the above described ean- itary mansgement of swine, and you will not bo tho first in your immediate neighborhood to howl cholera. A. M. S. Hope. HEV1IW. I muet express my regret and apology to our friends who wrote some 20 letters for this department on free mail delivery and again on wido tiree. We appreciate thie great popular interest in theee questlone. But you will forgive us for not publishing more of them when you eec how full the paper waa thoee ieeues. We are glad to get thoee letters so wo can cream them, even if too crowded to print them all. The beet that I find on ewine diecaeee is given in our letters. There le much promise of relief through vaccination, but it ie not cheap enough or well enough underetood to be ueed by the public. I prophecy of a day not far off when science will wipo out cholera ae cleanly as it has emallpox. But we farmers will have to learn eome eeneo beforo that can be done. We must ubandon the silly thought that each farmer has the right to do about aa ho pleases in caee of any kind of catching disease. The ignoramus who ineiete that it is good and safe to let the herd eat its dead will have to be taught by the hard arm of the law to burn and clean up. I will only add a euggeetlon or two. The writers fay breed for vitality. In fighting hu- mau peetilenca the authorltiee clean up. It ie eetimated that it will cost $5,000,000 to put Havana in sanitary condition. Any money spent to fight Yellow Jack or any other Jack without cleaning up ie waeted. Feeding a balanced ration helps some. Dividing the herd eome. Warm quarters too. And of medicines let ue remember that common cheap lime ie the deadliest thing that can touch a cholera microbe. A microbe will forsake father and mother to take to the woode when he Beee lime or carbolic acid in the road I have no copy on the laet three topics of thie eeriee. No. 152, Feb. 4.—The winter management of breeding ewee—What are the beetmethodo? No. 153,Feb. 11.—Agricultural superstitions. —Name a number we have outgrown and a number that still have advocates. No. 154, Feb. 18 —Name one or more books or persons or events that havo greatly improved and shaped your life. No. 155, Feb. 25.—What do you mean to the people who know you—WhatdoyouBtand for? Premiuma of $1 75 cents and £0 centa will be given to 1st, 2d and 3d beet articles each week. Let copy be as practicable as poeelblc and forwarded 10 daya before publication to Lafayette. E. II. Collins. Florida Letter. Editors Indiana Farmer. Hero we are again for the winter in our far away Florida home, below the "blizzard line" since November, and time files all too fast on fairy winged feet, and in our day dreams, and listening to the song of civilization, in the rush and friction of this wonderful age, we hopo we have friende that* etill remember us kindly after our GO yeura of exercising on a farm and nureery in Indiana. We had only a few light frosts thie winter; orange trece are doing well and increasing rapidly in value Some orangee here yet. Some men eold from one to threo hundred boxes. They aro higher here than in Indiana. So many northern people here, the home demand absorbs them all. It ia very healthy; only one old man died thie winter; he had heartdisease. "Grip" never killed anybody here but one old woman, and Bhe died with the phthielc. Many peoplo are placing pine wood in their grovee to fire out Jack Frost if he gets off hie base again. The McKinney company are fencing in 10 acrea of orange trees, 25 feet high, to protect oranges and pine apples through the winter, with email fires inside. When a cold wave ia expected our flag and railroad whistles give warning. The wood costs nothing, and will not be needed after the trcee are a year or two older. Wo have new potatoes, strawberries, etc. and plenty of eour (wild) orangee arouna Lake View. You rake them off the thorny trcee with a garden rake; cut off the end and gouge in eugar. They beat lemone and you eoon forget stomach trouble, and get hungry three tlmee a day unless your digestive appa- ratue haa been disgusted with noetrums and stimulants. A good many are plowing under graes and weede to rot, out of way of eummer work, and make eafe from the firee that burn through the pine woode and keep them open, eo you can gee half a mile between trcee 100 feet high. The great white pine and cyprcea forests are dieappearing rapidly, and the lakes have gone down to 15 feet. We dig the hottom out of the wells for water, and Marlon county haa voted "dry." No more saloons or rum slaves, wrecks and wretchedness, unless some lawyer knocks out theee props, for money? We are eetting out many eorte of fruits, shrubs and flowers that wo never saw in Indiana. The climate and health are euperb, but the land ia sandy and poor, plenty of land for a dollar an acre. Y'ou could not make a living on 1,000 acres if it wae given to you. The rich hammock lands are not eo healthy. Most of the colored people want to work. They are kind- hearted and tractable, ignorant and awkward, but ae good or better than the average, considering their past condition and preeent chances. No race war here, because the whites rule, a caee of "survival of the fittest." Tho colored people keep out of the way, work and mind their own bueinees, and what they live on the Lord knowp,—somo Bweet pota- toee, fish, turtles, 'poe.'Um. They whletle, eing and hope; work all day, dance all night; come and gone to and from tho beyond, and what for? Well, it is another fad this talk about enake'e and alligators in Florida. I never saw half a dozon in all my travels. They are not around rnueh in winter, but I have a ecorpion pinned down in a box. It has 8 lege, two front ones forked. Ita long pointed tail hae a curred eting on the end; will make a man hotter than eitting on tacks. We see 8 tralne a day pass our door going to Tampa on the plant eyetem, and hear 8 more four miles away on the Florida it P. railroad. We are only 100 feet above the sea level, and in the morning my shadow ie }{ mile long. We hear tralne running five to eight miles away. We are sorry for you all when we. here of your grip, cold waves, blizzards and thinge, and wo are glad and thankful we are here where we hope you will be glad t o hear from ue again. Kindly yours for the good of all. A. 0. Hakvky. Chandler, Fla. Generous Offer to Our Next 20 Subscribers, Editors Indiana Farmer. Having taken the Farmer from its flrst number I like it and its friende. It is truthful honorable and clean, and I will denote free a copy of my "40 Florida lettere" (100 pa>;ee) to each of the next 20 new cash eub- ecribere to the Farmeb at $1 per year. The book describee "Five wintere among the palme, plnee and orange grovee of Florida," and coet me a eight of time, experience and money. A. 0. Hasvey. Chandler, Fla., Jan. 20. —In behalf of our first 20 full paid subscribers received after Saturday, Jan. 28th, we thank our good friend Harvey for his kind offer. We aseure tho fortunate subscribers that they will enjoy a eure treat in reading this 25e book. Mr. Harvey is a pleaeant and witty letter writer, and pictures the places and thinge he describes in a moet graphic and in- tereeting manner. We have one of hia spicy letters which will be publiehed aa soon as we can find room. |
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