to have a small box of it kept in the pen so they can lick some of it when they desire to. Sprinkle the floors of the pen and the hogs with a solution of carbolic acid, and give them from one to five drops of carbolic acid in their milk occasionally. If they seem stiff, give them a little turpentine, also bathe their backs with it, but if they commence to stagger and cough separate them at once from the others. If they are costive give injections of lard, turpentine and castor oil, also three drops of carbolic acid, but if their bowels are very loose give plenty of laudadun; if they are small you can drench them, but give the large ones injections. Whitewash your pens with lime and a little sulphate of zinc. Should any die, bury at least two feet deep. There are several breeds of thoroughbred hogs in the county, being Durocs, Berkshire, Yorkshire, Chester White, P. China, Jersey Reds, Cheshire and others. From my experience and observation, the Jersey Reds and Chester Whites have withstood the plague the best. Fat hogs are selling for from six and a half to eight cents per pound. Pigs for stock, from $3 to $5. Registered stock, somewhat higher. Poultry.-More poultry is raised than formerly. We have several breeders of fancy poultry who have been doing a large business. Fully twenty per cent. are lost by cholera and roup. The gape worm destroys about one-half of the young chicks. Will some one give us a sure remedy, or, better still, a preventative ? The only remedy practiced here is to take a horsehair and form it into a loop and insert it into the windpipe of the chicken and twist out the worms, which is a very cruel and tedious method. Wages for farm hands, with board, vary from $10 to $15 per month. Without board, from $15 to $20. Our help are nearly all single men, with the exception of day laborers. There are very few, if any, silos in use. Soiling is in its infancy. We have very poor roads, although we expend about $2,000 in each township yearly. Taxes are high and will average about $9 on the thousand. Farmers as a class wear pretty long faces, and complain of hard times-high taxes, high prices for what they buy and the very low price they receive for their products, and the high rate of interest they are obliged to pay. They demand an equality of taxes, and the rate of interest reduced to five per cent. There are thousands of dollars sent from this county to the Western States, for which no tax is paid, but if a laboring man or poor widow has a hundred dollars they are taxed for all they have. Give the assessors more power to assess. They demand, also, that the fees of our public servants be reduced, and that our law makers should endeavor to stop the forming of trusts or syndicates to monopolize the necessaries of life, and rob both the producer and consumer. Farmers need thorough organization, to demand their rights and obtain them. Fertilizers are not used to any great extent. They seem like the "Indian's gun," more cost than profit. The extra yield does not pay the cost of the fertilizer. We do not use the Signal Service as a guide in gathering our crops. The storms are generally here, or over, before we get the signal. AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS FOR 1889. New Jersey State Agricultural Society, September 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th. W. M. Force, Secretary, Newark, N. J. Burlington County Agricultural Seciety, October 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th. H. I. Budd, Secretary, Mount Holly. New Hunterdon County Agricultural Society, September 24th, 25th and 26th. H. G. Chamberlain, Secretary, Flemington, N. J. Monmouth Fair Association, September 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th. Charles D. B. Forman, Secretary, Freehold, N. J. Sussex County Agricultural Society, September 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th. Richard A. Learned, Secretary, Newton, N. J. West Jersey Agricultural Fair Association, August 27th, 28th and 29th. James D. Lawson, Secretary, Woodstown, N. J. Somerset County Agricultural Society, October 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th. William S. Potter, Secretary, Somerville, N. J. Atlantic County Agricultural and Horticultural Society, September 21-24. V. P. Hoffman, Secretary, Egg Harbor City. Inter-State Fair Association, September 30th, October 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th. Jno. Guild Muirhead, Secretary, Trenton, N. J. Moorestown Agricultural and Industrial Society, June 6th, 7th and 8th. Henry W. Moore, Secretary, Moorestown, N. J. |