. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. :\vi» liimseH almost or quite pay for his original cost. At first thought, to many, the price for a pure-l)loocl('d pig may seem high; but, really, it is butter to pay the price than let your sows go to a scrub for nothing. Say you pay $ for a boar, and breed twenty-five sows. They will raise, say, one hundred pigs, which is a low estimate. The pigs then cost yon twenty- five cents apiece, and will make hogs t
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. :\vi» liimseH almost or quite pay for his original cost. At first thought, to many, the price for a pure-l)loocl('d pig may seem high; but, really, it is butter to pay the price than let your sows go to a scrub for nothing. Say you pay $ for a boar, and breed twenty-five sows. They will raise, say, one hundred pigs, which is a low estimate. The pigs then cost yon twenty- five cents apiece, and will make hogs that will â weigh at fattening time one hundred to two hundred and fifty pounds more than scrubs (which grade pigs will do on the same feed). You have, therefore, au increase of value from $300 to $700 in one yciu-, with the price of pork at $S j)er hundred, and yon have your boar left. Can you invest your money at a larger i^cr cent. ? Notes of Travel, and Ideas Upon Health Subjects. BY MRS. O. F. YOUNO. ^ WOODBEIDGE, ITT AN .Joaquin county, about two miles from tm Lodi Station is a quiet little rural town "" of about fifty families, two stores, two smith shops, two hotelsâhow many sa- loons this deponent knoweth not,âone school house, one Odd Fellows' and one Masonic hall. The last is used by the Grangers, who number, it is said, seventy-five. There are not any church buildings nor temperance so- cieties, and yet material prosperity is evident in every direction. The jjeople are largely Southern. They are everywhere proverbial tor the real comfort they get out of a little. Low-eaved, rambling houses, with projections, or boxes, added for an extra bed-room or closet, without regard to architectural effect, but "very convenient and handy" for the women folk inside; low ceilings; wide windows; broad, open fire- places; grassy, sodded door-yards, with bunches of sweet-smelling herbs, loved be- cause reminders of the long-ago homes of childhood; a few chick
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