Slaughtering Swine.
A correspondent of the New England Farmer says :—What 1 consider the proper way to kill ahog, is to get into the pen alone, work up to the victim carefully, scratch his back a little, per- haps, and before he is aware of any danger,slip a rope into his mouth; but by all means avoid any excitement as far as possible. When the rope is well secured in his mouth, hand the end to the assistant, who will pull it tight, and, as quick as you can get the hog into a good position,strike a good smart blow above his eyes with an axe or hammer. I used an old adze, which has a small round head, and makes a smaller mark than an axe. If the blow is hard and aimed right, the hog will fall, and will not stop to do the most natural thing for a hog, that is to squeal, and he may then be bled just aswell as if not stunned. Besides the humanity of this method, another ad-
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The writer believes that there are but few of the readers of the /armer who would go back to old practices, after killing » number of swine by stunning and then bleeding. Let us try and get out of the old ruts, and see if there are not better ways than those our fathers followed, even in killing hogs.
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: was sent from this country to the arctic + regions last year to store supplies for the Howgate expedition, indicates that a valu- 4 able winter’s work was done by the met2orologist and naturalist attached to the vessel. The meteoroligist lived in a but at Naintook harbor, and watched the} phenomena of the weather night and day,
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stationing one of the crew at his post when he rested. The naturalist made a| large collection of animals, and while him- self temporarily disabled, instructed some | of the natives to meere specimens, a work for whick they showed remarkable | aptitude. These researches cannot be | carried on any farther at present,however, | as the appropriation required for the| principal expedition planned by Captain | Howgate was not made by Congress. |
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56 Acres, Lot 18, Freehold
33 Acres, Lot 19, Freehold,
TOsBE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION AT Summerside, tm Prince Couugty, in front of the New Law ‘’ourt House MONDAY, the SEVENTH DAY OF OCTOBER, next, (A. D. 1878), at TWELVE O'CLOCK, noon, under and by virtue of a power of saie, contained in an indenture of Morigage, bearing date the Eighth day of February, 1877, and made between William McRae, of Township number Nineteen, in Prince County, in the Province of Prince Eeward Island, farmer, and Margaret McRae, his wife, of the one part, and Ralph Brecken, of Charlottetown Royalty, in Queen’s County, aforesaid Esquire, of the other part, all the Freehold estate, right, title and in- terest of the said William McRae, in and to: LL that tract; piece and parcel of jand, hereditament and premises, situate, lying and being, on Township number eizhteen (18) in Prince County, in said Province, and bounded and des- cribed as follows, that is to ay: com- mencing at Point of the march on Indian River, and on the division live beiween the lands of Roderick Gillis and Samuel McRae, thence, in a southerly direction nineteen (19) chains and eighty six (86 links south, twenty six (26) degrees west, thence ina easterly direction fora distance of thirty one (31) Chains, thence in a north erly direction for a distance of abou) fifteen (15) chains, or until it meets the edge of Indian River, aforesaid; thence following the various windings of said river, to the place or point of commence- ment, containing, by estimation, forty six (46) acres of land, a little more or less.
ALSO, ALL that other tract, piece or parcel of land situated lying and being on Lot or Township number Niueteen, (19) in Prince County, aforesaid, bounded as fol lows, that is tosay: By a Line commencing at a Stake set in the division line, between said Township's numbers eighteen (18) and nineteen, (19) and iu the West side line o land in possession of Roderick Gillis, and running thence, according to the magnetic meridiau of the year 1764, South on said Side Line, fifteen (15) chains, to the Road leading to Mills point ; thence, West, along said road Twenty-two (22) chains, or a dis- tance sufficient to comprise 20d embrace Thirty-three and one haljf (334) acres o land, to land in possession uf Samuel Mc- Rae ; thence North to said division line, and thence along the same, East, to the place of commmencement,containing thirty three acres and two roods of land a little more orgless, together with all buildings and improvements thereon and appurten- ances to the same belonging,
For further particulars, apply to Messrs. BreckEN & FirzGEra.p, Solicitors, Charlotte- town.
Dated this 16th day of August, A. D., 1878
RALPH BRECKEN,
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The above Sale is hereby adjourned and pos ned until WEDNESDAY, the THIR- TIETH (30th day of October, A. D. 1878, then to take place at the place and hour above mentioned.
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THURSDAY, the Twelfth day of December next, A. D. 1878, at twelve o’clock, noon, at the Court House, in Charlottetown, uuder and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in an Indens ture of Mortgage, bearing date the {fteenth day of March, A, D, 1876, and made between Donald McLeod, of Gar- ‘digan River, in King’s County, farmer and Hannah, his wife, of the one part, and Edward Jarvis Hodgson and Neil McLeod, of Charlottetown, in Queen’s County, Barristers-at-Law, of the other part (and which said Mortgage was duly assigneu by the said Edward Jarvis Hodgson and Neil McLeod to Edward Jarvis Hodgson and John Ball, Trug- — of we Estate of David Stuart
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