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VOLUME VI. CHERAW, SOUTH-CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1841. NUM*ER 48.
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RAPID GROWTII OF SWINE.
Mr. Samuel Reed, of Abingdon, who
appears to possess a large share of practical
knowledge on various subjects, has
given us an account of a most rapid
growth in pigs, which, with the food and
manner of coding, we think will be useful
to our readers.
To learn the host m jthod of managing j
% any brand. o.<* business, it is necessary j
to first lean, lie most successful result,
and then learn ihe way and means of pro- j
ducing that resmt.
Mr. Reed put nine pigs, averaging 150
lbs each, live weight, into a pen about
the first of Juno. The pigs were bought
at Brighton, and were supposed to have
been littered the summer and fall previouus.
The were killed from September
to the last of October, and weighed, dead,
after being carried 20 miles. The average
gain in these two hogs was tico and j
a half pounds each per day* besides the ^
great difference from live to dead weight, j
If we reckon by the general rule, that1
live weight is to dead, as 20 to 14, there |
would be. besides the gain of 2 1-2 lbs. of I
fmrlf tn w?ch hnf? uar dav. an additional I
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(iiin of 4o lbs., as the dead weight of
each hog at the beginning would have
been but 1W) lbs. We think that few, if
anv cases, can be named of so rapid a .
growth in swine, in a lot taken together,
and for so long a time, and as this may !
appear incredible to some of our reaoers, i
we say that the above statement is enti- 1
tied to the utmost confidence, as it is I
from the best authority. We douht not *
that from the intelligence of Mr. Reed,''
that his success depended much ou his 1
excellent selection.
The following is the mode of feeding: '
The pigs were all put into one pen, and '
at first, their principal food was Indian
meal and scraps ; sugar beets, as soon as
big enough, were given raw, and when
large, they were boiled. When apples
were big enough, nearly equal quantities
^ of apples potatoes and sugar beets were
boiled together, with about one quarter
part of scraps in measure. Making, in
measure, nearly equal quantities of the
four articles above. These articles were
mixed with meal.
The hogs run in a pasture by a pond,
which gave them a good opportunity, for
exercise and bathing. They were fed
about eight o'clock in tiie morning and
c o
again at five in the evening. They had
a sufficient quantity of food for some to
remain in the troughs two or three hours
from the time of feeding. Mr. R. considers
this the host mode of feeding. It
any of the hogs arc not inclined to eat j
when the food is, put into the trough, they
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liny time for a new hours, then the
troughs are empty, that they may not he j
cloved hy having food constantly bv J
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them.
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Our readers will perceive that the food
named was very cheap after the applies !
were big enough for this purpose. And
it is evident that when particular attention
is given to subject in order that
swine may have the best of food and management,
there ts a far greater profit than
in feeding hoors so that they train but
p I
slowly or moderately.
There is no J #ubt that a hog kept in '
such a manner as to gain only one half I
pound per day, w aid con umo more t- an
half as much food, perhaps n^arlv as I
much, as a hog of tho sam? ?i7C that gained
as above named. If this be the case,
consider the vast difference in the profit
on the food expended. In one case i
there may be a loss, or the gain of the i
hog may barely pay for the food, while j
in the other, the clear profit may be 50 j
percent; and probably in feeding on the >
food named, the clear profit was 100 per j
cent.? Yankee Fanner.
From the National Intelligencer.
PAPER NETS FOR CLEANING AND VENTILATING
SILK WORMS.
Messrs. Ga'es & Seaton : Believing
the ibove named admirable labor-saving
and ventilating apparatus to l>e the most
valuable invention for that purpose that
has been made since this nobta insect
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was nrsi' coinesutHicu) i miduiu wvm i
k myself gijiUv of inexcusable neglect if I j
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silk culturists. Befuse I describe the pa- i
per nets the method of making them,
and tne manner of using them, I will
quote a passage from a letter of Dr. J.
S. Bell, (Journal of the American Silk
Society, Volume II. p.ge 290,) which
will show the opinion entertained of their
value by intelligent silk culturists in
France. I am now using two hundred
and fifty paper nets; and, after several
weeks' close observation, I believe them
to he worthy of all the praise that has
been bestowed on them in France. Persons
unacquainted with the habits of
silk worms are incompetent judges of the
value of fixtures designed for their accommodation
; hence thousands of dollars
have been expended by inexperienced
theorists in the United States for the purchase
of fixtures, that have subsequently
been thrown away. The capital expended
in this way, since 1835, would furnish
an ample bounty for the establish,
ment of this valuable culture in three or
four States of the Union. Speculators
are still at work, and there is reason to
fear that larger sums will yet be thrown
away for unsuitable fixtures.
"It is well known that a speedy and
effectual method of clearing away the
litter from the worms, during the feeding
process, has long been a desideratum.?
The network hurdles were recommended
for this purpose; but their inefficiency is
now, I believe, universally acknowledged.
It appears, from the pages of the ?Propagatuer,'that
the operation of cleaning of
the worms is now performed, in all the
principal French colonics, by means of
what are termed paper nets, (papiers-filet3.)
It appears that nets made of twine
were first used; but they are now universally
superseded by these paper nets,
which are much cheaper, and are said to
be better adapted to the purpose. I regret
that I have not been able to find any
description of these nets in the 'Propagateurall
the communications take it
for granted that the reader is already
acquainted with their construction. As
far as I can discover, however, from the
different articles on the subject, I think
(hey are made by punching a great number
ofsmall holes in a sheet of strong pa. i
per, with an instrument constructed for i
the purpose. When this paper is laid i
upon the worms to be cleaned, mulberry
leaves having been previously sprinkled
aver it, the worms ascend through the i
holes as they are said to ascend through
the meshes of the network hurdles, and
the paper underneath containing the litter
can of course be removed. The inventor
of this apparatus is M. Eugene Robert.
In a letter te the editor of the 'Propagateur*
he remarks: *The use of the paper
nets in the economy of Saint Tulle, and
in a great number of large and small establishments
in the neighborhood, has
t>een attended with such entire success
that 1 will hereafter confine myself to a
simple presentation of the testimony of
those culturists who have made use of
them, in order to recommend the adoption
of iry economical net.' He then cites,
amone other testimony, that of a distin
gqished culturist of Bre*t in the department
of Drome, M. Fame de Laforet,
who, afterstatiig that his success that
year (1839) ad been greater than in
any former season, adds: *1 owe this result
to your paper nets, which I have used
continually up to the time of mounting,
to the number of 1,500, 2 feet wide and
4 feet long, corresponding with the size
of my shelves* I have had a great many
visiters who like myself have made use
of thepapor nets this year. Pierced according
to the pattern of yours, mv nets
have worn very well; for I have had but
10 or 12 of them injured. I have no
doubt that by another year the paper nets
will be brought Into general use through,
out the country.' "
I will now furnish directions for making
and using nets similar to mine, which
1 have found to accomplish well what is
ascribed to the French nets.
These nets are made hv providing a
framework of light laths, 3 feet long and
2 feet wide, (this being the size most
convenient,)?the two pieces of laths 3
feet ionii being united by three pieces 2
feet long, one at each end and one in the
middle. The holes (five eights of an
inch in diameter)are punched in sheets
of strong brown pader, 3 feet long and 2
feet wide, to suit the frames on which
they are pasted. The space between the
holes may he about an inch. With an
instrument called a wad-cutter, twenty
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snccis 01 paper muy "o puncucu
Double sets nf these nets will cost but littie
more than shelves of rough plank; and
if the frames are well put together with
wrought nails, they will last more than
twenty years. This paper will require
renewing in every period of six or seven
years. After the silkworms have accomplished
the third moulting, the nets may
may he laid over the worms daily, if the
culturist desires it, up to the time of
mounting, and the worms will he kept as
clean as the most careful could desire,
and with comparatively little labor.
The nets must not be laid over the
worms when they are torpid; but, after j
the third and fourth moultings, when
nearly all the worms are roused, they
may be laid over thern daily ; and when
the leaves are scattered over the paper,
they will speedily extricate themselves
from the litter, ascend through the holes
and commence eating. The nets may
he used with or without shelves under
them; if without shelves, they can be
supported by parallel slips of timber,
aoout 20 inches apart; if placed on
shelves, they must be raised about two
inches hy placing blocks of timber under '
each end. When these nets are used,
disease cannot be produced by the accumutation
of litter without gross negligence,
yet no claim to infallibility is set
up for them. Let silk culturists try tfiem.
They will be found simple, (a child can
apply and use them, economical, and very
efficient.
LAYTON Y. ATKINS.
Stafford County, Va , Sept. 1941.
FATTENING ANIMALS.
There arc some rules which may be
advantageously adopted in feeding animals,
which however obvious they may
l>e are too often passed over, or neglect
ed. Some of these will be specified
and
1st. The preparation of Food.?This
should be so prepared that its nutritive
properties may all be made available to
the use of the animal, and not only so,
but appropriated with the least possible
expenditure of muscular energy. * The
ox that is obliged to wander over an acre
to get the food he should find on two or
three square rods?the horse thai is
or three hours eating the coarse fuou ne
would swallow in fifteen minutes if the
grain was ground, or the hay cut as it
should be?the sheep that spends hours
in making its way into a turnip, when if it
was sliced it would eat in as many min.
utes?the pig that eats raw potatoes, or
whole corn, when cither cooked could be |
eaten in one quarter now used, may indeed
fatten, but much less rapidly than if
their food was given in a proper manner.
All food should be given to a fattening
animal in such a state, that as little time
and labor as passible, on the part of the
animal, shall be required in eating.
2d. Thtfood vhould be in abundance.
From the time the fattening process
commences*, until the animal is slaughtered,
he should never be without food.?
Health and appetite are l>est promotod by
change of iood rather than by limiting
the quantity. The animal that is stuffed
and starved by turns, may have streaked
meat, but it will be made too slowly for
the pleasure or profit of the good farmer.
3d. The Food should be given regularly.?This
is one of the most essentail
points in feeding animals. If given irregularly,
the animal indeed consumes
his food, but he soon acquires a restless
disposition, is disturbed at every appearance
of his feeder, and is never in that
quiet state so necessary to the taking on
of fat. It is surprising how readily any
animal acquires habits of regularity in
feeding, and how soon the influence* of
this is felt in the improvement of hiscontVknn
of Ihft roirnlnr hnnf. thfi
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pig has had his pudding, or the sheep its
turnips, they compose themselves to rest,
with the consciousness that their diges.
tion's not to unseasonably disturbed,
or their quiet broken by unwonted invi.
tation to eat.
4th. Tits animal should not he need.
Icssly intruded upon between the hours of
feeding.?'All creatures fatten mmch foster
in the dark than tn the light, a fact
only to be accounted for by their greater
quiet. Some of those creatures that are
the most irritable and impatient of re.
straint while feeding, such as turkeys and
gfeese. are found to take on fat rapidly
when confined in dark rooms, arid only
fed at stated hours by hand. There is
no surer proof that a pig is doing well,
than to see him eat his meal quickly and
then retire to his bed, to sleep or cogitate
until rhe hour of feeding returns.?
Animals while fattening should rever he
alarmed, never rapidly driven, rever be
fed at unseasonable hours, and above all
things, never bo allowed to want for
food. Cultivator.
From the Camden Journal.
WATEREE AGRICULTURAL SOCIKTV.
A meeting of this Society was held at
Swift Creek,on Tuesday, the 9th instant.
The President being absent, William,
Sanders, Esq. one of the YTice Presidents,
took the Chair. The Recording Secre
tary read (he proceedings of the former
meeting.?Mr. James Cantey was proposed
and unanimously elected a member.
J/ajor J. ftl. DeSaussure, from the
Committee appointed to prepare an essay
or men.oir to he submitted at this meeting,
made a report, which, after being rend,
was approved and accepted with instruc
tions that the same be sent up to the State
Agricultural Society.
The Committee on Cotton asked farther
time to make their report upon the
probable amount that will be made on the
VVateree, which was granted.
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Several Committees were then appoin- i
ted to make all necessary arrangements 4
fro celebrating the anniversary of the So- s
ciety, and to make suitable preparations 1
tor the exhibition of the stock on the first 1
Thursday in November next. I
The President, in pursuance of a rule ?
commenced calling upon the members to i
give their views and opinions upon the <
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DfiSi moue 01 rinsing ana auenaing came j i
and hogs, and the cultivation of lucerne. '
Col. W. J. Taylor stated that his hogs
were of the Cobbett breed ; that he has I
for several years past, paid great attention I
to them, and finds by proper treatment <
and management, can make them a first i
rate hog.?-Pushes them when voung. i
He thinks a cross would be advantageous i
?and whilst the country is not yet well |
supplied with the best foreign improved .<
breed, neighbors should exchange with j
each other to obtnin that object. <
Mr. Jacob Little, a gentleman of long
experience, observed that he was satisfied
that crossing the breed was necessarv and
advantageous, inasmuch as he thought the
9ame old stock would degenerate; was
harder to keep up; took much more food,
were lazy and sluggish and became un.
prolific. Oat fields were indispensably
necessary to the raising of hogs successfully
and economically. The stock hogs
and those intended for slaughter should
be turned upon them?it makes them in.
dustrious and thrifty. If practicable, the
larger should be separated from the smaller.
An intelligent and trusty servant
should have the management, and his
whole time devoted to their care. Mr.
Little further stated that the hogs he intends
to slaughter in the winter are turned
into the cornfield the latter part of Ailgust,
01 first of September* and that it is
all a mistaken notion, that the destruction
of the corn will bo much felt?that the
hogs would first take the corn lying otl
the ground, v/hich would rot before it is
usually gathered for your barns. The
peas and pumpkins they have, also the be
i *k?
nefit of eating tne young pea imiire at mc
same time. Mr. Little kills from twenty
to twenty five thousand pounds of pork a
year, and there has been bought but one
thousand pounds of bacon for the place
he i9 living on, for the last nineteen years:
he pickles 10 or 12 beeves through the
winter, whica, with the pork that is cured,
makes a plentiful sjpply for the negroes.
Capt . B. Boy kin observed that he agreed
with both the members upon the importance
of a good cross, and that his
plan did not deviate much from Mr. Little's
?that he also turned his hogs into oat
fields in July, and in the fall upon the
corn fields ; that he has paid considerable
attention to the raising of hogs ; that they
have improved in appearance and number.
Mr. J. Arthur coincided, and wa9 prepared
to say that great benefit would result
from a rigorous prosecution of a systematic
operation of raising stock of all
kinds. Other members were called on,
who gave pretty much tho same statements.
Maj. A. H. Boykinwas then requested
* " ' f x! fnnnh.
to give inrormntion iu mc iuuv>.ing
the French Clover or Lucerne. He
stnted that it was an early grass; put forth
much earlier in the spring, than other
grasses that are indigenous to the climate
or soil, has an acre of it planted ; can be
cut ten or twelve tines a year. The time
for cutting is when it begins to bloom ; is
fine for horses cattle and hogs; should
be planted on a sandy soil, in rows 15 to
18 inches apart. August the proper
time, as it would require less trouble to get
it ahead ; but the soring would answer:
was tender, and like the turnip patch nice
treatment was necessary to get in r good
growing way : when it has got possession,
| roots out other grasses ; is somewhat ex1
haustingto lard, therefore to he occasionally
manured. It is a perennial, and
need not he planted or renewed for ten or
I twelve years, standi drought remarkably
j well, as its roots per etrate nine or more
j feet. From his own experience and ob|
servalion, thinks it superior to the common
j Clover. Timothy or Herds Grass, either
i for hay or soiling, the yield being very
j great; as much as thirty tons have hoen I
Ll ? - .i.innn nnti.ncro ihrnnirll I
I on mil ii.'ti 11 in 11 i iic > iiu'us viiiun^.i tiMwupx I
the year, anc! is satisfied that the genera!
(introduction of its culture by planters and
! farmers would tend much to the economy
! of raising stock.
Col. W. J. Taylor thought that the
| Society should meet oftener, and on mo.
tion, made by him, an extra meeting will
be held on the first Thursday in October.
Capt. B. Boykin then moved an adjournment,
which was carried.
J. Boykin, Sec'ry.
IMPORTED BKRKSHIRKS.
By a letter received a few days since
from Mr. A. B. Allen, now in England.
I learn that he has made two shipments
of select Berkshire swine to New York,
where they will probably arrive before
your September paper goes to press, fie
has travelled all over the great pork countries
of England, nnd finds the Berkshi?rs
to excel every thing of the swine family
in that country. But those of extraordinary
size and perfection of form are scarce
and high. A number of such, however,
he has found, and regardless of expense,
has secured them for exportation to America.
He has a boar, "Windsor CasJ
tie,'' bred near that place, whir h will
weigh in good flesh 800 lbs., now 2 years
old. Another," Hagbourn," 14 months
I old, will weigh 500 lbs. The last, he says,
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s the same figure as his famous sow, | sit
* Raven Hair : and although he does not I I
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lay 44 these are the finest swine in all wi
England," yet they are the finest that he ce
las seen. He was going down to Sussex
:o find the largest hogs in the kingdom, co
ind if their apparent qualities warranted, eh
vould probable select a few to gratify the th
:orrnorant propensities of some of our wes. w!
Sern gentlemen, which notning.but inor- .be
dilate size can gratify. '$>
The most extensive and scientific swine w
breeder he had yet found, was the Rt. it
Hon. Shaw Lefeyre, speaker of the House
if Commons, who has an extensive estate^ it
in Berkshire; and noble dukes, earls, and fu
right honorables. go into active competi. oj
tion with the humblest citizens oftheemV b<
Dire, in the improvement of their farming' lii
<tock, with as much zeal as they enter w
into a plan to double the produceof their a- ei
c.*es, or increase the profits of their mines, ai
When mind, in out country, is thus ap- u
plied to the development of matter in agri- 01
culture, as unhappy for our true interests e<
it is not, then shall we witness equal sue- w
cess and improvement, and then will the tl
landholder take his true position in wealth 01
and influence with the other professions of tr
our country. e:
Mr. A. had made a few selections of II
Southdown sheep, and was shortly to visit si
the three days'fair of the Royal Agricul- 1
tural Society in Liverpool, and after that, a,
to go into the cattle regions of Yorkshire n
and the north of England, from which he t|
would return through the middle counties, t
te Bristol, and take passage for home on c
the 1st of September by the Great Wedtern,
where he will probably arrive bv the,
20th of the same month.
Blue, Rock, iV. Y. Aug. 14, 1841.'
Verv truly, yours, L. F. A.
L. ti
Oil op Pumpkin Seed.?The German* t
on the banks of the Wabash, in Indianai y
instead of throwing away or giving to the
pigs, the seeds of their pumpkins, as i a
usually done, collect them and make an v
oil from them which they use for all the
purposes of lamp oil and olive oil. One
gallon of seed will give about hair a gallon 1
of lamp oil. They may be pressed like I
rape and flax seed. Try it. s
Com. Far. Gazette. a
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MEAL AND MILK FOR CHICKENS. t
We purchased a pair of unusually fat t
chickens from a country wagon a few g
since, and had the curiosity to inquire of
the seller how he succeeded in getting t
them so fat. His reply was that he fed t
them with Indian meal and milk. Mere- t
ly take uncooked meal and wet it up witn t
col 1 sweet milk, and feed liberally, and h
your chickens will fatten as rapidly as can |;
be desired. There is a pleasure in carry, tl
ing fat poultry to market; and all our far. p
mers may enjoy this pleasure, by follow, v
ing the above direction in feeding. p
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A Phenomenon in Grafting.?Van v
Mons, one of the most intelligent horti. j
culturists that ever lived, once tried an ex. i
tranrdinnry experiment in grafting ; that
of inserting an entire tret on the stump of
another.
A neighbor having in the spring season
cut down an apple-tree, about fifteen feet
high, which Van Mons considered a desi.
rable kind, a good healthy tree, he immediately
selected a stock of similar dimen.
sions, and cutting it off near the ground,
placed on it, by the mode of peg grafting, v
the foster tree; supported the tree hy ?
stakes; and excluded the air from the
plnce ofjunction, by plastering it wuri j r
clay, and afterwards heaping earth around i
it. The experiment succeeding perfectly,
the tree becoming in the course of the c
second season nearly as vigorous as ever, f
This experiment was more curious than t
useful, but as a fact in natural history it
is deserving of notice. Few men would
probably succeed in the attempt.
Yankee Farmer.
Solvent for Old Putty. In remnv. c
ing old glass, spread over the putty, with *
a small brush a little nitric or muriatic a- I
cid, and the putty will become soft.
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Corn Sugar ?The subject of corn <
stalk sugar which we have before referred
to as having been introduced by JJfr. Webb
at the Agricultural Meeting in this city,
appears to he attracting considerable notice
in various sections of the country
We understand that Mr. Ellsworth, the {
Commissioner of Patents at Washington,
is much interested in the subject, and that i
further ex|>eriments are about to ie made I
by Mr. Webb.?Delaware Journal. "
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From the New York Farmer t
Superior Composition fou Trees r
Extract of a letter from Hon. J. K. i
Guernsey, of Pitsford, to Wm. Prince p
and Sons. i
I avail myself of this opportunity to t
send von the following statement, respoc- a
finer flip rnrnoositiou for trees. t
l,"h r
Manv inoculated trees arc greatly in- c
jured, and finally lost, 10 consequence of j
the length necessary to heal oyer the s
stock, where it is cut off, when no means r
are used to secure it from exposure to the t
air and wet. ' j
The wood dies down?to some distance. I
and although, after a timo, bark and new .?
would may grow over, it finally rots, and t
destroys the tree. The rnaie is true of (
largo limbs cut off, and of t!oe bark knock- t
ed off by accidont. , To prevent this, the j
following cheap and ensyfiippjied compo- i
ion is fhe best remedy I hive found.?*
lave rs?d it for more than twenty,years*
th almost uniform and} perfect guess.
EECtPn.?One part, say one quart,
mraon tar. Two parts, gay twoqurate
alk, finely pulverized, and sifted. Put
e tar into an iron kettle; heat it, and
hilst hot stir in the chalk- Care should
i taken not to boil it too much, either
hen first made o;- when using it, as that
ill make it too hard aod brittle. Sbootf
hv accident become so, add tar, till
ifficiently soft. Whet to be used, heat
pver either en earthen or iron portable
irnace, or fire made on the ground on
p near the place where wanted, so as W
:)il, or to be sufficiently soft, which a,
ithr experience will show, and apply it
ith a small iron or wooden spatuly, coV**
?
ring the wood entirety witn a ium w??
rid leaving no place for the water to get
nder the composition. It will remain
n for years, but may be takfp off when*
ver the bark shall have grown over the
ood. It will be found upon eximi nation
iat there is no dead wood under it. Any
ne who delights in seeing fine healthy
ees, after having once fairly tried the
xperiment, will never abandon Its use.
t is particularly valuable for covering the
:urnps when old trees are headed down*
'his composition was invented, and ait
ccount of it published, by some gentler
inn either of England or of Scotland, I
link Sir Authur St. Clair, soon after
oi-syth first published the account of his
(imposition for healing wounds in fruit
-ees, which is very troublesome to make,
nd still more so to use* It is, probably, '
nown to many horticulturist* but ought
i be known to all who cultivate fruit
rees; and if you think the publication of
hese remarks will be useful, they aft at
our service.
. TRIAL OF FATTgTfllfa QUALTCTTR8 Of
r'ODCRN AND BERKSHfRKS WHEN FRO 0W
THE SAME ALLOWANCE
" There was put under my care on thd
4th August, by Dr. Martin and lames
\ Taylor, two Woburn* and one Berk*
hire sows, for the purpose of being fedf
nd I leceived directions to give each one
ive pounds of corn a day, and to increase
hequantity until I should find what quantify
the malleat eater of the three would conerne.
On that evening, I gave to each one of
hem two and a half pounds of corn, and
he next day five pounds each, and on
he 15th, nearly six pounds each; one of
he Woburns (Patience) failed to eat all of
ler allowance, and the next day was very
" * * - * 'f
imo. (I suppose slightly foundered) na
heir food was again reduced to five
ounds each per day, until the 20th
/hen Patience having recovered, it was
radually increased soas to give each one
ifty.two pounds of corn in the ten days,
/hen they were weighed, and the follow*
ng is the result
dr. Taylor's Black Berkshire sow
Belinda, gained 21 Ihs.
Dr. Martin s Wohurn Patience,
gained 21
Dr. Martin's Woburn Courted*
ay, gained .10 14
Clark, County, Ky., Ant*. 21, 1841.
Jakss Weathkrs, Jr.
* Mr. Duncan, who first accepted the prtpoaal,
/as aick at the time, and his sow bad met with
oino accident, so she was not fed.
A single experiment like the above is
lot conclusive. Two pigs of the same
>reed, and was of the same litter may
lifTer in their propensities to grow or to
atten. Besides, the age and weights of
he pigs at the time of commencing the
experiment ought to have been stated.]
NEW YORK AND ERIK RAILROAD.
We learn from the New York Commaf*
rial Advertiser that there are at this timet
ibout three thousand men at work oo ther
ine of the New York and Erie Railroad.
The disbursements of the Company fot
ubor are now between twoanfd three htm-'
Ired thousand dollarsper month.
From the National fntefligeneer.
OFFICIAL.
TO TJfE IION, ft. R. tfOTtRTK,
ACTING POSTMASTER 0KXKUAh.
Sir: Information having beou received
n a form entitled to attention that the
i
Postmasters at ronnsyivani.t, an i
******t Ohio, have so far violated the obli.
jations which they implicitly assumed.off
aking office under my administration, of'
ibstaining from any active partisanship, or
n any way connecting their-offices with
>arty politics, or using thep for parly pur>osns,
I have to request that i/ujniriesshalf
>e instantly instituted into theif' copducr;
tnd if the charges against them are found
o be true, they be immediately turned out
>f office, and citizens appointed rt|fthrir
daces who wilt otherwise conduct them* Vl -
telves. The Post office Department, hi
til its operations, should be conducted (of
he single purpose of accomplishing tho
mportant objects for which it was estabished.
It s?ou Id in an. especial manner,
>o far as is practicable, be disconnected
rorn party politics. It was established
or qpecitind purposes of equal importance
o every citizen. To convert it to an en*
;ine of party, to be used tor party purposes,
s to make it the fruitful source of tho
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