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When the number t of ianertiona it not marked on trie copy, ine j. odrertiaement will be inserted, and charged til . irderedoot. ' 17" The postage matt be paid on letterato the n editor on the bminesa of the office, r keag?g?g xpsi&itt From the Temperance Advocate. r REPORT ON HOOS. G Read he fore the Agricultural Society of ^ Newberry, S. C., Ky Dr. J. N. Herndon, I" oo the 26th July, 1841.' f In pursuance of the direction, of this a , Society, we beg leave to present som j r few frets and observations, on the subject c a of raising Hogs; and in doing so, we are c * not so much influenced by the hope of 1 enlightening this Society, as by a belief v that it '8 the duty of every member of it, t n ?*nntrihiit?> whafovpr hft is fthle. no mat> v ter how small, to the advancement of t the objects for which it was created, as well as the importance which we attach to the suhject which has been assigned R us. And we feel certain, that none will a suppose we have magnified its importance y when he reflects on the large amount of * nearly one million of dollars, which we J pay to the Western States for the single f article of Pork, according to the accounts t kept at the Mountain toll gates, a few s years sine, exclusive of large quantities n of Bacon imported to Charleston, via. " New Orleans, and from the Northern States. It appears to us a strange in. 1 'fatuation, that could induce a State or y people, to make theinsrlves independent ti on other countries for one of the neces- o series of life, when they possess all the si . facilities for procuring it at a much ti cheaper rate Though we feel satisfied o (hat it would he a waste of time and argu- ie raent, at this late day, to attempt to con* c< since any member of this Society of a ti fact, which experience has already v* taught him, that it would contribute great- u ly to the interest and independence of the ? people of this State, to produce their k own supplies of meat, instead of buying V it abroad, and from countries which do * not reciprocate the advantages of the p trade, hy receiving in exchange some of e the products of our country. t To the attainment, therefore, of so de- v ^ sirahte an end, we shall briefly recommend f * the plan which we consider best c&lcula- e ted for that purpose. '< One o/ the first and most important t considerations, should he, to select a breed g suitable to our purpose. According to v our present plan of economy and manage- c fnent, we require a variety which are disposed to grow large, and which attain a r tolerable size, even with the scanty allow, p aiip li/irra nrn uncustomed to t< BUVV *T IIIVII V MS MV'^W v receive ; and not Such as require the lib- v eral treatment, and high feeding, wi ich e grain countries are able to afford, which a could not be allowed them in a cotton t growing country, without enchancing their cost to more than their value. We h are of opinion, the desired breed may be f< produced, either by crossing our common ti stock with the large class of improved c hags, which have been introduced, or by n crossing the large class, with some of a a small class which have been introduced, h The large class alluded to, include the c Wolum, the Calcutta, and the Bifield, all t partakingofthe same general character- c istics. That is, they are all large, course, ) ugly, fiopeared, and of lazy, indolent fi habits. The small class, before mention, t ed, comprises the popular Berkshire, the a Cobbet, and the once admired, but now e abandoned Guinea; this class, especially a the Berkshire and the Cobbet, are remur- v liable for beauty and symmetry of form, having great length and thickness, with t mail head and standing ears, and small t and well turned legs, not so short as to t render locomotion difficult. With those p materials, we think it would not be diffi- t cult to produce hogs of any form, size, or a habits, we may desire, p Having procured a suitable breed, the t next object will be, to produce and keep i up a sufficient number for our purpose.? * To this end, six ?r eight good breeding v sows will be sufficient for a stock of 100 ( hogs. They should be separate from the I other hogs, particularly about farrowing I time, and not too many of them together, s for fear of over-laving or smothering ] the pigs; and care should be taken to ex- < elude them from lying under houses or c helves, where there is dust, which being i inhaled by the young pigs, is very do- < structive of them, producing irritation i ad inflamation of the lunga. t Now, having a sufficient number of < \ logs, of the right stoek, the next object ffill be, raise them in such a manner as to nake them cost us less than to buy them. The plan which part of your Committee lave pursued, and which we beg leave to ecommend, though far from perfect, we >e!ieve will fully accomplish that purpose, s as follows: commencing at the first >f the year, we are under the necessity >f feeding our hogs, through January and February, either on raw corn, or on boiled ;orn meal, which is far preferable, par. icularly for the sows and pigs; and if the wcet patotoes could bo preserved until hat season of the year, and fed to them toiled, with a small addition of corn meal, t would cheapen the cost of the first two nonths* feeding, very materially. The text two months, March and April, which s much the most difficult seasou of the rear for hogs; they should be fed on fernented slops, made either of corn meal, >r the refuse parts of flour, alias shorts.? >Ve thing fermentation superior to boiling >ecause it assimilates and prepares the ood'more completely for digestion, and Jso, because it is less trouble, which with is, is an important considerationthe inly trouble necessary, is to prepare a vat ?r tub, of the required size, then it one hird of meal or shorts, and two thirds of rater, and let it stand until fermention akes place, which, after the first time, it rill do very soon, provided a small qtianity is left in the vat as a leaven. Now, by the first of the next months, ilay and June, the oats will be large nough to graze on, which with a sm .11 ddition of fermented or boiled slops, will our hogs in growing order, until your tubble fields are opened, about the 1st of uly. And to assist and cheapen the eeding of May and June, we recommend he cultivation of the different kinds of quashes, and also the sugar beet. They nay either be fed raw, or boiled, which s preferable. Now, having brought your hogs to the st of Julv, the difficulty is passed. If oucan keep them in growing order un. ti this time, they will fatten to the end f the year, provided you sow as much mall grain as every planter in his couny should do; that is,at least one third f the land which he has in cultivation, saving the other two thirds for corn and otton. This amount of stuhhle land, by le grain and grazing which it affords, ill keep your hogs growing and thriving ntil the pea fields can be opened, from 'hich time until Christmas, they can be ept fat on a succession of pea fields.? are aware that there is a prejudice 'ith some, against feeding stock hogs on ears, hut wo are convinced from tf.xperinee, that it is entirely unfounded and hat with plenty of salt, and plenty of rater, there is nothing better or cheaper or feeding hogs, and we earnestly reommend to evesy planter, to plant at east a hill of peas for every one of corn; hey will not only keep his stock hogs in ;ood order, for near three months, but rill almost entirely supercede the use of orn, in fattening his pork. Let us now compare the cost ot pork, aised upon the plan which we have proposed, with the price we are compelled e pay the Kentuckians, and we think it rill not appear strange that those plant, ars who raise their own supplies of pork, re more prosperous, and get rich faster, han those who buy it. We have propose that the hogs should e fed on corn or its equivalent in value, Dr the first four months of the year, and hat some corn should be given for the lext two months; but allowing for bad [tanagement, we will suppose that they re fed for the first six months. We lave found, on trial, that two bushels of orn in the ear per diem, will be sufficient 0 keep a stock of 100 hogs in growing .ondltion for the first six months in the rear, (together With the adjuncts before nentioned,) which is the only portion of he year in which the expense of feeding ire felt; the two bushels of corn in tho ar will be equal to one when shelled, nd allowing 100 ears to the bushel, 1 Inch is nearly correct, it would be giving me ear per diem to each hog, it would bus require 300 ears, or little more than l.ren and ? half bushels to bring the hog otwo years old, which we think, is the iroper age for fattening, because tlien hey fatten kinder than when younger, ind beyond that age, they do not im. >rove sufficiently in weight to warrant he expense of keeping. In addition to ; vhich, we think that after a good run on ] ^ - - * - ? r I t pea field, one and halt Dusneis 01 corn vill be sufficient to complete the process >f fattening. A part of this committee lave found, that with the management lerein recommended, a hog of the right itock, may be made to weigh at two fears old, 200 lbs. neat. The stock alluled to, is a cross of the Cobbet and Cal. rutta, though we have no doubt but that inyofthe crosses before mentioned would io as well; so that 200 lbs. neat pork, nstead of costing $12 to be paid in cash :o the Kentuckians, costs you live bushels :>f corn, and the run of your stubble fields ivhich would be lost, if you had no hogs; and the run of your pea fields, which only cost you the trouble of planting; for < they require no gathering, and of very 1 little injury to your corn crop, and of great i service to your land. But to insure success in raising hogs, it will be necessary that their health should be attended to. The diseases to which they are most liable are inflammation of the lungs and throat poisoning by mushrooms, kidney worms, and mange and lice. The first is generally produced by lying in dusty situations | though very often it exists as an epidem- i ic, affecting the hogs of a whole neigh- i borhood at once. The symptoms are wheezing, and a drooping sluggish appea ranee. We consider tar given in the feed or by drenching, as the best remedy to prevent or cure this affection by its 1 stimulating action on the exhalents, of the parts affected. The poisonous effects tf mok.AAK.a A .a mimli mnFO P B G11V MTP Ul IIIU9I1I Will^ m ts ailUVIl lUVi v a vented than cured, for which purpose they should be either kept up during the wet seasons, which promote the growth v of mushrooms, or salt and tar should be given frequently at those times, with the view of invigorating and guarding the stomach against the pernicious influence of the mushrooms; and salt should be given at least once a week through the whole year, for the purpose of promoting the general health of your hogs. The kidney worm may generally be cured by applying a tar or pitch piaster over the region of the kidneys, first having shaven off the hair and lacerated the skin? The best manner of getting clear of mange and lice, is to exclude your hogs from lying about your barn-yards and stabies, and giving them sulpher and anointing them with sulpher or mercurial ointment. There are some other points connected with this subject, which we intended to have noticed, but feared that we might be trespassing on your patience, though we hope that we have said something which may aid and encourage our people in freeing themselves from the dependence which they have long felt on the west, for one of the principal necessaries of life. 'The following article we coj\y from the N. Y. Spirit of the Times, on account of the sound rules for live stock breeding to be gathered from it. Our planters and farmers are perhaps more ignorant of the rules and principles of philosophical stock breeding than of any other subject so intimately connected with their interests. the business horse. Mr. Editor Absence from home, and the pressure of indispensable engagements, has prevented me hitherto from noticing the reply of " Hummocks" to my - r?i , _ 1 former communication, mat wrirer nas done more to excite than to satisfy curios, ity in relation to the present existence, or the formation by breeding, of a race of "business horses." He indeed mentions a variety known as the 44 Morgan Breed," in Vermont, pos. sessing the desired properties; and I much regret that he was not able to communi. cate their pedigree, and the course of breeding by which those properties were obtained. He will soon, I hope, be en. abled to supply this valuable information. But if the "Morgan" horses are already bred to the proper point, and if they exist, as your correspondent says, as a " distinct breed," why does he think that "thepro. duce of the mares with such a stallion as Abdallah might do more to perpetuate their qualities, than to breed from their stallions ? If the maxim be true that like be.' gets like, would it be judicious breeding to risk a cross, where you could obtain the desired dualities in a sire and dam (not too nearly allied,) of the same breed ? A cross may improve the pecu. liar qualities of an existing breed, it may - -- - f _ r ?.. : restore tne properties 01 a jamuy impaired by too close breeding, but is it not paradoxical to say that it would be more likely to perpetuate the peculiar inherent characteristics of a breed (in the proper signification of the term,) than by interbreeding between thorough-bred sires and dams of that breed ? These remarks are thrown out in no hypercritical spirit, but to draw the attention of your correspondent more definitelv and particularly to points, in relation to which I shall proceed to inquire. Does "Hummocks" speak advisedly in pronouncing the ".Morgan" horses, a distinct breed ? Has their blood flowed long enough and unmixedly enough io a certain channel?are their characteristics sufficiently identical and sui generis? stamped upon the whole, to entitle them to the designation of a u breed"?or are they simply a sub-variety ox family, produced perhaps by interbreeding more or less remotely between the descendants of some particularly good horse who strongly impressed his qualities on his offspring, and subsequently kept up and perhaps improved for a generation or two by breedmg with a horse or horses possessing the same class of excellencies? The remark in relation to Abdallah would lead one to infer the latter, and if such be the fact, | H.'s suggestion is, in theory correct. It would in the first place, be a departure ! from that in and in course of breeding, which usually ruins these families which obtain so much local celebrity; and sec- i ondly, it is sound doctrine to look to Ab- < dallah, Bellfpunder, to aid in en* f grafting the qualities they themselves c possess, on a variety now attempting to ? be established in reference1 to the same i class of qualities. The importance of determining whether ( the "Aforgan" horses area distinct breed, j of simply a variety or family, lies in this, c If they are a fixed and well defined breed, with properties so stamped by time and breeding, that we can uniformly look for their reproduction (that is to the same extent, we can in other thorough-bred stock) in animals of the pure blood?and if * 'Hummocks" has judged them correctly * ?then tiie object oi our enquiry is fully obtained. We have found the "hortes of j all ioorky A desideratum of vast impor. 1 tance to our country is answered by this < most fortunate and opportune discovery, J But if they are simply a variety, however excellent may be their individual or * family character, the work is but begun. ' The start may be an auspicious one; but j k??iA kaan a mnlhhirta atkoea aaiviinrv I I 9U ilt&TU uoon a iuuuuuuo ui vuiqi9f vuiuiii^ within the range of my own observation, which have ended in complete failures. Such local families, possessing first rate 1 qualities, are not uncommon. As I have ' before remarked, they are almost invari. 1 ably produced by in and in breeding be. 1 tween the descendants of a particular horse. It is their direct consanguinity, which gives them that identity of characteristics, which is mistaken for the established features of a permanent breed. All goes well as long as in and in breeding can be persisted in; when that point is passed, when you must resort to new blood to keep up the size, the vigor, and the good qualities with which you started, then comes * the rub." Bakewell died before taking such a cross with his celebrated New Leicester cattle, hut the point had arrived, and his successors lacking boldness to attempt it, or the skill to ac* complish it successfully, these celebrated cattle passed away like a dream. Charles Colling the great breeder of Short Horns, furnishes us with an opposite example. His Galloway cross probably saved this celebrated breed (for it now may be called so) of cattle. But every man is not a Charles Colling. If his exquisite skill proves that" such things may be accomplished, and leads us to hope for successful results, we never must take that success for granted, until it is obtained. Coding's other crosses with the Short* Horns uniformly proved failures! It must not only be a master spirit, but be must touch the master key! I will not pursue the investigation further at this time, in the absence of more particular and definite information in re. lation to the " Morgan" horses, " Hum. mocks" will undoubtedly immediately obtain and furnish facts, which his own 1 J- ii p u assertions nave iriaua s iimucr ui au muwn interest. I will makes proposition to him, which, should his assertions prove to be correct in relation to the 44 Morgan" horses, will at once give them the standing deserved, and remove the complaints that they are not sufficiently patronized in this section of country. The Annual Faib of the New York State Agricultural Society, takes pkce at Syracuse, on the 29th and 30th days of September next. The view, ing committee on horses, consists of some of the most eminent and distinguished judges of horses in the state, and they are to judge of the animals presented exclusively in reference to the very points claimed by H. for the "Morgan breed" that is to say, as the business horse, as contra distinguished from the race horse, or any other variety. This is expressly set forth in the premium list of the Society. The chairman of the committee is William T. Porter, Esq., the Editor of the 44 Spirit of the Times." Now if '4Hummocks" will present, or procure to be presented, specimens of the *4 Morgan" horses, with an authenticated account of their history, pedigree, dec., and should his statements in relation to tliem prove to be correct, and the horses themselves bear out his recommendation, I pledge myself that the animals shall receive a notice from the hands of the State Society, which cannot fail at once, to give them gen jral notoriety.* And most sincerely do I hope - - i ? rr _!.! mat they may prove to he an n. cimms for them, both as a breed, and os individuals. 3fay we hope to see them there ? Before closing, I may be permitted to remark, that had 44 Hummocks" read my first communication a little more atten. tively, he would have saved himself the pain of questioning the judgment of an i unknown correspondent??at least on that particular point, now complained of. I no where made the assertion which he imputes to mc. He seems to have confounded-a mere suggestion with a broad and general assertion. But the error ^ ? ? Afltt OA IAI v?as, i presume, an iiiiinvci lam. uuu( mr mi it pas*. Yours truly, South-hill. Courlland Village, N. Y., Aug. 23, 1841. The pledge offered by our correspondent " South.hill," will be prorr.plly redeemed; we may he permitted to add, ?bat he is a prominent officer of the Slate Agricultural Society. Editor. ALT AS A MANURE. A gentleman from South Carolina has jijst informed us that be used salt Q& lome of his hills of corn this summer by i vay of experiment; on one row he ap. < >lied one spoonful of s-alt to each hill of i :orn?on the second row he applied half 1 i spoonful to each hill?on the third he i ipplied one teaspoonful to each hill.? 1 rhe result was that his two first rows soon ' lied ; and that the corn in his third row | jrew mere thriftly than that in any part I >f the field where no salt was used. < Boston Cultivator. i ?. i Prom tke Cultivator. culture op corn. In a late number of the Hamilton In* elligencer, Ohio, is a valuable article on he cultivation of this great staple of the West, (and which is scarcely less essen* :ial to every part of the country where t can be grown, beiqg, in the language )f Mr. Taylor, meal, meat and meadow,) rrom the pen of J. McMillikin, Esq.? The substance of his experience and ob* lervations, he has summed up in the fol* lowing rules, which marked as they are by good sense, we feel a pleasure in transfer* ing to the columns of the Cultivator: "1. If the ground intended to be cul* tivated in corn has a sod upon it, it should be broken up in the fall or winter preceding if the weather be suitable, if not it should be plowed in February, or at least in March. If not level, it should be rolled, and if not mellow it should be harrowed before planting. 2. If stubble or corn or stalks should be removed, unles taken to the manure. pilh?-should be plowed six inches deerp and if not mellow should bo harrowed. 3. While small, the corn should be harrowed, and the ground should afterwards be kept loose and mellow by the repeated use of the culvatitor. 4. Oq sod ground a plow should never be used in the cultivation of corn. 5 On other ground, the plowahouldnevfr be used after roots have extended any distance from the hills, and at no time unless jndispensibly necessary to prevent the ground from baking. . . 6. The fibres or small roots of the corn should not be cut; the cutting of every fibre deprives the stalk of some part of its nourishment. '7v The earth should not be thrown high upon the hills, as it induces the throwing out of additional spur roots. . A very slight portion of mold may be placed around the hill. 8. The ground in the cultivation of corn should be kept as level as possible to permit the roots to extend in every direction and to retain moisturo. Ridging cuts the roots?prevents the extension of the surface roots?drains the water from the hill?exposes more surface to the action of the sun, and is therefore injurious to a uil'fj III a Ul J ovnnuii Wo are glad to the attention of farmers turned to the corn crop, and the best meth. od of cultivating it; for its importance can hardly be overated, and what we deem some very absurd or injudicious practices are common in its treatment. As far a9 Mr. M,'s rules go, they have our hearty concurrence, and there is little doubt if generally adopted the corn crop would be materially increased. The plan of plow, ing up land intended for corn in the fall we know to be a good, a9 frost is one of the most efficient of pulverizers, and the soil in the process recievfes a more perfect aeration than it would if turned over immediately before planting. But before the plowing, the ground should be cover, ed with long manure, since it is a fact which should never be lo9t sight of by the corn grower, that corn is in one of those crops that cannct be fed too high. There are some soils too, which being naturally moist, and having never been drained, would if planted on a level surface, or without being ridgedt prove too wet for the young plants, although not perhaps so, when farther advanced; well drained, and in good condition, ridging or hilling is useless, or even worse than useless. -v. Perhaps there are few opiniouns more intrinsically eroneous the one which supposes the corn plant to he benefited by i mutilating the root, which have obtained o a wider credence than that. It is direct, ly at variance with every well established principle of vegetable physology, and is opposed by theexperience of multitude* of the successful corn growers in the coun* try. Liebig, in his invaluable, work as. serts, and no one can controvert his posi. tion. "That the size of a plant is propor. tinned to the surface of the organs which are destined to convey food to it. A plant gains a new mouth and stomach with every new fibre of root, and new leaf." But the notion in question supposes that the best way to make a plant flourish is to destroy all its mouths, and compel it to form new ones, if nature is competent to the process. Corn is always by benefited freqeritly stirring the ground and as plowing does this, thead. vantage conferred has bv some strange process of ratiocination, been supposed to be the result of cutting the roots. * * . - II nas oecomc a cuiumun prn.ci.iuo wivn some of tho most skilful farmers in the new England Siatos to seed dovrn their corn ground with clover and other grasses, the being sown and covered at the last time of hoeing. In doing this, hilling would he impracticable, and the objoct with th$ ftrmor is to have the ground level md smooth as possible. Experiments :areful!y conducted, show a decided id* rantage in favor of level culture over hil* ling, and we have never heard an instance >n which the soil was in good condition in which the cullurs without hilling failed. The idea that hills are oecessary to sop* port the corn, is witnout any real founds* tion. Nature provides fo.- this emergen* cy herself, in causing sets of brace roots to shoot out. as soon as the plant requires them. In the cultivation of plants, no glaring departures from nature can be tolerated; we may improve, but we cannot control and all attempts at such unwise interference, will be defeated. Manure highly, plow deep,* make your land dry, use none but good seed, keep the surface frequentstirred, and you may safely leave it with* out any inequalities, and permit the roots to dispose of themselves as they think proper. ' Land ahould r.arar be plowed d**pof than the soil, union it i? at the u na time manned richly enough to eonrert earth tamed ap into oil. r ' Fab Gas* SlVENTONS OF GRBKIV FODDEE TO TBS ACRE. At first blush, one would suppose that an acre of ground which at any one mo* ment should yield 7 tons of green fodder must be exceeding rich, but there are t great: number of acres, not only bearing this amount now, but which might verjr easily be made to produce four times amount, or twenty-eight tons of greea succulent food. . We, last May, measured off just one a* are of land and planted epon it Indian corn, making the rows aa near as are could without actualy measuring, four feet apart in one direction, three feet in another**"* This if we mistake not will allow ua four thousand hills. Last week (Aug. 2.) we cut up % hiH which had four stalks in it, being a- near as we could judge an average aa to eiu And weighed it. The kernels were jpit begining to blister or form out, but by tlo means large enough to boil. It weighed three pounds and a half. Thia you will say is nothing extra. But if yoo calculated right, you will find that at thiasmall rate there was actually growing upon that acre of ground seven tone of excellent green fodder, every particle of which, as it should be, would be greedily eaten by cattle. This weight will increase up to a certain point, when it would probably diminish by the drying off of the * stalks and husks. This acre of corn may be called "middling* as to growth and luxuriance. There ere thousands of belter fields in the country. OiiF frifln/l I. RaivIa.?. nf this town Ira a field planted so as to have sixteen thousand hills upon the acre, and we have no doubt that he has nearly that amount of hills. Ho marked off the rows with a machine so that the hills should be an equal distance apart, and to make the above number of hills per acre. But. making allowance of two thousand, for the ravages of worms and mis* sing hills, computing the number at 14.U00, and supposing that the avreago weight is four pounds to the hill, it heing a larger variety of corn than ours and highly manured, and you will have 56 0(10 lbs or twenty .eight tons of green fodder per acre. Now can a person, who has not a sufficient tango ofjpssturage for a cow or two more profitably employ an acre ot land than by planting it to corn, even in the ordinary way! It is true that it. will not when sut, spring up like clover, or the graces, nor will it come into use ontl i the ft ret of August. But that is the period of the year wh'-n pastures often times begin to fail. It would copply a cow for two month in th Me ir, August and September, with 9i) lbs of f.>od per d >y. We have never iiad any practical experience in feediog out green food to cattle, or soiling them aa.it is' called, but if 20 pounds ot dry hay will be sufficient for a common sized cow per day, we ehoutd think that 45 of green food would be sufficient.? ' This plan may be objected to on the score of | its expense. Perhaps more (odder would be ! obtained at the cost by plant,n' the boreo ! tooth or Southern corn in drills, a.id cutting it j as wan'ed. This variety might not be ready to cut quite as earl) an our own, out a wouia continue until fruet come, and while it would on the whole yield mart fodder upoa the tere, planted in thin way it would continue preen longer..?Main Farmtr. relative value of the diffmint breeds of8wine. Mr. Fanning:?When things are as. sinned as facta without proof, it is an easy matter to make a plausible argument. Those kind of arguments are not suited to the agricultural public, thety" want fact*. Now T will lay down the following prop, ositiona, and am ready to enter into thp proof:?That the Woburos and w^ito Berkshire* come earlier to maturity?at* tain a larger size?fatten more on a given quantity of food?have meat of a better quality, and furnish a greater weight of the best parts in proportion to tbe weight 1 of carcase, than the black Berkshire*. The firat branch haa aJreaiy fcesn nror?>d- that th?v r.nme sooner to matUli* , r ?J . > ty and fatten faster, in our first expert- , I racnt. This experiment was made, to be f sure, with a mixture of white Berkshire and Woburns, but it will be repeated with i Woburns alone. The fair way to try the ' second proposition, which is that they will fatten more on a given quantity of > food, would be to place some of tub 1' breed in the hands of somo disinterested 1; person who will feed them by measure* II raent and repo:t the result. I have I j made a proba tion of this Hind is the