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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<
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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 <
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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 ]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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