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When the number of insertions is not marked on the copy, the advertisement will be inserted, and charged til tfdered out. CP The postage most be paid on lettersto the editor on the business of the office. From the Temperance Advocate. REPORT ON HOGS. Read before the Agricultural Society of Newberry, S. C., Ky Dr. J. N. Herndon, on the 26th July, 1641.' In pursuance of the direction, of this , Society, we beg leave to present som * " f * J _i _ .i i.: L lew ihcis ana ooservauoMi, on mo suojeci . of raising Hogs; and in doing so, we are * not so much influenced by the hope of enlightening this Society, as by a belief that it ?s the duty of every member of it, to contribute whatever he is able, no matter how small, to the advancement of the objects for which it was created, as well as the importance which we attach to the suhject which has been assigned us. And we feel certain, that none will uppose we have magnified its importance when he reflects on the large amount of nearly one million of dollars, which we pay to the Western States for the single article of Pork, according to the accounts kept at the Mountain toll gates, a few years sine, exclusive of large quantities of Bacon imported to Charleston, via. New Orleans, and from the Northern States. It appears to us a strange in. 'fatuation, that could induce a State or people, to make themselves independent ob other countries for one of the necessaries of life, when they possess all the . facilities for procuring it at a much cheaper rate Though we feel satisfied that it would be a waste of time and argu. ment, at this late day, to attempt to con. 1 vince any member of this Society of a fact, which experience has already taught him, that it would contribute greatly to the interest and independence of the people of this State, to produce their own supplies of meat, instead of buying it abroad, and from countries which do not reciprocate the advantages of the trade, by receiving in exchange some of the products of our country. To the attainment, therefore, of so de. _ strahle an end, we shall briefly recommend the plan which we consider best calcula. ted for that purpose. One o/ the first and most important considerations, should be, to select a breed suitable to our purpose. According to our present plan of economy and manage, tnent, we require a variety which are dis. posed to grow large, and which attain a tolerable size, even with the scanty allow. -a k a . auce wnjch cur hogs are accusiomea 10 receive ; and not such as require the libera! treatment, and high feeding, w' ich grain countries are able to afford, which could not be allowed them in a cotton growing country, without enchancing their cost to more than their value. We are of opinion, the desired breed may be produced, either by crossing our common stock with the large class of improved hags, which have been introduced, or by crossing the large class, with some of a small class which have heeri introduced. The large class alluded to, include the Wolum, the Culcutta, and the Bifield, all partaking of the same general characteriatics. That is, they are all large, course, ? a J 1 ?r I nopeareu, '<>iu w 'a ?->? muuitm > habits. The small class, before mention, ed, comprises the popular Berkshire, the Cobbet, and the once admired, but now abandoned Guinea ; this class,especially the Berkshire and the Cobbet, are rem suitable for beauty and symmetry of form, having great length and thickness, with small head and standing ears, and small and well turned legs, not so short as to render locomotion difficult. With those materials, we think it would not be difficult to produce ho^s of any form, size, or habits, we may desire. Having procured a suitable breed, the next object will be, to produce and keep up a sufficient number for our purpose.? To this end, six *r eight good breeding sows will be sufficient for a stock of 100 hogs. They should be separate from the other hogs, particularly about farrowing time, and not too many of them together, for fear of over-laving or smothering the pigs ; and care should be taken to exclude them from lying under houses or helves, where there is dust, which being inhaled by the young pigs, is very destructive of them, producing irritation and inflamation of the lungs. Now, having a sufficient number of hogs, of the right stoek, the next object will be, raise them in such a manner as to make them cost us less than to buy them. The plan which part of your Committee have pursued, and which we beg leave to recommend, though far from perfect, we believe will fully accomplish that purpose. is as follows: commencing at tne nrsc of the year, we are under the necessity of feeding our hogs, through January and February, either on raw corn, or on boiled corn meal, which is far preferable, particularly for the sows and pigs; and if the sweet patotoes could bo preserved until that season of the year, and fed to them boiled, with a small addition of com meal, it would cheapen the cost of the first two months' feeding, very materially. The next two months, March and April, which is much the most difficult season of the year for hogs; they should be fed on fermented stops, made either of corn meal, or the refuse parts of flour, alias shorts.? We thing fermentation superior to boiling because it assimilates and prepares the food'more completely for digestion, and also, because it is less trouble, which with ns, is an important considerationthe only trouble necessary, is to prepare a vat or tub, of the required size, then it one third of meal or shorts, and two thirds of water, and let it stand until fermention takes place, which, after the first time, it will do very soon, provided a small quantity is left in the vat as a leaven. Now, by the first of the next months, May and June, the oats will be large enough to graze on, which with a sm .11 addition of fermented or boiled slops, will your hogs in growing order, until your stubble fields are opened, about the 1st of July. And to assist and cheapen the feeding of May and June, we recommend the cultivation of the different kinds of squashes, and also the sugar beet. They may either be fed raw, or boiled, which is preferable. Now, having brought your hogs to the 1st of July, the difficulty is passed. If you can keep them in growing order un. tii this time, they will fatten to the end of the year, provided you sow as much small grain as every planter in his coun. try should do; that is, at least one third of the land which he has in cultivation, leaving the other two thirds for corn and cotton. This amount of stubble land, by the grain and grazing which it affords, will keep your hogs growing and thriving until the pea fields can be opened, from which time until Christmas, they can be kept fat on a succession of pea fields.? We are aware that there is a prejudice with some, against feeding stock hogs on pears, hut we are convinced from vxperience, that it is entirely unfounded and that with plenty of salt, and plenty of water, there is nothing better or cheaper for feeding hogs, and we earnestly reeommend to eve?y planter, to plant at least a hill of peas for every one of corn; they will not only keep his stock hogs in good order, for near three months, but will almost entirely supercede the use of corn, in fattening his pork. Let us now compare th* jost ot pork, raised upon the plan whicn we have pro. posed, with the price we are compelled te pay the Kentuckians, and we think it will not appear strange that those plantears who raise their own supplies of pork, are more prosperous, and get rich faster, than those who buy it. We have propose that the hogs should be fed on corn or its equivalent in value, for the first four months of the year, and that some corn should be given for the n??vi- tu/r? numths hut allowing for bad v"" """ i r> management, we will suppose that they are fed for the first six months. We have found, on trial, that two bushels of corn in the ear per diem, will be sufficient to keep a stock of 100 hogs in growing condition for the first six months in the year, (together with the adjuncts before mentioned,) which is the only portion of the year in which the expense of feeding are felt; the two bushels of corn in tho ear will be equal to one when shelled, and allowing 100 ears to the bushel, w inch is nearly correct, it would be giving one ear per diem to each hog, it would | thus require 300 ears, or little more than three and ? half bushels to bring the hog to two years old, which we think, is the proper age for fattening, because then they fatten kinder than when younger, and beyond that age, they do not improve sufficiently in weight to warrant the expense of keeping. In addition to j which, we think that after a good run on a pea field, one and half bushels of corn will he sufficient to complete the process of fattening. A part of this committee have found, that with the management herein recommended, a hog of the right stock, may be made to weigh at two years old, 200 lbs. neat. The stock allu.1 _ J a_ /1 i.L i. j /"t_i ueu iu, is a cross 01 me i^oonei ana Calcutta, though we have no doubt but that any of the crosses before mentioned would do as well; so that *200 Ihs. neat pork, instead of costing $12 to be paid in cash to the Kentuckians, costs you five bushels of corn, and the run of your stubble fields which would be lost? if you had no hogs; and the run of your psa fields, which only cost you the trouble of planting; for they require no gathering, and of very little injury to your corn crop, and of great service to your land. But to insure suecess in raising hogs, it will be necessary that their health should be attended to. The diseases to which they are most liable are infiymmation of the lungs and throat poisoning by mushrooms, kidney worms, and mange and lice. The first is gener. ally produced by lying in dusty situations though very often it exists as an epidemic, affecting the hogs of a whole neigh* borhood at once. The symptoms are wheezing, and a drooping sluggish appearance. We consider tar given in the feed or by drenching, as the best remedy to prevent or cure this affection by its stimulating action on the exhalents, of the parts affected. The poisonous effects of mushrooms are much more easily pre*, vented than cured, for which purpose they should be either kept up during the wet seasons, which promote the growth of mushrooms, or salt and tar should be given frequently at those times, w. th 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 plaster over the region of the kidneys, first having shaven off the hair and lacerated the akin. 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 depen* dence which they have long felt on the west, for one of the principal necessaries of life. The following article we cojty 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 subjec ; sci intimately connected with their interests. THE Business nunan.. Mr. Editor Absence from home, and the pressure of indispensable engage, ments, has prevented me hitherto from no. ticing the reply of 44 Hummocks" to my former communication. That writer has done more to excite than to satisfy curios, ity in relation to the present existence, or the formation by breeding, of a race of 44 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. cats their pedigree, and the cojrse of breeding by which those properties were obtlined. 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 a44 distinct breed," why does he think that "the produce 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 qualities in a sire and dam (net too nearly allied.) of the same breed ? A cross may improve the peculiar qualities of an existing breed, it may resiore the properties of a family 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 theatten tion of your correspondent more definite. Iv 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 1 Has their blood flowed long enough and unmixedly enough in a cer. tain channel?are their characteristics sufficiently identical and sui generis? stamped upon the whole, to entitle them to the designation of a 4< breed"?or are they simply a sub-variety or 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 im. proved for a generation or two bv breed. l ? __ i ing wun a norse or uursrs pusaoKiuit same class of excellencies ? The remark in relation to Abdallah would lead one to infer the latter, and if such he thefac\ H.'s suggestion is, in theory correct. It would in the first place, be a departure from that in and in couree of breeding, which usually ruins these families which obtain to much local celebrity; and sec- I ondly, it ia sound doctrine to look to Ab- < dallah, Bellfrunder, dec* to aid in en* | grafting the qualities they themselves < possess, on a variety now attempting to i be established in reference to the same i class of qualities. The imports nee of determining whether < the "Morgan" horses are a distinct breed, j oi simply a variety or family, lies in this. < 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 tbe object oi our enquiry is fully obtained. We have found th*uhorte$of all work" A desideratum of vast importance to our country is answered by this roost fortunate and opportune discovery. But if they are simply a variety, however excellent may be their individual or n . #1 - * ramiiy cniracier, me work is out oegun. ' The start may be an auspicious one; but I so have been a multitude of others, coming within the range of my own observation, which have ended in complete failures. Such local families, possessing first rate qualities, are not uncommon. As I have 1 before remarked, they are almost invariably produced by in and in breeding be. 1 tween the descendants of a particular horss. It; is their direct consanguinity, which gives them that identity of characteristic*!, which is mistaken for the established features of a permanent breed. All goes well as long ns 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 celebrnted New Leicester cattle, but the point had arrived, and his successors lacking boldness t o attempt it, or the skill to accomplish 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 he 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 relation to the "Morgan" horses, "Hummocks" will undoubtedly immediately obtain and furnish facts, which his own assertions have made a matter of so much interest. I will make a proposition to him, which, should his assertions prove to be correct in relation to the " 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 Faik of the New York State Agricultural Society, takes place at Syracuse, on the 29lh and 30th days of September next. The viewing 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 distimruished from the race horse, or anv o 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 ''Hummocks" will present, or procure to be presented, specimersof the Morgan" horses, with an authenticated account of their history, pedigree, <Ssc., and should his statements in relation to them prove to be correct, and the horses themselves bear out his re. commendation, 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 genual no. toriety.* Ard most sincerely do I hope that they may prove to be all H. clnims for them, both as a breed, and as individuals. May we hope to see them there 7 before closing, I may be permitted to remark, that had 44 Hummocks" read rny first communication a little more atten. tively, he would have saved himself the pain of questioning the judgment of an 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 was, I presume, an inadvertant one, ?o let it pass. Yours truly, South-hill. Courtland Village, N. Y.t Avg. VJ3, 1841. * The pledge offered by our correspondent " douth.hiii," will be promptly redeomea; we ?"\V He permitted to add, that he is a prominent officer of the 8ute Agricultural Society. Editor. SALT AS A MANURK. A gentleman from South Carolina has jtjst informed us taat be used salt q& lome of his hills of corn this summer by way of experiment; on one row he ap. plied one spoonful of salt to each hill of :orn?on the second row he applied half i spoonful to each hill?on the third he ippiied one teaspoonful to each hill.? rhe result was that his two first rows soon lied j and that the corn in his third row grew mere thriftly than that in any part >f the field where no salt was used. Boston Cultivator. From the Cultivator. CULTURE OP CORN. In a late number of the Hanrilton In. telligencer, Ohio, is a valuable article on the cultivation of this great staple of the West, (and which is scarcely less essen. tial to every part of the country where it can be grown, beiqg, in the language Mr. Taylor, meal, meat and meadow,) from the pen of J. McMillikin, Esq.? The substance of his experience and ob? serrations, he has summed up in the following rules, which marked as they are by good sense, we feel a pleasure in transfer, ing to the columns of the Cultiva* tor; Ml. 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 prece. ding 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 staHcs should be removed, unles taken to the manure, pilh?should be plowed six inches deerp and if not mellow should be harrow, ed. 3. While small, the com should be har. rowed, and the ground should afterwards be kept loose and mellow by the repeat* ed use of the culvatitor. 4. On sod ground a plow should never be used in the cultivation of corn. 5 On other ground, the plowahouldnev#r bo 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. Tr" 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. Tha ground in the cultivation of corn should be kept a9 level as possible to permit the roots to extend in every direction and to retain moisture. Ridging cuts the root9?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 crop in a dry season." We are glad to the attention of farmers turned to the corn crop, and the best method 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 ndopted the corn crop would be - 11 r j nr?L_ i r _i materially increnseu. ine pian 01 piuw. ing up land intended for corn in the fall we know to be a good, as frost is one of the most efficient of pulverizers, and the soil in the process recieves 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 ridged, prove too wet for the young plants, although not perL __ 1 f..il _J 1. 11 naps so, wnen lariner navanceo; won drained, and in good condition, ridging or hilling is useless, or even worse than useless* Perhaps there are few opiniouns more intrinsically eroneons the one which supposes the corn plant to be benefited by mutilating the root, which have obtained a wider credence than that. It is direct, ly at variance with every well established principle of vegetable physologv, and is opposed by theexperience of multitudes of the successful corn growers in the coun* try. Liebig, in his invaluable, work as. serts, and no one can controvert his position. "That the size of a plant is propor. tinned to the surface of the organs which aro 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, - - - - ~ . . : __ . ^ x and compel it to form new ones, u nature is competent to the process. Corn is always bv benefited freqently stirring the ground andas plowingdoes this,thead. vantage conferred has bv some strange process of ratiocination, been supposed to be the result of cutting the roots. * It has become a common practice with some of the most skilful farmers in the new England States to seed down their com ground with closer and other grasses, the being sown and dovered at the last time of hoeing. In doing this, hilling would he impracticable, and the object with tho frrner is to havo the ground level and smooth as possible. Experiments carefully conducted, show a decided advantage in favor of level culture over hilling, and we have never heard an instance in which the soil was in good condition ia which the culture without hilling failed. The idea that hills are necessary to support the corn, is witnout any real foundation. Nature provides for this emergency herself, in causing sets of brace roota to shoot out. as soon as the plant requires them. lq the cultivation of plants, no glariog departures from nature can be tolerated; we may improve, but we cannot control, 1 _ll _4A 4_ _4 I ! uuu bii attempts hiiucq unwise interior* ence, will be defeated. Manure highly, plow deep,* make your land dry, uae none but good seed, keep the surface frequentstirred, and you may safely leave it without any inequalities, and permit the roots to dispoae of tbemseirse as they think proper. * Land should nerer be plowed deper than the soil, unlets it ie at the ti ne time matt Med richly enough to ooorert etrih turned op into oil. Fab Gab* slvintons or Gsein Foddii TO tbi ACBB. 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 n great number of acres, not only bearing this amount now, but which might very easily be made to produce four times this amount, or twenty-eight tons of green succulent food. . We, last May, measured off just one aare of land and planted upon it IudtaQ corn, making the rows as near as we could without actualy measuring, four feet apert in one direction, three feet in another.? This if we mistake not will allow us four thousand hills. Last week (Aug. 2,) we cut up a kilt i?i r l.:._ . which uau lour siains iu tit uciug ? ? mm as we could judge an average as to sice and weighed it. The kernels warn j#st begining to blister or form out, but by too means large enough to boil. It weighed three pounds and a half. This yon will say is nothing extra. But if youcsl* culated right, you will find that at thissmall 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 pro. bably diminish by the drying off of the ' stalks and husks. This acre of corn may be called "middling" as to growth and luxuriance. There are thousands of better fields in the country. Our friend I. Bowles, of this town hat a field planted so as to have sixteen thousand hills upon the acre, and we have no doubt that he hae 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 (nils per acre. But. making allowance of tiro thousand, for the ravagea of worms and missing lulls, computing the number at 14.UOO, and supposing that the avreago weight in four pounds to the hill, it being a larger variety of curn than ours and highly manured, and you will have 55 0(N) lbs or tweoty.eight tons of green fodder per acre. Now can a person, who has not a sufficient ?ange of)pa*? turage for a cow or two more profitably employ an acre o! land than by planting it to corn, even in the ordinary way? ft is true that it. will not when sut, spring up like clover, or the graces, n<>r will it come into use ontl | the first of August. But that is the period of the year wh'-n pastures ofteo times begin to fail. It would sopply a cow for two month in th Me ir, August and September, with 9i> lbs of f tod per d <y. We have never had any practical experience in feeding out green food to cattle, or soiling them as it is'called, but if 2(1 pounds of dry hay will be sufficient for a common sized cow per day, we should think that 45 of green food would be sufficient.? 'This plan may be objected to on the score of | its expense. Perhaps more fodder would be obtained at the c??st by plttit.n ' the horse ? *11 ? 1 f*. tooth or Soutiieru corn in anus, ?.ia cutting u * as wan'ed. This variety might not be ready to cut quite an earl) an our own, but it would continue untii front come, and while it would on the whole yield tnort fodder upon the acre, planted in thin way it would continue green longer..?Main Farmer. bklative value of the diffbmn? breeds of swine. Mr. Fanning :?When things are as* sumed as facts m ithout proof, it is an easy matter to make a plausible argument. Those kind of arguments are not suited to the agricultural public, thety want facts. Now I will lay down the following prop, ositions, and am ready to enter into dip proof;?That the Woburos and whitu Berkshires come earlier to maturity?at* ? I ? m*%r SIVA r?Mdn mnra An m?A? I tain a iui^oi .ukivii vu ? ^uvh quantity of food?have meat of a better quality, and furnish a greater weight of the beet parte in proportion to the weight of carcase, than the black Berkshire*. The first branch hae alrealy bean proved, that they come sooner to maturi* ty and fatten faster, in our first expert* , racnt. This experiment was made, to bt sure, with a mixture of white Berkshire and Woburns, but it will be repeated with Woburna alone. The fair way to try tho second proposition, which is that they will fatten more on a given quantity of food, would be to pl&ee some of eaeh < breed in the hands of some disinterested j person who will feed them by measure* i roent and repott the result. I have | made a proba tion of this Hind in tho ? .