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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
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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
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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*
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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
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