Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-03-14

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pared manure, mixing it we'll with the
soil, by spade or hoe. Upon this ground
SO prepared, plant CymbIins (and the
bunch kind | think best,) in every other
row and hill, which will give you at
eight feet apart each way, about $50 hills
to the acre, After planting the Gym.
blins, proceed to plant corn in the rows
running north and south, that is only in
one direction, between every row of
cymblins, and which being eight by four
apart, will give you about 1861 hills Of
corn to the acre. 1t is unnecessary to
remind the careful farmer, that tie most
scrupulous attention should be paid to
this ground, while the vines are young,
for after they begin to fruit and run, no-
thing can be done, except to pull by
hand, the strong high weeds.-When
the fruit appears, be careful to mark for
future seed, such as you wish to propa.
gate, for it is desirable to have early
fruit. The drought of last summer will
not be soon forgot, and yet from less
than an acre Of unfayorable ground, I
kept in high condition more than sixty
head of hogs of all ages, Stockings ex.
cepted j they had not any grain, and but
little grass.-It was our rule to take a
certain number Of rows every day, SO
that there was an interval of FIVE days,
and all fruit as large as a mans fist was
pulled. 1t would sometimes happen,
that fruit was neglected until it became
hard but not dry, in this case the feeder
cracked them upon his cart wheel.--A
| careful and steady person should be APP
pointed to pull, one who will neither me-
glect the fruit, or tread upon the vines,
for if well managed, they will continue
bearing until your pumpkins are readys
and these will carry you on to the fort
night before the intended day of killing.
claim no merit from the cymblin
culture, it justly belongs to Tench
Tilghman, Esq. of Talbot, and other gen.
tlemen of that county, but believe me,
that while l continue to raise my own
pork, never will omit the cymblin cul-
ture. Let US however not forget the
pumpkin as an able, and almost neces-
sary auxiliary, and of which there are ma
ny varieties; the long yellow, is think,
for many reasons the best. In 1918 my
cymblin patch was small, and as my OBJ
ect was not only to have fat pork but to-
save corn, began early with the pump
kins yet hogs could not be fattcr, and
my stock of old hams, can yet testify the
quality of the meat. Yet cymblins and
pumpkins are not alone sufficient SUBJ
stitute for corn; some food is necessary
to carry you through the winter and
spring, until your clover and cymblins
are ready. The Ruta Baga is an excel
lent vegetable, which will supply your
want. We now know that they are in
iinitely more nutritious than the common
turnip, that they are sufficiently hardy to
remain in the ground through the winters
and yet better, if buried in small heaps
in we'll shaded northern aspect. They
will be found in high preservation to
July.
Clover is less injured by hogs than
by any other stock, by sheep the most
and hogs after few days will not root
it up; but it is desirable that every farm
should be provided with hog range
we'll inclosed, uniting wood land for
acorns and shade, bottom land for water,
roofing, and wallowing, and contiguity
to clover. Ten hogs will not injure the
growth of timber, as much as one COW.
The hog indeed eats all the acorns he
touches, but in his rootings he burieS
great numbers to secure depth the
COW not only nips, and of course kills all
the young sprouts of nuts, which she
perseveringly hunts after, but she brows-
es upon and tears down young limbs,
and rubs and twists young sprouts from
stumps.
I III have extended my remarks beyond
a mere recommendation of the cymblin
culture, and with view to save grains
which is always cash article; it is also
from wish to encourage persons who
reside upon poor lands adjoining extern
sive wood ranges, to turn their attention.
to rearing hogs upon a large scale.
For the cymblin, pumpkin, and Ruta
Baga, but little land is necessary, and
for the two first articles, but little ma
nure. Clover is certainly of great SER
vice, but if there is plenty of the other
vegetables, it may safely be dispensed
with. would give you my opinion of
the quantity of ground necessary for
twenty hogs, but fear / have already
trcspasscd on your time.
must however observe, that instead
of washing my bacon with warm water
previous to hanging it, have experience
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