Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-02-03
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Mr.. INGFpSDLL'S PIGGERY.
To the Editor ofthe american Farmer.
BrookAue, Mass Oct. Soth, 1921.

BrookHne, Mass oct. som, 1921.
DEAR SIR,
| 'have, this evening, received ynur
favor, dated lst inst. inclosing some
valuable seeds, and two numbers Of
your pnblcation, Cor which h'g von
TO accent nv acknowledge nepts |
Should feel mortified that your interest
ing Journal should have been published
near three years, without my awaiting
myself of its inform a,ion-the fact is,
have been suhscri>er. through orr
mutual friends, VI ,ssrs. Wells * Liley,
from the beginning.
an happ, 20 hear Of the safe arrival
Of III. pigs, and more gra'iied that you
are pleased with them. II will give me
preN pleasure to send the bears you
wish in the spring.; and thew shall. As
yon desire, be Of different paren'age
from those YOU already have | All,
fully satisfied. from repeate trials, that
fine race Of ami nals cannot be KEEP up
bv breeding in and m and have, bplh
in nv shee, and ,W,nr, Two distinct Ia
miles, which are crossed with each
u ntT, n W fNCCDt W ShijD'y WV ''N'H'%'
Of each kind wan to breed from, the
individuals Of The same IA nily are never
allowed to come together. Bv aten-
ton and Strict adherence 10 his plan OF
crossing, where bon kids are good,
have fine healthy stock. The anil
mails are improved. both in slze and
symmetry, and their disposition to get
very ia, at an early age has been m
creased. At twelve months old, TIE
pigs vpu saw in nv various pens, ave-
ragged $50 lbs; and many of them ex-
ceedcd 800 lbs. each. This weight, as
they we're fed almost entirely on vegr'a-
ble,, was very satisfactory. A large
race has been often recon- nended to me
bv nv neighbors. But a large race
would not only require more food, II
must also he of much richer and OF more
exquisite quality. Boiled cabbages,
turnios, and other vegetables, whose
agreeable produce is large. and which
constitute The principal sustenance OF my
own breed, would make bnt poor re-
turns when given to larger framed AMI
NAL.
NV establishment consists of twelve
breeding sows and two bears, that are
keDl AS long as they bring tine l'ters ct
piss-failing in this, they are fat,ed. and
their places supplied by others OF one
year old, before they are pn. to the male.
The sows are put with the boafs the
first of April and the first Of O tpber,
and farrow twice wear. Their inside
penS are eight by FIVE, and heir outside
mems are three by four feet. About The
time they are expected to bring forth,
the stves are Uttered with straw cut into
chat. very fire, that the Ii'tle pigs may
be dry and warm, without being tangled
with long straw. and thus destroyed. The
lit,ers are always gulated, so as to
leave not more than eight pigs to any
one SOW, either by changing their mo-
theirs, when necessary, soon after their
birth, or by RENEWING su,eranu neraries.
I have always found family OF eight
n;ys at a month old worth more than
one Of twelve; their growth being SO
much greater. From each outside pen
the pies have access, through small
hole. 10 a common ward, which IS ALWAYS
kent we'll Uttered; in which they plav-
and where dry corn is placed in shallow
troughs to induce them to eat as early
as possible. Each part, knows their mo-
ther. and they ipd their respective pens
wnhou, difficulty. These pigs are al
ways weaned the lst Of A or;l and the ~
af October, at six or eight WEEKS old,
lhat the sows may be again in the way Of