Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-07-19
FAT ANIMALS AND LARGE CROPS,
Result ALIKE FROM AN ABUNDANCE OF
PROPER FOOD.


The profits of crops, as well as of cattle,
depend mainly upon the return they make
for the food and labor bestowed upon them.
The man who grows hundred bushels
Of corn, or makes hundred pounds Of
meat, with the same means and labor
that his neighbor expends to obtain fifty
bushels, or fifty pounds, has manifest ad-
vantage; and while the latter merely
lives, the former, If prudent, must grow
rich. He gains the entire value of the
extra so bushels, or so pounds. This dis
parity in the profits Of agricultural labor
and expenditure is not visionary specu-
lation--it is matter Of fact, which is seen
verified in almost every town. We see
one farmer raise 80 bushels Of cora on an
acre Of land, with the same labor, but with
more foresight in keeping his land in
good tiIth, and feeding better his crop
that bis neighhor employs upon an acre
and who does not get 40 or even 80 bush
els. This difference results from the man
ner Of feeding and tending the crop.
II the farmer, for the convenience o
transportation to market, wishes to con
vert his grain, and his forage, and hi
roots, and his apples, into beef and pork,
what is his iudicious course Of proceed
inQi Does he dole these out to his cat
tie and his hogs in stinted parcels, just SUI
fcient to sustain life, or to keep them il
ordinary plightl No. He knows tina
a given quantity of food is necessary t
keep them as they are, and that the more
beyond this given quantity, which the
can transform into meat, and the soone
they do il, the greater the profit. To il
lustra.e our remark: suppose a hog re
quires twenty bushels of grain to keep hir
in plight for two years, and that he ca
manufacture fifteen bushels Of this graf
into pork in six months, If duly prepare
and fed to him. In the one case, tn
owner has his lean hog at the end of tw
years, for his twenty bushels Of grair
in the othe., he has converted fiftee
bushels of this grain into pork-ini
money---at the end Of six months, save
the keep Of the hog for eighteen month
and twice or thrice turned his capital
profit. Time is money, in these as in a
other things appertaining to the farm
The proposition may be thus stated-th
which will bareley keep hog two year
viii fatten him we'll in six months
Therefore. the sooner we convert OF
grain and forage into meat, with due r
gard TO the health Of the animal, and Il
true economy Of food, the greater will |
the profits which accrue. The rema,
applies to milk as well as meat. The
facts teach Us, to Keep no more stock tia
zoe can keep tcell; and that, one amino
kept pelI, IS Of more profit than too an
mails that are bsthalffsd. '1 $500.
II we apply these rules to our croy
they instruct rs to tiH no more land ~
zoe can till tcci, and 10 plant and soto
more than zoe can feed tOely for the e
must not be lost sight OF, that our crol
like our cattle. live and fatten upon vt
etabIe matters. One hundred bushels
corn. or four hundred bushels Of potato
may be grown upon four acres Of la
badly fed and badly tended and this
probably about a fair average Of the
crops while the same amount Of CO
or potatoes may be grown on one acre
the crop is well fed and tended. T
product being he same from the one &C
as from he four acres, and the expen.
but a trifie, IL any. more than one-quar
ne much, It results, that fthe crop
the four acres pays for labor and charg
three-fourths ofthe crop on the one &C
Is nest gain 10 the cultivator. Estimaii
I'VE copy the sdieIs for lis correct gen.
principles. not from partially IN f'vOr ofswh
n SEE.