The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-04-01
RUR.sL ECO.sV.nY:
From The Farmers Register.
CRUSHED COB AND CoRN.MEAL--.
WINTERING HOGS, &c.

WINTERlNG HOGS, &c.
Indebted to the Farmers Register fol
many valuable facts and suggestions, in re.
laIion to agricultural operations, feel my,
self bound 10 endeavor to discharge the
obligation | have thus incurred, by com
( munIcating, from time 10 time, for the ben.
eft of your correspondents aud readers
brief notes Of such improvements 10 the
prevailing modes Of management in rural
economy, as can recommend to the adop
ton Of my brother farmers, upon the au
lhofity Of my personal experience and oh
servaiion. A few words at presen, as to
the best mode of wiutering hogs.
My stock consists Of two large breeding
sous, far advanced in pregnancy, design
their pigs ior pork next winter, aud eleven
shoats, eight abou. five and three about
seven months old; all pronounced by my
ueighbots very Cue animals. The pigs
are confined in pen Of good size, situated
that they can bask al pleasure IN the sun
shine, aud provided With warm and dry
sleeping apartment, separated from The
/ body OF the pea By n close wall OF rails,
about two aud halt feet high, with hole
at one end for ingress, and egress, add GOV
cred With a sloping roof Of plank overlap
pug each other. The pen is not llooted,
but is kept sufficiently dry by an abundant
supply Of shucks, corn stalks, and refuse
straw, on. Of which my pigs are inaus,rI.
ously manufacturing several loads of excel
lent manure. Ny breeding sows run AT
large, because, have not found IL conye.
nient Us ye: to build pen for them; but
they tied warm bed 10 my stable, and
rarely wander far from my premises.
feed uiy hogs regularly twice day, mor-
nlng and evening. | would greatly prefer
feeding young hogs three times day, II |
could do 1t with any sort Of convenience,
with s!op made by boiling meal made oil
corn crushed IN the ear, and ground corn
and cob together. | find BY repeated ex
perimeuis, that one gallon Of crushed corn
meal, tc6u j0iled, will, when cooled, make
about igo gallons of thick mush. THIS
nush mix, 10 feeding, with about an equal
quantity OF bot water, frequently throw
ing into the pail double haodlul Of bran
stirring il vel, and give i, to my pigs
warm. put handful of salt into the poi
about three times week, and occasionally
shovel full Of ashes. With this allow
auce, my hogs are in fine order, in much
better condition than any Of my ueighbors'
and some c: them are Eat enough for the
knife. ! boil my meal at convenient iimee
IN po, holding about FIVE gallons. PIE
fer letting the water boil before the meal is
stirred in. The meal is thoroughly mixed
with the water by means Of fiat paddle
aud is suffered TO boil violently for half az
hour or more. | would prefer a Cheap
boiling apparatus buI having Just com
menced farming, have not yet found tine
to build furnace. | shall be prepared
however, BY next winter, 10 lailen my hogs
on boiled roots and crushed corn meal.
With large ko,le. and barrel 10 aid
the musb, many gallons nigh, be prepared
daily 10 every kitchen, by the servants, af
tor the meals are cooked, and especially al
night BY the !1r-c roaring fires winch the
negroes gill keep 10 warm themselves By,
know no way, except, perhaps, by feed
ing on roots, 10 which hogs can lie SO vel
kept through tie winter at SO Iiltle ex
pease. Ny stock Of thirteen for insiaGce,
consume only peck Of crushed corn meal
equal to a single gallon Of corr, day
This, at tie rate at which corn is selling
IL my neighbcthood, 81 ceuis t.lshel, IS
only one third Of cent a day for eecb
hog. The manure Will more than pay
FOR the extra trouble aud expense Of pre-.
pairing tie food.
Tbs strikes ne, on reflection, as even o
cheaper mode ofsustaniag hogs through the
winter lSsn by feeding them with potatoes
Of sugar beet or mangel wurtsel. 4 peck
. Of potatoes, the usual daily allowance 10
each bog, would be G ceGis day, a, the
price a; Which potatoes arc selling IN ny
noichborhcod; and, supposlpg that 500
bushels of sugar beet are equal IN product
10 0 bushels Of corn TO the acre, then, II
each hog be allowed peck Of sugar bert
daily, The 40 bushels Of corn ground up.
rob and corn together, and boiled INTO good
slnp, viii upon the principles Of calculation
furnished by my experiment, 20 more than
twice as far as the 500 bushels Of sugar
beet. As to whole corn, 1t IS evident that
four times the quantity consumed 10 slop,
that is, peck daily, would hardly keep
thirteen hogs IN living order. My corn is
crashed at a neighborng mill, where |
haul i, by The wagon load, and take away
the meal when want il. For crushing
and grinding pay toll Of one tenth
A neighbor Of mine, large iron manu-.
facturer, feeds his mules on crushed corn
neal mixed with Gu, straw, and though
they work hard every day they are as fat
as II is desirable TO have Them. Crushed
corn meal, at from ! 5 10 rs cents bushel,
according to the price Of corn, Is. il seems
10 me, the cheapest horse feed that can be
used. II ~ certainly cheaper than Gate, or
rye, or whole corn. The farmers in this
oelghborhond are beginning 10 use il quite
extensively. II is much healthier Than
whole corn as well as cheaper.
neIghbor informs me that he fatiened
an old COW last fall nm crushed corn n.aI