Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-04-17

Fanny"
For the Southern Pioneer.
"Honor to schons honor is DUE"
Mn. BRowN:-
In your last you was kind
enough to present my desutory thoughts TO
your readers, upon the subject of Capt. Bin
ford's recent importation of full blood Berk-
shire stock into this county. Since writing
that article. have seen Capt. B. and his hogs.
They are pretty specimens of that excellent
breed of hogs, and bid fair TO do well. / learn
ed from Capt. B. and others, that was mista-
ken in attaching the credit of the adventure,
and to crafty laudible fondness for such
things, visited Mr.. John w. Kendall, who
resides near the head of the Yazoo Valley in
this county. This gentleman is recently from
Kentucky, (the emporium of fine stock) and
brings with him high reputation as stock
grower, as is evinced by the fact that his side
board exhibits nineteen specimens of his ex-
cellence and inferiority in the shape Of prize
cups, won at the fairs in Kentucky. II is to
him the credit belongs, of bringing into this
county the first specimens of the famous
berkshire" hogs about twelve months since.
He also brought to the county, about the same
time, some very superior specimens Of "Dur-
ham" cattle, of the most improved breed, and
more recently some specimens of the white
Leicester" and "Irish Grozier' hogs--the
"Cotswold," "Southdown" and sSaxony' sheep,
and an additional lot of the Durham" cattle
and Berkshire hogs. In the last importation,
is the cow "Julia", whose portrait is published
in the "Cultivator," with others not less beau
tiful and valuable. | was particularly struck
with the appearance of nine months sow,
with litter of the most beautiful and thrifty
pigs had ever seen, 10 in number.) She was
the noblest and most perfectly formed animal
of the hog kind that could possibly be imagn-
ed, and at nine months weighed 245 pounds
gross, with less than ordinary care and atten-
ton. l do not profess to be acquainted with
of cattle and hogs, but from careful inquiry
and from reliable sources, state the following
facts: A Berkshire hog does not grow much
larger than other good hogs, but its excellence
consists in the RAPIDIrY of the growth. A
common pig of this breed, with ordinary care
will turn you out from 200 to $50 pounds O
pork at one year old; and this may be done
too, upon about half the corn necessary t
make the same quantity of pork with common
stock. The pork of the Berkshire hog is ir
better shape-the hams large, thick and round
the middlings thick and consistent and with
out the excess of fat, babby substance thai
sometimes attaches to the middlings of the
common bogs-the head is short and less bo
ny substance in it. A half-blood cross Of the
Berkshire, upon the Indian or common stock
of this country, will. Judging from Mr.. KS.
specimens) produce an excellent hog-long,
round, compact and thrifty. am not sure
that they will not equal the Berkshire full blood
as stock hogs for this country. / dwell par
ticularly on the hogs, because every man in
the whole country, who raises any thing, owns
some hogs, and must feel deep interest in
their Improvement. To raise the same guam
tity of meat, of better quality, at half the
expense of food and with the same care I
fancy the time is not far distant, when the ex-
'cellent quality of these superior hogs. viii be
tested by every breeder. and that every agri-
Eculturalist in all the country, will be hog
breeder. 1t would be an economical expendi.
ture of money, for every farmer in the coun,
try to lay out fifty dollars for pair of full
bloods, or half that sum for one, if but one
half that is said of them be true. The cross
lof the milk breed of the short-horned Durham
upon our Indian or common cattle, would b.
productive Of much good TO the whole coun
TRY, by a diffusion of this essential quality ii
a greater degree, than il already exists will