The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-06-09

selves to my own observation, would BE:
diving into mysteries beyond my knoHks

selves to my own observation, would Be-
diving into mysteries beyond my knosat
edge:
! 70 this one great cause I attribute the
deterioration III tie value of hogs very
much; a remedy for which I wilI PORT :
outhereafter. The Thin Rihd has been
in considerable repute in some sections of
country, but Isce By: northern papers,
that they have gone back to the Berkshire
which ] consider preferable TO any spec
cics Of hog now known, both the pdreEg
blood, and for cross with the common
stock of the country With them can
relate no experience, or very little, only B
+ as / have per chance seen them upon
other farms. There are several full blood
Berkshires scattered through the: country
some of tile most valuable of which, are 4
lowned by ColoneED. s. HarIee of Che,
raw, (excuse. me Colonel for using your 8
nancy he bred a pig: last fall: that weigh. Z
ed 67 lbs. if / mistake not, afeW days
| over two. months old. | ! have seem his
several times and pronounce them the y
best pigs have ever seen: have seen:
pigs from half blood boar with the best /, I
improved stock of the: country, the PIgss
raised with others of the common stock
and the change was very preceptlible, iorsi
the better! Twill not give it as my epln:s:
ion that the Berkshire will grow larger s
than some Of our native hogs, when fed
to their entire satisfaction. but that they
renunerate US better for our attentloTf.s -
and yield us more pork upon a gwen guam &
tty of food, ] have not the least shadow y S s
oif doubt: Although | have been 50 sloWs {,
to supply myself, | would advise all PlaIs.ss..
tiers that raise their own meat to supply, s.
themselves with boar at least, for lido
not consider it Berkonaania. Ile mo.fs
RUS man make silk, but the Berkshire soilts
make meat. & : ~! s.
l will now offer some sugge stions for
improving our common stock ofhogs. In
the first place our hogs should be shut up;
not in close pens; s;for close confinement an
our warm climate causes deseasef as 8: 6:
know from experience. A dland pas
ture is The proper place to confne stock
hogs, and the knife should be promptly 4.
applied to every foaming pig which we
| find around our fence. Thus. we could
secure whatever blood we might WISH
and would not be compelled to- keep ass
lis now the case, nearly as many breed
ing sows as we need pork. hogs, to feed
wild cats, foxes and such like yarmlnts
Another advantage of enclosing rhogs,s
lis that we canhave outpigs to come. when
we wish, and only then y
The common custom of suffering hogs
TO run till two or three years old 70 expen-..
sive, and should be discontinued. itln-l
creases the number on hand two pr three
fold, and the expense in neaIiy the IS same m 5
proportion. When we open a pea or B
pumpkin field in. the fall our hogs are So
/ numerous, and in such poor condition..
that they devour every thing, and scarce-s
Ily begin to improve. For experiment, IS i,
once took seven hogs, two years, otd, FROM
the woods and fattened them without the
benefit of the under CROP and the cost
was 81 per hundred They ate seven
bushels of corn each, and the prlce: .ot
corn was dollar. Now seven bushels
of corn will raise hog to weigh double
the amount in one year, if properly man
aged. Where there is plenty of uncultI- !.
waited swamp land for hogs to run ~, the :,
number is not material; because they re- re-
quire little more corn than enough TO keep
them gentle. But when we must depend
chiefly on the corn crib, hogs ought to be
slaughtered at from eleven to seventeen
months old. Pigs dropped in August and
September, and in January and February,
ought to be slaughtered in December
And we can secure their coming at these
seasons, by the. enclosing system. The g
pigs might be kept in good condition TIL /.
harvest and afterwards till fall, with a !. s !.
small portion of oats and plenty of rye
They are fondest of oats; but oats soon on, y h
rot, and the rye with grass will keep Them
for length of time. 1t is uneconomAcalts: ~ & E
to suffer hogs ever to become poor, or$s3
decline in flesh till slaughtered. 3s;s ~
When compare my own Pracnce,
and that of others around me, with my
remarks, and similar remarks which =.
hear from others, am reminded Of the
ancient orator when lcompare, Athen-
ians. the speeches of some amongst, sus