The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-09-25

they Will bear cropping, pull off the uoder
leaves, and pack them in barrels in the fol.
lowing manner. Pu, down layer Of the
leaves, three inches thick pressed by the
hand then bruise them and pack them with
a pestle, and continue these layers till the
barrel is full, sprinkIing over each layer a
small handful OF salt and ns much meal or
bran as you can spare. Let II stand two
or three days. and no better food can be
gwen your hogs.
4. Raise plenty ofapples, swee, and sour
Let the lanes and the corners of the fences
all over the plantation be set with trees
/ While these last, the hogs will istlen.
5. Have field OF Rye ready to turn
them upon, TO make little pastry for their
apple pies.
s. And be prepared to give them a course
of arlichokes and sweet potatoes alter the
apples and rye are gone.
Z. Raise beets aud carrots and turnps
and pumpkins to help out your corn in S!n.
| Ter.
LIE, this be done and look to keeping
them with frequent changes of bedding
rubbing their legs occasionally With 6 corn
cob; giving them plenty Of charcoal dust
feeding them a, regular hours; and they
will be healthy, prolific, thrifty and profia
Bile. Gram will be saved snd the pork will
be winter and swee.er. Au experienced
farmer Gays;
When my sows are pregnant, they are
KEEP. apart from other hogs; at the birth
Of the young pigs, they are removed for
few hours from the dam, as they are 10 dan.
ger Of being injured by her motions. She
is fed judiclously for the first FIVE days. al.
ter which she is allowed full quanium of
food three times each day, bu. never over
fed. Her troughs are cleaned after each
meal, and her pen daily, after which it is
Uttered with fae broken straw.
The pigs are daily accustomed TO feed
on milk mixed with bran, and al ihe age Of
two months are weaned. They are always
kept in confinement, converting rubbish in.
to manure. My second brood Of pigs are
sent to New York market, and are sold 10
the packets as roaslers.
i" The stock hogs are wniered chiefly on
sugar beels and carrots, occasionally boiled
potatoes, and frequently charcoal dust,
which keep them in perfect health; ,heir
egs are often rubbed with a corn cob, 10 o
pen the issues aud cause the blood to c,rcu.
late freely, otherwise s,aggers may en-.
sue. | iasted two hogs year before las, en-.
irely 90 sweet aud sour apples, fed alter.
nateiy For three or four monihs they re
ceived no ether food, except occasionally
charcoal; water even vas denied them
, They weighed. when killed, TWO bundret
aud fifty pounds EACH The whole hog wa
covered with a very THO. layer Of fat, per
t feclly white and firm; the skin wss than
5 aud the pork pronounced By connoisseur
r exceedingly fine aud sweet the hams wsr
+. not inferior 10 Westphe'is.
] This last year, ls45, on the first 0
October, | confined slxleen hogs IN en- eu
: closure about sixty fee; square, ID one cor
/ ner Of which | placed all my pumlce, ate
i having extracted the cider, and permlie
n the hogs three times each day to par,sk
OF It one hour, IN which time they cou
I. pletely filled themselves TO epletion. The
were allowed no other food during Octobe
le and November; the irs, week 10 Deceu
i! Der they we're killed. aud taller animals
nj never saw. They we're sold IN New o.
FOR two cents pr pound above the mark
OF price"
understand that orchards OF the Engli
er. Mulberry are very fine for hogs and ii
ar. may BE- speedily raised by grating them
9: the Moru5 uulttcaliis. intend 10 Try
ed as It viii cost nothing but little time q
No labor. A good farmer never minds
M HARD WORK