The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-03-18

Prem tic Srw ! OK Farmer and Mechanic.
On TIE hog. ~
Nes.rs. FLEEr 4 STaRR:--Aty your re-.
quest. forward you an account Of my
mode of treating hogs. | haze on my
farm an orch ri, containing many choice
fni. rrets. hearing sweet apples. They
were planted expressly Cor hogs, apples
beirg the principal food on which they
fed during the season: sometimes. BY way
OF change. aary receive snur apples. al
ways fed raw, nj regular hours. The
fool j. occasionally varied BIZ adding gar.
den refuse. such ~ cabbage lie ives. cauIi-
flower. &c, together with the Stops from
The housr. Unless 50 fed. 4 more sxpen.
sise animal can scarcely be kept, espe-
eiailv IN rruuiry where epIn ran he
sold FOR fr,m o. So - cents per bnshsl.
aud other grain in proportion. This j.
luxury my hogs never parlake Of. Ii
corn and apples were worth the same per
bushel. would feed apples in pr, itrence;
The pork i sweeIer, and fifty per cent.
winter; /, m y lose linle in boiling: II il
dnes, how ever, | have never noticed H..
They are the mosiproliic animal we have,
producing II birth numbers varying from
six 10 twelve twice in each year, IL found
desirable BY the owner. In eleven ears
single SOW, averaging ai each litter six
pigs. will. in len generations, produce six
millions four hundred and t.irty-four
thousand eigh. hundred and lhirty-eighI
pigs. Extend the calculation to ille
twelfth generation, aud The result would
be as greet number as all Europe could
support, and to the sixteenth generation,
the whole world would be overstockcd
When my sows are pregnant they are
kept apart from other hogs; u the birth
cf the young pigs they are removed for a
lew hrur@ fsva.slsc uain, as they are N dam
ger Of being injured BY her motions. She
u fed judicionsly for the first five days,
alter which she is allowed full quanium
Of fpod three times each day, but never
oyer.ied. Tier troughs'ar cleaned after
each meal. anil her pen daily, after which
it's Uttered with fine broken straw.
The pigs are daily accustomed 10 feed
ON milk mixed with bran, and al the age
OF two months weaned. They are al
ways kept in confinement, converting
rubbish into manure. My second brood
OF pigs are sent to the New York market,
and are sold to the packets as roasters.
The store hogs are wintered chiefly on
-, bcets and carrots, occasionally boil
"A -. ,a,ocs, and frequently charcoal dust,
wbieh / ,.eps them in perfect health, their
Isg. arc of, n rubbed with corn cob, 10
oped The Issues and cause the blood to
circulate freely. otherwise stsgaers may
ensue fatiucd two i,sags year before lasi
en,irei,,. on swee, and sour als?,nles, led al
,erna,ely. For three or four manlh> they
received no Other food, except ocasiona,
lycharcoal-waier sven was denied them.
they weighed, when killed, two hum
drcd and fifty pounds each; the whole
hog was covered with very thick LAYER
Of fat. perfectly white and firm: the SKIN
was thin, and the pork pronounced by
connoisseurs exceedingly ilne and.swee';
the hams were no, inferior 10 Westptalia.
This las, year. 1915, on the lstof DC
tuber. | confined sixteen hogs in an ell
closure about sixty feet square. in one
corner of which placed all my pniniec,
after having extracted The cider. and per-
millcd the hugs three times each day TO
partake of il one hour, in which time they
completely filled themselves tn repletlon.
They were allowed no other food during
October and November; the first week IN
December they were killed. and fanet
animals never. saw. They were sold in
New York for two cents per ID. above
the marke, Price. ! am. &c. II. l.. T.
Remarks.-We deem the experiments
OF Mr.. Pell Of grea, importance. especial
ly in the older States. IL farmers car
cultivate fine fruit, send the finest 10 mar
let. feed The refuse to stock, and thus
avoid fs.tening their hogs in particular
on grain, very considerable per cen,age
will be added,o the prof, of farming.
Editor.