The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-07-05
gor the Garmers.
Farmers raise your own Hogs.

The wretched policy, pursued at the South
aimost from the time whereof the 'memory of
man runneth not 10 the contrary" of raising
cotton to buy hogs, horses and mules with to
the neglect of other important productions OF
the farm, has been often commented upon and
as often condemned BY the agricultural and
newspaper press, and yet despite all the wretch.
ed policy is still pcrsaed. The high prices at
which hogs, horses and mules from the West
are frequently sold, one would impress upon the
minds of our farmers aud planters as with the
diamond point, the Importance Of radical
change in their system of farming. Yet they
90 on in the old beaten path, needless ofthe i'm
pressive lessons of experience. For years they
have submitted to the degrading position of
showers of wood and drawers of water" to the
9 Western States, and altho' told with line upon
line and precept upon, precept,' of their ndepen.
dence vet they seem insensih!e to their slavish
condition and make no effort t" :mproveit. They
occupy towards the stock raiscrs OF The West
! themserable relation oftributaries. For them
do ther careessly toll. To fill their pockets
they irnpoversh their lands exhaust their own
energies and the strength of their slaves, and
live hard feeding almost solely upon the bread
and meat furnished them by their inex"rab'e
task,masters and denying themselves the cheap
luxuries of the dairy and garden. Scarce Il
fruit tree worthy OF she Name adorns their home
steads, only a few NANCY rnnts of hogs to be
seen about their premises almost too poor to
drag themselves from the fence corner to feed
supon the scant grass which nature has kindly
provided for them. And such COWS rs may be
seen stalking about the farm Of cold winters
day il were impossible 10 describe, whose evo
ry motion is intently watched l'y the b;izzardS
il, momentary expectation that they will drop
down and die and iur;isi them Il scant meal.-
sand such insipid milk as these poor kiEe yield
with their life cannot with any propriety be cal
led milk. he little ball OF butter that may
be extracted from it by dimt OF hard preserving
churning, is as white and insipid as the milk it
self. And who Of the young folks have ever
seen hume made cheese! We have been
aman and boy for thirty nine years" and have
never seen one But We are wandering.
For the encouragement If other farmers t"
at least raise their own meat, we have been
kindly furnished by Mr. Henry Burton an ex-
cellent neighbor and most successful planter in
this District, with list containing the wei ghtS
of number of hogs killed by him this winter
From this we CLEAN the following particulars.
Mr.. Burton killed twenty-five hogs two years
old, the average weight which was nearly 35l
lbs. The heaviest of this lot weighed 434 lbs.
lie alsn killed one fourteen months old which
weighed 3lO lbs. Fifteen of one gear od av
erage 1T s lbs, the heaviest weighing 2l2
lbs. Some of oar readers will rcce,t the
monstrous hog Mr. Burton exhibited at the last
Agricultural Fair at this place. Having pre-.
pared him properly and f'ttened him as well
as an overAowing corn crib would enable him,
he killed him the 23i of last month and he
weighed gross 100 lbs, neat 70l lbs. We
have forg"tton his age; if we mistake not he
was three years old: The whole number of
hogs killed by Mr.. Burton of his own raising
was II. averaging 2S2 | 4 lbs. Il head. Now
is not Mr. Burtnn's success encouraging to 9th
ers to follow his examplee lie made a large
cotton crop too, plenty Of corn Of course AMI
an abundance of every thing else that can he
raised on fam. New5ery Sentinel.