The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-09-27
for tbe 9armers.
Economical Modes of Fatting stock.

Economical Modes of Fatting Stock.
hesfollowins IS from tho Farmers ,Maga.
zine, all English work:
- HoGs.-A,thur Young, the celebrated agri
culturist, made, about seventy years back, sew
eral experun ntS to test the most profitable
mode of fattenng hogs He, found potatoes
givensraw, whole peas, peas crushed and given
idry, ahd beans hotl Whole aud crushed, alike
Improbable. The mode that succeeded best
with him Was one .he never tried beturr-tllat
of keeping the foud till sour before being Civ.
en-. He observes, "Iiug.ci>ters for Keeping
wash are common in Suffolk and it is ren'arki
BILE that the. hogs thrive. greatly OH it when
many mouths old and quite sour; tried the
experiment in faitening, of reducing reas, bar
ly, and beans to -four. in. the proportions OF
25bushels barley, Is l2 peas, and 81 2 beans;
mix them with water till rather thicker than
milk; four bushels of corn, which make about
Eve of meal, appeared to be proper quaint
ty for vessel that holds 100 gallons; flied it
up With water, and stirred it twice day with
a rudder till Sour, and during use."
.Iu one experiment, hogs, a cross between
a. Chinese boar and Berkshire sow, (the most
profitable breed that A. Young was acquainted
with} eat II bushels of barley soured, and
gave a, profit of FL lss 81. besides the ma
aure.
sssA. Young observes on this method g" that
the barley or peas should be very dry and
good, they may be ground quite to -four. If
they break coarse, the meal does not mix well
with the water, which is an essential point.
have tried it of various degrees Of thickness
from thin cream, to thick hodge podge; but
Ithink it does best when it is the. thickness of
common cream-that is, five bushels of meal
to one hundred gallons of wate-.-Much at
tention should be used III stirril,g,. before the
hogs are fed, that it may be equally thick
Otherwise, much meal will bc left at the bot
tom; and dsmore water must BIZ added"
This mode, SO highly advocated by Young,
= is now. practiced rather generally; sill it may
prove novel to some Of your readers.
A corr espondent of Arthur Young sdescribes
the only mode in. which potatoes eau be aI,.
piled proftah!y in ta,tening-that Of cooking
them, which rende's the root more dige>tible
aud deprives it of its deleterious properties;
and then of mixing some other substance with
il, ahonnding in ingredients in which the :pola
toe Itself cipallyiSatarch) is deficient
Three large hogs were fattened with mix
ture formed of 80 bushels of potatoes 80 lbs.
to the bushel) lcwt. of bran, aud bushels
tail hurley.
H'rhe:potatoes were clean washed aud boil
ed in furnace; they were taken Out hot and
beat to anummy, and at this instant the bran
and ground barley added, in the proportion of
about IL I-2 lbs. of the latter to one bushe OF
potatoes. This .is-the general practice OF this
county (Hampshre) and potatoes are not sup
posed to answer for flttening hogs in any 9th
er way. The hogs We're finished up with IL
sbpshelssofapeas" -,-s.'
81 Although potatoes are more nutritious than
any uther roots or tubers- containing one
fourth Of their weight in solid matter, while
swede turnips contain less than one tenth, while
fufnips one-fourteenth, mangoid one.trn,lI, car
rot 0ne.sxth, and parsnip unc.ff h--yet ut the
present price they are decidedly dearer than
corn for feeding, AS in these The proportions
OF organic matter are reversed; and Iarley,
heans. and peas, contains only one sixth to one
eighth Of water-Thus bailey meal at A.. II
Eushel would be quite cheap as potatoes
at Is; and unless p"ta,"cs can be afforded at
the latter price, they @il be Il dear and I'M.
profitable food. But pr"ha!Iy the real cattle
potatoes-as the Yam, the Ox.nobIe, the red
and yellow Cluster, and the Rnhan-c could br
grown at this price; crops affected with the
disease could be purchased for even less mo
ney per sack, and preserved--f boiled, mash
ed, and we'll sprirkled 18th salt in tight els
terus-fur Il considerable time Small refuse
potatoes, and thuse left over at the ctose IF
the season, could be often purchased at very
low price.
Early Seed Corn.