The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-11-29
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From the american Cotton Planter.
The Pea Question.

DIR. CLouD-Dear Sir "A few years since
the opinion generally pre-, allied that peas were
poisonous to hogs, and having little experience
adopted it, made but few peas, plenty Of corn,
and allowed my hogs to run liz the woods two
thirds of the year, lost more or less every
year BY disease, and raised great many
runts, which, upon examination, always prove
diseased in the bowels or kidneys, or both. =
About this time it occurred to NE, in witness
ing the examination of several animals that
had died suddenly, that some of the smaller
messages Of tie intestines were found complete
iy clogged with unmasticated food, and never
having detected any poisonous effects from
the use of the pea, attributed their anwhole-
spmeness to this cause.
From that time, commenced planting more
peas, and knowing that green peas would not
swell, always managed to admit the hogs to
one field before the peas were ripe, always
leaving the little nubLin and decayed corn in
the field. still lost some hogs, but could not
attribute it to the peas.
still increased my pea crop, and kept my
hogs in the plantation the year round, occasion.
ally sprinkling little spirits of turpentine on
their back, and now disease appears almost to
have left my stock, and death rarely occurs,
unless by violence Last year my pea crop
was abundant turned in my stock and f;lt
tening hogs in October; several sows brought
forth about that time, and were suffered to run
on them until the peas were exhausted, which
was late in February, and | now have shoats
from the above liters that will compare favor
ably with the best and are decidedly superior
to any that have ever raised.
The process that has succeeded to my sat.
isfaction is this Sow the speckled or wild
goose pea broadcast, when you lay by your
corn, half bIshel to the acre; pick your seed
peas soon after taking your fodder, and give
the second crop to your hogs, which will be in
a ripening but not swelling condition, early in
October there will be many ripe ones at that
time, without doubt, but the hogs will prefer
the green ones, and first fill themselves with
them, which cannot hurt them as they do not
swell, and after the first bite or two they will
not eat so hur'iedly and greedily.
When it happens that we are prevented
from putting our hogs in the field while the
peas are yet green, we give them plenty OF
corn the first day or two, which appears to OBJ
viate all difficulty.
The same precautions observed makes the
pea most healthy and nutricious food for
horses aid colts, and find that colts may be
weaned from their dam on pea field, more
particularly while the peas are green, with
less loss than any other way that have tried.
prefer the sreckIed pea, first because stock
are more fond of them; secondly, they are not
30 easily killed by the au,umna frosts, frequent
ly escaping while other peas are killed; owing
to their habit of bringing a partial crop in ear,
ly, so that enough for seed may be gathered
before the season for picking arrives, and if
these are taken of, The same stems will pro.
duce another BY the middle Of October, land
and seasons permitting. ii.