The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-04-26

feeding. as sheafs af six months old,
weighing one hundred pounds. 81
have taken.p says he, 'sfwo pigs, SIX
months old. each weighing one hun,
dred pounds. aud could never. between
May and November, get them above
one hundred and eighty pounds each
! have taken three psgs of thirty pounds
each. and. on the same food. they
would weigh from one hundred and
seventy. 10 one hundred and eighty
poundseach. in the same period" The
abnre statements are irom facts col-
lected with care BY Henry Colman. in
a report as Commissioner of the Agri-
cultural Survey Of Massachusetts,, and
published in the Patent Office Report
Of the United. for iS43. They fully
settle the question, which is the most
profitable age at which pigs should be
slaughtered.
4. Management Of food and shelter
are importdnf.--A good clever pasture
affords the cheapest summer supply.
Ii should be convenient to the house,
toallow the pigs to be fed also with the
refuse milk of the dairy, and swiIl from
the kitchen. When there is no such
pasture. no more pigs should be kept
than can be kept on the waste of the
kitchen. II Will not pay to feed pigs
here on articles at the market prices.
The peculiar economy Of pig-raising
lies in the fact, that although the pig
Is a great eater. he will eat what no
thing else wfii, and which would there
lore be lust. But, four or six months
before killing. he should be penned.
and a short time belore killing fed on
corn. Though corn may occasionally
be fed in the ear, it is better ordinarily
to be ground, and then fully seaided
or bailed. in which cssditisn il may
be mixed with boiled roots or other
feed. You may save, in general, how
ever, BY boiling your corn. when SHE'LL
ed, without grinding; it will answer
the same end. Have your pens so
constructed that yosr pigs eannet root,
as fat pigs are often injured by rooting,
and, if possible, have fresh. clean wa
ter 10 their yard for them to wallow in
during the Summer. Let them also be
warm aud quiet during the period of
fattening, so as to induce sleep, and,
when they are in their beds, by no
means disturb them. Give them occa-
sionaliy rotten wood and charcoal. .and
frequently put wood ashes and salt on
their food
8. In respect TO Breeding, do not let
the boar run with your stock; and do
not keep yosr sows at any time too fat,
in which condition they are not likely
to breed. 1t is advantageous to have
a litter from young sow at twelve or
fourteen months old, in time to fatten
her for fall or winter killing; but it
should be remembered that her second
ann third litters will NEST likely be
better than the first.
These remarks on economical pork
raising do not apply to Indiana, and
other rich corn States of the West,
where pork is raised wholesale, as the
most available way Of bringing the pro.
daee Of the farm into the market. With
those States we cannot compete, and
we repeat that to make pork-raising
profitable in the ordinary way of house
keeping or farming. but little food must
be bought for them, and but little fed
to them, when it can be sold for the
present good prices in the Middle and
Eastern States. Is.
New Castle, Pa, 1853.
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