The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-04-12


The following deductions must be
made:
Worth of pigs at six weeks old, 50
each $500
bu of corn making 12 lbs. of pork,
and the pigs weighing 800 lbs. each,
then have each consumed 26 bu. or
in all 100 bu. at SAC. s4,0O $4,000
Balance, over and above e4c per bu.
for the corn, Of lie per bu. or in all Sl7.2O
The above balance Of 1920 will we'll
pay the labor of feeding and of supply
ing compost materials, and pile of com
post has been prepared, at cheap cost,
which will make good mark wherever
applied on the farm.
The foregoing calculations are in a
good degree based on experiments made
by other persons; but on a careful re-
view of my own practice for several
years past, l can furnish a statement
showing the profit of fattcniug swine in
q more favorable light than the above
account presents. Before giving my
own account however, few considera-
tious will be mentioned, which though
more or less incidental, arc yet quite
important to the subject in hand
In fattening swine, very much of the
profit depends upon the breed of hogs
fed some breeds paying good profit
for what they consume while Others fed
on the same amount and quality of ma
terials, barely pay or make loss on
what they eat Crosses Of the Suffolk
or Mackays with our best larger breeds
are certain to pay well for fattening, if
properly fed The best practical pigs,
however, that bave had any experience
with, are those made by balf-and-half
cross between the Suffolk and Mackay
breeds. The cross.bloods possess the cs-
scntial qualities of early maturity and
a tendency to take on flesh rapidly, com
bined with bone enough TO stand up
straight on their legs till the time of
slaughter; and can easily be made to
weigh from 800 to 400 lbs at ten
months old With such pigs, 1 always
feed out my corn courageously, and real.
ize u satisfactory return for it in pork
and compost
The amount and value of the compost
made during the time the pigs are fatten-
ing, will depend upon the care and sys-
TEN used in supplying good materials to
them, in well.arranged pen. The ma
tcrials, thrown to the pigs little at a
time and often, may be waste or uncm-
ploycd substances, OF every name, which
arc rich in vegetable matter-such as
muck, scrappings from the forest, thick.
ly matted turf specially if from soil
different in kind from that to which the
compost is to be applied green breukcs
and bushes of a years growth, green
weeds of every kind, the rich wash cen
tering in hollows, strnwy horse-manure
which cannot otherwise be preserved
from damage. before wanted for the land
Sc, sc. The pen for four pigs should
not exceed some Is feet square or per
baps the best proportion, considering the
convenience of getting the materials in
and the compost out of the pen, is some
10 or ~ feet wide, by lG feet long
thus concentrating the droppings within
a small pace, making the compost up in
height rather than in length and width,
and lessening exposure to evaporation.
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a roof-a cheap one will do. Shelled
corn should be occasionally forked into
the compost, to encourage the pigs to
work. There should be feeding apart.
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