Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-02-28
FOR THE ADVERTISER.
Hogs, and how to Raise them.

pOftant. leel IL to De oui uutJ !" 6''e o"'
experience in any thing touching our inte.
rests, whereby we may all be mutually bene.
fitted. And as ueem the raising of hogs a
very important item in farming, will give
you my experience in that branch, as ! have
devoted good deal of time and attention
to it. One or TWO general remarks on the
subject before proceed to answer your
question.
lst, Farmers should be careful to get a
good stock of Hogs. think the big Guinea
the best stock for our country; or perhaps
big Guinea and Irish. h.Grazier crossed might
be preferable.
2nd, The common error in our farmers is
that they keep too many breeding sows !;
they have so many pigs they can't possibly
feed them as they should be fed, and great
many of them die while young.
3rd. They keep their hogs too long be-
fore they are killed No hog should be fed
more than one winter Take two pigs, give
one double what you do the other, and the
pig that is well fed will make as good a
hog at one year old as the other one half
fed or half starved, will at two. Most far
mers keep their hogs until they are two years
old; in order to do this you see at once
they have to keep double number of hogs,
which Of course require twice as much to
feed them. Again, one fifth of the one-year-
old hogs in the country die before they are
two, which is clear loss. Now say man
loses one half his pigs and one fifty Of his
year old hogs, it leaves him but little over
one fourth the hogs he has pigged; aud |
will venture the assertion that this is as many
as half the farmers in the District kill one
year with another.
If farmers would not think quite so much
about making cotton, and little more about
the provisions of life, they could raise plenty
Of hogs and to spare, with a very little trou-
BILE or expense, and be much better off Il
think) than they are when they have to buy.
Farmers, try it By sowing a good crop
of peas you can have plenty of meat at
triaing cost Your shoats will grow off
finely in your harvest fields and your peas
will fatten them in the fall. If any man will
adopt this plan, (never keeping more than
one sow for every ten hogs it takes to make
his bacon) and if he don't always have plen'
ty of shoats in the summer and plenty Of
hogs to make his bacon in the winter, will
acknowledge know nothing about the
matter
In answering your question will give
you the cost of keeping hog one year
only. Say commence the middle of De.
cember (after killing my hogs) with four
sows and twenty-eight pigs, las many as
WANT having fifty bushels cotton seed, ten
bushels meal and plenty turnips for their
support. | can keep my sows and pigs in
fine order through the winter. How! Have
large kittle for farmers boiling stove is
far preferably every morning put into it
quantity of turnips and tops (which every
man can have if he willy and a few cotton
seed, and boil them until they are soft; then
put little meal in to thicken it. And feed
regularly with this preparation. About the
middle of January or sooner if find my
hogs are getting lowsy, | give them half
pound copperas at a feed three days in sue.
cession. This cleanses them of lice and
worms. Every three weeks after, give
them about half pound. y mere boy can
do the boiling before breakfast through the
winter and feed the hogs at night Stock
hogs should be fed only at night.
Now, count the cost: so bushels cotton
seed at 10 cts. $500 10 bushels meal $40
and 25 cents worth of copperas, making
Sl5,25 the cost of keeping the sows and
pigs until Spring. They can then do with,
out feeding until they are put i'll the harvest
fields. So the expense is over until winter,
From the twenty.eight pigs, will have 20
hogs to tatten. Next winter one acre Of
land sown in turnips will be sufficient to
iatten the hogs, and have plenty to feed my
stock hogs through the winter; with the
turnips, 25 bushels cotton seed, and 20
bushels of meal, prepared regularly as before
mentioned, will falten the hogs.
Fattening hogs should be fed through the
day. You now perceive have 20 hogs
that will weigh about one hundred and fifty
pounds each nett, at a cost Of forty dollars
(allowing $3.50 for the hire of the boy,) or
a cost of two dollars head. With these
data let every man decide for himself wheth-
er it is cheaper to buy hogs than it is to
raise them. Yet, have no doubt myself
but that it takes more corn to raise one hog,
the pay they arc generally raised IN this
country, than urould buy tuo p.
Rise and fall Of Sap in Trees.
OK this subject we make the following ex.
tracts from Professor LISDLEY, University
of London:
"It is the common opinion and no less