Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-02-22
one hog for every 6 acres in corn crop.

~ uOSS Snoulu DC raised. Ihere they
use the term corn for every species o.
grain. l expect they lay down the pro-
per rule, for I have observed that the
same food given to one hog will make
more meat than ifdivided between two
at any rate for the first year.
: Males nor females should be bred from
until full twelve months old. The SOW
goes 112..days with young. They should
be allowed to have pigs but twice year
in February and August. Not more than
six or eight pigs should be left with each
SOW over three or four weeks. At six
weeks oldathe males should be castrated
The pigs should beDweaned at six or eight
weeks old, and one should be left with
each SOW for few days. SO as to dry hel
mix gradually.
The fatteniug pigs should be we'll fed
| from the time they are weaned until Il ey
are killed. The breeding stock should be
kept in good order. The soeus should
never be suffered to get very fat. All
should have dry, warm shelter to lie
under during winter once a week swept
out. and heavily strewn with dry leaves.
This wonderfully contributes to their
health and comfort.
About ten days before the sows are ex-
Pected 10 have young, they should be
separated and put up in different pens,
and we'll fed, with good beds, not how
ever, too plentiful a supply OF leaves or
straw, lest they trample their pigs, which
will naturally burrow under the straw,
and cannot be seen by the sow, and there
by may be over laid, or mashed with her
feet. To each pen should be attached a
small pen, with hole large enough for the
pigs to pass from the larger to the small
er pen. At a week old the pigs will soon
learn to, eat, by putting small trough in
the outer pen, and therein putting milk,
or water and meal. When they become
used to this they thrive rapidly, and do
not worry the SOW so much.
For sows sucking pigs, the best food is
corn in the morning. slops at dinner, and
Two gallons of swill at night.
For fattening hogs constant supply of
swiIl. as much corn as they can eat morn
ing and night, and potatoes (steamed) at
l2 o'clock. The swill here spoken Of, is
made Of one bushel of ground corn (cob
and grain together) put in barrel with
twenty gallons of water, permitted to
stand four or five days, so as to sour
By having sufficient quantity OF barrels
a full supply Of sow>swill can always be
on hand. To every twenty gallons Of
water add one quart of salt, we'll stirred
in the swill 1t is often advisable to put
an ounce Of flour of sulphur in the food OF
nogs. 1t is q valuable medicine for hogs.
Bleeding aud abstinence from water and
food for few hours is good recipe for
most of their diseases. but III genera! they
are subject to but few complaints if we'll
fed and kept dry and warm in winter,
with shad" and plenty Of water in sums
mcr. Poor hogs will have the mango.
a plenty of food and a dry pen, with one
or two applications o! sulphur and train
oil well rubbed on the NANCY part, will
work speedy cure. They sometimes
ses them to drag their loins. This is Il
distressing complaint, but may be cured
by keeping the hog upon low feed, and
inserting a small seton on each side Of the
spine, over each kidney, and rubbing the
back once day with turpentine and
sweet oil mixed in equal portions.
The bes: hog now in existence is a
cross which | have just perfected. A
half Berkshire and hatf Chester SOW with
pure Suffolk boar can breed great hog;
but that stock crossed with pure CAiMu
boar will prove superior to any other
breed in my opinion. A friend of mine,
c. c. NJ, Esq, has one Of that stock that
he would not take $500 Eor-the hog be-
ing very young, and never having extra
pains taken to make him show animal
Personal Appc arance of our Saviour.
Oh the personal appearance of the Re.
deemer oi mankind, people generally have
the most vague conceptions, such as have
their origin in the numerous painted por-
traits passing as likenesses OF that divine
parsonage, who "spake as never man
spake." He is thus described by Lentu.
lus, ruler in Judea. in letter address
cd to the Senate OF Rome, during the reign
of Tiberius Caesar:
Conscript Father.-There appeared in
these, our days, man of great virtue,
man named Jesus Christ, who is yet
living among US, and OF the Gentiles is