The Winchester weekly appeal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1856-1856, 1856-11-14
Fatening Swine.


appointments OF your farm, have some
Immediately put up, 50 that when it
shall &c time to put your hogs up to
1atten, the pens may be ready for their
reception. The pens should have a
feeding and sleeping apartment, with
n yard attached to each. In each pen
there should be a rubbing post. The
surface Of each yard should be formed
into a basin-likc form, over which a
bushel Of plaster should be spread, and
then covered several inches in depth
with woods mould, marsh mud, river
or creek mud, the earth from head
lands, or ditch or road scrapings,
weeds, &c, ali Of which materials du-
ring the fattening season will be con-
verified into good manure; for there are
no better manufacturers OF manure
than hogs. Without entering into any
detail Of the constituent clements of
hog manure, we would say, that it is
considered, in tie view of chemists, SUI
pcrioy to that of the COW, and this es-
innate is borne out in practice by the
closest observation-disclosures When
theory and practice both arrive at the
same conclusion, we may be sure that
this opinion is very nearly founded in
truth,
In filing the yard of a hog pen with
the substances named, every few inch
es ofthc matter as it is being placed
in and spread on the yard, should be
busted overwith planter, or with pull
verified charcoal, to prevent the escape
of the ammonia. Occasionally stable
and cowyala manure should be thrown
over the surface and be treated to
sprinklings OF plaster or pulverized
charcoal. To encourage the hogs to
root. every few days grains Of corn
should be distributed over the aurface
of the yards; in consuming and search
ing for the corn, the hogs root up and
intimately mix all the substances to-
gctheI and thereby assume an equal
ty in the value of the compound-a
matter Of great consideration in such
bodies. lfyou provide your hogs with
the rough material named, each hog
during the fattening season will make
two loads of good compost manure
TO show the value of the urine of the
fattcning hog, we will remark, that it
is estimated by chemists that it is as
rich in the elements Of vegetable pro-
auctions, as is that of the human urine.
and THAT in every pint of the latter
there arc the elements of a pint Of
wheat. If this be true, and we be-
lieve that it is, we would ask, is it not
worth while for agrcuIturalists to put
themselves to the trouble Of saving so
fruitful n fertilizer as hog manure,
solid as well as liquid! To this cues
ton there can be but one rational an
sWer, and that an affirmative one
There is no animal that vOids more
urine than the hos, and there is none
voiding it Of a richer or more fertilzing
quality; indeed there is none so rich
Each 100 lbs. OF hog urine will give
SAC lbs. OF urea, which is equal to so
much ammonia, ard certainly then, it
is most worthy Of being saved, and can
be to very considerable extent, by the
means pointed out by us in the ar
rangement OF the yards Of the fatten-
ing pens. Besides urea, the urine CT
the hog consists OF aIbumen, sub
stance rich in carbon, nitrogen, hydro
gen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulphur,
in common salt, lnuriata potash, gyp-
sum, chalk ard gIaubcr salts, each and
all Of which substances are useful IN
the building up ofvegetabla products.
Let US now turn f.om the liquid part
of the manure Of the hog TO the solid
portion. What DO we learn Of The lat