The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-08-15
Prom the southern Field and Preside.
WILL 1T PAY TO MAKE PORK /?


We copied from the July number Of the
Genesee Farmer, an instructive and still
more suggestive article in answer 70 the
question " Will il Pay to Make Pork Z"
which is from the pen Of an excellent far.
mer in the valley of the Genesee. II will
be seen that litter Of eight pigs was siaugh-
tered when seven months aud seven days
old, which weighed, dressed. an average Of
252 pounds each.
II shoats when seven or eight months old
can be made TO weigh $50 lbs, where is tile
propriety Of keeping them till they are eigh-
teen months OF Two years old before bringing
them to that weight, and into meat for the
table
Again. note the iot OF twenty live pigs
killed when nine months aud seven dsys old ,
that averaged. dressed, sll lbs. each. a
litter Of Ten pigs gave Mr.. ]. W. Brown
1900 lbs. Of meat when ten months old.
We have before suggested the early sowing
Of English peas and oats, to be gathered as
they are getting ripe BY hogs The oats
generally keep the pea vines from falling
and rotting on the ground; and on good land,
the English or Northern pea grows quite as
we'll, as field crop. as our Southern doiichos
or COW pea. Where the writer was reared,
corn was often cut III BY early irosts, and
peas, barley. oa,s and rye, potatoes and but.
ternilk. made our pork. Ii COW peas would
ripen as early as garden peas. ii would not
be necessary to cultivate the latter as field
crop for hogs. The large prolific English
pea, which We intend TO grow far hogs, aud
commend 70 our readers, is quoted in the
Toronto prices current al sixty % sixty
rents bushel, June 10th. 1860. The pea
bug iso common here and in New York is
little known in Canada ; and we shall import
seed from Toronto, Or the province. We
keep lima beans. peas and other seeds in dry
lime TO keep out weesils. Before the nits
Of the pea bugs (Bouclus pisiJ is developed
enough TO injure the pea. it should be de-
strnyed with camphnr or spirits Of turpen-
tine. BY taking a little pains, both peas
and beans may be grown as field crops in
Georgia to advantage. The Genesee Farmer
quite. beans at from lJiy {" siriy cents
bushel. June 18th, 1860. This is quite as
cheap as We ever knew them in Rochester.
IL Is but simple justice 10 the tienesse Far
mer. published there, 10 say psrrnthrlicaliy
that its market reports embrace many locali-
ties. including Liverpool and London, and
are worth mare than the price Of the paper
FIFTY cents wear. 10 make shoats weigh
over 500 lbs, dressed, when nine months old,
We must grow the seeds eaten by hogs, which
ripen earliest in Canada; same Of which.
like cats and barley. We can sow in Decrm.
brr or earlier. We have raised rye and peas
together With success.
Alter hogs have had generous summer
range in English peas. oats and rye, as We
have suggested. they will come TO eprn and
Southern peas in August and September in
a frst.rate condition. But before peas and
oats are fit for consumption. hogs require
good clover or lUeerne pastures. They re-
auire nourishment of this kind. simply be.
cause II Is more economical than 10 feed
corn. OF let them Tail to grow from the lack
oi iood. Make pig gain a pound day
from the time oi it, birth till converted into
bacon, aud the larmef may be satisfied, hut
with nothing less. Such growth. however,
demands something better than wood range.
Or an old field pasture. ltrequirss plenty
nl nutritious sliment. and the exercise Of
good sense IN providing II. Sugar bctts NAV
be brought forward earl, IN our climate. and
they are MT expensive tn raise for hogs and
c0as. On rich subsoilcd land. carrots yield
bountifully and make cheap milk aud meat.
Indeed. there is not plant grown IN the
fertile valley Of the Genesee which, with
hog and cattle manure, We cannot ralsc quite
as well on the sterile granite soil oI Clark
county. Georgia. Our solls. formed lrnm
rock. IN niu. differ entirely from those where
the gtanitic drp prednminates at the North,
- 10 New York and New England. Our
land washes ien.Inld more than theirs. and
demands more sklllul engineering aud better
husbandry 10 render the earth fruitful and TO
keep it 50 IN all time to come.
While pigs are growing up, and during all
their lives before put up to fatten. II Is the
common practice al the South, SO far as aur
ob.srsstion has extended. To regard their
manure a. hardly worth saving. |, can only
be saved by raising hogs in well enclosed
fields, which is ,eldom done where Hnglish
grasses are not cultivated. The planters
aud farmers of Georgia throw away stock.
Jroppings woith several million dollars every
year, II guan0 aud uther commercial manures
are worth anything. Oar millions Of acres
or abandoned old teds owe their existence
ia a good degree TO our thoughtlcss attempt
TO keep hogs aud rattle practically. and not
husband all their dropplngs IRON the begin.
ming 10 the end oi their lives. Let the far
mer who reads this say how much Of the
manure furnished BY his live stock, and
soided in the last three months, hc can
transform At will into corn. wheat, or cotion
MANY will say that this food VI plants is be.