Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-16
tvil.1. 1T PAY 20 Make pogrt.

plleu III pFopOftlOnj So tllit colu mas Ut-
come the leading crop-which if well
cultivated and judiciously fed (not sold)
on the farms that produce it, the soil
will not deteriorate, nor debts increase,
as many have conjectured.
The corn crop, where it can be sue
cessfully grown, is the farmer regula-
tor and balance wheel. 1t will make
less debts and more money in the pocket;
less bankruptcy and more rich farms;
less lousy cattle and more good beef;
less cords of sheep under the fence and
more good mutton in the market; less
pulled wool and more to shear; less poor
pork and more than will pay, than any
other crop-wheat not excepted.
Then, with the conclusion to feed our
grain rather than to sell it-what shall
we feed it to, cattle, sheep, OF hogs?
Pork growing is becoming an extern
sive business in this section. 1t is one
f the greatest channels for turning our
surplus slops and coarser grains into
money.
Then the question arises-and it is of
no secondary importance-will it pay to
make pork?
From the amount raised, it would
seem that the question was practically
answered in the affirmative; yet large
class complain that it is not paying
business-at any rate, more than what
will eat the house slops, rotten apples,
small potatoes, soft corn, and CLEAN the
harvest fields, but not to feed anything,
saleable.
Men differ on this as their pork diff
fers when brought to market-the poorer
the pork the more the owner complains
of his profits or rather his losses; and
the better the pork, the more satisfied
the owner IS, generally.
There can 6e no profit raising a poor
breed of hogs, that have no fattening
qualities; nor even a good quality, with
no conveniences nor proper care. A
good hog cannot be fatted to any profit,
in mud or filth, nor when he suffers from
cold. 1t is no boys business to under
stand the wants of hogs-to change their
feed, and keep them healthy and grow
ing.
The comforts of hog should be con
suited as much as any other animal, in
order to receive the most profit from the
least outlay. They should have warm
dry nest, and clean pen. A hog that
will not keep clean when we'll cared for
is not worth fatting. The best fatting
hogs keep the cleanest. They are re-
mails in their pen.
There is no way to test the profit or
loss of making pork but by actual ex-
notwithstanding the whole outlay
compared with the income; or by count
ing the cost for any given time, and the
income.
have fatted three litters of pigs, 25
in number, dressing 7,772 lbs, aver
aging 311 Tbs each, at 9 months and Z
days old. They were from SOW
Leice fershire and Byfeld crossed-and
full blooded Suffolk boar, being very
perfect in form, quiet, clean and hearty
| dressed litter of eight, February,
1859, averaging 252 lbs at Z months
and Z days old; sold for S7.75 per hun
dred Dressed two ittcrs, II in all
February; were months II days old,
and one year and 21 days old The
heaviest weighed 400 It's IA, 465, 454,
435, Alb, etc. The three litters sold
for s915, with the lard-260 lbs. The
8 gained 40 lbs. oach September, AZ in
October, 53 in November-on soft corn
and apples mostly. Estimating the II
at 5 cents h., live weight, December
1st, which was the Highest market price
l made S75 above the cost of feed
till dressed-February 2lst-and the
manure. They were fed on meal, one
third barley and two-thirds corn, scalded.
They had boiled potatoes for dinner
The profit pnt on the corn fed-14O bush
els-would brirg it to s1.25 per bushel
calling other things fed at full value
The large lost II per cent. in dressing.
They had 8 lbs. of blood each.
My profits were as much II not moro
before December 1st than after, on, the
10.
J, W. Brown: neighbor of mine,
who has had considerable experience in
making pork, considers his grain worth |
from 20 to % per cent. more put into
pork than to be sold, when the pork
bears fair price in proportion to grain.
He has just made an experiment in
fatting pigs. He had litter of ten
pigs-a cross of Suffolk and Byfeld-
which dressed $50 lbs. each at 10 months
old, and sold for $3.50 per hundred-
He kept accurate account of all they
ate from the start, and their first cost
He fed peas, ground with other grain
about half and half. The pea meal,
cost IS cents per so lbs. and other grain
in proportion.
He made fifty dollars and the manure
above all cost, for the pleasure of feed
ing ten beautiful, white, clean shoats,
ten months.
These figures are not made thinking
these pigs are better than many others,
but to show that pork raising can be
made profitable, even on grain, and
more so where there is a dairy con-
nected with the field.
Will it pay better to grow and fatten
beef or sheep, Or shall we sell our grain?
These are questions of vital Importance
to our corn growing farmers, and should
be practically answered-not guessed at.
3. G. SIMoNDS.
Gennesee Co, ". Y
AnimaIs--stalls and Sheds.
In Scotland where everything in
farming is reduced to system, several
have been made in order
to ascertain the relative value Of the
two modes of fattening cattle, above
named The animals were in one in
stance selected and divided as near as
possible in regard to weight, &c, five
Of them were placed in an inclosure we'll
aud always a suficiency Of
room, and the other five of them placed