, 1865-02-03

crops OF the country may be partially disposed
Of to profit viz by distilling them into the
ardent. AS member of the Temperance Soci-
ETY., should be opposed to this; but I am also
Fellow of the Society for the Alteration Of
Human Misery, and consider that liquor made
from the grain of this country is likely to be
better than the average of imported liquors; at
any rate it cannot be worse than some of it, and
if money is to be made out of human misery you:
people may as well have it as anybody else. A
distillery might be profitable institution, and I
observe that an experiment is being made IN
that direction by citizen of your town.
Corn-growing cannot but be profitable in this
valley, where the crops of it rival those of the
bounteous teeming West. OF all other crops it
can be turned to account in the most varied
forms. 1t is good for all graminivorous and ON
niverous creatures; it eats well in bread cakes,
puddings, mush and homny it tastes well when
transferred into beef and pork, and Ia bibulous
friend assures me that, it is even palatable when
made into whiskey. 1t is productive of fat hor-
ses, slab-sided men, big stout children and fine
rosy-cheeked, muscular young women. Wheth-
er green or ripe, it is always convertible, pala-
table, dgestible, and nutritious The man who
plants corn is public benefactor. His children
shall rise up from the table) and call him
blessed. His days shall be long in the land
his horses shall smile audibly at his coming
his house shall not want for good things nor
his purse lack for Democratic currency Quit
ting this fascinating topic, 1 wish to call the
attention of your readers to another important
question; namely,
THE BREEDING OF HORSES, MULES, CATTLE, AND
HOGS.
The uncertainty attending the ownership of
horses, mules and cattle, in Walla Walla, is not
SO great as in those halcyon days when
gay young frontiersman could support an Indian
wife and a promising crop of half-breed chill
dren with other capital than horse, horse
equipments and lasso. There has indeed been
most beneficial change from those times in
which nearly moiety of your population was
liable to indictment, and conviction, for horse
stealing and cattle-lifting; and this change in
duces me to hope that farmers will turn their at
tention to the breeding of the domestic animals
mentioned at the head of this paragraph
Your climate is so favorable to the formation
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should have been invested in it has found its
way into less profitable ventures; such as strong
drink in excess, cards, ten-pins and the like,
not to mention several unmentonabe methods
of permanently disposing of easily-gotten gains.
However, it is never too late to mend, and the
prospects Of those who may now go into stock
business are peculiarly favorable. Horses and
mules are wanted to pack, ride and haul; neat
cattle are in demand for veal and beef-for milk,
butter and cheese, and whether the attention of
your readers is directed to one or the other, or
all of these animals, sure and bounteous re-
ward awaits their labors.
Experience has demonstrated that growing
stock will not need any feed more than one win
ter in three on the average. On this account,
comparatively little farming lanG will be needed
to insure the safety of stock AT most, not over
two months feed in three years will be required
AS to hogs, l abominate them Since the
swine jumped off the cliff into the sea, hogs
have been the fruitful source of woes innumer-
able to the human race. I believe in the Mosaic
dispensaton on the hog question. To eat hog
meat is to be unwell-eat more and you will be
sick-eat less, you get better-none at all and
you get we'll But, sir, we are not all Israelites,
and most people will eat pork Seeing that they
will do it, Walla Walla ought to have her share
of the profits arising from the hog-business, and
it is reasonable to believe that hog-measles will
not affect hog-meat as unfavorably here as in
the damp foggy climate of Oregon. You must
have noticed some account of a species of ''bo-
rer' or worm which abounds in modern pork
believe it is called spiraEis trichina by hog
psychologists, but if it isn't, it makes no differ
ence-it is an abominable "bore' to pork-eat-
ers. To make assurance doubly sure, and kill
out the hog-measles and hog-worm, l would re-
commend that tire stock of hogs now in the val
ley and to be hereafter introduced, shall be put
through a course of medicine, and their respect
i've bodies be thoroughly purified before making
them into pork and bacon. Laying aside my
prejudices against hogs, it is only just to state
that the lack of fastidiousness on their part
renders them valuable as consumers of much
that would otherwise go to waste, and for this
reason I tolerate them.
AS there is a considerable quantity of pork re-
quired to meet the local demand, it ought to
pay to produce it, and when there is surplus,
the mining towns will produce it. Spring pigs,
Of thrifty breeds, be killed for light pork af
ter frost comes, and hauled to the mines while
frozen; thus saving the cost of salt, and deliv-
ering the pork in good condition. The price Of
lard in this market should induce the produc-
ton of heavy pork.
The profitable production of pork is insepara-
bly, connected with the dairy and extensive mil
ling facilities. In proportion to the increase Of
cattle and the increased ohal from mills the
profits of hog-raising must increase 1t will
thus be seen that by varying your products and
stock, economy is introduced, and as you GRASP
the means 10 operate with, money is more easily