The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-18

The CHESAPEAKE& u OHIO RAILROAD
CoNvENTIoN.-The convention at the
White Sulphur Springs, Va. last week,
TO devise means for the construction OF
the Chesa penke and Ohio road 10 the
Ohio river, adopted the following reso-
lutions
Resolvcd, That this convention earn
esIly recommends that at least five mil
lions of dollars be raised by a subscrip-
tion OF stock to enable the Virginia
Central Railroad Company to fulfill the
contract entered into oconditiOnally with
the commissioners OF Virginia and
West Virginia, on the oath of May, 1867:
That at least two million live hundred
thousand dollars be raised in Virginia,
and two million five hundred thousand
collars be raised in West Viginia.
ReSoiUed, That the Legislatures of
Virginia and West Virginia be petition
ed by the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road Company Qn view Of the influence
its work will exert favorably to the in
crease OF the revenue of the S.AIeS,) to
pass acts exempting from taxation the
entire property OF the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Company, and such
lands us it may acquire In payment for
subscription OF stock during the period
of ten years after the completion of the
road TO the Ohio river.
ReSoiUed, That it be recommended to
each county to pledge itself to settle all
claims for land damages in the construc-
ton of the road within the boundary of
such county. 1fTga
RcSolUed, Tha: it be recommended to
the counties OF West Virginia 10 SUBJ
scribe for not less than the following
amounIs of Der cent. preferred stock of
the Chesa peake and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, III required by the countless con-
vertible into preferred stock, the bonds
to be received by the company at a
discount of not more than ten per cent:
Mason county. $500, 900; Putnam. $780,
600; jackson, 100000; ROane, $4,000;
CLAY, ,S5O, 900; KHnaw hn, $500, 900; Fayette,
Sll5, 900; Monroe, 500, 900; Greenbrier,
$3.50, 600; Mercer, $4,000: Raleigh, S50,-
900: Wyoming, $1,000; Logan. So. 900;
Wayne, $50, 900; CabeII, 500, 900; Lin
coin, SIS, 900; Boone, S5O,OOO; Nicholas,
900; Webster, $4,000; Pocahontas,
$50 900.
RESOLVED, That it be recommended to
Virginia to make her subscriptions in
the same manner and upon tho terms
provided for in the resolution relating
to subscriptions by counties in West
Virginin.
THE art of making pork forms the
subject of an interesting article in the
Cincinnati Enquirer. That Journal
doubts if much money is made in feed
ing hogs, and that the same quantity of
food will make twice as much pork in
some breeds of hogs as in others. The
usual mode of feeding, too, it considers
defective. The feed may be good, but
II given to n hog unprepared or uncook-
ed, much OF its efficiency is lost. To
fed hogs proftably, they should, from
the first, be kept in Il thriving state; not
half fattened at one time, and then al
lowed to fall away until they are mis-
eraoly poor, but kept constantly i'm
proving from the time they are born
until they are ready for slaughterihg.
10 raise an anim9l OF any kind, when
allowed to become poor, than TO keep
one constantly thriving. Nor is there
enough time generally allotted to the
feeding. Good, firm, heavy pork can
not be made, no matter what may be
the feed used, in less time than three or
four months. Hogs may be pulled out
and made TO look fair, but their meat
will not be hard and firm, and will be
affected with the complaint called
shrinking in the pot. Hogs fatten
much faster in moderate weather than
in severe cold weather; and hence the
process OF fntteniDg should be com
menced as early as the food used can be
had. After the process of feeding
begins, the hogs should have enough.
To suppose that Il squealiug, ravenous
hog will fatten Is mistake, but unlOr-
tunately n very common one. lhs
Enquirer concludes its article by stating
that 10 make good pork, hog should
not be less than tineen months old,
and should be kept constantly thriving
by being fed on good food not less than
three months.