Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-20

production loss to the grower-pork is
constantly quoted at STEADY or 'firIn
and the demand active" A few men
have made small fortunes in hops, but
many more have lost money. The like
may be said of those who have turned
their attention to the raising of sheep, or
the production of fruit. There is little
danger of Cutting the market with pork,
at least Tor the present; and while the
expense of sending a thousand dollars
worth of pork to market Is scarcely more
than that of sending a hundred dollars
worth OF grain, there is an obvious adj
vantage in favor of producing the former
article.
We behave one of the reasons why
many fail in realizing what they might
from their swine herds, is that they de-
vote too much attention to the com field
and too little to the hog pasture. In
their eagerness To produce an abundance
Of feed for their hogs in autumn and
winter, they are negligent in providing
them with sufficient food during the
earlier portions of the year. Hogs that
are stinted during the summer will not
take on fat readily on the approach of |
cold weather. A good healthy growth
should be kept up all the season. Too
many farmers initiate to some extent, at |
least, the practice of the honest Hiber-
man, who having learned that ten bushels
OF corn would be sufficient to fatten his /
shoat, bought it, fed it all at once and 1
sent for the butcher to come next day.
They work early and late in their corn
fields, the product of which is mainly
designed for their hogs in the fall; while
their hungry pigs run squealing about in
a seanty pasture with hardly weed to
satisfy their hunger, or a drop of water
to slake their thirst.
Now the truth is, an acre of clover TO
be fed off in June is worth more in max
ing pork than an acre of corn that is to
be devoured in November. The first can
be produced by little labor, while the lat
Ter is only raised at the expense of pa
.ient and continued toll. The grunting
hog delights in fat pastures no less than
he bleatingslamb and the lowing COW.
Pure cold water is grateful TO the one
Is to the other. In fact the hog has
greater need of it than either of the 9TH
II animals, because he requires a hath
very day, and would takeit too if he had |
he facilities.
Many farmers who are in the habit of
attcning their old horses and young steers
" turning them into a good pasture, well
Implied with water, seem to be unaware
hat the hog is grazing animal, and that
le, too, could gain flesh if treated in the
anne way.
August is ordinarily hard month for
ogs; the coming August threatens to be
severe. The hog pasture, un
ass 1t is of unusual size, is likely to be-
ONE short and much of the ground rooted
yer. The soil is often parched; the We
citation dried up; the water scarce, and | G
othing abundant but heat and flies. At
lch time of all times, the hog requires
ttention. Generally we have had an
Guidance of corn to feed out at this
JASON; but the present year the majority {
farmers have seen the bottom of their
1rn cribs at this early day. Don't think
lat your pigs will grow standing on
md bank and looking through fence on
field of corn that will ripen in October
be hog is not an imaginary animal, and I
he was he could not live so long on
Dpe.
If you have not already made provision T
II supplying your hogs with food during q
rs part of the season, give attention to {
1t now. A crop of peas, if sown even
this late day, viii be ripe early in the
onth of August. Two bushels sown
'oadcast on an acre of well prepared
nd, should produce at least thirty bush
5 of shclled peas, 10 say nothing of \
IDS and vines. =,
For growing swine in the warm season | II
the year there are few kinds of food | 3,
at will compare with peas. They do 81
IT need TO be harvested-the hogs will
} that-will eat them if they arc not too
y, stalks, leaves and all. If peas will
rm less fat than corn, they will produce c
ore flesh; and that is what is want d at :
C period that precedes fattening. They 7
C easy to raise where the soil and eli 2
ate is suitable for them; do not exhaust
e soil like most crops; and come in at c
St the time they are most needed. In t,
ngland, where it is impossible 10 raise L
I'm, farmers rely largely on peas to fat e
L their hogs; while in Canada, where
ey can raise very fair corn, they hold
at more hog food can be raised from an J
re of peas than from an acre of corn. y
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