The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-25

Some Of our correspondents says. Give
us something practical on the manage
ment, feeding and fattening of hogs, cat
tie sheep &C
Well, we propose in this article, to
got rich himself, and, i'm the meantime,
made his pour farm rich; and how the
Something can be done in almost any
given locality.
Our neighbOr. ", i'm Kentucky,
owned a farm of 15O or 200 acres, in cul-
ti~yation. 1t was situated or the divide,
between what was called the rich blue
grass andstfe poor oak lands, considera-
Div broken and comparatively poor.
He raised a sufficiency of all kinds of
stock, grains. and grasses for home uses.
His specialities, however, were tobacco
and hogs. The variety of tobacco grown
by cur neighbor, was q cinnamon color
ed wrapped leaf, distinguished for its SIZE
and the fineness of its stem and fibre. 1t
was mostly used for making slime cut"
and was then and still is known the
world OYER, as "Mason County Tobacco"
The extraordinary care with which he
managed and s'handled' his crop of to-
baccO, made him famous as a tobacco
grower, and he could always sell for a
cent more per pound than his neighbOrs.
But we do not propose to tell you about
his tobacco growing, but about his sys-
TEN of hog feeding and rotating. lie
generally sold from n to two hundred
Of the latest hogs in the county. each
fall, and at the highest figures. He al
ways had a field of clover, on which he
grazed his hogs through the Summer, and
which we will for convenience, call No.
l. No =. is a field of Rye. When the rye
became thoroughly ripe and straw fallen
he would take his hogs FROM the clover
and turn them into the rye field. No. )
! is a field of cord intended to be fed down
to his hogs. BY the time the corn was
| sufficiently matured for feeding purposes,
| the rye was pretty well used up, and the
hogs already fat enough for market.
In this condition they are removed to
| the cornfield to take on what Missourian>
| call big fat" and they did it eifectually.
A little before they finish the cornfield
| he would SOW it dow in rye at the rate
| Ola bushel and q half of seed to the
acre. The roofing of the hogs and the
| rains were all that was needed to cover
| the seed sufficiently, and the hogs were
| removed and sold before any seriOu;
damage was done to the yOungry Thi;
was intended for No. > of the following
year. Thus it was that Mr.. N--raiSed
better hogs and sold them for a better
price than any man in his section, and
thus he gradually grew rich.
But now about making his poor farm
rich. Let us look again at the rye field,
No 2, fed down to the hogs. That was
No 3 last year, and had on it before be-
ing sOwn in rye a heavy coat of corn
stalks all trampled down and mangled
by the hogs, so that it would rot easily.
| And all the droppingS of l50 hogs have
fed upol it--and which is said to be the
very best animal manure. In addition
to this, it has the straw of the heavy crop
of rye, in the best possible condition for
rOtting, together with the super-added
dropping OF another large herd of hogs.
In the meantime. the rye left upon the
ground has sprung up, and furnish a
magnificent winter pasture for his calves.
colts and other loose stock, which is of
great value. In the spring. in good sea-
son. this was I'll turned under, and the
field,1which we will call No. /, planted
in corn fOl his crib next winter. In this
way our friend rotated from field to field
year after year, got rich himself and
made his farm rich III the meantime.
In all this we have something emf
nently practical, which comments itself
to the common sense of every farmer.
The system involves no extra labor or
expense, and its results are infallibly GER
tain. If Mr.. N gradually grew rich
by it. when the gross price of pork rang
ed from two to Two and a halt cents,
what would it do for you at the high
prices had for that article during the
several years past.--Hestera and South
err Stock journal. MericO. No.