Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-08-07


pne raise cotton and small grain, another
corn and bacon, a third small grain and
neat cattle. BY this method an inter
trade would spring up among ourselves
by which the entire community would be
benefited. But to the present questions:
aThe best Hog" do not know that /
can say anything upon the subject, with
which some of you, at least, are not al
ready better acquainted. However,, I
will state my views, and if any present
can present better breed, or better
plan of treatment, 1 certainly shall go
away better informed, and, consequently,
better armed againt the evils to which
hog raising is subject.
I have experimental with the Essex,
the Chester White. Irish Grazer, Berk-
shire, and the common Pine Woods Hog,
and among them all find that certain
quantity of Indian Corn every evening
in winter and Spring, and alternate
evenings in summer is requisite to keep
them on their feet. I find also that color
has great deal to do with hogs in this
climate; it would seem that white hog
would thrive better here in the summer
than black one, as white reflects the
suns heat, while black absorbs it, but
such is not the case. Whether the white
hog reflects heat, or the black absorbs it
1 am unable to say, but this I do know:
that white hog is more subject to dis
eases of the skin, while the black is al
most entirely exempt. I have seen q
hog with black ear and a white ear,
and while the black ear was entirely
exempt from disease of any kind, the
white ear was covered with mango
therefore, as to color, I prefer black
hog. For hardness, prefer the Irish
Grazier; it being mostly black hog,
combines two good qualities. For
plumpness and smallness of bone, I prefer
the Berkshire. A cross between the two
I think, gives us the best hog which the
South has reared. Hogs require food
food and care. They should be sheltered
in winter, fresh litter given them often,
and the old one removed to prevent YER
min. They should be managed so as to
pig in the latter part of summer, or the
first of autumn; those dropped in the
spring are very hard to raise. But, gen.
tlemen, without attention the best breed
of hogs are utterly worthless. I believe
in man making speciality of his bust
ness, no matter what it is; he will there
by become an adept in it, and the more
he learns of it, and the more attention he
pays to it, the better it will pay him
There are not in the whole range of pur-
suits which farming includes, or of which
it consists, specialities more widely dis
similar than the production of cotton and
meat. They are as far assunder as the
Poles. Neither is dependent upon the
other; and it would be almost forcing
nature to make them so-by which I
mean purchasing food for the hogs by
the sale of the cotton produced. This is
the reason why we have generally failed
in raising hogs. Cotton takes up all our
attention for nine months in the year.
The same is the case with the hog; one
or the other must suffer, and that one
generally is the hog. 1t takes corn to
make hogs, no matter what the bread
may be; and he who expects to raise his
meat without expenditure in food will be
most sadly disappaointel. Every thing
in nature from which man may extract
wealth or even competency, requires q
certain compensation.
To get more done, We must pay our
laborers. To produce good crops we
must feriilize t',e soil and keep it in good
tilth; and to produce good animals we
must feed literally.
"The life of the flesh is the BLOOD"
and the constituent of the blood is in the
food. / verify believe that if we paid
half the attention to swine and corn that
we do to cotton, bacon would be as plen-
iful here as in almost any other part of
the globe, and until we do this our noses