Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-25
NASHVILLE FOR HOG-RAEBING
PURPOSES.


Since the Mayor has deci1ed to encourage
hog-raising in the capital of the State of
Tennessee, it may not be ont of place to
say that very much Of the profits to accrue
from this, branch of industry will depend
on economical feeding, breeding, and saw
ing of manure. Nashville has many adj
vsntages as hcg-lot, especially in regard
to springs, brooks and creeks, and many
basins for cooling fat swine as they walow
in mud and filthy water. We have Inquired
the price of sound old corn as selling from
wagons in the city, and also the price paid
for good pigs and shoats in the market.
Our knowledge Of the number Of pounds
Of corn well cooked in mush it takes
to make a pound of hog meat enables
us to assure the reader that hog-raising.in
Nashville can be made very profitable
business. It calls for no expensive store
room or house room of any kind, such as
comm ssion houses, tradesmen, merchants,
mechanics, and manufacturers must own
or hire. A SOW, with twenty pigs told how
rich the land was about Rome, and was
prophecy of the certain growth and great
ness of the External City" No other
quadruped stock multiplies Its numbers so
rapidly as the much abused hog. Make
Nashville into a decent hog lot,
and any amount of money and
manure may be made within its limits.
We nope that neither bis Honor the
Mayor, nor the Vor Poput will insist on
conducting our municipal hog-fsLtening bus
mess in way to produce tie maximum of
nuisance with the minimum of profit. As
farmers in New York and other States find
good profit in working up the milk of p
090 COWS in single cheese and butter fac
tory by combination, so the owners OF q
600 hogs in Nashville (more OF less) by put
ting their stock into judicious company
can realize ten dollars in profit where they
now receive one. Hog-rsising before the
food was not farther in the background
than it is in this city. There
should he some progress. Good
ham and bacon have a well known
cash value, and every waste material about |
q kitchen, that hog will eat, has money |
value. Why, then, not reduce this bog |
feeding matter to system? 1t seems to |
be assumed that there is no profit in raising |
pigs for the poor man, unless his pigs and |
children play together on the same side |
walk or vacant lot, and in the same mud
puddle. Does the Mayor regard this quad
rupedsl and bipedal association rs essen
tia, in money-making point OF |
view? or for the highest attsinable
improvement of city-rsised children? |
Nothing probably would be easier than to
make from one to five million dollars ayear |
ia Nashville by simply Transforming veg
etable matter into good meat and condensed
milk fo- expectation. But no fertiliziDg
plant-food must be allowed to run into the
Cumberland river to breed mosquitoes, as
is now done. This prodgious waste of the
precise things that form cur daily bread |
and meat will finally bankrupt the city.
Its intelligent business men ought to see |
that his practice is killing all the land that
sends any agricultural staple to Nash
villa. Without fail restitution TO
the soil, removing crops is robbery.
TIE demand for choice hog meat is so large
that it's manufacture in this city can be
carried on to all extent which will PERMIT
the introduction of advanced science ard
OF all new economies, Most farmers on
the old plan of feeding hogs ard wasting
manure, give dire city and indirectly eight
pounds of corn for one Of meat; where's,
direct experiments have proved time and
sgain hat four pounds will attain the same
result. When corn sells at s. barrel
in Nashville, as it now does,
what is the raw material worth
which will make q barrel OF corn?
Not many corn. growers and hog-raisers in
our city or county have carefully studied
this simple question. Again, when corn is
worth a cant a pound, bow cheap can q
scientific farmer, or any one who under
stsnds his business, produce first class pork,
beef and mutton? If EashyilIeis to con-
tinue Veritablelhog pasture, there should be
At least one agricultural school in the city,
not to teach Latin and Greek, as st Cor
nell University, but the useful arts snG
sciences that psrtain to the manufacture Of
meat and saving of manure.
In these hard times, it may be profitable to
study production in it, elementary prinei-
pies. We have q navigable river at our
doors to bring grain and all other sto *
ICED chesply into the city. Railways do the
same. Fertilizers may he distributed by
he same means. if hay, fodder, straw,
'oots and Tgcain are too high for profitable
Use, it is our own fault, because we unwit-
ingly kill the country goose that lays eggs
If gold. Cheap production fOrbi3s our shame ,
ess waste of hog manure, which tend to '
produce at once dear provisions, heavy doc
or bills, and no employment for the po,r.
The poor man needs both health and en- ,
very things which bad city
takes away from him, The ,
ich man wants responsible tenants to rent
lis houses and give him good income; .
mt the patrons of sickness, and the viola
ors of Natures laws, destroy business, his
ents are unpaid, although taxes come on 7
louses and lots as sure as grass grows in !,
orn field.