The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1874-06-26

~ - lbs TWO hundred acres OF IanC
fenced. He keeps the usual numbe,
OF horses and mules necessary on q
place OF that size. He keeps them up
the year around, as everv farmer
ought to do. They have no claims on
the woods for pasture, consequently
ne Is at no extra expense on their ac-
count. Mr.. A. has on his place dur.
ing the year from fifty to seventy-fve
head Of hogs Of all sizes and ages,
running in The woods. He feeds them
little every day, we would say, a
peck Of corn per day, or ninety bush
els during the year Towards the end
Of the year he gathers up those that
have survived. IF he has been lucky.
ne may get eight head that will do to
iatten. What became Of the balance /?
Ihe Old song is, they have died by
natural or artificial means. Ninety
dollars worth Of corn gone, eight
hogs, q few old sows and pigs left to
start with another year. The eight
hogs are now to be tattened. 1t takes
eight bushels of corn each to fatten
hem-sixty-four bushels, or sixty-four
dollars; cost Of corn during the year.
one hundred and fifty. four dollars, 10
say nothing about your time and
trouble with them. The hogs, when
killed, weigh one hundred and fifty
pounds each. You have twelve hun.
dred pounds Of pork; at the full price
Df ten cents per pound, you have 1920
worth Of meat You see he has lost
s34, besides his trouble, labor and ex-
pense for medicine for his hogs. So
much for the range htgs. II
Now, we will suppose Mr., A. has |
ne good brood sow Of improved stock. q
1e keeps her in small pasture or lot,
eeds her half the amount Of corn
brough the year. He feeds her with
he slops and refuse from the kitchen,
nd raises eight pigs from her, one
ear old at killing time. The supe-
or attention paid them has made Ia
lem fine hogs; they average at least NJ
70 hundred pounds each; this gives = =
I'm 1000 pounds of choice meat, y
hich has not cost him as much bv a
le-third as his range meat. You see be
} has lost nothing by the stock law ha
far, but has made money by it. q
r. A. has twenty-five head Of cattle, fiv
all ages and sizes-five of them
Itch cows, that will give him one cr,
lion of milk each per day part of tb,
9 year; he gets one beef-very nm
'ry beef it is-during the year. lay
e balance of the stock stroll over tin1
woods, occasionally getting sprig nei
grass, but living mainly on the va fail
US kinds of bushes that grow thick cot
II the woods. During the year a ion
ton Of them die with poverty wi
ne of them die from double.barrel civ,
t-guns, for getting over some of the abo
sorry fencds in the neighborhood ver
ne Of them come home full of shot ont
lie crippled, some with an eye shot onl,
ali Of which is a great vexation rial
loss to Mr.. A. If he was COM Is II;
ed to keep his stock on his own eve,
!, ne would make some nice pas espe
lots and sow them with clover r
grasses, and then select the best s;ro1
is mich COWS, two of which prop exec
attended to would give him more num
and better milk than six would our
IN the range, and he would get at at n
one good, fat beef every year. n,
le law question is the great bug able
that opposes the stock law. It aImo
s that every man wants a big has :
of more than worthless cattle In
ing over the woods-worthless to cotto
elf and an annoyance to his neigh once
The more of this stock he has ne NJ,
oorer he is. If he had hun noro r.
Of them they would be worthless,
) they would get fat enough for Sill