Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-01-13
ABOUT HOGS.


To the Editors Of the C.roHicle! ...
We receive your excellent paper
weekly, but we noticed quotation
from the Southern burmcr, in which
the writer does great injustice to the
Chester stock of hogs He speaks OF
this breed requiring all the nursing OF
lady's lap-dog, or he goes all to ear
and bone. But he acknowledges, il
well treated they will make large
hog in three years, and groaningly
enquiries Who can wait three years
for bacon?" suppose the writer new
er fattened nor saw Chester fattened,
but learned his painful theory from
some country gentleman, who raised
his Chester on pine roots sand fattened
on bitter mast against the middle of
January.
IT is now beginning to be UNDER
stood 10y good farmers that fiue stock
are not reared without feed. We have
had some eX perience with Berkshire's
and Cbesters, and must speak well Of
both, and know but little of others.
Allow me If you please to say word
jn defense OF the much slandered
Chester. This day we killed our brood
SOW. Since spayed she weighed $50 lbs.
one foot touching the ground aud the
balances rising, although run out to
their utmost extent. Last August 18th,
one year, she had I3 pigs lone dead
raised l., sold ore, fattened II, even
sized hogs that took on flesh remark
ably well, and in beauty we never had
them equalled before. Ten of them
were killed few weeks ago, the last
one to-day, all pretty well wintered
and fed until turned on clover, upon
which they live until harvest, then af-
ter the grain was reaDed they got what
was left. In the fall we were afraid
10 depend on bitter mast so as soon as
Grrn was in order we began to throw it
to them pretty freely in the ear; first.
class farmers have it ground and fed
ia dough or mHsh. The first ten /
Chesters we did not give particular to |
their weight. but since we killed them |
we saw the quotation in your paper |
from the Southern Furmer, which I
called our attention to this subject. /
The last one of the litter that was 4
killed was weighed, aged one year,
four months and seventeen DAYS,
weighed 400 pounds gross, even. Last
year We killed one that was plugged in
April, and killed in November, aged
less than eight months. which weigh
ed Pig pounds, neat. Year before last
we weighed tone that was plugged the
4th of March and killed about the 10th
of November, aged about g. months,
which weighed 253 pounds, gross.
These all had good ordinary keeping,
but if they had been under first-rate
keeping they, beyond all doubt, would
have reached much higher figures.
some Chesters have pretty large, pen
dant ears, almost a. erect as a Berk-
shire, though not quite 80 thin and
fine, nor Is their form quite so fine as
a first-class Berks hire.
We also fatteDed this fall number
Of Chester aud Berkshire- crossed,
and were highly pleased. We also
have the real Berkshire, and think
they are very fine. In short we think
our best stock NJ fine hogs fatten
quicker and take less corn to put them
in market, and hope that sensible
men will not waste their corn by feed
ing il to stock that will not near pay
so well
Messrs. Editors, ] never write for
papers, but ! send you this to use as
you please.
Yours truly,
CHESTER AND BERKSHIRE.