The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-05-04

A subscriber Of the Country Gentle
man, In Costa Rica, Central America,
writes an interesting letter, dated March
2sth, from which we give the following
extract. somewhat condensed:
The country having been IN revolution
the past year, i was impossible till now
70 renew m, subscription Tor the Country
( Gentleman. Hacienda al Cocal
i IN latitude 10 degrees north. Little
did ! think when boy on my fathers
bluegrass fields in kentucky, that I
should ever be a planter here. have
two partners who are railroad men. We
have cut down and put into cultivation
eighty acres of these mighty jungles, and
planted ~ our first specially 1900 cocoa
nut trees. As Jamaica negro says.
please God in five years we will have a
net income Of $4,000 per annum. In
the mean time. however. II is very inn
portanf 70 make the property self-sus-
tanning. kcntucky-like have "A fond
ness for pigs, and have imported Berk-
shire boar and SOW. The boar i not
what he should be- however, | have
crossed him with the sows Of the coun-
try-sows that in your country would
not sell for $3.50 a head. With these
disadvantages have sold half-brcd pigs
at ten months old. live weight, 222 lbs,
dressed POP lbs. | am quietly breeding
up lot of thoroughbred Bcrksh pigs.
with an eye that our railroad continues
70 the interior, which l. very rich in
coffee. cane, etc. am now selling
three-qnarter bred pigs, four months
old, AZ so. | try 10 convince these pco-
pie that unless they get a thoroughbred
male. the cross i useless; however. they
have their own ideas, and :. Dios no So
pcndc Zanzibar" Hereafter | will not
sell any but thoroughbred males. |
have slaughtered ten-months half-brcd
pigs weighing 265 pounds.
! feed roots altogether-that i. casa
De, a. Il i sometimes called, but the
plant i yucca (or sold in New York as
arrow-root-when refined
called Iapioca). feed this cooked
with pumpkins or bananas. or plantains. \
and last month found about two tons
OF sour flour, which | bought for 70 4
cents per lOopounds. and find my stock X
10 well upon this Cruel. have not one
breeding sow on my place that will not
make good pork tomorrow. Nv OBJ
lect J. 70 keep the sows a. fat rs posi-
Die They have a run Of 80 acres Of
cleared land, sea beach Of i-2 miles
q get crabs. etc.. and 800 feet back |
have a river 200 feet wide, perfectly salt
IN, consequently my pigs live greatly
ipon animal matter in the way ~ crah..
worms, etc. ! feed no corn; have no
,holera, kidney disease, or any other in
trinity, excepting the screw worm, which
very annoying among young pigs.
,ettlng into their navel. etc. when first
'orn. A little calomel and carboIic acid
Don fixes il. | have no deaths.
A. to chickens, ! am grading the White
seghorn on the common dunghill or
fowl. Nv success i aston
shing. sell no eggs for less than 70 /
ents per dozen; hens, $50 each: but
orn i worth 4 cents per pound. feed ,
roken corn, ground in one Of X. X. Al /
IN x Co.'S steel mills, given in the /
norning; unhulled rice in the middle
I the day, and nothing at night. OF
curse in my sugar cane. malanea. yuc- I
.. etc, there are large quantities Of ami I
ial matter. IN fine, nothing pays bet !
~ than my chickens. n
sowed one-eigth Of an acre Of Amcri-
an black-eyed peas; the result was l2G +
ounds, or l,o4s pounds to the acre; but :
range To say, they produced the fol- 4
wing, specimens Of which forward n
p. ], the original; No ?. black No. 3. h
No. A, very large. Will o
"a or some Of your correspondents in i,
'rm me if 1000 pounds Of peas To an Il
IRE i a fair crop in the United States? d
lso how IL il that from the original G
ack-eyed pea ! produced three varie- q
e.? am propagating the same en- II
rely apart, and am carefully watching a
c result. Y
Perhaps youhave other correspondents g
the tropics; II so, let me advise them p
y % introduce any Of the white breeds b.
pigs ! have Chester white sow. N
IN ten pigs: she i always blistered 81
ON the sun. Her pigs. / am sorry to Il
v, have 20 be treated every day for the u
rev worm. Although my cross II the IN
'rkshire boar with this sow gives better &
q more hair than the mother. still | pl
. satisfied that the white breed will not hi
in this latitude. "a
Ieli your friends that hog can he IN
ucated. As have fed mine 20 now 50
hand, with twelve sows "a pir). they III
We run Of - acres-fhc corn from III
? weeks old to full ripe. and sweet th
tatoes from recent planting 20 gather NJ
fimc--and my pigs do not touch pr
her the one or the other. simply be- to
i-c they have been raised on cooked m
n.
little by little hope to send for
IRE Of Your papers
These are hard people to convince