The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-05-12

EARN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hog Raising in tha South.

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farmers that bacon or pork raised
sxclutively on corn in the cotton
States costs more than Western
bacon; that is, one acre in cotton
will pay for more meat than can
be raised on three acres Of corn.
; But "hog and hominy" we must
have, and that raised ut home, or
die psnpers. Let us cast about
and see if we cannot raise our
bacon on very little corn. Our
land will produce from seven to
twenty bushels Of corn per acre,
and even at these low figures We
should make plenty. Oats we can
make from Eve TO twenty bushels
per acre, with no cultivation ex-
cept sowing. Rice We can make
from thirty to fifty bushels per
acre. What grain can the North
or West SOW to beat this i? These
cereals might furnish all the grain
we need feed. Our genial climate
produces vegetables ia eud'ess
profusion, and with the common
rough turnip and long collard, we
can furnish our hogs with all the
vegetable food necessary for two
of our severest months. viz p. JAN
uary and February. Land is
plenty and cheap, aud each farmer
should appropriate few acres to
fruit. A few Hicks mulberry
trees, which will furnish berries in
large quantities from April till
August; some plum trees, afford
ing plums from May till November;
peaches from June till November;
apples from June till November.
An orchard well stocked with the
above named fruit, the number of
acres to correspond with the num-
Der of hogs kept, with the run of
the oat field. together with patch
o: early speckled peas, will carry
the hogs along very we'll until
corn is housed, when they should
have access to the field to gather,
or finish gathering, the pea crop.
BY the middle of October we
should have sweet potato crop,
to correspond with the number Of |
hogs. to let them gather for them
selves. The mich COWS or beef |
cattle may be turned into the DO,
tato field few days in advance of |
the hogs, to NOW off the leaves
and vines. which are rich and |
nutritious forage. Our poor pine
lands will make, by little manur-
ing, from one to three hundred
bushels OF sweet potatoes to the |
acre. What can the Northwest |
plant to equal our sweet po-
tato as hog food. acre for acre,
coming in, as it does, just at tie
right time TO fatten our pork hogs
for Strengthening in December
The pindar, gouber, chufa and
the Jerusalem artichoke are all ex-
cellent crops for feeding and fat
tening hogs, and every farmer who
undertakes to raise his own bacon
ct the South should cultivate
either one or all of the above
named crops, as they will remain
in the field without gathering until
April, perfectly sound, afiording
the very richest pasture and the
most nutritious food that it is pos
sible to feed hogs upon, they at
tending to themselves in every
particular, giving the owner no
trouble for four months. Should
this food run short in consequence
OF short crop or too great q num-
Der OF hogs for the land planted,
the hogs must have some corn.
Cation seed boiled may lie fed to
some advantage. Collards, ruta-
bagas and early turuips may be
given both raw and cooked, to
save corn, until mulberries and
plums come in.
The orchard should contain the
mulberries and plums; apples
succeeding each other from June
till November; peaches in the
same way. I prefer an orchard
containing the above fruit to an
orchard exclusively Of peaches or
apples. as some years our peach !
crop is q failure, some years the
apple fails, but / never have known
III to fail. The orchard should be
q few acres of woodland.
containing. springs Of water, that
he hogs may have free access
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