The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-26

which partnership lasted but
short time. Ny broth, drew Out,
1t which time the Essex hog was
very much in favor in my neigh
Dorhood and we having never heard 4
Of such hog, were very anxioas
TO see them and after seeing them I
was more than anxious to have
and Try them, they were SO pretty
and so easy to keep fat. My ex-
perience with them was of very
short duration. With all care we
very seldom could get SOW to +
have more than one or two litters
of pigs and then very few in mum
Der, to pigs. Six | believe is
the largest litter / ever heard of an
Essex SOW narrowing at one time.
Besides they make poor mothers
and very poor suckers. After far
rowing one or two filters they be-
come non breeders, will come in
heat regularly and be served but
never get with pigs, at least that
was our experience with them and
the chief reason we abandoned
them and another reason was they
wese not large enough. ! will say
one thing in favor of the Essex
hog, they are the easiest to fatten
AID will keep fat on less feed than
any other breed of SWINE that | |
have ever tried. In 1868 my Ia
Their sent to Kentucky to purchase
a Chester White from Mr.. Scott.
When they arrived / thought now
we had what we had been looking
for for 80 long a Understanding
large and fine. We kept them two
or three years, but soon found that
the Chester white was not the hog
for me in that day and time. The
color in the first place was objec-
tionable; End, TOO subject to mango ;
3rd and lastly to long in % aturing.
Becoming somewhat dishearLened
with hogs, as | could not give them
proper attention and 60 to school
too, / abandoned them for severa
years. On my return home from
school / found on the farm lot oil
thoroughbred sernbs, and though,
after all they would do; there was
not ID UGH in the breed of hogs any
way. But upon getting acquainted
: with an Ohio farme who had lately
, moved to Tennessee and brongh
with him what ne called the Po-
land-Cnina hog and after visitin,
him several thu ca and hearing hin
talk | would try some more s,
called fine hogs. So l procured
/. several sows and a maze at hIgl
- prices from my Ohio friend.
. was perfectly delighted with then
= for a while. They grew to b
. very large, but after experimental!
:, with them while found severa
. objections to them; 1st, they wer
! coarse hog; 2nd, they were T.
= lazy to get around and hustle f.
= themselves. Wherever you fe
. them in the morning there's wher
= you would find them at all hour
- Of the day and night too presume
- Bird and lastly, / do not conside
:. the bacon and ham meat from tn
y Poland. China near IS firm mea
!" as rom either of the above III en-
toned breeds. For lard alone
do not believe The Poland Chin
' can be surpassed by any breed, nc
!, even by my hobby, the Berkshire
"a And again / could not get them t
" mature as early as ! thought the
;. ought to. A friend and neighbo
- !, Of ours at that tina had procure
, some Berkshires and was boastin
:, Of the wonderful things he coul
!" make them do at a certain az
= with certain amount of food.
~ was OF course interested an
- watched him, both as the care h
} took of them and the feed and 500
found out that the black dish O
: short face, white points, Berkshir
- pig was the pig for me. | believ,
4 have been handling swine alto
= gether about TWEEN ty-four years an
- my experience teaches me that th
- Berkshire is by all means the bes
:, hog for all purposes that / hav
, ever handled. They grow larg
: enough and are easily kept, bein
an ,active industrious hog in pre-
= viding for itself. / have ofte
20 been asked the question wbs
breed of hog considered the mos
profitable to raise in Tennessee
., My answer invariably was the on
- that you can get the most none
- out of. My experience is til
ie Berkshire with the same amount c
:, food and attention. believe the
)" are less liable to the different ho
: diseases. l have BEEN handln
m hogs, as ] have said before abou
- twenty -four years and l don't r.
= member of ever tossing but tire
u head of grown hogs by any diseas
~ during the disease time. Do no
"A understand me as elaimins
: my hogs as disease proof, for d
:. not. attribute my good forum
: to my we'll watered farm and IN
:. untiriug efforts to keep them clea
- Of al nits, lice etc. My expend
lures for medicine for hogs durip
;, the twenty-four years will not ex
coed $500 excepting coal oil, cor
peras, sulphus and pine tar, which
| use freely. / believe that one
|, halt the hog diseases and deaf
are caused from close copfnemenr
II pond water and pure neglect.
;. give all my hogs, except hoais, tn
!, run OF 20 acres of woods pastur
! that has large quantities of ma
timber, such as white and red oak
~ beech, hickory and walnut, the la.
- err hogs will not or cannot eat unit
= they have been frozen. This pa.
ture as well as boar lots has last
ing stream of spring water run
ming through them. My broo
sows are kept up for short tim
during farrowing time and unit
pigs are weaned when they are bre,
and turned back in pasture lots
Pigs are kept up and fed in sna
10 los until 6 or 10 months old, ther
\ if not sold they are either put il
the smoke house or turned out will
'e the herd. As | have given go
n my idea of the different breeds O
G swine that / have handled in th
:, State of Tennessee, | do not wis
q to get into any controversy in max
{ ing this statement. They may d.
r. better for others In the state OF
g elsewhere. This is merely my ex
: perience with the hogs. l ma,
d not have had the btst strains &
e them but | thought / did. / pal,
p anannh fnr thann I Mill nou on