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industrious to make a good living off of good pasture. Tliey mature early, 

 have a small head, small ear, short neck, thick shoulder, long body and long 

 ham, and are capable of bearing more fat tliat any other kind we have liad 

 amongst us. They are familiarly known here as the "Warren county hog." 

 McGce of Butler county, drives no other kind of hogs , his droves liave aver- 

 aged him more than 410 pounds for several years in Cincinnati. This kind 

 may be liad in our neighborhood. 



The best method of putting up pork of which I have any knowledge, is, to 

 cut and salt your pork in the common way ; then make a brine strong as salt 

 can make it, and to each gallon of said brine add one pint of molasses, not for- 

 getting to put in a small parcel of salt petre. Cover the whole over with brine. 

 After your meat is sufficiently salted, hang it up and smoke it thoroughly with 

 hickory wood, then, when your hams are perfectly dry, (in commencement of 

 summer,) pack them away in barrels, in clean dry tan bark, black oak is prefer- 

 able ; have it fresh from the bark-mill. This process secures the hams against 

 skippers and against souring, and makes your meat more pleasant than any ever 

 eaten. The barrels should be headed up and put away in a cool and dry 

 situation. 



Bacon through the summer, in this county, has been from seven to nine 

 cents. Pork at this date, sells for five dollars per one hundred pounds. 



3. Potatoes. — You ask to know "the most profitable variety?" I make it my 

 study to select the best of everything I grow, both animal and vegetable. I 

 have tried the Irish-grays, the Mechanocks, the Pink-eyes and the Big-blues_ 

 The latter is as well tasted as either, grow much larger and the yield more 

 abundant. If you have no new ground for potatoes, turn up your oldest sod 

 and you will not fail to have a good yield, if you till well, and plant but four 

 eyes to a hill. Hills, eighteen inches by three feet. 



I take pleasure in communicating, and anticipate much more in reading your 



report. 



Respectfully, 



M. R. HULL. 



HENEY COUNTY. 



REPORT OF THE HENRY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Pi-esident of the State Board of Agricvlture : 



The undersigned, in pursuance of instructions from your 

 Board, respectfully submits the following report of the or- 

 ganization and operations of the Henry County Agricultu- 

 ral Society. 



