A TALK ABOUT PIGS. 



yard manure to follow the new fangled fancies of plowing in green crops, using mineral 

 manure, &c. lie accordingly tells them that green crops, under such circumstances, are 

 not worth their attention, which ought to be devoted to the permanent enrichment of their 

 lands by the use of animal manure. And the advice is the best of advice. We look upon 

 barn yard manure as the solid bullion, green crops, gypsum, lime, &c., as the paper cur- 

 rency of husbandry. But in man}'- parts, we were going to say most parts of the country, 

 the bullion is scarce — is only to be had in very limited quantities — so that not a half or 

 third of the farm lands can be well manured with it. In such a condition of things a 

 farmer who wishes to mend his land and not lose his profit, will, we think, occasionally 

 employ the paper currency to maintain and restore the credit of certain fields that would 

 come to a beggared condition, if they had to wait for the bullion. Barn yard manure, M'e 

 say with Mr. Gowen, before everything, but if we can't get enough of it, then we must 

 not despise what the experience of so many good husbandmen has proved of decided bene- 

 fit — green crops ploughed in. Ed. 



A TALK ABOUT PIGS. 



BY L. F. ALLEN, BLACK ROCK, N. Y. 



" Pigs! And what, T should like to know, have pigs to do with horticulture?" says 

 an intelligent reader. Why a good deal to do with it, when a sharp-nosed street grunter 

 of the Alligator tribe creeps under your fence, or through your gate, which some straggler 

 has, perhaps, left half way open, and roots up a fine growing border of Dahlias just get- 

 ting into bloom, or a bed of choice Tulips in the full opening of their luxuriant colors; or, 

 in a better way, the domestic, quiet dam, and half a dozen little chubby responsibilities 

 which you have turned into your plum orchard to destroy the Curculio's which so inces- 

 santly murder your fruit. In this last employment, your well-bred pig is a useful crea- 

 ture, and well tended, and properly secured from mischief, is rather an interesting animal 

 than otherwise. 



Pigs have been wonderfully improved in England within the last fifty years, and Eng- 

 land is the country, except in fine wooled sheep, where the best of all our domestic farm 

 stock is obtained. Lei it be known, also, that many of our merchants and gentleman who 

 live in cities, and have fine country places, have shown much more spirit and liberality in 

 sending abroad, and getting such things for the improvement and benefit of the farmer, 

 than a thonsandof the very ftu-mers so benefitted would show of themselves, and who usually 

 give little thanks, even while acknowledging the benefit, to those who confer it upon them. 

 For myself, however, I intend to make an exception to this truth, in the case now in 

 hand. 



Among my friends and acquaintances in New-York, is a merchant, an Englishman, but 

 who has complimented the land of his adoption in the highest possible way, by marrying 

 an American wife, and cultivating a beautiful little farm in Newtown, on Long-Island, 

 where he resides. Tliis gentleman has a taste for fine animals, and next to his carriage 

 horses, nothing composing his outside family gives him so much pleasure, as to look upon 

 his beautiful Short-horn cows, of which he has several, his Middles-ex pigs, and his Dork- 

 Is. In retuining a visit of his of some months previous, I last winter drove over 

 my fiiend, and spent a night at his most agreeable home. Being an active business 



