446 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
eight hogs, averaging 528.87 pounds each, dressed weight. The average 
gross weight was 611 pounds. These hogs were twenty-ene months oid. 
Mr. John Ferris, of Lawrence, New York, states that four nine-months’ 
pigs were killed in that place in 1869, the dressed weight of which was 
400 pounds, 401 pounds, 410 pounds, and 450 pounds, respectively. 
Another, eight months old, weighed, dressed, 405 pounds. 
Mr. D. J. Packer, of Woodbury, New Jersey, who remarks that he 
resides in the village and is not a farmer, gives a statement showing 
the profit realized by him in raising four pigs, purchased January 18, 
1869, and slaughtered December 11, 1869, having been penned during 
the entire period. Their age, when killed, was fifteen months and nine- 
teen days. ‘The gross receipts were: 
1,963 pounds of pork, at $14 per hundred .....-.....---. 0.222. see cee sccewens $274 82 
Privewimed for Dhenanurpe..b oust. - dec. fs --eee Bote 2. eee eee 40 00 
SU Gied WAMLP TECCLV OO 2. 6 vo asso ance = sy 000 foe kepaneaaaad ees tin ee 314 82 
Expenses were as follows: 
DPiguin pips wb alo each .. ono. Re a Gece bys tees - chn- tsp due we---.-- $60 00 
Coie ee ier sete eaten Sain me)= eee woo ae scamlseinle cwite = ow lalvaeae 2 00 
Biliiined seers ses ee sete esl ieee. wo Sok See ELE ee 27 25 
fiogiwhesse, (Cuandler’s SCraps)).cos). cece ~pea csc dits te osers te oe enee 28 36 
EXOMNODVOLIEO COLDS aco. ono kere eee Sore cone cake core = eee 17 60 
RS EC UUR OES eos) nico > Scie et cnn a oes peer peace scence 9 00 
AS huskelsoLcorh, rounds. b iis. SRR RL OR 8 51 20 
Mopalicosh=. ic: 6-' = Bebe SESS seek Cece on te oe 195 41 
Rubies AOU TONG O8s tay opeteee - be - => === cen == conn heen ee eee 119 41 
Raising hogs in Colorado.—A. Colorado farmer urges more attention 
to the raising of hogs in that Territory. He says bacon, hams, and 
shoulders have averaged there more than 30 cents per pound for years, 
and that grain, at an average of 23 cents per pound, as it has been for 
two years past, can nowhere else find so good a market as in the pig- 
pen. Hisexperience is in favor of using early spring pigs. He feeds 
them on milk and offal from the kitchen and garden until they outgrow 
the supply, when he adds bran and shorts to the milk, letting it sour. 
His pigs thrive wonderfully on this fare, much better than on corn alone 
or any other dry grain. He had many pigs that‘on December 1 would 
dress 180 pounds each; while pigs from the same litter, fed on dry 
grain at a mill, would not dress half as much. For about two weeks 
before killing he gives them all the corn they will eat. 
THE DAIRY. 
Dairy farming in Vermont.—Mr. Nahum Brigham, of Bakersfield, Ver- 
mont, reports to the Department that he commenced the dairy season of 
1869, April 1, with three cows, the number gradually increasing, as they 
came in, to fifteen cows at the middleof May. From the first-mentioned 
date to the close of the season, December 1, he made sixty tubs, or 3,000 
pounds of butter, which was soldat the rate of 45 cents per pound, amount- 
ing to$1,350. Heraised ten calves, worth $100, and 1,000 pounds of pork, 
which he sold for $130; total, $1,580, not including supplies for the 
family. The cows were kept up till June 1, previous to which date 
they were fed on hay, Indian meal, and sour milk. From that time 
they received only pasture, until October 1, when they were again 
put up and fed in the same manner as in the spring. The total cost of 
the meal was $75. .The cows were of “native” breed, and were raised 
by Mr. Brigham. Their ages ranged from six years to seventeen years, 
averaging eleven years. 
