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barley meal be distributed over a longer period of time, there will be a 
less increase in live-weight, the animal expending a larger proportion 
of this given quantity of food in respiration and perspiration; and the 
period may be so extended that there will be no increase in live-weight. 
Jt is seen, therefore, how important early maturity and rapid fattening 
of stock are to the pecuniary interest of the grower. 
Experiments with six pigs.—Mr. J. 8. Griffin, of Levant, Maine, reports 
his experience in raising pigs during a period of twenty months. April 
28, 1868, he purchased two pigs four weeks old, and fed them through 
the summer with as much milk as they would drink and a little corn 
meal. In September he commenced feeding boiled potatoes mashed with 
meal, with milk for drink, continuing this diet until about the middle of 
October, after which he fed scalded meal and milk until December 1, 
when the pigs were slaughtered. They were then about eight months 
old, and weighed, when dressed, 382 and 386 pounds respectively. 
Two pigs purchased in October, 1868, at the age of four weeks, and fed 
in like manner, were slaughtered when seven months old; their dressed 
weight being 240 and 260 pounds respectively. Two pigs were pur- 
chased May 14, 1869, at the age of five weeks, and were fed with 
milk, meal, and boiled potatoes until September 20, after which they were 
fed .with dry corn and meal, with milk for drink. Their weight, 
when slaughtered, was 250 and 300 pounds, respectively. One of 
the pigs was lame during the summer, and would probably have taken 
on more flesh but for this cause. Receipts: Amount of pork from six 
pigs, 1,818 pounds; worth, at 15 cents per pound, $272 70. Expen- 
ses: six pigs, $28; seventy-two bushels of meal, $79 20; small potatoes, 
$10; total, $117 20. Profits, $155 50. Mr. Griffin advises that pigs 
be kept in a dry yard and a clean pen, with access to clean water. 
Daxperiments in planting rice.—The following is a report of an experi- 
ment made in 1869, by Mr. Henry Shanklin, of Pendleton, South Carolina, 
in planting “ goiden rice,” on a plot containing 2,000 square yards, or a 
little more than two-tifths of an acre: he plowed the ground thoroughly, 
cross-plowed and arrowed; then with a bull-tongue plow laid out rows 
eighteen inches apart, and planted April 6, using seventeen quarts of 
seed, covering and pressing down with a hoe, and tracking on the seed 
with the feet. In the middle of May, after hoeing once and taking out 
the grass with his fingers, he let on water, which he kept flowing 
through the rows until July 1. He then turned off, hoed, afterward 
turned on the water again, and kept it running through the rows until 
the rice began to turn, when the water was gradually drawn off. The 
erop was thrashed by hand, and carefully cleaned and measured. The - 
yield was 564 bushels in the hull, weighing 45 pounds to the bushel, 
being at the rate of 1363 bushels per acre. 
Cotton seed, crushed and uncrushed.—Mr. Van de Wurt states that, in 
December, 1868, he measured 10 bushels of cotton seed, which he re- 
duced to 9 bushels by thrashing, and after sprinkling with lime packed 
away in a close place. At the time of planting corn, selecting two acres, 
he experimented on one acre with 43 bushels of the crushed seed, (equiva- 
lent to 5 bushels uncrushed,) dropping it near the corn. On the adjoin- 
ing acre ke used 5 bushels of uncrushed seed, well rotted. The result 
was that the acre which received the crushed seed yielded 30 bushels of 
corn, while that which received uncrushed seed yielded only 19 
bushels. Two acres of cotton also were dressed with the same quantity of 
crushed and uncrushed seed, applied in the furrow at the time of bed- 
ding. The result from the crushed seed was 1,400 pounds of seed cot- 
ton per acre; from the uncrushed, 1,000 pounds per acre, 
