122 THE FARMER'S MAXUAL. 



rearing hogs, is perhaps the most extraordinary ; and 

 ought to confer on the individuals who have been in- 

 strumental in introducing and promoting, in our coun- 

 try, breeds so capable of improvement, the proud 

 title of Public Benefactors. This remark occurred 

 on learning, that, during the last week, one of our 

 merchant victuallers purchased no less than sixty thou- 

 sand weight of pork, principally raised in New-Hamp- 

 shire and Vermont. We saw about thirty of the 

 hogs which composed the purchase^ and which, for 

 whiteness of flesh, smallness of bones, thinness of 

 skin and ears, and plumpness of body, could not be 

 exceeded. Some of them, we learn, before they were 

 slaughtered, could scarcely see, were unable to rise 

 upon their hind legs, and were fed in a recumbent 

 posture. We were told by the drovers, that a farm- 

 er, in one of the upper towns in New-Hampshire, had 

 in his pen twenty pigs, which, when slaughtered, are 

 supposed to weigh eight thousand weight ; and that 

 one of his neighbours has twelve others, which are 

 supposed to weigh six thousand weight." 



From the last Massachusetts Agricultural Repository 

 and Journal. 



" One of the most successful experiments in Agri- 

 culture that we have ever known, is that of the Alms* 

 house Farm, in Salem, which is under the caie of Mr. 

 Paul Upton. 



" This farm consists of about 35 acres, (as we are 

 informed,) and was, two years since, in a state of na- 

 ture, and very rough land. It has been brought too, 

 and the produce during the year 1818, was as fol- 

 lows, viz. pork killed, weighed seven thousand nine 

 hundred and sixty pounds. Twelve live pigs, sold 

 for thirty-two dollars. On hand, fifty-seven pigs. 

 Corn, four hundred bushels. Potatoes, two thousand 

 two hundred and fifty bushels. Turnips, nine hun- 

 dred bushels. Three tons of squashes. Fifty ton- 



