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is almost incredible how cheaply pork may be pro- 

 duced with a good breed of hogs, if well fed and well 

 managed. 



Kr. J. Sibley, of Wayne County, K Y., has re- 

 ported to the Country Gentleman, that four hundred 

 and twelve pounds of pork, made mostly from corn, 

 cost him twelve dollars and ninety-three cents, which 

 is a trine over three cents per pound. If the value 

 of the manure had been reckoned in this estimate, as 

 it ought to be, the cost of the pork would have been 

 between two and three cents per pound. 



Nathan G-. Morgan, of Union Springs, 1ST. Y., as 

 stated in Tucker's Annual Register, considers the 

 value of corn doubled by grinding the grain and scald- 

 ing the meal, and finds that, at five cents per pound 

 for pork, he gets one dollar per bushel for his corn. 



William Yan Loom, in a communication to the 

 Prairie Farmer, says that he has practised feeding 

 boiled corn, and is satisfied that one bushel thus pre- 

 pared is equal to two bushels fed raw. In one exper- 

 iment he found that three pounds of cooked corn gave 

 one pound of pork. 



Gates Henry, of Schuylkill County, Pa., has stated 

 in a prize article to the Agriculturist, that by feeding 

 his hogs fifteen to twenty bushels of corn each, he 

 has usually made the weight from four hundred to five 

 hundred pounds. He does not state that the whole 

 of this weight was produced by the corn exclusively, 

 yet it is evident that the corn was converted into pork 

 at a handsome profit, bringing the cost of the latter 

 to a low figure. 



