DOMESTIC AlflMALS. [Chap. I. 



2o2 lbs. com and cob meal, scalded, and gained 78 lbs. In the next 9 

 days they consumed 125 lbs. whole corn, boiled, and 128 lbs. of corn-cob 

 meal, scalded, and gaineil 57 lbs. 



"In the next days they consumed 2TSlbs. corn-cf)b meal, scalded, and 

 gained 70 lbs., making a gain in 27 days of 205 lbs. on a consumption 

 of 058 lbs. corn-cob meal, and 123 lbs. -whole corn. Assuming that 70 lbs. 

 of the cob-meal contains 56 lbs., or one bushel pure meal, we have 9| 

 bushels of pure meal and 2{ bushels whole corn, making a consumption of 

 11| bushels nearly, and a gain of 205 lbs. flesh; or 56 lbs. of pure meal, 

 scalded, made 17.41 11)S. of live weight. 



"The above surprising gain for food consumed was the result of very 

 careful feeding, clean and warm bedding, and a tight house. 



" RicuAKD TnATCiiEE, Darby, Pa." 



Thomas Iloag, of Somhanock, X. Y., has sent us a detailed statement of 

 the feeding of ten pigs, out of a litter of twelve from a native-breed yearling 

 sow, taken from her at seven weeks old, and fed till slaughtered, at forty 

 weeks old, with the following substances, with estimates of expense added : 



Pasture S3 00 



Wood used in boiling food 2 OO 



Extras 2 00 



Value of pigs at seven weeks old 30 00 



212.\ bushels of com, nt 75 cents 8159 38 



C3 bushels of oat», at 45 cents 28 35 



I'iiid for grinding 14 79 



13 bushels of small potiitoes, 12i cents. 1 63 



(> loads of pumpkins, at $1 G 00 



20.) ll>s. of carrots 1 00 Total ■ . . . .$248 15 



These hogs weighed, dressed, 4,066 pounds, and sold, 



(in 1853), at Lansingburg, N. Y., at $7 50 per cwt $304 95 



Rough fat, 175 lbs 17 60 



Total $322 45 



Total cost 248 15 



Balance S74 80 



This is the amount of profit, or, rather, pay for labor, and the spare milk 

 of four ordinary cows fed to them, and not estimated as above. 

 At six cents a pound the result would have been 



4.0GG Uk., at C cents $243 96 



Rough fat 17 50 



Total $261 46 



Cost 248 15 



Profit $13 31 



This certainly does not give a very flattering picture of the probable profits 

 of pork-making in this section of the country, where every kind of feed is 

 salable at higli prices. 



Other letters were subsequently received, from one of which we gather 

 the following information : ^Ym. Reuick, of Circloville, Ohio, a large farmer, 

 and long engaged in the raising of cattle and hogs, writes more extensively 

 than we can find room for. Mr. Renick thinks that farmers are not ignorant 

 of the fact " how much pork will a bushel of corn make," and says : 



