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FARMERS' REGISTER— TENNESSEE FARMER-HOGS. 



by the by is a very ffood conlrivance for getting 

 rid of (bul air,) — the light air just spoken ofj rush- 

 ing through tli3 -^entih^tor, is apt 1o pusli out the 

 f5moke into the room, overcoming tlae draught. Be- 

 sides, fresh air too, often rushes in tliere, (it being 

 so low down,) and obstructs the smoke. These 

 ventilators would answer remarkably well at the 

 top of the wall, where the liglit loul air is always 

 lodged. (I think it a qucsMon however, vyhether 

 a ventilator lor foul air, should be connected with 

 the chimnev, on account of its affecting the 

 draught.) A fire-place often smokes at the kind- 

 ling — this is because the draught is not formed, 

 which carries up the smoke: this is prevented 

 by using very combustilile matterin kindling— such 

 as light- wood, very dry wood, &c. In cabin chim- 

 neys the shortness and largeness of the funnel 

 when the vent is too large (equal in fact to the 

 chimney itself,) affects the draught, and smoke — 

 make the vent smaller: this will prevent the wind 

 also from having too powerful effect on the fire. 

 Sometimes one flue and room is filled with ■ the 

 smoke of another flue, — closing the communica- 

 tion betv/een the two will prevent the evil. 



The draught is not only aflected by the construc- 

 tion of the chimnej^ and fire-place, but by other 

 causes — as the wind, &c. This has called in use 

 the construction of arches over the top of the fun- 

 nel. When a chinmey smokes from the wind 

 blowing down the funnel, where there are two 

 flinnels in the same shaft, they must be separated 

 at top by arches. When a chimney smokes from 

 a particular direction of the wind — as N. W. for 

 instance---and is obstructed by any obstacle on the 

 opposite side of tlie cliinmey, as higher buildings, 

 trees, &c., a flannel of tin swung over the top of' 

 the chimney to move with the wind, will prove a 

 remedy^ — the wind claps one part of the funnel 

 close to the top of the chimney in that direction in 

 which it blows — this prevents it from going down 

 the chimney, while it turns the funnel (or cap) up 

 in the opposite direction, to open a passage for the 

 Bmoke. The manner in which groves of trees, 

 higher buildings, hills, &c. aflect the draught is, 

 by obstructing and reflec'ing the winds in various 

 directions. 



NICHOLAS E. READ. 



Chariot ie Covnfy. 



THE TE?;NESSEE FARaiER. 



The publication of a new agricultural paper has 

 lately been commenced in Tennessee, edited by 

 Thomas Emmerson, Esq., of Jonesborough. Though 

 appearing in size and form somewhat suited to its low 

 price of $1 a year, it exhibits such evidence of edi- 

 torial ability, as promises a valuable work. There is 

 abundant room for the labors of Mr. Emmerson, and 

 we heartily wish success to his exertions. We may 

 not be altogether disinterested in this wish — for it 

 would operate directly and greatly for the advantage 

 of the Farmers' Register, if our brotber editor can 

 convince the tillers of new and fertile lands of the 

 south-west, of their mistake in the opinion so very 

 generally entertained, that they have no need for ag- 

 ricultural journals — a fertile soil alone being deemed 

 sufFicient to supply every defect of economical man- 

 agement, and of agricultural information. 



The two following editorial articles are from the 



second number of the Tennessee Farmer, just received. 

 The first is introductory to the insertion of an article 

 vvhich formerly appeared in our work, ("Another way 

 of fattening hogs.") From these remarks it may be 

 inferred, that the economy of our customary way of 

 raising and keeping hogs, is at least doubtful in a new 

 country like Tennessee, where the disadvantage of tho 

 plan must be much less than in Eastern Virginia. 



From tlie Tennessee Farmer. 

 ON HOGS RAKGIING AT LARGE. 



We invhe the attention of our readers, to the 

 article in this number, from that valuable work 

 the Farmers' Register, on the raising and fatten- 

 ing of hogs. It will be found to contain some hu- 

 morous sarcasms, on the absurd mode adopted in 

 Virginia, and with little alteration, too generally 

 practiced in this country, of" rearing this valuable 

 animal — a mode which though adopted for its sup- 

 posed economy, is in truth, perhaps the most 

 wasteflil, the most extravagant, and the most un- 

 profitable ever yet devised. The actual loss an- 

 nually sustained in Tennessee, from the manner 

 in which hogs are generally reared and fattened is 

 immense; and would, could it be ascertained with 

 precision, astonish those by whom it is resorted to 

 under the erroneous impression, that it is recom- 

 mended by its economy. We should hazard little 

 by asserting, that by a more humane and judicious 

 mode of rearing hogs, double the quantity of pork 

 could be annually raised irom the food now ex- 

 pended in raising the halt^-and that pork too, of 

 ibr superior quality. To raise hogs with profit, 

 except in a ihw situations, possessing peculiar ad- 

 vantages, situations now rarely to be met with, two 

 rules must be observed. First — to teed the sows 

 in such a manner as to enable them to keep the 

 pigs lilt until weaned. Secondlj', never to suffer 

 them to become poor after they are weaned. By 

 observing these rules, especially with the aid of' 

 clover, it will be easy to make a hog at fi'om twelve 

 to eighteen months weigh double, if not thrice as 

 much, as many now do at two and three years old, 

 and with no greater quantity of grain than is 

 now often expended in rearing and fattening the 

 latter. The suggestions of the writer of the arti- 

 cle alluded to, are well worthy the attention of all 

 who wish to convert their corn into pork with pro- 

 fit. The absurd selfish notion, that whatever a 

 hog picks up in the woods, or in his neighbors 

 fields, is so much clear gain to his owner, ought 

 long since to have been banished, by the notorious 

 liict, that many hogs thus raised, afier being fat- 

 ted, will not at a reasonable price, sell for as much 

 as the corn cost, consumed by them. Whereas, one 

 judiciously raised, will sell for double the price of 

 the grain expended in rearing and fatting him. If 

 any one doubts the truth of this assertion we only 

 ask him to make the experiment on two litters of 

 pigs, keeping an accurate account of the food 

 consumed, and of the price of the pork yielded by 

 each, and his doubts will be speedily removed. 



To keep stock of any desciiption, in a state of 

 almost constant starvation, is cruel and immoral, 

 and it will, on a fair experiment, be ibund, that in 

 this instance, as well as in every other. Providence 

 has so connected the duty and interest of' man, 

 that he cannot violate the former but at the ex- 

 pense of the latter. Were thi.s great truih well 



