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native country: bein^ a coarse, raw-boned, flat- 

 biilecJ aniiiia! ; but lulling kindly. Very iijvv, how- 

 ever, of the genuine native hog are now to be met 

 with, the coinnioa slock being either the Beik- 

 siiire breed, or a considerable predominance of 

 ihai blood in the native swine ol' the couniy ; and 

 subsequent crosses wiih that, as well as with the 

 Suffolk and Chinese breeds, have produced an ani- 

 mal of a hardy nature, prone to get fat at an ear- 

 ly age, and always lo keep in good condition in a 

 store slate." 



Tile best stock, however, will degeneraie wiih- 

 oui |)roper Ibod and attention — it is said that the 

 hog requires less and gives back more lor what it 

 receives, than any other stock. But with us he is 

 too commonly left to shift lor himself untd large 

 enough to fatten, and yet costs more than he 

 would under better treatment. Keep him in a 

 thriving state from the first, and half the corn will 

 fatten him that a poor starveling would require ; 

 and this is easily done wiihout increasing mate- 

 rially the expense of farming. Indeed it is sound 

 economy. It is stated in Deane's ' New England 

 Farmer or Georgical Diciionary' (a most valua- 

 ble work) that the late Arthur Young pastured 

 64 hogs, large and small, upon two acres of clo- 

 ver, from May until November. One of the best 

 farmers and breeders I know, keeps his hogs in 

 pens, or at most with the range of his farm yard, 

 and has the green clover cut lor them — estimatinir 

 the manure saved as equivalent to the labor. It 

 is probably the best plan. My own were kept on 

 clover, with the aid of a lew cymlins, in fine con- 

 dition, until they were put up to latteii last year. 

 The sows, and the shoals for this year's pork, 

 were put up at the same time, in a pen to them- 

 selves, floored vviih logs and provided with a dry 

 sleeping place. These were fed through the win- 

 ter, and until they v.'ere turned upon a lot of clover 

 enclosed for that purpose in the spring, upon boil- 

 ed vegetables entirely — much after the plan of 

 Mr. Ingersol of Brookline, published in the Re- 

 gister, lor January, 1839, pp. 81 to 37. They had 

 no corn, but were in fine order all the winter, and 

 are so now. The vegetables used were cymlins 

 first, then beets, carrots, parsnips, liom the gar- 

 den, with some pumpkins, and lastly, ruta baga 

 turnips, which carrieil them nearly through the 

 n>onih of April, when they were put upon the 

 clover again. The boiled lood was given three 

 times a day with but little trouble — twice a day 

 during the winter might possibly have been suffi- 

 cient — and always given v^^arm. Every morning 

 at day break a fire was made under an iron boiler 

 in which enough had been left overnight lor the 

 morning's i'eed — so soon as that was warmed, the 

 hogs were led and the boiler fillet! again — they 

 were led a second time when the hands came to 

 dinner, and lastly at night, the swill remaining 

 warm enough until that time. 1 think the corn 

 and manure saved by this method must be a fair 

 equivalent for the labor. 



A plan for raising cymlins is given in the first 

 volume of Skinner's 'American Farmer,' p. 367. 

 I have pursued it for the last two years, and it af- 

 fords me a supply of the best summer Ibod, not 

 only for hogs, but for my milch cows which are 

 led with it night and morning. They seem to re- 

 lish it highly ; it improves the quality and increases 

 the quantity of milk ; and I may salely affirm that 

 finer butter and cream than mine cannot be found, 



even in the justly famed market of Philadelphia. 

 If the arlicle last referred to, has not been pub- 

 lislieil in the Register, 1 think you will find it 

 worthy a j)lace, and that any of your subscribers 

 who will try the experiment will be remuneraled 

 by it fully. 



Deane's 'New England Farmer or Georgical 

 Dictionary' is doubtless known to you. In the 

 course of a lew years of imperlijct larming, I have 

 derived so much aid from it, that 1 cannot but 

 wish a copy was in the hands of every larmer in 

 the Old Dominion. If you have not the book, I 

 wish you would get it, and if you find it such as 1 

 have described, consider whether it might not be 

 republished (lor it is nearly out of print) with 

 great benefit to our good people, especially small 

 farmers, and thrifty housewives; lor it takes in 

 ihe whole range of dom.eslic and rural economy.* 



TOBACCO — DUTY ON IT PAYABLE IN EVROPE. 



From t!ie American Farmer. 



As the American Farmer has been adopted as 

 the official organ of tobacco planters, and of inier- 

 communicalion on the subject of their peculiar in- 

 terests, and especially in reltirence to the grievance 

 of high duties on it in Europe, and the best means 

 of obtaining relief therefrom — permit me to make 

 a suggesiion or two, lor the consideration of plant- 

 ers, and to inviie discussion with a view to a bet- 

 ter understanding on the points submiited. 



It is a triie saying that there are two sides to 

 every question ; and thai in regard to any doubtful 

 one, before we adopt any conclusion, we should. 

 hear both sides ! Now as to the question of high 

 duties, there can be no doubt that they are enor- 

 mous — and that they so much enhance the price 

 of the article in Europe, as very greatly to dimin- 

 ish the consumption of American tobacco. Take 

 for example the instance which has been exhibited 

 by the convention at Wasliington, of which you 

 were the secretary, and reflect on the astounding 

 lact that Great Britain, by her high duties, levies 

 on this single branch of American industry, a tax 

 almost equal to the support of her navy — those 

 " wooden walls" to which she is indebted for the 

 support of her monarchy — the safety of her island 

 from invasion, and for means of government and 

 sway over sea and land to such an exient,.that 

 the sun it is said never goes down on all her do- 

 minions at once! — Look too at the vast sums 



* The article referred to above will hereafter be re- 

 published in the Farmers' Register. The separate 

 publication, for sale, of other agricultural works as 

 well as Deane's, has been suggested to us by seve- 

 ral persons, as likely to be advantageous to the public, 

 and profitable to the publisher. In regard to the last 

 point, we can answer, with confidence, that of neither of 

 these, nor, as we believe, of any other book, if now 

 published in Virginia, and no matter hew great the 

 ujerit or utility, could enough copies be sold, to pay 

 the expenses of pubhcation. Periodical works only 

 can be sustained, upon previous subscriptions ; and in 

 no other way can any publisher venture to print a 

 work, unless his object be to serve the public interests, 

 without res'ard to his own. — Ed. F. R. 



