SWINE. 365 



1. For a system of partial feeding, the Corbet, grass, and a 

 cross with the China hog are preferred." 



It is doubtless true, that in some cases, a knowledge of the 

 different breeds would have led to different answers. But it is 

 quite as true and evident, that no one breed is best adapted 

 to all locations and circumstances. 



The same report may also be cited to show the different re- 

 sults obtained by various individuals, as to the weight of pork 

 produced by a given quantity of food. A question proposed 

 in the circular was, "how many pounds of meat will one 

 hundred pounds of corn yield ?" Comparatively few of the 

 responses definitely answer this particular question. But those 

 given, vary from eight to forty pounds. Now if there be, in 

 fact, so wide a difference as these answers indicate, it appears 

 to us that it must be, in a great measure, owing to the causes 

 before suggested ; such as adaptation of the breed to the cir- 

 cumstances of the farmer, and the modes of rearing and fatten- 

 ing. The Commissioner, in a note appended to the 301st page 

 of the report, expresses his own opinion, that " one hundred 

 pounds of corn-meal ought to produce twenty-five pounds of 

 pork," and he adds, that "three and a half pounds of meal gave 

 Mr. Ellsworth, former Commissioner of Patents, a pound of 

 pork." This last would be twenty-eight and four-sevenths 

 pounds of pork to one hundred pounds of meal. If the farm- 

 ers of Hampshire County can attain to Commissioner Ells- 

 worth's success, we need not fear that pork cannot be pro- 

 duced at a profit, in the Connecticut Valley. 



Samuel Nash, Chairman, 



FRANKLIN. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



The English alphabet probably affords no three letters 

 which, united, are more significant than those which compose 

 the word hog. The word swine is altogether too chaste and 

 classical to impart a correct idea of this animal. We are 

 aware that the word hog is not used in Scripture, but without 



