36 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



The profit on milk and catile sold may be set off against the butcher's hill for extraordinarieg, 

 cand if JL45 be estimated to meet the general and local taxes falling on the ground, we see that 

 .X600 per annum may be cleared by a farmer who would live wiili his servants off 200 acres in the 

 ©uchy of Clevcs. If the farmer keeps a gentleman's establishment united with his farm, he 

 ajiust deduct the exoen.se of it from his gross profit; in doing which it will probably appear that 

 ■MB much comfort and luxury may be jiurchased for that sum in Germany as i.'li;00 per annum 

 •would command in England. 



In all calculations of the yield of estates, it is proper (thougli sometimes oinittcxl) t.o make 

 ivll and fair allowance for house-rent, fuel, provisions, washing, and (as f;u- as the farm sup 

 jplies it) clothing, &c. In other words what, if he stood in the street with the money in hLs 

 jfxxjket it would cost him to buy all the co7iveniences and luxuries -which he enjoys on his es- 

 lUtte. In. town, he would have to pay for his house and stable the interest of at least $10,000 

 ■S» begin with, and then he must forego or pay hard money for every radish and sti-awbeny, 

 and every ounce of butter and meat, and bread, and every drop even of the cream he puts 

 ■^without measiure in liis country tea and coffee. Ah, be it remembered after all, tliat man 

 EHade the town, while God made the country. Give us the coimtry forever. Ok forlunotos 

 iximium si sua bona norini afrricolaa ! 



TO RAISE OR BUY HIS BACON ; 



WHICH IS BEST FOR THE FARMER?— SIZE AND KIND OF HOG BEST SUITED TO IT. 



On the Hog. — Messrs. Fleet S^- Starr : At your request I forward you an account of my mode 

 of treating hogs. I have on my farm an orchard, containing many choice fruit-trees, bearing 

 «weet apples. They were planted expressly for hogs, a|)ples being the j>rincipal food on which 

 :!hey are fed during the season ; .sometimes, by waj' of change, they receive sour apples, always 

 Jfedravv, at regular hours. The food is occasionally varied by adding garden refu.se, such as cab- 

 'biage-Ieavc.s, cauliflower, &c. together with the slops from the house. Unless so fed. a more ex- 

 ■jueusive oiimal can scarcely be kept, especially in a country where corn can be told for from GSJ 

 tfl 75 cents per bushel, and other grain in proportion. This is a luxury m}- hogs never partake 

 -ttf If corn and apples were worth the same per bushel, I would feed apples in preference: the 

 Mork is sweeter, and fifty per cent, whiter; it maj- lose a little in boiling; if it doe.s, however, I 

 te-ve never noticed it. They are the most prolific animal we have, producing at a birth numbers 

 'vsrying from six to twelve twice in each year, if found desirable by the owner. In eleven j-ears 

 .a single sow, averaging at each litter six pigs, will, in ten generations, produce six millions four 

 Jmadred and thirty-four thousand eight hundred and thirty eight pigs. Extend the calculation to 

 the Vwelflh generation, and the result would he as great a number as all Euro])e could sup[X)rl, 

 jaad to the sixteenth generation, the whole world would be overstocked.* 



{* The natural term of the hog's life is little known, for the plain reason that every man's hand 

 ' is raised agau^st him, as if he were liostis hurnani generis, a pirate and an outlaw ! But it is re- 

 ' jated by Rev. Gii.isekt White on this subject, that a neighbor of his kept a half-bred Bantam 

 scrw, " who was as thick as she was long, and whose belly swept the ground until she was eev- 

 <6utaen, when she showed some tokens of age by the decay of her teeth and the decline of her 

 tfertility, and was then fattened and killed." For ten years she produced two litters annually of 

 .-about ten and once above twenty at a litter. At a moderate computation, she was allowed to 

 Jbave been the mother of some three hundred pigs ! 



The hog affords a striking example of the effects of ema.sculation, ^^■hich, says the same rev- 

 . -cterJi and amiable author, brings man, hea.st and bird, to a resemblance to the other sex. Thus, 

 venuTiehs have smooth, unnmscular arms, thighs and legs; broad hijis, and boardle.ss chins, and 

 :«MUieaking voices. Capons have small combs and gills, and have a pidlid look, like pullets, about 

 a3i« head ; and bairow-liogs have small tusks, like sows ; but if left in iiosscssion of their masco- 

 .TiD* faculties unabridged, their tusks, on which they rely as the hor.«cman on liis sword, grow to 

 .immense size. On our late lour to the South, we were presented with a brace of those warlike 

 ■tweapons, sharp pointed as a Cossack's spear, and curved like a Turkish cimittir. They had been 

 lirandished in the days of boarish vigor by a famous gruntcr, property of Col. Hugcr, the accoro- 

 n]|i«hed and indefiitigable Po.stmastcr of Charleston, and were large enough for, and 80 shaped aa 

 tl» Miggesl tlicir being made into, handles for horsewhips. 



But a certain author on Husbandry caiTies the mutilation or loss of sexual developments 6tiU 

 ■fiKtbcr ■ for he says the loss of the insignia alone, is Bometimes followed by a loss of the femctioa 

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