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" some," have " woods range ;" let them roam the forest, enjoying the largest lib- 

 erty, cracking the beechnut, the chestnut and the acorn, snufling the pure air and 

 sleeping in the upturned virgin earth of the country, until the middle or last of No- 

 vember ; let them be " put up" just long enough to increase and " harden their fat" 

 with new corn, or, yet better, corn meal, with clean water ; and having then, at 

 from 14 to 20 months old, carried them to from 130 to 160 pounds, some time be- 

 fore or about Christmas, let their lives be taken, not in wantonness or malice, as 

 men destroy each other in war, but in i'ulfillment of their appointed fate. The ham 

 of hogs v/cighing from 130 to 160, will be from 10 to 15 pounds. It was recom- 

 mended by Col. John Taylor, of Caroline, Virginia, he who prompted the land- 

 holders of the Southern States to think, and taught them that they had a 

 business to be studied, and a stake in the Government to be cared for — he 

 recommended that at the time of " putting up" hogs in autumn the plantation 

 should be swept clean of every thing in the sliape of a hog, little or big, (except 

 the breeding-stock,) which was not under ten months old ; as, if over that, and 

 carried tlirough another year, it would not be worth its cost. 



A look at the census Avill show with what remarkable correspondence Indian 

 corn and hogs jump together ! In the production of these two great staples of life, 

 Indian corn and pork, Tennessee takes the lead, while New- York produces more 

 than four to one over Tennessee in value of " orchard produ:;ts." The " swinish 

 multitude" of Tennessee excels that of the great EmpireState as 2,926,607 over 

 1,900,000. 



Bushels of Corn. Number of Swine. 



Tennessee 4 1.!)86,188 a.Stye.tiOT 



Kentucky 39,847,1 20 2,310,533 



Virginia 34,577,591 1,992,155 



Ohio 33,668.144 2,099,746 



Indiana : 28,155,887 1,623,608 



Nonh Carolina 23.893.163 1,649,716 



Now-Vork 10,792,286 1,900,065 



But it is remarkable in the agricultural economy of New- York, that the num- 

 ber of her swine is much larger than that of other States, in proportion to the 

 quantity of Indian corn she produces, going to show that she turns other re- 

 sources into pork, which, in other States, do not exist, or are neglected or oth- 

 erwise disposed of. Many are doubtless reared and sold in New- York when 

 young, on the offal of her dairies and orchards united ; for with her only 10,792,286 

 bushels of corn, she exhibils very nearly 2,000,000 of swine. To her lar^e flour 

 manufactories and their offal, and her vast number of distilleries and breweries, 

 too, may be ascribed her large number of swine in proportion to her corn ; for 

 they seem to be to these establishments as natural appendages as to redundant 

 fields of corn. In the number of gallons produced from both distilleries and 

 breweries, New- York claims unenviable excellence over the great corn-growing 

 States above mentioned — -as, for instance — 



Disllllerics. Gallons produced. Breireries. Gallons produced. 



■New-York 212 11,973.815 83 6,059,122 



Pennsylvania 1,010 6,240.193 87 12,765,974 



Virginia 1,454 865,725 5 -32.960 



North Carolina 2,802 1,05?, 979 17,431 



Tennessee 1,426 1,109,107 6 1,835 



Kentucky 889 1,763.685 50 214,589 



Ohio 390 6,329,467 59 1,422,584 



Indiana 323 1,787,108 20 188,392 



We leave to the moral and curious inquirer to measure the intelligence and 

 refinement of the people in these several States, to see, if practicable, whether 

 there be any connection between the quantity of intoxicating, ardent, and hebe- 



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