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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



mate, the product of sugar would have been 7740 

 niiiliona of pounds. By twenty pounds of sugar 

 to the bushel, we mean that the quantity of 

 corn stalks that would have produced sixty 

 pounds ol" ripe corn, will produce twenty pounds 

 of sugar. Therelijrc, i( only about a tvventy- 

 fburtir part of this corn had been convened into 

 sugar, the product would have equalled the 

 whole quantity ol sugar, foreign and domestic, 

 consumed in (he United States. This quan'ity, 

 as we hav^e already stat. d, is 270 millions ol' 

 pounds ; and at the rale of twenty pounds to the 

 bushel, it would require 13| millions of bubhels. 

 This being a small proportion to 387 millions of 

 bushels, and at the rate of fifty bushels to the 

 acre, and one crop annually, could be produced 

 on only 275,000 acres of land. Then if 275,000 

 acres of land, cultivated for corn sugar will give 

 a substitute for the whole quantity of sugar con- 

 sumed in the United States, how boundless are 

 their agricultural resources for sugar alone! 

 With such a reserve, the south have no cause to 

 tremble for the loss of their cotton crop lor Eng- 

 land, through the cultivation of cotton in India. 



PROPER TREATMENT FOR CATTLE NEWLY 

 BROUGHT TO THE SOUTH. 



From the Plougliboy. 



Mr. Editor— By giving publicity to the Ibllow- 

 ing letter you will confer a favor on those who 

 Jeel an interest in improving their slock ol caille. 

 It is superfluous to add that the great skill and 

 acknowledged success of Col. Hampton, in rear- 

 ing the finest stock in the state, entitle his opinions 

 to"be regarded as of the highest authority ; and 

 the liberality with which he has communicated 

 the results of his experience entitles him to the 

 thanks of this community. J. T. 



Columbia, January 24, 1842. 



My dear sir — Without detaining you with an 

 apology, for so long a delay in answering your 

 favor of the 31st ult., I proceed at once to the 

 subject matter of your inquiries. Ail cattle im- 

 ported from England, the north and the west, are 

 very liable to be attacked by a fatal disease, which 

 I take to be an inflammation of the brain. 



Young cattle, from eight months to one year 

 old, are less subject to it than those more ad- 

 vanced in lile. If they survive the summer and 

 autumn, [ consider them safe, although great care 

 should be taken of them the second season. They 

 should be brought into the state as early in the 

 fall as possible, kept in good growing condition 

 through the winter, and in the spring be removed 

 to a high healthy position, have easy access to 

 pure water, and their pasture as much shaded as 

 the nature of the ground will admit. In August 

 and September they should be kept in a cool sta- 

 ble during the heat of the day, and at night also, 

 the dew at that season being almost as injurious 

 as the intense heat of the sun. 



With these precautions, I think more than half 

 would escape the disease, the first indication of 

 which is usually a languid appearance of the ani- 

 mal, followed by the lose of appetite, short, quick 

 breathing, with more or less fever, and not unfre- 

 quently accompanied by a cough. 



I have hitherto considered this disease, when 



once established, incurable. I have recently 

 learned, however, that by sawing off the horns, 

 close to the head, nine out of ten would recover. 

 In two cases only have I known the remedy to be 

 tried, and in both the experiment was successful. 

 I shall be highly gratified if any of these sugges- 

 tions shall be useful to you or any of your friends ; 

 and wishing you eniiresucce^s in your experiment, 

 I am very respectfully and truly vours, 

 J. Terry, esq. W. Hampton. 



FACTS IN HOG FEEDING. 



From Colinan's rourth Report o( tlio Agriculture of Massa- 

 thusctts. 



One of the farmers whom I visited had then 

 in his eiies three swine, whose average weight 

 would equal lour hundred pounds each. They 

 were fed three timps a day, with a mess of 12 

 quarts of meal to each per day, composed of the 

 meal of oats and Indian corn, mixed in equal 

 pans and stirred in cold water. The price of oata 

 at that time was 42 cents per bushel, — of corn, 

 84 cents per bushel ;— 6 qts. of oatmeal would 

 be cts. 8.4; 6 qts. of corn meal would be cts. 16.8, 

 — total, 25 cents 2 mills each per day as the cost 

 of keeping. The price of pork at that time was 

 six to seven dollars per 100 lbs. A gain of two 

 pounds a day, live weight, would much exceed 

 the ordinary gain of a fattening hog, although, 

 in a remarkable case, I have known the daily 

 gain, for eighteen days in succession, to exceed 

 three pounds. At two pounds a day, there must 

 be a considerable loss in this feeding. The prices 

 of grain, however, were above the usual prices ; 

 and the price of pork was depressed. 



Another farmer, in fattening three swine, al- 

 lowed them one peck of meal each per day. The 

 mess" was composed of Indian corn, buckwheat 

 and oat meal, mixed in equal quantities. The 

 price of corn was 84 cents ; buckwheat, 66 cents ; 

 oats, 42 cents per bushel. One peck of this mix- 

 ture cost fifteen cents. 



One of the most exact and careful farmers in 

 the county fattens his swine chiefly in the winter, 

 so as to have them in the market in March, when 

 pork generally bears a good price. He has close 

 sties, which are kept with great neatness ; his 

 swine are fed with exactness and punctuality ; 

 and in severe weather, he endeavors, by closing 

 the windows and doors, to keep up a moderate 

 temperature in his sties by a fire in the furnace, 

 where he cooks his food for his s.vine. Another 

 farmer in Leverett, who makes excellent pork, 

 prefers the winter fattening of swine, but is ex- 

 tremely careful that they shall not suff'er from 

 cold, his sties opening to the south, and being 

 always abundantly littered. The farmer first 

 alluded to has made trial of molasses for his swine, 

 having purchased a condemned lot at a low price. 

 He gave at the rate of half a pint per day to each 

 hog, with great advantage as he supposed, 

 though no accurate observation or test was made 

 to determine the gain, and the proportion of that 

 gain, if any, to be attributed to this arlicle of food. 



A farmer in Buckland considers ruta-baga, fed 

 raw to swine, of equal value as raw potatoes. 

 This judgment, he says, is the result of hia own 

 expeirience. A farmer in Hawley thinks swine 



