THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



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from my prcmipes. I feed my liogs rojrulnrly twice 

 a (i:iy, morning ami evpiiiiiir. I would irreaily 

 prefer feedine: younii hogs three times a daj-, iC I 

 roiil.l do it with any sort of ronvenience, with 

 plop mpde hy hoiliriiT meal made of corn crushed 

 in the ear, and rrround corn and cob together. I 

 find, by repeated experiments, that one gallon of 

 crushed corn- meal, w'c/Z io(7c(/, will, when cooled, 

 mal<e about live gallons ol' thick mush. This mush 

 i mi.K, in (eeding, with about an equal quantity of 

 hot water, frequently throwing into the pail a dnu- 

 tile handfull of bran, siirring it well, and give it to 

 n)y P'igs warm. F put a hnndfull of salt into the 

 pot about three limes a weeU, and occasionally a 

 shovel llill of ashes. With this allowance, my 

 hogs arc in fine order, in much better condiuon 

 than any of my neighbors', and some of them 

 are fat enough for the knife. I boil my meal at 

 convenient tunes in a pot holding about five gal- 

 lons. I prefer leilinir the water boil before the 

 meal is stirred in. The meal is thoroughly mixed 

 with the water by means of a flat paddle, and is 

 Biifi'ered to boil violently for half an hour or more. 

 I would prefer a cheap boiling apparatus, but 

 having just commenced farming I have not yet 

 found time to Imild a furnace. I shall be prepared, 

 however, by next winter, to fatten my hogs on 

 boiled roots and cruslied corn meal. 



With a larse kettle, and a barrel to hold the 

 mush, many gallons might be prepared daily in 

 every kitchen, by the servants, after the meals 

 are cooked, and especially at niixht by the large 

 roaring fires which the negroes will keep to warm 

 themselves by. 1 know no way, except, perhaps, 

 by feeding on roots, in which hogs can tie so well 

 kept through the winter at so little expense. JNJy 

 stock of thirteen, for instance, consume only a 

 peck of crushed corn meal, equal to a single gal- 

 lon of corn, a day. Tliis, at the rate at which 

 corn is selling in my neighborhood, 37^ cents a 

 bushel, is only one-third of a cent a day for each 

 hog. The manure will more than pay for the ex- 

 tra trouble and expense of preparing the food. 



This sirikes me, on reflection, as even a cheaper 

 mode of sustaining hogs through the winter than 

 by feeding them with potatoes or sugar beet or 

 man<fe! wurisel. A peck of potatoes, the usual 

 daily allowance to each hog, would be 6^ cents a 

 day, at the price at which potatoes are selling in 

 my neighborhood; and, supposii^g that 500 liu>liels 

 of sugar beet are equal in product to 40 bushels of 

 corn to the acre, then, if each hog lie allowed a 

 peck of sugar beet daily, the 40 bushels of corn 

 ground up, cob and corn together, and boiled into 

 good slop, will, upon the principles of calculation 

 furnished by my experiment, go more than twice 

 as far as the 500 bushels of sue- r beet. As to 

 whole corn, it is evident that four times the quan- 

 tity I consumed in slop, that is, a peck daily, would 

 hardly keep thirteen hogs in living order. My 

 corn is crushed at a neifrhhoring mill, where I 

 haul it by the wagon load, and take away the 

 meal when I want it. For crushing and grinding 

 I pay a toll of one-tenth. 



A neighbor of mine, a large iron manufiicturer, 

 feeds his nmles on crushed corn-mea! mixed with 

 cut straw, and though they work hard every day 

 they are as fat as it is desirable to have them. 

 Crushed corn-meal, at from 15 to 25 cents a bu-hel, 

 according to tlie price of eorn, is, if seems to me, 

 the cheapest horse-feed that can be used. Ii is 



certainly cheaper than oats, or rye, or whole corn. 



The larmers in this neighborhood are beginning to 

 use it quite extensively. It is much healthier than 

 whole corn, as well as cheaper. 



A neighbor informs me that he fattened an old 

 cow last fall on crushed corn- meal, tliat she fat- 

 tened remarkably fast, made first-rate beef' and 

 yielded an enormous quantity of tallow for a cow 

 of her size. 



I feed my milch cow twice a day with half a 

 trallon of cruslied corn-nteal boiled in about four 

 gallons of water ; and I would not want better 

 i-^lop lor a milch cow. 



Crushed corn-meal being so valuable for feeding 

 all kinds of stock, every mill, and every |)lantcr 

 and fiirmer having a horse-power, eiilier for a cot- 

 ton gin or a thrashing machine, ought to be pro- 

 vided with a corn crusher. While he wotild thus 

 promote his individual interest, the country would 

 save millions of dollars annually. I observed, in 

 a late Cultivator, a notice of a machine called "<Ae 

 Virginia corn crusher,''' winch, after five years' 

 trial, is represented by the manufacturer, Robert 

 Sinclair, Jan., of Baltimore, as an efficient and du- 

 rable machine, not liable to get out of order, and 

 crushing twenty bushels of corn per hour with one 

 horse, fine enough for feeding any kind of stock. 

 Mr. S. says he has sold a number of them, and 

 that they have given universal satisfaction, ll" 

 the machine is as valuable as it is represented ta 

 l)p, a tolerablv large liumer would save the price 

 of cne (865) in a single year. Two or mor& 

 neighbors might club together and purchase one^ 

 or several liirmers might esiablish a machine at 

 some mill in their neighborhood. The toll would 

 soon pay for the machine. 



While I am writing I would just caution your 

 readers against throwing hog or becf7?g/t/s to hogs- 

 one of my neighbors having just lost two valua- 

 ble sows by the carelessness of his negroes in this 

 particular. The lights choke the hogs. 



Ploughboy. 

 Rockbridge, Va., Dec. 28, 1840. 



COXVENTION OF COTTON PLAATERS IN ALA- 

 ( EAUIA. 



{ For tlie Farmers' Registrr. 



On Monday, the 7ih instant, agreeably to pub- 

 lic notice, a meeting was held at Greensboro', by 

 a number of the planters of Greene, Marengo and 

 Pirry counties, for the purpose of ascertaining the 

 extent of the present cotton crop in Greene and 

 the adjoining counties. 



The meeting was organized by ca'ling Col. 

 William Armstead to the chair, and appointing 

 Isaac Croom, esq., serretarv. 



On motion of Dr. R. C. Randolph, 



Resolved, That the chairman appoint a com- 

 mittee of twenty-four, to report to an adjoijrned 

 meeiing, to he held at Greensboro', on Monday 

 the 14!h in«t. 



Pursuant to the fjregoing resolution, the chair- 

 inan appointed the following gentlemen to com- 

 pose said coinmitiee, viz.: Dr. R. C. Randolph, 

 Rev. Wm- W. Hill, Tlomag M. Scott, esq., 

 Wm. F. Bentley, esq.. Dr. Jno. K. Witherspoon, 

 Thomas H. Ilerndon, esq., Rev. .J. E. Sawyer, 

 Wi'ey J. Croom. es«].. Col. John Nelson, James 

 McDonald, esq.. Col. Harris Tinker, Col. Robert 

 C. Macon, Dr. Wm. T. Ilerndon, Rev. Lemuel 



