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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



The stock consists of two yoke of oxen, two 

 milch cowa, seven liogs, thirty-five Bakewell 

 sheep, and one horse. 



The other farm is that of VVm. K. TownsencI, 

 of East Haven, on New Haven harhor, arid con- 

 sists of 43 acres of salt grass, and 118 acres o( 

 upland. The report of this larm, by tlie commit- 

 tee, we have read with sreat satisfiction, and, 

 did our limits admit, we should i)e glad to give it 

 eniire. Such a report, mere matters of lad 

 statement as it is, is more calculated to inspire a 

 tasle (or firming, than ail the fine declamation 

 and eloquent reasoning we ever heard or read. 

 As it is, we must content ourselves with a state- 

 ment of some of the most interesting facts. 



The buildings are arranged with a strict regard 

 to convenience, being erected "after approved 

 models, and they show conclusively that much 

 labor may be saved by judicious arrancements, 

 with but trifling additional expense. For each 

 implement of husbandry, a special and convenient 

 place of deposite is also provided." The fences 

 throughout are good. The soil is sandy and 

 gravelly loam, naturally light and thin, and left in 

 wretched condition by its former occupant. Suc- 

 cessive portions have been reclaimed from this 

 condition, by carelui and thorough tillage, collect- 

 ing the stones into strong and durable lences, and 

 applying a heavy coating of manure. With the 

 exception of two fiiHds, which have not thus been 

 reached in the regular order, the farm has been 

 greatly improved. "After such improvement, 

 however," say the committee, " these lands are 

 not, as is too often the case, again reduced to their 

 former condition, or rendered still less productive, 

 by injudicious and excessive croppings, without 

 any return to the soil ; but by such subsequent 

 careful treatment, as every good farmer ought 

 to give his land, they are kept constantly im- 

 proving." 



The corn crop, by measurement, has averaged 

 seventy bushels the acre ; potatoes, two hundred 

 and fifty bushels ; rye, twenty-five bushels ; oate 

 (rarely raised,) forty-five bushels ; and barley, 

 thirty-two bushels. Great crops of pumpkins are 

 also obtained, by planting in large manured hills 

 ten leet apart each way, six or eight seeds, the 

 two most vigorous shoots being allowed to remain. 

 Three hundred double loads of manure are 

 annually made on the farm, of which more than 

 fifty are from the hog-pen. It is always applied 

 unfermented, except to meadows and root crops, 

 where compost is used. Three-fourths of a ton 

 of plaster are yearly spread upon the meadows 

 and pastures, and fifty bushels of shell lime ap- 

 plied to the compost heap. 



Great profit has been derived from the breeding 

 of improved stock, consistinor of Durham cattle, 

 "Thin Rind" hogs, and Bakewell sheep. The 

 use of the revolving horse-rake in securing hay, 

 of the cutting box for feeding stock, and of stables 

 for cattle in winter, has effected a great saving. 



Accurate and regular accounts of all operations 

 are constantly kepi, from which the following 

 statement is taken of cash received the past year, 

 ■over and above the consumption of a large famiVj : 



Fruit, ^200 



Vegetables, . . - - 60 



Neat stock, ... - 1,310 



Hogs and pigs, - - - - 585 



Wool, 50 



Milk, butter, and calves, 



Rent of stock, - - - . 



Gross income in 1839, 

 Deduct cash paid for labor and feed 

 of CO ws, _ _ - - 



Net income in 1839, - - - ^2,936 

 The great profit thus secured, appears to have 

 resulted Irom the establishment of a well digested 

 system of (arminir, liiithfullv and energetically 

 carried out, and from the guiding of all the opera- 

 tions by constant and accurate accounts. 



HOGS — MODE OF FEKDING. 



From tlie Boston Cultivator. 



Wm. Buckminsler, esq, — Sir : I send you an 

 account of some hogs I killed this fall, and the 

 manner of keeping, which you can publish if you 

 think deserving a place in your valuable paper. 



I killed two hoL's, one sow, and six pigs, which 

 the sow raised ; their weights were : 



One Hog, 631 lbs. 



" " 566 



" Sow, 509 



Six pias, 1200 



making 2909 lbs. 



They have eat 250 bushels corn, at 60c— ^150. 

 " " 200 " vegetables, 30c— 210. 



My manner of feedinor them was as follows : 

 From the 1st day of September to the 1st day 

 of March, their breakfast was raw potatoes, their 

 dinner raw turnips, beets or carrots ; their supper 

 one quart of corn each. The Isl day of March 

 1 filled their trough with corn and water, and 

 kept it so until the day I killed them. I have 

 a warm place for them to sleep in, and a yard 

 where I make my manure, 36 by 20 ft. with a 

 stone bottom, and have now in it, which I have 

 made this summer, 125 horse loads ; 1 care not 

 what the breed of a hog is if they will eat well, 

 and we do our part, and give them plenty of corn. 

 Six years ago I bought 20 pigs, and sold to my 

 neighbors all that were saleable, and they told me 

 I had belter knock the brains out of the rest of 

 them and save their keeping, but I raised as large 

 hogs as any of them ; I kept the breed during the 

 time, only shiftinir the sows twice in six years. 

 Last year I killed 3 hogs weighing 1500 lbs. 



BENjAftiiJv Smith. 



Duxbury, Ms. Dec. 13, 1840. 



Our friend of Duxbury does not seem to think 

 highly of cooking food for hogs ; but many accu- 

 rate experiments have been made which show 

 the advantage of cooking it. No doubt many of 

 these are exaggerated. Horses will work quite 

 well on corn, provided always they have time 

 enough to chew and digestif. It should always 

 be given them in the evening when they have 

 time for both. 



Hogs need a change of food, and whole corn 

 may take its turn in the change — but we must 

 think that well cooked food is in general far supe- 

 rior to that which is half cooked. To prove this 

 we have need only to compare heavy bread to 

 that which is made in the best manner. 



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