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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



read that lie sold pork, (o what amount ia not 

 staled; bullet us suppose llmi ihe 17 !?o\vs in the 

 two years produced 510 pigs, from which take 

 220 pigs sold, and we have 290 rentaiuing lor 

 porkers; which, if weighing only 250 pounds 

 each, gives 72,500 pounds oC pork, which to a 

 Virginian, would be worth ^4,350, and whicli add- 

 ed to S7,000, gives a grand total oC ,S' 11,350. 

 But let us suppose that none of the proguiy were 

 snid as pigs, but all made into pork, ihf-n we have 

 127,500 pounds, worth .$^7,G50, or 83,825 the year, 

 from 17 sows and say one boar. 



Again, in the Comjilete Farmer, we read, that a 

 pig at eighi nionths old was driven to Danesburg 

 and slaughtered, and weighed 311 pounds, and 

 that many ol' the same age were nearly ol' the 

 same weight. Now, whereas my hogs at eight 

 months old, at best, would not weigh more than 

 150 pounds net, aiid although this weight would 

 justily my slaughtering both lall and spring, yet I 

 cannot, should not be satisfied. Are not the above 

 exhibits enough to open the eyes and purses ol' the 

 Virginia larn)er'? Are they not enough to con- 

 vince him that it requires spiiited men lo do busi- 

 ness I 



As to the old breed of hogs, the case is nearly 

 over with them; lor although some are yet cry- 

 ing out, " I want the woods' hog,'" yet no one in 

 Ins proper senses will much longer hold on to 

 them. If is true, that some persons who have 

 purchased, or thought ihey had purchased blooded 

 iiogs, have been disappoiiued by other means 

 than those above enumerated ; fur they had been 

 in the custom of giving their hogs daily atiout 

 three grains of corn each, and supposed (hat by 

 obtaining blood, they could get rid of a portion of 

 this burthen ; but as the scrub at a year old 

 weighed as much as 60 pounds, and the blooded 

 hog at the sauie age only 80 or 90 pounds, they 

 considered themselves terribly humbugged. 



As I do not proless to be a judge ol' horse or 

 cow, 1 propose to impoit neither, nor do I care lor 

 them. 



Persons desirous of contributing lo the above 

 purpose, are requestt^d to give their names and 

 amount either in the Farmers' Register, the Rich- 

 mond Whig, ihe Lynchburg Republican, or the 

 Lynchburg Virginian. And any person pro- 

 posing to go to England, will give name and re- 

 ferences through one of the same mediums. 



The money will be wanting the last of July, 

 and can be deposited either in Richmond, Peters- 

 burg, or Lynchburg, and the delivery olstock can 

 be at Noriblk, Petersburg, Richmond, Columbia, 

 Scottsvilie, New Maiket,and Lynchburg — but of 

 this, more in time. 



Relereiices. — INIessrs. Cocke, Brown, Cabell, 

 Dorm an. Toler, and Kyle of the Virginia legisla- 

 ture; S. S. Baxter, (Attorney General,) Joseph 

 Allen, (C. C. Appeals,) and'Capt. John Goddin, 

 city o( Richmond ; John Ganh and James 

 Fariss, Esqrs., and Rev. John N. Johnston, of 

 Buchanan ; Sundry persons of Lexinffton, Lynch- 

 burg, New Glasgow, Duiguidsville, New Market, 

 Lovingston, Charlottesville and Scottsvilie. 



Editors of newspapers are requested to insert 

 the above at least once, and charge to chariiv. 

 Za. Drummond. 

 Amherst, Jan. 20th, 1841. 



Tliere is anoth.er good reason for carrying into 



effect such a scheme as is proposed by Mr. Drum, 

 mond, besides all that he has urged. Each of the 

 best known breeders and salesmen of Berkshire 

 pigs and other highly prized live-stock, has pro- 

 bably produced his sale animals from a single 

 pair, or at any rate, from too small an original num- 

 ber, and by continuing to breed in-and-in, for succes- 

 sive generations. This course will certainly and 

 greatly deteriorate any family of animals; in what- 

 ever cases it has been pursued, the original purity 

 of blood (supposing it to have been the best at 

 first,) is no guaranty against the purchaser being 

 supplied froin a feeble and worthless progeny. 

 Against this very common and general source of 

 bad stock, at the highest prices, the distant pur- 

 chaser has no safeguard, but in the moderation 

 and integrity of the stock-breeder and salesman. 

 We ought to obtain new breeders, and enough in 

 number to avoid breeding in-and-in ; and this may 

 be done by enough individuals, either separately 

 or in partnership, uniting in the impoitaiion. — Ed. 

 F. R. 



MANURIAG WITH PURCHASED MARL AND 

 LIME. 



For ihe Farmers' Register. 



Essex, Va., Jan. 26th, 1841. 

 I have received all the bat:k volumes of the 

 Farmer's Uetjister and had them bound, and look 

 to them as a never-failing source of interest and 

 improvement. 1 have been for the last two years 

 using marl and shell and stone-hme to a very con- 

 siderable extent lor my means, and am pleased lo 

 say, that thus liir, my expectations have been fully 

 realized. The marl, of very superior quality, is 

 brought from Urbanna, in Middlesex, and pur- 

 chased by me at my landintj lor from 4 to 6 cents 

 per bushel. Shells can sometimes be bought at 

 liom 90 to 100 cents per hogshead; and I buy all I 

 can gel at that rate; and by burning them with 

 pocoson wood, cut by my hands in the winter 

 season, when they would otherwise have nothing 

 to do, I do not esiima'e the actual cost of the 

 shell-lime to exceed 7 cents per bushel. The stone- 

 lime I buy either in tierces or loose in the hold of 

 the vessel ; lor the former (Thomaslon,) I have 

 paid ^1,25 a tierce, and lor ihe latter, purchased 

 at the kiln ol' E. J. Cooper, near Baltimore, I pay 

 12.\ cents per bushel. It is a very expensive 

 method of improvement, but I still hope the ia- 

 vestment will prove profitable. 



Yours, very respectfully, 



Richard Baylor. 



CABBAGES WORMS. 



From the Albany Cultivator. 

 A writer in the Southern Cultivator, says he 

 " had a square of very fine cabbages in his garden 

 upon which the worms had commenced making 



