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rich ; but there are a great number of acree, not 

 only bearinii this amount now, but which miijht 

 very easily be made to produce lour tmies this 

 amount, or twenty-eight tons of green succulent 

 IboH. 



We, last May, measured ofT just one acre of 

 land, and planted upon it Indian corn, making the 

 rows, as near as we could without actually mea- 

 suring, lour leet apart in one direciion, ihree (eet 

 in another. This, iC we mistake not, will allow 

 us four thousands hills. 



Last week, (Aug. 2,) we cut up a iiill which 

 had (bur stalks in it, being, as near as we could 

 judge, an average as to size, and weighed it. The 

 kernels were just beginning lo blister or form out, 

 but by no means larae enough lo boil. It weigh- 

 ed three pounds and a halK This you will say 

 is nothing extra. Bui if you calculate right, 

 you will find that at this small rate there was 

 actually growing upon that acre of ground seven 

 tons of excellent green fodder, every particle 

 of which, as it should be, would be greedily eaten 

 by cattle. This weight will increase up to a 

 certain point, vvhen it would probably diminish 

 by the drying off of the stalks and husks. This 

 acre of corn may be called "middling" as to 

 growth and luxuriance. There are thousands 

 of better fields in the country. 



Our friend I. Bowles, of this town, has a field 

 planted so as to have sixteen thousand hiils upon 

 the acre, and we have no doubt that he has nearly 

 that amount of hills. He marked ofi' the rows 

 with a machine so that the hills should be an 

 equal distance apart, and to make the above 

 number of hills per acre. But making allowance of 

 two thousand, for the ravages of worms and miss- 

 ing hills, computing the number at 14,000, and 

 supposing that the average weight is four pounds 

 to the hill, it being a larger variety of corn than 

 ours and highly manured, and you will have 

 66,000 lbs. or twenty eight tons of green fodder 

 per acre. Now can a person, who has not a 

 sufficient range of pasturage tor a cow or two, 

 more profitably employ an acre of land than by 

 planting it to corn, even in the ordinary way? 

 It is true that it will not, when cut, spring up 

 like clover, or the grasses, nor will it come into 

 use until the first of August. But that is the 

 period of the year when pastures oftentimes be- 

 gin to fail. It would supply a cow for two months 

 in the year, August and September, with 90 lbs, 

 of food per day. We have never had any practi- 

 cal experience in feeding out green food lo cattle, 

 or soiling them as it is called, but if 20 pounds of 

 dry hay will be sufficient for a common-sized cow 

 per day, we should think that 45 of green food 

 would be sufficient. This plan may be objected 

 to on the score of its expense. Perhaps more 

 fodder would be obtained at the cost by planting 

 the horse tooth or soutliprn corn in drills, and cut- 

 ting it as wanted. This variety might not be 

 ready to cut quite as early as our own, but it 

 would continue until frost came, and while it 

 would on the whole yield more fodder upon the 

 acre, planted in this way it would continiie green 

 longer. 



From llie Temperance Advocate. 

 REPORT ON HOGS. 



Read before the Agriculturral Society of Newberry, 

 S. C, by Dr. J. N. Herndon, on tbe 25th July, 1841. 



In pursuance of the direction of this society, 

 we beg leave to present some few facts and ob- 

 servations on the subject of raising hogs ; and in 

 doinir so, we are not so much influenced by the 

 hope of enlightening this society, as by a belief 

 that it is the duty of every member of it to con- 

 tribute whatever he is able, no matter how small, 

 to the advancement of the objects for which it 

 was created, as well as the importance which we 

 attach to the subject which has been assigned us. 

 And we feel certain, that none will suppose we 

 have magnified its importance when he reflects 

 on the large amount of nearly one million of dol- 

 lars, which we pay to the western states for the 

 the single article of pork, according to the accounts 

 kept at the mountain toll gates, a few years since, 

 exclusive of large quantities of bacon imported to 

 Charleston, via New Orleans, and from the 

 northern slates. It appears to us a strange infatu- 

 ation, that could induce a state or people lo make 

 themselves dependent on other countries for one of 

 the necessaries of life, when they possess all the 

 facilities for procuring it at a much cheaper rate. 

 Though we feel satisfied that it would be a waste 

 of lime and argument at this late day, to attempt 

 to convince any member of this society of a fact, 

 which experience has already taught him, that it 

 would contribute greatly to the interest and inde- 

 pendence of the people of this state, to produce 

 their own supplies of meat, instead of buying it 

 abroad, and from countries which do not recipro- 

 cate the advantages Qf the trade, by receiving in 

 exchange some ol the products of our country. 



To the attainment, therefore, of so desirable an 

 end, we shall briefly recommend the plan which 

 we consider best calculated for that purpose. 



One of the first and most important considera- 

 tions should be to select a breed suitable to our 

 purpose. According to our present plan of econo- 

 my and management, we require a variety which 

 are disposed to grow large, and which attain a 

 tolerable size, even with the scanty allowance 

 which our hogs are accustomed to receive ; and 

 not such as require the liberal treatment, and high 

 feeding, which grain countries are able to afford, 

 which could not be allowed them in a cotton grow- 

 inff country, without enhancing their cost to more 

 than their value. We are of opinion the desired 

 breed may be produced, either by crossing our 

 common stock with the large class of improved 

 hoffs, which have been introduced, or by crossing 

 the large class, with some of a small class which 

 have been introduced. The large class alluded 

 to include the Woburn, the Calcutta, and the By- 

 field, all partaking of the same general character- 

 istics. That is, they are all large, coarse, ugly, 

 flop-eared, and of jazy, indolent habits. The 

 small class, before mentioned, comprises the po- 

 pular Berkshire, the Cobbett. and the once ad- 

 mired but now abandoned Guinea. This class, 

 especially the Berkshire and the Cobbett, are re- 

 markable lor beauty and symmetry of form, hav- 

 ing great length and thickness, with small head 

 and standing ears, and small and well turned legs, 

 not so short as to render locomotion diflicult. With 



