VOL,. XIX NO. 45. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



357 



127 lbs. 

 825 lbs. 



$G 00 



and sent him on to New York market, weighing 

 140 lbs. He fell short 13 pounds, and with the 

 loss of freight, brought 6 dollars a hundred — ^just 

 what I afterwards obtained for my old hogs, at 

 liome, and home weight. Now it is estimated, I 

 believe with agricultural accuracy, that a hog to a 

 cow, may be kept in fine condition through the 

 summer ; and I am well persuaded, with the aid of 

 a little clover feed, my three old hogs would have 

 been in as fine condition and as ready for market 

 as that pig. Why old hogs, under like advanta- 

 ges, may not be brought forward for an early mar- 

 ket, as well as pigs, we are yet to be informed. 

 To be sure, the pig took no corn in the fall, and 

 that I set off against the dairy, which is enough in 

 all conscience; and it must be recollected, that I 

 had no old corn in either of the experiments. 



Mr Editor, you or some one else have said, you 

 are very fond of agricultural figures. The cost of 

 the 4 pigs, in the first experiment, which was 10 

 dollars. I balance against the 4 shoats before win- 

 tering, and cast out of the account. 



Average weight of the 4 pigs in the first experi- 

 ment, 150 lbs., GOO lbs. 

 do do 4 old hogs, 300 lbs., 1200 lbs. 

 Average weight in the second experi- 

 ment, 1 pig 



do 3 old hogs, 275 lbs.. 

 Average weight of the 3 shoats before 

 wintering, .50 lbs., at 4 cts. per lb. 

 The result of the two e'cperinients, it will be 

 perceived, is, that we have 2025 lbs. of old pork 

 well fatted, for 727 lbs. pig pork, such as it is, at 

 equal prices! No, this is it; we have 1300 lbs. 

 lacking 2 lbs., well fatted old pork, for the whole 

 Bum of G dollars ! — which would you take .' 



These two experiments have done me up on the 

 subject of Piggeries, to adopt the language of the 

 modern agricultural nomenclature. I have be- 

 come a true convert and disciple to the science of 

 Hogology ! 



To conclude : were I to form a perfect Hoggery, 

 and that most applicable to the dairy, it should be 

 this. I would have a convenient home orchard, 

 bearing all kinds of fruit, of double capacity to 

 subserve the necessities of the hoggery. This I 

 would slit in two in the middle, in a direction from 

 the house backwards, so as to bring the two ends 

 of the lot, nearest to the house, in juxta-position 

 with the cot and swillery. To complete the picture, 

 nature should cause a little rill or warbling brook 

 to meander through it, transversely with the divi- 

 eion fence. The former I intend to have, as I 

 have already planted out the trees ; the latter I 

 cannot have, as I am situated on a hill, high and 

 dry. One side of this division should be well laid 

 down with clover, while the other should remain in 

 tillage, ready to be laid down as the other ran out, 

 and so on alternately, ad infinitum. That in til- 

 lage, I think should be in potatoes or some other 

 root crop, and a crop fence, to recede by succes- 

 sive sections, that the hogs may be their own dig- 

 gers, and save me the trouble of the back-ache. 

 Then put on a hog, an old hog, or even double the 

 number, to that of the dairy cows kept on the farm, 

 and if you do not find fat old hogs in the fall, with 

 little or no care, I will confess I do not know what 

 a fat pig is ! Your subscriber, 



D. BARNUM. 

 Mto Fairfield, Jpril 11, 1841. 



The first elements of wealth are obtained by la- 

 bor from the earth and waters. — Franklin. 



For the New England Farmer. 



IN SE.ASON. 



How few there are who fully understand the im- 

 port of these words — that is, if we may judge from 

 their actions. The man who in every department 

 of life keeps these words before him, and acts up 

 to the divine injunction, "Do ye to others as ye 

 would that others would do unto you," will be a 

 happy man ; while on the other hand, he who for- 

 gets that it is his imperious duty to be always in 

 season, is dishonest, not only to himself, but .niso 

 to his fellow men. 



If we go to purchase of a tradesman at midday, 

 and find his shutters and doors clo.sed and bolted, 

 we shall feel disappointed. We shall s,ay that he 

 is neglectful of his business, and that he does not 

 deserve the custom of any one. 



Again : should we employ a mechanic to labor 

 for us, and he did not make his appearance until 

 half of the forenoon had passed away, should we 

 feel that he, at night, deserved the same amount 

 of pay, that he would have been entitled to had he 

 commenced work early in the morning ? Certainly 

 not. Indeed we should think hardly of a man who 

 treated us thus, and that too with the greatest rea- 

 son. 



Should we employ a farmer, and he too, like the 

 tradesman and mechanic, should be behind the time 

 an hour or two, should we, at the time of settle- 

 ment, like to give him the same we should those 

 who came in season in the morning and wrought 

 hard the day through .' No, we should not. The 

 truth is, man does not dea.1 on the score on which 

 Christ dealt when he gave to those who came at 

 the eleventh hour a penny. Men are rigid in their 

 dealings, and, as a general thing, do as they are 

 done by, instead of doing aa they would be done 

 by. Thus each one, whether he be a man of busi- 

 ness, a mechanic or farmer must be himself or 

 through a faithful agent, attentive to his own busi- 

 ness and interests. 



It is an old saying that "if we do not look out 

 for ourselves no one will look out for ua ;" but 

 this saying is not true. Though we lounge in 

 bed until the sun is risen high and shining bright; 

 though we are inattentive to business; though we 

 neglect to see that our accounts are kept square, 

 that our bills are paid ; still we shall not be for- 

 gotten. The merchant, the mechanic, and the far- 

 mer will all remember us, and will, in due time, 

 bring in their bills against us — bills which we 

 must pay, or our goods, our shops, and our farms 

 will be mortgaged or appraised and sold. So you 

 see it is plain that whether we look out for our- 

 selves or not, others will look out for us. Yes, un- 

 less we rise in season, unless we are in season to 

 our business, and finally in season to every avocn,- 

 tion of our lives, our pockets will be lean of cash, 

 and our children will be clothed in rags and grow 

 up in ignorance. Yes, nothing will there be about 

 us, but what will bear the mark of our slothfulness, 

 and it is said by high authority, that "the slothful 

 shall be under tribute;" "the way of the slothful 

 is a hedge of thorns." While on the other hand 

 it is said, "Be instant in season, and ye shall reap 

 if you faint not." Yours, &c. 



JiMMT IN THE COUNTRV. 



Pity is a passion proceeding from the misfor- 

 tune of another. Envy is a passion proceeding 

 from another's success. — Addison. 



The Skunk — again. — The merits of this hith- 

 erto much abused animal, are beginning to be de- 

 veloped and appreciated. — Subjoined is Gov. Hill's 

 testiiiiony of his worth, which we extract from the 

 last Monthly Visitor. It would seem that the good 

 which the skunk (out upon that name I) accomplish- 

 es in his way, fully atones for whatever is offen- 

 sive in those striking peculiarities and mischief- 

 working eccentricities of his character, for which, ' 

 ever since mother Eve nibbled the pippen, he lias 

 been noted and persecuted. The testimony of bo 

 eminent an individual as Gov. Hill in favor of the 

 skunk, WK think is entitled to great weight, and we 

 trust it will have its due influence in preventing a 

 farther war of extirmination upon the animal, whose 

 virtues (which have too long been destined to 

 " blush unseen and waste their sweetness on the 

 desert air,") should ensure him the protection of 

 7nen, if they cannot secure him against the annoy- 

 ance of dogs. — N. E. F's Pr. Dev. 



" The skunk is so mischievous and offensive that 

 man always wars upon him, when he may do it 

 with safety. But it has become evident that we 

 have not done the animal justice. He works in 

 the night, and therefore little of the good he does 

 comes withm our observation. He not only de- 

 stroys in their season, in the warm nights of early 

 summer and autumn, thousands of the beetles and 

 other insects and worms that destroy vegetation 

 and grain — but the moles and mice that infest the 

 ploughed and grass grounds, find in him an enemy 

 that hunts them to a good purpose for the farmer. 

 Last year, there was in this region not over half a 

 crop of potatoes ; and of this half a crop, in some 

 fields the moles and mice made sad havoc. We 

 know that a pair of skunks whose burrows were 

 near a potato and cornfield of six acres, saved us 

 many bushels by hunting out of the ground and 

 destroying the mice that in great numbers had 

 found a place of retreat under the sward of the 

 field, which had been turned down in the early 

 spring. If the skunks shall not molest us, let them 

 live and do good." 



To Cure a Burn. — " A Lady," in the Knoxville 

 Register, gives the following recipe for a burn : — 

 " Scarce a month passes away but we read or hear 

 of some accident caused by fire. I send you the 

 following prescription for a burn, believing if it 

 were generally known, that much suffering might 

 be alleviated. Take a table spoonful of lard, half 

 a table spoonful of spirits of turpentine, and a piece 

 of rosin as large as a hickory nut, and simmer them 

 together till melted. It makes a salve, which, 

 when cold, may be applied to a linen cloth and 

 laid overthe burn. If immediately wanted, spread 

 it on the cloth as soon as melted — it will very soon 

 cool. I have seen its application after the corrod- 

 ing effects of chemical poisons, after a foot has 

 been burned by boiling sugar, after severe scalds, 

 and in every case the sufl^rer obtained perfect ease 

 in ten or fifteen minutes after it was used. It 

 may be applied two or three times a day, or as of- 

 ten as the cloth becomes dry." 



A sound economy is a sound understanding 

 brought into action. It is calculation realized. It 

 is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice. 

 It is the foreseeing contingencies and providing 

 against them. — Hannah More. 



Incredulity is the wit of fools Raleigh. 



