1859. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



of the flock, independently of the other advanta- 

 ges which had been specified. 



Mr. Williams gave evidence much to the 

 same effect ; approved of raising sheep for lambs ; 

 held a cross of the native and South Down to be 

 the best for this region ; and said that the aver- 

 age price of lambs in Bristol county, in June, 

 was about $4. In the richer valley lands the 

 price of lambs might reach $5 per head. 



The subject for next Monday evening's discus- 

 sion is, "Fruit, and Hoio to Raise it" when Hon. 

 Simon Brown, of Concord, will preside. 



there would be a similar meeti. 

 Thursday, the 17th inst., and on the 

 Friday, at Marlow, at which meetings 

 Brown, editor of the J\l'eio England Farmer, 

 expected to be present and address the meetir 

 Yours truly, J. REYNOLDS. 



Concord, Feb. 7. 



Remarks. — Our correspondent sent us a full 

 and interesting account of this meeting, but it 

 came ofter our paper was nearly made up, so 

 that we have been obliged to sadly abridge it. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 EXPERIMENTS IN FATTENING SWINE. 



Mr. Editor : — 1 send you herein the result of 

 a few experiments in pork-raising in our village. 

 It is not pretended that there is anything very 

 unusual in the cases mentioned. If it should ap- 

 jpear, however, that frequent feeding &n^ full- 



[Note. — By an unfortunate transposition of the reporter, 

 the list of Peaes recommended by Col. Wilder at the meeting 

 when the subject of •■^ Fruit and Fruit Trees" was discussed, 

 was not properly printed in last week's N. E. Farmer. The 

 following is a correction : 



Best six pears on their own roots — Bartlett, Urbaniste, Vicar | 

 of Winkfield, Buffum, Beurre d'Anjou and Lawrence. 



For the best toeZre, add— Rostiezer,Merriam, Doyenne Bous-j feeding of spring pigs is the surest and readiest 

 BOck, Belle Lucrative, Flemish Beauty and Onondago. j ^ay to turn a penny in raising pork, I shall not 



Best six on quince roots— honise bonne de Jersey, Urbaniste, \^q disappointed. Nothing, I apprehend, is more 

 Duchess d'Angouleme, Vicar of Winkfield, Beurre d'Anjou and common or more unprofitable than tO buy shoats 



Glout Morceau.] 



in the fall, weighing in the neighborhood of one 

 hundred pounds, and in a year to turn out three 

 hundred and fifty pound hogs, and not much 

 more. 



Last June, Mr. Daniel Norton, Jr., of this 



For the Neiv England Farmer. 

 CHESHIRE COUNTY MASS MEETING. 

 Mr. Editor: — I attended another of the 

 Cheshire Co. Agricultural Meetings on Friday, 'town, purchased two spring pigs for $4 each, said 

 the 4th. The meeting was appointed at one j to be of the Chester county breed. They were 

 o'clock. Col. Read, of Swanzey, joined me at! taken from the sow about the last of June, being 

 Marlboro', where he had been waiting for the then two months old. They were slaughtered 

 train three hours. The colonel is a man of en- [December 2nd, when one of them weighed 320, 

 ergy, and has done his duty in this matter faith- 1 the other 310 pounds. These pigs had the skim 

 fully. At Keene we were joined by SamuelJ milk of one cow about three months, and of two 

 Woodward, Esq , Editor of the Sentinel. We | the remainder of the time. But they had as 

 reached the hotel of mine host of the Walpole'much Indian meal as they would eat. They were 

 House, a little after 4 o'clock, where we found i never fed less than three times a day, often four 

 about fifteen or twenty of the citizens awaiting and sometimes five. Pigs recently from the 

 our advent. The people assembled in the after- j mother, may safely and profitably be fed fre- 

 noon, and organized for the evening by the quently. The digestive powers are most active 

 choice of 1. Howland, Esq., as President, and in the j/oh^.c/ animal, as matter of theory even ; in 

 Mr. Stearns, Secretary, and adjourned to six practice it is found emphatically so; and if the 

 o'clock. Just before the meeting, Mr. T. Breed, animal is fed always, the growth is never stunted 

 editor of the New Hampshire Journal of Agricul-land the animal does about all it was made to do, 

 turc, came in. He is an energetic, intelligent] in a short time. These pigs M-ere seven months 

 man, full of life and animation, and added an- land four days old when butchered, and weighed, 

 other good fellow to our party. Soon after six! as above stated, 630 pounds, 

 the President opened the meeting by appropri-j Mr. Abel Goodhue bought a pig on the 14th 

 ate remarks, and then Col. Read made one of his of June last, then weighing 30 pounds. He was 

 straight-forward, business-like speeches. Then killed Dec. 12th, and dressed off 250 pounds. It 

 your humble servant occupied the floor for; was a cross of the Suflblk and Essex breed. 



about an hour, and was followed by Mr. Breed. 

 He spoke with special reference to the impor- 

 tance and advantage of sustaining an agricultu- 

 ral paper in New Hampshire, adapted to the 

 wants and circumstances of their State. They 

 were more engaged in stock and sheep raising 

 than were the people in some other States, and 

 they wanted to discuss these subjects, and other 

 matters of local importance, which they could 

 not expect to find in papers of other States. 

 They should have a paper which was in some 

 cort common property, upon whose pages they 

 could meet. He did not wish them to drop the 

 New England Farmer, or any other paper, but to 

 take the Journal of Agricidture in addition. At 

 the close it was announced that in two weeks 



This pig had the skim milk of one cow only, and 

 twelve and one-half bushels of meal. This was 

 his entire keeping, with the exception of from 

 two to three bushels of potatoes, in addition to 

 slop from the house. Here was a gain of just 

 about one and a quarter pounds a day : another 

 proof of the advantage of the fast-feeding of 

 young animals — and none probably doubt that 

 the meat is sweeter through all its stages. 



I add the following, not as an example of rap- 

 id growth, for it goes to show, like the cases be- 

 fore cited, that the gain is less rapid as well as 

 more expensive, as the animal advances in age ; 

 but on account of the accuracy with which the 

 experiment was conducted. It is really to be 

 wished that all engaged in the fattening of 



