NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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about the first of September, whence I remove them 

 to a pasture aljaccnt to my cornfield, and keep up 

 their condition by givins; them a small quantity of 

 green corn. When the time of fattening; comes on, I 

 have my hogs in very fine condition to take on fat. I 

 enclose them in a pen, and feed them altogether on corn 

 and water, and by the time the weather is cold enough, 

 which is the latter part of November, I slaughter them 

 at the ago of about eleven and a half months. "NVith 

 this treatment, they weigh from two hundred and 

 twenty- tive to two hundred and fifty pounds dressed 

 pork. In the mean time, my second litter comies on 

 in June, which have the benefit of the stubble with 

 the first litter ; and running with the sows, and suck- 

 ing, they get a very fine start. At about two months 

 old, I wean them and enclose them in a pen, taking 

 the same process as with the first litter, only forcing 

 their growth more rapidly by giving good slops, and 

 as much corn as prudent, without fattening too rap- 

 idly for their growth. I continue this process until 

 the first of January. -I then slaughter them at about 

 the age of six and" a half months. They will aver- 

 age one hundred and fifty pounds of dressed pork 

 very readily. This is no fiction, but matter of fact, 

 from personal observation. 



You will now i^erceive that from one sow, say 

 having two litters in one year, eight pigs in each 

 litter, the result will be as follows : First litter, eight 

 pigs, weighing two hundred and twenty-five to two 

 hundred and fifty pounds each, aggregate eighteen 

 hundred to two thousand pounds ; second litter, 

 eight pigs, average one hundred and fifty pounds, 

 aggregate twelve hundred pounds ; which would 

 make from three thousand to three thousand two 

 hundred pounds of dressed pork from one breeder. 

 This has been my treatment of hogs for the last few 

 years, and I am satisfied it is the most profitable way 

 I have ever tried, brother farmers, this is an exper- 

 iment on tlie Bedford hog, which has the qualities of 

 enormous size, and great tendency to fatten at any 

 age. Yours, &c., 



EDMUND J. ROSENBERGEK 



Smith's Creek Farm, Va., Jan, 1850. 

 — Genesee Farinar. 



FREE MARTINS. 



When a cow produces twins, one of which is a 

 male and the other a female, breeders have applied to 

 the latter the appellation of " Fur.E Martin." Among 

 many the i)rcsumption is, that such are always bar- 

 ren;' but it would appear from a note published some 

 years since in the Albany Cultivator, from the pen of 

 I. Cope, of Chester county. Pa., that such is not the 

 case. ilr. C. says, — 



" Having spoken last year to some of my friends, of 

 instances to which it was likely that heifers were 

 likely to breed, both of which were twins to males, I 

 can now state that they both produced calves this 

 spring. As it is supposed by most that this circxim- 

 stance can only happen when the heifer is the larger 

 of the twins, I have made some in<iuirics on this 

 point. In the first case, the female was decidedly 

 the larger of the two ; in the latter case, from what I 

 could learn, I think that there could be little doubt 

 that there was the same condition existing between 

 the two, although the difference in size may not have 

 been as marked as in the first instance." 



It is seldom that free martins are seen. Twins, or 

 two at a birth, are common ; yet in a vast majority 

 of cases the sex is the same in both. 



Bexsalkm, May 4, 1850. B. 



— Germantoion Telegraph. 



Keep notes of remarkable events on your farm. 



SUGAR CANE IN FLORIDA. 



Captain Sadler, of this vicinity, has produced, con- 

 sidering the circumstances under which it was grown, 

 the most extraordinary crop of sugar on record ; and 

 as the facts in regard to it, if generally known, may 

 be extensively beneficial to the country at large, we 

 shall proceed to enumerate them as we collected 

 them from him. 



He has produced twenty-five hogsheads of sugar, 

 averaging one thousand pounds, from one hundred 

 and ninety-five acres of cane, and has lost at least 

 fifty hogsheads by imperfect grinding — having 

 wrought nearly his entire crop by two broken rollers, 

 which would not admit of sufficient pressure to ex- 

 tract the juice by twenty per cent. Another source 

 of loss occurred in cutting down, from apprehension 

 of frost, about sixty acres of his best cane two months 

 previous to grinding it. The juice stood at the re- 

 markable altitude of 12° of Beaurae's saccharometer, 

 and the sugar is, consequently, of very superior 

 quality. The yield of molasses is about fifteen thou- 

 sand gallons. 



The circumstances which render this crop extra- 

 ordinary in this sugar climate, are, that it grew on 

 some of our ordinary high sandy hammock land, 

 which had been under a continuous cultivation of 

 corn and cotton crops for a period of ])crhaps fifty 

 years, and was literally worn out as regards these two 

 objects of culture — being incapable of producing five 

 bushels of corn or fifty pounds of seed cotton per 

 acre ; and what renders this crop still more remark- 

 able, is the fact, that a large portion of this land has 

 been five years consecutively in cane, without any 

 diminution in the annual jjroduce under so severe a 

 trial of its powers, and without the aid of a particle 

 of manure. 



It is a matter of every-day experience with us, that 

 rich land in Florida — whether virgin hammock or 

 land made fertile by the addition of manure — is 

 eminently adapted to the production of sugar-cane ; 

 but it remained to the enterprise and perseverance of 

 Captain S. to demonstrate to us the practicability 

 of growing this desirable object of culture profitably 

 on exhausted old fields, five years in succession, not 

 only without any diminution, but with a manifest 

 improvement in the yield. 



This presents a strong practical argument in favor 

 of a rotation of crops, and forcibly establishes the 

 inherent biit hitherto overlooked capabilities of our 

 worn lands on the llivcr St. Johns, by proving that, 

 however exhausted they may be by an Tinintermit- 

 ting succession of corn and cotton crops, they still 

 retain their pristine vigor in relation to sugar cane. 

 - — Jacksonville News, 



SORE TEATS IN COWS. 



P. Ilallock gives the following directions for the 

 management of cows that have sore teats : — 



" Take a full pail of cold water, and wasli and rub 

 the sores well. Use the whole pailful of water be- 

 fore milking, which cools the teats, or reduces the 

 fever, and the cow will stand perfectly still. After 

 milking, use half as much more cold water, cleans- 

 ing the bag and teats well, and in a few days the 

 sores will be healed. That is not all the good you 

 will receive. You will have clean milk, and that is 

 the way to have clean butter." 



Frvit Trees for California. — It is stated in an 

 exchange, that a very large invoice of fruit trees has 

 been sent from New Jersey to California. 



