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These hogs number from 150 to 200. That is a lot on which 

 100 head of cattle are fed, will furnish food sufficient to keep 150 

 large, or 200 small hogs. The hogs will eat up all the corn 

 which is left on the ear or scattered by the cattle trampling on 

 it, and also the litter which passes from the cattle. This con- 

 tains a portion of the corn imperfectly digested. 



Indeed, the hogs will eat up the litter of cattle thus fed clean, 

 after the hogs have remained on the feeding grounds some three 

 hours. 



The cattle are then driven into another lot to feed for the 

 evening. 



We give the hogs no other feed than what they pick up on the 

 feeding grounds. 



They will improve in this way from 100 to 150 pounds each ; 

 during the time of feeding, say from 4 to 6 months. We feed our 

 cattle no meal, but I am certain that the feeding on meal is the 

 most economical. The drovers and feeders generally are of 

 opinion that cattle will get as fat on one-half to two-thirds of the 

 quantity of food when ground into meal, as they now do, fed on 

 corn stalks and the ears of corn ; but cattle must be loose when 

 fed on meal, and will not drive as well. They fall away more by 

 driving, and will not travel well. 



Cattle being ready for market, I drive by land ; in droves of 

 100 to 110 in each drove. 



The method of feeding on the road to market, is much the 

 same as on the feeding grounds ; some drovers feed twice a day ; 

 but a majority feed only once a day, at evening. While on the 

 road we drive slow at the first sitting out, not to exceed 8 miles 

 a day if the excess can be avoided, and vfe increase to 15 miles a 

 day as occasion may require ; from 10 to 12 miles a day is as far 

 as a drove will do well ; but even at this rate cattle will shrink 

 in their weight 100 pounds each, in coming from my feeding 

 grounds atS. Bloomfleld, to the New- York market. 



