No. U9.] 349 



Hogs are bought for feeding at 1 h and 2^ cents per pound live 



weiglit. 



The expense of feeding 100 head of cattle for six months may 

 be set down as follows : 



Dr. 

 Ninety-one bushels of corn to each one, at 25 cts. per 



bushel, per head, |22 7& 



And for 100 head of cattle and 200 heads of hogs, 2.275 00 

 Expenses on a draft of 100 head of cattle and 200 

 head of hogs, from S. Bloomfield, to New-York 

 mai'ket, 1,500 00 



Gross cost and expense, $3,775 00 



Cr. 

 Price of 200 hogs at 4^ cents per pound, live weight, $1,820^00 

 Cost of hogs at purchase, at $2 a piece. 400 00 



$1,420 00 



Sale of 100 head oi cattle at |7.50 a 100, 600 lbs.,. . . $4,500 00 

 Cost of cattle, 2,500 00 



$2,000 00 



Gross expense out, $6,675 00 



Nett receipts of the same, . . . ^ , 6,120 00 



Loss by this operation, |555 00 



But most feeders give only 4 months fieed, 



thisis 755 00 



Difference, $200 00 pr. 



But the market value in New-York is often higher than the 



above estimate, and all above yields a profit. 



VINCENT J. WILLIAMS. 



Judge Van Wyck observed that we shall be able to compete 

 here at the North with the South and West, so heavy are the ex- 

 pense of driving cattle here. 



