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THE tlXINOIS PARMER. 



the Qom. caimot be groacd^ Itsboafd ha c o oke d 

 whole; that is, boileci pertectlj soft, so that tba 

 hog will chew it as easily as if made into mush, 

 ani every pat-ticle of it be digested. 



There are lereral taatters of detail which 

 nllght be noticed, to carry oat the plan of baild* 

 ing, cooking, &c., bat I here give the general 

 idea, which ia saggestive to any ingenioai man 

 to anderstand it. In this way, I ventare the as- 

 sertioD, that fall one-third the corn that is fed 

 in the «ld way will be saved, and t'le pork be of 

 a much better qaality; and the extra qaality of 

 the pork» and the price it will bring from those 

 who wish to pat up a choice article, will pay 

 the increasfld expense of feeding on this plan. 

 The hog is always dry, comfortable and qaiet; 

 when not feeding, he is at rest, and has nothing 

 to do bat grow tat. 



The idea of having a better qaality of pork, 

 by this way of feeding, may be a new one, and I 

 will explain. There is not' so sweet pork made 

 as dairy pork — that made on batter milk, skim- 

 med milk and cheese whey, thickened with 

 ground corn, oat, rye, or barley meal, boiled 

 potatoes, &c. Every boase-keeper who has ased 

 the article knows this to be a fact; and the 

 other fact, that sachpork will bring him a cent 

 or two on the poand, in oar Eastern markets, 

 more than Western pork sells for, settles the 

 matter. Now this pork, made on cooked food, 

 ia as good'as d&iry pork — the same article, in 

 fact, only that there is no milk in it. 



Here the objection, of "too. much labar," may 

 come up again. My answer to this is: Qet sn 

 Irishman to tend yoar hogs; he had rather do 

 this than any other work you oaa pat him at^ 

 for Paddy cleaves to a pig "like a vsrra brither." 



Toar hogs will then be fat in half the time 

 they would on the old plan, and the pork be bet> 

 ter. Yoa save all the manure, and the basiness 

 is doae up tidily and well. The breeding sows 

 can be pat iu the pens, when the fatting bogs 

 are turned ofif, and rear the yocng pigs aafely, 

 and with little trouble or loss, and thus pay yoa 

 twenty-bve per cent, annually on its cost, in Bar- 

 ing grain. 



Think as little of this plan as yoa may, yoa 

 must.oome to it at last, my Western brethren, as 

 we at the North have done for the last half 

 century. LEWIS P. ALLEN. 



*If there be so ipring, etrtem, or well on the plMs, mm 

 tronehi nsy be made to the Moft, and a targe mpglj of water 

 ma; be ured in detenu. 



p^erstbe water, and only takes the mad as an 

 alternativej and when his wallowing is ddne, he 

 lotea to go and rab the dirt off his bides, and lie 

 down in a clean, comfortable bed. Sachiswhat 

 the hog likes, and what be will always do, if he 

 can. It DO grorels in dirt and filth, it Is a mat- 

 ter of necessitj, not of choice. Thus, then, the 

 modes of tet;ding that have been noticed, are not 

 what the bog wosid choose, if he had a choice, 

 bat vhat he is obliged to submit to, and there- 

 fore not natural to him. 

 . I will now speak of what I believe to be the 

 most economical ivayof fattening bogs, even at 

 the West, where corn "costs nothing," but labor 

 everything. lathe first place, a small field, or 

 jard, of an acre or two, more or less, according 

 to the&amber of hogs to be fed, sbould be in- 

 closed. If a spring, or running wator, is in- 

 closed, all the better. Within this inclosare, 

 near the water, erect a building thirty feet wide, 

 ai^ as many feet long as you have hogs to feed; 

 lay a good tight floor in it; through the centre 

 lengthwise ran an alley or passage, six feet wide, 

 which will leave a room twelve feet wide on each 

 Side; partition each room into apartments of 16, 

 20 or 24 fest, as yoa please, allowing a hog for 

 erery two feet of length, measared on the alley; 

 pat a good plank f^ing trough next to the 

 alley, inside of each room so partitioned, with 

 stancheoos on the side of the troagh next to the 

 h3gB, to keep them from getting into it; six feet 

 back of that lay a plank edgewise, and six 

 inches higb, parallel with the trough, well se- 

 cnrl^, so as to make a partition, separating 

 their beds from the feeding floor, and in that 

 bed room lay straw, or not, as you please — it 

 wiU be warmer with straw than without it; let 

 one or two open windows, say eighteen inches 

 square, with sliding shatters, be cat in the rear, 

 three feet above the floor, to let in air and light, 

 or shot the light and air out, and to throw the 

 manure out, which ought to bo done at least 

 twice a week. Thus yoa have two rows of par- 

 allel pens, each fronting on the alley, allowing 

 two feet to a hog, as he stands with his hes^d to 

 the troagh. Then, at od« end of yoar building 

 which is one story higb — and that is enough.' 

 tmless j(n want storage for some of yoar corcf 

 or Other crops, over-head, when you may have it 

 a story and a luilf, or two stories—put up an- 

 othttr^ building, say forty feet long, by thirty 

 wide, and two storieshigh-Hjependiag on the 

 nuEOLberof hogs you feed. If the establishment 

 is a l&f^~ oni^, I would have this additional build- 

 ing In the ©enter, letting the Jong way of it run 

 crosswise of fhe hog boose, and project five feet 

 from eacb side, and run the roof the other way 

 from the pens, so as to give it an agreeable 

 ardiite^tural appearance. In this building 

 shotild be set a cooking apparatus, somewhat like 

 that deacribied for the cattle, bat without a false 

 bottom in the cooking vat, as the vats are to 

 hold meal Or shelled corn. The corn should be 

 ground, if possible, and then thoroughly cooked; 

 or If not cooked, large vats or tubs should be 

 used, ia which to mix up the food with hot 

 water,* and leave it to ferment before feeding. 

 It wilt g^o mach further ih that way, and the hogs 

 like It better. Tor choice, I should cook it. If 



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