350 
INCREASE OF PIG POPULATION, ETC. 
INCREASE OF PIG POPULATION. 
The following table will show the rapid increase 
of the pig. Supposing the first litter to be when 
it is 12 months old, and that it has a litter every 
six months ; and that it has an average of six pigs 
every litter. The sows to be kept in a breeding 
state till 3 years old, and then fatted off. Average 
4 cwt. when killed, and all the hogs to be fatted 
of! by the time they are 12 months old, and average 
2 cwt. when killed. 
Date of 
Increase 
and Sale. 
Breeding 
Sows. 
Inc. of Stock. 
Stock Sold. 
Weight 
of Fat 
Bacon 
in cwts. 
For 
Brd’ng. 
For 
Fat’ng. 
1 yr. old 
Hogs 
2ewt.ea 
3 yr. old 
Sows 
4 cwt. ea 
End of 
1 
3 
3 
1801 
1 
3 
3 
4 
12 
12 
3 
1802 
7 
21 
21 
3 
6 
Old sows deducted ..1 
1 
10 
6 
18 
54 
54 
12 
24 
1803 
39 
117 
117 
21 
42 
Old sews deducted ..3 
3 
120 
36 
1804 
90 
270 
270 
54 
Old sows deducted ..3 
•• 
*• 
3 
246 
87 
204 
612 
612 
117 
Old sows deducted 12 
•• 
•• 
** 
12 
588 
192 
1805 
.... 462 
1,386 
1,386* 
270 
Old sows deducted 21 
.. 
•• 
•• 
21 
1,308 
441 
1,053 
3,159 
3,159 
612 
Old sows deducted 54 
•• 
•• 
64 
2,988 
999 
1806 
.... 2,385 
7,155 
7,155 
1,386, 
Old sows deducted 117 
•• 
] 
** 
117 
6,786 
2.268 
5,247i 16,281 
16,281 
3,159 
$14 ss'tes deducted 270; 
i 
- •• 
m 
15,390 
5,157) 
l 
1807 
.... 12,312’ 36,936 36,936 
7,155 
1 66,009 
l> 06,009 
12,792 
480 
27,508 
At the end of 1807, then there would be of 
'breeding pigs— 
612. 2k years old. 
1,386 . 2 years old. 
3,159. If year old. 
7,155.l*year old. 
16,281.1 year old. 
36,936 .sucking pigs. 
65,509 
53,217 
118,746 in all, besides the sale of 27,508 cwts. 
of bacon; and beside—16,281 hogs, f year old, 
and 36,236 sucking hogs .—Agricultural Gazette. 
Rag Weed. —It has been stated, we know not 
on what authority, that land, on which rag weed 
grows, is not suitable for sowing wheat. 
THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES. 
The most stupendous public improvement of 
modern times, is that proposed with reference to 
the peninsula of South Florida, called the “Ever¬ 
glades.” 
This region, including two large swamps, one 
called the “ Atsenahooffa,” on the western side and 
the other called the Halpabeoka, on the north¬ 
eastern side, and including the large lake Okech- 
obe, covers an area of seven millions of acres. It 
is now utterly worthless, four millions and a half 
of that area being usually submerged from two to 
seven feet. The Pahhayokee, or “ grass water,” 
as the Indians call the everglades, comprise be¬ 
tween one and one and a half millions of acres of 
the submerged lands. 
The Everglades is a basin of lime rock, and the 
bottom of it is said to be at least some twelve or 
fifteen feet above the level of the sea ; and the rim 
of the basin varying in width from half a mile to 
five miles, lies between the waters of the ocean on 
one side, and the Gulf of Mexico on the other. 
Deep tide rivers run from the ocean and gulf up to 
the margin or foot of this rim. Within the basin 
are thousands of islands of rich land. The glades 
are filled with a tall grass from six to ten feet 
high, the annual decay of which has occasioned a 
deposite in the water of from two to six feet thick. 
It is proposed to cut canals, or drains, through the 
soft rock of the rim into the rivers around it, 
in which, now, when the waters of the glades ar¬ 
rive at a certain height, they flow through fissures, 
or depressions, or confined subterraneous outlets. 
This will, it is said, reclaim for cultivation most of 
the subaqueous soil, and the two large swamps men¬ 
tioned, which are overflowed from the glades. The 
correct quantity of land estimated as reclaimable is 
one million of acres. The cost is estimated at from 
$250,000 to $500,000. Besides this, it is proposed 
as a part of the same improvement, to drain five o i 
six feet of Great Lake Okeechobee, nearly 40 
miles square, by two canals, each 12 miles long, 
| one into the Caloosa Hatchee, a river flowing intc 
j the gulf, and the other into the Locha Hatchee 
flowing into the Atlantic. In the largest estimate-. 
| of expenses above given, the cost of these two 
i canals is included. This, it is supposed, will dram 
^ some hundred thousand acres of the best bottom 
sugar land in the south, new valueless, lying on 
the Kisseme River, which annually overflows, ow¬ 
ing to the rise in the Okeechobee, into which it 
empties. 
Mr. Westcott, of Florida, introduced at the late 
session of Congress, a bill to grant all this region 
to his state, upon condition that it would drain 
them. We have before us Document No. 242, oi 
the Senate, containing interesting information on 
this subject. The Commissioner of the General 
Land Office, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the 
Committee on Public Lands of the Senate, have all 
decidedly reported in favor of the measure ; and a 
very able official report by a gentleman of high 
character for scientific attainments, who made an 
examination of the glades, it seems to us demon¬ 
strates the feasibility of the project. 
The land reclaimed is below latitude 27£°,. 
where there is no frost, and if the project succeeds, 
