■of raising a thrifty animal, till last year, 1834,1 had two heifer calves dropped 
the 4th May.: anxious to raise them, altho’ of our common breed, but their 
dams were excellent milkers, I determined to try to raise them on whey. 
When they were 4 weeks old, I began to mix whey and a small quantity of 
shorts of wheat with their milk, and gradually lessened the quantity of milk, 
till they were 5 weeks old, and stopped the milk and fed them whey three 
times a day, and at morning and evening mixed a single handful of shorts for 
-each calf with the whey; at noon, fed the whey alone. We set the whey 
in a clean vessel in a cool place, where it would not sour, for evening, 
warming it to near animal heat. In the morning, fed the first whey dip¬ 
ped from the cheese, and when about ten weeks old, one of them was kill¬ 
ed by accident; to the other, we ted shorts hi! it was three months old; 
after fall feed was good, we fed her whey twice a day for a time, and then 
once a day, as long as we made cheese. In the winter, besides hay, she 
was fed a single handful, about § of a gill of flaxseed, mixed with a pint of 
wheat bran, twice a day; did not feed her any higher, as she was in as 
good flesh as was desired. She is now r the largest heifer of her age in 
the vicinity—is as large as my two years old heifers that had a liberal 
supply of milk for the first ten or twelve weeks, and much more grain the 
first winter. 
This year, 1835, we have fed two calves in the same manner; one of 
them has had no milk since it was twenty days old; it was in as good flesh 
but I think did not grow as fast for two or three weeks as it would on 
milk; they are doing a3 well as the one last year. I think they are now 
paining of some calves in the vicinity that run with their dams. 
° From the above observations, I have drawn the following conclusions': 
1st. That a calf may be raised well, on less than half the milk required 
to fatten it; that if they do not grow as fast for two or three weeks, they 
will gain it in the latter part of the season, and be better in the fall than 
those fed in the usual way. 
2d. That the feed of calves should not be changed suddenly from a li¬ 
beral supply of milk to grass, as it would not be very dissimilar to forcing 
a plant forward in a hot bed, and then transplanting it into the open air, 
when the temperature is but just above freezing. 
3d. That it is more profitable to feed whey to calves than to hogs. 
4th. That the practice is inexcusable of slaughtering calves and throw¬ 
ing their flesh to the hogs, because their milk will fetch more in cheese, 
than the veal will for the table. If the Creator had given us liberty to de¬ 
stroy the lives of his creatures thus wantonly—the flesh of the swine thus 
fed, must be unwholesome food. The fluids and flesh of carniverous ani¬ 
mals, or such as feed on flesh, are highly charged with acrid particles, 
which may strictly be termed poisonous. It is believed that nothing but 
extreme hunger will induce one carniverous animal to eat the flesh of 
another, except, that dogs kept on vegetable food, have sometimes been 
eaten by wolves; and it is believed that the flesh of dogs thus fed, would 
be less deleterious than pork fed on flesh; pork thus fed, should he prohi¬ 
bited from being sold for food, as it is calculated to produce the most viru¬ 
lent disorders, such as putrid fever, cholera, &c. 
M. R. PORTER. 
Fowler, Turnbull Co. Ohio, Oct. 12, 1835. 
IMPORTATION OF VALUABLE ENGLISH STOCK. 
I observe in the last number of the Genesee Farmer, a recommendation 
for the formation of an association to import Short Horned Cattle. 
I beg to state, that I have myself recently brought from England a num¬ 
ber of the best description of cattle, sheep and horses. The cattle are 
chiefly of the improved Durham Short Horns, amongst which are 4 year¬ 
ling bull calves, several heifers of the same age, and the rest milch cows; 
many of which are now in calf to my pure bred bull “ Rover,'’’’ sired by 
“ Rockingham.” My sheep were obtained from the best English breed¬ 
ers, and are of the most improved sort, remarkable both for quality and 
quantity of wool. The horses, comprise two yearling stud colts from the 
celebrated racing horse “ Humphery Clinker,” (out of thorough bred 
mares which I now have) one two year old stud colt of the hunting breed, 
by old Catfoss—one three year old stud of the Cleveland Bay, by 
“ Strickland’s King Alfred,” and several mares of the various breeds. 
The whole of the above were selected by myself from the most superior 
stock of that country. Should any of those gentlemen who are so lauda¬ 
bly coming forward to form the association alluded to for the important 
purpose of improving the stock of this country, deem it worth their notice 
to view the above, I shall have great satisfaction in showing the same to 
them. I likewise brought over with me some hogs, which I consider of 
an excellent kind. THOS. WEDDLE 
East-Bloomfield, October 6, 1835. 
BERKSHIRE PIGS. 
Mr. Buel,— Sir—If your patience is not already exhausted with my 
piggish epistles, I will trouble you with this, my last. 
The Berkshire breed of pigs now in my possession, were imported by 
Siday Hawes, Esq. in 1832. 
Previous to his leaving England to settle in this country, Mr. H. spent 
some time in search of the best breed of pigs to introduce here, and finally 
settled upon the Berkshire, as uniting the most desirable qualities; viz 
ood breeders, early maturity , and great aptitude to fatten. They are 
thick shortlego-ed, round bodied animals; remarkable heavy in the hams, 
and very peculiar for smoking, being more lean than fat, and may be killed 
at any weight from 25 to 700 lbs. 
I have tried this cross with my Improved Chind, a.p»d was much pleased 
with the result. A pig is now fattening, which when killed you may hear 
^This breed of pigs is spreading over the country—having sold them to 
Edwards Ogden, Esq. of Nevv-O, leans-J. Elliot, Esq of Tuscumbia, 
Alabama— Geo. S. Attmore, Esq. Newbern, N. C.—A. A. M. D. Robin¬ 
son of Kentucky, and to gentlemen in various parts of this state. 1 have 
only a few mates on hand for sale. My price for these, as well as the 
Chinese, is Ten Dollars a pair, not over eight weeks old—after that age, 
twelve and a half cents per pound extra for all over 45 pounds. 
The above cut represents a Berkshire sew—and from “ Parkinson’s 
Treatise on live Stock” I have transcribed the following account of this 
celebrated breed. 
“ The Berkshire pigs are distinguishable by their colour and shape. 
Their colour is spotted white, and some are sandy with small black spots 
irregularly all over them—a few are entirely sandy. The hair is long and 
thinly set, but much curled, looking very rough, and the real true breed 
feather-eared, which looks rather unseemly, but is found not to be an im- 
perfeclion. The hair indicates a coarseness, as if their skins were thick, 
but they are quite the reverse, the best sort, although very large, remarka¬ 
bly thin in the rind, and equally fine in the flesh; they are with very few 
or any exceptions better known by their hair than by any other appear¬ 
ance, and the best of these pigs have no bristles; indeed so remarkable 
are they in that respect that those I took to America received the name 
of ‘ Parkinson’s no bristle pigs.’ The Americans were so partial to this 
breed that I sold sucking pigs weighing 30 to 32 lbs. each when seven or 
eight weeks old at $20 for a sow, and $30 for a boar. I sold a sow pig at 
six months old for $70. One sow of this kind made $125 in eleven 
months: and Gen. Stone offered to lay 100 guineas that he would raise 
two of these pigs, and produce an increase of one pound a day for a whole 
year. This bet was offered in a public company and canvassed over, but 
was not taken, as their perfections had been seen. I knew a pair of the 
same breed, killed at the age of one year and a quarter, which weighed 
41 stone, consequently the pigs’ age being 456 days and the weight 574 
lbs. the increase for the time was 1 lb. 4 oz. and 9ds. a day. 
I have purchased of E. Phinny, Esq. of Cambridgeport, Mass, a 30 W 
pig of a breed very famous in that state known as the “ Mackey Breed,” 
which have taken several premiums at Brighton and other fairs, with 
which I intend crossing with my China and Berkshire as an experiment. 
I also engaged of a gentleman near Charlestown a pair of pigs of the same 
breed, but from some cause or other, they have not come to hand. 
I have also a pairof pigs which I procured of Judge Geer, of Glen’s Falls, 
very celebrated in the county of Saratoga, for great weight, having attain¬ 
ed at nine months 300 lbs. It is my intention to keep each breed pure 
and distinct, as well as to try the different crosses. Should I be success¬ 
ful in my experiments, you may hear from me again. 
CALEB N. BEMENT. 
Watervliet, Oct. 14, 1835. 
J. Buel, Esq.—Sir—Believing it the duly of every man to communi¬ 
cate to the public any information that he can give, tending to the advance¬ 
ment of agricultural improvements, I take the liberty to communicate 
the effect of an experiment, on the use of clothier’s flock as manure.— 
Observing at a woollen factory in my neighborhood, that they were throw¬ 
ing the shearings of the cloth and waste wool into the river, it occurred to 
me, that it being an animal substance, it would be a good manure. I pro¬ 
cured several wagon loads and spread on my land; but in order to test the 
value of it, I spread on a small piece of ground before ploughing about one 
bushel of the flock to a rod square of old corn hills, on a gravelly, paving- 
stone soil; and by the side of this, I spread hog manure at the rate of at 
least double that quantity, and ploughed both in. Where the flock was 
spread, I suffered no other manure to be used, and planted both with In¬ 
dian corn. On the ground where the hog manure was used, I manured 
in the hill with the same, and plastered twice; after the corn came up, 
and between the hoeing and harvesting the corn, I measured off seven 
square rods as correctly a3 possible, allowing half the space between the 
