372 THE CULTIVATOR. 9s* 
A Suffolk Pig. 
Luther Tucker, Esq.—I with this send you a type of a Suffolk Sow I had from the J. C. Jackson impor¬ 
tation. I slaughtered her at twenty-two months old. I took her from her second- litter of pigs-, when they 
were six week’s old, Not. 20th. On the 27th of the next Mareb, I slaughtered her. 
Her live weight was,.-—-.-.-.450 Ibs.- 
ller carcass and loose fat weighed a fraction over 400 lbs. say, .— -- — • -•-— -400 
Loss. - ------.... ..... . --- --.50 
Auburn , N. Y. April 20, 1854. J. M. Sherwoo. 
[The above though dated six months since, only reached us last woek.] 
The Health and Comfort of Horses Sacrificed, 
This is a thing which may be seen almost every day. 
The ways in which it is done are manifold. The health 
and comfort of man’s noble servant are sacrificed in 
the stable, on the road, and also when tied up without 
shelter from cold and wind, while his master is eozily 
enjoying himself by a warm fireside. The feelings of 
every one who has any compassion in the constitution 
of his nature, must often be pained by sights which 
so often come before him of the comfort of the noble 
horse so horribly neglected, and heedlessly sacrificed. 
One of the ways in whieh this is done, is probably 
little considered. Many owners of horses, probably, 
shut them up in a close, unventilated and perhaps dark 
stable, without its once occurring to them that they 
are thus injuring the health and destroying the eom- 
fort of their animals. The stench and pungency which 
meet one on opening the stable-door in the morning, 
might make some think of this matter who do not seem 
to. If they were shut up a night or a few hours in 
their own stable, perhaps then they might. A horse 
cannot breathe the atmosphere of many stables with¬ 
out injury to hi3 eyes, and especially to his lungs or 
respiratory organs. As this, is the season when horses 
are being stabled, pasturing being about over, it would 
be well for many horsos and for their owners too, if 
they would see that their stables are provided with 
means of ventilation and that every source of pungent 
and foul smells, be removed as early and as effectually 
as possible. ♦ 
Farming in California. —The Alta Calf drum, 
speaking of farming in that state, says “there is no 
branch of business considered at a lower ebb in this 
country at present than farming. It is the general im¬ 
pression that every one engaged in this occupation is 
driving a ruinous business. It is scarcely reasonable to 
suppose that it would be otherwise, when it is borne in 
mind that wheat is not selling at one half the price it 
brings in New-York, while labor on this side of the 
continent is three or four times as high. The native 
richness of our soil makes up, however, in some in¬ 
stances, for this discrepancy. In conversation yester¬ 
day with a farmer from Alameda County, on the bay, 
about ten miles south of Oakland, he informed us that 
he had found his erop this year quite profitable. Mis 
land is a very choice selection. He had 73 acres of 
oats, whieh yielded 7,200 bushels, or about 05 bushels 
to the acre; 23 acres of wheat, which yielded 1,800 
bushels or about 78 bushels to the acre; 25 aeres of 
bailey yielding 1,500 bushels,or 60 bushels to the acre £ 
and 53 aeres of potatoes, 17 of which had been dug, 
producing 2,600 sacks of 130 lb. each, or nearly 20,000 
lbs. to the acre.” 
