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Chester vs. Berkshire.
We arc very loth to say more
than will clear our tskirts from any
blame. Wc do t 1 >c<• i!u ! Jr?.it w<
do wrong in pmnKtmg NfMUU
nature to permit anger to get the
mastery, but ’it'is uur nature,*-y et
equally so to always make the amende.
On this hog question rrejyyye WW
pride, and we do not fed quite easy
under charges made, by,the quhl.c
and true, and as 'well, the knowing
and leadiug ones. A private letter,
and from a great breeder, reaches us
from .Kentucky,^ - which woTakc,
liberty to copy, in part; wc give tic
low. 'We assert,- we never ,wrote
AN ARTICLE SINCE TUB FARMER WAS
FIRST ISSUED, COMMENDING . •
Chester W hites. We tried them
before the country was overrun ; wc
discarded them* Our present printer
has printed our writings for the whole
time, and be will affirm that our re
commendations were the bTaek hog—
Essex or Berkshire. \\ c: wrote three
years ago, the ‘coming hog,’ our old
favorite. WeThave said, and do now
say, the Essex is as fajp. superior fo
any and' aH ^bbe 'hugs, ff Tthh
Southern planter, as the pure bred
horse is above the Indiani jmny. No
hog can excel it. that w<i ever saw,
except it may be the new Berkshire,
which wo term tire 'Ceehratrc denounced impor¬ the
tation: We have
Chester and the Silver humbug, as
not competent to stand Southern sun,
feed and attention ; also as being very
uncertain ar.d uuevcq in breed
perhaps onewptaiter, uiw4hM*d, onc
half or three-quarters may be good to
fino, but never did wc sec a whole
brood fine/ Wo hope this will do«~
No man can get us to brag on Ches¬
ters, or Improved Diddbe'rs,, for
twenty-five per cent., nor lor all.—
We have stood the abuse and insinua¬
tions of private letter-writers, and wc
now forbear to state tacts. Wo have
pride of a better judgment jind
hones ty after * icsfihg, and '
living know we sold all we had, and
stated wo woiiM not have them. ' Had
we a farm, wc would not Accept
either. When Tafge conmifibdalltms
of the Chester Whites w<?rc made, we,
were BOO miles south otPthe 'New
Orleans railroad, owned not a dollar
in the paper, aiid not bdugf-owner of
present, could not control its columns,
though we a (tin it wc should, as editor,
have had the right. We feel s<'H>,
and hope this will never be brought
up again. The following is the ex¬
tract:
“We would state that the $1000
premium which wc won at Chicago
was for the twenty best -hogs-of-any
breed, and we had to compete with
Chester Whites] Cheshire's, Essex
and Polland-Chmas; and also
shires from other States and Canada,
and our Berkshire* boro off the prkie
triumphantly; and the result is tuat
a number of breeders of other
breeds of liogs are abandoning them
altogether for the Berkshire, or.cross¬
ing them with the Berkshire to secure
more finish, early maturing and early
fattening qualities; at least this U the
case with the Poland China men, as
our numerous letters and sales testify.
state 7het e facts, ns we learn that
you aie not an advocate of the Berk
shires, hut adhere mostly to the
^ ^ TVc v wi". .OpJjWftg W' cVcrj
you oouM lu.vc
l*- ;i at Chicago /:r,£i. -Udis, where
so many of att breeds were brought
together:, kc do not think you would
fiaVCcver written another word in
favor of. Chester^ JVh ilcs.
•V Wc take the liberty to italicize, as
it bears on us. Our recommenda¬
tions have been the black hog—Essex
or Berkshire—and writings altered to
suit the Chester White. — F.c.
Hay Crop of the South.
*, The /January'llcport of the Agri¬
cultural Department at Washington
furnishes some valuable si alls tics.—
<*the\h>urh Tbqse in regard to fufTy'su^Tfluu,but thejbny c$pp~Trf
n^C^Offly- und in the
exceed the calculatimpi f
'January number of tins paper. It
furnishes us the ^vernge ItV price of hay
X){ fivo' years past, comparison,
lot ns take either Texas, Louisiana or
AikausaSf where thu-«MV*agc prodyo- llli
p-r acre} thd
‘ where the production fs
nets, average
133 tons per acie,., The average
price in these Stales for five years price in is
$17.60 per ton ; the average
Illinois 10r ~tiu> rtufle tiit*e'L ,, $S / 27 per
ttfn. Take on'* hundred acres of
grass in Texas, which would yield in
five years 750 tons of hay; at $17.60
qgr ton, would give $13,200. One
hundred acres in Illinois woulivield
/ « ii iro y ow Hi 6 6 i tm.vp* ats per
ton, would fcring $5,1)00, making a
difference of $7,700 in favor of the
Texas farm. But this is rot nil -—
The difference in the investment is
equally great. The hundred acres of’
land in the South could be bought for
'twenty dollars per actr; in Illinois it
would cost ony hundred, The in¬
vestment in the one ease would be
$2000; in the other, $10,000.
tVHuiliug ^ inJefW 'Oti flits hrVdStfiJGVt
at the same rate, say ten percent, and
then dedQdlfi’gThlJrJntcfest from the
have" value the of the following’ crop produced, we would
result: Texas
value of crcp,,.$i3,200 ; inter* 4$I000 >Uoii
investment^ n»r -five y 5 cofs, ;
leaving, $12,200. Illinois interest
<>u iorvcstinieVt Tor five ye^rs, 83000;
deducted from the value of crop
(#5 £00) leaves $500; or, if ran tiled
at five percent , would still leave but
$30t)0 as ''profit.,* Startling as aro
these figures,'we -aiq.fuBy persuaded
they can Vasily be exceeded. In¬
stead of 150 tons per acre, two tons
oau easily bo realized; and an aver
-agead twenty dollars.per ton could
readily be obtained. T Wc make some
figures upon this basis. Lands opened
.aud under, foice, with necessary
buildings, can be purchased in the
South forTeii (k41»**.por An
investment m thCw> to five thousand
dollars would put him in possession i f
a body of iaixtfv 21/) 'aerg* /of which
might be put in grass These 200
acres can be made to yield here, by
proper preparation, two tons per acre,
or 40Q tons of hay per annum. * This
hav, coming into market before the
Northern h iy, furnishes him a better
market, and he can easily sell it foi
twenty dollars per ton, yielding bore ,
an anual income of $16,000. Alter .
paying all expenses of taxetvinterest
on capital, labor, transportation, handsome etc.-, '
it will yield him a very net
profit. “I speak as would wise men ;
judge yc what I say ”— Bx.
Com Crop—Mode of Gather¬
ing.
EXTRACT FROM A TAFER READ BEF'iRB
THE TUCAHAHOK FARMERS’ CLUB
BY DR. THOMAS l'OLLARD.
' The general belief among the
fanners of the present day is, that
fodder palling “does not pay/’ If we
calculate the loss, of labor and the in¬
jury done to the corn, 1 suspect this
op'tiion is correct.
Ia lhc Farmers' Gazette, July,
1871, page 8, is contained ihc result
of ‘ Some careful tests inndr by Mr.
1). It. Harrison," an intelligent
planter of Prince George, Ya , in¬
stituted to ascertain the loss of
weight of corn by strippmg the blades
at the usual time of fodder pulling,
and also by the practice Virginia of cutting the
top, as is , usual in after the
car is well filled ;
Lbs. jwr low.
4 rows, blades pulled U> top 121
4 rows, blades left below the ear 134
4 rows, blades left on whole stalk 161
6 rows, blades pulled to top 88
6 rows, blades all left 128
1 row blades all left 142
1 row stripped, tops left ten days 114
1 row, blade all left 122
Ti c rows in the experiment being
long ami the whole covering several
acres, producing over twenty barrels
to tlu* acre, the test is a valuable one.
It indicates a considerable loss in
every instance of comparison by the
fodder pulling. article
In the same is the report of
another experiment made a good
many years since by Mr. Seaborn, of
South Carolina. “He tested on
twelve rows of corn as uniform in
every reft poet as possible. Four
rows, 1, 4, 7 aod 10 were left w ith
the blades on, and the corn when dry
shelled out 71^ pounds, measuring A
pecks, 1 gallon, 2quarts, jum«. —
Four ru.vvs, 2, 5, 8 ami 11 were strip¬
ped of their blades at the usual time
of fodder pulling, and shelled out
only 55 pounds, and measured 4
pecks and | pint. The I odder from
there rows when cured weighed
eighteen pounds, which added to the
55 pounds of corn, makes only ^
poiind more than the clean corn from I
the rows on which the blades were !
left. The remaining rows, 3, 6, 9, •
12 were Eft until the b!ad< s were dry ^
up to the car, and qu some .stalks to I
the tv*p, then cut down and shucked
in the field, and shelled out 7u4
pounds, and measured 4 peeks, I
gallon, 2 quarts and I pint. This
last result corroborates that of the first
four rows, and tho wh^le testimony
of the experiments is strongly to tho
efifect that by pulling the blade fod¬
der we"lose iu the weight of the corn
almost ns many And, pounds as wc make the’1 in
the fodder" added to this,
writer might labor have in the said we lose the \
cost of the fodder pulling. *
1 bedieve the proper plan is to cut
down the corn when matured, shock,
and when dry gather the corn and fetd
the fodder to our stock
You will observe in the last experi¬
ment quoted there was only the loss of
one pound of corn by this process, in
comparison with that where all the
blades were left on tho corn. 1 am
informed, too, by a member of our
club that, after careful experiments, this plan
he has found the expense of
twenty five to thirty per cent, less
than that of pulling fodder and cut¬
ting "tops. Tho corn knife undo
from An old scythe or grass, blade,
having a handle well riveted on at
the blacksmith's is the best imple¬
ment. lor cutting down the corn—de¬
cidedly preferable to the hoe In
.shocking the corn, -you will find a
plan u.-cd by my friend, Dr. Cren¬
shaw, and myself jointly tho past by season, good on
a field owned us, a
one. Shock the corn on a pole Iron;
ten to fifteen feet long, planks supported at
each end by crossed bored by
u or 2 inch augur, and the pole in¬
setted through .those, or support the
pole by benches (which we useu)
made of scantling, pole aud sufficiently
high to raise the t > the proj>cr
height for the com—this height de¬
pot ding in a measure upon the length
of the stalks After setting up one
shock on the pole, you readily remove
it tor another shuck, aud so on until
the field is finished. If the fodder is
at all grren and the corn not w-II
dried, it is well to cut down some six
rows :;t a time, leaving six standing.
Alter .shocking the first six, and giving
it lime to cure, yoti then go back, and
fiuish the other six, shocking ou the
unfinished shucks.
Gall h'ouj). — For the washing of
fine bilkin doth* and ribbons, gall
soap is pn pared in the following
manner: In a vessel of copper one
pound of cocanut Fahrenheit, oil js heated to
sixty half degrees whereupon
a pound of caustic s d i is added
with constant stirring. Jn another
vessel, halt a pound of while Vene¬
tian turpentine is heated, aud when
quite hot, stirred info the copper ket¬
tle. This kettlo is then covered and
left for four hours, being gently
heated, after which tin* fi e is increas¬
ed until the cotttcotg arc peifi etly
clear, wheieitpon one pound of ox¬
gall in added. After this, enough
g»od, perfectly dry castilc soap i»
stirred into the mixture lo cause the
whole, to yield but. little under the
pressure ol :bc Unger; for which pur¬
pose, from one to two founds of
soap arc required for the above
quantify. Alter cooling ihe soap is
cut into picco-L Jt is excellent, ami
will nut injure the finest c *l»r.— Kc.
Burns .— Wui II. Lewis arntL- ua
the following remedy which he has
thoroughly Ouo tested aud knows to be
good ; ounce air-slacked lime
and three ounces hug’s iard y mix
thoroughly and apply to th > burn. It
will afford immediate re iof, and when
applied to a fresh burn wiil heal the
sore and leave no rear. Wo may say
that whatever will exelide air will
give relief.—AU.