Rising Sun Times, Volume 3, Number 133, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 28 May 1836 — Page 4

THE FARMER.

From the Gen we Farmer. ON KEEPING IIOlJS AX1 FATTENING rOKK. To my son Another branch of stock -husbandry interesting to farmers, and to many who are not farmers, remains to be considered. I am now speaking of the husbandry of hog?, and fattening pork. Almost every family, especially if localed in the country, should fatten every year at least one good hog. This is necessary to prevent the waste of many articles which must be cast r.l it ill nlhrrni hp lost- T7 f trmers, the fattening of pot k is often a lucrative branch of their husbandry, and it might become, to many of them at least, far more so than it is, if they would learn hoT to conduct it in betler accordance with the principles of economy. A few suggestions to aid your improvement in this important branch of husbandry, will constitute the subject of this letter. The husbandman or householder who undertakes to fatten pork, should in the first place, be careful to procure a good breed of hogs. This is very important, far more so than seems to be generally understood. It is a fact well ascertained, that there are, among different breeds of hogs, very great differences as to their propensities, or lack of propensities, to thrive and fatten. Some arc voracious eaters, and yet slow to acquire flesh; while others require but little food to keep them in a thrifty condition, and possess withal remarkable propensities, to fatten. Those who best understand the subject, are not of the opinion that large boned hogs, or hogs that are capable of attaining to the greatest bodily stature, are, in general, the most profitable. Unquestionably the most profitable hogs are such as are capable r l,: v.s i fit t -,... c .1 pork at the least expense. These it is 8aid are not often found among hogs of gigantic statures, but are to be looked for rather among the smaller breeds. There are now in the country several breeds of hogs, known by their distinctive names, and all recommended by their respective friends, as breeds of superior excellence. Among these are the China breed, the Byfield, the Berkshire, the Bedford, and some others. I know not their comparative merits. It may not be easy for you to obtain any of them in their purity, but in different decrees of intermixture the most of them are to be found in nearly all narts of the country. It is not so much my object to put you on pursuit of any particular breed of hogs, as to impress on your mind the importance of seeking after and obtaining a good breed. This, it is believed, you can do, without travelling far in pursuit of your object. To the householder who intends to fatten pork, it is a matter of some importance to know, whether hoes that have been kept over the winter, or f pring pigs, are the most profitable for that use. When it is intended to latten pork on a small scale, in connec tion only with one, two, or three hogs, it is, in general, the way to depend for that purpose entirely on spring pigs, and thus save the expense and trouble incident to keeping hogs through the winter, Pigs that come in March or early in April, can, if they are of good breed, easily be made to weigh, at the proper season for butchering, 200 weight or more, after they arc dressed. If taken proper care of, they will do this on an average. The pork thus obtained will, in general, have cost less than such as has been made of hogs that have been kept over the winter. As hogs do not, in general, thrive well in the winter; as their keeping at that season is peculiarly expensive; and as they arc rarely found in the spring to he much in advance of what they were in the fall, it is worthy of consideration whether it wot:!d not be belter to depend for making poik chiefly on spring pigs. I propose this as a question, not meaning to be considered as answering it in the affirmative. 'All preliminary questions being settlcd, and possession gained of a good breed of hogs, the next care of the husbandman should be, to make himself acquainted with the best methods of feeding them, and to practice accorJ : I m ir I . i - . uingiy. i o auora mem, in every stage of tlielr existence, plentiful supplies of limn, at lfnv.t cuflw-inl cnnii hi' In Lifn , ... ....... J them, all the while, in-a thrifty and . growing condition, is an indispensable requisite. A poor hog, whose carcase is composed oi nine eise man skui and bones, is a sight dismal to behold, and whenever nich a wretched animal is seen, he bears disgraceful testimony against the wisdom, the economy, and almost the moral rectitude of his proprictor. No one bhould undertake to keep more hog than his means of kecp.axjj will enable him to keep, at all times,

in perfectly good order. Keeping too many hogs is a very common error, and it prevails most among the poorer clases of community. It is not so well understood as it should be, that the economy of making pork consists much in making a large quantity of pork, made of hogs weighing severally when dried, 300 weight or more, comes to the proprietor at less expense, and yields him a greater profit than the same quantity would if made of lighter hogs. It is supposed the two clases of hogs here spoken of are of the same age, and that the difference in their produce is the result either of different treatment, or a difference in the quality of their breeds. The doctrine which I desire to wiculcate on you is, not to multiply hogs, but when you have set your aim at any given quantity of pork, which in your judgement is needful to be produced, employ for its attainment only the smallest number of hogs, from which it will be practicable to produce the desired quantity. If hogs that have been kept over the winter are selected for fattening, the produce of each hog in pork should no be less than 300 weight. It has been said, hogs require plentiful feeding. As they have voracious appetites, and are not at all ditlicult ir. the choice of what they eat, their food may be drawn almost indiscriminately out of nature's vast store house. They

will eat, with greediness, every kind of lle, and theie are not many vegetable productions from which a hungry hoz will turn away. In the summer season, scarcely any thing accomodates hogs to better advantage than a fresh clover pasture. In such a pasture they will, although no other food be given them, thiive, and make considerable acquisitions of flesh. Of the various sorts of swill commonly made use of as food for hogs, nothing need be said, except that swill of every kind is the better for having become a little sour. Care however should be taken, while aiming at this object, not to let it sour so much as to become putrid. Almost all sorts of fruit, such as peaches, plums, and especially apples, are palatable and nu tritious to hogs. So too are potatoes, and all the other roots that have been enumerated in any of my preceding letters. Most of the articles here mentioned, will be useful to hogs in some degree, although given to them without cooking, but it is now well understood, lhatalmost every substance made use of as food for hog, is susceptible of great improvement, by being boiled or steamed. I hat such is the fact, I am satisfied from my own experience. I have boiled old corn for hogs, and the results were such as satisfied m , that my labor had been exceedingly well applied. Cooking corn, as any other grain, fits it for the use of hogs in all respects as well as it can he fitted by grinding, or any other process. Is it not better then to cook it, and thus save the millers toll, together with the expense and (rouble incident to carrying it to mill, and getting it hack? I am now ready to offer a remark which 1 consider as worthy of more than ordinary regard. The remark is, that at every domestic establishment, where it is intended to fatten pork, there should pc provided a suitable ap paratus for cooking food for hogs. This apparatus should consist of a kettle or caldron, that may cost from five to seven dollars, suitably set in mason work, and inclosed with a small buhling, or at least covered with some sort of roof to shelter it from the storms. Such an establishment, even when pork is fattened only on a small scale, would quickly remunerate its expense in preparing food for hog?, besides being very u3eful for many other purposes. Here coin, or any other grain, may, with little expense, he boiled or steamed, and thus rendered far more nutritive to hogs than it will he without cooking, lit re loo apples, potatoes, pumpkins, and almost countless other vegetables, may be cooked in uch a manner as to become wholesome ai.d nutritious food for hogs. Fattening hoc altogether upon corn, as was formerly the general practice, is now considered as too expensive to admit of justification on the principles of economy. It is g00d practice to commence fattening hogs on peas. Bat when peas are not provided, potatoes may be ued in the first stages of fattening to great advantage. These however, more than almost any thing else, require cooking to tit them for use. It has lately been discovered, that hogs fatten well ui apples, as well, we are told, as on a f other food whatever. Sweet apple are supposed to be the best, but it is said any sort of apples, if cooked, anawcra good purpose for fattening pork. A Father. Xczo York Stalc.j March, I G3G.

HYPOCRISY. There is much hypocricy in affecting to eive up the pleasures of the

world from religious motive, when we only withdraw from it because we find a greater ratification in the pleasures of retirement. "My dear children," said an old rat to his young ones, "the infirmities of age are pressing so heavily upon me. that I have determined to dedicate the short remainder of my days 10 moruncation ana penance, in a narrow and lonely hole which I have lately discovered; but let me not interfere with your enjoyment; youth is the season for pleasure; be happy therefore, and only obey my last instructions never to come near me in my retreat. God bless you all!'. Deeply affected, snivelling audibly, and wiping his paternal eyes with his tail, the old rat withdrew, and was seen no more for several days, when his youngest daughter, moved rather by filial affection than by that curiosity which is attributed to the sex, stole to his cell of mortification, which turned out to be a hole made by his own teelh, in an enormous Cheshire cheese. The Tin Trumpet. TO YOUNG MEN. There is no moral object so beauti ful to me, as a conscientious young man 1 watch him as I do a star in the heaens; clouds may be before him, but we know that his light is behind them, and will beam again; the blaze of other's prosperity may outshine him, but we know, that though unseen he illumines his own true sphere. He resists temptation not without a struggle, for that is not virtue, but he does resist and conquer, he hears the sarcasm of the profligate and it stings him, for that is the trial of virtue, but he heals the wound with his own pure touch. lie heeds not the watchward of fashion, it leads to sin; the Atheist n ho says, not only in his heart, but with his lips, 'there is no God," controls him not, for he sees the hand of a creating God and rejoices in it. Woman is sheltered by fond arms and guided by loving counsel, old age is protected by its experience, and manhood by its strength; but the young man stands amid the temptations of the world like a self balanced tower. Happy he who seeks and gains the prop ;ind shelter of Christianity. Onward, then, conscientious youthraise the standard and nerve thyself for goodness. If God has given thee intellectual power, awaken in that cause, never let it be said of thee, he helped to swell the tide of sin, by pouncing his influence into its channels. 1 thou art feeble in mental strength, throw not that poor drop into apoluted current. Awake, arise young man! It is easy to sin ; it is ditlicult to be pure and holy. Put on thy strength, then let the chivalry be aroused againstcrror, let truth be the lady of thy love defend her. FEW THINGS I3IFOSSIIILE. 'It is impossible,' said some one when Peter the great determined to set out on a voyage of discovery, through the cold northern regions of Siberia, and over immense deserts; but Peter was not discouraged and the thing icas done. 'It is impossible,' said many, when they heard of a scheme of the good Ob- - - . tit erlins. Lo benent his people, he had determined lo open a communication with the high road to Slralsburg, so that the productions of de la Roche (his own village,) might find a market. Rocks were to be blasted, and conveyed to the banks of the river Bruchc, in sufficient quantity to build a wall for a road along its banks, a mile and a half, and a bridge across it. He reasoned with his people, but still they thought it was impossible; but he seiz ed a pickaxe, put it across his shoulder, proceeded to the spot, and went to work, and the peasants soon followed him with their tools. The road and the bridge were at length built, and to this, day, the bridge bears the name of the 'Bridge of Chanty.' 'It is imposible,' said some, ns they look upon the impenetrable forests which cover ragged flanks and deep gorges of Mount Pilatus in Switzerland and hearkened to the daring plan of a man named Rupp, to convey the pines from the top of the mountain to the Lake of Lucerne, a distance of nine miles. Without being discouraged by their exclamation, he formed a slide or trough of 24,000 pine trees, 6 foot deep: and this slide, which was contemplated in 1812, was kept moist. Its length 44,000 English feet. It had been conducted over rocks, or along their sides, or over deep gorges where it was sustained by scaffolds; and yet skill and perseverence overcame every obstacle, and the thing was done. The trees slid down from the mountains into the lake with wonderful rapidity. The large pines, which were one hundred feet long, ran through the

space of eight miles and a third in a-

bout six minutes. A gentleman who saw this great work says: 'Such was the speed with which a tree of the largest size passed any given point that he could strike it but once with a slick as it rushed by, however quickly he attemped to repeat the blows. Say not hastily, then, of any thing, 'It is impossible.' It may not be done in an hour, or a day, or a week, but perseverence will finally bring you to the end of it. 'Time and patience,' says a Spanish proverb. 'will turn a mulberry leaf into silk. Rural Repository. Two prominent lawyers down cast once engaged in a case in Court on opposite sides. Their feelings were very much enlisted in their clients' favor. One of them in tlie course of his remarks made an assertion which very much excited the other, who thereupon sprang upon his feet and exclaimed, "Brother C. do you say that as a lawyer, or as a man ? If you say it as a lawyer, it is very well; but if you say it was a man, you lie. TO PRlVE RUGS FROM VISES. The ravages of the yellow striped bugs on cucumbers and melons, may be cflectualy prevented, by sifting charcoal dust over the plants. If repeated two or three times, the plants will be entirely fiee from annoyance. There is in charcoal some property so obnoxious to these troublesome insects, that they fly from it the instant it is applied. Notice A FIRST rate crook Tailor, and -l5L one of steady and industrious habits, could find steady employment at this place. Rising Sun, May 21, 183C. PEPPER & FRENCH, TN addition to their former stocked, have just received and are now opening a very fashionable and well selected assortment of Summer $GQfI. AMONG WHICH ARC Summer Cassimcres, Summer Wear, Drillings, French &. American Prints, Pongee and Dress Silks, Pongee, Silk and Bandanna Ildkfs. New st le Tuscan Bonnets, Parasols, Printed Muslins, Ginghams, assorted, New style figured Book Muslin, a beautiful article for dresses; Gum Elastic Aprons, Summer Cape?, Dress Shawls, Leghorn & Palm Hats, Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes, Super blue, black and brown Clothe, Cassimcres and Cassinelts, Kid Gloves, a superior article, Cross barred, twilled and corded Jaconets, Plain and ligM Book Muslin, Sewing Thread in varietj-, Shell and horn tuck and side Combs, Sheetings and Shirtings, and every other article that is kept in Dry Good stores, making their assortment unequalled in the town. .1LSO, Hardware, Quccnsware, Cutlery, Glass and Tinware, Cotton Yarn, Castings, Saddlery, Cordage, Window7 Giass, Boots and JShocs, Caps, Iron, Steel, i'ai!s, Indko, Shot, Lead, Drugs and Aledicines, &.c. and a very great variety of other articles. Persons who wish to get good bargains, are requested to call and examine their goods and the prices. Rising Sun, April 1G, 183G. NEW GOODS! -NEW GOOBS! T5 'pi t ' rp Ti A n.. ik aU I j IOTAS just received a handsome assortment of new and fashionable SPRLYG .1X1) SUMMER GOODS, of which the following are a part, viz: Super blue, black, brown, green and mulbcry CLOTHS; Fancy Cassimcres and Satlinetts; Summer Wear, Valentia Crapes; Summer ('loth, Stripes; French, German and Russia Linens; Checkered and plain Cottons; West End, a superior article; A splendid assortment of CalGCOC; Painted Muslins; French and Scotch Ginghams; Fancy Dress and pocket Ildkfs.; Tuscan, Straw, and Wood Lawn fashionable Bonnets; Bonnet Trimmings; Grecian and Bobbin Netts; Laces and Edgings; Cambric, Book, Jaconet and Mull Muslins; Wall P aper; Palm Hats; Sheetings; Gentlemen's Stocks; Ladies' and Gentlemen's Silk and Leather Gloves; Hosiery; Shirting and Irish Linens ; Together with all the articles in the Dry Goods line. Also, Queens, China, Glass, Tin, Stone and Hard Ware. Rising Sun, April 1G, 183G.

lIUIRO:, BOOT A: SHOl? STOKE. npiIE subscribers wish lo inform the citizens of Rising Sun and its vicinity, that they have just received and now olfer for sale, at the stand lately occupied by L. N. Hall, a large and generel assortment of articles in their line,'of which the following are a part: Bacon, Pork, dried and green Beef, Lard, Butter, Honey, Molasses, Codfish, Mackarcl, Herring, Bologna Sausages, Cheese. Chickens, Pickles, Pota toes, Krout, Beets, Carrots, green and dried Apples, dried Quinces, Apple

Butter, 1-ggs, Unions, lurnips, Rice, Preserves, Oranges, Figs, Boston and Butter Crackers, Sage, Hops, Vinegar, Walnuts, Ilickorynuts, Pecons, Almonds, Meal. Flour, and Rye Flour. Chocolate, Coffees, Teas, Sugar?, Pepper, Alspicc, Mace, Cloves, Ginger, Pearlash, Sal. Eratis, Starch, Candles, Lard, soft and shaving Soap, linseed, sperm and sweet oils, Tobacco, Cigars, Snuff, Chalk, Nails, Fish lines & hooks, Powder, Shot, Lead, Percussion Caps,. Fliiits, Brushes, Cordage, some Medicines, Drugs, Hardware, Qucensware, Tinware, Cooper'sware, Glassware, Cutlery, Window Glass, Dye Stulfs, Tar, Rosin, Paints, Wines, Brandies, Whiskey, ('out not by the small.) Castings, Iron, Steel, Garden Seeds, Findings for Shoemakers. Coats, Roundabouts, Vests. Pantaloons, Drawers, Shirts. Collars, Stocks, Handkerchief?, Suspenders, Socks, Hats, Boots, Shoes, Brogans, Bootees, Children's Shoes, Pumps, Slippers, Sec. &e. with many other articles too tedious to mention, on as reasonable terms as can be afforded. People are particularly requested to call and see and price their articles. HALL Sc BUCHANAN. Rising Sun, March 26, 183G. N. B. All those who have felt the happy effects of, or are advocates for what is called the Thomsonian System of Medicine, can had most of the simple remedies which that system incorporates. H. & B. GOO&S. S. HATHAWAY, IT AS just received from New York and Pmladelphia, an extensive variety of NEW and SEASONABLE GOODS, which lie olfersat piices that cannot fail to sjjive satisfaction to the j purchaser consisting in part of the r . 1 1 i i louowmg articles, viz: Super black, blue, mulberry, green, olive and mixed broad Cloths, Blue, black, drab, light and dark striped Cassimcres; A complete assortment of ladies' and gentlemen's gloves Sc hosiery ; A large ass't of plain and figured silk, Marseilles, Valencia and cotton Vestii;gs; Stocks; Plain, pink, buff, striped, and checked Scotch and French Ginghams; French printed Muslins and Ginghams, rich patterns; Bleached and unbleached Sheeting and Shirting; Plain, corded and crossbarred While Cambrics; colored do. Cambric Muslins ; jaconet, Swiss, mull plain and figured Book do. Green Barrage; Italian imitation do. Gro de Nap, Gro de Swiss, Florence, and sarsanct Silks, Bombazenes and crape Dcleria; Irish Linens; brown and bleach'd Russia Linens; Linen Cambric; Bobinet laces, Edgings, black silk Velvet, Russia diaper; Bed ticking; Silk and Cotton Umbrellas; Flannels, twisted Silpk; crape, gauz, and fancy dress Ildkfs; Flag, bandanna, Italian and pongee silk pocket Hdkfs. Also, about 200 pieces falicoo, comprising almost every style; British Sewing Twist on spools; Summer stuffs, Drilling, F.rrr.enct, Summer Cloths, Sec. Straw and Leghorn Bonncls,latest fashions; Palm I lats, Fur do. Iol, Mcoes ami IEro.,;:nis. Also, a line assortment of IIakdwakh, Crockery, Glass, China and Hollowware,G merries, Medicines, Paints, Dye SlnflTs, SHOT GU.XS, Iron, Steel, Nails, Hoes, Shovels, Spades, Strap Hinges, etc. etc. Rising Sun, April 25, 1835.-y THE TIMES IS rUHLISHEl) EVERY SATURDAY, In Rising Sun, Dearborn co. IndianaTERMS. Two Hollars per year, if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if paid in six months; or, Three Dollars nt the expiration of the year. A failure to notify a discontinuance at the end of the time subscribed for, will he considered a. new engagement. No paper discontinued until arrearages are paid, except at the option of the Editor.