If any of your readers hate a bettor way,
I shall be glad to learn.
Respectfully, an Illinoisan.
Whiteside Co., 111., Jan. 16, i 860;
[Prairie Fanner.
IToixsxlnc Oorri—X’roflt«—Compara
tive Value of’ Itavr, Giviind and i
Cooked. JUeecl.
We are permitted by Alvah Bucking-',
ham, Esq., of the firm of Sturges, Buck-1
ingharn <fc Co., to publish the following
letter to his son, which contains facts that
are valuable. Who can give us other facts
bearing upon tlie subject of the profit of
corn feeding:
Dear Father:— l have been experiment
ing in a small way with hogs. The 6th of
September I commenced hogging down
my corn, at which date I weighed my
hogs. The account stands thus:
Weight of 189 hogs ai, beginning, 19,-
600 lbs.; weight ofsaine at ending, 30,340;
total gain on 40 acres of coni, (40 bushels
'[) acre,) 10,740 lbs. I paid 3c. lb.
for 19,600 lbs., $588; and can sell at 4 e. j
lb., .30,340 lbs., $1,213 60; so 1 get;
for my 40 acres of corn, $625 60, or $15,-
61 (d acre. But the hogging on the
ground has added $1 to the value of the
land, making the gain sl6 64 '[f acre, or
a shade over 41 c. [d bushel for corn in
the field. It cost me just $3 65 acre
to plow, plant, and tend my corn.
I have a moveable fence with which I
fenced off what the'hogs world eat in two
or three days—about the 6th < f Septum-,
her and as List as eaten up, added as much
.more, until about this time, when I put
in }x?us to fitti-h fat.ening.
