Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869 [PAGE 316]

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302 "Without it the hogs are very liable to disease and death. Coal acts as a preventive of disease. A hog will eat three or four pounds per week, and he seems to relish it. Mr. JEWETT—I should dislike to see this discussion close without further mention of this spotted hog mentioned by Mr. Colman. It is a hog worthy of your attention. I have grown these hogs, and would advise farmers to look at them, and if any one here wrishes to look at them he can do so by crossing the street here. They are a cross it is true, but they are so carefully crossed that they will always produce the same breed or style of hogs, so that any one will be satisfied with them. I know one man that fed 430 of these hogs. Mr. COLMAN—Where does he live ? Mr. JEWETT—In Warren county, Ohio. It was there called the Magee hog. They are very fine hogs, and will measure more than any hogs that I am acquainted with. He has heavy hams, and they will fatten at any age. Mr. ENNIS—Do you breed more than once in the year % Mr. BALDWIN—No, sir; that is enough. Mr. JEWETT—I wish to ask Mr. Dunlap if he knows that sheep will feed upon the trees of the orchard ? Mr. M. L. DUNLAP—I have seen orchards where sheep were kept, and where the ground was cultivated, and all the sprouts and weeds and grass kept down, the sheep would bark the trees. They should be turned out when the green feed becomes short. They are of great service, however, in eating up the fallen apples that contain the codling moth. Mr. JEWETT—In regard to sheep barking trees, I have a little experience. I turned my sheep into my orchard in Michigan and had 100 trees barked, and I watched the sheep, too. Dr. H U L L — I am fully prepared to indorse the value of hogs in an orchard. They are almost the only protection we have against the codling moth. But we wish to protest against the idea that seems to be gaining ground that the hog is a protection against the curculio in the plum. If the gentleman will come to Alton, I will take him into an orchard where hogs have been kept all the year, and yet not a single specimen of perfect fruit remains on the tree at the close of the season* Gentlemen having no experience with the curculio know not the difficulties with which we have to contend.