SYDNEY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 23, 15 March 1845, Page 3

SYDNEY.

REARING OF^ HOGS. We beg to call attention to the excellent letter of Mr. E. Hall, which we quote from the Herald, relative to that great and valuable, although hitherto much . neglected- and scarcely known source -of colonial wealth — Hogs : no other animal returns so great an amount of profit compared with its consumption of food as the hog : without hogs, Arthur Young says, no farming establishment is complete ; in France it is the same — in Germany— r-in Canada I—in1 — in the United States — indeed, in the latter, the hog is the farmer* great dependance for food' ; and the lard oil and spermaceti have become to America a vast mine of wealth ; while in our fine and virgin land, with ample means of raising swine to any conceivable amount almost, we have hitherto dove, it may be said, nothing. In addition to our numerous and vast swamps, in which pigs live — our clover — our vetches — our maize, which is now so abundant as to be almost valueless, there is another species of food little known or cared about — the sweet potatoe. We have been assured by a gentleman of great judgment, acquainted with the district of Moreton Bay, that the sweet potatoe can be raised there with little or no trouble iv cultivation, in amount of crop quite astonishing, that would feed immense herds of swine ; and why not in other paits of the colony as well as Moreton Bay ? In truth, the means we possess of producing hogs, lard, lard oil, and spermaceti, will, we

have no doubt, eventuate in giving us an article of export of the. most valuable kind, and of vast amount and importance. — Sydney Morning Chronicle, Feb. 1, 1845.