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 CABBAGE AS FooD FOR HoGs.-A gentle man remarked in our hearing, few days since, that, cabbage was a valuable food for hogs. The idea was new to us, and we in- quired the manner of feeding. In reply, he gave us the following as the result of his ex- perence the last summer: Having a fine patch of plants and observing the bottom leaves be- glning to decay, he directed his farmer to-pro- cure water-tight cask, and gather bushel of the lower leaves from the cabbage plants and deposite them ill a barrel, with handful of salt and one quart of corn meal. On this was poured the contents of the swill pail, and the whole was suffered to stand undisturbed for A hours, when the process was repeated, with the exception of the salt; and so every day, until the eask was filled with mass of wilted leaves, -ahout six quarts of corn meal potato peelings, crumbs of bread, Sc, from the kitchen; all in a state of partial fermen- tatlon. He how commenced feeding 1t to hogs, and they ate with greediness, leaving other food for this. They were evidently as fond of this kind of mush~ as Mynheer was of sour-krout

 While the hogs were consuming the con- tents of the first barrel a second was in. course of being filled, and so alternately, iii the stock of leaves were exhausted, which was about four weeks. Farmers' Ca5inet