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do SO, for if any one having- more tillage than manure will faith- 

 fully follow out the ideas and directions herein set forth he will not 

 need to ask any one whether it pays to keep swine, for the fifteen 

 cords of manure would be cheap at almost any price. 



I would have the two old hogs kept well all the time, and have 

 them ready to sell during the month of October, when they should 

 weigh from six to seven hundred, often more. The two barrow 

 pigs I would have kept until the weather is cool enough to freeze 

 up the lean part for winter use, when I would have them killed 

 and salted for the family. All that is not salted I would have 

 eaten at home, always remembering to give a piece to the poor 

 neighbor, and to the minister. If you do not want to eat the salt 

 pork sell it next summer and kill a fat wether to get hay on. 



Having hauled out our manure and killed our pork, let us now 

 for a moment look at it in its financial aspect, remembering that 

 there are in Maine 70,000 swine, probably, there having been in 

 1860 nearly 58,000. If each of these manufactured two cords of 

 compost — and they ought to make three — it would equal the sum 

 of $100,000 at five dollars per cord. But it is not with aggregates 

 that I have to do at this time, but items and details. We will say 

 nothing of the two store pigs, as they are to be kept as a perma- 

 nent capital. If we have four or five good cows, the milk, together 

 with the swill from the house, the weeds from the garden and 

 yards, together with two bushels of cheap potatoes per week, will 

 keep them all till the middle of August, and keep them growing. 

 The potatoes should be boiled and put in a large tub while hot, in 

 which all the swill is to be kept. From the middle of August to 

 the middle of October, the two old ones will need, in addition to 

 the swill, two quarts of sound Northern corn meal, scalded, night 

 and morning. This will fit them for the butcher by the middle of 

 October. Now put the two pigs to be killed by themselves, and 

 give them all the good feed they will eat, till pretty well into 

 December, when they are to be killed. After these are put by 

 themselves the others are to be kept on slops. Now for the 

 result : 



Dr. 



Interest on $40 capital $2.40 



Milk, 75 days to middle of August 30.00 



20 bushels small and poor potatoes to same time, at 40 cts. 8.00 



8 bushels of corn to middle of October 12.00 



Feed for the four pigs and swill for the old ones same time 15.00 



