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themfelves. They lie warm and dry upon the haulm 
of the potatoe, and by leaving behind them a great 
quantity of the fineft and ftrongeft dung upon the 
ground, they amply repay what they take away 
from it. If the potatoe-ground be dry, and not fuf- 
ficiently eafy for their working the potatoes, a light 
plough muft be run over it to facilitate this bufinefs, 
and they will do all the reft. 
This being the ftate in which nature feems to have 
meant the hog fhould find his ,food, and having 
wifely formed the fnout for this purpofe, I am more 
and more convinced, that he derives more relifh and 
more nutriment from potatoes thus found, than if 
given to him in any other way. For if they are 
thrown to him in the ftye, he prefently fatiates!—he 
dungs upon them, and loaths them. 
I have tried boiling, fteaming, and various other 
methods, but I find this the beft;* for the cold wa- 
tery quality of the potatoe is correéted by the warmth 
of the bean; and the hogs being fhut out from them 
during the greater part of the day, and replenifhed 
with a variety of green and other food, they come to 
the potatoes with redoubled glee and eager appetite 
at the clofe of it. The bufinefs being by this means 
done in the proportion of about two-thirds, the re- 
maining third is foon accomplifhed, by taking them 
* For young and growing ftore-pigs this diftinctign, A well 
Ppanded,, feems moft:applicable-—Ep. : 
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