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was curdled. I took the fame precaution in hav- 

 ing its inteftines opened, all which contained no-i 

 thing but the fame elaftick air as the ftomach. All 

 its vifcera were perfectly found. 



To prevent the other pigs being fimilarly at- 

 tacked, I loft not a moment's time in preparing 

 fcalded barley-meal, which was mixed with milk, 

 and given them blood-warm, with a fmall quantity 

 of fpirits of hartfhorn; at firft, I fed them but 

 fparingly, and by degrees increafed their quantity 

 of food, till I thought them out of danger. Every 

 morning after, I had them fed with com before 

 they were turned out; by this precaution they 

 throve well. 



Hence I am fully convinced, that lucerne or 

 clover, without the alTiftance of fome folid food, is 

 not fufficieht to fupport and nourifh large fwine; 

 and that the difeafes they are fubjed: to chiefly arife 

 from improper, unwholfomc food, fuch as damaged 

 fufty grain, (too frequently given them) or common 

 dirty wafh, or the ftale offal of the garden, which 

 in general is tfteemed good enough for pigs. 



I have applied potatoes in different modes for 

 feeding fwinc; giving them whole, or mafhcd in 

 the water wherein they were boiled; or the laft 



mode 



