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when in proportion to every five bufhels of pota- 

 toes, I fcatter over them about a peck and half of 

 barley-meal, then fill the furnace with potatoes, 

 adding juft as much water as will cover them. By 

 this method, the barley-meal does not fink to the 

 bottom of the furnace, where it will encruft and 

 burn, nor will it be liable to be wafted by being 

 boiled over. The nourifhment of the barley is in 

 a great degree extradted by the water. After the 

 potatoes are well boiled, let the whole be mixed 

 and bruifed together in tubs, with a clean fpade, 

 fo as to form a pulp. By this method, all the nu- 

 tritive properties of the barley and potatoes are 

 incorporated, and thereby much eafier digefted, 

 and the hogs require no water. 



In cold weather it fliould be given blood warm. 

 My barley which was ftained by the inclemency 

 of the feafon in 1785, I had ground and ufed for 

 this purpofc; which prevented my purchafing ^«r- 

 gians^ which is nearly, if not equally as nutritive 

 as barley-meal, and much cheaper. 



Swine, when fattening, fhould be kept as clean as 

 poffible, and well fupplied with dry litter. As 

 their pens are generally too fmall to admit of ex- 

 crcifc, and as they immediately lie down after 

 feeding, I have thought it necelfary, twice or three 



times 



