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My firfl experiment was made round apple-trees, 

 (with thofe intended to be fatted) and a moving hutch 

 placed within their reach; but I foon perceived, that 

 the inclemency of the weather at the feafon of fat- 

 ting would not permit this out-door method to be 

 extended to any great degree, and that unlefs it could 

 be begun at an earlier period, uo great benefit would 

 arife from it. 



Obferving, however, that hogs in general are very 

 fond of clover, and having always a quantity intended 

 for hay, that is twice cut, and the hog potatoe (of 

 which I cultivate great quantities) often growing 

 near it, I made trial of a fold confiding of forty rud- 

 dle gates of eight feet and half length each, pretty 

 clofe at the bottom, on the clover flubble, and put 

 feventy hogs of different ages into it, allowing them 

 fix or feven bufliels of potatoes in the day in their 

 fold at firfl, and ending with ten, which, with the 

 young clover, was as. many as they would eat; with 

 this number of hogs, inclofed within the number of 

 gates above-mentioned, we folded this year eleven 

 acres of clover ftulible, between the 1 9th of Septem- 

 ber and the firfl: of November, and had a very good 

 fprinkling of manure left upon it. The hogs are 

 always driven into a yard at night and littered, as the 

 coldnefs of the weather might otherwife cramp them; 

 and towards the end of Oftober a very few beans 

 arc given in the fold, when they firft go into it. 



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