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PURPOSES IN FEEDING. 



These are either for mere domestic use, 

 or for profit by sale ; and the choice of plan 

 lies between breeding, and purchase of 

 stores; the former attended with most 

 trouble, but proportionate emolument. 

 Swine are not generally kept to advantage, 

 unless where some waste remains to be 

 gathered, or cheap articles of food can be 

 grown for them ; but the rule admits of ex- 

 ceptions in the favour of those who are 

 well skilled in the animals themselves, and 

 in the turns of the market. The wash and 

 offals of a moderate kitchen will go a con- 

 siderable way towards the support of a 

 breeding sow, and in return, the produce 

 of the sow will operate in a comfortable 

 proportion, towards the support of the 

 kitchen. To embrace in our view the 

 profits of the farm and of the public, it has 

 been said, and according to my experience, 

 upon sufficient grounds, that, an hundred 

 pounds laid out ifi swine, will return a 

 greater profit^ than the same sum invested 



