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in any other kind of live stock ; and that 

 no other article of flesh provision can be 

 raised and prepared for market so soon as 

 pork ; in consequence, it must he materially 

 instrumental in the production of plenty, 

 and in restraining exorbitance of price in 

 the first necessaries. The seasons most 

 usually advantageous for the purchase of 

 pig stock, are, at old Michaelmas after 

 clearing the harvest fields, and in the months 

 of March and April. 



CHOICE OF VARIETIES. 



The reader is referred to our brief, but 

 sufficient list of these, from which, accord- 

 ing to his convenience or opportunity, he 

 may make his election ; or without farther 

 trouble, he may very safely have recourse 

 to the HOMEBREDs of his own district or 

 vicinity, since we are so far generally im- 

 proved that, in whatever part of England a 

 man may reside, he need not fail to purchase 

 pigs for his money, which a sufficiency of 

 good meat will fatten to profit. 



