%^iO Store Feeding and Managemmf. 



rel form of pig, making all fat, is most 

 cheaply maintained, and the soonest ripe. 



Growing stores and sows are fed 

 tlirough the winter with the rmi of the barn 

 yard, upon roots of all kinds, including ru- 

 tabaga, and mangel-wurtzel, cabbage, &c. 

 a ration of corn of some kind being allow- 

 ed, with wash. Meal of any kind — bean, 

 pea, oat, barley, rye, buck-wheat, or tare, 

 and linseed, boiled with potatoes, make 

 good wash. Pea-wash alone scours young 

 pigs. Pulse, or corn of any kind, are ad- 

 vantageously given in the straw, to pigs 

 which are good tlirashers. In autumn, and 

 a plentiful season, swine will subsist them- 

 selves abroad upon acorns : in summer, up- 

 on clover, lucerne, or tares ; but very young 

 pigs particularly, ought not to be left abroad 

 in continual rains, and will always pay for 

 a daily moderate feed of old beans with the 

 clover. Swine turned to shift upon forests 

 or commons, are apt to stray and hide 

 themselves for a considerable time ; the an- 

 cient and ready method to collect them, is 

 by the sound of a horn, with which they 



