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have been accustomed to be fed. Where 



a considerable herd are kept, and they are 

 shifted upon the waste, they should be at- 

 tended by a boy to prevent trespasses. 



FATTENING FOR PORK AND BACON. 



Pigs will FATTEN either in confinement 

 or at large in the yard. When ^ in styes, 

 care should be taken, that the pigs be all 

 ringed, or they will not lie quiet ; also that, 

 when a number are fed together, any one 

 at which the rest may have taken a distaste, 

 be immediately withdrawn, or in proba- 

 bility, they will tear him to pieces. For 

 the same reason, a stranger should never 

 be introduced. The fewer together, the 

 more quietly and speedily they fatten, and 

 by consequence, they succeed best singly. 

 The troughs vvith sliding boards before 

 the meat, giving way to the snout of the 

 pig, and shutting on his withdrawing his 

 head, generally used in Hants and Berks, 

 greatly prevent waste. They used, I re- 

 collect, to be provincially denominated 

 xvitches. 



