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or meal per week, in fattening, a hog 

 upwards of a bushel, in proportion to his 

 size. The following is an example of suc- 

 cessful feeding. " In the spring 1805, 

 Mr. Ivory, of Whitchurch, Salop, killed 

 a hog of two years old, one side of which 

 weighed 4101bs. the other 414Ibs. total 

 46 scores 14^1bs. or about 111 stone, 

 country fashion. He was purchased very 

 lean at two years old, price four guineas, 

 was fattened in between seven and eight 

 liionths, and then valued at eighteen gui- 

 neas ; subsequently, twenty-five guineas 

 for him were offered and refused." This 

 hog probably made upwards of thirty 

 pounds at the then price, and might have 

 consumed full forty bushels of corn. 



THE DISEASES OF SWINE. 



Little success has hitherto attended the 

 doctoring of swine, which are the most 

 stubborn and intractable of patients. 

 Thence, prevention is the only remedy 

 deserving of any considerable share of the 

 keeper's attention. This should chiefly 



