USES TO WHICH [Chap. 



hogs ; or, they build a little temporary shed for 

 the purpose, and cover it with corn stalks. Here, 

 the nubbings, and, when they are gone, the per- 

 fect ears, are tossed over to the hogs, wet or dry, 

 though the weather be rain or snow, and 

 whether the ground be hard or in a state of mud. 

 The hogs get at every grain. No troughs, except 

 to put in water for them to drink 5 no expense of 

 grinding ; no sloppings about with meal ; no 

 waste of this sort, which is always very great ; and, 

 thus fed, the hogs get as fat as ever hogs were seen 

 in this world. They are, in Long Island, gene- 

 rally of the old-fashioned long white breed ; they 

 are farrowed in A'larch, or thereabouts ; when 

 first taken from the sow they are fed upon milk 

 and corn-meal ; they then graze and have a 

 certain portion of whole corn given them during 

 the summer ; they are alivays killed in the month 

 of November, they frequently weigh from fifteen 

 to twenty score, that is to say, from three 

 to four hundred pounds 3 and they make the 

 fattest and finest pork that ever was made in 

 the world ; it not being the fashion in America 

 to make bacon, except of the gammons, which 

 are cured and smoked as ours are, and which are 

 extraordinarily fine. The great cities are supplied 

 with them ; you find them in all the taverns in 

 the country ; and thousands upon thousands of 

 barrels of them are exported to the West Indies^ 



