IX.] CORN [S APPLICABLE. 



and to divers other parts of the world. The pork, 

 also, is exported in great quantities ; hut the 

 exported pork is seldom wholly fatted upon corn. 

 Acorns do three parts of the business, and the 

 pork, though as fine to look at, is of greatly in- 

 ferior quality. That which the farmer kee))s for 

 himself and for home consumption, he fats in the 

 manner which I have described. Every English- 

 man who has been in America, unless a conceited 

 fool, and is resolved to find nothing good amidst 

 all the blessings which this world affords, will 

 say, that he never tasted of hog-meat, young or 

 old, so fine as that which he has eaten in America ; 

 and there is no instance. I never knew of such a 

 thing in my life, as the fatting of hog or pig, 

 young or old, upon anything but unground Indian 

 Corn, generally given in the ear ; but always in 

 the whole grain. Then, even the little pigs, at 

 three weeks old, while with their mother, will 

 begin to crack the corn. She, having to give 

 milk, is fed partly with slops from the house, but 

 the principal part of her food also is the whole 

 €orn. The pigs at the end of two months, which 

 is the proper time for weaning them, eat the corn 

 so well and eat so much of it, that they care very 

 little about the sow, and do not miss her when 

 she is taken from them, or they from her. In 

 order to push them on, to make them large for 

 fatting in the fall 5 they have all the milk that 



