IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



though with time an old hog will get fat upon 

 whole pease or beans, it requires a long time to do 

 the business ; and that, in the case of beans par- 

 ticularly, the quality of the meat is vastly inferior 

 to that which is fatted upon barley-meal ; he 

 knows what a plague there is in the feeding, one 

 hog fighting with another and driving him from 

 the trough, while he must see that when the corn 

 is tossed about the sty, there can be no such 

 contest for the food ; he must see, besides all the 

 rest, that there is no thrashing and winnowing in 

 the case of the corn 5 no calling of men off from 

 pressing work in the fields, to hurry away and 

 thrash out some corn for the pigs, and get it to the 

 mill and back again ; no " D — n that boy, he is 

 not come back from mill, and these 'ere pigs ivill 

 be starved." He will see that there are his nub- 

 bings and his ears in the crib, always ready ; and 

 that, if he do not give them to the pigs, he will, I 

 am sure, think it just and reasonable that he him- 

 self should perish for want of food. In the case 

 ofpoor men, reserving until by-and-bye what more 

 I have to say about the advantages of this crop 

 to them, let me here observe, that, when a poor 

 man has a pig, and has the means of purchasing 

 the barley, how is he to get it to the mill and back 

 again, to say nothing of the exjjense of grinding ? 

 There must be sacks, there must be a trough, there 

 must be a tub ; all which are unknown in fatting 



