USES TO WHICH [Chap. 



with corn. I j/ractise, as far as I can, that which 

 I preach. I have fatted and fed hogs and pigs 

 with corn ahvays, when I could get it. 1 made, 

 last winter, the fattest hogs, and made the finest 

 bacon, that I ever saw in my life. Three 

 Buckingamshire hogs, farrowed in July, 1826, 

 weighed iiventy -seven score each, or Jive hundred 

 and forty jmunds each, in February, 1828. They 

 were fatted wholly upon corn; and, for not much 

 more than JiaJf the expense of barley-meal, or 

 pea-fatting. I bought my corn, or rather, a very 

 good friend did it for me, at Mark-lane ; and just 

 about the price of coarse barley at that time ; 

 that is to say, barley not fit for malting. This will 

 not be the case, however, in a very short time ; 

 for, when the value of this corn is known, the 

 price of it will be, bushel for bushel, just one half 

 of the ^^'ay, between prime barley and prime 

 V)heat. If barley sell at forty, and wheat at eighty^ 

 isound corn will sell at sixty. 



149. Sheep-feeding. Sheep will get as fat 

 as sheep can get by living solely upon corn. It 

 may be given to them either in the ear or shelled. 

 It ought to be given in a clean trough, sheltered 

 from the wet and snow ; and the sheep may lie 

 in a yard, or in an orchard, or in any place where 

 it is convenient for them to be. I, last winter, 

 bought some fat Lincolnshire sheep at Smith- 

 field. Every grazier and farmer knows, and they 



