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be provided with suitable kinds of food in abun- 

 dance for the support of the numerous sows that it 

 will be necessary for him to keep, and the great 

 number of pigs that must be raised. Upon this 

 being properly and effectually done, his success and 

 advantage will in a great measure depend. The 

 crops capable of being cultivated with the most be- 

 nefit in this intention, are beans, peas, barley, buck- 

 wheat, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, Swedish turnips, 

 cabbages, lettuces, clover, lucern, chicory, &e. 



The sows considerably advanced in pig, and those 

 with pigs, should be fed in a better manner than 

 the store pigs. The former should be supplied with 

 good wash twice or oftener in the day, and have a 

 sufficient allowance of cabbages, potatoes, carrots, or 

 other similar vegetables, so as to keep them in good 

 condition ; which is shewn by the gloss of their 

 coats. 'The sows with pigs should be kept with the 

 litters in separate sties, and be still better fed than 

 those in pig. Where dairying is practised, the wash 

 of that kind which has been preserved for the pur- 

 pose, while the dairying was at the height, in brick 

 cisterns, constructed for receiving it from the dairy, 

 must be given them, with food of the root kind, 

 such as carrots, parsnips, potatoes, and cabbages, in 

 as large proportions as they will consume them, in 

 order that the pigs may be properly supported and 

 kept in condition. But where the business of dai- 

 rying is not carried on so as to provide wash of that 

 sort, meal of some kind or other must, Mr. Young 

 thinks, be had recourse to for the making of wash 

 by mixing it with water, which in the summer 

 season, will be sufficient for their support ; and in 

 winter it must be blended with the different sorts of 

 1 roots prepared by boiling, or, when for the young 

 ' pigs, with oats and pea-soup. With this soup and 

 dairy- wash, where proper attention is bestowed, 

 young pigs may, he conceives, be weaned and rear- 

 ed in the winter season even with profit and success. 



