470 MODERN FARRIER. 



The pea-soup is an admirable article when given 

 in this intention ; it is prepared by boiling six pecks 

 of peas in about sixty gallons of water, till they are 

 well broken down and diffused in the fluid; it is 

 then put into a tub or cistern for use. When dry 

 food is given in combination with this, or of itself, 

 the above writer advises oats, as being much better 

 than any other sort of grain for young pigs, barley 

 not answering nearly so well in this application. 

 Oats coarsely ground have been found very useful 

 for young hogs, both in the form of wash with wa- 

 ter, and when made of a somewhat thicker consist- 

 ence. But in cases where the sov/s and pigs can be 

 supported with dairy-wash and roots, as above, there 

 will be a considerable saving made, by avoiding the 

 use of the expensive articles of barley-meal, peas, or 

 bran and pollard. 



Mr. Donaldson remarks, that in the usual mode, 

 the pigs reared by the farmer are fed, for some 

 weeks after they are weaned, on whey or butter- 

 milk, or on bran or barley -meal mixed with water. 

 They are afterwards maintained on other food, as 

 potatoes, carrots, the refuse of the garden, kitchen, 

 scullery, &c., together with such additions as they 

 can pick up in the farm-yard. Sometimes they are 

 sent into the fields at the close of harvest, where 

 they make a comfortable living for several weeks on 

 the gleanings of the crop ; at other times when the 

 farm is situated in the neighbourhood of woods or 

 forests, they are sent thither to pick up the beech- 

 mast and acorns in the fall of the year ; and that 

 when they are arrived at a proper age for fattening, 

 they are either put into sties fitted up for the pur- 

 pose, or sold to distillers, starch-makers, dairy-men, 

 or cottagers. 



