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pen, near to, or in one part of your barn-yard ; throw 

 into this the scrapings of your barns, together with 

 every vegetable substance that will putrify and rot 

 through the summer : plough up and cart in occasion- 

 ally, such earth as can be collected from your ditches, 

 or old sward balks ; your hogs will root and ntix 

 them together, and thus, with a little attention, you 

 may obtain 20 or 30 loads of the best manure, or 

 much more if your hogs are numerous and receive 

 your attention. You will find an advantage, both in 

 the growth of your hogs, and in the quantity of ma- 

 nure, if you sow half an acre, or an acre, of clover 

 on a rich soil near the barn-yard, and begin to cut 

 early for feed for your hogs ; it will be found both 

 cheap and profitable. According to the best prac- 

 tical calculations, it will give a profit of $ 30 per acre, 

 when cut green and fed in the barn-yard, either by 

 horses, cows, cattle, or hogs, besides the profits upon 

 the manure. If you are in earnest about yonr farm, 

 you may carry this mode of making manure to any 

 extent, by mowing and carting in your stout stubble ; 

 collecting and carting in your coarsest hay, pumpkin 

 and potatoe vines, corn bottoms, husks, &c. The 

 same materials will yield you a stronger and richer 

 manure from your hog-pens, than from the stercorary, 

 (as is practised in England,) and without the expense 

 of shifting, or changing it by hand, as in the sterco- 

 rary practice. Your hogs will do better than in a 

 close pen, and the same land, in clover, will yield 

 them more and better feed, than in pasture ; and the 

 manure thus obtained from the clover-field, will give 

 you a handsome profit. A little experience will soon 

 lead every farmer to make the most advantage in thi t s 

 way, which may be rendered very extensive. 



Most farmers yard their cows at night, through the 

 sumnter; their manure should be collected into a 

 heap, in some convenient part of the barn-yard, to 

 prevent its being wasted by the sun and rains ; a 

 few minutes attention in the morning, when the cow* 



