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bu should not have too much litter at the time of farrowing, 

 least they over-lay their pigs in it." As sows will sometimes 

 eat their own offspring, it is said that supplying them with 

 plenty of water at this time will prevent this mischief. Pigs 

 for market should be killed at about the end of four weeks. 

 The castration and spaying the rest may as well be perform- 

 ed at about the age of six weeks. When milk or whey 

 cannot be had, a thin drink of pea, buckwheat, or Indian 

 meal may be given them. After the age of three months 

 they may be turned out with the larger hogs into the clover 

 field, which will keep them well, during the rest of the growing^ 

 season. Mr. Young says, pigs should be w^eaned at the age of 

 eight weeks. 



The great objection to making the raising hogs for market 

 an object of agricultural pursuits, has been the great expense 

 of labor in raising grain for fattening them. This objection 

 will be greatly obviated by introducing the grass breed. 

 Those who have land plenty, and w^ould keep any considerable 

 number of hogs, no doubt may save a great portion of the ex- 

 pense by keeping them through the summer, in the method 

 which has heretofore been practiced of giving them more or 

 less grain through the year, with the wash of the house and 

 milk of the dairy. Those who go largely into the raising of 

 swine inGreat Britain, and some parts of our own coiTiitry.appro- 

 priate certain fields enclosed for the purpose, and well stocked 

 with white clover, and other good grass, which constituted 

 their principal food through the summer, and until they aro 

 shut up for fattening. The celebrated Mr. Young prefers! 

 soiling them in a yard for the purpose ; and in this case he 

 makes use of lucern, richory clover, tares, and other green 

 food, cut and carried in for feeding them. The water crow- 

 foot, rununculus aquatilis, ia also highly recommended for 

 this purpose. But it is observed by the author of the Farmer's 

 Assistant, that this method, though it may save some ground 

 in pasture, and may be the means of making considerable ma- 

 nure, does not seem so apparently beneficial as the practice of 

 soiling some othei animals. Mr. Young mentions his having 

 fed sixty -four hogs, great and small, on two acres of clover a- 

 lone, during one season, and that they all grew very well. 



The pasture in which they are kept should have a supply of 

 water. 



It is well remarked in the New-England Farmer "that the 

 pasturing with swine will enrich land more than pasturing with 



