I'?4 AGRICULTURAL ESSAtS. 



of small companies detached from each other, so that th6 

 noise and bustle will be less, and in order that they may mor0 

 unmolested enjoy the repose which is most suitable to their 

 drowsy faculties. For this purpose the sty should have a 

 number of distinct apartments by close partitions from each 

 other, and where the inmates of each can come forward separ- 

 ately to the general feeding trough, and retire separately again 

 to rest. 



To increase the appetite of hogs, when fattenmg, it is said 

 a dose or two of sulphur should be occasionally given them in 

 their food. Change of food is also good for that purpose. 

 Laxative food should be avoided, as they are seldom costive. 

 If they are too much so, a little rye will generally prove effica- 

 cious, as a remedy. Mr. Young says it has been found that the 

 best method of feeding all kinds of grain to hogs, is ;to grind it 

 to meal and mix it with water, in cisterns made for the purpose, 

 m the proportion of five bushels of meal, to a hundred gallons 

 of water; the mass to be well stirred several times each day, 

 until it has fermented and become acid, when it will be ready 

 for use. In this way two or three cisterns must be kept fer- 

 menting in succession. He further remarks, that the profits 

 will amply pay the expence. Is not the correctness of this re- 

 mark, as it relates to the condition of the farmers in our own 

 country, evinced from the riutritiows effect which the grains of 

 distillers, and the refuse of etarch factories, has in fattening 

 hog's. Were the nutrative substances contained in these-arti- 

 cies of food separated entirely from the water with which 'they 

 are mixed, and in that condition fed to swine, we should 

 doubtless find a great diminution of their efficacy. It has 

 been observed that the cause of pork, as well as ather meats 

 shrinking very much, and losing much of its oils in cooking, 

 seems not to be well understood ; ibut that it is general- 

 ly believed the more fully any animal is fatted, the leas will its 

 saeat shrink and part with its oil in cooking. 



DISEASES. Measles.— This disorder is mostly in the 

 throat, which is filled with small pustules, and sometimes these 

 appear on the outside of the neck. The animal affected looks 

 languied, with red eyes, and loses flesh. Remedy.— Gi\e him 

 «naall quantities of levigated crude antimony in his food. 



The mange is like the scab in sheep, a cutaneous erup- 

 ,t;ion of the skin, is occasioned by want of cleanliness in the 



