7 j(5 Live Stock. Sirine Proper Modes oj feeding of. 



that it will be neceftary for him to keep, and the great number of pigs that muft 

 be railed. Upon this being properly and effectually done his fuccefs and ad van- 

 tao-e will in a oreat rpeafure depend. The crops capable of being cultivated with 

 the OH) ft benefit in this intention are beans, peafe, barley, buck-wheat, potatoes, 

 carrots, parfnips, Swcdifh turnips, cabbages, lettuces, clover, lucern, chicory, &c. 

 The proportions in which thefe crops fliould be grown for this purpofe muft vary 

 according to circumftances ; as the kind of hogs, their extent, and the manner of 

 difpofing of them ; but whatever number may be kept, an equal proportion of 

 root crops ; and thofe of the grafs kind, will be requifitc, with about half as much 

 of thofe of the farinaceous cr grain kind as of thofe of the root fort ; and a quantity 

 of the luxuriant vegetable kind, fully in proportion to the number of hogs that are 

 to be fed on fuch forts of food. 



In the fupplying of the hogs with food a diftinction is likewife to be made ac 

 cording to the different kinds, in order that the molt maybe made of the food 

 The fows confiderably advanced in pig, and thofe with pigs, mould be fed in a bet 

 ter manner than the ftore pigs The former mould be fupplied with good wafli 

 twice or oftener in the day, and have a fufficient allowance of cabbages, potatos, 

 carrots, or other fimilar vegetables, fo as to keep them in good condition ; which 

 is mown by the glofs of their coats. The fows with pigs mould be kept with their 

 litters in fepaiate Hies, and be ftill better fed than thofe in pig. Where dairying 

 is pradifed, the wafh of that kind which has been preferved for the purpofe while 

 the dairying was at the height, m brick cifterns, conftructed for receiving it from 

 the dairy, muft be given them, with food of the root kind, fuch as carrots, parf- 

 nips, potatoes, and cabbages, in as large proportions as they will confume them, in 

 order that the pigs may be properly fupported and kept in condition. But where 

 the bufinefs of dairying is not carried onfo as to provide wafh of that fort, meal of 

 jfome kind or other muft be had recourfe to for the making of wafh, by mixing it 

 with water, which in the fummer feafon will be fufficient for their fupport ; and 

 in winter it muft be blended with the different forts of roots prepared by boiling, 

 .or, when for the young pigs, with oats and pea-foup.* With this foup anddairy- 

 wafti, where proper attention is bellowed, young pigs may be weaned and reared 

 in the winter feafon even with profit and fuccefs. The pea-foup is an admirable ar 

 ticle when given in this intention; it is prepared by boiling (ix pecks of peasinabout 

 fixty gallons of water, till they are well broken down and diffufed in the fluid i 



* Young s Farmer s Calendar. 



