Live Slock. Swine Crops proper jor. 73? 



it is then put into a tub or cittern for ufe. When dry food is given in combina 

 tion with this, or of itfelf, Mr. Young advifes oats, as being much better than any 

 other fort of grain for young pigs, barley not anfwering nearly fo well in this ap 

 plication. We have employed oats coarfely ground for young hogs with the belt 

 fuccefs, both in the form of wafli with water and when made of a thicker confift- 

 cnce. 



Where the fows and pigs can be fupported with dairy- warn and roots in the 

 manner jutt mentioned, there will be a confiderable faving made by avoiding the 

 ufe of barley-meal, peafe, or bran and pollard. It is therefore highly difadvantageous 

 to the farmer to have recourfe to fuch fubftances in thefe circumftances. 



There is another point to be particularly regarded in the management offow* 

 and pigs, which is that of keeping them constantly well littered down with clean 

 draw, or fome other fimilar article, as by this means they are kept perfectly clean 

 and healthy, and at the fame time a large quantity of manure is afforded. 



In the practice of cultivating crops of various kinds purpofely for the food and 

 fupport of fsvine, the fows and ttore-pigs, will of courfe be fupported during the 

 winter feafon, as from the beginning of November to the middle or latter end of 

 May, by the various roots that have been ftored in this view, fuch as potatoes, 

 carrots, parfnips and Swedifh turnips ; alfo cabbages in their frefh (late, in combi 

 nation with the preferved dairy-wafh, and other articles that have been noticed above. 

 At the latter of the above periods the whole of the hogs in the yards fhould b^ 

 looked over and forted ; fuch as have attained half or more of their growth being 

 drawn and turned upon the clover, lucern or chicory crops, where they fhould be 

 kept till towards the latter end of September, the fences being kept in perfectly 

 good order, and ponds or other places provided for the hogs to drink at. Under 

 this management they are found to grow rapidly, the food in general agreeing well 

 with them, and they are then taken up in excellent condition forbeing fattened. In 

 this practice the important difference from the former method is in feledHng the 

 fufficicntly grown hogs from the fows that have pigs and the weaned pigs, and 

 only leaving the latter to be fed with the dairy or other wafh, with fuitable green 

 food, fuch as lettuces, cabbages, tares, &c. by which a much larger flock of 

 breeding hogs may be kept.* The tares and cabbages may be ufed for the fows 

 that have fpring litters, and the lettuces for thofe that have autumn litters. The 

 method of cultivating this plant in this intention, has been already noticed. 



* Young s Farmer s Calendar, 

 VOL. II. 5 B 



