73$ Live Sjock* Swine Soiling of advantageous, 



Thcfe plants arc ofcxccllent ufe for fovvs and pigs, promoting the increafe of 

 milk in a great degree ; they afford great affiftance where the dairies are fmall, and 

 in all cafes tend to prevent the confumption of grain, which is of great importance 

 in hog- management. From the fweet and faccharine quality of the plant, the 

 hogs are not only extremely fond of it, but it becomes highly nutritious. By thefe 

 means the fwine will be well fupported and carried forward till the time the (tub-, 

 bles are cleared, when they may be turned upon them, and thus the whole year be 

 provided for in thefe different ways. 



But though this fyftem of management is advantageous, that of foiling the hogs 

 in their yards with green food, cut frefh hi the way that has been already directed, 

 is confidered by Mr. Young, not with (landing the increafed expenfe that attends 

 it, and the wafte of a certain portion of the food, as highly preferable on account 

 of the vafl (tore of manure that may be raifed. But it cannot be attempted with 

 propriety unlefs the farmer be provided with abundance of fome fort or other of 

 materials for the purpofe of litter, and fubftances of the peaty or earthy kinds for 

 thepurpofe of covering the floors of the hog-yards, in order toabforb and prevent 

 the wafte of any pertion of the liquid matters that may fall upon them. In this 

 method of proceeding, clover, chicory, tares, and lucern, are the kinds of food-that 

 are mod commonly employed; but there are others that may be brought into 

 their afiiftance when neceffary, efpecially on the flronger forts of lands, fuch as 

 beans eaten green, which afford a large quantity of food in proportion to the land 

 they occupy, the whole ftems being confumed,* and cabbages may likewife be 



* It is obferved by Mr. Voung, that beans have been grown for ufing while podded and green for 

 ftall-feeding bullocks, they have alfo been cultivated forthe ufe of hogs while green by Mr. Crofs. &quot; He 

 drilled garden beans at three feet, and afterwards turnips in the intervals. When the- beans began to 

 lofe their flowers, and to mow a difpofition to pod they were drawn by hand and given to 38 pigs, 10 

 weeks old well littered with ftraw, thefe were bought the 18th of May, and were kept on clover till 

 the beans were ready ; the beans being confumed, the pigs were fold the 18th of September for 40/. 

 beyond the prime coft, and they made 40 loads of rich manure. They confumed four acres of beans. 

 To perfons who make it a point of ufing hogs as the means of railing a large quantity of manure (and 

 there is no more effective way of doing it,) thefe hints may, he thinks, be very valuable. Beans ufcd for 

 -this purpofe may be off the land very early, probably much earlier than thefe were, and in time for 

 putting in another crop immediately, either late turnips or cole feed, and the land cannot be in the 

 leaft exhaufted. With this view there mould be a fucceffion of plantings in February, March, and 

 April.&quot; ^ 



The large Windfor and Icng-pod beans are probably the mod adapted to this purpofe, as producin^ 

 she largeft quantity of item in proportion to the land, 



