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dinner; and they appeared as good as those 

 eaten in the winter. This shews clearly how 

 well this root keeps. 



301. Now, these facts being, I hope, undoubted, 

 is it not surprising, that, in many parts of this 

 fine country, it is the rule to keep only one pig 

 for every cow ! The cow seems as necessary to 

 the pig as the pig's mouth is necessary to his 

 carcass. There are, for instance, six cows ; 

 therefore, when they begin to give milk in the 

 spring, six pigs are set on upon the milk, which 

 is given them with a suitable proportion of pot 

 liquor (a meat pot) and of rye, or Indian, meal r 

 making a diet far superior to that of the fami 

 lies of labouring men in England. Thus the 

 pigs go on 'till the time when the cows (for 

 want of moist food) become dry. Then the pigs 

 are shut up, and have the new sweet Indian 

 corn heaped into their stye till they are quite 

 fat, being half fat, mind, all the summer long, 

 as they run barking and capering about. Some 

 times they turn sulky, however, and will not eat 

 enough of the corn ; and well they may, seeing 

 that they are deprived of their milk. Take a 

 child from its pap all at once, and you will find, 

 that it will not, for a long while, relish its new 

 diet. What a system ! but if it must be per 

 severed in, there might, it appears to me, be a 

 great improvement made even in it; for, the 



