CHAP. VIII.] COWS, SHEEP, HOGS, &C. 311 



ture, we must examine this swill tub, and see 

 what it contains. To keep pigs to a profit, you 

 must carry them on to their fatting time at little 

 expence. Milk comes from all the grass you 

 grow and almost the whole of the dry fodder. 

 Five or six cows will sweep a pretty good farm 

 as clean as the turnpike road. Pigs, till well 

 weaned must be kept upon good food. My pigs 

 will always be fit to go out of the weaning stye 

 at three months old. The common pigs require 

 four months. Then out they go never to be fed 

 again, except on grass, greens, or roots, till 

 they arrive at the age to be fattened. If they 

 will not keep themselves in grouping order upon 

 this food, it is better to shoot them at once. 

 But, I never yet saw a hog that would not. The 

 difference between the good sort and the bad 

 sort, is, that the former will always be fat 

 enough for fresh pork, and the latter will not ; 

 and that, in the fatting, the former will not re 

 quire (weight for weight of animal) more than 

 half the food that the latter will to make them 

 equally fat. 



304. Out of the milk and meal system another 

 monstrous evil arises. It is seldom that the 

 hogs come to a proper age before they are 

 killed. A hog has not got his growth till he is 

 full two years old. But, who will, or can, have 

 the patience to see a hog eating Long-Island 



