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copper with water. I draw off as much of the liquor 

 as I want to wet pollard, or meal, for little pigs or 

 fatting-pigs, and the rest, roots and all, I feed the 

 yard-hogs with ; and this I shall follow on till about 

 the middle of May. 



257. If you give boiled, or steamed, potatoes to pigs, 

 there wants some liquor to mix with the potatoes ; for 

 the water in which potatoes have been boiled is hurt- 

 ful to any animal that drinks it. But mix the potatoes 

 with juice of mangel wurzel, and they make very good 

 food for hogs of all ages. . The mangel wurzel produ- 

 ces a larger crop than the Swedish turnip. 



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258. IF you prefer bread and pudding to milk, 

 butter, and meat, this corn will produce, on your forty 

 rods, forty bushels, each weighing 60 /6s. at the least; 

 and more flour, in proportion, than the best white 

 wheat. To make bread with it you must use two- 

 thirds wheaten, or rye, flour ; but in puddings this is 

 not necessary. The puddings at my house are all 

 made with tliis flour, except meat and fruit pudding; 

 for the corn flour is not adhesive or clinging enough 

 to make paste, or crust. This corn is the. very best 

 for hog-fatting in the whole world. I, last April, 

 sent parcels of the seed into several counties, to be 

 given away to working men : and I sent them instruc- 

 tions for the cultivation, which I shall repeat here. 



259. I will first describe this corn to you. It is 

 that which is sometimes called Indian corn; and 

 sometimes people call it Indian wheat. It is that 

 sort of corn which the disciples ate as they were going 

 up to Jerusalem on the Sabbath-day. They gathered 

 it in the fields as they went along and ate it green, 

 they being " an hungered," for which you know they 

 were reproved by the pharisees. I nave written a 

 treatise on this corn in a book which I sell for four 

 shillings, giving a minute account of the qualities, the 

 culture, the harvesting, and the various uses of this 

 corn ; but I shall here confine myself to what is ne- 



