H* STATISTICAL SURVEY 



Hogs are fattened in confiderable numbers j pota- 

 toes are the ufual food ; thofe, who are efteemed the 

 befl feeders, add oatmeal, or meal feeds, both ofVhich 

 improve the quality of the pork, and haften the fatten- 

 ing procefs : the potatoes are given boiled and pound- 

 ed, the meal being mixed with them ; but to make the 

 bacon excellent hard meat, fuch as oats or peas ftiould 

 be added fome time before the creature is killed. This 

 gives the meat a firmnefs, and makes it fland faking 

 better. When provifions are dear, fattening pigs is 

 rather a lofing bufmefs j for I underiland a bufhel of 

 potatoes will not make a pound of pork : now potatoes 

 are generally above eight pence per bufhel, and pork 

 not above half that price per pound ; ergo, the infe- 

 rence eafily follows. This year is not a rule , pork is 

 above, potatoes are below the average. Were pigs 

 cither bred by the fattener, or bought in young, and 

 fupported whilft in a growing flate upon clover, then, 

 upon the whole, it would certainly be an advantageous 

 bufmefs ; but where they are bought lean, and imme- 

 diately put up, in general, I fhould think, little is made 

 by it. 



On the fubjeft of feeding cattle, I muft not pafs by 

 the great advantages of foiling in the houfe in fummer ; 

 there are three points, in which to view it ; the firft 

 point refpecls the economy in the confumption of the 

 produce , the fecond, the condition and comfort of the 

 cfcttle , the third, the quantity of manure. In the firft 



place, 



