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them on a slop made of roots, meal, corn, bran, etc. I also 

 feed salt, charcoal, sulphur, ashes and saltpeter. 



FEEDING. 



In feeding the sows on such feed, the little pigs soon learn 

 to eat. Then I make a low flat trough to feed them milk, 

 boiled meal, etc. I continue this kind of feed till they can eat 

 corn, after which I give them boiled corn, barley, oats, meal, 

 roots, or any thing else that they will eat. This kind of feed 

 is kept up for two months, and then I take away the sows. 

 The sows I put in a pasture and feed dry corn, water, etc. 

 The pigs remain in the yard till they are about three months 

 old. They are then put in a pasture and fed as before. My 

 theory is, that a hog that does not eat much will not amount to 

 much. Feeding strong while pigs are young will expand the 

 stomach and increase the size of the hog. I continue this feed 

 till green corn is big enough to cut up. Stowell's Evergreen 

 corn I believe to be the best for early feeding. Stock hogs 

 while in pasture, should have a house to sleep in at leisure, as 

 in the diagram. They remain in pasture till green feed fails, 

 when I take them out and put them in a close, warm place and 

 feed them on corn till ready for market. 



FRUIT. 



My first efforts were a partial failure. The first lot, I 

 ordered from the South, and it proved to be too tender for 

 the climate, and could not stand the cold Winters. The second 

 I ordered from the North. With a few exceptions, these 

 proved to be hardy. The third lot were from a nursery near 

 home ; they proved to be equally hardy. In the two last lots, 

 many of them were of the same varieties that I purchased in 

 the first lot, and which had proved so tender. 



APPLES. 



I have raised nineteen kinds of apples, this year. Most of 

 them seem hardy and have stood the test from ten to fifteen 

 years. My method for raising apples for home consumption is 

 as follows : first I select good dry land, and then put it in a 



