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kept steadily in view — his swiiieship should see it, and cat for it." This is 

 our view exactly. Winter none but autumn pigs, keep them in pens, and 

 always growing. "To keep a pig growing, one must kccj) him eating, and 

 eating about all the time. To do this, thei-e is nothing like 'change and 

 variety' — now a little corn, then a little milk, a few boiled potatoes, a few 

 raw apples — now a pudding, then a dish of greens — anything to keep them 

 eating and stuffing when awake, even if it does require a little extra atten- 

 tion." 



5. Cooking Food for SwinCi — Circumstances must govern the feeder. If 

 corn is worth but twenty-iive cents per bushel, it is plain that it will not pay 

 to expend much money either for cooking or crushing it ; but where food is 

 high, a small quantity saved pays for considerable labor, etc. It will hardly 

 pay to expend dear labor upon cooking cheap roots to make low-priced pork. 

 It has been proved tiiat crushed barley, soaked in cold water 46 hours, gave 

 more increase of weight to sheep than when not soaked ; but crushed malt 

 did not. Tlie figures are : Four sheep in 10 weeks ate 280 lbs. of crushed 

 barley not steejjed, and 3,867 lbs. of mangel-wurzel, and increased in live 

 weight 81 lbs.; while four sheep, with barley crushed and steeped, ate 280 

 lbs. and 5,321 lbs. mangel-wurzel, increasing lOHlbs. Four shecji, with 

 crushed malt, not steeped, ate in 10 weeks 227^ lbs., and 3,755 lbs. mangel- 

 wurzel, and increased 8i lbs. ; while four sheep, with malt crushed and 

 steeped^ ate 226ilbs. malt and 4,458 lbs. mangel-wurzel, and gained only 

 78 lbs. In the above experiment, the question is. Did the additional 20ilbs. 

 pay the extra trouble and extra feed of roots ? 



An experiment in Ireland, lately made, proves that hogs gained more 

 upon raw than cooked vegetables. Eiglit hogs were selected and divided 

 into two lots, as evenly as could be, and put in to fatten, on the 27tli of 

 November. Each lot was fed regularlj' three times a day, having each 12 

 lbs. of bran and barley meal, the oidy ditference being that one lot had 

 steamed ruta bagas, and the other pidped or rasped ruta bagas. The experi- 

 ment was continued 39 days ; the lot having cooked food ate 468 lbs. bran, 

 etc., and 10,020 lbs. ruta bagas, and increased 103 lbs. ; while the lot having 

 uncooked food ate 468 lbs. bran, etc., and only 5,460 lbs. ruta bagas, and 

 gained 110 lbs. 



Samuel II. Clay, of Bourbon, Ivy., has been experimenting in feeding several 

 lots of hogs, changing them from raw to cooked, and from ground to 

 niigroun<l Ibod, with the following results : One bushel of dry corn made 

 5 lbs. 10 oz. of live pork ; one bushel of boiled corn made 14 lbs. 7oz. of 

 pork; one bushel of ground corn, boiled, made in one instance 16 lbs. 7oz., 

 in another nearly 18 ll)s. of pork. To get the value of corn, estimate the 

 pork at S cents a i)0und ; we have as the restdt of one bushel of dry corn, 

 45 cents' worth of pork ; of one liushel of boiled corn, 11. "> cotits' worth of 

 pork ; and of one liushcl of ground com, 130 cents' wortli of jiork. 



6. Pig Feed — Boiled Weeds. — .\ widow, who was short of feed for her pig, 

 said, in presence of her little boys, that she thought she would have to sell 



