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in due time will prove with pig. Hogs that are in- 

 tended for bacon, should never run at large ; for the 

 best pork and easiest fattened, is that which is kept 

 up in pens. They are fat, while those which run 

 out are lean on the same food; and another advantage 

 is, that when kept in the stye they are out of the corn 

 field, and out of mischief. 



My opinion is, that any man w T ho has from two to 

 five hundred acres under cultivation, can kill from six 

 to ten thousand pounds of pork annually. This too 

 may be done from the offal of the farm, for instance : 

 small Irish potatoes, lambs quarter, pusley, pump- 

 kins, &c. As soon as your clover is old enough to 

 cut, give your hogs a portion every day, and your 

 pork will be of the very best kind. 



Your pigs should be trained to go in the pen with 

 the sows to eat slops, so soon as they are large enough ; 

 and when your sows are about to wean her progeny, 

 the pigs should be taught to go into the pen, where 

 they should be kept about half their time at first: As 

 soon as they become accustomed to confinement, they 

 should be put up in a clean pen for good, which pen 

 you should be careful to keep clean, particularly in 

 warm weather ; for I have seen large hogs, of three 

 hundred weight, fall victims to a filthy sty. Besides 

 the loss, filthy pens are injurious to health, producing 

 fevers and malignant diseases. During the period the 

 Cholera raged, the disease was traced in a town, in 

 a neighboring State, to a number of filthy pens con- 

 tiguous to each other. 



