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of their natural food, the fruits of the oak, the 

 hazel, and the beech, and those earth-nuts and 

 esculent roots, which their acute sense of smell, 

 and ploughing snout enable them to find. 



As the flesh of pigs is in high request, when 

 young, for the table, and, when large, forms a 

 staple commodity, cured and dried as bacon, 

 we farmers, besides consuming a great deal 

 ourselves, find an important advantage in this 

 sort of stock ; and he is a bad manager, or very 

 poor indeed, who does not, at the proper sea- 

 son, take care to be supplied with" a sufficient 

 store. 



HORSES. 



I have placed first such animals as are used 



for food, because it is the kind of produce, of 



the live sort, to which the farmer chiefly looks 



for a return in money. If, however, animals are 



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