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injf ihe tendons by which ihey are enable to move 

 the snout. 



"There are, two purposes," continues (he same 

 autlior when describing the mode i)ursued by rais- 

 ing small stoi'ks on some o{" ihe English farms, 

 "lor which |)igs maybe fattened. The one is 

 10 yield perk wliich may be used either fresh, 

 salted or picUled ; and the other is lo produce ba- 

 con which is prejjared by salting and drying the 

 flesh. When led for pork, which is the most con- 

 venient system in the practice of the larm, the 

 pigs may be reared to the age of six or eight 

 months; when intended lor bacon, they nmst be 

 reared to a greater age and size, as ten or twelve 

 months. When the object is pork, the smaller pig 

 is to be prelerred ; when bacon is desired the larger 

 class should be cultivated." 



In the case of (ceding for pork alone, it has 

 been computed that upon a regular larm, with 

 a sup[)ly of tares and clover to the animals in sum- 

 mer, and of potatoes and turnips in winter, and 

 with no other leeding than the refuse of the barn, 

 milk house, and kitchen, one pig may be fattened 

 in the year for every six acres of land under corn 

 crop. Thus supposing there are to be 210 acres 

 in corn crop, the quantity of pigs led annually 

 upon the liirm might be 40. To feed this stock, 

 in addition to what they can pick up in the straw 

 yards, about an acre and a quarter of clover, and 

 an equal (juantity of potatoes will be sufficient. 

 To keep up the number three bretding swine 

 will be required, of which two should be sold each 

 year, their place being supplied by an equal num- 

 ber of younger ones reared upon the farm. The 

 surplus beyond the quantity of 40, which it is pro- 

 posed to feed may be disposed of when weaned. 

 This is a method of management practicable upon 

 ordinary farms, without any interference tohatever 

 with the food and attention required lor larger 

 stock. 



Another method of management may be adopt- 

 ed. This is to take only one litter of pigs from each 

 sow, to sell the pigs as soon as they are weaned, 

 and immediately afterwards lo feed the swine. 

 This wil! be a profitable species of management 

 provided there is a sufficient demand in the district 

 lor so many pigs when weaned. 



Mr. Henderson, in his Treatise on Swine, re- 

 commends this system. He calculates that one 

 sow for every seven and a half acres may be 

 Tatted in this manner. He proposes h'lat the breed- 

 er shall purcliase in the first place twenty sow 

 pigs and one boar pig which had been born the 

 beginning of June. In the Ibllowing June all 

 the females will have had pig-^. These they are 

 to suckle for about two months. The pigs are 

 then to be sold just wlien weaned, except twenty- 

 one, namely twent}^ sow pigs and one boar pig; 

 these being selected from those which are of the 

 handsome&l shape, so that the subsequent stock 

 may be kept good and uniform. The farmer will 

 now be in a situation lo go on without further out- 

 lay of money for stock. In a month after the pigs 

 are weaned and sold, ihe sows themselves are lo 

 be put up to feed. This will be about the begin- 

 ning of September. The male must then be ad- 

 mitted to them so as to render then quiet and apt 

 to feed, and in two months they will be fat and of 

 a large size. 



Now the introduction of a practice similar to 

 this by the cultivators of many of the large farms 



in the western and other portions of the United 

 States, would be attended with great advanlawes; 

 It is at once a simple and convenient method, of 

 deriving large profits, from what is generrdly ne- 

 glected as wastage — the remaining Ibdder after the 

 crops have been gathered; audit exhibits most 

 conclusively the good results of endeavoring to 

 make the most of every thing. The more general 

 cultivation of ihe corn crop, and the cheapness of 

 grain, would allow the keeping in the country, of 

 even a larger number than those proposed, at a 

 very trifling advance, if any, in the expenses. 



The whole system of European agriculture, 

 and the modes of feeding stock, difl'er essentially 

 from the practice of this country, and ihe desira- 

 ble object there, is often to avoid the use of many 

 articles for Ibod, which Ihe exuberance of our soil 

 renders economical. But a detail of the practice 

 pursued by judicious cultivators, is always valuable 

 lor imporiant truths of general application. 



Where swine are suHered lo range for a great 

 portion of the year, and are confined in the win- 

 ter to barn yard or small enclosures, Mr. Youn"' 

 advises that the whole number of hogs should be 

 looked over in the month of May, and sorted; such 

 as have attained half or more of their growth, be- 

 ing drawn and turned upon lucerne or clover crops, 

 where they shouKI be kept until the end of Septem- 

 ber, care being taken that the fences are in good 

 order, and that proper ponds, and other places are 

 provided lor the hogs to drink at. Under this man- 

 agement they are ibund, he says, to irrow rapidly, 

 the food in general agreeing well with then), and 

 they are then taken up in excellent condition for 

 fattening. In this mode the hogs sufficiently grown 

 are selected from the sows that have pigs, and 

 weaned pigs, and only the latter left to be led with 

 the dairy or other wash, with suitable green food, 

 such as lettuces, cabbages, &c.; by which a much 

 larger stock of breeding hogs may be kept. The 

 cabbages may be used lor the sows that have spring 

 litters, and the lettuce for those that have autumn lit- 

 ters. It is observed thai these plants are of great use 

 for sows and pigs, promoting the increase of milk in 

 a great degree, affording assistance where the dai- 

 ries are small. From the sweet juicy quality of the 

 lettuce, the hogs are not only extremely fond of 

 if, but it becomes highly nutritious. In this way 

 the swine may be well supported, and carried for- 

 ward till the stubbles are cleared, when they 

 may be turned upon them, and thus the whole 

 year be provided lor, in these difl'erent ways, with 

 the greatest economy. 



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