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vcrage is considered as requisite to quick growth. 

 Some English farmers turn in their little pigs to 

 the fatting sty. While the fatting hoffs are taking 

 their repast the little ones wait behind them, and 

 as soon as their betters are served, lick out the 

 trough." 



" Besides the advantage of having by this me- 

 thod no waste or foul troughs, there is another: 

 the large pigs rise alertly \o their work lest the 

 small ones should (brcslall them, and fill themselves 

 the fuller, knowing they have it not again to go to. 



" The disadvantage of this practice is that the 

 large ones are apt to lord it loo much over the 

 little ones, especially in a confined sly. It', how- 

 ever, they have a separate apartment assigned 

 them, with an entrance too small (or the lattintj 

 swine to follow them, this disadvantage would be 

 in a great measure remedied."' 



A writer in Uees's Encyclopedia, while writing 

 in regard to young pigs and sows ivith pig, holds 

 the following language : "Tiie sows considerably 

 advanced in pig, and those with pig, should be 

 fed in a better manner than the store piirs. The 

 former should be supplied with good wash twice 

 or ofiener in the day, and have a sufficient allow- 

 ance of cabbages, potatoes, carrots, or other simi- 

 lar vegetables, so as to keep them in good condi- 

 tion, which is shown by the gloss of their coats. 

 The sows with pig, should be kept with the litter 

 in separate sties, and be still better fed than those 

 in pi<r. When dairying is practised, the wash of 

 that kind which has been preserved for the purpose 

 while the dairying was at its heiirht, in brick cis- 

 terns constructed for receiving from the dairy — 

 must be given them, with food of the root kind, 

 euch as carrots, parsnips, potatoes, and cahbacres, 

 in as larjre proportions as they will consume them, 

 in order ihai the pigs may be properly supported 

 and kept in condition. 



But when the business of dairying is'not carried 

 on, so as to provide wash of that sort, meal of 

 some kind or other must, Mr. Arthur Young 

 thinks, be had recourse to for the making of wash, 

 by mixing it with water which, in the summer 

 season, will be sufficient for their support, and in 

 winter it must be blended with the different sorts of 

 roots prepared by boiling; or when for young pigs 

 with oats and pea-soup. With this soup and 

 dairy-wash, when proper attention is bestowed, 

 young pigs may, he conceives, be weaned and 

 reared in the winterseason even, with profit and 

 success. The pea soup is an admirable article 

 when given in this intention. It is prepared by 

 boiling six pecks of peas in about sixty gallons of 

 water, till they are well broken down and diffused 

 in the fluid ; it is then put into a tub or cistern for 

 use. 



When dry food is given in combination with 

 this, or of itself, he advises oats, as beinc: much 

 better than any sortof iirain for young pigs, barley 

 not answering nearly so well in this application. 

 Oats coarsely ground have been Ibupd very useliti 

 for young hoirs, both in the form of wash with 

 water, and when made of a somewhat thicker 

 consistence. But in cases where the sows and 

 pigs can be supported with dairy wash and roots, 

 as above, there will be a considerable saving made 

 by avoiding the use of the expensive articles of 

 barley meal, peas or bran, and pollard. 



JMr. DonHldson remark* that in the usual mode 

 the pigs reared by the liirmer are fed fir pome 



weeks, after they are weaned, on whey or butter 

 milk or on bran or barley meal mixed with water. 

 They are afterwards maintained on other food as 

 potatoes, carrots, the refuse o( the garden, kitchen 

 scullery, &c., together with such additions as they 

 can pick up in the fiirm yard. Sometimes they are 

 sent into the fieUls at the close of harvest, where 

 they make a comlbrtable living /or several weeks 

 on the gleanings of the crops; or at other times 

 where the farms are situated in the neighborhood 

 of woods or forests they are sent ihiiher to pick up 

 the beach mast or acorns in the fall of the year. 

 And that when they are arrived at a proper age 

 lor fattening, they are either put into this fitted up 

 for the purpose, or sold to distillers, starchmakers, 

 dairymen, or cottagers. As to the treatment and 

 feeding oi'porkers or growing stores, considerable 

 diversity of sentiment prevails ; some contending 

 that they should be constantly confined in suitable 

 pens or small enclosures, while others recommend 

 their ranging more at large — where the object 

 desired is merely to keep these animals in a thriv- 

 ing condition till the season of fattening arrives; the 

 latter method may be pursued perhaps with some 

 advantages. Still in these cases, the range allowed 

 should not be too extensive, and generally confined 

 to yards in the immediate vicinity of the barn, or 

 at the proper season to pastures well^et in clover. 



A STATEMtENT OF THE CULTUUE AND PRO- 

 DUCT OF SUGAR BEET. MANGEL WURTZEL, 

 FIELD CARROT AND SUGAR PARSNIP ON 

 THE FARM OF JAMES GOWEN, MOUNT AIRY, 

 IN THE SEASON OF 1839. 



Submitted and read l)y James Gowpii, before the "Pliiladelphia 

 Society for promoting Agriculture," at their stated meeting, 

 Wednesday, Feb 5th. 



The land set apart for these roots was part of 

 an old apple orchard, and is a light sandy soil, 

 intermixed with mica, or isinglass, and from 

 which a crop of corn had been taken the previous 

 year. It was ploughed as early in the spring as 

 possible, say 19th March, and before ploughing 

 was limed at the rate of thirty bushels to the acre. 

 It was permitted to rest a few weeks, after which 

 it had a tolorable dressing of well rotted stable ma- 

 nure immediately ploughed in. Before harrowing, 

 it was treated with a few cart loads, say about 150 

 bushels, good street dirt, applied lime fiishion from 

 the cart, by scattering with the shovel — then har- 

 rowed. The quantity of manure in all was not 

 more than would have been used on similar soil in 

 same condition for potatoes. The labor up to 

 sowlnir was two ploughings, two harrowings and 

 one rolling, the last operation deemed indispensa- 

 ble in such soil, and to render the drilling more 

 perliect. 



Hall" an acre was intended for mangel wurtzel — 

 half an acre lor sugar beet — half an acre for field 

 carrots, ami a quarter of an acre for sugar parsnip ; 

 but the seed fur mangel wurtzel falling short, and 

 there being an abundance of beet seed on hand, 

 the latter was increased to more than half an acre, 

 while the former stood less by as much as the 

 other was increased. 



The drill used when working for beet and man- 

 gel wurtzel was provided with three teeth, set two 

 feet six inches apart, cutting three drills of two 



