CHAP. XXIII.] FARMING FOR LADIES. 467 



readers the account of some pigs fed last 

 year by a near relative, who occasionally 

 feeds them at his country residence for the 

 consumption of his family. Of two prick- 

 eared Berkshire pigs, bought out of the same 

 litter, one, killed at six months old, weighed 

 71 lbs. ; the cost altogether, in its purchase 

 and feeding upon milk and barley-meal, being 

 345. ; and finer pork we have seldom tasted. 

 The other, being kept a month longer, weighed 

 97 lbs. ; but was not, as we learned, nearly so 

 nice, being far too fat and rich. 



Another pair, of the same breed, pur- 

 chased young, and killed when about eight 

 months old, each weighed 140 lbs., exclusive 

 of offal. " These were fed," as the owner 

 states, "at first entirely on skim-milk and 

 house-wash, and for about six weeks on peas, 

 barley-meal, and skim-milk, as well as wash. 

 They also had about a bushel of acorns, ga- 

 thered in my own fields, before I put them 

 regularly up to fatten: when I began with 

 giving them about a quart of peas a-day be- 

 tween them, and lastly added barley-meal. 

 Of peas they consumed one sack — that is four 

 bushels — and of meal five bushels ; so that 

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