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this manner, than when allowed the use of a 

 yard; as quietude certainly much promotes 

 the increase of flesh. It has been stated in 

 a Report, published by the Board of Agri- 

 culture, respecting the husbandry of Essex 

 — " that hogs half fat, weighing 70 lbs., may 

 be brought to double their weight within 

 twenty-eight days ; and have been known, 

 when fed upon barley-meal and water, to in- 

 crease at the rate of 15 lbs. per week." 



Had not this been told upon such respectable 

 authority, the statement might be exposed to 

 some doubt ; but, according to a comparative 

 experiment recorded in the ' Sussex Report ' 

 as having been made by the late Lord Egre- 

 mont — a porker of 11 stone 11 lbs., which was 

 caged in that manner on the 4th of March, 

 was slaughtered on the loth of April, at which 

 time he weighed 18 stone 3 lbs., thus having 

 in forty days gained 90 lbs. " He was sulky 

 for the first two days, and would eat nothing ; 

 but he then came to his appetite and con- 

 sumed two bushels of barley-meal with eight 

 bushels of potatoes. When slaughtered his 

 dead weight was 184 lbs., while that of some 

 porkers of the same breed and live weight 



