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6 qts. of com meal would be cts. 16.8, — total, 25 cents 2 mills 

 each per day as the cost of keeping. The price of pork at that 

 time was six to seven dollars per 100 lbs. A gain of two 

 pounds a day, live weight, would much exceed the ordinary 

 gain of a fattening hog, although, in a remarkable case, I have 

 known the daily gain, for eighteen days in succession, to ex- 

 ceed three pounds. At two pounds a day, there must be a 

 considerable loss in this feeding. The prices of grain, however, 

 were above the usual prices; and the price of pork was de- 

 pressed. 



Another farmer, in fattening three swine, allowed them one 

 peck of meal each per day. The mess was composed of Indian 

 corn, buckwheat and oat meal, mixed in equal quantities. The 

 price of corn was 84 cents ; buckwheat, 56 cents ; oats, 42 

 cents per bushel. One peck of this mixture cost fifteen cents. 



One of the most exact and careful farmers in the county fat- 

 tens his swine chiefly in the winter, so as to have them in the 

 market in March, when pork generally bears a good price. He 

 has close styes, which are kept with great neatness ; his swine 

 are fed with exactness and punctuality; and in severe weather, 

 he endeavors, by closing the windows and doors, to keep up a 

 moderate temperature in his styes by a fire in the furnace, 

 where he cooks his food for his swine. Another farmer in 

 Leverett, who makes excellent pork, prefers the winter fatten- 

 ing of swine, but is extremely careful that they shall not sufl"er 

 from cold, his styes opening to the south, and being always 

 abundantly littered. The farmer first alluded to has made trial 

 of molasses for his swine, having purchased a condemned lot 

 at a low price. He gave at the rate of half a pint per day to 

 each hog, with great advantage as he supposed, though no ac- 

 curate observation or test was made to determine the gain, and 

 the proportion of that gain, if any, to be attributed to this arti- 

 cle of food. 



A farmer in Bnckland considers ruta-baga, fed raw to swine, 

 of equal value as raw potatoes. This judgment, he says, is the 

 result of his own experience. A farmer in Hawley thinks 



