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frame to spread, while the very fat pigs became inactive, and 

 like indolent bipeds, they neither worked for their own benefit 

 nor for that of others. 



" For the purpose of increasing my manure heap, my pens 

 are kept constantly supplied with peat or swamp mud, about 

 three hundred loads of which are annually thrown into my 

 styes. This, with the manure from my horse stable, which is 

 daily thrown in, and the weeds and coarse herbage which are 

 gathered from the farm, give me about 500 cart loads of man- 

 ure in a year. 



" On regular and systematic feeding and clean and dry bed- 

 ding, the success of raising and fattening swine very much de- 

 pends. A faithful feeder, also, who has some skill and taste, 

 and withal a little pride of vocation, is indispensable." 



Of all articles ever given to fatting swine Indian meal is, 

 without doubt, the most nutritious. Mr. Phinney, it seems, 

 has by actual trial settled a much vexed question, whether 

 hogs should be forced by full feeding when young, or at first 

 be only kept well in a growing state. He found it better, when 

 designed to be kept more than a year, to let the young animal, 

 by sufficient but not excessive feeding, have time to develop 

 himself and acquire a natural size, rather than, by filling him to 

 repletion, to bring on a premature state of fatness, which 

 seemed to check the growth. To young pigs, milk, whey 

 and butter-milk are the best of all feed ; but where cows are 

 kept for the purpose of supplying the market with milk, the 

 pigs will be of course regarded as very poor customers. " The 

 milkman will not call." There is however, as I have shown 

 in page 254, under some circumstances, a mistake in this matter. 



The establishment of J. P. Cashing, Watertown, for keeping 

 and fatting swine, is upon a large scale, and is exceedingly well 

 contrived for his situation. It consists of a long one-story 

 building, with separate pens on one side extending the whole 

 length, each designed for four swine, with an open yard and a 

 lodging and eating room to each, besides some lying-in apart- 

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