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or five hours each, a greater time would be allowed for 

 the performance of more labour, which in this manner, 

 would be done with far greater eafe, to both men and 

 horfes, and particularly with much lefs exhauftion and 

 injury to the latter. 



SECTION IV. 



SJVINE. 



JL HERE Is no animal in the whole economy of good 

 hufbandry that requires more attention as to breed, number, 

 and fupply of food, or will better requite the care and 

 trouble of the farmer, than a well-managed and proper flock 

 of hogs. Thefe things however are too much overlooked, 

 or rather difregarded by farmers in general, though all are 

 ready to agree that an over-dock in other refpedls mufl: ever 

 prove fatal to the interefts of the farmer. Hogs are too 

 frequently conceived to be a trifling and unimportant part of 

 the ftock of a farm ; whereas if their firft coft, and the value 

 of their food, were duly confidered, with their improving 

 value, it would certainly bear them out againft fome of the 

 more coftly animals, and challenge more attention and care 

 than what is ufually beftowed upon them. A due regard 

 to the breed which the peculiar circumftances of the farm may 

 call for, is particularly neceflary, as fome breeds are much 

 better fuited to departure, and feed upon grafs and herbs only, 

 than others. The moft hardy and beft qualified to prog 



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