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sued iii this branch of his business. The farmer 

 \vho would make a considerable profit by hogs, must 

 determine to keep a proper number of sows, in or- 

 der to breed many pigs , but this resolution ought 

 to be preceded by the most careful determination to 

 prepare crops proper for supporting this stock. Thq 

 proper ones for that purpose are barley, buck, beans, 

 pease, clover, and potatoes, or carrots. In the 

 common management, a farmer keeps only a sow or 

 two, because his dairy will do no more ; but in the 

 system of planting crops purposely for swine, a diffe- 

 rent conduct must necessarily be pursued. Potatoes, 

 carrots, Swedish turnip, and cabbages, must be pro- 

 vided for the sows and stores from Oclober till the 

 end of May, by which time clover, chicory, or lu- 

 cerne, should be ready to receive them, which will 

 carry them til! the stubbles are cleared ; so that the 

 Avhole year is filled up with these plants, the com- 

 mon orlal of the barn-door and the corn-fields, 

 When the sows pig, meal must be provided to make 

 wash, by mixing it with water. This in summer 

 will be good enough for their support, and in win- 

 ter it must be mixed with boiled roots, cfots an/1 

 pea-soup, for the young pigs. If cows are kept, 

 then the dairy wash is to be used in the above mix- 

 tures. 



Upon this system, a farmer may proportion his 

 swine to his crops, or his crops to his swine ; and 

 he will find that for the whole year he should have 

 about an equal quantity of roots and grass, and half 

 as much corn as potatoes. For carrying the profit to 

 highest advantage, the sows should pig but 

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