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consequence of the whole system, in raising large 

 quantities of excellent manure, cannot be too 

 strongly insisted on. 



As the dairy will this month afford great plenty 

 of butter-milk and cheese-whey, you should reserve 

 all that is not wanted for the present stock of sows 

 and pigs, in brick cisterns, so contrived, that it may 

 run without loss directly from the dairy into them : 

 this will be worth many pounds per annum in 

 a farm of any size : where such contrivances are 

 not used, the wash must all be used as fast as 

 it is made, and whether wanted or not ; which is a 

 vastly .greater loss than many persons, not used to 

 the improved practice, will easily imagine. 

 SOILING HOGS. 



The preceding system is good, but I prefer soil- 

 ing them in their yards, notwithstanding the ex- 

 pence is much increased, and that some food will 

 be wasted. The inducement to this practice is the 

 immense quantity of valuable manure which may 

 be raised in this manner. Our farmer should not 

 however attempt it, if he be not well provided with 

 litter of some sort or other, including in that term 

 sand and peat. The hog-yards should have gates 

 wide enough to admit carts for bringing these ma- 

 terials and food in, and for moving away the dung. 

 Lucerne, chicory, clover and tares are the proper 

 food for this system. 



HORSES. 



The beginning of this month, the farmer should 

 leave off dry meat for his horses. He should soil 



T 3 them 



