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farm to fatting bensts throughout the winter, in a 

 well-littered farm -yard, that converts the straw, fern, 

 stubble, &c. into such quantities of dung, as im- 

 proves the land more than any other method whatever. 



The quantity of turnips and hay which stalled oxen 

 cat, appears from experiment to be a ton of turnips, 

 besides chaffor hay, in a week, for an ox of 75 stone, 

 (I4lb.) ; 12 cwt. a week for a cow of 32 stone, with 

 variations of course. 



HOGS. 



Now also put full-grown hogs to fatten : a busi- 

 ness profitable, particularly in respect to the improve- 

 ment of a farm by dung. If he gets the market price 

 for his pease, barley, beans, buck-wheat, &c. and 

 saves carriage upon them, at the same time getting 

 a fair price for his swine, lean, he certainly makes a 

 considerable profit upon the whole transaction, though 

 not an immediate one, as the mere fattener of hogs : 

 but, what is of much greater consequence, is the 

 raising of rich and most valuable manure. 



The most profitable method of converting corn of 

 any kind into food for hogs, is to grind it into meal, 

 and mix this with water in cisterns, in the proportion 

 of five bushels of meal to 1OO gallons of water ; stir 

 it well several times a day, for three weeks, in cold 

 weather, or for a fortnight in a warmer season, by 

 which it will have fermented well and become acid, 

 till which time it is not ready to give. It should be 

 stirred immediately before fording. Two or three 

 cisterns should be kept fermenting in succession, 

 that no necessity may occur of giving it not duly 

 prepared. The difference in profit between feeding 



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