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turns of the market. The wash and offals of a mo- 

 derate kitchen will go a considerable way towards 

 the support of a breeding sow, and in return, the 

 produce of the sow will operate in a comfortable 

 proportion, towards the support of the kitchen. To 

 embrace in our view the profits of the farm and of 

 the public, it has been said, and according to my ex- 

 perience, upon sufficient grounds, that, an hundred 

 pounds laid out in swine, will return a greater profit, 

 than the same sum invested in any other kind of live 

 stock ; and that no other article of flesh provision 

 can be raised and prepared for market so soon as 

 pork : in consequence, it must be materially instru- 

 mental in the production of plenty, and in restrain- 

 ing exorbitance of price in the first necessaries. The 

 seasons most usually advantageous for the purchase 

 of pig stock, are, at Old Michaelmas, after clearing 

 the harvest fields, and in the months of March and 

 April. 



CHOICE OF VARIETIES. 



The reader is referred to our brief, but sufficient 

 list of these, from which, according to his conve- 

 nience or opportunity, he may make his election ; 

 or without farther trouble, he may very safely have 

 recourse to the HOME-BREDS of his own district or 

 vicinity, since we are so far generally improved, that 

 in whatever part of England a man may reside, he 

 need not fail to purchase pigs for his money, which 

 a sufficiency of good meat will fatten to profit. 



For BACON-HOGS in a commercial view, the regu- 

 lar large varieties are doubtless best calculated, as 

 endowed with the important qualification of growth, 



