RINGING KILLING ENCOURAGEMENT FOOD. 191 



at weaning time, and after they shall have recovered 

 from castration. In Cheshire, they cut away the 

 cartilage, or gristle of the snout, in place of in- 

 serting a ring, a practice which I have not hitherto 

 essayed. 



KILLING. The following extraordinary expedi- 

 tion, particularly for the country, was lately used 

 by Frederic Green, Governor of the Poor-house 

 at Brewood, in Staffordshire. Having betted ten 

 pounds that he would kill, scald, well and completely 

 dress, open, &c. eight pigs in four hours, without 

 any other assistance whatever, than having the 

 scalding water conveyed to him as he wanted it. 

 This task he performed in three hours, fifty-six 

 minutes. One of the pigs (surely hogs) weighed 

 3801bs. and none less than 2401bs., or thirty stones, 

 London weight. Green however, had the advant- 

 age of a windlass to draw the pigs out of the scald- 

 ing tub. 



, ENCOURAGEMENT TO PIG BREEDERS. 



" Lancashire, April, 1813. Pigs of six weeks 

 old, which sold two months ago at four shillings 

 each, are now worth twenty shillings each." 



STORE-FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT. 



WEANLINGS should have, at least, one month of 

 delicate feeding, warm lodging, and care. The same 

 kind of food should be continued to them three 

 times a day, to which they were at first accustomed 

 with the sow. Corn and pollard are indispensable 

 in pig feeding ; they may, indeed, be reared more 



