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for all cattle stalled, whatever their food may be, 

 but if neglected with that sort, which is very expen- 

 sive, the mischief is more felt. 



SWINE. 



This is a principal season with swine, both for 

 fattening and rearing. As the two first are men- 

 tioned largely under other months, I shall at present 

 tfrtak only of the management of sows and pigs. 

 Each litter must he kept in a sty, and fed with 

 dairy-wash out of cisterns, and with the food stored 

 for them in autumn, such as carrots, parsnips, 

 potatoes, and cabbages; all these do for them ex- 

 cellently. To substitute barley or pease, or even 

 purchased bran or pollard, is therefore unprofitable. 

 The sows should always have as much as they will 

 eat, or the pigs will suffer; and what is of as much 

 con -equencc, is keeping them well littered. Let 

 them be always perfectly clean ; it ensures the 

 health of the pigs, and at the same time raises a 

 large quantity of the best manure on a farm. 



The breeding of swine being one of the most 

 profitable articles in the whole business of a farm, 

 the husbandman cannot pay too much attention to 

 it. I shall, in as few words as the su 1 ject will ad- 

 mit, give an account of the best system to be pur- 

 sued in 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 



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