22 JANUARY. 



prepare crops proper for supporting this stock. The 

 proper ones for that purpose are barley, buck, beans, 

 pease, clover, and potatoes, or carrots. In the 

 common management, a farmer keeps only a sow or 

 two, because his dairy will do no more; but in the 

 system of planting crops purposely for swine, a dif- 

 ferent conduct must necessarily be pursued. Po- 

 tatoes, carrots, Swedish turnip, and cabbages, must 

 be provided for the sows and stores from October 

 till the end of May, by which time tares, clover, chi- 

 cory, or lucerne, should be ready to receive them, 

 which will carry them till the stubbles are cleared ; so 

 that the whole year is filled up with these plants, the 

 common offal of the barn-door and the corn-fields-. 

 When the sows pig, meal must be provided to make 

 wash, by mixing it with water. This in summer 

 will be good enough for their support, and in win- 

 ter it must be mixed with boiled roots, oats, and 

 pea- soup, for the young pigs. If cows are kept, 

 then the dairy- wash is to be used in the above 

 mixtures. 



Upon this system, a farmer may proportion his 

 swine to his crops, or his crops to his swine ; and 

 he will find that for the whole year he should have 

 about an equal quantity of roots and grass, and half 

 as much corn as potatoes. For carrying the profit 

 to the highest advantage, the sows should pig but 

 twice a year ; that is, in April and August ; by 

 which means there will never be a long and expen- 

 sive season for rearing the pigs before they are put 

 to the staple food of clover or potatoes, &c. ; but 



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