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has been much expatiated on ; but is not yet conv, 

 inon husbandry every where. It well deserves to be 

 considered. 



In the old management of swine, they were kept 

 at home, about the farm-house, or a close of grass, 

 all summer, with times of regular feeding on wash, 

 grains, or corn ; but the error of such a conduct, 

 was making no distinction between sows with pigs, 

 or weaned pigs, and large hogs. In the more mo- 

 dern method, all the wash, &c. is reserved for 

 the former : consequently a much larger stock 

 can be kept ; and the hogs, half, and three-fourths 

 grown, are turned into the clover or chicory about 

 the middle of this month ; and it is directed, that 

 the gates of the fields be locked on them, and kept 

 there till towards Michaelmas: but for this con- 

 duct the fences must all be in excellent repair, and 

 a pond in the field for the hogs to drink at. This 

 food agrees well with them ; they grow fast, and 

 are taken out of either clover or chicory in good 

 order for fatting. This practice must certainly be 

 attended with beneficial effects : enabling the far- 

 mer to keep larger breeding stocks of hogs, is 

 alone of much consequence, and cannot fail of im- 

 proving his profit: swine will pay for their food as 

 well as any other application of it ; and the conse- 

 quence of the whole system, in raising large quan- 

 ties of excellent manure, cannot be too strongly 

 insisted on. 



As the dairy will this month afford great plenty 

 of butter-milk and cheese-whey, all that is not 



wanted 



