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the bottom of the yard in autumn, and under all 

 the sheds, and the sheep are kept well littered with 

 straw, fern, or stuhble, so as to be always per- 

 fectly clean and dry, they will in the winter make a 

 great quantity of excellent manure. 



SWINE. 



This is the season for making the right profit by 

 hogs, which is their dung. See that all the sows 

 with pigs are well littered, so as always to be per- 

 fectly clean, with bright, healthy-looking skins. 

 Also your fat hogs should be constantly littered up 

 to their bellies. If they are not kept perfectly clean, 

 you may depend on losing money ; by not making 

 so much dung as might be. 



" In the management of store swine, I met with 

 only one idea that requires registering ; namely, 

 that of oats being, in the opinion of professional 

 men, preferable to barley, as a food, not of young 

 pigs only, but of breeding sows. 



" Another opinion, however, may be mentioned ; 

 namely, that young pigs require warm meat to make 

 them grow. Corn and cold water will make them 

 sleek and healthy ; but warm beverage is considered 

 as requisite to a quick growth. This, however, is 

 registered as matter of opinion. 



<{ In the management of fatting swine, they keep 

 two or three little store pigs in the fatting sty, for 

 a purpose which theory would not readily suggest. 

 While the fatting hogs are taking their repast, the 

 Tittle ones wait behind them, and as soon as their 



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