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Sbrthyear 2)62,500 



31,250 

 10 



Seventh year 2) 312,50C 



156,250 

 10 



Eighth year 2)1,562,500 



781,250 

 10 



Ninth year. 2)7,812,500 



3,906,250 

 10 



Tenth year, males and females. , 39,062,500 



" I hope my friend has brought -his pigs to a good market ; but to 

 equalize the supply, I shall, for the present purpose, take only the 

 male half of the pig population for food, leaving the breeders to 

 go on. In this way we can kill and eat ten the first year no bad 

 increase from' two sows, recollect ; the second year, 50 ; the third, 

 250; the fourth, 1250; the fifth, 6250; the sixth, 31,250 (pork in 

 abundance now) ; the seventh. 156,250 (still more abundant) ; the 

 eighth, 781,250 ; the ninth, 3,906,250 ; and the tenth, when divided 

 in like manner, the enormous number of 19,531,250 for food, with- 

 out interfering with the breeders, who, I presume, by this time will 

 probably require killing also. Now, I am not aware that much com- 

 mentary is required on this prolific subject ; every man who reads 

 this short paper will at once draw his own conclusions from the facts. 

 They are, however, of a very cheering description, and drawn from 

 the breeding of one domestic animal only, and amply prove what 

 abundant stores nature and the God of nature have provided for 

 human subsistence. I shall close this paper with the sensible prac- 

 tical observation of my friend in reference to this subject, as, after 

 all, it is in practice only that the benefits open to all are to be 

 received by any. In the county of Kent, he informs me, there are 

 31,000 agricultural families or farmers. It is a very easy matter 

 for each to keep two breeding-sows, which in three years would pro- 

 duce in round numbers 15,000,000 of pigs. 



" In the fifty-two counties of England, he also adds, the number of 

 agricultural families is 760,000 ; so that, by the same mode of cal- 

 culation as for Kent, every farmer keeping two sows, the produce 

 would be, in the like period, 380,000,000 pigs. One good breeding 

 sow to each would consequently produce 15,000,000. As I have 



