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necessity of procuring two loads of apple pomace from his neigh- 

 bors, and commencing the steaming and feeding again; it was 

 continued with the same good effect until eight days before the 

 animals were killed, during which latter period they were fed with 

 sound corn ;* they were slaughtered on the 1st of December. The 

 expense of fattening and the produce of pork were as follow* 



Dr. Dolls. Cts. 



32 bushels of small potatoes, at 25 cts. . . .8 00 



32 bushels of ruta-baga, including pumpkins, at 25 cts. 8 00 



10 bushels of soft corn, at 50 cts. . . . 5 00 



10 cwt. of buckwheat* at $1 per cwt ... 10 00 



20 bushels of sound corn, at 80 cts. v *; **-' . 16 00 



47 25 



Cr. Dolls. Cts. 



By 40 cwt. of pork, at $7i per cwt. . 300 00 

 Deduct expense, .... 47 00 



Balance, ^; '~'Vw 252 75." 



It is true that we have not often a superabundance of apples ; but 

 still in years when the crop is plentiful, the windfalls, diseased or 

 injured apples, and the refuse left after the making of cider, may be 

 given to the pigs, and will prove a fair substitute for more expensive 

 food, if not in itself peculiarly advantageous ; especially when eco- 

 nomy in the keep is more studied than a rapid system of fattening. 



Nuts should never be given to swine ; they make the fat soft and 

 greasy, and impart a sweet, unpleasant flavor to the flesh. Pigs are, 

 however, exceedingly fond of them; so much so, that when they can 

 get nuts they care little to touch any other kind of food. 



GRAIN. 



There is nothing so nutritious, so eminently and in every way 

 adapted for the purpose of fattening, as are the various kinds of 

 grain ; the only drawback is that they are too expensive to be used 

 to any great extent for this purpose, otherwise no animal should 

 be considered as properly fattened unless some kind of grain had 

 been given during the latter part of the time ; as nothing tends more 

 to create a firmness as well as delicacy in the flesh. It has been 

 calculated that for every bushel, half of peas, and half of barley, 

 that a hog eats, it gains from nine to ten or eleven pounds of flesh. 



Two pigs of about eight months old, were purchased and put up 

 to fatten on the 23d of December, 1834; they then weighed 316 

 Ibs. They were put into a warm sty and fed on rye and corn-meal, 

 having three regular feeds per diern, of two quarts each, up to the 

 following October, when they received three quarts at each feed, OJ 



