VEGETABLES. 19S 



and wash are not well adapted for sound fattening, unless mixed or 

 alternated with other food, as pollard, barley-meal, .&c. It is true 

 that the animals become in good apparent condition, but their fat 

 is flabby, and does not swell on being boiled, as the fat of good 

 bacon ought to do. 



" With respect to the refuse of the distilleries, especially the wash, 

 it ought to be very cautiously given ; if allowed too liberally, the 

 animals reel from intoxication, until they are accustomed to it, and 

 we cannot but think its influence upon the healthy condition of the 

 animals to be injurious. 



" This wash is not a natural food ; it is not one which they will at 

 first take willingly, nor can we regard it as beneficial ; the pigs may 

 indeed become bloated, but not covered with firm solid fat ; it must 

 impair their digestive powers, and render the liver torpid and per- 

 haps swollen ; mixed with water and barley-meal, or other farina- 

 ceous food, it may be admissible, but this is the best that can be 

 said of it. 



GREEN AND DRIED VEGETABLES. 



"There are many vegetables used in the feeding of pigs, amongst 

 which may be enumerated clover, sainfoin, lucern, chicory, tares, 

 vetches, pea-haulm, cabbages, turnip-tops, &c.; it is desirable that 

 these, when given, should be cut up small, and mixed with the wash, 

 indeed, simply cut up, with a little salt scattered among it, and 

 occasionally mixed with a little pollard, it constitutes a good diet 

 for store pigs, where the aim is not to fatten them, but to keep 

 them in fair condition. Indeed, it is not advisable to render store 

 pigs too fat or high in flesh ; they grow larger, and their symmetry 

 is better developed, by moderate diet than by full feeding, and 

 afterwards, when put up to fatten for bacon, they thrive rapidly on 

 the increased quantity and quality of 'the nutriment. 



" Clover or lucern hay, cut up small and mixed with the wash, is 

 also recommended, and, where it is practicable, an occasional or in- 

 deed a frequent run on good grass lands tends to the advantage of 

 the animals. There are some wild plants, as the sow-thistle (son- 

 ckus) and others, of which swine are very fond ; yet it would appear 

 that these animals, omnivorous as they are, are choice in the selec- 

 tion of their vegetable fare, rejecting many plants on which the 

 horse, ox, sheep, and goat will feed with avidity. It is remarkable 

 that, although the hog will champ the fresh green shells of peas, it 

 does not swallow the tough inner lining, and only drains away the 

 saccharine juice, rejecting the rest. 



BOOTS. 



"Among the roots given to hogs in our island, potatoes take the first 

 place. These should always be steamed and mashed, and. mixed 



