ISO AMERICAN HUSBANDRY. 



for the herbage improves the sow's milk ; the piga 

 also grow faster as well as more healthy, and tlie 

 sty is rendered more cleanly by their absence. If 

 the brood be numerous, they should be lessened, in 

 order to relieve the sow, to eight, or, at most, nine; 

 though from ten to thirteen have been brought up 

 in perfect order, without any apparent injury to the 

 mother. In such cases, however, she should be a 

 strong and healthy animal, as well as supplied with 

 an abundance of the most nutritious food. During 

 the whole period of her nursing, the offals of the 

 kitchen or dairy-wash, with shipstuffs, ground oats, 

 barley, buckwheat, or corn, mixed and given luke- 

 warm morning and evening, and in the middle of 

 the day, boiled potatoes, beets, or carrots, with a 

 little Indian meal, or pease and barley ground and 

 mixed, or something equally nutritious, may be fed 

 to her. 



The young pigs, even while sucklers, should not 

 be left wholly to the nourishment offered by the 

 sow, but should be furnished, two or three times a 

 day, with skim-milk, or buttermilk-whey, or pot 

 liquor, made lukewarm, and having a little meal, 

 shorts, and boiled roots mixed up with it ; or, if this 

 be thought too troublesome, skim-milk, with a small 

 quantity of meal, may be left constantly for them 

 in a part of the sty to which the sow cannot have 

 access. In six or seven weeks they will generally 

 weigh from thirty to thirty-five pounds, and be 

 strong enough to wean. After weaning, they should 

 not only be kept dry and clean, but regularly fed. 



The importance of swine, to consume the refuse 

 or coarse grain of the farm, and for the production 

 of manure, is too well known to the farmer to require 

 farther notice. 



Pigs that come in March and are intended to be 

 killed in December, should be well fed with the wash 

 of the kitchen and dairy from the time of weaning, 

 should have a run in good clover where there is 

 plenty ol water, and. as soon as pease will answer, a 



