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he kept in better order than the natives on that keeping, my 

 object being to keep him as poor as possible, so as to have him 

 fit for use as soon as I could, (Mr. Stickney informed me that- 

 the Suffolks would breed much younger if they were kept 

 poor). The first time he was used as a boar, was when he 

 was about twelve months old. He has had, since that time, 

 sixteen sows, whose time has expired, that have produced in 

 the aggregate, 134 pigs ; some of which had twelve and four- 

 teen pigs to a litter. In all, he has had twenty-seven sows ; 

 ten of my own and seventeen of others, for which the rate is 

 two dollars for each sow. He has been kept on low diet, until 

 the last twelve days, when I put him up to good keeping, on 

 which he gained twenty-two pounds in ten days. As you will 

 perceive, I could have made him much larger if I had fed him 

 longer; but I did not want to, for fear of hurting his breeding 

 qualities ; also, being aware that your premium is offered for 

 the best, and not the fattest boar. 



My four pigs are four months and three days old. They 

 have not had any extra care or keeping until the last twelve 

 days. They were weaned when they were six weeks old, and 

 have been kept since that time, mostly on rice meal or shorts, 

 and some green corn-stalks, and some windfall apples. They 

 have been for the last twelve days kept in the same pen, and 

 have eaten out of the same trough with my boar. In order to 

 ascertain what they all eat per day, I weighed out their meal 

 part of the time, and found that the boar and four pigs would 

 only eat eight pounds of rice meal and eight pounds of Indian 

 meal, scalded, per day. For the last three days, the pigs have 

 gained seven pounds. 



Needham, Sept. 24, 1851. 



Benfn N. Sawi7i^s Statement. 



The pig entered by me for exhibition, is half Suflblk and 

 half native breed. He was taken away from the sow when he 

 was eight weeks old, and weighed 43 pounds. 



Weighed at 12 weeks old, 73 lbs. Gain in 28 days, 30 lbs. 

 " 16 " 110 <' " 28 " 37 " 



