20 FAMILY RECEIPTS. 



bring up two children. Beware of little expenses — a 

 small leak will sink a great ship. If you would know 

 the want of money, go and try to borrow some — for he 

 that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. Pride is as 

 loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. 

 Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and 

 supped with infamy. Lying rides on debt's back. It 

 is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. Creditors 

 have better memories than debtors. 



For age and want save what you may, 

 No morning's sun lasts the whole day. 



Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. If you 

 do not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles. 

 He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a 

 calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman 

 on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. 



ECONOMICAL WAY TO FATTEN HOGS. 



I have thrown by my steamer for hog food and substi- 

 tuted a boiler, and I think with manifest advantage. 

 The former consisted of a 60 gallon cask, over a potash 

 kettle, badly set. I could only work off four or live 

 casks a day, with great labor and trouble, and the appa- 

 ratus required to be luted with clay at every operation. 

 With my new kettle, holding 30 gallons, which is a thin 

 beautiful casting, I have cooked eight and nine barrels 

 in half a day, and much better than by the steam process. 

 This food consists of small refuse potatoes, of which I 

 have nearly 100 bushels, or 15 per cent, of my whole 

 crop, pumpkins, and a small quantity of Indian meal. 

 A half day's boiling serves my hog family four or five 

 days; and it is always kept prepared in advance. The 

 actual expense of fattening hogs thus upon the refuse 

 of the farm crop, is 50 to 75 per cent, less than feeding 

 with dry corn. 



The economy of my apparatus consists much in set- 

 ting the boiler so as to have all the advantage of the fire. 

 The interior brick work is made to conform to tlie shape 

 of the boiler, leaving an interval of four to six inches 

 between them for the fire, round the whole exterior of 



