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and have plenty of good food. When three months old, 

 they will do well by turning them with the hogs in the 

 clover field. The pasture in which hogs are kept, 

 should have a supply of v/ater. 



In preference to feeding swine on clover in the field, 

 during summer, Mr. Young directs soiling them in a 

 a yard ; in this case, sainioiiv, iucern, clover, kc. can 

 he cut and carried to them ; also, ail kinds of weeds 

 from the borders of inclosures ; the haulm of peas, beans 

 and potatoes, fern or brakes, &,c. and where situation 

 will admit, eel grass and rock weed, towards increasing 

 manure, with mud from the bottoms of ponds, and scrap- 

 ing from the yard, occasionally sprinkling upon the 

 mass, a little quick lime, to favor the decomposition. 

 Mr. UHommedien thinks the manure made in this way 

 will more than pay for their keeping. 



Another good method, is to have two small enclos- 

 ures ; the one to be kept for feeding them, while the 

 other is under tillage for a fresh- supply of clover, or 

 other good grass, when that in the first has failed. As 

 sweet apples and peaches are valuable food for them, let 

 a ie.\w trees of»these be planted, in the enclosures, of 

 the best yearly bearers ; some being early ripe and some 

 later ; but not so near each other as to injure the 

 ground for cultivation. 



Boiled or steamed clover hay cut a little sooner than 

 usual, and salted in the mow, will keep hogs during 

 winter, but to this it is best to add steamed potatoes, 

 carrots, Sic. The cleaner they are kept, the better 

 they will grow and fatten. They never should be with- 

 out a good shelter, summer and winter. But how many 

 leave this poor degraded creature, exposed to the in- 

 clemency of the season. The hog appeals to all our 

 senses ; he shivers, his thin hairs are clotted and drip- 

 ping, he utters loudly his complaints ! But he is not a 

 tavourite ! he is rude and dirty ; neither amuses nor 

 renders an}'- daily services ; he is destined to slaughter, 

 and suffers unpitied any natural evils that befall all the 

 few days allotted o him by the will of his master. 



The sows may be allowed to breed till they are six 

 years old, and the boar until five. After this, the form- 

 er is to be spayed and fattened, and the latter castrated 

 and fattened for bacon. 



