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Hogs for fatting should be in a healthy state ; and, to 

 increase their appetite, let a dose or two of sulphur be 

 given them in their food. Change of food is also good 

 to increase their appetite. Probably changes of boiled 

 roots, and of meal and water, at intervals, would be 

 found best. All kinds of grain, ground to meal, and mix- 

 ed v/ith water, in the proporiion oi five bushels of meal 

 to one hundred gallons of water, well stirred several 

 times each day, until it has fermented and become acid, 

 is said by Mr. Youngs to be the best food for hogs. It 

 should be made in large quantities, as it will require two 

 or three weeks to ferment. Mr. Deane says, that while 

 hogs are fatting, little or none of the wash of the kitch- 

 en should be given them ; but that their drink should 

 be clean water, of which they will drink considerable. 

 Mr. Bordley^ recommends not to force hogs to eat salt 

 by mixing it vviih their food, but place it where they 

 can have access to it at their pleasure. 



Swine kept in too warm, and more so in filthy pens, 

 are ever subject to diseases and unprofitable feeding. 

 There is no greater mistake than that o[ gorging swine, 

 when lirst penned for fatting. They 'should, on the 

 contrary, be moderately and frequently fed ; so that 

 they be kept full, but do not loath, or reject their food ; 

 and in the end contract feveis and dangerous maladies , 

 originating in a hot and corrupted mass of blood ; against 

 some of which, dry rotten wood is a preventive. Their 

 meals should be regular, and as nearly equi-distant in 

 point of time as possible. Posts ought to be set up in 

 the stye for them to rub acrainst. 



To keep hogs in health, and prevent them from hav- 

 ing the measles ; about once a week mix two spoonfuls 

 of madder in their food ; and on some other day in the 

 week, give a spoonful or two of an equal quantity of 

 flour of sulphur, and saltpetre, well pounded and mixed, 

 and added to their food. 



The business of fatting hogs should be begun so early 

 in the iall, (say first of October) as to be completed 

 early in December; as after cold weather sets in, they 

 will fatten very slowly. 



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The grounds that are the most perfectly adapted to 

 this uscj are all those which have a considerable deptk 



