86 ON SWINE. 



All persons intending to be competitors in the ploughing 

 match, must give information thereof to the Secretary, or to 

 J. B. Savory, of Rowley, on or before the Monday preceding 

 the day of Exhibition. 



No person will be entitled to receive a premium, unless he 

 complies with the condition on which the premiums are offered ; 

 and gives notice as required of his Intention to claim the same. 



In regard to all subjects for which premiums are offered, it is 

 to be distinctly understood, that the Trustees reserve to them- 

 selves the right of judging of the quality of the animal or article 

 offered ; and that no premiums will be awarded, unless the ob- 

 jects of them are of a decidedly superior quality. 

 By order of the Board of Trustees. 

 Attest, 



John W. Proctor, Secretary. 



January \st, 1834. 



ON SWINE.* 



The feeding and fattening of swine is a subject of great impor- 

 tance to the farmer. Pork furnishes a considerable portion of 

 the animal food consumed in his family, and constitutes in most 

 cases a material item in his marketable produce. The prevail- 

 ing impression is that the fattening of swine can seldom be pur- 

 sued with profit to any extent beyond the consumption of the of- 

 fal of the kitchen, dairy and farm. Some instances have come 

 within our own observation, in which it has been attended with 

 serious losses, though it is obvious that the result must depend 

 materially upon the current prices of grain and pork, which are 

 always subject to fluctuations, and do not always bear the same 

 relation to each other. That swine are most useful as general 

 scavengers, eating what nothing else will consume ; and that no 

 animal kept on the farm is so profitable in producing manure, 

 and manure of a very valuable character, are circumstances 



* This Essay was received too latu to bo inserted in its propoi plai-o , but it is deemed too 

 valuable to bo omitted. The Society will havcgicat reason to bt obliged to tho author, for hi? 

 unremitted exertion to promote their prosperity. J. W. r . 



