yy ON SWINE. 



season touching which we have the following particulars — weight 

 March 25th, 75 lbs. — weight December 16th, 470 lbs. — increase 

 in 267 days, 295 lbs., or 23 1-2 ounces per day. Average of 

 corn consumed per day, 4 1-2 pints." This is the whole' of 

 the account given. It would have been useful to know how the 

 com was given ; whether ground or not ground ; whether cook- 

 ed or not cooked. 



John Andrew, Esq. formerly of Salem, informed me that a Mr. 

 Ray, in the interior of New Hampshire, made an exact experi- 

 ment in the feeding of swine. He put up sixteen and employed 

 a man, whose exclusive business it was to take care of them, and 

 to whom he gave his board as a compensation for his labor. He 

 fed them entirely upon Indian hasty pudding. Corn at the time 

 was valued at one dollar per bushel. He sold his pork for six 

 cents per pound and realized a profit of from two to three dollars 

 per hog. In this case it is desirable to know what the hogs ac- 

 tually gained in weight during the process of feeding ; how long 

 they were in being fattened; and what was the value of them 

 when first put up. But this information is not attainable. 



John Bellows, Esq. of Walpole, put up two swine, 15th 

 Dec. 1833, to be fattened. When put up, one weighed 107 

 lbs., one 116 lbs. When killed and dressed, 2d April, 1834, 

 one weighed 233 lbs., one 243 lbs. Together with the slops 

 from the kitchen, they consumed as nearly as could be ascertain- 

 ed, three bushels of raw corn at first, and afterwards twelve 

 bushels ground into meal and the meal scalded ; making in the 

 whole fifteen bushels of corn. 



107ri-' 116=223 lbs. live weight at 5 cts. 11 15, 

 476 lbs. pork, at 6 cts. 28 55 



Balance in favor of swine, 17 41 

 15 bushels corn at 84 cts. 12 60 



Profit, 4 81 



The Hampstead (L. I.) Inquirer states that Mr. Doty, of that 

 town, slaughtered on the 23d December, a couple of pigs 14 

 months old, which weighed as follows: — one 611 lbs. the 



