ON SWINE. 91 



Dead weight of No. 1, 330 lbs. or in proportion to live as 16 to 20. 

 Dead weight of No. 2, 316 lbs. or in proportion to live as 15| to 20. 



These pigs were never confined, but at all times had liberty to 

 run in a small field with other pigs ; they were fed with potatoes 

 and bran floured until the 1st of October, from which time they 

 had along with two small bacon pigs and some porkers, potatoes 

 and barley flour, commencing with 50 lbs. of flour to the sack of 

 potatoes and each week increasing the quantity of flour 10 lbs. so 

 that at last they had 110 lbs. of flour to the sack. The small 

 bacon pigs weighed 



No. 1, alive, 204 lbs. dead, 141 lbs. 

 « 2, do. 216 lbs. do. 149 lbs. 



Or in the proportion of 14 to 20. 



1 shall now take leave to detail some experiments of my own 

 in the feeding of swine. 



EXPERIMENT I. 



Two bogs about one year old ; one of them a barrow in very 

 good condition ; the other a barrow recently gelded, and in ordi- 

 nary condition, were put up to be fed exclusively upon Indian 

 hasty pudding or Indian meal boiled with water. We began 

 feeding them the first of March 1831, and weighed them again on 

 the nineteenth of the same month. In the 18 days they con- 

 sumed six bushels of Indian meal. They were offered cold water 

 to drink but did not incline to take any. 

 The result — 



No. 1 weighed on 1st March 233 lbs. 



do. do. 19th do. 269 



gain 36 

 No. 2 (recently gelded) weighed on 1st March 190 lbs. 

 do. do. 19th 247 



gain 57 

 The gain ol the two was 93 lbs. in eighteen days. The quan 

 tity of meal consumed by them was 10 qts per day to the two. 

 This allows 30 qts to a bushel deducting two for grinding. The 



