l!}4 ON FATTENING CATTLE AND SWINE. 



important, and should not be neglected. Their stalls are plen- 

 tifully littered with straw, or meadow hay, and thus are kept 

 dry and comfortable. They are and should be, driven care- 

 fuUy and treated kindly, and never subject to blows, kicks, 

 nor any harsh treatment whatever. Kindness and care should 

 ever be the motto of the teamster. 



With this amount of labor that they perform under such 

 treatment, we generally find them, in from four to twelve 

 months, fat. We then turn them for beef at the highest mar- 

 ket price, and they return us from twenty to fifty dollars a 

 pair more than their cost. We have considered this one of 

 the most profitable ways of keeping cattle. 



The management of our Swine at the Town Farm, has so 

 often been stated, that I have not anything new to communi- 

 cate ; but as these few remarks may come to the notice of 

 those who are not familiar with our management I will briefly 

 state it. 



We have a yard covering about half an acre of ground, in 

 which our swine are kept. It is so constructed as best to 

 facilitate the making and preservation of manure. Care is 

 taken to have a full supply of meadow mud, and other mate- 

 rials collected on the Farm, for the operations of the swine. 

 In this way there is annually made more than a hundred cords 

 of valuable manure. This adds much in increasing the 

 crops and improving the condition of the Farm. We 

 replenish our stock of swine twice a year by purchasing 

 usually from Brighton Market from seventy-five to eighty Pigs, 

 of about a hundred pounds weight. 



Care is always taken to select the most promising from the 

 droves there for sale. After keeping them about six months, 

 we find them to weigh from two to three hundred pounds. 

 Much of their feed is furnished from the offal procured from 

 slaughter houses in town. This ofial adds essentially to the 

 quantity and quality of the manure. Attached to the yard 

 are sheds to protect them from the weather and there is a con- 

 venient house fitted up with troughs for feeding them. Most 

 of the labor in collecting the materials for manure and taking 

 care of the swine, is performed by the inmates of the House, 



