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Barrington. This farmer, whose whole management is excellent, 

 fatted, the year before the last, twenty-four large hogs. The current 

 year he has fatted twenty-five, and their average weight was 318 lbs.; 

 toial 7,950 lbs. His mode of fatting swine deserves attention. " As 

 soon as the pastures will afford a good bile of grass, he turns them in 

 where they can have plenty of clover and water. He is careful to 

 salt them once a week, or ofiener, if the season is wet ; and changes 

 them from one pasture to another, as he does sheep or other stock, 

 which is of much importance through the summer. As soon as he 

 gathers his harvest, he gives them the stubbles. When these are 

 well gleaned, he gives them corn cut up by the ground for a few 

 days, as it is dangerous to keep them closely shut up and feed them 

 highly in the beginning ; having no exercise, it lends to produce the 

 blind staggers. In order to remedy this, they must be put upon thin 

 feed and have as much salt as they will eat. He commences steam- 

 ing potatoes for his hogs tiie first of October, his ruta bagas not being 

 then matured ; he mashes them fine ; puts nothing with them but the 

 sour milk from six cows, and four quarts of salt to a box of twenty- 

 eight bushels. This feed he continues three weeks. Afterwards, 

 he commences steaming ruta baga, and continues this feed until the 

 first of December, which is five weeks. He puts with the ruta baga, 

 after being mashed fine, four quarts of salt and three busiiels of oats 

 and pease ground together, into a box containing twenty-eight bush- 

 els. On this feed they do extremely well. This feed he continues 

 until the 25th of December ; and then finishes off with meal and 

 corn." The free use of sail is unquestionably of much advantage. 



A very successful fattener of swine in another county, whose 

 authority in this matter is decisive, is in the habit of boiling corn in 

 a large vessel and with ihe mixture putting in a few quarts of wood 

 ashes. The proportions, I cannot exactly ascertain ; but he con- 

 siders its use once a day of great benefit to the health and appetite 

 of his swine. He is careful likewise to put charcoal into their styes 

 once a week. A finer stock of swine or a finer display of fatting 

 swine 1 have never seen than I have seen at this farmer's place, which 

 is certainly a conclusive test of the excellence of his management 



I have statements without number of the value of apples for feed- 

 ing swirie. In one case the gain upon raw apples was eleven pounds 

 weight in twelve days ; and in this case nothing excepting apples 



