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Fratice some years ag¢6, was heard with great inté- 
rest, and gave an enormous result, but not Pei ym 
ly recollected to be stated here. | — 
As, from the constitution of the human tind; ven 
have’ been’ sceptics’ On all subjects, little and great, 
so on this we find some doubting whether the hog 
did not, from his insatiable appetite; €¢onstme more, 
during his life, than the amount of his value at the 
time of his death, "These doubts could not fail to en° 
gage’ calculating men; in” ascertaining this point. 
Their experiiients show a profit of eight dollars on 
évery hog, reared and fed’ to the! age ‘OF *tito years; 
by persons having no farms and Sbiieed to buy 'eve- 
ry article going to their nourishment.’ How much. 
_ greater, then, the profits of those who have the méans 
of subsisting thetn’ on grasses and’ roots, which cost’ 
only the labor‘ of raising? | 
To these specific’ remarks upon different animals; 
we now proceed to add a few observations on! the’ 
breeding of cattle, and a brief view of the general’ 
principles on which the fatting of such of them as 
enter into the subsistence of man, more ao nrg 4 
depends. And, " 
ist. Of the breeding ofc cattle. | 
It rarely happens that the breeders of cattle are’ 
the fatniers of them. The first of these employments’ 
seems more particularly to belong to those who, 
(other circumstances being favorable,) are remote’ 
from markéts; thé! second, to those who, from local 
situation ‘or’ navigable streams, ate ‘convenient to’ 
markets. In the breeding business, two conditions 
are indispensible to its success. Ist; That the-sires: 
