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animals gather up, in the farm yard and in the field, after 

 harvest, nearly every scattered grain, so that scarcely one is 

 lost. They increase the quantity, and improve the quality, 

 of the dung in the farm yard. The value of no animals 

 changes so rapidly as that of pigs. I advise every one who 

 has some to sell, to inform himself how they are then 

 selling in the market, before he fixes his price. A few 

 years ago, a butcher who came to buy a couple of fat 

 oxen of me, observing two store pigs in my farm-yard, 

 asked if I would sell them, and what would be the 

 price. These were two of the worst out of about half a 

 score, that 1 had been selling to men out of the village, at 

 seventeen and eighteen shillings each, which I was told was 

 the utmost value of them, t therefore asked the butcher a 

 guinea and a half; meaning for the two. He, mistaking 

 me, immediately said, "that is too much ; I will give you 

 five-and-twenty a piece for them." I assured him that 

 was not the price I had expected to get for them, but that I 

 thought him a good customer, and he should have them. 

 The butcher never complained of the price ; he had no 

 reason for so doing ; the fact was, I had been selling pigs, 

 without first informing myself of their then value. The 

 chief part of the pigs bred in this county for sale, and 

 general consumption, are the spotted Berkshire, the dairy- 

 men liking them the best to make porkets of, having a fail- 

 quantity of lean with the fat. The Neapolitan pigs, which 

 are black, without hair, make very nice pork, hams, and 

 bacon, for consumption, in a gentleman's family. The 

 young pigs look like large young rats, but when roasted 

 are particularly delicate ; to which I can bear testimony, 

 often having received a present of one from K. Bouverie, 

 Esq. of Delapre Abbey, near Northampton, who is famed for 

 his breed of Neapolitans. 



SHEEP are most assuredly a highly important and 

 necessary stock, on all arable farms. They benefit the 

 strong soils by summer folding; and the light soils by 

 their treading and their clung, whilst consuming green 

 crops. Excepting for fat lambs, none but Leicesters are 

 bred in this county, and a great many of them, in my 

 opinion, have been bred too fine; they are very handsome, 

 and get very fat, but are too short, and too fut on their loius 



