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arisen from the circumstance of too great number of 

 pigs bred within confined limits, and a defective ven- 

 tilation, assisted, perhaps, by a wet or boggy soil, and 

 a want of cleanliness. 



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These are either for mere domestic use, or for 

 profit by sale ; and the choice of plan lies between 

 BREEDING, and purchase of STORES ; the former at- 

 tended with most trouble, but proportionate emolu- 

 ment. Swine are not generally kept to advantage, 

 unless where some waste remains to be gathered, or 

 cheap articles of food can be grown for them ; but 

 the rule admits of exception in favour of those who 

 are well skilled in the animals themselves, and in the 

 turns of the market. The wash and offals of a mo- 

 derate kitchen will go a considerable way towards 

 the support of a breeding sow, and, in return, the 

 produce of the sow will operate in a comfortable 

 proportion towards the support of the kitchen. To 

 embrace in our view the profits of the farm and of 

 the public, it has been said, and, according to my 

 experience, upon sufficient grounds, that a hundred 

 pounds, laid out in swine, will return a greater profit 

 than the same sum invested in any other kind of live 

 stock ; and that no other article of flesh provision 

 can be raised and prepared for market so soon as 

 pork : in consequence, it must be materially instru- 

 mental in the production of plenty, and in restrain- 

 ing exorbitance of price in the first necessaries. The 



