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at Brewood, in Staffordshire. Having betted ten 

 pounds that he would kill, scald, well and completely 

 dress, open, &c. eight pigs in four hours, without 

 any other assistance whatever, than having the 

 scalding water conveyed to him as he wanted it; 

 this task he performed in three hours, fifty-six 

 minutes. One of the pigs (surely hogs) weighed 

 3801bs. and none less than 2401bs., or thirty stone, 

 London weight. Green, however, had the advantage 

 of a windlass to draw the pigs out of the scalding 

 tub. 



ENCOURAGEMENT TO PIG-BREEDERS. 



"Lancashire, April 1813. Pigs of six weeks old, 

 which sold two months ago at four shillings each, are 

 now worth twenty shillings each." 



STORE-FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT. 



WEANLINGS should have at least one month of 

 delicate feeding, warm lodging and care. The same 

 kind of food should be continued to them three 

 times a day, to which they were at first accustomed 

 with the sow. Corn and pollard are indispensable 

 in pig-feeding; they may, indeed, be reared more 

 cheaply, but not then so profitably ; and the breeder 

 who sagaciously plumes himself on the hardiness of 

 his stock, of whatever species, will not always have 

 to boast of form, size, arid good plight, into the 

 bargain. On the other hand, it is readily acknow- 

 ledged, that the round and barrel form of a pig 



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