218 STORE-FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT FATTENING. 



making all fat, is most cheaply maintained, and the 

 soonest ripe. 



GROWING STORES and sows are fed through the 

 winter with the run of the barn-yard, upon roots of 

 all kinds, including rutabaga and mangold, cabbage, 

 &c. a ration of corn of some kind being allowed, 

 with wash. Meal of any kind bean, pea, oat, bar- 

 ley, rye, buck-wheat, or tare, and linseed, boiled 

 with potatoes, make good wash. Pea-wash alone 

 scours young pigs. Pulse, or corn of any kind, 

 are advantageously given in the straw to pigs, which 

 are good threshers. In autumn, and a plentiful 

 season, swine will subsist themselves abroad upon 

 acorns : in summer, upon clover, lucern or tares ; but 

 very young pigs particularly ought not to be left 

 abroad in continual rains, and will always pay for a 

 daily moderate feed of old beans with the clover. 

 Swine turned to shift upon forests or commons are 

 apt to stray and hide themselves for a considerable 

 time; the ancient and ready method to collect 

 them is by the sound of a horn, with which they 

 have been accustomed to be fed. Where a consider- 

 able herd is kept, and they are shifted upon the waste, 

 they should be attended by a boy to prevent tres- 

 passes. 



FATTENING FOR PORK AND BACON. 



Pigs will FATTEN either in confinement or at large 

 in the yard. When in sties, care should be taken that 

 the pigs be all ringed, or they will not lie quiet ; also 

 that, when a number are fed together, any one at 



