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because it fattens to a profit more readily. The 

 well-bred animal fetches more money in the 

 market, because its meat is so much more tender 

 and has so much more flavour. 



In these days when competition in agricultural 

 produce is so keen, and the profits in conse- 

 quence are so close, every point must be taken 

 advantage of. This is no time for slovenly, 

 ignorant farming. That man only can expect to 

 make a living out of farming, whether he farms 

 a few acres or many acres, who knows his work, 

 is methodical in his habits, and is alive to take 

 advantage of every well-tested experiment ; the 

 man, who, at the smallest cost, grows the heaviest 

 yielding crops, and keeps and rears the most 

 profitable and suitable strain of live stock. 



In conclusion, it can be said with truth, that, 

 under good management and proper attention, 

 few animals can be kept at a greater profit than 

 pigs. 



But to feed pigs to a profit, the food must be 

 obtained at a small cost that is to say, all the 

 remains that would otherwise be thrown away, 

 and many other things of the field and hedge- 

 row, that cost nothing beyond the time and 

 trouble of collection. Much that comes under 

 the name of refuse or waste, can, by the pig, be 

 turned into money. 



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