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fruit may be found : an operation, however, 

 which is too often neglected until the firft 

 v/indfalls have rotted on the ground ; and a 

 double deftrudion of hog food has taken 

 place *. 



II. FRUIT LIQUOPv. Where the 

 confumption of any article lies chiefly within 

 the Diftrid of Manufad:ure, there is the lefs 

 ftimulus to excellency of management, than 

 where a common market creates an emu- 

 lation among thofe who fupply it. From 

 the Southern Parts of Devonfhire, more or 

 lefs Cider is fent to the London market ; 

 but very little from this Wellern Diftri^t. 

 Neverthelefs, I have tafted Cider of a fu- 



perior 



* An idea prevails, here, that apples are not nutritious 

 to hogs. It is very probable that apples, alone, would not 

 be (o ; but confidering the nature of the hog, v^ith refpe£t 

 to the heat and dryncfs of his habit, and the well known 

 efFed of acidulating his beverage ; and feeing the avidity 

 with which he devours fruit of every kind ; — it is more 

 than probable, that fufFering fwine to pick up the early 

 windfall fruit, previous to the firft grijiding, is much 

 more eligible than letting it wafte among the weeds and 

 grafs; which, if likewifc thrown open to (lore fwine, 

 would have been a farther fource of profit to their owxiers. 



