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SWINE. 



I. THE BREED, in this extremity of 

 the Ifland, is the fame long, thin-carcafed, 

 white kind, which has, pretty evidently, 

 been once the prevailing> if not the only, 

 breedof the Wand*. 



, II. In the REARING of Swine, the 

 moft remarkable circumftance is that of* 

 letting all the females remain open ; and 

 for a veiy fufficient reafon : there is not a 

 Spayer, even of Pigs, in theDiftrid: of Weft 

 Devonlhire ! 



The FOOD ofrearing Swine, while young, 

 is the refufe of the dairy, with turneps, 

 clover, and even grafs, or ordinary herbage, 

 boiled! A new idea, in the management 

 of Swine. The food of larger ftore Swine 



is 

 * See York. Econ. Vol. II. P. 235. And Glo, 

 EcoN. Vol. I. P. 316. 



