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is chiefly grals : they being not unfrequently 

 driven to the fame pafture with the cows, 

 and brought home with them, at milking 

 hours : and are kept on* in this way, until 

 they be two, or perhaps, three years old^ 

 before they be put to fatting ! under an 

 idea that the bacon of old hogs goes farther, 

 than that m.ade from young ones -, not cal- 

 culating the expence of keeping them to 

 that extravagant age. 



The native breed of the country, it is 

 true, do not fat kindly, under eighteen 

 months or two years old ; but, through the 

 attentions of the late Sir Francis Drake> 

 the Diftridt is, at prefent, in pofleffion of 

 the firil breed of Swine in the liland; 

 namely, the beffc variety of the Berkfhire 

 breed : and it remains with the farmers to 

 chufe whether they will perfevere in their 

 prefent unprofitable breed, or adopt one 

 V/hich v/ill leave more profit, by fatting^ 

 at nine months old, than their old fort will, 

 at three or four times that age * . 



III. The 



* I have heard an obje£iion raifed againll this hrecd 

 of Swincj on account of the thicknefs of their fkins, com- 

 pared 



