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they ate. But although one was killed at the 

 ao-e of three years, fhe weighed only ten (lone : 

 the other was killed when four years old, and 

 ilie weighed only twelve flone. It is to be ob- 

 ferved, that the laft-mentioned one was always 

 the largeft : it was not its being one year older 

 than the other that gave it the advantage in 

 weight; for thefe fort of pigs foon arrive at 

 their full growth, and the increafe of weight is 

 then according as the animal is more or lefs fat. 



I have always found the Berkshire pigs with 

 a crofs of the Chinefe the bell for all ufes — 

 Such pigs, when full grown, will weigh thirty 

 flone with a moderate quantity of food. I put 

 up a very poor fow, taken from her firfl litter 

 of pigs, and which had been fuffered to remain 

 fo longas to leave herfcarce any thing butfkin 

 and bone : however, I determined to fatten her, 

 becaufe fhe had got a trick of killing fowls. — 

 The higheft price bid me for her in this condi- 

 tion was one guinea and a half. I gave her 

 nine bufhels of peas at %s. 6d. per bufhel, 

 When killed, fhe weighed feventeen (lone, and 

 at that time pork fit for bacon was worth from 

 js. to 7 s. 6d. per flone: therefore, at ys. per 



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