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plied with raw material in the shape of muck, or old 

 turfs from your hedge-rows, will add largely to your 

 compost heap, and in this way he will make up any 

 possible sacrifice in his flesh. Miss Martineau, I 

 know, in her ' Two Acre Fanning,' advises severe 

 cleanliness ; and if the only aim were a roaster for 

 your table and accumulation of fat, there might be 

 virtue in the recommendation. But a pig's work 

 among your turfs is worth half of his pork. He will 

 thrive very likely upon the waste from your table and 

 your garden. But, against any possible shortness of 

 food supply, it were well to provide a bag of what 

 the grain people will sell you as ' ship stuff ; ' and 

 this, stirred into the kitchen wash, will make an 

 unctuous holiday gruel for your little beast, for which 

 he will be clamorously grateful. 



" Again ; the stye should be convenient to the 

 garden (a hemlock spruce or two will shut off the 

 sight of it, and a sweet honey-suckle subdue the odors 

 of it) ; then you may throw over chance bits of purs- 

 lane, or the suckers from your sweet corn, or a gone- 

 by salad, and find thanks in the noisy smacking of his 

 chops. I would not give a fig for a country house 

 where no such homely addenda are allowed, and 

 where a starched air of propriety must always reign, 

 to the complete exclusion of every stray weed, and to 

 the exclusion of the rollicking Suffolk grunter in it's 



